Funeral Arrangements Forthcoming
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Eileen O’Neill Burke declared winner in race for Cook County state's attorney
class act
Eileen O’Neill Burke is a former prosecutor, law division judge and appellate court justice. Bob Fioretti last ran for the office as a Democrat in a failed bid to unseat State’s Attorney Kim Foxx during the 2020 primary
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Donald Trump Projected to Win the 2024 Presidential Election!
THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Looking at definite trends in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Pennsylvania at 9:30 pm Chicago time.
CPD Officer Killed in the Line of Duty
Young Chicago police officer who 'courageously protected this city' shot to death in Chatham, 2 in custody
The on-duty shooting occurred after 8 p.m. in the 8000 block of South Ingleside Avenue after police stopped a vehicle with three occupants. The 26-year-old officer, Enrique Martinez, was one month shy of completing three years on the job.
By Tom Schuba and Emmanuel Camarillo
Nov 5, 2024, 9:32am CST
Chicago police at the scene where an officer and a civilian were shot Monday evening in the 8200 block of South Ingleside Avenue in Chatham on the South Side.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Sunday, November 3, 2024
It's just more BS
Is This The Biggest Suppression Poll in History?
I warned you about suppression polls, and the mother of all suppression polls appears to have just dropped.
And it's not even from a swing state.
The latest Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll just dropped, and it claims that Kamala Harris has a three-point lead in Iowa.
"Kamala Harris now leads Donald Trump in Iowa — a startling reversal for Democrats and Republicans who have all but written off the state’s presidential contest as a certain Trump victory," the Des Moines Register reports. "A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows Vice President Harris leading former President Trump 47% to 44% among likely voters just days before a high-stakes election that appears deadlocked in key battleground states."
The results follow a September Iowa Poll that showed Trump with a 4-point lead over Harris and a June Iowa Poll showing him with an 18-point lead over Democratic President Joe Biden, who was the presumed Democratic nominee at the time.
“It’s hard for anybody to say they saw this coming,” said pollster J. Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Co. “She has clearly leaped into a leading position.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has abandoned his independent presidential campaign to support Trump but remains on the Iowa ballot, gets 3% of the vote. That’s down from 6% in September and 9% in June.
Fewer than 1% say they would vote for Libertarian presidential candidate Chase Oliver, 1% would vote for someone else, 3% aren’t sure and 2% don’t want to say for whom they already cast a ballot.
It's worth noting that an Emerson College poll out of Iowa was released on Saturday as well, and it had Trump ahead nine points. Trump has led in every poll out of Iowa against either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. Yet, this poll is making a huge splash. Why? Ann Selzer is notorious for being extremely accurate and has a fairly solid track record for polling in Iowa. While Iowa is not a big state (it has just six Electoral College votes), the poll's result has implications for other Midwestern states like, you guessed it, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
If Trump wins, the swamp will immediately collapse the dollar. If Harris wins, the dollar will eventually collapse.
Dollar collapse will result in
- hyper inflation
- evaporated bank savings
- failed pensions and social security
- food shortages
- social unrest and crime
- war
Friday, November 1, 2024
The Story of Why Did Mark Cuban Sell the Mavericks?
not a nice guy, in fact, he is quite the asshole
Thursday, October 31, 2024
This ranks up there with the garbage comment
The Truth Comes Out: Mark Cuban Is a Misogynist and needs a better dye job too
We've reached the point in this election cycle when Democrats are growing desperate and have resorted to bashing not just Trump but also the people who support him. First, it was Joe Biden calling Trump supporters "garbage." Now, Kamala surrogate and billionaire Mark Cuban has insulted every woman who has ever worked with Trump by saying that the former president doesn't surround himself with women who are "strong" or "intelligent."
Cuban appeared on "The View" today, and one of the hosts asked him why Trump isn't asking Nikki Haley for her help. (For what it's worth, Haley appeared at an event in Pennsylvania yesterday and told her supporters to vote for Trump.) Cuban's response was to imply that Trump is intimidated by strong, intelligent women.
Donald Trump — you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever. It's just that simple. They're intimidating to him. He doesn't like to be challeneged by them. You know, Nikki Haley will call him on his nonsense... he just can't have her around. It wouldn't work.
Look, I like Haley even though I don't always agree with her. I do think she is "strong" and "intelligent." But she's not the only Republican woman who fits the bill. Sounds like it's time for Cuban to step down out of his liberal elitist bubble and take a closer look at the women Trump keeps around him.
