“Rep. Jeanne Ives has associated herself with questionable individuals that really don’t represent the views of the people of Illinois,” - Governor Bruce Rauner in Politico
One of the best reporters in the sorry State of Illinois is Natasha Korecki - late of the Chicago Sun Times and currently the Illinois Playbook editor for Politico.
Unlike too many Politicoheadline-grabbers, Natasha Korecki never allows politics to guide her words. Ms. Korecki is the real deal - fair, professional and exacting with regard to the details.
You never, ever, get half a story with Natasha Korecki. She is a blue-collar Chicagoan.
Today, her front page by-line in Politico features the Ad that is deemed "Repulsive" by the elites of both Party labels. BTW - it was Dan Bliss one of the Democratic stalking horses for plutocrat J. B. Pritzker's Guv Dreams who termed it 'Repulsive.'
The ACLU resorted to NPR scatology calling the ad "Sad." You know, "It's just sad. Really, sad."
Bruce Rauner, a long time Cook County trough snouter, ran as Republican against Progressive Democrat Governor Pat Quinn, an accomplished goof and un-original thinker, which was like running against J. B. Pritzker in the 100 meter dash any day.
Bruce sported Carhartt jackets and rode his Harley into the hearts of uninformed voters as well as people suffering from Pat Quinn Malaria* ( about 88.4% of the Illinois population) .
Bruce immediately did nothing. Svelt!
That was the plan all along - hold the spot for four years, while J. B. Pritzker dropped some tonnage for the Gubernatorial sound bytes and photo shoots 2017-18.
Jeanne Ives stepped out of Springfield quick-sand and place her neck out for the vicious, the complacent, the satisfied and bought off to take some ax whacks. Rauner was immediate.
The Ad vilifies Rauner and not people. I love my trade union, LGBTQ, Teachers Union and my Irish second and third cousins who landed in Canada and took a three year day visit to Hoffman Estates. I want nothing but a great Illinois for them.
Only Jeanne Ives will afford them that possibility.
She is a womb to tomb social justice warrior.
Now, after Bruce and his Missus used their Equality Illinois Platinum donations and their Personal PAC good fellowship against Jeanne Ives, he now sets his piggy little eyes one me.
Bruce calls me questionable? Ask, Bruce! What you wanna Know?
Is support for a West Point grad, veteran, mother of five who wants a fair shake for all of Illinois not just selected few questionable?
Hell, no! Last year it was deporable me. Now, it is questionable me.
Hillary Clinton used that same such sobriquette and stayed so long at the bottom of the toaster lot that she is still smoking.
I am far from questionable - I am taking a Republican ballot on March 20th and voting for Jeanne Ives.
In November Jeanne Ives will sprint past J. B. Pritzker and he can again use his gold card at Fogo de Chao.
J.B. can Bruce about their wine list.
Jeanne Ives has turned this Illinois primary season into a Ground Hog Day - everyday.
Everyday this week, the Big Money of Illinois (non of it in the possession of the middle class, or working class) has come out of the ground snarling and snapping!
Personal Pac's Terry Cosgrove who owned Governor Pat Quinn, the LGBTQ Libertor whose pen flourishes created genderless toilets and loving and caring lawsuits, who purchased*a judge in 2012, smeared Aurelia Pucinski in the process flooding the campaign for Illinois Supreme Court Justice with Fred Eychner's money:Terry Cosgrove, president and CEO of Personal PAC, an abortion rights political advocacy group, said Ives was appealing to “the craziest of the crazy” and displaying the “lowest form of politics.” -“She wants to make all abortions and the most commonly used from of birth control illegal in Illinois,” said Cosgrove, whose group has endorsed Pritzker in the Democratic primary. “This is an extreme right-wing position that totally ignores the reality of most people's lives.”
Remember this?
Just for fun count the reporters in the above video now serving politicians.
