Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Investigation

Part of the Ferguson/Chicago timeline
August 9, 2014

in Ferguson, Missouri: Michael Brown was murdered by one policeman.


October 14, 2014
in Ferguson: Continued protests over Michael Brown's murder. More arrests


October 20, 2014
in Chicago, Illinois: Laquan McDonald was murdered by one policeman.


October 22, 2014
in Ferguson: Michael Brown's autopsy is leaked out


November 4, 2014
in Chicago: Cook County States Attorney receives dashcam video of Laquan's murder


November 11, 2014
in Ferguson: state of emergency is declared and national guard is brought out


November 20, 2014
in Chicago: States Attorney turns video over to Feds


November 24, 2014
in Ferguson: Grand Jury says there will be no indictment against the policeman


December 2014
in Chicago: States Attorney partners with FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office in beginning investigation.


February 24, 2015
in Chicago: Rahm wants to avoid a runoff election


March 2015
in Chicago: since Jan 1, 2013 republicans have given Rahm 2.3 million


April 7, 2015
in Chicago: There is a runoff election


April 15, 2015
in Chicago: City Council approves $5 million payoff to cover up murder by one policeman. Hush hush says the sweet harlot.


November 18, 2015
in Chicago: letter from Illinois AG - release video

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Immaturity Pass

"The NRA's Bully Pulpit" by Susan J. Douglas, In These Times
http://inthesetimes.com/article/18169/the-nras-bully-pulpit
"It's time to name the NRA as a bully, treat it as a bully and stand up to it as a bully, to get beyond its deadly blockage of desperately needed gun safety laws in our country."
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We don't know when the TV Guide reached it's current level of incompetence. It has only one job and does it poorly.
Congratulations.
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Before he was a hologram he was an ass
He kissed his mama with a baby mouth so crass
Reliability he doesn't own
So he's still not grown
Maybe he needs some prayers and an immaturity pass.

Thursday, May 7, 2015

One Shirker

Happy gassing up the atmosphere, Lady Hillary et al!
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The current and ongoing president of the Backwards Onus who follows the mayor of the Rotten Example because it is the easiest way when neither cares a whole lot, asked the powers that be "How long is eternal shame anyway and can it be carried away on soft island breezes?
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Governor Pro Owner Anti Worker
And Mayor Rotten Example did a private twerker
For the tinsel council
Threatened by flings and flouncil.
Dead culture's war on wisdom will hire more than one shirker.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Ours

 Backwards by Example 
It was sad to watch the President and the Rahm passively (who, us?) work to take away green space and therefore our oxygen. But if you find out how to join them in  _ssholes Against Urban Renewal, maybe the whole world would like to be members. Drinks for everybody! Here's to ours!

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Bravo

What do you call the day that congenital liars fell in love
with greedy heirs and their exceptional dollars?
Who cares.
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If a president and a mayor say stealing and asphalting green land is a good idea but it is not a good idea, probably they and their associates will be profiting in all kinds of ways. Bravo.

Friday, April 10, 2015

Becoming Who He Is Becoming

As harmful to the poor and the homeless as he was, Rahm knows he could have been more helpful. It was a matter of will. He knows that everyone speaking in the same voice is not healthy or necessary. So we'll see. We will watch him becoming who he is becoming.

Sunday, April 5, 2015

That Sent 'er

"John Kass: Are Political Winds Of Change Blowing In Chicago?", Townhall.com
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnkass/2015/03/31/john-kass-are-political-winds-of-change-blowing-in-chicago-n1979050
Are they, or is it a lake breeze?
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Mona Rong at the EPICAC center
Of it all was a high budget renter
With one paid for degree
Trained to quietly agree
With the ancient mistakes that sent 'er.

Friday, March 6, 2015

So Can You

If I was Gary Huck and did a Norman Rockwell parody, I would add to the back of the kid's shirt: Don't Shoot! I'm Only Eating!
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The lack of faith in Rahm is transparent
His point oh one selfishness is transparent
Our desire for public education and housing is transparent
The old campaign bs about transparency is transparent.
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Rahm may very well be "fragrantly corrupt",
but he still owes at least 46 favors.
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"In Mayoral Runoff, Rahm Emanuel's Corrupt Governance Has Finally Caught Up With Him" by Rick Perlstein, In These Times
http://inthesetimes.com/article/17681/rahm_emanuel_chuy_garcia_runoff
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Playing a bulldozer who disrespects but cannot hear,
His style is jabs and sharp angles in motion. Any substance is unclear
Beyond the veneer.
A wine versus beer
Career is more fun than human progress in any one year.
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The preceding has been brought to you by
AAC!
_ssholes Against Change!
Remember: the unknown can feel scarey and strange and so can you.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

First and Last Word

Democracy laughs in the face of money
If it has a face and is a person, honey.
Sometimes the dish we serve
Is a point oh one learning curve,
And later we can do brunch with a bunny.
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What does one learn from 2/5 of 1/3?
It's a puzzler, alright, what have you heard
From the freedom highway?
That sticking together is more than okay,
And voting together is the first and last word.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

May Have

The Chicago mayor has no right to tell homeless people
how many possessions they may have, how many pairs of shoes
they may have.

