Monday, December 31, 2018

2019 will be a dark year

I rarely make predictions – whether of election results or anything else. My policy has always been to say what I believe should be done, not what will be done.


I am making an exception with regard to America in 2019.


2019 will be a dark year in America.

Thanks to the left’s control of the House of Representatives and the news media, Americans will be kept in a fevered state throughout 2019 – with innumerable hearings, exposés, criminal investigations and possible indictments of those around the president and the president himself. Truth will not be the point. Defamation will. Anything that might muddy the president, no matter how spurious, no matter

Who would listen to this crap?

Monday, December 31, 2018

How dumb are Democrats?: Jerry Brown: Climate change as serious as World War II


In all his years in office California Gov. Jerry Brown couldn't figure out how to clean up the piles of human feces on the streets of San Francisco.  Yet, we're suppose to head his warning about a bogus issue of man-made climate change?  I don't think so, Jerry! 

NBC News reports California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown warned that America and the rest of the world are falling behind in the fight against climate change and likened the challenge to fighting the Nazis in World War II.

In an interview for Sunday's "Meet the Press," the outgoing governor called on President Donald Trump to take the lead in addressing the issue. 

"Instead of worrying about tariffs, I'd like to see the president and the Congress invest tens of billions in renewable energy, in more-efficient batteries, to get us off fossil fuel as quickly as we can," Brown said.

Last ditch attempt to sell newspapers to the blacks has the Sun Times blowing warm air up their a--es

EDITORIAL: Politics aside, renaming Dan Ryan Expressway for Obama has appeal (so does renaming the Sun Times the Obama Times)

Dan Ryan sits to Mayor Richard J. Daley's left while announcing a medical research grant in March 1961. | Sun-Times file photo
Dan Ryan sits to Mayor Richard J. Daley's left at a press conference in 1961. | Sun-Times file photo
Bill Daley, who is running for mayor, is playing politics in proposing that the Dan Ryan Expressway be renamed to honor former President Barack Obama.
He’s also on to a good idea.
Daley’s primary motivation is obvious: He’s trying to score points with African-American and liberal Democratic voters. But Daley also was once Obama’s White House chief of staff, so it’s only natural that he would champion Obama’s legacy.
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And, frankly, what matters more than where the idea came from is the idea itself — and it’s an appealing one.
With all respect to the descendants of Dan Ryan, almost nobody driving that South Side expressway today knows who he was. Nor should they. Cook County board presidents, which is what he was, come and go.
It makes entirely good sense, whatever the hassles, to rename the expressway for the only American president ever to call Chicago his hometown — and an admired and historic president at that. It’s just a matter of time before Chicago honors Obama in some big way, really putting his stamp on the geography of the city, and renaming a major expressway would be one appropriate way.
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A couple of things should happen first:
* The state should rescind the naming of a stretch of I-55 — outside Chicago — for Obama. Two roads with the same name within proximity of each other makes no sense.
* A full airing of the renaming proposal should be conducted in both Chicago and Springfield. Let’s hear all arguments for and against it. Let’s be sure it reflects the popular will. Let’s avoid a replay of the closed-door process by which the Obama Presidential Center found a home in a city park.
Once that’s done, though, it’s apparently a straightfoward matter to rename an expressway. As Alexandra Arriaga reported in the Sun-Times, it can be done by gubernatorial proclamation, legislative resolution or designation from the transportation secretary.
Chicago expressways, as Daley said in a press release, should be named for “towering figures” such as President John F. Kennedy and Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson.
Barack Obama belongs to that club; Dan Ryan not so much.
Daniel B. Ryan was president of the county board from 1954 to 1961, dying while in office. His good pal, Mayor Richard J. Daley — Bill Daley’s father — arranged to have the expressway named in his honor the next year.
As it happens, there also is a Dan Ryan Forest Preserve in Chicago. It was named for the father of the expressway Dan Ryan, who also was a member of the county board.
Maybe the Southwest Side forest preserve, as a sort of consolation prize, could be renamed — for both the father and the son.
Send letters to: letters@suntimes.com.

Saturday, December 29, 2018

The Sad State of Law Enforcement in Cook County


KIM FOXX, CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
100% IN OVER HER HEAD


From second city cop
  • An arrest warrant for murder has been issued for a man in connection with the death of a cabdriver who died after being kicked in the head during a traffic altercation, court records show.

    Anis Tunkegar, 64, died on Sept. 4, two days after he was kicked in the head following an argument with another driver on the Near West Side.