We'll start with Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat and presidential candidate herself. She's been on the campaign trail with Trump for quite a while, and earlier this month, she announced that she was joining the Republican Party. Gabbard, who was the first Samoan-American voting member of Congress, has an extensive military background that includes tours of duty in Iraq and Kuwait, and she's currently a United States Army Reserve officer. She also has a background in martial arts, and I'm pretty sure she could kick Cuban's butt.
And what about Sarah Huckabee Sanders? The political pioneer was only the third female White House press secretary in history and the first female governor of Arkansas. She's accomplished all of this while raising three children and battling cancer.
Congresswomen like Elise Stefanik of New York, Monica De La Cruz of Texas, and Anna Paulina Luna of Florida have stood by Trump's side, as have senators like Katie Britt and Marsha Blackburn. All of these women are extremely accomplished. And don't forget the countless mothers who are brave enough and strong enough to get up at Trump's rallies and even the Republican National Convention to talk about how they've lost their children to drugs, violence, and a lack of security at the Mexican border.
Even Trump's own family is filled with strong, intelligent women. Take a look at his daughter Ivanka's accomplishments. The mom of three is a businesswoman and served as a senior advisor to her father. Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara, worked in TV production before becoming co-chair of the Republican National Committee. And his 17-year-old granddaughter wowed viewers with her speech at the RNC, proving that there is a whole new generation of strong, intelligent women on the rise.
I could go on, but you get the idea. Cuban either isn't paying attention, or he wouldn't know a strong, intelligent woman if she came up to him on his private jet and smacked him across the face. And now he owes every woman who has worked with, campaigned for, or supported Trump an apology.
Besides that, he truly cares
New Chicago School Board president apologizes for social media posts criticized as antisemitic
The Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson says he won’t resign, despite calls from 26 City Council members and other leaders. The board leader says he’ll work to protect all students.
By Nader Issa and Sarah Karp | WBEZ
Oct 30, 2024, 8:01pm CDT
Chicago Board of Education President Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson during his first board meeting on Oct. 24.
The Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson, Chicago’s new Board of Education president, apologized to the Jewish community Wednesday and said he would protect all students after he faced criticism and calls for his resignation — from City Council members, school board candidates and pro-Israel politicians and organizations — for his social media posts about the war in Gaza.
Johnson said he would not resign, as 26 alderpersons have called on him to do, but said he was “deeply sorry for not being more precise and deliberate in my comments.” He acknowledged that some of the posts he shared “could be construed as antisemitic.”
“Let me start by apologizing to the Jewish community for the remarks I posted, which were clearly reactive and insensitive,” Johnson told the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ in an interview. “Since that time, I have asked for and received feedback from my Jewish friends and colleagues who helped me be more thoughtful as I addressed these sensitive matters.”
A review of Johnson’s Facebook account showed from October 2023 to a few months ago, he often wrote pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel posts on social media, many of which referenced Jewish people in hostile and inflammatory ways.
The media outlet Jewish Insider first reported about Johnson’s posts on Tuesday, calling them “antisemitic” and “pro-Hamas.”
The Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023 killed 1,200 people, Israeli authorities have said.
Israel has subsequently killed more than 43,000 Palestinians in 13 months of attacks, according to Gaza health authorities. Tens of thousands more have remained trapped under rubble and are missing. Parts of the besieged enclave are enduring famine as a result of the Israeli blockade, according to the United Nations.
Ald. Debra Silverstein (50th), the City Council’s only Jewish member and a vocal supporter of Israel, said the school board president’s posts called “into question his ability to fairly represent Jewish students and families in Chicago Public Schools.”
“We are deeply troubled by antisemitic and pro-Hamas comments made by Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson,” read a letter signed by 26 alderpersons who called on him to apologize and resign. “This situation is a failure of leadership and judgment on the part of Mayor [Brandon] Johnson and his executive team.
“[Rev. Johnson’s] comments have crossed major red lines into overt antisemitism, both in his explicit support for Hamas and his insistence on collectively blaming all Jews for Israel’s military actions,” they said. “His continued role on the school board is non-negotiable.”
American Jewish Committee Chicago, a pro-Israel organization, said it welcomed the letter.
The mayor’s appointment of Johnson, no relation, was already under scrutiny — including by some of the same alderpersons — after the previous Board of Education resigned en masse this month, an embarrassment for the mayor amid a battle with CPS CEO Pedro Martinez over the school system’s budget woes.
The new board president has faced questions about his delinquent child support payments and his legal disbarment nearly 30 years ago.
Asked about the situation at an unrelated news conference, the mayor said he would “continue to fight back and beat back” antisemitism. He said he appreciated that Rev. Johnson had apologized and would “work toward restoration and healing.”
Johnson, the board president, said he has worked for years with Jewish communities to fight antisemitism. Johnson said, “As board president, [I] am committed to making sure that hate of any kind has no place in Chicago Public Schools.
