John McCain: Well Hush My Beak- Blogger of the Week?

I am delighted with this Honor!

The Good Folks at McCain Victory, spearheaded by my pal Brad Marston, have honored this site with the McCain Victory Blogger of the Week.

It is an honor to work with talented and patriotic women and men helping John McCain get his message of Hope, Self-Reliance, Dignity, Charity and Service to all Americans.

To Miss Vickie ( The Fairest Flower of Alabama), The Mad Irishman, Tony GOPrano, Brad Marston, and Michael Schuyler - Ain't this been Fun?

Brad, thank you for the kind words linked on My Post Title

Tinley Park, IL and Rev. Jeremiah Wright - Why Tinley?

Above - Crazy Uncle Jere's Retirement Mansion in Tinley Park, IL

Below - The Old Tinley Park Mental Health Facility that welcomed Katrina Victims

Now that is a two tales of one city!

Marathon Pundit ran an interesting piece last week concerning Pastor Wright (ret.) whose building a stately mansion in Tinley Park, Illinois. Jeremiah Wright gave it to GW Bush good and hard for the callous treatment of Katrina Victims and Senator Obama is on record as saying that Wright 'helped' Katrina Victims.

Ok. How? Metaphorically? Rhetorically? Spiritually? Magically? It does not appear that he did so Financially - according to the Katrina Relief National Report.

Sometimes things fall through the cracks.

Yep.

Here's something to do on a rainy day.

1. Click my post title to Atlas Shrugs ( HT to Marathon Pundit)
2. Read the page

3. Click on the links provided and read what is there - more importantly read what is not there.

4. Ask yourself some questions

I did last night after catching a snatch of Rev. Wright on the egg-toss put on by the agenda driven Bill Moyers. I asked myself, 'Self, Why do the good folks in Tinley Park get Bat Guano Crazy Uncle Jere?'

Well for years, 'close knit, ethnic Irish Catholic Beverly was home to Calypso Louie Farrakhan. He had no problem borrowing a bag of Weed N'Feed from some Paddy Chump from Christ the King Parish. Imagine the block Party - Louie topped off with turkey taco salad, marshmallow jello mandarin orange salad and Sweet Tea - yanking out the old fiddle. Louie Moved! Off to Berrian County Michigan! Away from the racist Micks.

Tinley Park, Il was ground zero for the State of Illinois efforts to provide shelter and comfort to the suffering people of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. The refugees stayed at the old Mental Health Facility on Harlem in Tinley Park. The State of Illinois went flat out to help Katrina victims. I wonder just how Tinley Park was selected as the best site to help the victims of America's greatest natural disaster. Who were the elected officials and appointed board members who pushed the Tinley site? They did a great service to those suffering people.

1. Did Pastor Wright and his church help out the victims of Katrina?

2. How did the Church select Tinley Park, of all places, to settle its Shepherd?

3. Who is footing the bill?

4. Who's Weed 'N Feed is getting borrowed?

Here's start - Rod Blagojevich's State of Illinois Website:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 14, 2005



Gov. Blagojevich expands Hurricane Katrina Victim Assistance Hotline to serve thousands of self-evacuated victims, and the people, organizations and local governments caring for them in Illinois
Hotline hours extended, additional staff answering calls, ensures self-evacuees will have access to full range of resources


SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich today announced that the state’s Hurricane Katrina Victim Assistance Hotline (800-843-6154) is offering a broader range of services and will be more available each day to the thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims who made their own way to Illinois, as well as the individuals, community organizations and local governments that have taken them in. The hotline connects displaced victims to state services available to them, ranging from housing assistance to medical care to employment. The American Red Cross estimates that there are more than 6,000 victims displaced by Hurricane Katrina living in Illinois with friends, family or in other temporary housing. Approximately 430 people traveled to Illinois on flights arranged by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

“In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, thousands of Gulf Coast residents left their homes and found their own way to Illinois. While they are here, we will make every effort to connect them to resources and services - whether they need temporary housing, health care for their families, jobs, food or clothing” said Gov. Blagojevich. “Our hotline will also help the many generous individuals and organizations who are trying to make sure evacuees in Illinois are getting the assistance and tools they need to rebuild their lives.”

The Illinois Department of Human Services (DHS) is coordinating the hotline. Hotline hours of operation are being extending so victims can call any time between 9am and midnight daily to find out what services are available to them. Callers will have one-stop access to all of the State of Illinois’ resources for Katrina victims – from emergency food and shelter to more long-term assistance like unemployment benefits and food stamps. Operators from the Department of Human Services will be able to connect callers to information on:
Financial assistance available from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the American Red Cross
Help to evacuees who are looking for loved ones
Enrolling children in preschool, K-12th grade, community colleges and public universities
Energy Assistance that may be available through Illinois’ LIHEAP program to hurricane evacuees placed in temporary or permanent housing
Various healthcare programs offered by the state and federal governments that may be available to evacuees
Temporary and permanent housing available through the states, FEMA and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Employment available in Illinois and through the U.S. Department of Labor
Change of address forms from the United States Postal Service
Other state and federal services and programs including crisis counseling, unemployment, rehabilitation services, developmental disabilities, veterans benefits, seniors benefits, child care, and substance abuse
Caring for pets affected by Hurricane Katrina

The Governor set up the toll-free number as a part of the state’s centralized effort to assist refugees from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama who come to Illinois. The number, 1-800-843-6154, went live Friday, September 2nd, and will stay in service for as long as needed. Displaced victims with access to the internet can find more information on available services at www.Illinois.gov. Users can also find a link on the state website to the federal government’s services and assistance available to those affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29th, Gov. Blagojevich ordered all state agencies to respond in a coordinated manner to help recovery and cleanup efforts in the Gulf Coast, and victims coming into Illinois:

Arriving on four flights arranged by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Illinois has received more than 430 displaced victims from the Gulf Coast states. Individuals and families, upon arrival received immediate medical care and were provided housing from the state in Tinley Park, Elgin, Alton and Rockford. The American Red Cross estimates an additional 6,000 displaced victims arrived in Illinois by their own means. Governor Blagojevich announced on September 4th, Illinois is ready to receive as many as 10,000 displaced victims, and has called elected officials, community leaders, not-for-profit organizations, religious institutions and social service providers to match the State of Illinois’ coordinated relief effort to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Gov. Blagojevich deployed more than 1,600 Illinoisans to help Louisiana respond to the devastation resulting from Hurricane Katrina. The deployments include nearly 600 firefighters and 800 National Guard troops.

The Illinois Department of Employment Security is helping displaced victims process unemployment claims and facilitating job searches and job training. IDES and Central Management Services employees have set up remote computer stations in the state facilities in Tinley Park and Alton where the first displaced victims arrived, and are in the process of setting up the same services in Elgin and Rockford, where more evacuees arrived this week.

A group of 100 state employees traveled to Louisiana to help the Louisiana Department of Social Services reach out to victims in remote areas of the state. The volunteers include clerical employees, security personnel, information technology specialists, drivers and mechanics.

The Department of Financial and Professional Regulation has reached out to state-chartered banks and thrifts and asked them to provide free check cashing, eliminate ATM service fees and help establish checking and saving accounts for displaced victims now residing in Illinois.

The Illinois Department of Revenue has extended filing deadlines to taxpayers from counties damaged by Hurricane Katrina and who owe Illinois taxes, until October 31, 2005.

A total of 134 highly trained law enforcement officers from state and local agencies were deployed to Louisiana. These include Weapons of Mass Destruction teams, Tactical Response teams, Underwater Dive teams, a mobile command post, various all terrain vehicles, boats and trucks.

