Here's what went down. Basically, a couple of local bloggers (who have previously been shown to be fucking nuts) called 911 when they saw some guy sleeping on the sidewalk. CPD/CFD showed up, didn't see anything to worry about and took off. The two jerkoff bloggers, not satisfied [...]
And not a moment too soon. Fake Jerry was kinda funny. Just not really as funny as the big man himself. Funny quotes from the dismissal of Jerry:
You suck, Jerry. You SUCK! Your company sucks and you suck and your blogging sucks! I hope you don't fuck as [...]
But my question is, where was Patrick McDonough and the Chicago Department of Water Management heroes?
[...]I haven't figured out what the other group is. I have no intention of ever becoming involved in the bizarre local blogging scene.
Shit like this is about as silly as you get.
Reside on Morse (1340 West Morse Avenue) has been off my radar since the building has [...]
If it were a hundred years ago and I were to tell you that a Cubs player will be hit by lightening long before the Cubs will win another World Series, I'd be totally right.
[...]But the last time the police announced a crackdown on bicyclists, with plans to fine Lakeview lawbreakers $25 to $250 in the summer of 2005, the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation insisted the emphasis should be on cars. “Enforcement efforts,” the CBF stated, “should focus on traffic with the greatest impact on [...]
The letter to Mayor Daley was blunt, "very personal and vicious" -- and singled out the mayor's wife, [...]
#Who are you to question the authority of the black-robed ones? THEY know better than you.
Did you read the ruling? I did. They actually FOUND a “right to marry other faggots, frogs, trees, and anything else you want” in their Constitution. If you can’t see it, they claim it’s because [...]
Peter Labarbera, being interviewed by a Brazillian homophobe:
We lost the struggle over legal abortion in the USA but now the pro-life side has all the momentum, so thing can change. The Bible indicates that there are dark days ahead as the world as we know it comes to a [...]
Yet, in reality, the New Age movement has had a serious negative impact on many unsuspecting people.
People who have never set foot inside a New Age store, people who would laugh at the thought of pretty rocks containing healing powers -- these same people are enthusiastically and blindly embracing [...]
I’ve heard the idea that Hillary Clinton is planning to damage Obama so badly that he loses to John “more of the same” McCain in the general election so she can run against McSame in the 2012 election.
So I have an idea: concede. Let her win the primary.
When [...]
Honest to fucking god, sometimes I'm embarrassed to be a right leaning white male largely because of dip shits like this. At least this ass clown finally took down that carnival drawn picture of him in a military costume.
[...]A rare moment of candor from the IFI:
In Bristol, England, local Muslims decided they weren't going to take homosexual indocrtination of their children any longer. After they confronted public school officials, the officials announced that in order for the school to "operate safely" they decided to withdraw the offending [...]
A year ago, the wingers were all "Well, Obama is too articulate to actually be black - so we'll talk about how the black community will not embrace him". And then the usual suspects of jerkoff found out that maybe Obama's dad was a muslim, therefore he should be referred [...]
LaShawn Barber, who should know better than to fall for this shit, blogs about ITunes being "hacked". By hacked she thinks:
Hacking is not a good thing, is it? I mean, a hacker is one who attempts to gain unauthorized access to proprietary computer systems. Doesnt sound very nice.
When in [...]
Not only can we put shit in space, but apparently we can blow it right the fuck out of there too.
[...]Pro-lifers understand there's quite the correlation between the Jewish Holocaust and the Abortion Holocaust.
And someday there will be an Abortion Holocaust Museum, perhaps in DC, although likely in Wichita.
And Amanda will find herself in it, as disgraced and on the wrong side of history as the Nazi prison guards [...]
Gary Indiana is the asshole of the Universe.
Cmdr. Samuel Roberts of the Gary, Indiana, Police Department told FOX News that a squad team was able to bring the man in for questioning on a separate outstanding warrant after interviewing neighbors.
"Investigators are attempting to gather information from him," Roberts told [...]
I'm not sure how I missed this one. Oh wait, I know, because I'm yet to actually add this crazy woman to the "Nuts" folder of my rss reader. At any rate, thanks to Meatbrain for pointing the stupidity out.
Meatbrain has a commenter called Dan who [...]
While noting that Kos and the rest of the Netroots are going after Dan Lipinski, Chicagoist is all about:
Lipinski's positions are completely out of line with his constituents.
Oh yeah? My ass. :)
[...]It's funny. It's really sad at the same time, but it's really funny. The fine folks at Fallacy Findings are sure to pick up on this one, so tune in for Jane Know's version of the WTF?
The articles author is David French, a soldier in Americas [...]
"As with any temptation to disregard God's clear word on any given [...]