Terry Cosgrove's Usual Angry Screamers: Brian C. Johnson, the CEO of Equality Illinois, the state's LGBTQ civil rights organization, said the group had hoped for “a higher level of discourse” from someone running for governor. "At a time when our leaders should be bringing Illinoisans together, Jeanne Ives is launching a campaign of division and rancor. We need a governor who will stand up for all Illinoisans, not someone who will target transgender Illinoisans for her personal political benefit,” Johnson said in a statement.
Illinois GOP Toe Assasins: Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider released the following statement on State Representative Jeanne Ives’ recently released campaign advertisement:“There is no place in the Illinois Republican Party for rhetoric that attacks our fellow Illinoisans based on their race, gender or humanity. Representative Ives’ campaign ad does not reflect who we are as the Party of Lincoln and as proud residents of our great and diverse state. She should pull down the ad and immediately apologize to the Illinoisans who were negatively portrayed in a cowardly attempt to stoke political division.”
Power loves anonymity . . .well, sort of. Coalitions need money. Power uses money. Coalition Power fuses LGBTQ, Green Everything ( hence LGBTQ pol Deb Shore on Water Reclamation), Public Education, Election Reform, ACLU and SEIU. Remember the Democratic Party? Used to be something. Got its money from trades unions, cigar chomping saloon keepers and low-life rascals like Joe Kennedy. Thank, John Dewey; it's Progressive now.
Speaking of Old Joe Kennedy, his grandson Chris Kennedy took immediate defence of the plutocratic PACS and personalities who have strangled Illinois, “We already have enough hate and bigotry in the White House. We don’t need a governor who stands silent against Donald Trump, and we certainly don’t need a governor who echoes Donald Trump,” Kennedy said.
Already, Jeanne Ives is portrayed in a Orange Wig. Chris Kennedy should have learned something from his recent adventures in the Progressive sandbox - there is no room for him in there with J.B. Pritzker.
Jeanne Ives is no bigot, no homophobe, no xenophobic shrill. On the contrary.
The haters are all on the side of the people who make great wealth from dividingf people and the political stooges they purchase.
Progressive Illinois politics ( GOP & Democrat) is powered by abortion and sexual preferences of any and all manner as a Civil Right , with the odd nod to freeing all of the prisoners, keeping black women on the welfare rolls and hordes of unskilled workers on the government's dime and suing anyone.
If that is the 'right side of history' we are in the ditch created by this drive to the left.
Jeanne Ives is winning this fight.
*Candidate Mary Jane Theis — an incumbent, appointed Supreme Court justice — has attracted the most money, $1,141,385.36, and endorsements from the Democratic Party and Rahm Emanuel. But, until a recent TV ad blitz, she’s been a virtual unknown.
Opponent Aurelia Pucinski, an appellate court justice, has the least — $33,529.68, but huge name recognition. Capital Fax Blog feed of Carol Marin
Tom Brady is prettier than all of the above; hell, if I were so inclined, I'd take a hard run at him. Tom Brady is like Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde's post-Raphaelite
Lucifer and must have a portrait of himself at home that looks like Hell - to quote Ken Klipp of Manteno,Illinois.
The Patriots, Bill Belichek and Brady elicit the same levels of foam, spittle and bile frothing from the mouths of P-Hatters, AntiFas and Artists of Resistance from many otherwise sober, serious and sedentary sports lovers. Too many of these 'lovers' consult fantasy player apps and others check-out SI listings, polls and analyzes on ESPN, where they can also plug into their political and moral soul.
List makers and pollsters are an obnoxious reality plaguing the American soul - always have been. The great Jean Shepherd warned against them decades ago, but people would rather consult than think, experience, or bear witness for themselves. Americans swallow hype by the yard.
Trump will kill us all
Tom Brady Deflates
Philly Eagles Rule
Have You Gone to Au Cheval? ( why yes . . .meh.)
JB Pritzker - Our Common Man
Richard Roeper
Auburn Football!!!!!!!
Trump ain't done me no harm. The FICA on my last pay-stub was harmless. Tom Brady is Ironman.