The Illinois Department of Transportation contributed 500 yards of fencing and 500 stakes on two lowboys pulled by two semis that will be in the law enforcement convoy.

The Governor dispatched a total of 52 members of the Illinois Medical Emergency Response Teams (IMERT) to Louisiana to assist with care of the massive number of sick and injured victims from Hurricane Katrina, and dispatched an 11-member Incident Management Team to George County, Mississippi to assist local emergency managers during the crisis.

The Governor ordered the state’s public schools to waive residency requirements and enroll any child displaced by Hurricane Katrina who relocates to live with family, friends or in a shelter in Illinois. To date, more than 400 children displaced by Hurricane Katrina are enrolled in 46 different Illinois school districts.

The state’s 39 community colleges will accommodate any Illinois resident displaced from higher education studies because of the hurricane, while Illinois’ 12 public universities will also take in students affected by the destruction along the Gulf Coast. Students are encouraged to contact admissions offices at each university to being an expedited process to enroll in the institution and to access university services like financial aid.

The Department of Natural Resources and the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency have offered free camping and removed length of stay requirements for Hurricane victims at all state parks and historic sites that offer camping.

The Illinois Department of Transportation waived certain transportation rules to allow standard-sized semis carrying supplies and materials to Louisiana to be overweight by up to 15,000 pounds when they travel on Illinois roads. Currently, a standard-sized semi is only allowed to weigh 80,000 pounds when traveling through Illinois. IDOT will also grant emergency permits to companies that need to move oversized equipment to the impacted area.

The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) made available various items through IEMA’s emergency procurement system including 256,000 half pints of water, 8,500 blankets, 18,300 clothing items, and 2,900 dozen packages of cleaning supplies. IDOC has also delivered 3,000 bedrolls to the Red Cross in Hillside.

The Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs sent toiletries and food to facilities where displaced victims have been housed, and in collaboration with several other federal and private agencies will send food to the Gulf Coast states.

The Department of Central Management Services made available its Bureau of Communication and Computer Services (BCCS) to help provide communications assistance to devastated areas. Using broadband services, including high speed data transmission to remote areas underserved by local carriers, BCCS can provide relief command centers with uplinks for phone and internet access, and also links to shelters so displaced individuals can call loved ones.

The Department of Human Services sent staff skilled in processing Food Stamps, to help the United States Department of Agriculture implement a Disaster Food Stamp program in 25 Louisiana counties.

The Illinois Department of Agriculture made available to the Illinois State Police the Expo Building on the Illinois State Fairgrounds as a staging area to consolidate personnel, equipment and supplies in preparation for deployment.

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Illinois Department of Public Health dispatched twelve specialists to Louisiana. The specialists are members of four environmental health strike teams being sent by the state at the request of the Louisiana Emergency Management Agency. Their expertise includes drinking water, sewage, food safety and food salvage. In addition, two IEPA trucks stocked with emergency response equipment and two IPDH vehicles were deployed.

The People of Illinois did pretty proud work. Catholic Charities to which the young men of Leo High School contributed gave $ 500,000. Chicago Police Officers and Chicago Firefighters went to New Orleans.

What exactly did Pastor Wright do , besides raise money for Katrina?

Did that money make its way to New Orleans?

It does not appear on the Philanthropy News Digest. Huge questions. Millions of them.

John McCain: Crazy Uncle Jere Pigeon-Holes All Us AmericanChickens

He's Back! Get Ready! Bill Moyers has Crazy Uncle Jere ready to toss bat guano at AmeriKKKa and 'garlic nosed' Americans. I love garlic. Can't say the same about the deep thinking Black Liberation Theologian building a mansion in Tinley Park, IL., but he sure explains Barack Obama's vision for America. A jigsaw puzzle of demographics - the University of Chicago Tweedy Dumbers will love this vision, almost as much as they love domestic terrorists.

It is clear to me now. The Great Uniter, Senator Barack Obama is a Balkanizer. His spiritual guide, Bat Guano Crazy Uncle Jeremiah Wright made it clear:

"He's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor," he said.

Let's he's a pastor, Barack is a politician, I'm a teacher, Billy Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are unapologetic terrorists, my boss is a school President, Tommy Ward is a millwright, most of my family are stationary engineers ( IUOE Local 399), Gino Ford is an electrician, Framin' Eamon is a Carpenter's Framer, Terry is a Choir Director, Tom Roeser is a Renaissance Man, Ron Gidwitz is a Philanthropist, Keith Olbermann is Enormous, J.C. Gutierrez is a Contractor, Eddie Carroll is a Roofer, Ben Vereen is a Hoofer, Jim Frogge is chemist, Nick Novich is a restaurateur, Second City Cop is a Police, John Rubery is a Marthon Pundit, . . . Man we will need subtitles and parsing aplenty in Obama's New Politics America.

Worked swell in the Former Yugoslavia.

No sweat. John McCain speaks like a President of the United States.

Click my post title for the return of Crazy Uncle Jere

John McCain: Dick 'Iago' Morris Wants to Help - Take it from Carville

"I follow him to serve my turn upon him."


Othello (I, i, 42)

Francis Bacon, Jean Jacques Rousseau, W.E.B. DuBois, and Joe Morris are all political thinkers cut from the very same cloth as Iago in Shakespeare's Othello, The Moor of Venice. Bacon denounced every patron, beginning with the Earl of Essex, Rousseau the children of his mistress to the streets and certain death as well as Diderot, and DuBois stabbed his mentor Booker T. Washington in the back at Niagara Falls in 1905. Lovely chaps one and all.

Dick Morris could make the trio above and their fictional mirror image IAGO look like Faith, Hope, and Charity on picnic with Prudence.

This guy is a beaut. Today he posts advice to John McCain in the Baltimore Sun. The guy is as sharp as a cutter's scalpel and about as warm-hearted. Senator McCain take the advice and show Dick the curb.

Now, the guy I love is Jim Carville. He is the one Democrat who would cover the back of the person who signs his checks. Like John McCain, Carville is the Real Deal and Carville would never cross the street for sacks of gold over his convictions. He also, like McCain has great taste in women. Mr. Carville would take a bullet for his boss. He's a mensch! Dick Morris is Iago.

Click My Post Title for Dick Morris' brilliant but dangerous advice. Cum Grano Salis, Senator!

Chicago Tribune Insulates Bomber Ayers

What a contemptible piece of hack work.

Today's piece on Bill Ayers, a domestic terrorist is absolutely the most gutless of mewings and as thin as the moral tissue of the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board that no doubt issued the order to the writer and perfumed the adjectives and nouns according to the influence Ayers and his extended wealth bears on Tribune Editorial Thought.

Bill Ayers, a former radical leader turned academic and school reformer, has never been hesitant to speak his mind.

Although there has been no public response from him since his ties to Barack Obama — the two neighbors served on a charity board together for three years — were brought up during last week's Democratic debate, Ayers said Wednesday that he has a good reason for his silence.

Former Radical Leader - 100% False use of nouns and adjectives. What vomit!

Chicago Medill Media Mousepieces - linked to Ayers wealth at Northwestern and University of Illinois - have insulated these enemies of America and propped up their places as citizens of Chicago.

Readers deserve respect. The Chicago Sun Times is reaping the reward for its Editorial idiocies over the last few years and The Chicago Tribune now stands at the edge as well.

Stay friends with Ayers and Dohrn. Their wealth and influence is more important than truthful reporting.

John McCain: The Ex- Con Kite ( check kite) Runner Explains Obama's Pennsylvania Victory!

