Backdraft Barney Franks - Sets the Fire and Leads the Keystone Fire Brigade!

The movie Backdraft's core plot involved an arsonist who happened to be a fireman. A great essayist in today's post here says that Barney Franks is our Fiscal Arsonist/Firefighter. Brilliant.

Barney Franks, the House Puffer Fish Banking Bashaw, got a tune-up from a young yarmulke wearing student this past week and revealed himself in that exchange to Be the very model of the hypocrite in elected office.

Barney Franks is openly Gay, God Bless Him, and Progressives watch over Barney's critics and pounce that any and all criticism is gay bashing. Barney Franks is such a useless mope of a human being that, were he straight, or given to sexually gratifying himself with four pound boxes of cashews would not matter a whit. Well, maybe the cashews would be a bit uneasy.

Barney is a crumb. He is the cause of a bar fight, who rats out the participants to cops. He is the schoolyard snitch writ large.

Today, I read a wonderfully thoughtful piece on this crumb - here's a taste:

I bore witness to Frank's song and dance routine during a talk he recently gave at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. A video of the forum can be found here. (http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/articles/forum-frank-apr09)

It is worth noting that Frank attended Harvard College in the early 1960s and later become the first Director of Student Programs at Harvard's Institute of Politics. David Ellwood, the Dean of the Kennedy School, told an anecdote about Frank clandestinely escorting Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara away from anti-Vietnam student demonstrators threatening to riot when McNamara made a campus visit. Frank escorted McNamara to the safety of a seminar run by future Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

However, by his own admission, Frank said, "I was in charge of making sure that didn't happen. So, yes, I did kind o like the arsonist who puts out the fire, I got him out of a mess I was supposed to have prevented."

Somehow I don't think he appreciated the irony of his own statement.

Not surprisingly Frank spent much of his lecture blaming conservatives and Republicans for our current economic mess. "The deregulators had their way and the consequence is the disaster we now face," he exhorted. Frank accused conservatives and Republicans of "blaming the victim." He explained, "The argument is that the attempt by liberals to help poor people that made them make all these bad loans and that's what caused all these problems."

Frank excoriated the Republican Congress for not passing any legislation to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and to restrict sub-prime loans. "The conservative view is to stop helping poor people . . . No, our view is to help poor people," said the 15-term member of Congress.

Of course, what Frank doesn't mention is that the Bush Administration did want to regulate Fannie and Freddie. In September 2003, the Bush Administration wanted to set up an agency in the Treasury Department to supervise Fannie and Freddie.

Guess who was opposed?

Click my post titel for the rest of this fine article.

Chicago's homegrown louse, Mile Quigley ( D.5th District)joined Barney's Ship of Fools this week. The Democratic Clown Opera in Congress needs a huge tent!

Somali Pirates - AP says Nothing Can be Done. Really. Well,Listen to James Brown!

Asymmetrical warfare was a term that I heard used by my pal Mark Manning when he was serving as a surgeon in the United States Air Force during Desert Storm back in the 1990's. Manning a medical man understood that the powerful nations could be weakened by terrorists - 'Hickey, the guys with Molotov cocktails can take out a multi-million dollar tank like the Afghans did to the Russians. You have all these million dollar weapons systems and talented people operating them and a clown with pistol can sneak aboard an aircraft carrier and sink it. That's asymmetrical warfare Pal-ey.'

How do nations fight asymmetrical wars? The Associated Press wants all of us to know that we can not and they went to all the right people to confirm this.

Despite America's technical and firepower edge, there is too much ocean to cover, and too many commercial vessels to protect, for full-time patrols or escorts for threatened ships.

U.S. legal authority is limited, too, even in the Maersk Alabama's case of American hostages and a cargo of donated American food. Somali pirates, emboldened by fat ransoms, have little reason to fear capture.

"The military component here is always going to be marginal," said Peter Chalk, an expert on maritime national security at the private Rand Corp.

According to the Navy, it would take 61 ships to control the shipping route in the Gulf of Aden, which is just a fraction of the 1.1 million square miles where the pirates have operated. A U.S.-backed international anti-piracy coalition currently has 12 to 16 ships patrolling the region at any one time.

