. . . With Both Hands

• John Fogarty - Revived Creedance and Everyone Else

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  It looked like a convention of guys from the Frequent Pee-er Commercials! There were younger guys attendant - in fact I ran into about eight Leo High School Alumni from Father Perez Council Knights of Columbus ( John Gardiner, Laryy Funk et [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:54am EST
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• AP Mocks Catholics, Because A Kennedy Loves Abortion.

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  Communion is a church ritual that involves the sharing of bread and wine meant to represent the body and blood of Jesus Christ. AP 11/22/2009
  
  Really?
  
  Meant to represent?
  
  
  Would it be a stretch then to [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:52am EST
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• RIP - CPD Commander Donald Hilbring -Leo Hall of Famer

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  By Trevor Jensen - Chicago Tribune
  Donald L. Hilbring taught school by day while also rising through the ranks of the Chicago Police Department, where he retired as a captain and district commander.
  
  Mr. Hilbring, 62, died of pneumonia on Monday, Nov. 16, in Advocate [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:10pm EST
  by pathickey

• Thomson Gitmo Guest Haus ? Eric Zorn Hysterical about Imagined Fear? He Skips Naked Into Ruth's Mini Club - So To Speak.

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  Eric Zorn, not an original thinker and part of the PC herd of sheeple being prodded with the staff to counter opposition with a buzz-word du jour - fear.
  
  Senator Dithering Dick Durbin, no stranger to group think is the Good [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:16am EST
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• Philly Lawyer and Journalist Christine Flowers on Abortionists Health Reform Hypocrisies

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  By Christine M. Flowers
  Philadelphia Daily News
  
  I FOUND myself smiling when I heard the usual suspects criticizing the Conference of Catholic Bishops for poking its nose into the health-care debate.
  Actually, it was more like a smirk.
  
  When [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:41am EST
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• Leo Boxer for Team USA ,Lamar Fenner, returns from UK

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  All the BS and nonsense about race by morons like MSNBC's Chris Matthews and courage by Planned Parenthood lap-dogs like Senator Dithering Dick Durbin fade like the memory of the scents Sweetheart Rendering at 34th & Ashland and the Skyway over Gary twenty years ago, when [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:41am EST
  by pathickey

• Dearth of a Salesman - President Obama Reports on His Asia Junket!

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  Has a president ever been less successful on a trip overseas than President Obama has on his eight-day excursion to Asia? I've been covering presidents since Gerald Ford and I can't think of one. Weekly Standard 11/19/09
  
  Willie Loman was not a President but he [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:36am EST
  by pathickey

• John Devens' World Folk Music - A Huge Loss to Music and to Beverly/Morgan Park

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  John Devens is a guy who always helps other people. That is his shtick. He is also a brilliant musician, Folk/Jazz historian/teacher/ impresario/ band leader and hopelessly constant soft-touch.
  
  I played Irish/Bluegrass music with John Devens years ago. He [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:50am EST
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• Eric Holder's Nation of Cowards Countered by a Sports Writer -Ed Weaver

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  By Ed Weaver
  The Record
  
  President Obama’s decision — and it was his, not Attorney General Eric Holder’s — to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terrorists in U.S. District Court in [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:49pm EST
  by pathickey

• That Must Have Been Some Movie, There Radcliffe!

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  Ripped from the Now I Really DO NOT want to Probe Farther File!Man dies after collapsing in adult theater
  November 18, 2009 11:19 AM | No Comments
  A man died Tuesday after collapsing in an adult film theater in the Old Town neighborhood, [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:23pm EST
  by pathickey

• Eric "We are a Nation of Cowards" Holder says, "Nothing to Fear, Chickens! Scaredy Cats! Victims in Waiting!"

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  Note to my Prgressive Readers - Some of this is Real and the Rest of it is Eric Holder and Chris Matthews.
  "We need not cower in the face of this enemy," Holder says. "Our institutions are strong, our infrastructure is sturdy, our resolve is" [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:04am EST
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• Talking $hit with Shore - How PC Nitwits Slip Through the Cracks

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  Debra Shore is on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District ( formerly the Sanitary District) - one of the engineering miracles of civilization.
  
  Debra Shore is a proudly Gay/Lesbian Green Activist who got elected through the marvel that is Cook County politics. About ten years ago [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:09pm EST
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• Me and the Kids Will Take the Illinois Gitmo Guests!