This yutz is like having free cable! Ladies and Gents, Bob Creamer, convicted check kiter and Progressive Camp Obama strategist, explains the victory of Obama over Hillary Clinton despite the fact that ten percentage points to Clinton seems to indicate otherwise.

That is why Bob Creamer is must - must I tells ya! - viewing on Huffington Post - Hollywood Squares Without Borders!

Here's Bob - The Terra Haute Federal Prison Alumnus:

All that remains for Clinton are more opportunities for her own campaign to be shut down. If she loses Indiana and North Carolina it will be extremely hard for her to continue. But there is no longer any opportunity for her to defeat Obama.

Clinton's may have won last night, but she failed to do what she needed to do to derail Obama's march to the nomination. In retrospect, Pennsylvania will appear as Clinton's Waterloo.

Robert Creamer is a long time political organizer and strategist and author of the recent book, "Stand Up Straight. How Progressives Can Win," available on Amazon.com

(Now, how can you not wet your britches in the presence of powerful political thought like that - unmatched since Machiavelli argued to stab the boss in the back if things looked dicey for the boss) If 'she loses Indiana and North Carolina . . . it will be extremely hard for her to continue.' Drop the Soap and Stop the Presses!!! Bob! If she loses Primaries - it will be bad? People pay you for this and it's not a crime? Now, how can you hate this country , Bob? And Moms and Dads send their Kids to Camp Obama to learn 'the new politics of Hope?' Bob-Beeeee! Bob, The Shank, Creamer!

Bob is married to the lovely, daffy, and hubris topped off Rep. Jan Schakowsky who is dying to take Senator Obama's place in the U.S. Senate by by-passing the electoral process entirely. Now that's Grassroots.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/880337,CST-NWS-senate06.article

Jan makes play for Obama's Seat - You GO! Girl!

"I would be. I certainly would be interested in that. I think it is unseemly and untimely right now to do much beyond stating my interest in that," Schakowsky said Friday in a taping of WMAQ-Channel 5's "City Desk."

Asked if she has a good rapport with Blagojevich, Schakowsky says, "We do have a working relationship, and we have a long-standing friendship. We really haven't discussed this particular issue. I agree with him on his priority of health care and applaud him for the work he has done as the health care governor."

Blagojevich could not be reached for comment.

'It's premature'
Blagojevich's friction with some other Democrats around the state limits the list of obvious officials he would like to appoint to succeed Obama, such as state Comptroller Dan Hynes, who was a runner-up to Obama in the 2004 primary for senate.

Among the more interesting options, Blagojevich could appoint Attorney General Lisa Madigan to keep her from running against him for governor. He could appoint himself senator. He could also appoint Obama ally Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias.

Asked if he was interested in the appointment, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. said through a spokesman he was "intrigued" at the potential of Schakowsky being named, but "it's premature to speculate right now on a replacement for Obama."

If she does get the appointment, Schakowsky will face a lively election fight, with opponents likely making hay of the conviction of her husband, Robert Creamer, for check-kiting to keep his public interest group alive.

'It makes you stronger'
Creamer's prison sentence at the federal penitentiary at Terre Haute strengthened him and their marriage, Schakowsky said.

"If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger," Schakowsky said. "Even that experience at Terre Haute, where [former] Gov. [George] Ryan is now, he wrote a weekly newsletter. He looks to the future. He paid the debt he owed -- no money, his time in jail. It made him an advocate for prison reform. There are a lot of people in prison for crimes of substance abuse."

"City Desk" with Carol Marin airs at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. It can also be viewed at www.nbc5.com/politics.

John McCain: Obama/Ayers Gets Chicago Media Cuffed

Chicago News Media get a trimming in an editorial from Editor and Publisher for its lazy fare treatment of the insulation a domestic terrorist and his wife have received from 'hard-hitting' investigative journalists.

I find it sweetly ironic that journalists who enjoy NPR hushed tones when named in the Media for being spoon fed salacious and dubious propaganda from a collection of radical leftist lawyers when slamming Chicago Police Officers for the better part of two years, no get a long-overdue ear pull from their own trade. For years, Chicago 'reporters' have taken direction from G. Flint Taylor, Jon Loevy and the University radical think tanks in helping create Chicago's murderous Thug Comfort Zone. Now, 'the chickens have come home to roost,' as one Chicago theological true man of genius once said.

Ayers' extremist past has "has never bothered anyone in Chicago," Chicago Sun-Times political columnist Lynn Sweet wrote after Obama was questioned about his relationship with Ayers in last week's debate with Hillary Clinton.

"That's why back in the day when Obama was starting his political career -- making a visit to the Ayers home while running for a state Senate seat, and then agreeing to being on panels with him and serve on a foundation board together -- it was no big deal, or any deal, to any local political reporters or to the editorial boards of the Sun-Times or Tribune," Sweet added.

And it's no big deal still to the Tribune editorial board, which has not endorsed a Democrat for president since 1872.

"Ah, we know Ayers too," a Tribune editorial said last week. "And his wife, Bernardine Dohrn. If you know people in Chicago academic circles, chances are you know Ayers and Dohrn. They have not been repentant about their days in the radical, anti-war movement in the 1960s and their time fleeing federal authorities. They should be. There is still time for them to be. But they have done good work in Chicago--Ayers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Dohrn at Northwestern University Law School's Children and Family Justice Center."

Ayers also was given the seal of approval by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, nobody's idea of a radical and someone who doesn't need a weatherman to know which way the political winds are blowing.

The Ayers episode is one reason "that Americans are angry about Washington politics," Daley said.

"One more example is the way Sen. Obama's opponents are playing guilt by association, tarring him because he happens to know Bill Ayers," Daley said in a statement issued last week.

Daley called Ayers "a valued member of the Chicago community" who is "worked with me in shaping our now nationally renowned school reform program."

Aid and comfort, aside from individual writers Steve Chapman Steve Huntley and the great John Kass, Chicago's print media has smiled and nodded and even approved of the nesting of two terrorists in Chicago.

The television media, which is particularly shrill and childish when tossing vitriol at Chicago Police Officers gets toasty warm over the terrorists snuggled in Chicago University blankets.


Click my post Title for more from Editor and Publisher

John McCain: Tom Hayden of Lefty Vets and Comrade of Billy Ayers Tweaks Hillary's Angry White Women

Cherokee-Blood-On- My-Birkenstock's Philbin, Vasser '64 DID NOT VOTE FOR HILLARY!!! Photo of Cherokee Courtesy of Frank Nofsinger of the great State of Connecticut - Patriot and Womanizer (ret.)

Tom Hayden, the poster boy for Students for a Democratic Society - the Brownies for the Weather Underground - back in the Days of Rage!!!!! - shares his own and his wife's frustrations over the voters who do not goose-step to the Obama Pennsylvania Polka!

Tom was one of the Chicago Seven and later went into the Ben and Jerry's of Activism - soaking the rich through 501(c) 3s - BOOM POWER!

Hayden was sweet on Jane Fonda, who, herself, was spurned by the crippled Yankee Running Dog Air Bandit McCain during his stay at the Hanoi Hilton - Hanoi Jane, of the later day workout tapes, managed to get several American POWs tortured, howsomever, - and I believe one Prisoner was murdered at the hands of Peoples Liberation Army - when Fonda ratted-out these pilots for palming a message to their families with her. They thought that the daughter of a WWII Navy Man, and a movie star at that, would give them a hand. Nope. Old Henry Fonda had to be busting his buttons with pride over that stunt by Jane.

Seems a shame the Hanoi Jane was never brought up on treason charges, but what the hell do I know? Rather, whom do I know? No one with that kind of JUICE.

John McCain refused to speak or even meet with Fonda - who wanted the plum visit with the son of the Pacific Fleet Commander. Ah, Memories!