The Alabama was first American Flag vessel taken by pirates since 1804. There is a reason for that - American will.

I asked Major Manning, M.D. U.S.A.F. (ret.),' how do you fight such a war?'

The same way you fought bullies who jumped you on the way to school. You go back and teach them a lesson.

James Brown, the God Father of Soul, offered this analysis of Asymmetrical Warfare -

Took my money, you got my honey
Don't want me to see what you doing to me
I got to get back I gotta deal with you!! (4xs) Hey let me tell ya!!
Get down with my woman, that ain't right! You hollarin' and cussin', you wanna
fight!!
Don't do me no darn favor,
I don't know karate, but I know KA-RAZY!!!! (yes we do!!)

War Over Tribute ( Ransom) - The Jefferson Doctrine on Piracy

The Somali Pirates were treated to a powerful American Maritime History lesson when the crew of the Alabama overwhelmed their attackers and forced them over the side. I am waiting for the ACLU and Ramsey Clark to initiate action against the American sailors and the shipping company for damages stemming from racial profiling, American Cowboy posturing and racist torture.

We live in a strange age dominated by goofs with briefcases and politicians more afraid of loudmouths than terrorists. Heroes get treated to MSNBC Daily Kos abuse, as did General Petreus, while goofs like Bobby Rush get to kiss the Castro Brothers.

Thomas Jefferson, considered in his time to be a wild-eyed radical, was an American Patriot before all else. While Ambassador to France, Jefferson learned the Art of Cowards and recoiled from it.

Read this great essay below by Gerald Gawalt the manuscript specialist for the Thomas Jefferson Papers Collection in the context of the Somali Pirates.

After the United States won its independence in the treaty of 1783, it had to protect its own commerce against dangers such as the Barbary pirates. As early as 1784 Congress followed the tradition of the European shipping powers and appropriated $80,000 as tribute to the Barbary states, directing its ministers in Europe, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, to begin negotiations with them. Trouble began the next year, in July 1785, when Algerians captured two American ships and the dey of Algiers held their crews of twenty-one people for a ransom of nearly $60,000.

Thomas Jefferson, United States minister to France, opposed the payment of tribute, as he later testified in words that have a particular resonance today. In his autobiography Jefferson wrote that in 1785 and 1786 he unsuccessfully "endeavored to form an association of the powers subject to habitual depredation from them. I accordingly prepared, and proposed to their ministers at Paris, for consultation with their governments, articles of a special confederation." Jefferson argued that "The object of the convention shall be to compel the piratical States to perpetual peace." Jefferson prepared a detailed plan for the interested states. "Portugal, Naples, the two Sicilies, Venice, Malta, Denmark and Sweden were favorably disposed to such an association," Jefferson remembered, but there were "apprehensions" that England and France would follow their own paths, "and so it fell through."

Paying the ransom would only lead to further demands, Jefferson argued in letters to future presidents John Adams, then America's minister to Great Britain, and James Monroe, then a member of Congress. As Jefferson wrote to Adams in a July 11, 1786, letter, "I acknolege [sic] I very early thought it would be best to effect a peace thro' the medium of war." Paying tribute will merely invite more demands, and even if a coalition proves workable, the only solution is a strong navy that can reach the pirates, Jefferson argued in an August 18, 1786, letter to James Monroe: "The states must see the rod; perhaps it must be felt by some one of them. . . . Every national citizen must wish to see an effective instrument of coercion, and should fear to see it on any other element than the water. A naval force can never endanger our liberties, nor occasion bloodshed; a land force would do both." "From what I learn from the temper of my countrymen and their tenaciousness of their money," Jefferson added in a December 26, 1786, letter to the president of Yale College, Ezra Stiles, "it will be more easy to raise ships and men to fight these pirates into reason, than money to bribe them."