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  Bruce Dold and Tribune Editorial Board brought a manly tear to my eye when they chorused this morning's edition with 'Be Not Afraid!'
  
  Thomson Correctional Facility can do so much for our State and Governor Quinn has called for all of us to do things [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:32am EST
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• Rep. Judy Biggert - Will She Call for an Apology for MSNBC Abuse?

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  Rep. Judy Biggert (R.IL) walked into a Chris Matthews ambush, prodded no doubt by local nitwit Rep. Jan Schakowsky and MSNBC Stable Pony and wife of convicted felon Bob Creamer. Click my post title for offensive Matthews. He only does this [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:01am EST
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• Imbecile Chris M(atthews)SNBC Attacks Rep. Judy Biggert for not having His Misunderstanding History

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  Talking to alleged Turkish Spy and celebrated nitwit Jan Shakowsky is a walk in the park for the Forty Watt Power of Chris Matthews blond brain.
  
  Trying to add a counter point of view was too much and it tasked Matthews [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:30pm EST
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• Illini Gitmo! Your Gift to Al Queda thanks to Durbin, Quinn and Our White House!

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  Get Them Thomson Melons Ready! Quinn and Durbin have Gitmo Guests Jonesing for Thomson Melons!
  
  
  
  "We're here today to let the people know we're not going to let the fearmongers carry the day," Quinn said. "We're going to do'" [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:42pm EST
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• Gitmo Guests! Welcome to Thomson - Durbin Tours and Quinn Travel Presentation

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  We are a small community of 550 people. Primarily an agricultural area, we are known for watermelons, thus nick-named:
  
  "THE MELON CAPITOL OF THE WORLD"
  
  
  
  We have some of the finest watermelons and produce in the country. Thomson is [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:24am EST
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• Pat Hughes for U.S. Senate! Dan Proft for Governor

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  Dan Proft had me at, "Hey!" While I love Andy McKenna's hair commercial and believe him to be one of the finest people in shoes, I must go with Dan Proft. While Speaker Madigan takes a lot of grief from Proft, I' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:49am EST
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• Ah, So! President Obama -""I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest. Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people . . ."Uh, Huh.

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  "I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest. Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this" [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 1:34pm EST
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• Obama Policy of "Strategic Reassurance" - China will not rub his belly.

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  "Dubbed "strategic reassurance," the policy aims to convince the Chinese that the United States has no intention of containing their rising power. Details remain to be seen, but as with the Russia "reset," it is bound to make American allies nervous." NEWSWEEK
  
  In keeping with [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 8:05am EST
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• Judge H. "Stinky" Lee Sarokin is Back Doing Medill Bidding and Wrong from the Headline

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  Judge H. "Stinky" Lee Sarokin is a retired East Coast Federal Judge who quit amid a cloud twenty years ago for sunny Californ-eyeAy!
  
  Judge Sarokin was the the legal-air-freshener for all Stinky Jurors and Library Card Holders back in the day. Hence my sobriquet -that [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:55am EST
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• Eric Holder's Nation of Cowards Set to Try 9-11 War Criminals! Bush and Cheney

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  Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, and five other suspects will be sent to military commissions, an Obama administration official said Friday.
  
  The official [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:29am EST
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• A Kennedy Gets the Bishop Tobin Tune-up on Abortion - About Time.

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  “If you freely choose to be a Catholic, it means you believe certain things, you do certain things,” Bishop Tobin said on WPRO, a Providence radio station. “If you cannot do all that in conscience, then you should perhaps feel free to [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:25am EST
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• God Bless All Who Serve! God Bless our Veterans and Those in Service!

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  We truly take a lot for granted. Forget the football 'heroes' and movie 'stars'. Pass this on so that all may know the price of freedom
  
  Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you,
  
  Jesus Christ and a [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:07am EST
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• Professor Dave Protess -Innocence Project or Blair Which Project?

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  Last night the State of Virginia executed a monster. Ironically enough the sniper-serial killer John Allen Muhammad - the Beltway Sniper was covered by Life Coach and former Journalist Jayson Blair.
  
  Blair made more mistakes in his reports than the number of people who firmly [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:08am EST
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• Shell Games Catches up to Professor Dave Protess - Innocence?

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  After the student paid the cabbie, the driver recorded the transaction in his log, today's filing states. Apparently suspicious that it was a drug deal or a sting, he wrote: "detective gave me 60, told me to give him 40, gave me 60... gave him change."' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:32pm EST
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• Di Di Mao! Anita Dunn Gone!