Well, Tom Hayden, while earnest and radically active, has a face like a smashed ass - no big deal so do I - and Jane gave him the gate. Evidently, another Sister of the Struggle gave Hayden the Hands On signal - anyway - ( Gabby little bastard ain't I?) Hayden pushed out a piece for the Grecian Formula of Obama Doctrine (Huffington Post - Hollywood Squares Without Borders) on this, the morning of Obama's crushing Keystone Wake-Up Call. It seems Tom Hayden's Missus hates Hillary - and, now, so does Summer of Love Hayden:

To use the current terminology, Hillary people are bitter people, even more bitter than the white working class voters Barack has talked about. Because they circle the wagons so tightly, they don't recognize how identical, self-reinforcing and out-of-touch they are.

To take just one example, the imagined association between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers will suffice. Hillary is blind to her own roots in the Sixties. In one college speech she spoke of ecstatic transcendence; in another, she said, "our social indictment has broadened. Where once we exposed the quality of life in the world of the South and the ghettos, now we condemn the quality of work in factories and corporations. Where once we assaulted the exploitation of man, now we decry the destruction of nature as well. How much long can we let corporations run us?" She was in Chicago for three nights during the 1968 street confrontations. She chaired the 1970 Yale law school meeting where students voted to join a national student strike again an "unconscionable expansion of a war that should never have been waged." She was involved in the New Haven defense of Bobby Seale during his murder trial in 1970, as the lead scheduler of student monitors. She surely agreed with Yale president Kingman Brewster that a black revolutionary couldn't get a fair trial in America. She wrote that abused children were citizens with the same rights as their parents. [75] Most significantly in terms of her recent attacks on Barack, after Yale law school, Hillary went to work for the left-wing Bay Area law firm of Truehaft, Walker and Burnstein, which specialized in Black Panthers and West Coast labor leaders prosecuted for being communists. Two of the firm's partners, according to Treuhaft, were communists and the two others "tolerated communists". Then she went on to Washington to help impeach Richard Nixon, whose career was built on smearing and destroying the careers of people through vague insinuations about their backgrounds and associates. [all citations from Carl Bernstein's sympathetic biography, A Woman in Charge, 2007, pp. 67,69,70,75, 83]

Ah, the 60's! Ubi Sunt! They are giving poor old Barack Obama's Campaign the Flashback Miseries and the Twizzles! Lord Have Mercy.

Click My Post Title for Hayden's Symphony in Flat Tones
Tom Hayden

John McCain: It Sure Looks Like There's A Lot of Sunshine on Obama's Underground Man

Chicago's best writer newspaper columnist since Finley Peter Dunne, Chicago Tribune's John Kass blows more sunshine on Senator Barack Obama's ties to domestic terrorist Billy Ayers. More importantly, Kass floods Billy Ayer's bolt-hole from Underground Man to Distinguished Professor at University of Illinois -Chicago Campus by asking the tweedy partisans just how an unrepentant bomber of America got a job in the first place.

A few years later, Ayers got his job as a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. And Dohrn was employed at the Children and Family Justice Center affiliated with Northwestern University's School of Law.

I've always been fascinated as to how the radical underground stop running and get jobs in academia. Is there a Terrorist Patronage Office for Rich White People? And how did a convicted Dohrn get hired to teach at a law school?

"I am afraid I don't know an answer to that," NU spokesman Alan Cubbage said. "The person who was the dean at the time is no longer with the law school. And the person who was the president at the time is no longer the president. So I just don't know."

Cubbage did not mention that Ayers' late father—Commonwealth Edison boss Thomas Ayers—was an NU trustee and former board chairman. UIC spokesman Mark Rosati couldn't help either, but suggested I file a Freedom of Information Act request to find out how terrorists get hired by taxpayers.

"It's nothing personal," Rosati said.

How amusing. They don't want to explain how terrorists were hired, so they know nothing.

It might work now, but it won't work in the fall, when Broadway Baby opens for a run, in a campaign commercial near you.

Nothing personal. Mark, I take the weather personally. I have a warm and fuzzy feeling that John Kass just loves a snotty crack from an Ivory Tower aparatchik. Expect a journalistic tune-up shorty. Nothing personal - business - the Nation's business.

Click my post title for more from the great John Kass.

Senator Obama Pal Bill Ayers 'Just Neighborhood Guy' - Like Ken Hansen.

If domestic terrorist Billy Ayers can be equated to Senator Tom Coburn, does it follow that Billy Ayers can be equated to child murderer and Helen Brach conspirator Ken Hansen? University of Chicago Professor Cass Sunstein poses the root neighborhood gambit - we meet all kinds in our neighborhoods.

The New Republic gave University of Chicago's Cass Sunstein an opportunity to talk about Billy Ayers, domestic terrorist and UICC tenured professor of Education, as a neighborhood guy. The neighborhood is Hyde Park, nestled along the strip of land detailed and designed with parks and the fabulous Midway by Daniel Burnham and home to Rockefeller largess planted University of Chicago - where intellectual nativism the American Protective Association flourished at the start of the last century. Academic Arcadia. Mors -et in Arcadia ego!

Doc Sunstein has this to say about the neighborhood bomber and Senator Obama's relationship:

Ayers is one of numerous people, in the Chicago area, whom Barack Obama has run across. Obama has much closer relationships with numerous conservatives on the University of Chicago faculty, many of whom have given money to Obama's campaign, and many of whom have talked to him at length and been at social occasions with him.

I know for a fact that Obama has actually played basketball with Richard Epstein, a libertarian on the law school faculty who has written some pretty controversial things on property rights and government regulation. I also know that Obama has had a number of conversations with former law school dean Daniel Fischel, a Reagan Republican who has written some pretty controversial things on corporations and government regulation.

True, Ayers apparently had a small party for Obama back in 1995; true, Ayers gave some small sum of money to one of Obama's campaigns; and true, Ayers and Obama simultaneously served, for a time, on a board of a local organization, the Woods Fund, which helps disadvantaged children. But there was nothing even vaguely like a close relationship between them; and it would be easy to identify countless people, since 1995, with whom Obama has had much closer associations.

Now, Let's say that an ambitious young politician from Mount Greenwood neighborhood in Chicago, made a bid for the Illinois Senate in the early 1990's and was invited to a meet and greet at the home of . . . let's say Ken Hansen*. Impressed the aging and reclusive man and accepted a $200 campaign contribution; later, served on a Mount Greenwood Park Board with Old Ken and had his picture taken with Old Ken and learned that Ken was friendly with the horsey set up in Gurnee - fabulous Jayne Brothers e. g.. Old Ken went underground, but, unlike Billy Ayers, didn't have friends in Philanthropy or Academia.

Oh, I suppose that some folks might have raised an eyebrow or two. That might have been the subject of a series of news accounts: unless, of course, Ken Hansen had been named a Distinguished Professor of Pop Culture at some Hansen Endowed University.

I wonder how many Nazi rocket scientists who helped Werner Von Braun develop the Buzz Bombs and V-2s that dropped on London got comfortable and neighborly in an insulated Academic 'Hood? Or do they call them NeighborCowls over there?


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In the summer of 1994, Mr. Hansen sensed the investigation was closing in on him, Mr. Rotunno said.

“He was asking a neighbor, ‘Are there any police around watching my house?’ ” recalled Mr. Rotunno, adding that Mr. Hansen had even packed a suitcase to leave town when Mr. Grady arrested him in August of that year.

He was arrested on an arson charge in a 1972 fire at a suburban Chicago stable and charged later the same day with killing the boys.