Next year in California, state regulators are likely to have the emergency power to control individual thermostats, sending temperatures up or down through a radio-controlled device that will be required in new or substantially modified houses and buildings to manage electricity shortages.
It's understandable, given California's ongoing power grid [...]
Big Dog is quoting statistics from 1989 to prove that the queer folks shouldn't be allowed to serve in the military. Only to follow up with this gem:
Imagine surviving a terrible injury only to be diagnosed with AIDS. Don't ask, don't tell could be a death sentence.
Wow.
You know, I [...]
There are several more bloggers I know that I will meet in person, and because of our blogging our first meeting will not be awkward first meetings, but simply the physical continuation of a friendship that has blossomed electronically.
Kender: Supports Same Sex Marriage
[...]I was always a pretty big fan of Chicago "industrial" act Sister Machine Gun. I haven't really kept pace as to what they've been up to lately (rather, 'he', I should say - I think he is SMG the same way that Trent Reznor is Nine Inch Nails) other [...]
Conservatism and liberalism have little meaning in todays politics. As has been pointed out so many times by you and others, the Republican party is a party held together by extremists, right wing Christianists, no-tax absolutists, royalists, xenophobes and others fearful of minorities, to name a few. This [...]
More drug induced mental gymnastics at Opine:
Marriage does not exist as a means to accomplish the purpose and goal of government to promote and encourage procreation. It exists as a social and legal consequence of a fact of life and nature. It exists because procreation actually does takes [...]
Jill Stanek, calling anyone crazy is seriously hilarious given all of the facts , especially if the person is making perfectly valid hypothetical about why the government ought not be in the business of outlawing shit.
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[...]Huckabee is the perfect presidential candidate.
For Afghanistan.
MR. RUSSERT: Peggy Noonan, a woman of faith who writes for The Wall Street Journal, said that sometimes it appears your philosophy is "This is what God wants," and that doesn't encourage discussion, it squelches it. And, and this is what you [...]
Now using those liberal media tactics, one could make Chelsea look like a pedophile on the prowl in a headline. For example
Chelsea to 9 year old: I think youre cute.
As ridiculous as that sounds it is accurate. The liberal Main Stream Media is constantly misquoting Republican politicians by [...]
So. I've been gone for a while. If you're at all curious, Official Dan L Girlfriend and I served up the little girl known as Official Dan L Daughter, born November 20, 2007 at a respectable 7 pounds, 9 ounces. First name Katharina, middle name Irene - middle name was [...]
From: Alison True
Date: December 6, 2007 4:40:02 PM CST
To: everyone@chicagoreader.com
Subject: Reader newsDear Reader staff--
Despite the considerable challenges we've faced recently, you've continued to make a newspaper and Web site we can all be proud of. Unfortunately the financial pressures of our industry continue unabated, and I'm [...]
Apparently. A recent initiative in Berkley, CA now makes it illegal to engage in sex on public sidewalks and parks.
See folks, this is the type of permissiveness that liberals from the left coast would like to spread throughout our nation. Parks where people openly have sex, public drunkenness, [...]
Some woman named Jane details the insanity.
The really interesting thing about the people at Opine is that they really believe that the perfect 10 mental gymnastics they perform to justify their overtly fundamentalist religious beliefs are somehow intellectual or nuanced - and that in their private insulated [...]
Whilst hocking his new book, Newt Gingrich is off making an argument for what he dubs, "Green Conservatism". It's not really so much a discussion of global warming - which is good for Newt, but much more a discussion of what may be Conservative responsibility for going back [...]
Grouchy old man, Mark Rhoads has a positively hilarious piece up, detailing how those damn kids won't get off his lawn telling us why 'common sense' and or 'public decency' are on a decline. It's a favorite complaint amongst those geriatric social commentators - as we know, Rhoads has a [...]
Bike messengers, with their toughguy "I AM TRAFFIC MOTHAFUCKA" attitude make me laugh.
BOOOOHYEAH!! YOU'RE REAL TOUGH PICKING ON AN OLD MAN WHO DRIVES A BUICK!!!
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[...]Oh god. Oh god. Make it stop.
Both Erick and Turk use a number of analogies and examples to conclude that anyone that supports Ron Paul is either "Code Pink and Neo-Nazi lurkers" or "anti-Semitic, racist, white supremacist, black helicopter Republicans." Their conclusions could be true for at least some [...]
Re: Stupidity over James Watson's comments. Briefly discussed here.
Fran Eaton, sh(r)ill beast at Illinois Review, is spinning this as....and I'm not kidding....the dangers of believing in evolution.
Obviously, we learn the logical, devastating conclusion of "harmlessly" believing in nontheist evolution -- racism and bigotry, as well as the [...]
James Watson, one of the founders of DNA science, is under some well deserved fire recently for comments which - in summation - say that black people aren't as smart as white people.