    The driver who allegedly kicked Tunkegar was taken into custody after the incident, but was released two days later without charges. Some time after his release, he went to China, according to Chicago police spokesman [Google-me].

    Cook County Circuit Judge Edward Maloney on Wednesday found probable cause to detain the other driver and issued a warrant for the arrest of Lu Fangqi on a murder charge.

    Tunkegar’s family, though, fears it may be too late and that the man may have successfully found refuge in China.
Someone commented that Prickwrinkle is noticing the incompetence of her hand-picked States Attorney. It's all well and good to reward your political ass-kissers, but at the same time, they have to actually have a tiny modicum of ability (or surround themselves with a few competent people) lest they embarrass the boss. Foxxx has neither ability nor competent people in her office.

ND didn't belong in the Cotton Bowl

Looked horrible.

WHAT DID LAURA SEE? REEXAMINED

More than a few similarities

Russians and all of Europe is scared of this woman
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told an audience in Berlin that “nation states should be willing to give up their sovereignty” and that governments shouldn’t listen to their own citizens on matters of immigration.
During an event aimed at combating populism entitled Parliamentarism in the Tension of Globalization and National Sovereignty, Merkel brazenly said that “nation-states should be willing to give up their sovereignty today” and this should be done via an “orderly process”.
Responding to critcism of the UN Migration Pact, which greases the skids for mass migration to be treated as a human right, Merkel said that international agreements took precedence over the will of the people within individual countries.
“There were [politicians] who believed that they could decide when these agreements

BUMPED UP "Circumstances unknown"....... of course they know, that means they're making something up.....coverup?

Chicago (connected) political consultant Brian Sleet dies at 41 and the media is mum????

Brian Sleet | Facebook photo
Brian Sleet | Facebook photo
Brian Sleet, a longtime Chicago political consultant who managed Kim Foxx’s successful run for Cook County state’s attorney, has died at age 41, officials said late Wednesday.

Blessed Are The Warmongers


Paul Craig Roberts
As life on planet Earth enters its recorded year of 2019 the world has only one leader. He is Vladimir Putin, President of Russia. There are in office nowhere in the West any real leaders, only servants of the Oligarchy and vassals of the servants. Donald Trump intended to be otherwise and might yet break out of the orchestrated existence the military/security complex, Democratic Party and presstitute media have created for him.
Putin’s humanity and self-control, has maintained peace despite Washington’s aggression and provocative actions against Russia. It is Putin who has accepted insults that in the past would have resulted in war. 
Putin has paid a price for his self-control. He has maintained peace at the expense of his standing in Russia, if a poll published on fort-russ.com is valid. According to the poll, Russians have “a lost sense of belonging to a great power.”  https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/12/new-poll-66-of-russians-feel-nostalgia-for-ussr/ 
According to the poll, a large majority of Russians regret the collapse of the Soviet Union. Capitalism has brought economic insecurity, and the loss of Russian territory has brought a sense of defeat. 
On one hand, these Russian beliefs result from Washington’s demonization of Russia and

The impeachment process is about to begin!

the-inevitability-of-impeachment

Trump is going to be wrong for being right.

Friday, December 28, 2018

US Military Intervention in Venezuela is Imminent

  • Oil
  • Russians want to build a base there
  • Humanitarian Crisis
  • Oil


These men should not be allowed to be near children

Priest accused of child rape, porn, now AWOL from his religious community that covered everything up.

Rev. Richard McGrath
Rev. Richard J. McGrath, former president of Providence High School, in New Lenox, shown in 2006. Rev. McGrath is under investigation for sex abuse in Will County. | File photo
After the Rev. Richard McGrath was accused in late 2017 of having child pornography on the cell phone he used as president of Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox, he refused to turn it over to police or his religious superiors, thwarting a criminal investigation.
Another criminal probe was subsequently launched when a man who attended Providence in the 1990s accused McGrath of raping him back then – accusations contained in a lawsuit that was recently dismissed by a judge on a technicality but is likely to be re-filed.
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The criminal investigation, now in the hands of Will County prosecutors, has not yielded any charges.
Through it all, the order of Catholic priests to which McGrath has belonged for decades, the Augustinians, stuck with him.
But it appears McGrath may not be sticking with them.
According to the Rev. Richie Mercado, secretary of the Augustinians’ Midwest province, McGrath “is unlawfully absent from the community.”

Sears....soon to be history

sears-may-need-to-liquidate-if-no-bid-comes-in-by-today

The home of great management

Thursday, December 27, 2018

THE ENVELOPE AFFAIR...... Fascinating Insight

This is the kind of neighborhood the 19th ward is


We support the Police.