“I don’t disagree that at a time like this, we can have conversations on difficult topics without being insensitive,” he said.
Johnson also stood by his support of Palestinians, saying “the manner in which the Palestinian community has been treated is abysmal.
“I would agree on two different things. One, the actions of Hamas were unforgivable on Oct. 7. I would also agree that the actions of any army unjustifiably killing civilians is inconsistent with those of us who have, objectively, records of fighting for justice.”
Rev. Johnson had previously supported Israel on social media and said he still supports its right to exist. After the 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, he linked the “struggle and the crimes against humanity perpetrated against people of African descent” with the massacres against Jews in the Holocaust.
“And if we are silent … crimes against humanity seem to be the loudest voices we hear,” he wrote then. “So let us who are combatants against hate stand and be accounted.”
Johnson on Wednesday also referred to the killings of three Jewish students who were fighting for Civil Rights in Mississippi in 1964. “I believe that the history of the Jewish community and solidarity with the African American community is a relationship that should always be nourished,” he said.
But from October 2023, Johnson turned his attention to the war in Gaza. There is also a long history of Black-Palestinian solidarity.
“How can a group of people who have suffered from the Holocaust; today join with the Alt Right Community?” Johnson wrote last December.
“The Nazi Germans’ ideology has been adopted by the Zionist Jews,” he wrote in February. “The Israeli government offers a renewal of Nazi language once directed toward European Jews, ‘savages, dogs, vermin,’” he added in March. Most of these posts now appear to be deleted.
Top Israeli government officials have routinely used inflammatory language to describe Palestinians as “human animals,” “savage” and “children of the darkness” in the past year.
In a December 2023 post, Johnson shared a video of author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates sharing his experience visiting the occupied Palestinian territories and what he described as an apartheid Israeli government. Johnson commented: “I suspect my Jewish friends, or perhaps ‘former’ friends will post a rebuttal to this post. I cannot support Israel until it relents and discontinues [its] apartheid regime.”
Rev. Johnson wrote on New Year’s Eve: “Let us go into 2024 with a commitment to change the narrative and force, yes force Israel to [atone] for its shameful attempt at genocide against the [Palestinian] people.”
In March, he posted that his “heart is broken in additional pieces when I consider people who I work with and considered my friends in the fight against antisemitism who today, not only defend Israeli ongoing acts of genocide but have told me to my face that I was ridiculous.”
Many countries are accusing Israel of committing genocide and have taken the case to the International Court of Justice, which has found plausible evidence for their case.
The United States and Israel have denied the war in Gaza is a genocide. In addition, some of the world’s leading human rights organizations have found Israel to be operating a supremacist apartheid regime in the Palestinian territories, but Israel and its allies reject that characterization.
Rev. Johnson at times also painted Jews with a broad brush, asking, “How long will the Jewish people in America stand for these crimes?”
That month he also wrote: “I have been saying this since October 2023. People have an absolute right to attack their oppressors by any means necessary!!!”
He acknowledged last year that his comments might face criticism. But he wrote in one post, “I am not Anti-Semitic. I am anti in-justice.”
The Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson says he won’t resign, despite calls from 26 City Council members and other leaders. The board leader says he’ll work to protect all students.
By Nader Issa and Sarah Karp | WBEZ
Oct 30, 2024, 8:01pm CDT
Chicago Board of Education President Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson during his first board meeting on Oct. 24.
The Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson, Chicago’s new Board of Education president, apologized to the Jewish community Wednesday and said he would protect all students after he faced criticism and calls for his resignation — from City Council members, school board candidates and pro-Israel politicians and organizations — for his social media posts about the war in Gaza.
Johnson said he would not resign, as 26 alderpersons have called on him to do, but said he was “deeply sorry for not being more precise and deliberate in my comments.” He acknowledged that some of the posts he shared “could be construed as antisemitic.”
“Let me start by apologizing to the Jewish community for the remarks I posted, which were clearly reactive and insensitive,” Johnson told the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ in an interview. “Since that time, I have asked for and received feedback from my Jewish friends and colleagues who helped me be more thoughtful as I addressed these sensitive matters.”
A review of Johnson’s Facebook account showed from October 2023 to a few months ago, he often wrote pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel posts on social media, many of which referenced Jewish people in hostile and inflammatory ways.
The media outlet Jewish Insider first reported about Johnson’s posts on Tuesday, calling them “antisemitic” and “pro-Hamas.”
The Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023 killed 1,200 people, Israeli authorities have said.
Israel has subsequently killed more than 43,000 Palestinians in 13 months of attacks, according to Gaza health authorities. Tens of thousands more have remained trapped under rubble and are missing. Parts of the besieged enclave are enduring famine as a result of the Israeli blockade, according to the United Nations.