So, I will not watch another Superbowl ( LII). Most people say the Patriots are -4 point dogs. Most people called 2016 for Hillary.
On Monday, we will see. Many folks in Asia, Europe and the emerging nations of Sub-Saharan Africa could care less, but not less than me.
“The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood , before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord”Acts of the Apostles 2-20
See that button-like light just southwest of my chimney? That's a Super Blue Blood Moon!
I took that on my way to St. John Fisher Catholic Church at around 6:10 AM. Today is the feast of St. John Bosco, the patron saint of Catholic schools. St. John Bosco has alot of work cut out for him these days, as the Archdiocese is more about skyscrapper development in Streeterville than in providing little kids with a foundation in the faith of our fathers. Cardinal Blaze " The Closer" Cupich is more concerned with what Carol Marin thinks of him than the parishioners of Immaculate Conception in Crestwood.
Moons come and go and so do schools that helped build the character of generations of Chicagoans.
End of the World? Over my dead body, or at least until my aromatic meatloaf *comes out of the oven.
Anyway, if the Final Day was underway with full HD Sound and Effects, people would be tuning in to The View, or Ellen to find out exactly why Melania was wearing white at the State of the Union.
We have had many blood moons, or as they used to say in Cleveland before the Old Chief got tomahawked by bed-wetters, " Many Moons!"
God raised up Patriarchs, Judges, Prohpets and Kings and told them exactly what was expected of us. We did whatever the hell we felt like, until the shit his the fan and Lot's wife went all salty; then we got right with the Almighty, until things got soft again and then ignored He Is Who Am - all three of Him.
We don't listen, unless it is on cable news.
We don't care, until Cardinal Closer shutters all of the schools.
Then what?
The Blood Moon was beautiful.
Now, about that meatloaf: Hickey's Herbed Meatloaf (lifted from the NYT's Recipe with my variations):
1 pound ground beef
1/2 pound ground veal
1/2 pound ground pork
2 eggs
1/2 cup fine Italian bread crumbs
3/4 cup chopped parsley
1/4 cup finely chopped chives
3 Tablespoons Fresh basil
1/4 cup finely chopped green pepper
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine all ingredients
Shape the mixture into a Rugby Ball
Place the loaf on Tin Foil pie plate.
Top the loaf with Red Onion and 6 whole garlic pods. Bake one and one-half hours. Chill over night. Slice and serve on baby spinach leaves with horseradish on good pumpernickle bread.
I don't know about you, neighbor, but I have never cottoned to Governor Bruce Rauner. Just can not snuggle up to the notion that he is on the up-and-up.
Maybe it has something to do with the company he keeps
Maybe it is his love of abortion
Maybe it's how idiotic he looks on his Harley
Whatever. As Jesse Jackson ( pere) might say, "Bruce got voted in because he was not Pat Quinn/Vote Him Out cuz He's a Lout!
I don't believe that Bruce Rauner, wants Bruce Rauner in Springfield. Let's send him back to his vaults, where he can find peace and contentment.
Bruce looks bad as Governor.
Jeanne Ives not only looks good; she does good!
Join me and Chicago Renaissance Man Mike Houlihan as we hop on the Jeanne Ives for Governor Bandwagon over the next few days! We shall have much more to say and do in the coming days!
JeanneIves has spent 5 years as a state legislator standing up to Mike Madigan.
And she stood up to Gov. Rauner when he has betrayed our conservative values. Jeanne Ives Will Return Your Home to YouIves will institute a 1% hard cap on property taxes as a percentage of home value. This will return your home value to you that has been stolen by the highest property taxes in the nation. Jeanne Ives Will Return Your Money to YouIves will rescind the 32% income tax increase passed by Chicago Democrats and surrender Republicans.
Ives will repeal the new, open-ended entitlement Rauner created by signing public funding of abortion on demand. Jeanne Ives Will Return The Rule Of Law To YouIves will repeal Illinois’ sanctuary state status and allow local and state law enforcement to cooperate with federal law enforcement
Come on! Join us!