Jefferson's plan for an international coalition foundered on the shoals of indifference and a belief that it was cheaper to pay the tribute than fight a war. The United States's relations with the Barbary states continued to revolve around negotiations for ransom of American ships and sailors and the payment of annual tributes or gifts. Even though Secretary of State Jefferson declared to Thomas Barclay, American consul to Morocco, in a May 13, 1791, letter of instructions for a new treaty with Morocco that it is "lastly our determination to prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form, and to any people whatever," the United States continued to negotiate for cash settlements. In 1795 alone the United States was forced to pay nearly a million dollars in cash, naval stores, and a frigate to ransom 115 sailors from the dey of Algiers. Annual gifts were settled by treaty on Algiers, Morocco, Tunis, and Tripoli. When Jefferson became president in 1801 he refused to accede to Tripoli's demands for an immediate payment of $225,000 and an annual payment of $25,000. The pasha of Tripoli then declared war on the United States. Although as secretary of state and vice president he had opposed developing an American navy capable of anything more than coastal defense, President Jefferson dispatched a squadron of naval vessels to the Mediterranean. As he declared in his first annual message to Congress: "To this state of general peace with which we have been blessed, one only exception exists. Tripoli, the least considerable of the Barbary States, had come forward with demands unfounded either in right or in compact, and had permitted itself to denounce war, on our failure to comply before a given day. The style of the demand admitted but one answer. I sent a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean. . . ."

The American show of force quickly awed Tunis and Algiers into breaking their alliance with Tripoli. The humiliating loss of the frigate Philadelphia and the capture of her captain and crew in Tripoli in 1803, criticism from his political opponents, and even opposition within his own cabinet did not deter Jefferson from his chosen course during four years of war. The aggressive action of Commodore Edward Preble (1803-4) forced Morocco out of the fight and his five bombardments of Tripoli restored some order to the Mediterranean. However, it was not until 1805, when an American fleet under Commodore John Rogers and a land force raised by an American naval agent to the Barbary powers, Captain William Eaton, threatened to capture Tripoli and install the brother of Tripoli's pasha on the throne, that a treaty brought an end to the hostilities. Negotiated by Tobias Lear, former secretary to President Washington and now consul general in Algiers, the treaty of 1805 still required the United States to pay a ransom of $60,000 for each of the sailors held by the dey of Algiers, and so it went without Senatorial consent until April 1806. Nevertheless, Jefferson was able to report in his sixth annual message to Congress in December 1806 that in addition to the successful completion of the Lewis and Clark expedition, "The states on the coast of Barbary seem generally disposed at present to respect our peace and friendship."

In fact, it was not until the second war with Algiers, in 1815, that naval victories by Commodores William Bainbridge and Stephen Decatur led to treaties ending all tribute payments by the United States. European nations continued annual payments until the 1830s. However, international piracy in Atlantic and Mediterranean waters declined during this time under pressure from the Euro-American nations, who no longer viewed pirate states as mere annoyances during peacetime and potential allies during war.

Barney Bashes Boisterous Boston Boyo!

Barney Franks, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid make it pretty hard for any Real Democrat to vote at the national level much less not wet his/her britches when listening to them.

I love local Democrats - Mary Flowers, Kevin Joyce, Jackie Collins, Ed Maloney and the great 19th Ward Committeeman Matt O'Shea. These are people with their eyes on tasks that help people get through their lives with more ease and prove that sometimes giovernment is there to help.

Not Barney and the other beauts. Bloated Barney got tuned up by a smart young guy in a yarmulke this week. The student asked Barney if the Bloated Banking Bashaw felt responsible for the trainwreck in the banking crises ( AIG, Fannie Mae & etc.). Instead of standing like a man and politely answering the question, the young man was treated to Barney the Puffer Fish.

"I became chairman on January -- and this is the right-wing attack on liberals to try and stop regulation that you are repeating. On January 31st, I became the chairman. On March 28th, the committee passed a very tough Fannie/Freddie bill, which the Bush administration liked. Later that year in November, we passed a bill to restrict subprime lending. Because we did the subprime lending restrictions, Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, did what Alan Greenspan refused to do and said, OK, I'll do that.

"So I do want to ask you, when you suggest that I should apologize for something or take responsibility, what is it you think I should have done that I didn't do?"