And naturally, there are some down home rednecks who are going to cheer to that statement. [...]
And this time it's not because of the witchcraft and wizardry, it's because Dumbledore is gay. From the AFTAH/IFI affiliated "Culture Campaign":
This is one of the most significant problems with repeated exposure to positive portrayals of homosexuals in films, television show, plays, novels, textbooks, and speakers. Unsophisticated thinkers [...]
Dan "Want to see my nudez? Proft, is now posting at the Illinois Family Institute. Now I'm sure I hate him. Read here.
Library expansion was the rationale offered by Daley amid his signature Robin Williams-like stream of consciousness justification of his proposed 15 percent, $108 million property tax [...]
Bruno Behrend had a nice link and run:
Im more likely to buy the last argument over the one that latinos are a small part of the electorate. Whatever their actual block size might be, it will only get bigger. The latter point is very important. Run good candidates that [...]
I don't really like Bill Maher. As a matter of fact, I fucking hate him. But that doesn't mean that I entirely disagree with him on everything though.
Worth while Maher quote:
If this were a microcosm of America, I'd be voting for Rudy Giuliani right now
Ain't it the truth?
[...]Once in a while, a headline on IFI/Americans For Truth About The Homosexuality Agenda/[Insert Other Jack Roeser Sponsored Site] even amazes me - a skilled observer of bat shit. Like this, for example.
OK for her, not OK for him? - Cancer-causing steroid hormones
10/17/2007 7:39:00 AM
By Arlene Sawicki"If [...]
Interesting. I pulled this off of Alas, a blog - a rip from an Inside Higher Edstory:
While enrolled at Eastern Illinois, Manges says she saw a private counselor off campus to deal with her diagnosis of PTSD a result of the sexual abuse she experienced from [...]
Is it, Illinois favorite conservative political consultant, Dan Proft for playing blog sock puppetry whilst pretending to be a 18 year old girl? Or is it Illinois Reason's Rob_N for backing off the call out?
Either way, the idea of Dan Proft posing as a [...]
I honestly don't know whom, if anyone, takes them seriously:
Marriage is all about saying what is moral and what is not with respect to sexual conduct. From the perspective of responsible procreation, marriage promotes the only venue within which procreation is acceptable. Monogamy is an essential part of that [...]
The IL GOP's 2006 gubernatorial candidate emerged because conservatives split over two primary candidates. The values liberal Topinka snubbed traditional values voters, and they, in turn, rejected her in the general election. As a result, the state re-elected an incompetent and destructive Democrat as governor.
Jesus. That's brilliant. [...]
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But - a banana is his highest achievement.
[...]Back when THE BIG DOG was in the military driving a truck - or uh - doing whatever it is he was doing - I wonder if his superiors ever said:
Wow. That's the dumbest fuck in the history of the army.
By the way, he's now sporting a [...]
For example, we dont need six income tax brackets. Heres a thought: Take the 33 percent bracket that starts at $188,450 dollars and get rid of it. Ditto for the 28 percent bracket at $123,700 and the 25 percent bracket at $61,300. Get rid of them. Collapse it [...]
Read it here. In good sports news, the Cubs lost, The Brewers won, and "Dollar" Bill Wirtz is motherfucking dead".
[...]I couldn't make this shit up if I tried. ChicagoBears.com:
Name Games TD INT COMP ATT %
Troy Aikman 38 31 46 618 1,055 59%
Peyton Manning 26 43 38 474 886 54%
Steve Young 29 11 21 267 501 53%
Rex Grossman 26 28 29 399 732 55%
[...]
And all I did was explain to him that collecting $603.00 a month in SSI doesn't qualify as having a real job. Smart money says I'll be getting the threats of his Internet Attorney At LOL soon.
Cheers!
[...]When not crying about Archpundit 'not being civil', he's now blaming da mare because Blago is fucking up by the numbers:
Mayor Daley, House Speaker Michael J. Madigan and even Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn are all implying that Gov. Rod Blagojevich is the problem behind the ongoing political [...]
In honor of the recent unethical, illegal, and immoral outing of Fake Steve Jobs, I'd like to just say 'Namaste!" to Dennis Byrne whom so eloquently brings the CTA crowd back to the modern era of who's paying for what in just a few lines:
Did you know [...]
But I find it a bit amusing that this image is called "Pro-Life Artwork".
Jill Stanek surrounds herself with some seriously morbid motherfuckers.
[...]When I think of the Red Liner's attempts to bring down the King, I often imagine a fish flopping around at the bottom of a boat with a big hook in it's mouth. Sure, it's going to squawk, make a lot of noise, and crap all over the interior of [...]