During Mr. Hansen’s trial, prosecutors contended that the three boys were hitchhiking when they were picked up by Mr. Hansen, 22 at the time, who took them to the stable where he worked. They said he sexually abused at least one of them and strangled them all.

Mr. Hansen was convicted in 1995, but the Illinois Appellate Court overturned the conviction five years later after determining that the jury should not have heard evidence that Mr. Hansen had cruised the streets, picking up boys for sexual relations.

Mr. Hansen went on trial again in 2002 and, after deliberating a little more than two hours, a jury found him guilty again. Mr. Hansen was sentenced to 200 to 300 years in prison.

John McCain: Michigan Fats Rolls out for Obama Calling Straight Talk Express "The Death Train"

Flint's own heavyweight, Michael Moore, galumphed onto the national stage with his rhetorical corpulence! He endorsed . . . John Mc . . .had you there, Senator Barack Obama!

On eve of the Pennsylvania Primary, Michigan Fats, gives a shout out to Keystone Kos-ovoans with his usually jolly aplomb-pudding - figgy-pudding:

But the question I keep hearing is... 'can he win? Can he win in November?' In the distance we hear the siren of the death train called the Straight Talk Express. We know it's possible to hear the words "President McCain" on January 20th. We know there are still many Americans who will never vote for a black man. Hillary knows it, too. She's counting on it.

Deathtrain - boy, that sure sure puts the Nazi sprinkles all over this dish - didn't Bill Maher do the Third Reich to some concern only last week? Mach Nicht, Lefties love it! Unless, of course Liberal Fascism gets spooned into the sundae.

Thin gruel, Hungry Mike, for most Americans; but, emaciated pasty dopes like Bill Maher, bloated wind-bags like Olbermann and Mannish Boy Maddows ( 'The Lion I shoot!')wolf it down.

Flint's Round Mound of Retro-Revolution, Moore gets a few digs in at the Pope in his Old Country Buffet plateful of progressive prosing, which makes sense for a guy who found the Easter Sunday domestic terrorists in Chicago who attacked worshippers with fake blood at Holy Name Cathedral righteous good fare! He ate it up!

Big Britches filled to capacity!

Click my post title for Moore Dinty Stew!

John McCain: Senator Obama's Friends Draw His Lines in the Sand

Click my post title for Erik Ericson's report on Obama Change Agent Larry Lessig's oafish testimony for before the Senate Commerce Commission - all the links are there.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3785260.ece



Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt


The DNC has lacquered the Barack Obama Campaign with every 'reform' movement in this country and beyond:

Here's pretty impressive list of reformers and others:
Social and political activists
Liz Abzug, co-founder and director of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute and daughter of Bella Abzug[561]
Luis Alejo, Watsonville Planning Commission[562]
Joan Baez, singer, peace and human rights activist[563]
Tom Bernstein, lawyer, businessman and human rights activist[96]
Rev. Claude Black, Jr., civil and human rights activist[564]
Ellen Bravo, feminist activist[565]
Maria Buell, district director of League Of United Latin American Citizens[562]
Shepard Fairey, street artist and activist[566]
Jane Fonda, actress and political activist[567]
Tom Hayden, anti-war activist, former California State Senator[568] Rev. Joseph Lowery, minister and leader in the American civil rights movement [569]
Omar Mercado, deputy district director of League Of United Latin American Citizens[562]
Kate Michelman, pro-choice activist, former head of NARAL[570]
Eric Stern, gay rights activist.[497] Carlos Ramos, voting-rights activist and President of the Monterey chapter of the League Of United Latin American Citizens[562]
Michael Ratner, human rights lawyer, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights[571]
Juan Uranga, director of the Center for Community Advocacy[562]
Naomi Wolf, co-founder, American Freedom Campaign[572] [edit] Political groups
Alabama New South Coalition[573]
American Hunters and Shooters Association[574]
Asian American Action Fund of Greater Chicago[575]
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now[576]
Texas political blog Burnt Orange Report[577]
California Legislative Black Caucus[197]
Cook County Democratic Organization[578]
Houston GLBT Political Caucus[497]
Democratic Party of Illinois[578]
Mexican American Political Association[579]
MoveOn.Org[580] Virginia political blog Raising Kaine[581]

[edit] Foreign political leaders
Wouter Bos, Minister of Finance and deputy prime minister of The Netherlands[730]
Michael Ignatieff, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada[731]
Toshio Murakami, Mayor of Obama, Japan[732]
Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden[733]
Ségolène Royal, former French Socialist presidential candidate [734

These lists are from Wikepedia and the emphasis my own. Senator Barck Obama is beginning to make clear his vision for America. That is not a vision that I happen to share. If Bil Maher thought that I was a pretty good guy, I'd be worried; but, that's just me.

The more Americans ask questions of his campaign, the more this clear distinction between the Democratic National Committee's vision and that of the rest of the country will be more evident, as it was when Senator Kerry was in Senator Obama's shoes. Those Florsheims are getting pretty scuffed and cracked about now.

The British foreign press is getting it.

This is from the Times On-Line of the UK:

The Obama attacks over the weekend followed his weak performance in Wednesday’s TV debate with Mrs Clinton when he struggled to answer some barbed questions. Mrs Clinton scorned his subsequent complaint that she had sought to “twist the knife” in him, saying that if he did not like the heat “he should get out of the kitchen”. Aides to Mr Obama privately acknowledge that they have at times struggled to find the right balance between the “hope agenda” and the need to demonstrate that he is robust enough to withstand a Republican onslaught in the election in November.

They are playing down his prospects of winning Pennsylvania in tomorrow’s primary, suggesting the advantages that Mrs Clinton has with older and white working-class voters means that Mr Obama will do well to keep her margin of victory to single digits. His lead in delegates means that he should still win the Democratic nomination whatever the result.

If she loses tomorrow’s vote, both sides acknowledge that Mrs Clinton will come under enormous pressure to pull out of a race which many Democrats fear is beginning to damage their White House prospects. But a victory for Mrs Clinton could reinforce emerging doubts about Mr Obama.

John McCain, the Republican nominee, seized upon renewed controversy over Mr Obama’s friendship with William Ayers, an “unrepentant terrorist” from the Weather Underground. He said what was “really bordering on the outrageous” was Mr Obama’s comparison last week of Ayers with the Republican Senator Tom Coburn – a doctor “who brings babies into life” rather than a man who is on record as wishing he “had bombed more”.

The choice of John McCain was clear to me some time ago.

John McCain: WSJ Takes Up Obama/Ayers/WoodsFund Network

The question about Senator Obama's association with Bill Ayers is being taken up by the Wall Street Journal.

Sen. Clinton is almost certainly right. The Internet already has numerous references to Sen. Obama and Mr. Ayers. Sean Hannity, the conservative host of Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, has devoted more than one show recently to the subject.

Sen. Obama puts up no argument. "That was the rollout of the Republican campaign against me," Sen. Obama said Thursday of the debate, pledging to a North Carolina audience to respond "sharply and crisply" when it does arise.

But first Sen. Obama has begun with Sen. Clinton, noting during the debate that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, during the last days of his administration, commuted the sentences of two Weather Underground members, including Susan Rosenberg, who was involved in the 1981 heist of a Brinks armored truck in New York that left two policemen dead.

In a conference call with reporters Thursday, Howard Wolfson, communications director for the Clinton campaign, sidestepped a question about whether Sen. Clinton approved of her husband's pardoning Ms. Rosenberg and Linda Sue Evans, a Weather Underground member implicated in several bombings in the 1980s.

