Prediction: this Ventra bullshit is going to be as crappy for the city as the parking meter deal.
― carl agatha, Friday, 31 May 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/sBXbmT2.png
― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Friday, 31 May 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha!
i'm still pissed about mark kirk and the people who voted for him
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 31 May 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
Hadn't heard about Kirk's gang plan. In the wake of his stroke and his subsequent support of gay marriage, I'd softened toward him, but yeah, that's dumb.
― Murder in the Rue McClanahan (jaymc), Friday, 31 May 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
Is Mark Kirk up and running again, or he he locked away somewhere, issuing statements from the shadows?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 31 May 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
He returned to the Senate earlier this year.
― Murder in the Rue McClanahan (jaymc), Friday, 31 May 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
I wrote this dude off after his request for emergency dictatorial powers in advance of some g8 meeting or whatever was rebuffed
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 31 May 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
what i really really really want to know is what the fuck does mark kirk know about our judicial system that makes him think this is legal, much less a remotely good idea? how out there is this guy?!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 31 May 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
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to be fair the democratic opponent was a joke
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 31 May 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
and also to be frank bobby rush is a useless blowhard these days.
a pox on pretty much every chicago politician.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 31 May 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I'm with you, but I'm just wondering what it will take for Chicago to demand less clowny representation/leadership.
I am a Jan (Schakowsky) fan. She's good. State rep Heather Steans also good iirc.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
he shops at my sister's CVS, she said he's like 4 ft tall
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
I too am a major Jan Fan. She is straight up awesome.
Congressman Mike Quigley and State Rep. Anne Williams are also aces. Locally, Toni Preckwinkle seems to be doing the lord's work as Cook Count Board Prez and I hope she keeps it up. There were rumors she might run for mayor and I would actually go out and campaign for her (and not bc I want a city job, as I am done-zo with gov't work in this state/county/city. Barf).
― carl agatha, Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
I heard the Preckwinkle for mayor stuff too. The bossman at my former employer was buddy buddy with her.
― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
Patrick FItzgerald got out while the getting was good I guess.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
Jan's been in the house for a long-ass time, since the late 80s, iirc.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 1 June 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
Schakowsky is my mom's district. she's good (except on Israel, which she coddles too much, but maybe she has to in order to retain Rogers Park Jewish vote?). i doubt she's interesting in running the city. i could see her running for senator, although her husband's political scandal would be an impediment.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 1 June 2013 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
although honestly who wants to be in the senate?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 1 June 2013 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
I'd give it a whirl.
― Jeff, Saturday, 1 June 2013 11:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.wbez.org/news/take-peek-mayor-emanuel%E2%80%99s-tax-returns-107527
Tax returns!
― Just Elevate... And Decide In The Air -- Above the Rim (dan m), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
State of the city, 2013:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mayor-spends-tax-dollars-on-sports-arena/Content?oid=9769374
― The End**^ (Eazy), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
God, I'd totaly run for Senate if ILX financed it.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
what would be your platform?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
Untrammeled sexual relations with Jake Gyllenhaal clones and compulsory Bryan Ferry listening parties
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
that might get you Ft Lauderdale
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
Brooklyn and San Francisco too.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
Think I' ll try for a seat in three states.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mayor-emanuel-locks-in-parking-meter-deal/Content?oid=9931786
― The End**^ (Eazy), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/the-most-yolo-congresman-on-facebook
― carl agatha, Thursday, 6 June 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/16/rahm_emanuel_is_losing_control_of_his_city/
― Jeff, Monday, 17 June 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
thread needs:
http://i.imgur.com/JduZ79i.jpg
― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Monday, 17 June 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
thing is, if there's no well-organized opposition with a charismatic candidate (there isn't), rahm'll still be reelected.