Be a Rauner Frowner!
Vote for Jeanne Ives on March 20th 2018 at a polling place near you!
I was shocked, outraged, incesned, vexed and very nearly driven to rile this morning when both Chicago dailys blasted these headlines:
Trump moved to fire Mueller in June, bringing White House counsel to brink of resignation! Chicago Tribune Trump ordered Mueller Fired, But White House Counsel Threatened to Quit! Chicago Sun Times
You see Robert Mueller is the John Kerry impersonator and Special Russian Collusion Prosecutor and who is going to give President Trump a long over due and well earned chide and come-uppance.
The smartest people like David Brooks and his minion E.J. Dionne predict a that President 45 might endure the humilitation of being taken down a peg.
Most expect a culpatory dressing down.
Other leading news spewers posted these
Trump ordered Mueller fired last year before backing off, news report says
Report: Trump wanted Mueller fired, backed off - WHIO Tv
NYT: Trump called for Mueller's firing in June 2017 - WTHI
My God, Trump Thumpers were right! He is out of his mind!! Milky in the filbert! Whack-a-doodle!
I'll bet that he did not unleash nuclear hell on Trinidad.
What's next will he not watch the Superbowl?
Will the Orange One refuse to watch Jim Acosta?
What would happen if The View hired people?
What if Iceland is not willing to pay me $ 5,000 to choose one their surplus womens-es?
Oh, What a world! Imagine if Trump had done something! This is positively opprobious!!!!!!!!!
I just might not have pancakes at Biyali's Too ever again!
ORLAND PARK, IL -- An Orland Park nurse and a Chicago doctor were among seven passengers killed this weekend in the Philippines, when their tour van crashed into a tree while on a medical mission trip to help people in remote areas of the country. Aurora M. Gagni, a nurse from Orland Park, and Nunilo Rubio Sr., an well-known endocrinologist from Chicago, died in the crash, according to local news reports. The 24-year-old driver of the bus reportedly told police that he had fallen asleep at the wheel. The Patch
"Hey, Shit-for-Brains, get that little Filipino nurse for me. The other one hurts me. Got hands like a damn Hun. Hell, she is a Hun!" - the late Oliver Duval -Born: July 14, 1899; Died: June 1, 1990 Herscher, IL
My wife Mary's grandfather and I were pals. He was one tough old bird, WWI AEF veteran, mean as a bag of snakes Frenchman from Kankakee County. He was tall, wiry and witty. Had Indian cheekbones and delighted in scaring goofs, pests, priests, half-wits and blowhards. You had to return his barbs to get his respect. I was the above-mentioned sobriquet.
However, kindness, professionalism and unadulterated sweetness trumped everything with Oliver. When he was finally relegated to a nursing home in 1989, like most of America's elderly, was treated to modest care from every American care-giver but Filipino-Americans and recent immigrants.
Today, I read about the Orland Park couple who died in crash, upon their return home on a medical mission and recalled all of the nurses, doctors and technicians who treated my dying wife with such tenderness and generous skills.
People from the Philippines seem as fitted to the medical and care professions as Austrians to Alpine Sports. They are most suited to the vocations that palliate physical pain and salve suffering. So I looked up a Stanford University study on this topic and found that Filipino cultural values tend to make them extraordinary care-givers. Especially to the elderly.
My mother has spent many months in rehab at age 9. . . I won't go there. And how she is treated is of paramount concern to her children and grandchildren.
I remark on this because several of her care-givers are from the Philippines. The Stanford study on Filipino elders explains a great deal.