Sen. Clinton is correct that Sen. Obama once served as a director for the Woods Fund and that Mr. Ayers continues to; the post pays a $6,000 annual salary. The charity which is funded by an endowment valued in 2006 at $72 million, dispenses roughly $3 million a year to about 80 Chicago-based charities, most of which are involved in neighborhood development or education initiatives. The president of the charity is Deborah Harrington; a current board member said the charity decided recently that she alone would field calls from the press. Ms. Harrington was out sick Thursday and was unable to comment, her office said.

The charity was set up in the 1950s as an offshoot of one operated by a Lincoln, Neb., telephone executive and his family.

Mr. Ayers is by far the most controversial figure on the board; most of the current and former members of the panel are prominent business leaders or businessmen.

Click my Post Title for the Full Story.

It appears that this story has legs like Cyd Charisse. John Rubery of Marathon Pundit has been doing the heavy lifting on this story, since well before Senator Obama put in his bid for the White House.

Ayers/Obama/Woods Fund has surfaced in the hot story of the fighting taking place in Columbia with focus on Ayers' active participation in this matter.

The Dangerous Scene On The Colombo-Ecuadorean Border (Time) #
Sat Apr 19 13:58:08 UTC 2008The Colombo-Ecuadorean border is probably Latin America's most dangerous, (although the Colombo-Venezuelan border must be a close runner up) and it was in this area that the Colombia army struck at FARC chieftain Raul Reyes on March 1. A Time reporter went and explored the place, and though it is little more than travelogue, gives the feel for what it is like. Having been there once, we think it's accurate. It presents a nuanced picture of all that is going on over there on both sides.

The Ayers connection is only now getting underway and it is a matter of much more pith and moment than the Obama Campaign suggests.

MSNBC - Keith Olbermann - Borrow A Pair

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Hi C? Nope. Capri Sun? Damn tasty! Keith Olbermann? Now, your talking Margaret! America's Number One Juice Bag!

Keith, borrow a pair from your twin, my God! Last night's laugh track snit about George Stephanapoulos asking pointed questions of Kid Hope on Tuesday Night was a hoot.

Borrow a pair, not glasses you had them on for effect, something most guys have and know what their for - no not cuff-links.

Here, Juice Bag ( You are # 1. Absolute and Undisputed), let me explain things to you - not that you'll read this, but rather for my three readers who cling to their faith in my rock-solid support for core American values, tasty back ribs, Green River Lime Soda, University of Chicago Football, the intrinsic goodness of most American and the need to pull the pants down on loud-mouth phonies - like most of the crew at MSNBC.

I fear no man, but Rachel Maddow scares the bejabbers out of me - she's got a neck on her John Matuszak, in robust good health, and could probably pop a pour spout into a big can of Quaker State faster than Janet Guthrie in the old days. Keith, keep a leash on your twin. That was some great commercial back in the 1970's, Janet Guthrie, the race car Driver (pre-NASCAR) probably had muscles in her poop, for Crissakes.

Now, to the facts:

1. John McCain's sins, which are blacker than a wad of chewed old Black Jack Gum spit on a roasting Chicago blacktop roof in August, are out in Full Public View.

2. Everyone, but my 18 year old son, who can recite the entire NFL roster including taxi-squads, knows about them. Wikipedia has them all; McCain wrote about them himself - we got it. Barack? All first time issues for Americans.

3. Barack Obama has allowed his Campaign to do what John Kerry's Campaign did - they made him unelectable - oh, he'll win the Democratic Nomination barring any new revelations before Tuesday's Pennsylvania Primary - by the majority of Americans, because he has fruitcakes like you, Rachel, Catholic Hater Bill Maher, Kid Nepotism Dan Abrams of The Tool Shed MSNBC, Arianna Huffington and her Hollywood Squares shilling for him.

4. John McCain is one of us. He's an American. A good guy - and that is what is alien to you sponge cakes. We do not give a fat rat's ass about his sins, peccadillo's, temper, associations or wardrobe, because we already know him. He is out in the full public eye.

5. Barack Obama - Barry We Hardly Knew Ye, is another tale of a far different cat and what we are learning about Barack deserves great scrutiny.

6. John McCain will win in November by the largest margin of any President in modern times. Stay tuned, but have someone who works for a living explain it you.

7. You are coming unglued, boy - Not that I give full, furious, flatulent firestorm.

8. Borrow a pair, like I said. Marbles. Practice, Practice, Practice and you might hit something. Try not to lose them . . . too late!

John McCain: Obama Needs Careful Scrutiny From Democrats - He's OK with DNC

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families - more than seventy million people - whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don't encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let's not let it happen by default.."[2]

Saul Alinsky - Rules for Radicals


A politician does what he can. Barack Obama is a hard-working politician. The people involved in politics, Republican, Democrat, Green, Communist, or any of the manifestations of what is called Libertarian, adopt a mantle of values.

The Democratic Party that I grew up with is the old Party of Al Smith, FDR, Truman, KFK and Johnson. That Party was scuttled in 1972 in Miami by the left wing of the Party, that had tried to undo Harry Truman, failed and waited.

This wing controlled the Democratic National Committee, it seems to me, but depends upon the Old Guard to get votes. Barack Obama, like any ambitious and talented politician adopted the extreme Left point of view and courted the Illinois Grandees of that Wing. He would depend upon the Old Guard to effectively garner votes, but would and did distance himself from the Old Guard, once he achieved national prominence.

Street Sweepers, plumbers, cops, fireman, school teachers ( not PACs), civil servants, and housewives are ignored and activists, radical fund-raisers, boards of directors, and tax-salaried labor leaders have his heart and ear.

It makes perfect sense to associate with Bill Ayers. Ayers is an unrepentant radical terrorist made ' wholesome' by dint of his personal wealth and inherited influence. Ayers is an enemy of America - I believe that - but that is just my opinion. Ayers is more of help to Obama than street sweepers, plumbers, cops, firemen, schools teachers (not PACs, civil servants and housewives who vote.

Wealth matters most to those who purport to redistribute wealth, because in the words of Saul Alinsky, 'Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.

I believe that Senator Obama truly reflects ideals of the Democratic National Committee, but not the political traditions of Al Smith, FDR,Truman, JFK, or LBJ. Democrats, those of us characterized as 'clingers' by Senator Obama, find John McCain to more than reflect those values. That is why McCain appears to have such problems with the extreme Right in his Party.

I am voting for John McCain, because he represents the political ideals that formed me: self-reliance, commitment, service, and optimism.

This is not gotcha Senator. This is the path that you have taken. That is why there are other points of view in an election. You need to stand with your words, your associations, your beliefs, and your values. They just do not happen to be mine.



Click My Post Title for Marthon Pundit's Study of Bill Ayers

John McCain" Que Keyser! Obama/Ayers and Hugo! Caracas Chronicles Billy Obama Bacon!

Well I'll be dipped and rolled! That Woods Fund Velcro snags Senator Obama and Board Bomber Billy Ayers to El Jefe Hugo!

The Caracas Chronicles links and networks the Chicago politician and Presidential aspirant's ties from Bill Ayers to . . .thusly:

Barack Obama ... sat on the board of the non-profit Woods Fund of Chicago with '60s radical and University of Illinois professor Bill Ayers, a friend of the Bolivarian Revolution and father of...

Chesa Boudin, a Rhodes scholar, one of the founders of chavista think-tank and PSF echo chamber Centro Internacional Miranda, who has an office in Miraflores Palace and is a key advisor of...

Hugo Chávez, autocrat extraordinaire.

In fact, if Ayers himself has a personal relationship with Hugo Chávez, then that's one degree of separation.