fuuuuuuuuuuuck
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 17 June 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
note that i heartily approve of anti-rahm graffiti.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 17 June 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
btw they closed my mom's old elementary school (she went there in the 1940s/50s)
they even sent in some folks to start stripping the WPA murals from the walls while class was still in session
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 17 June 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
someone posted this link to a comment that jon/via/chicago made on facebook about the school closings - it's probably the clearest and most damning refutation of the government's claims about why it closed schools: http://www.wbez.org/news/fact-check-chicago-school-closings-107216
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:06 (ten years ago) link
thanks -- saving for next semester's "check your facts" lessonif you can read the word "schools" and not hear Lind@ Lutt0n saying it, i envy you
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/07/01/illinois-appellate-court-tells-city-cough-up-public-records
― lols lane (Eazy), Monday, 1 July 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link
i hope dumke has protected himself
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 1 July 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/teachers-fired-vienna-beef-gets-tif-subsidy/Content?oid=10294370
On June 11 Mayor Emanuel officially recommended giving about $5 million to Vienna Beef to move its hot dog factory from the north side to Bridgeport. The mayor hailed it as a shrewd investment that will keep at least 250 jobs in Chicago for the next 15 years.
― Just Elevate... And Decide In The Air -- Above the Rim (dan m), Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
I was gonna post that yesterday but it was so depressing I just stared at it and thought about what I would say if I ever ran into this guy.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
is he dead yet
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link
he deserves boiling hot dogs poured over his head
― clouds, Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
Musically Smearing Rahm Emanuel
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgyn5DpVeak#at=15
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
saw this like 5x and lol every single time
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 01:41 (ten years ago) link
He's frottering the heck out of tha chair.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 01:46 (ten years ago) link
have we discussed this?
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/rahm-files-teachers-and-hoards-tif-funds/Content?oid=10422212
what a sick fuck he is
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
just a little slice
My guess is that Mayor Emanuel deliberately timed the release of the TIF portal announcement to gain a little positive PR on the day he was firing a couple thousand of school employees, in part because of the millions of TIF dollars he's hoarding.It doesn't get much more cynical than that.Just so you know—it wasn't the mayor who broke the news of the latest firings. No, it seems the mayor's never around when the bad news has to be announced.He was skiing in Utah when CPS announced which schools were being closed. And he was vacationing in Europe when the early round of budget cuts were announced this summer. For all I know, he was skinny-dipping in the Bahamas when word broke of Friday's firings.He wasn't seen in public that day. Most of the teachers got the bad news in calls from central office bureaucrats who were reading from scripts.Now that the cuts are official, Emanuel is blaming them on the teachers—or at least the $400 million contribution he has to make to the teachers' dastardly pension system. Speaking of cynicism.
It doesn't get much more cynical than that.
Just so you know—it wasn't the mayor who broke the news of the latest firings. No, it seems the mayor's never around when the bad news has to be announced.
He was skiing in Utah when CPS announced which schools were being closed. And he was vacationing in Europe when the early round of budget cuts were announced this summer. For all I know, he was skinny-dipping in the Bahamas when word broke of Friday's firings.
He wasn't seen in public that day. Most of the teachers got the bad news in calls from central office bureaucrats who were reading from scripts.
Now that the cuts are official, Emanuel is blaming them on the teachers—or at least the $400 million contribution he has to make to the teachers' dastardly pension system. Speaking of cynicism.
so deb mell huh
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
I guess you were a little too blitzed on Molsons to have noticed his pre-mayoral employment or this wouldn't have come as much of a surprise to you.
― Digital Squirts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
.....hence "hardly surprising" OL
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
Sorry, blitzed on Molsons rn.
― Digital Squirts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
lol
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
JUST IN: Former Commerce Secretary Bill Daley plans to run for Chicago mayor, a spokesperson says. His brother and father once held the office. https://t.co/pOifiThtL3— Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) September 14, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZZlQ4Tmrc
― Karl Malone, Friday, 14 September 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
Notorious CPD commander Jon Burge dead at 70 https://t.co/LwENqn9niu pic.twitter.com/Ydqz6TALca— FOX 32 News (@fox32news) September 19, 2018
enjoy being maggot food, motherfucker
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
if you gotta pee on a grave, his would be a good one to choose
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
Burge was convicted in 2010 for lying about torturing suspects. He was accused of leading the abuse and torture of hundreds of African-American suspects, some by use of a cattle prodder or suffocation by plastic, forcing confessions from dozens.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link