Now the Knights of Columbus are bad?

Kamala Harris..... extremist, black radical who can't control her hate on the senate floor,  a would be  presidential contender don't you know
ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A MEMBER OF THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS?

Recently, Sen. Mazie Hirono claimed that Democrats have a hard time connecting with voters because they (Democrats) are so “smart” and “know so much.” If Democrats are smart and knowledgeable, you can’t prove it by Hirono. She embarrasses herself routinely on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she almost invariably finds herself in over her head.
The latest embarrassment is her attack, along with Sen. Kamala Harris, on a judicial nominee for belonging to the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic social and charitable organization founded in 1882 that, in the words of Ramesh Ponnuru, has heretofore been roughly as controversial as the Rotary Club.. Hirono and Harris are insisting that Brian Buescher, nominated for a U.S. district court judgeship, drop his membership in that organization and recuse himself from cases in which it has taken a position. 
Hirono claims that the Knights have taken “a number of extreme positions.” She cites its support for Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative that defined marriage in state law as the union of a man and a woman. As Ponnuru points out, a majority of California voters agreed with this “extreme position.” 
Ponnuru also notes that Buescher belongs to two other organizations that consider marriage to be the union of a man and woman (and that also are anti-abortion, another position Hirono deems “extreme”). The two organizations are the Catholic Church and the Republican Party.
To be consistent, Hirono and Harris should demand that Buescher quit the Catholic Church

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Trump visits Iraq!

tricked the dems again
President Trump used the cover of the partial government shutdown to slip off to visit US troops in Iraq.
Trump and first lady Melania Trump met with military personnel on Wednesday at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, according to photos from Reuters.
His whereabouts sparked speculation about what Trump was up to because he hadn’t tweeted in more than 17 hours, no press aides were in the media office and lights were turned off on the second floor where White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has her office.
It is the first time Trump has visited troops in a war zone since becoming president.

Crossing Gates Fail, Metra Train Nearly Hits Cars



Keep in mind that many Metra employees are in reality, political hacks; more concerned about what time they get off rather that whether the equipment works properly. 

The Green New Deal

just wants your money

  • Democrats are lining up to support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal.”
  • The proposal could be the largest expansion of government since the Great Society or New Deal.
  • Ocasio-Cortez’s plan could cost tens of trillions of dollars.
Democrats are increasingly lining up to support a “Green New Deal,” which, while vague on details, could end up being the largest expansion of government in decades.
As it stands, the “Green New Deal” is more aspirational than actual policy. Indeed, it takes its name from the New Deal of the 1930s, and its main backer, incoming Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, compared it to the Great Society of the 1960s.
More than 40 Democratic lawmakers support the “Green New Deal” as part of a broad plan to fight global warming and bring about what they see as “economic, social and racial justice.” A poll found most Americans supported the deal, but knew little about it.
But the big question is when Americans find out what’s in the “Green New Deal,” will they be willing to pay for it? 

What have you done for me real lately?

