WestSide House of Squalor or Just Poverty?

I was very suspicious in my first reading of this story. I posted at Sun-Times website. Now Trib shows photo and yes, there isn't much, but calling it a house of squalor is very much a stretch. My wood floor when I pulled up tile and carpeting looked just like that. But one pass with a sander and the entire floor looked brand new.

We are going to find a lot of poor people today. You all remember they were the ones no one talked about during the presidential campaign. But with a city, county and state that is doing nothing but coming up with a way to tax us more, I am hopeful that real patriots will do like those at the Boston Tea Party.

Now I am not excusing or condoning anything that those parents did that were wrong, but I don't believe the police report. No running water, well yeah the toilet won't be flushed. But where is all the squalor the police claimed?

And if all my taxes don't solve the problem, then stop taxing me for it. Better I give my money directly than allow the state morons known as our Ill General Assembly to get their grimy paws on my money.

Now Comes The News....

Now comes that news that even Harry Reid added his two cents to Blago as to whom should replace Obama in the Senate.

All I can say is that is that those tapes should be put on a 12 disc set and sold to offset ALLL MONIES BLAGO HAS COST THIS STATE, ESPECIALLY THE ONE TO ERASE HIS NAME FORM ALL STATE SIGNS.

We now need a binding vote on a referendum to make it so that no governor or mayor or any other elected official can put their name on any sign unless they pay for it out of their own pockets.

SHOULD WE MANDATE A LAW THAT EVERYONE RUNNING FOR OFFICE RELEASE THEIR HEALTH RECORDS?

It was kept very quiet how sick Bobby Rush was in his run for re-election as Congressman from the 1st Congressional District. His appearances on TV during this Roland Burris fiasco has him sounding sicker and weaker. In light of the current controversy involving the governor having to name a replacement for the US senate and now Illinois has to pay to have a new congressman for the vacated seat of Rahm Emanuel, should we at least be assured that anyone taking a congressional seat is at least healthy enough to serve?

On below post, Bobby Rush shows up at minute 4:49.

Pandering to Those who would support him

I found this video disturbing. It's our gov (someone I never voted for thank goodness) press conference naming Roland Burris our new state senator. Why the bilingual start to the press conference?

Blago panders to everyone, but why at a press conference for a UNITED STATES SENATOR? Blago shows utter disregard for this country in order to try to gain a few points from people who for the most part aren't US citizens. He didn't do it in Croatian or Serbian, Chinese, or even offer a Kwanzaa greeting.

Alledged Transcript Between Rahm and Blago

Updated 01/02/09 - transcript is A hoax. I'm leaving it but adding this disclaimer.


I received this from a very reliable source. Interesting reading.
================================================================================
THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT BETWEEN EMANUEL AND
BLOGOJEVICH THAT FITZGERALD HAS ON TAPE.

Beware. There is lots of profanity. But it will
make you feel good.

Here is the transcript:

FBI File #9536B
Wiretap on line 312-XXX-XXXX -- November 10th,2008
12:42 PM Eastern Time
Rush transcript:
RAHM EMANUEL: This is Rahm.
ROD BLAGOJEVICH: Hey Rahm, yeah it's Rod.
EMANUEL: Uh-huh. What's going on governor, I'm busy.
BLAGO: Well, it's about that Senate appointment...
EMANUEL: We already gave you the list of people
we like.
BLAGO: Yeah, I been looking the list over.
Interesting names. Good people. How's the transition
going?
EMANUEL: It's going fine, governor. Are you
calling to fucking tell me anything, or what, cause I--

