Saturday, October 31, 2020
Venezuela’s Maduro supports “Comrade Biden”
Venezuela’s Maduro supports “Comrade Biden”
You want socialism or do you want MAGA? Vote appropriately.
DCG
A door that locks or a revolving door....your choice
Reilly complained about Foxx’s failure to aggressively prosecute gun crimes and
Friday, October 30, 2020
How California's Unfunded Pension Liabilities Could Lead to Bankruptcy
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Questions
LAWMAKERS DEMAND PRITZKER ANSWER QUESTIONS ON COVID SHUTDOWNS
SPRINGFIELD - Restaurants across the state are being forced to shut down despite the lack of data showing that they are the culprit for the recent increase in COVID-19 cases, says a group of Illinois suburban legislators, who also say the Governor has completely disregarded his original mitigation strategy, which would have allowed restaurants to remain open under reduced capacity.
Although requested many times by legislators, the Governor’s Administration and the Illinois Department of Public Health have failed to provide the “data and science” they claim is behind their recent resurgence mitigation rules that lumps bars and restaurants in the same category forcing both to close indoor service completely.
“Participating in a sit down dinner with your family versus drinking at a bar, mingling around, and standing shoulder to shoulder with strangers are vastly different activities with vastly different health risks,” said State Senator Don DeWitte (R-St. Charles). “So to place these activities in the same category with the same mitigation rules is simply unfair, especially to do so without providing contact tracing data that suggests these two activities result in the same outcomes.”
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This could be it
The Morning Report - 10/29/20
Onto the situation, just about every link in every category for today converges at a single point - November 3rd, 2020. The rioting and mayhem centered on Philadelphia but flaring up elsewhere over the death of a black man lunging at cops with a knife and getting shot and killed, the fear-mongering over the Chinese virus that is provably only incrementally more lethal than seasonal flu to the most vulnerable and the continued censorship or otherwise attempted discrediting of the vast criminal pay-for-play long con of the Biden Family all have one goal, and that is sabotage the more than likely Trump victory
IHSA headed by people with great leadership skills and courage
The Illinois High School Association announced Wednesday that the basketball season can start as scheduled. It’s a totally unexpected move that directly contradicts the guidelines Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health outlined on Tuesday.
By Michael O'Brien@michaelsobrien Updated Oct 28, 2020, 6:07pm CDT
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Notre Dame players during practice on July 6, 2020. Kirsten Stickney/For the Sun-TimesThe Illinois High School Association announced Wednesday that the basketball season can start as scheduled. It’s a totally unexpected move that directly contradicts the guidelines Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health outlined on Tuesday.
Pritzker and the IDPH put winter sports on an indefinite hold and moved basketball from a medium-risk sport to a higher-risk sport in the IDPH guidelines.
‘‘As with sports in the fall, nothing is ‘canceled,’ just put on hold until
Revenue Agents
Just so everybody knows.a company called Serco is driving around the neighborhood giving tickets to vehicles with company lettering and or ladder racks.
The legality of this is questionable but Lightfoot needs the money. She will take it from anywhere. People should scream to the local politicians about this. It will have an effect.
just give me that money
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
The death penalty would have been more appropriate
Bauer’s family released a statement Wednesday expressing relief that Legghette will “never be able to cause this pain to another family.”
By Matthew Hendrickson@MHendricksonCST Updated Oct 28, 2020, 6:07pm CDT
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Shomari Legghette, 47, walks into the courtroom Wednesday to be sentenced in the first-degree murder trial in the fatal shooting of Chicago Police Cmdr. Paul Bauer on Feb. 13, 2018. Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/poolCop killer Shomari Legghette appeared neither shocked nor dismayed when he was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the murder of Chicago Police Cmdr. Paul Bauer.
The stoic Legghette didn’t apologize for the deadly February 2018 shooting and he didn’t acknowledge the emotional, yet composed statements Bauer’s widow
Sad times for democracy
EXPOSED: Biden’s Deep Corruption
I try to limit my analysis to markets while leaving politics out of it, but sometimes I have no choice but to focus on politics. This is one of those times.
Their potential impact on markets is simply too great to ignore.