Monday, February 9, 2015

Risk Free

Before the holidays, Rahm had the homeless people shoveled out of the downtown area and into poor neighborhoods. Providing food or possibilities was out of the question.
In Utah, they give homes to the homeless. http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/wwv3s0/ava-duvernay
So, which politicians are plan a from zombie robot school and which politicians creatively think?
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There is no such thing as "risk free."

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

All About

The usual suspects rounded themselves up,
Personally awarding themselves a promotional cup
Of duty free dinners,
Partnered freedom winners,
And time shared stocks with fossils in a krupp.
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Rahm is not very bright. He wants to take away green space and cover it up with cement and toxic asphalt. Truth or dare, Rahm, truth or dare and how about this?
"Think outside the box for library/museum plans" by Lee R. Talley, Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/chi-think-outside-the-box-for-librarymuseum-plans-20150129-story.html
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The Iowa Sedum From It
Team players who favor the lock in with harshness arrived at the intersection of Gluttonville and BerSerk. They didn't know which end was up or which way was which. So they planted themselves right there and began to learn what gout was all about.

Sunday, December 21, 2014

His Face Re-Arranged

Can we get some privacy over here?
or
Why aren't there ever dealers in the backyard?


Sometimes when a boy goes outside at 10 in the night to score
some dope to get him through another boring family vacation,
he gets his face re-arranged.

Friday, May 17, 2013

His Bosses


What kind of secret backroom deals prevent MayoRahm from making any compromise?

Monday, April 23, 2012

From Here On Out

Scott Walker: ruthless clog or toothless cog, voting counts.
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War Whores: free to be religious or not so much, the choice is theirs.
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Joe Walsh: a real gas or half glassless, take your pick.
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MayorahM: selling us out to the creeping unknown or indenturing us for 99 years, but in a refreshing way, and who needs to know?
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Mitt Romney: a corporate raider with less political experience than any other presidential candidate and willing to blame Obama for that too, or a guy with more than enough empathy to go around, please decide 
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Tiny news note: every day and every night zimmerman thinks about the real possibility of changing his name to zelleman.
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Bayer's breech from the city of clout
Gives his player's peach with no pity or pout
It's a liar's game
Who's got the most infame
A naysayer's niche, no nitty gritty from here on out.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Anything New?

When the unethical try to scam the ethical with an honor system without honor, it must be one of the days of the weak.
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"Mommy Says Promises Kept Klepto in Clover"
is a short story which takes place in Wisconsin.
The title is the story, that's how short it is.
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So far, this is the wisest decision we have made
and we did not even make it.
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Are you still talking about the G-8? Can you give it a rest?

We are still concerned about security.
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You probably should not use the first person plural
unless you have official papers from the doc.

But we are still concerned about security.

If I understand you correctly, you are concerned about the hoarded items of your wealthy bosses, which you label "security." You always worry about that, well that, and "please God, don't make me spend my own money." Right? Anything else? Anything new?

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Right, Men?

Dear MayorahM,
     Thank you! Your summit "ownership", except for the paying for it part, will be a fantastic showcase for you and your title. Even though the summit has little or no food value either for today or tommorow, your secrets and the big spending are so so special. As an added bonus, your contribution to disaster capitalism will demonstrate your desire to play with the big boys at the People's expense.
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And if the Republicans cannot find a decent presidential wannabe, they don't need no decent presidential wannabe. So there.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Norquis/start/1225/stop/1400
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An incoming dude
With his rude and ignant tude
Got all unglued
At what the brood brewed
To thank him for their getting clued
Abut his rude and ignant tude.
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You know you suffer from stinkin thinkin when, to squelch your lifechoice fears, you look for affirmation and validation and calibration from strangers.
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If a grown man does not want to have an abortion or take birth control pills to prevent having to have an abortion, nobody but his mother can force him. Right, men?

Sunday, January 15, 2012

We're So Proud

Guilty of verbalism, your Exoner. What is the sentence, and is it compounded by an inadmissible interrogatory?
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-kass-0115-20120115,0,2252277.column
Is there much difference between Hopium and Dopium?

Monday, February 21, 2011

Watkins and Walls in Chicago

Are Patricia VanPelt Watkins (2%) and Dock Walls (1%)
invisible to the status quo?
Is Rahm (55%) a union-buster?
Does Carol (8%) belong in or near politics?
Oye Chico (25%) y del Valle (9%)! Donde estais?
Tomorrow is the day after today.