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  The Dipwad Goof Mao-Mao-ing Communications Director for President Obama's Original Amateur Hour White House called it Qs!
  
  Dunn also came under attack in recent weeks from conservatives over a speech she gave in which she described Chinese leader Mao Zedong as one of her “favorite' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:45pm EST
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• American Public Education !

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  I doubt very much that the manager of this Gary Burger King was a graduate of Bishop Noll Institute, Andrean High School, or La Lumiere School in the Gary Diocese.
  
  That is too bad. Were School Choice a Reality, the Sign Might be less Amusing [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:11am EST
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• Kick Abortion to The Curb . . .For Christmas.

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  To him who has done the deed of secret murder.
  We, the fearful daughters of Night,
  Fasten ourselves upon his whole being.
  Thinks he by flight to escape us?
  We fly still faster in pursuit,
  Twine our snakes around his feet,
  [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:24am EST
  by pathickey

• Dan Lipinski! Thou Gleeking Flap-mouthed Foot-licker

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  Illinois Congressman Dan Lipinski flipped off every voter in the Democratic 3rd District with his vote on the idiotic Health Care Bill in the House of Representatives on Saturday.
  
  A Cynical Dan might offer - 'Hey, I had to vote that way and show sodilarity' [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:41am EST
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• St. Leo the Great, Pope, Doctor of the Church

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  The works of mercy are innumerable. Their very variety brings this advantage to those who are true Christians, that in the matter of almsgiving not only the rich and affluent but also those of average means and the poor are able to play their [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 7:44am EST
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• I'ts Good to Be Me and Molar Free - on the lower left Jaw

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  About 8:45 yesterday, I was offered a piece of delicious Wrigley's Big Red, by one the Leo National Honor Society Members who were the proud center piece of our Veterans Observances at Leo High School. Big Red is' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:36am EST
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• Saint George Saint Joan of Arc Michael the Archangel Watch Over our Men and Women in Uniform

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  Today, we will honor Men and Women in Uniform and Service to America at Leo High School.
  
  
  Yesterday, my daughter and her classmates of Mother McAuley and the students of Brother Rice High School, lined Pulaski to welcome home the body of Army [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:57am EST
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• Mark Kirk Begs Sarah Palin -" I like Fancy Sauce!"

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  Cap'n Trade Mark Kirk is an oily kind of jerque*. He moves like mercury. He voted for the Waxman Markey Global Warming Stick-Up of America for General Electric! Kirk was the ONLY Republican in the Illinois Delegation to vote for this creepy and dangerous Bill. [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:37am EST
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• Join Us for the Leo High School Veterans Observances Tomorrow, or Watch on Fox 32

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  Tomorrow's events at Leo High School in honor of our Veterans will be covered by Patrick Elwood and the great folks at FOX-32 Chicago - at 8:15, 9:15, and 11:00 A.M. - if you can not join us, please watch.
  Leo' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:38am EST
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• If Only . . .Agonistes

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  Design'd for great exploits; if I must dye
  Betray'd, Captiv'd, and both my Eyes put out,
  Made of my Enemies the scorn and gaze;
  To grind in Brazen Fetters under task [ 35 ]
  With this Heav'n-gifted strength? O glorious strength
  Put to the labour of [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:08pm EST
  by pathickey

• White House Robert Gibbs -"It's a Touch of Cancer."

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  I went to a wake at Sheehy & Sons on 79th Street once and asked the widower what his wife had succumbed to -"T'was nothing serious, so." the County Kerry gent offered.
  
  Following yesterday's National Tune-up of the Hope & Change White House, Stephen Root [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:20pm EST
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• A Touching Tale of Texas Transgression

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  From the files of the great Tom McMahon of Wisconsin & Frank Nofsinger:Beerologist, libationist, beer devotee, wert guru, beer maven and Patriot!
  
  
  A hooded robber burst into a Texas Bank and forced the tellers to load a sack full of cash.
  
  On [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:03am EST
  by pathickey

• Fox32's Patrick Elwood Honors Veterans at Leo High School

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  Watch Chicago's Fox -32 on Friday morning, November 6th (One feature with Patrick Elwood at 8:15 and another other at 9:15) as Patrick Elwood honors and interviews Veterans, heroes all, of WWII, Korea' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:54am EST
  by pathickey

• Vote for Mandy and the Bandits - Once Day -Anyway.

