tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966813157421274042024-02-20T10:34:05.224-06:00The Angry ChicagoanSick of Chicago politics? Self serving government? The mortgaging of everything not nailed down? Traffic "maids" (the idiots in the yellow vests who "direct" traffic)? High property taxes? Even higher parking ticket taxes? The nanny state?
SO AM I!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-47241034558797498662010-08-16T11:51:00.000-05:002010-08-16T11:51:07.735-05:00Who is Joe Berrios?<a href="http://www.joeberrios.com/">Who is Joe Berrios?</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-70968176314227064362009-06-16T21:06:00.002-05:002009-06-16T21:14:41.296-05:00Leave Letterman aloneLetterman is getting skewered for a joke. What happened to freedom of speech? Oh yeah, we are living in a generation of wimps with thin skin. When I heard the joke I assumed he was talking about the older daughter. It was funny.<br /><br />It came out that the younger daughter was at the game. Oops. But what funny person do you know that has NEVER gotten a fact wrong when going for a laugh. It happens. <br /><br />We are living in a generation where there is no tolerance for anything in some misguided quest to create tolerance of everything. We are raising kids that go to schools that give out "Did not pass" grades instead of "Fail". Guess what? We're not doing them any favors. Live is hard sometimes. People are mean sometimes. Learn to live with it or you are in for a difficult time for the rest of your life. Calling for a boycott of Letterman's sponsors is misguided and, I imagine, largely led by conservatives who normally support freedom of speech. I mean really, is one bad joke enough to ruin someone's career?<br /><br />Funny how intolerant people are of other people's mistakes.<br /><br />Let he who is without sin...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-72674698478446086172009-06-08T14:54:00.001-05:002009-06-08T14:55:44.630-05:00I had to respond to the TicketmasterIs this Ticketmaster guy on theexpiredmeter.com drinking the Kool Aid or what?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-20338218299046125722009-06-04T13:24:00.000-05:002009-06-04T13:26:02.362-05:00Quinn's Wrong TargetsThis is an excellent piece on what's wrong with IL and why, even though I am on the board of a not-for-profit severely impacted by this, I will not support the tax increase proposed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-14113962294536050332009-05-27T00:09:00.001-05:002009-05-27T00:10:58.062-05:00I stood up for ethics. Where were you?!?!?I stood up for ethics. Where were you?!?!? <br />http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0527edit2may27,0,7794159.story<br /><br />More of the same political BS.<br /><br />Furthermore, the state budget office would be fired from every corporation if they produced quarterly reports like the ones here: http://www.state.il.us/budget/qfr.asp<br />There is absolutely nothing of value in those reports. They are a sales job to defend more taxes. Why don’t you stand up for transparency in government? Why don’t you stand up against pension abuse? Why don’t you stand up against urban sprawl which figures into the $13B out of $20B in the capital budget being proposed.<br /><br />Julie Hamos sent me this email:<br />Dear John,<br />Thank you for signing our petition calling for campaign contribution caps in Illinois. It is time for action – and we need your voice to be heard.<br />If you have not already, please contact your state legislator today and encourage them to support campaign contribution caps at $2,400.<br />Please stay in touch - I read every email message.<br />Sincerely,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-17384124410548612412009-05-26T21:37:00.002-05:002009-05-26T21:41:47.924-05:00Trailblazer of CorruptionBurris is going to go down soon! If there is a single person with ethics left in government we have a shot. Oh, never mind.<br /><br />BURRIS ON TAPE: "If I do get appointed, that means I bought it."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-18180284625323036982009-05-25T22:08:00.001-05:002009-05-25T22:10:05.390-05:00More corrupt Chicago aldermenAlderman Burke is arguably the most corrupt of all of the aldermen based on what's in this article. He has his own parking zone? WTF?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-86201993806283164102009-05-19T14:19:00.000-05:002009-05-19T14:20:07.319-05:00Cook County commissioners are idiots"I looked at my community, and I looked at theirs, and I compared the two," said Commissioner Deborah Sims (D-Chicago), referring to her Republican colleagues. "We don't have any businesses in my community to leave." -- Gee Deb, could it be that you don't have any businesses because you mismanaged government at every turn? IDIOT!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-35260096185334232102009-04-29T15:10:00.001-05:002009-04-29T15:11:43.362-05:00Should radio stations pay performers to play their music?Weird. It used to be Payola where the payments went the opposite way.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-66645835835475298182009-04-27T22:44:00.000-05:002009-04-27T22:45:18.565-05:00Making friends over at the Expired MeterUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-91433112609277217012009-04-17T13:27:00.002-05:002009-04-17T13:30:18.531-05:00More Stroger dirtCole is obviously a scumbag with a long rap sheet but he also has a history as a whistle blower. Thankfully the scumbag Stroger administration is too fucking stupid to have thought it through completely and now it's going to bring them down. Dunnings is obviously not someone who should be anywhere near the books if she's this stupid.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-24015569941814087432009-04-17T13:05:00.001-05:002009-04-17T13:06:56.899-05:00City of Chicago 0 - StubHub 1Finally somebody stands up to the crooks in charge in Chicago. These onerous fees are ridiculous.