Smooth interpersonal relationships are a major component of the Filipino core value kapwa, defined as “shared identity, interacting on an equal basis with a fellow human being.” It is expressed as sensitivity and regard for others, respect and concern, helping out, understanding and making up for others’ limitations, rapport and acceptance, and comradeship (Agoncillo & Guerrero, 1987; Enriquez, 1994). Traditional psychosocial interactions or pakikipagkapwa occur in the external domain or ibang tao and the internal domain or hindi ibang tao. Levels of relationships in the first domain consist of: civility (pakikitungo), mixing (pakikisalamuha), joining/participating (pakikilahok), and adjusting (pakikisama). The second domain includes: mutual trust/rapport (pakikipagpalagayan ng loob), getting involved (pakikisangkot), and oneness, full trust (pakiisa) (Enriquez, 1994; PePua, 1990). . . . Many contemporary Filipino American families continue to function in a complex process of a natural support system of reciprocity within interdependent/dependent relationships based on extended family membership, group harmony and loyalty, respect for elders and authority, and kinship that goes beyond strong biological connections (McBride & Parreno, 1996; Miranda, McBride, & Anderson, 2000; Superio, 1993; Tompar-Tiu and Sustento-Seneriches, 1995). In a study of filial responsibility, young first and second generation Filipino Americans and older adults strongly agree that children should be taught to care for elders and take care of aging parents (Superio, 1993). . . .
And most telling is this very 'unscientific' application of care
A consistent theme in health and caregiving studies on Filipino Americans is the importance of prayer, church affiliation, spiritual fellowship, and spiritual counseling. Studies have shown that having the capacity to practice one’s faith can be a measure of wellness (Valencia-Go, 1989). Using prayer and spiritual counseling can be a part of a treatment plan with assistance from a traditional healer or a clergy (Tompar-Tiu & Sustento-Seneriches, 1995). Some elders and their families consider physical or emotional pain as a challenge to one’s spirituality (Grudzen, McBride, & Thom, 2000). These findings are important indicators that a segment of Filipino American elders and their families incorporate and value a spiritual dimension in their daily life.
No wonder so many natives of the Philippines are caregivers - they have a faith-system as a foundation . . ." first and second generation Filipino Americans and older adults strongly agree that children should be taught to care for elders and take care of aging parents." How many of us do the same?
Six Dems and only one allowable pick: not the Kennedy, not the Doc, not the Ganger-banger Alumnus, not the Progressive Boy Toy and not Pension Heavy Dude from Marine, IL.
Nope, the only Democrat that 'sane, pot-smart, never-Trumping, Rahm-friendly and comfortable P-Hat voters' may cast a ballot for is Michigan Avenue Fats - J.B. Pritzker the Trump-thumping billionaire who is more of a Regular Joe and than Old Bruce, in the same way that Charlie Foster Kane was no Boss Gettys.
Mark Brown pooh-poohed the five ( as too many to debate Carol Marin) , only weeks after he took a huge, hairy dump on Chris Kennedy's chances with his ambush piece; now, along with the always dependable Eric Zorn, charge Chris Kennedy with being a Rauner cheerleader. The oligarchs have bull-dozed an extra wide path to the Governor's door for J.B. Pritzker. They'll adjust the that door in due time.
Nope, if a voter wants Rauner gone and knows that Pritzker will only double -down on Illinois miseries, the only choice, short of a cast-away protest vote, is to take a ballot for Jeanne Ives and make damn sure it registers.
Yep, the skinny blonde girl for Governor. Unless, of course, you are quite happy with way things are now. And what is that gump staring at?
Just as every cop is a criminalAnd all the sinners saintsAs heads is tailsJust call me Lucifer'Cause I'm in need of some restraint - Sympathy for the Devil 1968
1968 - Jon Burge was an MP in Vitenam and G. Flint Taylor was the mouth-piece for the Black Panthers. I was a junior at Little Flower High School.
2018 - Jon Burge is out of jail for perjury, but has never been chraged or convicted of torture. G. Flint Taylor is a millionaire. I teach high school social justice.
Last week, G. Flint Taylor made another run at getting cop-killer Jackie Wilson out of prison - Taylor wants Wilson re-tried in the comfortable atmosphere created by Taylor and other lawyers getting rich in the Wrongful Everything to Do With Justice Industry, as well as the generations of lazy, or agenda addicted members of the Chicago Media.