Despite media blackouts and social media censorship, most Americans have by now heard about the Biden family scandals involving China, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan (scandals involving other countries may pop up in the next week before the election).
The basic outline is simple. While
Jews being roughed up in NYC, is anyone bothered by this?
Eleven people were arrested, and protesters screamed at Rudy Giuliani. Separately, a police officer was suspended for voicing support for the president on the job.
A group of President Trump supporters that identifies itself as Jews for Trump held a rally on New York City’s streets on Sunday. Supporters were met with clashes from antifa groups and Democratic supporters.
By Ashley Southall and Dana Rubinstein
Oct. 25, 2020
Political tensions over the upcoming presidential election escalated on New York City’s streets on Sunday, as supporters of President Trump clashed with counterprotesters during a day of demonstrations.
Eleven people were arrested, the police said, during skirmishes between opposing sides in Manhattan, where Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer and the city’s former mayor, encountered
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Crazed Man Armed With Knife Shot and Killed by Police in West Philadelphia, Off...
When men were men
Monday, October 26, 2020
Another nice NFL role model
NFL Star DeAndre Hopkins Reportedly Flipped Off Trump Supporters While Driving Past MAGA Caravan in Arizona, is there any reason why the Cardinals don't cut him now
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Arizona Cardinals wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins reportedly flipped off supporters of President Donald Trump as he drove past them
More Bully Pritzker bans
Indoor dining, bar service banned in suburban Cook County and Metro East
Pritzker imposed similar restrictions Friday on bars and restaurants in DuPage, Kane, Kankakee and Will counties.
An absolute abuse of power
From Second City Coppers
Rules for You, Not Groot
Bars closing, restaurants going bankrupt, schools doing remote learning even though children are among the least likely to suffer any sort of adverse effects from COVID. Then this:
Lightfoot had her security detail
America Has the Government It Deserves
“Every nation gets the government it deserves,” said 18th-century French philosopher Joseph de Maistre.
If true — we suspect it is — the United States is a nation of scoundrels, cads, wastrels and spongers.
For the nation has a spendthrift government perpetually on the borrow, perpetually holding out an empty hat.
By some metrics, the United States presently takes on more debt in one year than it
It never ends, nobody cares
Six people were killed and 18 others injured in shootings across Chicago over the weekend.
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Cardinal Burke . . . Statement on the Declarations of Pope Francis Regarding Civil Unions
(www.cardinalburke.com)
The worldwide communications media have reported with strong emphasis, as a change of course, the news that Pope Francis has declared that persons in the homosexual condition, as children of God, “have a right to have a family” and that “no one should be thrown out or be made unhappy because of it.” Moreover, they write that he has declared: “What we have to create is a civil union. In this way they will be legally covered. I have defended this.” The declarations were made in an interview with Evgeny Afineevsky, director of a documentary, “Francesco,” premiered on October 21, 2020, on the occasion of the Rome Film Festival (Festa del Film di Roma).
Such declarations generate great bewilderment and cause confusion and error among Catholic faithful, inasmuch as they are contrary to the teaching of Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, and of the recent Magisterium by which the Church guards, protects and interprets the whole deposit of faith contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition. They cause wonderment and error regarding the Church’s teaching among people of good will, who sincerely wish to know what the Catholic Church teaches. They impose upon pastors of souls the duty of conscience to make fitting and necessary clarifications.
First of all, the context and the occasion of such declarations make them devoid of any magisterial weight. They are rightly interpreted as simple private opinions of the person who made them. These declarations do not bind, in any manner, the consciences of the faithful who are rather obliged to adhere with religious submission to what Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, and the ordinary Magisterium of the Church teach on the matter in question. In particular, the following are to be noted.
1. “Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, Tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered’” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2357; Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Persona humana, “Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics, no. VIII[1]), inasmuch as they are contrary to the natural law, closed to the gift of life and void of a true affective and sexual complementarity. Therefore, they cannot be approved.