Dan Ryan family ‘shocked’ by Bill Daley proposal to rename expressway for Obama

Mayor Richard J. Daley swears in Dan Ryan as Cook County Board president in December 1954. | Sun-Times file photo
Mayor Richard J. Daley swears in Dan Ryan as Cook County Board president in December 1954. | Sun-Times file photo
For decades, two families worked hand-in-hand as the top political powerhouses in Chicago.
The Daley name is still synonymous with Chicago politics.
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And while the name Dan Ryan might remind more Chicagoans of their daily commute than their political history, the former Cook County board president teamed with former Mayor Richard J. Daley for years to pave the way for the expressway that became his namesake.
So it came as a “shock and disappointment” to Daniel B. Ryan III on Friday when Bill Daley — the son of Chicago’s legendary boss — proposed removing his grandfather’s name from the highway after 56 years and renaming it in honor of former President Barack Obama.
The Dan Ryan Expressway looking north from 31st Street, several months before construction was completed in December 1962. | Sun-Times file photo
The Dan Ryan Expressway looking north from 31st Street, several months before construction was completed in December 1962. | Sun-Times file photo
“I’m hurt. I feel bad that he didn’t try and contact us to see what we would think,” Ryan III said. “We feel very honored to have this named after our grandfather. Why would you take an honor away from one man to honor another?”
In his quest to become the third Daley to reign on the fifth floor of City Hall, Daley issued a press release saying “Chicago expressways are named for towering figures in out history: Kennedy, Eisenhower, Stevenson,” suggesting the 11.5-mile stretch of Interstate 90/94 should instead be named for Obama.
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The campaign statement noted that the namesake Ryan was a longtime Cook County board member and its president from 1954 to 1961, pointing out “that a forest preserve is also named for Ryan.”
Bill Daley
Mayoral hopeful Bill Daley. | Rich Hein / Sun-Times
What the campaign didn’t mention is that Daley’s father was the one who chose the Dan Ryan Expressway name in the first place, according to Ryan III. It also was incorrect in its assertion about the forest preserve. The Dan Ryan Woods aren’t named for the same person as the highway; they’re named for Dan Ryan’s father, who also had a career in Chicago politics. 
The Ryan family was a political dynasty in its own right when Dan Ryan took his late father’s position on the county board in 1923. Three decades later, as board president, Ryan was considered second in power only to Boss Daley himself.
Ryan helped lead the fight for a “superhighway” connecting interstates 90 and 94, but died unexpectedly in 1961. The expressway opened about 18 months later, on December 15, 1962.
Mayor Richard J. Daley (left) and Cook County Board President Dan Ryan (center) look at a concept model of a downtown development in September 1958. | Sun-Times file photo
Mayor Richard J. Daley (left) and Cook County Board President Dan Ryan (center) look at a concept model of a downtown development in September 1958. | Sun-Times file photo
For his widow Ruby Ryan — who was appointed to her late husband’s board seat with Daley’s support, and went on to serve for two decades — the expressway title proved a fitting tribute.
“It will run right past the home where he grew up, at 66th and Stewart,” his wife, Ruby Ryan, was quoted as saying in the front-page Sun-Times story about the newly christened highway.
Cook County Commissioner Ruby Ryan, Mayor Richard J. Daley and county board President Seymour Simon congratulate Theresa Waicosky, a Back of the Yards resident who became the first person to drive on the Dan Ryan Expressway at its December 1962 opening. | Sun-Times file photo
Cook County Commissioner Ruby Ryan, Mayor Richard J. Daley and county board President Seymour Simon congratulate Theresa Waicosky, a Back of the Yards resident who became the first person to drive on the Dan Ryan Expressway at its December 1962 opening. | Sun-Times file photo
Ryan III recalled finishing a high school entrance exam and then hurrying downtown to meet his grandmother for the expressway ribbon-cutting.
“It would’ve meant a lot to him to know it was named for him. That was a true honor bestowed on him for all the work he did. It was the culmination of a great career,” Ryan III said Friday.
The Dan Ryan's opening was front-page news for the Sun-Times in December 1962, framed here with the scissors and a strip from the ceremonial ribbon-cutting. | Provided by Dan Ryan III
The Dan Ryan’s opening was front-page news for the Sun-Times in December 1962, framed here with the scissors and a strip from the ceremonial ribbon-cutting. | Provided by Dan Ryan III
“These families stood together for many years. I guess it’s been forgotten,” said Tara Ryan, the expressway namesake’s great-granddaughter.
A Daley campaign spokesman declined to comment on the Ryan family’s reaction.
Beyond political business, Ryan III said his grandfather and Richard J. Daley were good friends. He remembers the families taking in a 1959 White Sox World Series game together at Comiskey Park, and working alongside Bill Daley as pages at Chicago’s notorious 1968 Democratic National Convention, he said.
Cook County President Dan Ryan (front left) and Mayor Richard J. Daley (with mitt) attend Opening Day at Comiskey Park in April 1958. | Sun-Times file photo
Cook County President Dan Ryan (front left) and Mayor Richard J. Daley (with mitt) attend Opening Day at Comiskey Park in April 1958. | Sun-Times file photo
“We did a lot of things together. We were old friends,” he said.
Since then, “everybody’s gone their ways,” according to Ryan III, age 69, now retired after a career in insurance. He suspects the renaming idea is a vote-getting tactic.
Ryan III insists he’s an Obama fan. “But you don’t change something just to change it.”
Three generations of Dan Ryan today; from left to right: Ryan III, Ryan V and Ryan IV. | Family photo
Less clear is whether the state legislature would get behind Daley’s proposal, especially after a stretch of Interstate 55 already was named after Obama last year.
“And I don’t think President Obama would ever want someone else’s honors and accomplishments to be taken away for him,” Tara Ryan said.
Representatives for the 44th president did not return messages seeking comment.
“I don’t want this to sounds like sour grapes,” Ryan III said. “Our family has been honored by this for 56 years, and we’d like to keep it that way.”
Dan Ryan Woods
The Dan Ryan Woods, part of the Cook County Forest Preserves, stretch from 83rd Street south to about 93rd Street, between Western and Damen avenues. | File photo