Saturday, November 14, 2015

The Frumious Bandersnatch Lands in Paris

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A Bandersnatch swiftly drew nigh And grabbed at the Banker, who shrieked in despair,  For he knew it was useless to fly. He offered ...
Saturday, November 07, 2015

Leo Veterans Observances 2015 Photos

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Here are some pictures that I took of yesterday's Leo High School Veterans Observances -  Vietnam Veterans of the Class of 1965 ...

Leo High School Veterans Observance 2015 - God Bless All Who Serve!

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" Busted!" Jim Wilkins '44 showed Darius Branch '16 the 1943 Tribune article showing him ditching classes at Leo to joi...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Chicago's Ed Kelly: Kids Come First and Damn Policy to Hell!

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“Oh, Mr. Mayor, I’m not really interested in politics, I want to run sports, coaching and that.” - Ed Kelly to Mayor Richard J. Dal...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

Ragoût de boeuf à la manière d' Epstein- Not Much More to Do: Cook Using Readings from Joe Epstein as a Timer

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No Leo Football; bugger all on TV; it's cold; I'm Tap City, until pay day. I took out my 1947 Wagner Ware dutch oven and gave it ...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Moms, Bundle Up Those Little Guys

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Today is one windy and cold twenty four!  Even my old chill friendly pelt feel the sting of winter's slap on this October 29th of the...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Leo High School's 20th Veterans Observance Friday, November 6th 2015

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  In 1995, Leo High School Principal and later President Robert W. Foster began the annual recognition of all who serve our country, e...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

My Silent Screams at Woody Allen Movies

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Woody Allen made one great movie "Take the Money and Run" - 1969 - it was and remains brilliant. I am a heterosexual male; a...

President Obama Brings it Home to Insult Cops and Do the Work of Gamaliel

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President Obama detests cops almost as much he does the military .  It is part of his political and maybe even helix-ed to his physical ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Rahm Emanuel's Sophisticated Snow Finances

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to raise fines against businesses that don't shovel sidewalks as part of his 2016 budget. The proposal, p...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

This is My Friend Sharon J.and She is Welcome Any Day

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Miss Sharon J____ kept me happy while I parked cars for the Stanley Cup visit to Leo High School - Leo's North Lot (09/15/2015) O...
Monday, October 19, 2015

My Interview with Donald Trump at the Old Evergreen Plaza on 95th & Western Avenue

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T he Donald at the PlaZoo on Western, in Evergreen Park, IL.   He said pretty much the same tripe to Chris Wallace .  Hell, why not? PA...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Truth is as Dead as God ( BTW - HE Ain't) in American Education and the Politics It Serves

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The weakness of the philosophy originally advanced to justify the democratic movement was that it took individuality to be something gi...

The Egyptian Darkness of Progressive Chicago - FOX 32 Chicago's Dane Placko Helps Torch Free Speech

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And no power of fire could give them light, neither could the bright flames of the stars enlighten that horrible night. The Book of Wis...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

James Webb is The Democrat Who Won Last Night's Debate - He was the Only Democrat on the Stage

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I watched last night's Democratic Party Presidential Debate after I watched the Chicago Cubs work off the curse of a goat and curses...
Thursday, October 08, 2015

Brent Seabrook and Lord Stanley at Leo High School - Hawks and Lions: One Goal

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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Calvin Frogge (1925-2015) - Illinois Farmer, WWII Naval Aviator and Catholic Gentleman to the Backbone Goes Home to Christ

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Calvin Frogge was a pure Illinois Man of the Soil. He suffered no fools gladly, but took them to his heart with charity little found in o...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Telling Yarns - The Germ of Art and Producer Ciara Nic Chormaic

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  Narrator : Europeans who had flocked to 19th Century Chicago for jobs crouched together for survival. They created ethnic enclaves li...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Neighbors Celebrate Hickey's Delayed Lawn Work With a Blue Angels Flyover!

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This is my Lawn Mower.  It is generated by the will to go out and cut the grass, weeds, dandelions and tree branchlings behind the force of...
Friday, September 25, 2015

A Banana Republic of America Is What Pope Francis Warns Against

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Corporate statism or state corporatism is a political culture and a form of corporatism whose adherents hold that the corporate group wh...