2. The particular and sometimes deep-seated tendencies of persons, men and women, in the homosexual condition, which are for them a trial, although they may not in themselves constitute a sin, represent nonetheless an objectively disordered inclination (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2358; Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Homosexualitatis problema, “Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons,” no. 3[2]). They are, therefore, to be received with respect, compassion and sensitivity, avoiding any unjust discrimination. The Catholic faith teaches the faithful to hate sin but to love the sinner.
3. The faithful, and, in particular, Catholic politicians are held to oppose the legal recognition of homosexual unions (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Considerations Regarding Proposals To Give Legal Recognition to Unions between Homosexual Persons,Diverse questioni concernenti l’omosessualitĂ , n. 10[3]). The right to form a family is not a private right to vindicate but must correspond to the plan of the Creator Who has willed the human being in sexual difference, “male and female He created them” (Gen 1, 27), thus calling man, male and female, to the transmission of life. “Because married couples ensure the succession of generations and are therefore eminently within the public interest, civil law grants them institutional recognition. Homosexual unions, on the other hand, do not need specific attention from the legal standpoint since they do not exercise this function for the common good.” (Ibidem, no. 9[4]). To speak of a homosexual union, in the same sense as the conjugal union of the married, is, in fact, profoundly misleading, because there can be no such union between persons of the same sex. In what regards the administration of justice, persons in the homosexual condition, as all citizens, can always make use of the provisions of law to safeguard their private rights.
It is a source of deepest sadness and pressing pastoral concern that the private opinions reported with so much emphasis by the press and attributed to Pope Francis do not correspond to the constant teaching of the Church, as it is expressed in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, and is guarded, protected and interpreted by the Magisterium. Equally sad and concerning is the turmoil, confusion, and error they cause among the Catholic faithful, as is the scandal they cause, in general, by giving the totally false impression that the Catholic Church has had a change of course, that is, has changed its perennial teaching regarding such fundamental and critical questions.
Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke
Rome, October 22, 2020
Saturday, October 24, 2020
A racist explanation of a racist endorsement of a racist prosecutor
The mayor took a hard slap at Foxx’s opponent, Pat O’Brien, in the race for Cook County state’s attorney, tweeting that “We can’t go back.”
By Laura Washington Oct 24, 2020, 7:00am CDT
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot bumps elbows with Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx at a press conference about the city’s plan to protect Chicago’s commercial corridors in the wake of looting this past summer. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times“We can’t go back to the bad old days. Chicago simply can’t afford more of Pat O’Brien,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted Tuesday.
The missive jumped out of my phone. It was linked to a post on Rich Miller’s
People need to wise up
NPR, CNN, NYT, Wa-Po, MSNBC, Twitter, Facebook, Google Presstitutes Covering Up Biden Scandals by Refusing to Report on Them
NPR, CNN, NYT, Wa-Po, MSNBC, Twitter, Facebook, Google Presstitutes Covering Up Biden Scandals by Refusing to Report on Them
There has never been a news media as biased as the American one
Paul Craig Roberts
The New York Post’s report that the FBI has laptops belonging to Hunter Biden that contain emails showing Hunter and Joe Biden’s use of the Vice Presidency for business deals that amount to influence peddling and money laundering was banned from Twitter, Facebook, and Google. The New York Times, Washington Post and other of the press prostitutes tried to discredit the story with the fake news that it was Russian disinformation to help Trump win the election. National Public Radio refused to mention the story other than to brand it a story that is not really a story, simply a waste of “listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.” [1] NPR, of course, was all into distractions that wasted readers’ and listeners’ time on Russiagate and Impeachgate and wasted President Trump’s entire term.
The problem with the press prostitutes’ attempted coverup of the Bidens’ crooked dealings is that the FBI has Hunter Biden’s laptops, and both the FBI and the Department of Justice agree with the statement of John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence, that the emails are the real stuff and not a Russian operation to interfere in the November election. [2]
Even worse for the presstitutes and the Bidens, two former
Police need to consider the righteous of an order before blindly following it. These people should be left alone.
Just because some nutcase mayor orders it doesn't mean you should do it.
VIDEO: New York Police Invade The Home Of A Jewish Family Because They “Have Too Many People
The bank scam that keeps getting bigger and bigger
DaVinci’s Gaming Bar in Chicago Ridge is owned by the mother of Robert Kowalski, who’s charged with embezzling millions from clout-heavy Washington Federal Bank for Savings.