This atmosphere is a Gordian-knot compostiion of doctrines ( all police departmenst are fundmentally racist; police use torture gratuitously; Jon Burge used Vietnam era torture devices, as well as garden variety brutality to harm only African Americans in Chicago; Ellected officials care only about elections and will go along with anything; Justice must be tried in the court of public opinion; train journalism students to become active agents in the Wrongful Induistry; accept no inquiry; be patient) that over the last forty years has made Chicago a Thug Comfort Zone.
Thanks to G. Flint Taylor's mythopoeic mastery of the media in Chicago, the leftist philanthropic culture, the cowardly mayors and aldermen, and the elimination of historical truths in public education police officers wear body cameras, unless detailed to Rahm Emanuel's home, get charged with anything that might make a mistake look like racism, second guess any and all use of force tactics, while career criminals and savage thugs know that the race card is a get-out-of-jail free card acceptable at The Peoples Law Office, City Hall, Medill Law and Journalism, The Bluhm Centers, Cook County Building, WTTW, The Tribune, The Sun Times and lovingly, The Chicago Reader. G. Flint Taylor has influenced more generations to go along with his myths and pleadings and longer than Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Uncle Ho could ever dreamt and all through the media. He was the mouth-piece for the Black Panthers, tried to Free Mumia, helped sanitize Bernardine Dorhn and her cartoonish old man, Bill Ayers, and dangled 501(c) 3 millions from the Ivory Towers of University of Chicago and Northwestern University before the grasping hands of lawyers and felons as well as millions of tax-payer dollars as well.
G. Flint Taylor needed no beer hall putsch, or Little Red Book; rather, selective memory, intellectual weakness, judge shopping and time itself, has poured the blood into Taylor's cement mix.
Since 1968, the year His Satanic Majesty provided us with some sympathy and taste, G. Flint Taylor's rock-samba of American imperialism brutality has played at ear shattering levels in print and in the Dirksen Federal Center.
Taylor and Jeffery Haas, co-founder of Peoples Law Office, formed their Marxist band of legal goblins on south Dearborn ( later on Milwaukee Avenue) with money from the World Council of Churches' American branch The National Council of Churches. This is from the dubious pen of the late Robert McClory:
The logical question, of course, is how and why Haas and Taylor keep fighting. It is understandable that the survivors of the Panther affair and the relatives of Hampton and Clark would like a measure of vengeance (and some cash) for what they have always perceived as a cold-blooded execution. But those friends and relatives are not independently wealthy, and they have contributed virtually nothing of their personal assets to the cost of prosecution, raised small amounts through benefits and fun raisers. The National Council of Churches made a donation.
Personal sacrifices to the greater good? Rent in Lakeview, where both lived according to McClory, whose sole purpose in life was create urban legends out of leftists, was always high, even in the 1970's. The Burge Mythology is now taught as a scoial science in Chicago Public Schools.
Jon Burge was convicted of perjury after years of media bear-baiting and legal legerdemain.
G. Flint Taylor and legions of other fatuous opportunists have made fortunes by playing media, do-gooders and generations of young people completely unaquainted with the facts of the murders, arrests, convictions and subsequent judge shopping by Peoples Law Office, MacArthur Center for Justice, Loevy & Loevy.
There has been absolutely no proof of torture – hundreds of allegations and millions of dollars in payouts -but not one win in G.Flint Taylor’s column.
Jon Burge was trapped in a legal maze created by time, judge shopping, media complicity and collective memory loss.
When torture appears, deal with it. That has yet to be proven. Truth is not something “We Can All Agree Upon.” That is John Dewey.
What strikes me is the money trail of WCC and the NCC that leads directly to the KGB - the former Soviet secret police. No journalist in Chicago wants a Pulitzer denied due such an inquiry.
Instead, Taylor poisons the landscape with pieces like his recent In These Times article:
In Chicago, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), a longtime supporter of racist police torturer Jon Burge, is now seeking to circumvent court orders that preserve and make public the police misconduct files of repeater cops such as Burge, by seeking to enforce a police contract provision that calls for the destruction of the files after seven years. And in a show of solidarity with the killer of Michael Brown, Chicago’s FOP is soliciting contributions to the Darren Wilson defense fund on its website.