Ald. Debra Silverstein (50th), the City Council’s only Jewish member and a vocal supporter of Israel, said the school board president’s posts called “into question his ability to fairly represent Jewish students and families in Chicago Public Schools.”
“We are deeply troubled by antisemitic and pro-Hamas comments made by Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson,” read a letter signed by 26 alderpersons who called on him to apologize and resign. “This situation is a failure of leadership and judgment on the part of Mayor [Brandon] Johnson and his executive team.
“[Rev. Johnson’s] comments have crossed major red lines into overt antisemitism, both in his explicit support for Hamas and his insistence on collectively blaming all Jews for Israel’s military actions,” they said. “His continued role on the school board is non-negotiable.”
American Jewish Committee Chicago, a pro-Israel organization, said it welcomed the letter.
The mayor’s appointment of Johnson, no relation, was already under scrutiny — including by some of the same alderpersons — after the previous Board of Education resigned en masse this month, an embarrassment for the mayor amid a battle with CPS CEO Pedro Martinez over the school system’s budget woes.
The new board president has faced questions about his delinquent child support payments and his legal disbarment nearly 30 years ago.
Asked about the situation at an unrelated news conference, the mayor said he would “continue to fight back and beat back” antisemitism. He said he appreciated that Rev. Johnson had apologized and would “work toward restoration and healing.”
Johnson, the board president, said he has worked for years with Jewish communities to fight antisemitism. Johnson said, “As board president, [I] am committed to making sure that hate of any kind has no place in Chicago Public Schools.
“I don’t disagree that at a time like this, we can have conversations on difficult topics without being insensitive,” he said.
Johnson also stood by his support of Palestinians, saying “the manner in which the Palestinian community has been treated is abysmal.
“I would agree on two different things. One, the actions of Hamas were unforgivable on Oct. 7. I would also agree that the actions of any army unjustifiably killing civilians is inconsistent with those of us who have, objectively, records of fighting for justice.”
Rev. Johnson had previously supported Israel on social media and said he still supports its right to exist. After the 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, he linked the “struggle and the crimes against humanity perpetrated against people of African descent” with the massacres against Jews in the Holocaust.
“And if we are silent … crimes against humanity seem to be the loudest voices we hear,” he wrote then. “So let us who are combatants against hate stand and be accounted.”
Johnson on Wednesday also referred to the killings of three Jewish students who were fighting for Civil Rights in Mississippi in 1964. “I believe that the history of the Jewish community and solidarity with the African American community is a relationship that should always be nourished,” he said.
But from October 2023, Johnson turned his attention to the war in Gaza. There is also a long history of Black-Palestinian solidarity.
“How can a group of people who have suffered from the Holocaust; today join with the Alt Right Community?” Johnson wrote last December.
“The Nazi Germans’ ideology has been adopted by the Zionist Jews,” he wrote in February. “The Israeli government offers a renewal of Nazi language once directed toward European Jews, ‘savages, dogs, vermin,’” he added in March. Most of these posts now appear to be deleted.
Top Israeli government officials have routinely used inflammatory language to describe Palestinians as “human animals,” “savage” and “children of the darkness” in the past year.
In a December 2023 post, Johnson shared a video of author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates sharing his experience visiting the occupied Palestinian territories and what he described as an apartheid Israeli government. Johnson commented: “I suspect my Jewish friends, or perhaps ‘former’ friends will post a rebuttal to this post. I cannot support Israel until it relents and discontinues [its] apartheid regime.”
Rev. Johnson wrote on New Year’s Eve: “Let us go into 2024 with a commitment to change the narrative and force, yes force Israel to [atone] for its shameful attempt at genocide against the [Palestinian] people.”
In March, he posted that his “heart is broken in additional pieces when I consider people who I work with and considered my friends in the fight against antisemitism who today, not only defend Israeli ongoing acts of genocide but have told me to my face that I was ridiculous.”
Many countries are accusing Israel of committing genocide and have taken the case to the International Court of Justice, which has found plausible evidence for their case.
The United States and Israel have denied the war in Gaza is a genocide. In addition, some of the world’s leading human rights organizations have found Israel to be operating a supremacist apartheid regime in the Palestinian territories, but Israel and its allies reject that characterization.
Rev. Johnson at times also painted Jews with a broad brush, asking, “How long will the Jewish people in America stand for these crimes?”
That month he also wrote: “I have been saying this since October 2023. People have an absolute right to attack their oppressors by any means necessary!!!”
He acknowledged last year that his comments might face criticism. But he wrote in one post, “I am not Anti-Semitic. I am anti in-justice.”
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