Kevin Bacon, my Auntie Deluvian! Click my post title to the Caracas Chronicles Follow the links provided to the page with the Cenrto Internacional Miranda Directoria:
Presidencia
Luis Bonilla Molina
Directorio
Haiman El Troudi
Maximilien Sánchez A.
Gilberto Giménez
Héctor Navarro
Pedro González
Edgardo Lander
Asesores
Marta Harnecker
Michael Lebowitz
Juan Carlos Monedero
Victor Ríos
Algunos Cooperantes Internacionales
Bill Ayers
Peter Mclaren
Theotonio dos Santos
Nathalia Jaramillo
Eva Golinger
Jorge Gantiva
Ezequiel Ander Egg
Paulo Padilha
Chesa Boudin
Al Campbell



Hat Tip to IBD Editorials

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/Blogs.aspx

Billy Ayers CUBA Jersey - Profound Apologies to all Cub Fans!

Two Happening Dudes!


Unrepentant Rebel - because he never had to face any consequences for his actions - Billy 'The Trust Fund Bomber' Ayers is sporting a nifty Cuba jersey and not as pointed out to me by White Sox Fan and American Hero, Marty Tully. CPD (ret.) Two Tour Green Beret Vietnam Veteran a Cubs Jersey.

Profound apologies to all Chicago Cub Fans! Bill Ayers is a Cuba Fan.

Chicago Police Take Down Wild Rodent - No, Not Flint Taylor!

Expect Media Outcry and Yuppies with Twisted Thong-Binders! Take the children out of viewing. Death Naked! Threat to Nuts Everywhere!

Special Tactical Response Units of the Chicago Police Department took down a very, very, large rodent. No it was not G. Flint Taylor, Jon Loevy, or any of the other Lawsuit Lotto Lawyers.

The Bushy Tailed Critter was big - huge, Man! Bigger than Chicago's Homicide Figures - thanks two metaphorical rodents like G. Flint Taylor, Jon Loevy and other Lawsuit Lotto Lawyers.

St. Xavier University will remain open despite the action.

Click my post title for more from Chicago's WildLife! Thanks again CPD! How do you women and men make it through a day with all the manure loaded on your backs? God Bless You!

photo: Mike McQuade - San Francisco, CA. Vietnam Veteran and Patriot

John McCain: Sen. Obama Hits the Canvas: Ayers Like Coburn?

Words Matter and so do the things that we do. In last night's debate, Senator, you said that Senator Tom Coburn was like a domestic terrorist and punk.

Senator Barack Obama - On the Left -The aging Cub fan, with happening ear jewelry, is domestic terrorist Bill Ayers; the punk in the mug-shot knowing Daddy has the bail, juice and lawyers to get him off is a domestic terrorist bomber Billy Ayers; the Doctor holding the Baby is Senator Tom Coburn.

Hillary didn’t let him off the hook, either, not when it came to Crackerquiddick or on the Wright Stuff. Noting that “you choose your pastor, not your family,” Hillary once again pounded Obama for not doing anything about Wright when he had the chance. She also jumped at the chance to note that former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers was more than just a “neighbor”, as Obama described him. Hillary pointed out that Obama and Ayers worked on a foundation together for years, even after 9/11, even after Ayers said publicly that he didn’t regret his terrorism.
And what was Obama’s response? He compared Ayers to Senator Tom Coburn, who opposes abortion. Of course, Coburn hasn’t bombed abortion clinics, but Obama can’t tell the difference between a Senator and a terrorist. That won’t help him in Middle America either, and Coburn may have a few words for Obama after this night.

Hot Air 04/17/2008

You may say. Senator Obama could have peeled this spud a year ago, when Chicagoans like John Rubery, Anne Leary, John Powers, Tom Roeser, State Rep. Jim Durkin and about 88.6% of the Police, Fire, F.B.I., A.T.F, Cook County States Attorney Officers and Agents who live in my part of town were all talking about Billy Ayers and Obama. Jesus, I live near the former Cook County Sheriff, many of his officers, most of the Area 2 Violent Crimes Detectives, and waves of retired law enforcement professionals. These folks remember the number of fouls Evergreen Park Mayor Jimmy Sexton took from 1966-1970 while he shot the nets off of baskets at Little Flower Community Center. Don't you think that these women and men would remember a punk who bombed public buildings and had his old man 'reach out' - it's that old politics, Senator - to get the mixed up kid out of the jackpot?

Senator Obama, Billy Ayers is nothing like Senator Tom Coburn. He's not even like Stewart Levine or Tony Rezko. Bill Ayers is not even like his Old Lady - she did some time anyway. As far as similes go - I'd say that your campaign is about as done as Grandma Donahue's Pork roast - when it's smoking it's cooking; when it's burning it's done!

Here's what Tom Coburn is like - pretty good guy - which Bill Ayers is no where near.
http://coburn.senate.gov/public/


UPDATE - Apologises to Cub Fans - Billy Ayers is Sporting a CUBA team jersey!

John McCain: The Only Pro Choice President for 2008 - Choice in Schools

Choice begins in Education -choosing a favorite toy, book, song, subject, and friends. Choices get more confusing. People calling themselves educated adults are a big cause of that confusion. One guy training teachers in Chicago, Bill Ayers, chose to be an enemy of America, during his college years and chose to be a domestic terrorist bomber. Choices are tough - or should be. Barack Obama chose to be friends with Bill Ayers, as well as indicted political fixer Tony Rezko - whose friends with am Iraqi arms dealer. Some choices, those.

Choice in PC America has become a euphemism for the right to kill an unborn child. Pro Abortion candidates Senators Clinton and Obama cling to a woman's right to decide to unburden herself of a life that she he helped create. Fair enough.

I believe in Choice, but not in any one's right to kill an unborn child. I believe that tax-payers have a right to choose a school that performs as it should, is safe, offers solid values that produce competitive and dedicated American citizens.

Only one candidate running for President of the United States offers real Choice in Education. I can say Choice. I do not believe that Planned Parenthood has an exclusive lock on the use of the word. Choice needs to be an option.

John McCain is the only Pro Choice candidate. He has my vote. Here's what John McCain has to say about Choice:

John McCain believes our schools can and should compete to be the most innovative, flexible and student-centered - not safe havens for the uninspired and unaccountable. He believes we should let them compete for the most effective, character-building teachers, hire them, and reward them.


If a school will not change, the students should be able to change schools. John McCain believes parents should be empowered with school choice to send their children to the school that can best educate them just as many members of Congress do with their own children. He finds it beyond hypocritical that many of those who would refuse to allow public school parents to choose their child's school would never agree to force their own children into a school that did not work or was unsafe. They can make another choice. John McCain believes that is a fundamental and essential right we should honor for all parents.

As president, John McCain will pursue reforms that address the underlying cultural problems in our education system - a system that still seeks to avoid genuine accountability and responsibility for producing well-educated children.

John McCain will place parents and children at the center of the education process, empowering parents by greatly expanding the ability of parents to choose among schools for their children. He believes all federal financial support must be predicated on providing parents the ability to move their children, and the dollars associated with them, from failing schools.

Click my post title for more on John McCain - The Pro Choice Candidate.

BTW - John McCain is dead set against Abortion.

John McCain: Joe Biden - He was Better Bald

I like Joe Biden as much as the next guy - Tommy Ward? How do you like Senator Joe Biden of Delaware?

'Can't Stand him.'

Why?

'He's a phony and a liar?'

'A Liar, Tommy he's Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee - You saying this because of Biden's lifting of Neil Kinnock's speech ten years ago or so?'

'No. As a Millwright that bothered me, but because he wears a weave.'

Really?

'Didn't you just ask me, Hickey? Yeah, Really. Man your attention span sucks these days. I think he's a phony because he's bald and wears a weave.'