By Tim Novak Oct 23, 2020, 1:15pm CDT
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DaVinci’s Gaming Bar, 10721 Ridgeland Ave., Chicago Ridge. Brian Ernst / Sun-TimesNearly three years since a clout-heavy Bridgeport bank was shut down after authorities uncovered massive fraud and the bank president was found hanged in the home of a customer, the federal investigation into Washington Federal Bank for Savings has taken a new turn involving a southwest suburban video
The incompetence is shocking
From Second City Coppers
Groot Wants MORE Money
And instead of getting it by opening
Friday, October 23, 2020
One has to wonder where are the indictments?
Was Bill Barr Paid by The Establishment to Protect Hillary, Obama, Comey, Brennan, and a Passel of Obama Regime DOJ, FBI, and CIA officials from Russiagate indictments?
Was Bill Barr Paid by The Establishment to Protect Hillary, Obama, Comey, Brennan, and a Passel of
Compliance or financial ruin or legal ruin....its your choice
As Illinois reported another daily record high of nearly 5,000 new coronavirus cases, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said suburban bars and restaurants that don’t follow his order to stop seating customers inside will face stiff penalties.
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As Illinois smashed another daily record with 4,942 new coronavirus cases reported Thursday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker threw down the gauntlet to suburban bar and restaurant owners threatening to flout his latest restrictions on indoor drinking and dining.
The Democratic governor issued his harshest warning yet to potential scofflaws before his indoor dining ban goes into effect Friday in Will, Kankakee, Kane and DuPage counties, where COVID-19 infection
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Joel Daly R.I.P.
He helped build a ratings juggernaut at WLS-TV, part of a ‘happy talk’ revolution in TV news that initially saw him paired on air with Fahey Flynn, John Coleman and Bill Frink.
By Maureen O'Donnell Updated Oct 22, 2020, 12:56pm CDT
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Joel Daly, a trusted Chicago news anchor for nearly 40 years and one of the pillars of a WLS-Channel 7 news dynasty, has died.
Mr. Daly, 86, died around 5:30 a.m. Thursday at his LaGrange home, according to his daughter Kelly, who
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Laying the groundwork for future tax increases too
There will be a $94 million property tax increase in 2021, with an annual adjustment tied to the consumer price increase kicking in after that.
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Chicago homeowners and business owners struggling to hold onto their property will have to endure not only a $94 million property tax increase, but also an annual property tax hike every year forward tied to the rate of inflation.
That was among the unpleasant surprises Wednesday as Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s $12.8 billion “pandemic budget” for 2021 landed like a thud in an otherwise empty City Council chambers.
Lightfoot called the property tax increase “modest” in her prepared remarks.
I wonder what is really the motive in shutting things down Republican counties just before election day, suppress the vote?
IT'S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD
FROM SECOND CITY COPPERS
COVID Spreading; Economy Cratering
On the heels of yesterday's post about the spike in Department-wide cases:
The Near West Side offices of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 have been closed because of the coronavirus.
“Due to COVID-19 related issues, the FOP offices will be closed until further notice,” read a Monday message on the website of FOP Lodge 7, which represents more than 8,000 rank-and-file Chicago police officers.
Coincidentally, the "positivity rate" is going up in Illinois and is being used by Fatass to further stifle the economy:
Roughly a third of Illinois’ 102 counties and a quarter of its residents soon will be living under stricter rules aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus as the state attempts to rein in a resurgent pandemic.
Starting Friday, indoor service at bars and restaurants will be prohibited in DuPage, Kane, Will and Kankakee counties, an area that’s home to more than 1 in 6 Illinois residents, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Tuesday.
While the governor lamented that the rollback was needed, restaurant owners worried the latest wave of restrictions would make it even more difficult to stay in business as winter looms and outdoor dining becomes less of an option.
We seem to recall this being predicted here by many readers, right around Election Day in fact. Imagine that. Anyone want to try to explain why a "positivity rate" necessitates shutdowns? Has the death rate gone up? Hospitals being overrun? People dying in the streets?