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-72040443827845145802009-04-15T03:43:00.003-05:002009-04-15T03:45:51.567-05:00This is for the idiot who made a pro pension comment on one of my postsThis kind of behavior is NOT what anyone had in mind when pensions were approved. <br /><br /><br />Kurt Granberg would have received a pension of $73,017 from his two decades as a state legislator. His 19-day interim job got him a quickie sweetening of $40,000 a year—55 percent more.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-66141149010204717872009-04-13T21:15:00.002-05:002009-04-13T21:16:20.277-05:00Stroger is obviously an idiotHe can't find a single item of pork in the budget? We need a recall. Idiots like this do not represent me.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-84697686334152098252009-04-07T21:34:00.000-05:002009-04-07T21:35:20.520-05:00I just commented on The Expired MeterRead more of my rants in the comments sectionUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-44911827819523474952009-04-07T17:50:00.001-05:002009-04-07T17:52:29.208-05:00Dear God please quit voting for the machine - proof of the lies"That is the American way," Stroger replied. "And the way that it's generally done is, you find some group that's small enough where they can't beat you up, and you tax them and you tell everybody else, 'See? We didn't tax you.'<br /><br />Until you start taxing those other groups because you're busy giving make work jobs to your relatives you fucking idiot.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-78644495172343056642009-04-07T17:46:00.001-05:002009-04-07T17:48:13.455-05:00Never trust the government when they raise taxes.<br /><br />They keep saying they raise taxes to pay for added health care costs. They lie.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-26575747103077123322009-04-07T17:10:00.002-05:002009-04-07T17:44:38.383-05:00How come Chicago aldermen didn't show this kind of backbone<span style="font-style:italic;">"House Democrats needed only one Republican vote last week to pass a $3 billion public works plan. House Minority Leader Tom Cross (R-Oswego) vowed they wouldn't get it unless they provided an itemized accounting of how the money would be spent."</span><br /><br />But Hizzoner Richie Daley rams through a 75 year lease (that will obviously benefit his relatives) and there is no time for the aldermen to get the details? Hell, only a couple of them even asked for details.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-55876019746577633132009-04-06T15:56:00.002-05:002009-04-06T16:00:05.514-05:00IL 5th Congressional District special electionThe 5th district special election is tomorrow. Our choices:<br />1. more of the same Dem machine. <br />2. A green Green party. <br />3. Minuteman Republican.<br /><br />These choices all suck. I'm going to write myself in. <br /><br />The older I get the more disillusioned I am with politics. The election commission makes it impossible for the silent majority to have a say. 90% of people I talk to want less government -- lower taxes and less social interference. But the Libertarians will never get on the ballot because it takes too many signatures thanks to the choke hold the Dems have on the process.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-47331352522845794792009-03-29T22:19:00.002-05:002009-03-29T22:24:00.036-05:00Apparently the principal of Waupussy High can't read a dictionary.There are not enough bullets in the world to prevent people like this from procreating. How in the hell did this guy make it to be principal if the doesn't even know the meaning of the word fellows? What a complete moron. <br /><br />Funny to read that they already lost the fight on having their nickname be the Warriors. Us Marquette grads learned a long time ago that the Native Americans required a monopoly on that word to protect their casino investments.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-36124868606666098952009-03-26T17:20:00.001-05:002009-03-26T17:21:47.815-05:00Burris news (or lack thereof)What happened to our pal Roland Burris? Why isn't he in the news lately? Better yet, why isn't he in jail or being impeached?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-21619984203201811272009-03-26T17:10:00.002-05:002009-03-26T17:14:53.344-05:00Speed cameras coming to ILDon't believe it when they say that speed cameras are all about safety. It's all about revenue. What ever happened to the <span style="font-weight:bold;">constitutional</span> right to face your accuser? They "decriminalize" it as an end around the constitution. <br /><br />Ever wonder why so many lives could be saved by reducing speeding? Because they artificially inflate the numbers. Speed is listed as a factor in every accident. If we all drove 5 mph there would be no deaths but that's not very practical.<br /><br />I'm sick of the nanny state that taxes the hell out of us and refuses to cut services to balance the budget. They just keep inventing new ways to screw us out of our money.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-54692273858579023082009-03-26T17:00:00.003-05:002009-03-26T17:10:04.179-05:00CTA vs Illinois pensionsSo the CTA may be able to avoid service cuts and fair hikes by modifying their contributions to the pension plan. But the crooks in power in Springfield have to approve any changes to the <span style="font-weight:bold;">mandated</span> payments to the pension fund. I've lost over 30% of my retirement savings. How much have the workers of the CTA or state or the teacher's unions given up during this economic meltdown? My guess is nothing.<br /><br />Time to throw the bums in Springfield out and make seniors pay for their rides. That fills $40M of the $155M hole in the budget.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-8983878535288638032009-03-24T07:50:00.001-05:002009-03-24T07:52:11.390-05:00I hate spammers but this is an exception.They are begging to be spammed for screwing all Chicagoans they deserve it. Vote early vote often? I say submit their feedback form early and submit it VERY often.<br /><br />http://www.chicagometers.com/contact-us.aspxUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96681315742127404.post-61602568304383526412009-03-24T07:48:00.000-05:002009-03-24T07:49:13.914-05:00The parking revolt isn't just meUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0