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  As a dedicated Hack, I love to help people I like.
  
  I love Amanda Crumley and her band of splendid musicians and vocalists - Mandy and the Bandits.
  
  Give Amanda and her crew a vote and help the Bandits earn a spot playing with [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:10pm EST
  by pathickey

• Archbisop Timothy Dolan of New York! God Bless The Man - His Full Statement

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  FOUL BALL!
  By Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan
  Archbishop of New York
  
  October is the month we relish the highpoint of our national pastime, especially when one of our own New York teams is in the World Series!
  
  Sadly, America has another national pastime, this [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:04am EST
  by pathickey

• NY Archbishop Dolan Blasts New York Times, Mo Dowd, and Boiled Beets Progressive Nativists - Give Maher a Slap Bishop!

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  The New York Times has always hated Catholics. From long before the New York Draft Riots, and heaped coal on Pope Pius IX by creating a Jewish antipathy for Catholics by inflating the Mortara Incident* ( A Jewish boy taken from his [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:21am EST
  by pathickey

• Planned Parenthood's President Presses Its President

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  Huge Ten Gallon Doff to American Papist -click my post title
  
  "Don't let Catholic bishops and other anti-choice groups push Congress into passing anti-choice amendments to health care reform. Take action now to protect women's health."
  
  http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/hcr09ccbr_afw
  
  Brassy' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:14am EST
  by pathickey

• Frank Rich's Dies Irae and No One Dies!

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  I had an opportunity to read Frank Rich's New York Times Op-Ed piece "The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York" and wasted a few minutes there.
  
  The salient paragraph at the very end of the piece explains the entire train wreck [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 4:21pm EST
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• Bigotry Kills School Reform - Anti Voucher Bigots

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  Old Joe Medill could not have posted a more anti-Catholic rant than Eric Zorn. Changing the subject on School Reform is a breeze for rock ribbed bigots. A bigot refuses to accept a person or an idea.
  Bigot : a person obstinately or [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:40am EST
  by pathickey

• Steve Reid - Leo Hall of Fame, College Football Hall of Fame,

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  Position: Guard
  School: Northwestern
  High School: Chicago, IL (Leo HS)
  Years: 1934-1936
  Inducted: 1985
  Place of Birth: Chicago, IL
  Date of Birth: 12/16/1914
  Jersey Number: 44
  Height: 5-9
  Weight: 192
  
  
  Steve Reid played football at Leo High School in his hometown of [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 8:02am EST
  by pathickey

• WHY MEN SHOULD NOT TAKE MESSAGES

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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 2:38pm EDT
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• Nancy, Your Pants Are Afire and Your Boys are Lying As Well

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  You can not make this stuff up!
  
  “It’s almost a complete certainty that we have already discussed and debated almost every element that’s in this bill,” said Rep. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.)
  
  
  McHenry took issue with the notion that the 2,000-page bill hasn’t [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:58am EDT
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• Sen. Meeks No Longer an Isolationist on School Vouchers! Welcome to the War

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  Senator James Meeks has been the Joseph P. Kennedy* Ambassador to School Reform Isolationism and a powerful voice for tossing more tax dollars to the Chicago Teachers Union and hapless Public Schools.
  
  Blocks from Calumet High School, now morphed into a [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 6:34am EDT
  by pathickey

• "There Lives Not Three Good Men Unhanged in N J, and One of Them is Fat"

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  The Genius that is Kliban!
  
  “I’m pretty fat Don,” Christie declared.
  
  
  “You weigh?” Imus asked.
  
  
  “550 pounds,” Christie jokingly responded from the Don Imus Show via Politico - click my post title.
  
  
  Let me have men about [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 2:28pm EDT
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• Welcome to the Pew, Brother Meeks!

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  Real School Reform = Vouchers! Short of that, Charter Schools do the most to bring some accountabilty. All the rest is hot air -for want of stronger tea.
  
  Public Schools need competition. Catholic Schools ( and other private schools as well) provide Competition and Genuine [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 11:00am EDT
  by pathickey

• President Obama is Commander in Chief - Well Done, Mr. President!

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  President Obama displayed True Greatness! This speaks well of Our President!
  
  President Barack Obama made a midnight trip to Dover Air Force Base earlier today to meet the returning bodies of 18 U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan on Monday.
  