'What were we talking about? Oh, Yeah Joe Biden. Biden the DNC Bridesmaid of Presidential Timber is on John McCain. People got tired of the Howler Duck -Howard Dean and so now Biden who has gravitas, the Millwright from Bohola, County Mayo notwithstanding, and is a widower, takes the train to work and seems fairly decent.
Any Democratic mouthpiece will get their butts handed to them trying to bad-mouth McCain. McCain is the Real Deal. Here's what's Biden's Beef:

"When it comes to Iraq, there is no daylight between John McCain and George W. Bush. They are joined at the hip," Biden said Tuesday in a speech at Georgetown University.

"When it comes to Iraq, there will be no change with a McCain administration ... and so there is a real and profound choice for Americans in November."

McCain, the certain Republican presidential nominee, backs Bush's policy in Iraq and favored last year's increase in U.S. troops in the country.

"John McCain remains wedded to the Bush administration's myopic view of a world defined by terrorism. He would continue to allow a tiny minority to set the agenda for the overwhelming majority," Biden said.

To which John McCain replied on Hardball at Villanova:

McCain pointed out he had fought against the policies of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for four years, but now sees progress in Iraq under Gen. David Petraeus.

“I’m always pleased to get Sen. Biden’s advice and counsel,” McCain said evenly. “The present strategy is succeeding in Iraq and I respect the view of those who don’t agree.”

McCain further tried to distance himself from Bush on global warming, saying he does believe it exists and is a problem. Even if he did not believe it existed, McCain added, what harm could there be in trying to improve the environment for the next generation?

But McCain also said he still does not think setting a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq will do anything more than create chaos and a more dangerous climate for troops on the ground, adding that polling shows a majority of Americans trust him to better handle that war than his Democratic opponents.

He was less clear on Iran, however. When Matthews pressed him to define whether the ability to create nuclear weapons or the actual “weaponization” of the country would be the “red line” for action, McCain said he didn’t know.

As one student pointed out, the senator has famously called for a “rollback” or “rollover” of democracy through certain “rogue states,” such as Iran, and asked if he still believes that is necessary.

“I think at the end of the day, we can’t allow them to have nuclear weapons,” said McCain, who has also proposed creating a “League of Democracies” separate from the United Nations and a new Office of Strategic Services to deal with those “rogue countries.”

“I think we have a lot of challenges in the world,” he said. “I think the overriding challenge is radical Islamic extremism. I think it’s an ideological struggle at the end of the day — not that much different in some ways from our ideological struggle with Communism and the Soviet Union — but I also think with the proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, we have to do what is necessary to try to prevent those countries from acquiring those weapons which could destroy us.”

Straight talk and no Weave.

Tommy Ward is on to something.

http://www.dailylocal.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/Daily;!1132915844?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pg_article&r21.pgpath=%2FDLN%2FHome&r21.content=%2FDLN%2FHome%2FTopStoryList_Story_1901366

St. Xavier: 'Be Prepared to Die 4/14' - And Lo, It Came To Pass!

The Threat scrawled at St. Xavier University came to pass. Thank God it was the Four legged one!

Well Done Chicago Police Officers!

Photo of the Cougar Services - Viewing Brief: Not at Donnellan's, Blake-Lamb, Sheehy & Sons, Gatlings, or McGann's. Thanks to Second City Cop: Chicago's Most Accurate Source of News, Weather, Sports and Fashion.

John McCain: Cook With Me -Huffpo's David Weiner & Bitter Clinging Peaches Ragout!

'Dave quit wiggling!'




David Weiner one of Arianna Huffington's trained purse puppies, squeaks that Cindy McCain lifted recipes from the Food Network!!!!!

Click my post title for Weiner World!

On a section of McCain's site called "Cindy's Recipes," you can find seven recipes attributed to Cindy McCain, each with the heading "McCain Family Recipe." Ms. Handel quickly realized that some of the "McCain Family Recipes," were in fact, word-for-word copies of recipes on the Food Network site.

Boy, that alliterative 'S' sound - Cs Ss and Sthuch - really pops off the paragraph!

Sounds like steam escaping!

Dave grip it. I'll bet that Cindy McCain's book shelves, at times, contained books from the Public Library.

Dave - Cindy McCain is . . . she's a woman Dave; one of them Female Girls. The kind that marry men. I married one them myself. They are strange creatures. They follow recipes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cindy McCain, Senator John McCain's Easy On the Eyes Better Half, has done what every American Woman has done - she has stolen recipes from someone else. That is what women do, Dave. Every American woman, from the time the first Winsome Wench of the Prairies snitched pages of the Farmer's Almanac on 'Black Kettle Biscuits and Gravy from One Ounce of Fat Back Bacon for Five' has taken recipes from Nana, Busha, Grannie, or Aunt Gert, you know the one who acts and looks like Jane Addams, or Louie Anderson, snatches snack synopses.

On the other hand, John McCain and the balance of American Men cook, roast, dice, chop, saute, stew and boil from the heart.

Bam! What's in the Ice Box Kids? Step off! I'll Holler when it's done!

Today,

Dave Weiner & Bitter Cling Peaches Ragout

Wash Your Hands! Yeah, I know you wiped 'em good, but wash the damn mitts. quit pouting - it's healthy. Now . . .

Take Weiner and toss - good and hard - on the cutting board. Pound - repeatedly -about eight minutes - no reason, just do it. It is from the heart and not some purloined recipe, after all.

Take Bitter Cling Peaches - Bitter -like most Americans Cling -to Faith, Guns, Each Other and Peaches 'cause I likes them! Bitter Clings can be found all over the country - not just parts of Pennsylvannia.

With dull knife, make a incisions into the Weiner - no reason. Then Chop, Dice and Mince.

Heat oven to 425o - Take 18" Frozen Home Run Inn Pizza from the Ice Box. Place frozen Pizza on center rack, directly; do not use the dip-shit pizza pan with holes that Aunt Joan gave me for Christmas in 1990. Place directly on rack - Oh, for really dumb guys - place the pizza and not the cardboard in the oven. You'll need the cardboard circle to cut the pizza. Set timer for seventeen (17) minutes - no more; no less! Let cool.

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Mix Dave Weiner thoroughly with Bitter Cling Peaches and toss into a metal bowl. Take it three doors down and feed it to the perpetually pissed off German Shepherd owned by the retired school teacher from CPS who peers out of the curtains every time a train passes - which is about every eight minutes in this neighborhood.

Take the Pizza from the oven - guys use oven mitts and slide the cardboard under the cooked pizza and cut into mostly rectangular sections and not Slice Wedges like a faux Brooklynite - we're Chicagoans for Crissakes! Feed the kids! Serve with Filbert's Root Beer or Green River.

John McCain could whip up a batch of David Weiner and Bitter Cling Peaches Ragout and feed it to an unhappy dog. It is what good guys do. The recipe would be in a much better place than on the pages of Huffington Post. A dog's colon is about the right fit for one of Arrianna Huffington's purse puppies.

Chicago Catholics Voice Welcome to Pope in New York Times

The New York Times On Line has a great feature that captures the attitudes of American Catholics. Some of people ineterviewed are profoundly insightful and from Chicago.

Ms. Terry Sullivan, correspondant for Chicago Daily Observer, is the most thoughtful. Other Chicagoans featured are St. Patrick's Parish Pastor Father Tom Hurley, Jim Healy, Carlos Lourenco, Oralia Mascio, and Kirk Struhart. Click my post title to hear from your neighbors.


Well done ladies and gentlemen. The best gift the Pope can get in America is Honesty.