Here's an tidbit that will send HQ into a tizzy:
- one of us had it, here, at SCC
You know what? We were miserable. For three days. And after that, we felt better, resumed a normal routine, and returned to work after a couple weeks off. That's it.
But there's Groot and Fatass attempting to drive the economy into the ground once and for all:
Chicago’s convention industry, one of the city’s major sources of tax revenue, might not return in any significant fashion until 2022, dealing a prolonged financial blow to the city as it struggles to make up a $1.2 billion budget shortfall.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot is scheduled to present her plan to close the city’s budget deficit Wednesday, which might include increases to property and gas taxes, as well as city worker layoffs.
With COVID-19 cases on the rise again and business and international air travel depressed, trade show organizers continue to examine plans for next year. Already, eight shows scheduled at McCormick Place through April have been canceled, and one has been rescheduled for later in 2021.
The Bidens are as nuts as the Kennedys
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| These people are almost as nuts as the Kennedys. Beau dies, Hunter dumps Kathleen and takes up with Hallie. After a while Hallie wises up and dumps Hunter. Hunter tries to get back with Kathleen, can't, and instead meets Melissa Cohen and marries her 8 weeks later. Joe Biden wants to lead the country but can't get his cocaine-snorting son under control. In fact, Joe Biden, just like the Kennedys, has encouraged and facilitated Hunter's misbehavior. |
Pritzker's fair tax is not that fair!
“While the Civic Federation is not opposed to the concept of a graduated income tax and understands the state’s need for more revenue, the rate structure enacted by the General Assembly is anything but ideal,” a statement from the group reads.
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The Civic Federation on Tuesday joined the opposition to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s push for a graduated income tax, arguing the rates passed by the lawmakers last year as part of the governor’s proposal are “anything but ideal.”
“While the Civic Federation is not opposed to the concept
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Competence vs Incompetence
The incumbent prosecutor’s ad argues that O’Brien is “pure Trump” and wrong for Cook County. But Republicans say O’Brien’s rise in the polls shows voters are deciding what’s wrong for voters are “the disastrous policies of Kim Foxx.”
By Rachel Hinton Updated Oct 19, 2020, 7:05pm CDT
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Republican state’s attorney candidate Pat O’Brien, left, speaks during a news conference in the North Austin neighborhood earlier this month; Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, right, speaks at a news conference in August. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times fileCook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is going on offense, ramping up her attacks on her Republican challenger’s record in a new ad to begin airing Tuesday — just as a new GOP poll shows the Democratic incumbent losing ground.
As the heated campaign enters the home stretch, the new ad attacking former Cook County Judge Pat O’Brien’s record as a prosecutor is scheduled to run on TV and streaming platforms just two weeks before
Trump is ahead?
Here are 3 reasons why very few experts are trusting the national polls that show Biden with a huge lead over Trump
Monday, October 19, 2020
Joe Biden.....criminal and con man
THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY – FROM EMBARRASSMENT TO EXTORTION
By John F. Di Leo =
Many politicians have an embarrassment or two in their families.
In my lifetime, Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy was the most famous example. Billy Carter ran a dingy, dreadful gas station (Amoco was constantly trying to find a way to force him to clean it up) and upon his brother’s election, he marketed a cheap beer – Billy Beer! - to capitalize on his proximity to fame and fortune.
But it wasn't illegal. It was pretty embarrassing for Jimmy, sure, but it didn’t reflect badly on the president in the eyes of the law. There’s no law against being the brother of a slob with an
What Chinese invasion of Taiwan would mean for the US
Missile bases have been upgraded and equipped with the most advanced hypersonic missile the DF-17, according to one military source
Build-up of forces comes as the PLA continues with a series of exercises designed to keep up the pressure on the island
Minnie Chan
Coastal rocket bases have been equipped with DF-17 ballistic missiles. Photo: AP
Beijing is stepping up the militarisation of its southeast coast as it prepares for a possible invasion of
Taiwan, military observers and sources have said.
The People’s Liberation Army has been upgrading its missile bases, and one Beijing-based military source