  
  Arriving at [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:56am EDT
  by pathickey

• St. Colman of Kilmacduagh - Helped Preserve Thought in the West - Feast Day October 29th

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  "St. Colman was retired into the wilderness for the benefit of his devotion. He had no living creature about him except a rooster, a mouse, and a fly. The use of the rooster was to give him notice" [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 6:54am EDT
  by pathickey

• Pirates Grab Brits? Let Caesar Deal With Them - That's Caesar Obama, Mind You.

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  "The pattern has been that they don't harm the captives, these pirates, because they want money.
  
  "But I want to assure the family that we will not rest until until we see the freedom of this couple." [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 1:33pm EDT
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• "Did [the bankers] build anything? Create anything? . . ." No, Anna; Janitors Mop, Health Care Workers Empty Bed Pans and You Are Wearing their Dues !

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  Yesterday the shameless led the wageless by the hundreds against BANKS and got universal press coverage touting protesters in the thousands.
  
  That's nice. SEIU corrals thousands of no skill and low skill workers into their pens with their dues [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:50am EDT
  by pathickey

• Read This Book - Dan Senor's "A Start-Up Nation"

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  My uncles always said, " They got oranges growing in the desert - they'll beat any crumbs that attack them" Bart, Donny, Sy, Bud, Mike, Jack and my Dad were always Pro-Israel. I remember that strategic and tactical assessment of Israel at the time of the' [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 8:24am EDT
  by pathickey

• Greeks, Germans, and Gaels Commemorate Gallantry in 1939 Ireland.

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  More than 200 people attended various celebratory events in Ventry on Saturday, October 17 2009 to mark the rescue and landing of the Greek seamen.
  
  The occasion was organised by the newly formed Ventry Historical Society.
  
  The main ceremony was [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 12:49pm EDT
  by pathickey

• Morning Joe - Mika is as Dumb as a Box of Rocks and Mark Halperin Squirts Tears.

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  I got struck with MSNBC for morning news this A.M. - the cable was wacky. No wackier than the Zoo Crew of Morning Joe.
  
  Mika Brzezinski is a busty babe and daughter of Henry Kissinger Never Could Be -Zbigniew Brzezinksi.
  
  Mika is UmmmmDay - [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 8:10am EDT
  by pathickey

• Judge H. :Stinky" Lee Sarokin Calls Cook County States Attorney's Request a Gestapo Move

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  Old Judge H. "Stinky" Lee Sarokin a rock-ribbed Civil Rights Activist Judge who was overruled by an Appellate Court that a homeless gent 'did in fact stink' and could be asked to leave a Public Library - going without soap and water (at minimum) is not [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 1:44pm EDT
  by pathickey

• Skinny & Houli Show on WNTD Radio 950AM - Wednesdays from 6-8 PM Starting 11/11/09

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  Coming Wednesday Night November 11th
  
  The Premiere of the Skinny & Houli Show!
  
  And none too soon! Voices made for Relevant Radio, James "Skinny" Sheahan and Mike "Houli" Houlihan will be heard - loud and clear - these gents are no NPR Hush [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 9:19am EDT
  by pathickey

• Blind Bartimaeus in All of Us. Well, me anyway.

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  Then they came to Jericho And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the road.
  When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 8:32am EDT
  by pathickey

• To Lt. Colonel Brian Quirk, USMC - Navy Commissions USS Makin Island - The Atoll You Raided

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  South Sider Lt. Col. Brian Quirk is a wonderful man. At 86, he is slipping a bit but hanging onto to the command of his life with all the grit, spit and heart of the kid he was in 1942, when he [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 6:38pm EDT
  by pathickey

• Hear Andy Shaw on WLS -"Cops Not Going 100%" Andy Must Have the Numbers

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  Listen to the WLS feed from this morning's Don Wade & Roma - slide the bar about 3/4 of way to the part where the Police Officer asks about no Contract for Two Years/Chicago's Thug Happy Violence Festival and BGA Andy's response.
  
  Because, in Andy [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 11:54am EDT
  by pathickey

• BGA Andy Shaw on Don & Roma: "Cops Laying Down"

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  On the way into work, I heard Andy Shaw, Bed and Breakfast Magnate and Better Government Watch Pup, answer a Chicago Police Officer named Nicky's question as to why the Police and Fire Department memberships needed to go two years without contracts and remain 4,000' [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 8:16am EDT
  by pathickey

• Vice President Biden Calms the Poles

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  "Did you hear about the million-dollar Polish Lottery?
  You win a dollar a year for a million years. "
  
  "How about the Polish car pool?
  They meet at work. "
  
  [Deafening Silence]
  
  "“We appreciate Poland has stepped up" [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 11:40am EDT
  by pathickey

• Tribune Editorial Board's Hack Priority at University of Illinois

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  In the wake of the scandal, there's a lot of talk about building an impenetrable firewall around the U. of I.'s admissions system. One set of rules for everyone. No exceptions. But as long as the cheaters are able to hide, they'll always be looking' [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 8:46am EDT
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• MSNBC Smears Gen. Stanley McCrystal - Boudin Brained Chris Matthews -"It's Beau Geste!"