BLAGO: No no, I'm just wondering if you
have all your picks already made. I heard something about
Dashle for HHS--
EMANUEL: I'm not gonna discuss ongoing
deliberations, gov, you know that.
BLAGO: Hey, come on Rahm, let's not act
like I'm a stranger here.
EMANUEL: Did I call you a stranger? If I
thought you were a stranger, you think I'd be
interrupting my important fucking business to take this
goddam fucking phone call?
BLAGO: Hey you don't have to get curt with
me, Rahm.
EMANUEL: This isn't me being curt, Gov,
this is me being fucking busy. Now what did you call about?
BLAGO: I'm just feeling you out, seeing if
Valerie [Jarret] still wants that Senate seat, just
wondering what kind of priority that is for the
President-Elect.
EMANUEL: Actually, it's not a priority.
Valerie's had second thoughts about the job.
BLAGO: What, she doesn't want it anymore?
EMANUEL: She's having second thoughts. You
want more details, you ask her.
BLAGO: She won't take my calls.
EMANUEL: Big fucking surprise.
BLAGO: What's that supposed to mean?
EMANUEL: Um, I don't know, what's it
supposed to mean governor? A.) You're a fucking crook.
B.) You're a fucking asshole. C.) All of the above.
BLAGO: I'm clean Rahm, you know this. You
think that fucking Fitzgerald would being twiddling his
fucking thumbs if he had shit to go on?
EMANUEL: I gotta go, Gov. You appoint who you
want, we don't really give a shit.
BLAGO: What if I appoint Valerie, what if she
takes it?
EMANUEL: What do you want me to say? We'd
appreciate it, I'm not gonna fucking kiss your ring over
it.
BLAGO: "Appreciate it"? Come on, this
is a senate seat we're talking about. It's worth a
fuck of a lot more than appreciation.
EMANUEL: You asked us for a list, we gave you a
fucking list, you want to make your own list then make your
own fucking list. [Raising voice] But if you're asking
for anything else from me, or Barack, or Valerie, then you
can fucking stop talking right now Rod.
BLAGO: Wait a sec there Rahm. Wait just a
fucking minute. Who are you to talk to me like that? I
fucking made you.
EMANUEL: You made me? You made me? Tell me
you're fucking joking.
BLAGO: No no no, you listen to me shit-face.
You see this list I got, the names motherfucking Obama
fucking wants for the Senate. I just ripped it in two. How
you like that? Oops, Harris just dropped it in the shredder.
Harris?
HARRIS (muffled): Yes sir?
BLAGO: Did you just drop that list in the
shredder?
[Whirring, shredder noise]
HARRIS (muffled): I did.
EMANUEL: Do you have me on fucking
speakerphone?
BLAGO: It's in the shredder, Rahm. The list
is bye bye.
EMANUEL: Hold on a sec -- you got me on fucking
speakerphone? Who the fuck do you think I am?
BLAGO: Who are you Rahm? Who are you?
You're shit, you hear me? Don't come back to Chicago
Rahm, it's not your town any more.
EMANUEL: Pick up the phone Rod.
BLAGO: I'll put someone in the senate who
will fucking fuck you. I might even put myself in there, how
you like that Rahm? How you gonna explain that to fucking
Barack, every time he's gotta call me up for my fucking
vote. He'd have to take my calls then, wouldn't he?
EMANUEL: [Screaming] I said pick up the FUCKING
phone!
BLAGO: [Picks up phone, speakerphone off] I got
your attention now, didn't I?
EMANUEL: Shut the fuck up and listen to me for
one second Rod. And I want you to listen carefully, because
this is the last time I'm ever going to talk to you. You
are fucking dead to me. You been fucking dead to Barack
since '06, now you're dead to me. Know what that
means? That means you're dead to my people in Chicago,
Daley on down, and all these friends you think you have
aren't gonna touch you with a ten foot fucking pole.
BLAGO: Oh now you're the fucking Godfather?
Fuck you.
EMANUEL: No fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.
BLAGO: Fuck you!
EMANUEL: Listen up asshole. The shit's
gonna hit the fan, maybe tomorrow, maybe next month, and
when Fitz finally brings down the hammer it's gonna be
my name that's going through your head. You won't
know the hows or the fucking whys, but it's gonna have
my fucking fingerprints all over it. Have a great life
fatso.
BLAGO: Hey fuck--
EMANUEL: [Click.]
End of conversation
End transcript.

Lead Base Paint Vs. Lead In Cheap Toys From China

I was watching a report right before Christmas about the led in toys. In the back of my mind, I recall someone telling me about a friend or cousin who got a huge settlement out of a landlord because they claimed their child ate "lead based paint".

Is there a way to tell the source of lead? Do we need to change the law about the paint seeing that most of the lead probably came in the form of cheap toys from China?

Will insurance companies and landlords start fighting lead-base paint claims?

Roland Burris

What is missing in today's world are all those fabulous old sayings that the old people would mutter about the young. It appears that Roland at age 71 didn't listen when he as a young man was probably told; "IF YOU LAY DOWN WITH DOGS, YOU'LL COME UP WITH FLEAS". No matter how innocent and honest Mr. Burris was, his association with the disaster known as our governor is making all those who maintain contact with Blago to come up smelling as bad as he does. (Kind of like accepting a date with OJ Simpson or Drew Peterson. No proof that they killed their wives, but still there's something about them that folks with common sense would know to avoid.)

What is it about some blacks who were once in politics that they worry so little about their legacy that they would be willing to sell their souls to the devil for an ounce of further political success?

At the end of a career, which from all accounts has been stellar, Mr. Burris' response today on TV about accepting the appointment and I paraphrase was "it's nothing illegal that the governor has done". But no mention of the morally wrong asthetics.

Poor Mr. Burris. So warped and wrapped up in himself that he can believe that the taint of Blago won't affect him. But the reality is that it does. Everything that he does will contain a whiff of possible impropriety.

Now on to Bobby Hush. Is there a pay-for-play motive in his new found support for Blago? Could it have anything to do with his son the ex-prison guard sentenced for having sex with a female inmate?


I was disappointed when I saw the black preachers falling all over themselves to get in thru Blago front door to "pray" with him. Now this?

Danny Davis gave an interview where he says he turned Blago down for the job. That means that Roland wasn't even a first choice. How come they couldn't get the entire IL house to agree on Roland being an interim senator until the 2010 elections?

Lastly can't wait for Patrick Fitzgerald to release the tapes. I still want to know who UNDERCOVER BROTHER Jesse Jackson Jr's embassary was. For the life of me, what person could be so familiar with the governor that he could walk into his office and speak so openly????????????