Such reactionary actions by police unions are not new, but are a fundamental component of their history, particularly since they came to prominence in the wake of the civil rights movement. These organizations have played a powerful role in defending the police, no matter how outrageous and racist their actions, and in resisting all manner of police reforms.
As a high school teacher and citizen of Chicago, I demand that the so-called watch-dogs ask G. Flint Taylor some thoughtful, tough and compelling questions. Until something like that happens, G. Flint Taylor will bully judges like Hooks into releasing murdering thugs like Jackie Wilson.
What is your connection to the bombings in Oakland committed by Dohrn and the Weather Underground?
Who ordred the murder of CPD officers Gilhooley and Rappaport* in November 1969?
Why is Judge Gettleson always your go-to-guy?
Where is Frank Sirtoff? Tell us all about him?
Who paid John Conroy?
Have you ever been to Russia?
How did you land Judge Hooks for your Jackie Wilson gambit?
Why do you hate black people who are not felons?
Why do you owe Gator Bradley money?
These might be a simple begining of the media having much less sympathy for Chicago's devil.
Who,who, who, whoooo!
*Patrolman John Gilhooly and Patrolman Frank Rappaport
Chicago Police Department November 13, 1969
Officer John J. Gilhooly and Officer Frank G. Rappaport were ambushed by a member of the radical group Black Panthers on a false call of a “man with a gun”.
As the officers entered a gangway between two buildings the man opened fire with a shotgun from a porch below, striking Officer Rappaport in the chest and Officer Gilhooly in the face and neck. The suspect then shot Officer Rappaport again as he lay on the ground, killing him.
Gilhooly was survived by his father, brother and sister.
Pound Road
There was a place in dear Castleisland,
Pound Road it was its name,
It housed the finest people,
Kind and caring just the same.
There were Murphys, Sullivans and Brosnans, Berminghams and Morans too,
Danahars, Conways and Buckleys and McCarthy to mend your shoe.
There were Dennehys, Griffins and Savages and Prendivilles - who are our kin,
We'll not forget those people for that would be a sin.
There were carpenters, and undertakers, cobblers and a bell-man too,
Fishmongers and horse barbers - none were idle I assure you.
Times were tough back in the 40s to make a bob or two,
No bother to these people - they were smarter that (sic) me and you.
One day there came a letter, their little homes would have to go,
They'd be moved to better houses - away from heil and snow.
But their way of life had ended, 'twas the end of an era you see,
They had to leave their little cottages - where they never used a key.
In my home I hung a calendar with their names and history,
I smile and think about them when recession blares from TV,
Those folks survived in harder times but their hearts and minds were free,
They lived each day as best they could with a chat and a mug of tea.
When in your cosy beds at night, will you say a little prayer,
For all who've gone before us, in whose footsteps we will dare,
Their simplicity and their courage an inspiration to us all.
We think of our relations, bould Tom and Sonny Bawn. from The Kerryman
This offering might not pass the poetry finger test , but County Kerry has the most (37) GA football titles and Castleisland is once again the widest street next to O'Connell Street in Ireland. Dactyls and spondees and rhetorical flourishings aside, the vocation of the horse barber grabbed me.
County Kerry, ladies and gents! And you wonder how I got this way.
Dad always said that I couldn't find my butt with both hands. I can. Allow me to add this imperative -“Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you." - Pope Francis to celebrate Pro-life Mass, Vatican
"You stand up for what you believe in, even if it gets in the way of what other people think. You are proud of yourself and your accomplishments and you enjoy letting people know that."
A peach of a guy with all the sweetness one could expect from a life well-spent and in good company: short on brains but a terrific dancer!
Author:
Every Heart and Hand: A Leo High School Story
The Chorito Hog Leg, Book One: A Novel of Guam in Time of War
Svelt!