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  Beginning on Oct. 7th and continuing unabated fatuous forty-Watt flannel mouth Chris Matthews has outshouted every carbon-footprint to appear with him on Hardball with his latest shout-point -'Beau Geste' in order to smear President Obama's Commander in Afghanistan.
  
  MATTHEWS: Let me [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 6:17pm EDT
  by pathickey

• Pope Benedict Welcomes Anglicans - Epicopalians Who Woke Up.

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  There was a sociology of Protestantism that went: A Methodist is a Baptist with shoes. A Presbyterian is a Methodist who has been to college. An Episcopalian is a Presbyterian who is living off his investments. This has all changed now. Now [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 8:43am EDT
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• "It Goes to Discovery" - Whether a Fatly Endowed, Tribune Bannered NU Law Project Whines or Not! Nice Job Ms. Alvarez!

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  The Medill Innocence Project begs the question - rather it beats all of us over the head with it - "Their Featured Victim is Innocent -Believe It!"
  
  Maybe. Let's go to Discovery - as the earnest lawyers always shout on them Cop/Lawyer TV Shows.
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 6:41am EDT
  by pathickey

• God's Good Health to Max Weismann!

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  Today's Mass* and all my prayerful thoughts go with my friend and mentor Philosopher Max Weismann. Max heads the Center for the Study of Great Ideas and is one of the genuine stand-up guys in Chicago. Max stands in tall company with my Mom and Dad,' [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 10:14am EDT
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• James Tyree's Investment Group Get a Chicago Tribune Welcome! "Me and the Wife and Kids Set Your Garage on Fire! "

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  The Chicago Tribune welcomes the Investors in the Group that purchased the Flat-lined by Stupidity Chicago Sun Times with brimming bowls full of vitriol tossed right in the Lamps.
  
  One of the best working journalists in the business Ray Gibson and a Tribune staff writer [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 1:29pm EDT
  by pathickey

• Erroll Garner - 'Concert by the Sea' Will Set You Free!

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  I have six music discs in the console of my Malibu.
  
  The Rascals Greatest Hits
  Essential Frank Sinatra
  The Best of Sam Cooke
  John Roothaan and Terry Sullivan" (Acapulco Stomp)
  Kinks - Vol.1 & 2
  Errol Garner Concert by" [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 9:35am EDT
  by pathickey

• Richard Heene - Time's Man of the Year!

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  Balloon Boy's Dad - Richard Heene - is a walking metaphor of our times - Nobel's for nothing and Chick's for Free!
  
  As adrift as the Obama Amatuer Hour White House( Cap'N Trade; Unstimulus Package, Good Taliban, Copenhagen Snuff-outs, Katrina' [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 8:15am EDT
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• Dem Bridgeport Boids Are in Beverly Well, Morgan Park Anyway

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  The Starling Flock has swarmed "from Bridgeport to Beverly" . . . like the song* says . . . . in search of perches for the South Side Irish Parade. These birds did not get the word - The Parade's Cancelled.
  
  Me [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 4:53pm EDT
  by pathickey

• Government Option in Health, or Anything - Check out this Historical Gem!

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  On the way into Leo, I listened to Better Government Association( BGA) Softball Andy Shaw toss Softballs to Congresswoman Jan 'I-Spy-The Turk' Schakowsky.
  
  Forty Watt Jan bubbled and squeaked with delight about the [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 9:05am EDT
  by pathickey

• Carly Simon Sues Starbuck's 'Spresso Swillers Scorn Stax of Wax by Star with a Mouth Like a Firebucket

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  From Rolling Stone - no less ( clique me post title) and check out this comment*!
  
  Hag-like has-been, Carly Simon is a [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 12:56pm EDT
  by pathickey

• Obama Learns Russian -"Nyet!'