Andrew "Gribbit" Richardson doesn't have a real job. In fact, he receives free money from the government because he's nuts. Actually, as he's talked about before, the courts don't even think he's sane enough to cash his own 'Crazy Check', they have his sister do it for him. The poor [...]
I report: You make sense of it
If you need tickets to the "Law Enforcement United" Munoz 9th Annual
Barbeque Bash, make sure you visit the Chicago Department of Water
Management Central District at 3901 South Ashland in Chicago. You can
buy the tickets on city time by Chicago City [...]
Blog homeboy Bruno Behrend of Extreme Wisdom fame waxes out one of the more interesting commentaries about the Illinois Republican Party Reform Tour and perhaps could have saved himself a couple of paragraphs just by sticking with "attempting to put a band-aid on the bleeding gash separating the [...]
Mark Decker, the chief kook and bottle washer behind the IFI affiliated SafeLibraries.org is dead. SafeLibraries.org is an organization dedicated to stopping really, horribly dangerous things like pornography, myspace, and Harry Potter Books in America's libraries.
You may read the well written tribute @ David Smith's blog [...]
Self-serving statements about policy are always suspect.
When When Porno Petey Labarbera tells us he's against hate crimes legislation it's not because he really thinks it's "thought crimes", it's because hate crime legislation is targeted against hate mongers and bigots, two groups which Petey has a vested interest in. [...]
Check this out: Despite all the evidence to the contrary there were no queer folk killed during the Holocaust. In fact, according to a leading 'pro-family organization', all of the Nazi's are actually gay, and they decided that in order to fulfill their agenda by trying to kill [...]
A lawyer representing the estate of Sean Bell, the Queens man who was fatally shot by the police after leaving his bachelor party in November, has called for a federal investigation of the New York Police Department for possible civil rights violations.
The lawyer, Michael A. Hardy, [...]
Cubs lulz:
First, Lou Piniella is suspended indefinitely after he kicked an umpire this on Saturday, the next day after 2 of his players got into a dug out fist fight.
My guess, ol Lou wants to get the hell out of dodge now. He's not the only one though, [...]
I really haven't had a whole lot of time to blog, let alone blog sports. But this is just too much fun to pass up. Yesterday, in an abysmal loss to the Braves, Cubs quasi-ace and emotional basket case Carlos Zambrano and well known trash ball catcher Mike Barrett decided [...]
You absolutely need to read this Chicagocon post.
Now, the Darwinian explanation for evolution has a lot of flaws in various circumstances, I do not contest. However, dating concerning the age of the earth, the fossil record, continental drift, prehistoric cultures and so forth are well established. To be [...]
CRYSTAL LAKE — Two Crystal Lake girls were charged with a felony hate crime for making a flier with derogatory statements about homosexuality and distributing them at a school, authorities said Tuesday
The 16-year-olds were arrested by Crystal Lake police about 1:45 p.m. Friday after they distributed [...]
You really should read the whole thread, but whilst questioning my not-so-bold assertion that actual conservatives don't take the United Republican Fund all that seriously, Rob asks:
If you don’t think “any” conservatives take URF seriously, why does it seem like this clique has a near lock on the [...]
I like it when Rich Miller does a QOTD where he knows he's opening the door to a whole lot of humor:
Some of the best in the bunch:
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- Hopefund - [...]
You'll have to excuse me for not providing additional commentary about the GRT or the unfortunate indictment of Fast Eddy. I think the Northwestern Law Center ought investigate and demand a report about the forthcoming wrongful conviction. Instead, here's a post I wrote a while back and just hadn't gotten [...]
I think it was Paul Richardson who had asked me what my beef was with Andrew Sullivan. I don't remember exactly what my response was but I think the answer involved the word 'naive'. If you wanted to see clarion examples of that sort of naive allow me to give [...]
Submitted for your amusement:
Opine Editorials a site dedicated to providing long winded ways of saying god hates fags "defending of marriage on the firm ground of reason and respect"( for here an example) has posted some positively fascinating craziness:
We have the upper hand in this debate as [...]
Kansas' Democratic Governor Kathleen Sebelius said Monday that the effort to recover from the damage caused by tornadoes that hit six Kansas counties over the weekend is being hampered by the war in Iraq.
According to Sebelius there is a shortage of trucks, helicopters and other equipment [...]
Oh it's fun watching fundies today. I've been having my fair share of laughs at the latest American Taliban Production known as stop the federal hate crimes bill. Their supposed reasoning is that a hate crimes bill is somehow akin to 'thought crimes' because in fundie theory the [...]
Please enjoy this photo of a button from a private fund raiser for Jon Burge in 1993. The fund raiser was held at a Union Hall on Ashland Avenue. I'm told attendance was surprisingly high for the event and that tickets had cost $50 bucks a pop. [...]