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  Three weeks after giving the store away (Czechs, Poles, Lithuanians, Georgians - Europe) on the missile defense system, four days after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize and swell Atta Boy from Vlad Putin, President Obama learned the meaning of Nyet.
  
  “At the current stage, all [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 12:01pm EDT
  by pathickey

• Rev. Jesse Jackson Will Pay Fenger Parents!!!!!! For Real? He Says they Must Be Paid!

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  The Operation PUSH leader suggests, in the meantime, that parents from Altgeld Gardens be hired to safely ensure student safety to and from school.
  
  In a bold and unfamiliar move, Rev. Jesse Jackson says that parents 'must be hired to ensure student safety!" The Rev'" [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 10:00am EDT
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• A Priest Hits a Rabbi

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  An Irish priest and a Rabbi
  
  
  A middle aged south side Irish priest and a young Rabbi get into a car accident on Western Ave. Father Marty O'Hara of St. Philerup Parish of Over -By- There T-boned Rabbi Ezrah Mendel of Temple Bar' [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 8:50am EDT
  by pathickey

• Max Weismann's Letter to Secretary Arne Duncan - Right America's Moral Compass With Great Ideas

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  Secretary Arne Duncan
  United States Secretary of Education
  LBJ Education Building, Room 7W311
  400 Maryland Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC 20202
  
  Dear Secretary Duncan:
  I reside in Chicago and I am a well known moral philosopher in the field education and I am the protégé of [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 2:18pm EDT
  by pathickey

• Nobel Speech by William Faulkner - Read it, Mr. President

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  At Stockholm in 1950, an American writer accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is one of the greatest speeches in human history. I taught this to my students. I hope one of President Obama's teachers presented this to him. William Faulkner [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 5:56pm EDT
  by pathickey

• Mayor Daley Follows Eric Zorn's "Civility of Abortion Rule"

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  The mayor said protesters can express their opinions but “should not harass and scream and yell” at people going into medical facilities. “There has to be some civility left in our society," he said.
  
  When a reporter noted that" [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 7:14am EDT
  by pathickey

• Rio Names President Obama 2016 Decathalon Winner

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  Nobel Prize tosser Thorbjørn Jagland* declared "You, sir, are the World's Greatest Athlete"
  
  Mooching a Square! Gold!
  
  The First Wright Pitch! Gold!
  
  Pitch Too Mah Loo! Gold!
  
  Toss Like a Girl' [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 9:59am EDT
  by pathickey

• Nobel! Dynamite! Mr. Jagland Attests the Strength of the Award!

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  Thorbjorn Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and a former prime minister of Norway, said the president had already contributed enough to world diplomacy and international understanding to earn the award.
  
  "We are not awarding the prize for what may happen in" [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 8:38am EDT
  by pathickey

• Gen. Tom Gerrity Leo Man: All Veterans Invited to Leo High School -Nov.6th 2009 at 11AM

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  All Veterans, Law Enforcement and Firefighter members, please join the Students, Staff and Alumni of Leo High School for the
  
  Veterans Observance at Leo High School
  7901 S. Sangamon Street
  Chicago, IL 60620
  (773) 224-9600
  
  Call to Colors, Flag [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 6:18am EDT
  by pathickey

• Leo High School site of Veterans Observance 11/06/09 at 11AM

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  Leo High School, Leo Alumni Association, The Burbank Marine League Color Guard, Windy City Veterans, The Veterans Leadership Program, American Legion Giles Post #87& especially Mrs Rochelle Crump of Chicago Department of Child and Family Services will hold a special [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 8:50am EDT
  by pathickey

• Poetic Justice - Poetry Wants No Parole for Norman Porter

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  A Louse, is louse, is louse. Worked for Gertie Stein. Poetry is the means by which man best articulates what he sees, feels, thinks, tastes and wills. Poetry is math and music.
  
  I was delighted to read that Poetry.com is on the record against parole [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 5:12pm EDT
  by pathickey

• Docshunds Bark for Barack!

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  In another indication that President 44 has morphed into Jimmy Carter ( noted for sporting a swell fireside Cardigan for image), President Barack Obama trotted out his Best in Show team of 150 Docs to bark for Obama Care!
  
  The Copenhagen-in-Chief snapped out this command [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 8:10am EDT
  by pathickey

• Quigley Endorses Quinn - Dan Hynes Wins!

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  Illinois Observer, Dave Ormsby noted early today that Congressman Mike Quigley will endorse Governor Pat Quinn to day at 10A.M. - Governor Quinn, my condolences.
  
  The Uriah Heep of Illinois politics, Congressman Mike Quigley, is a kiss of death.
  
  Comptroller Dan Hynes will [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 11:22am EDT
  by pathickey

• With a Full Court White House Press On ( Late again) Public Option is Deader Than Kelsey's Nuts!

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  Close on the heels of his soaring rhetoric and thigh tingling personal appearance in Copenhagen, President Barack 'Amateur Hour' Obama is going to treat the Left with a full-court press on the Public Option! Best believe that this is now deader than Kelsey's Nuts, Cupcakes.
  [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 9:27am EDT
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• Brian Urlacher to Help Illinois Police Athletic League to Clothe Kids!

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  This just in from Illinois Crime Commission and Illinois police Athletic League's Jerry Elsner - a guy who really fights to help kids.
  
  Brian Urlacher to Chair Police Athletic League's Clothes for Kids Campaign
  
  
  
  Oak Brook, IL.- The Illinois State Crime Commission/ [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 9:21am EDT
  by pathickey

• Amateur Hour White House Advisers Wear the Jacket in the Failed Chicago Bid for Olympics 2016

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  "It's a secret ballot. You can't necessarily be certain that the people who tell you they'll vote for you ultimately will," Jarrett said. "So I'm sure they did the very best they could do to get the intelligence they had."
  
  The president made his [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 7:21am EDT
  by pathickey

• MSNBC Always Wrong and Mayor Daley is not the goat on the Olympic Bid

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  TODD: But the biggest political loser here is Mayor Daley in Chicago. Nobody had more on the line than Mayor Daley. He was pushing this, this was his pet project. He's the one that just put so much pressure on the White House to get the [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 7:08am EDT
  by pathickey

• Cook County Commissioner Gainer Slaps Video Poker

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  Cook County Commissioner and 19th Ward AlumnaBridget Gainer* - well, she grew up here in St. Barnabas Parish on the east side of Western- took a tough position against 'easy money' and the one-armed bandits.
  
  Slot machines are the crack cocaine [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 8:08am EDT
  by pathickey

• South Side's Billy Dec - Billy Hill - Kickin' It Mad for Olympics - Just Not in Copenhagen

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  Hat Tip to Steve Rhodes' Beachwood Reporter for an insight to the unsightly and unctuous Billy Dec whose south side counter part oozes down Western Ave. -Meet Billy Hill -again
  Peabody nominated former Children's TV Cast Member ( Chuck Bill's Adventure Theatre -' [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 1:05pm EDT
  by pathickey

• CPD 6th Respond to Fight on 87th Street - Last Night Rev. Jesse Jackson & WTTW Make Police Goats for Fenger Murder

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  The great officers of the 6th Police District* responded to a fight that I witnessed on the way to Leo this morning. At roughly 7:50 A.M. east bound traffic on 87th Street stalled near Loomis as a fight between about twelve young men took place in [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 8:20am EDT
  by pathickey

• Olympic Gutterball Shooting Down The Lane?

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  I could care more about Chicago's 2016 Olympic Dreams if I could, in any way, shape, or form work myself up to a lusty 'I could care less!' Or, as we [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 2:16pm EDT
  by pathickey

• Rep. Patrick Kennedy Warns of Lee Harvey Health Care and Sirhan 'The Teabag' Sirhan' Taking Out Another Kennedy!

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  Like so many Dynastic Families Rep. Patrick 'Ruprecht' Kennedy of Rhode Island says what's on his mind - and exactly how many angels Totally do prance upon the head of a pin? Undisturbed by deep thought, reflection or any sense of history and only 24 hours [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 11:00am EDT
  by pathickey

• Kennedy Skank Stealth Health

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  The Old Lion must be emitting a throaty growl from beyond the borne from whence no traveller returns! Teddy would have loved this Lover Legislation to emerge from America's Healthy and Robust Examination of Congress with Its Britches Around Its Ankles - Health Reform!
  
  Young [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 1:59pm EDT
  by pathickey

• Our Lobbyist -in - Chief! Our Oprahlicious Oylmpian Copenhagen Chicagoans Expect a Strike!

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  In what ethics-in-government advocates described as a particularly far-reaching move, Mr. Obama barred officials of his administration from lobbying their former colleagues "for as long as I am president." He barred former lobbyists from working for agencies they had lobbied within the past two years and [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 9:34am EDT
  by pathickey