Barney then called the young man a Right Wing Attack Agent!

Earlier Barney in a more mellow moment said this, "No institution anywhere in the financial system ought to be able to get so indebted that it threatens our financial stability,"

Oh, NO he didn't! Mmmm! Barney didn't! Mmmmmmm, Girl! Go on, get him to say 'Pepperoni Pizza Plays Party Politics Pathetically!'

Spy Wednesday - Judas 'The Whistleblower' Drops a Dime on His Boss

Judas carried the purse. He then sold out the guy who had trusted him with the gelt to the Boys at the Temple for 30 pieces of silver.

Not many little Judases in my neighborhood or immediate circle.

In fact, in my very un- PC and close-knit ethnic and tribal network, being a rat and a dime-dropper makes a person lower than whale-poop.

A columnist for whom I have no regard whatsoever tells all and sundry of his great worship and study of Dante's Divine Comedy, in much the same way as the fatuous name-dropping poser Studs Terkel carried around James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan Trilogy. This goof is a dedicated Catholic-baiter and recently tried to give Cardinal George media discomfort with his flabby understanding of my Faith and my coreligionists - the very same people he recently smeared as Nazi-thugs in a very self-indulgent and stupid column.

I really need to speak from the heart.

Anyway. Judas was a louse. He betrayed the Son of God to all of us Catholics, many of us Christians and even the Jews for Jesus. To everyone else in this Global Village - Judas betrayed a man who treated him with respect, kindness, trust and affection.

Judas is the founder of the Feast of Spy Wednesday - a great name that -in which we Catholics remember that without betrayal Redemption could not have happened.

Here is my Cardinal - Francis Cardinal George on Judas - who went out after betraying Christ and committed the Dutch Act - huge sin. The sin of Despair. Louses can be forgiven. By Christ/God and Holy Persons like Cardinal George. I am just too close-knit and ethnic. Cardinal George is Christlike:

Wednesday of Holy Week brings us face to face with Judas Iscariot, who engineered Jesus’ death by betraying him to his enemies. In recent years, there have been a few attempts to “rehabilitate” Judas, explain away his apparently evil intentions and paint him as someone who really only wanted to force Jesus to show his power in extreme danger.

It seems to me that efforts like that say a lot more about us than about Judas. We love victims of previous era’s prejudices because accepting them confirms how enlightened we are. Even Judas, whom the poet Dante put in the lowest pit of hell, becomes a foil for our sense of superiority.

Judas kissed Jesus, the Gospel tells us. Did Jesus forgive his betrayer? Jesus died praying that his Father would forgive his enemies, and that would include Judas. We don’t know Judas’ eternal fate, but we do know that forgiving your enemies means you can’t feel superior to them.

I like to read the Psalms because they are filled with threats against the Psalmist’s enemies, and at times, I would like to see my enemies destroyed. But our greatest enemies are our own sins. It’s hard to keep a sense of enlightened superiority when examining our sins. They put us in Judas’ league. Rehabilitation, however, isn’t a matter of finding excuses; spiritual rehabilitation follows from confessing one’s sins and accepting forgiveness with humble gratitude.

Cardinal George and Bishops Object to Notre Dame's Folly - not the President's; that Is His Problem

Dan Kelley sent this fine note to the Editorial Board at The Chicago Tribune. They will read this note - it is doubtful that the Editorial Board at the Sun Times can, much less would, read this.

Francis Cardinal George is not alone in his criticism of Notre Dame University's invitation to President Obama to speak at commencement and to receive an honorary degree: The twenty-five bishops who have so far gone public with their disapproval of Notre Dame's invitation of Obama (in alphabetical order) are:

1. Bishop John D'Arcy - Fort Wayne-South Bend

2. Bishop Gregory Aymond - Austin
3. Archbishop Eusebius Beltran - Oklahoma City
4. Auxiliary Bishop Oscar Cantú, San Antonio
5. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo - Houston
6. Archbishop Timothy Dolan - New York
7. Bishop Thomas Doran - Rockford
8. Auxiliary Bishop John Dougherty - Scranton
9. Cardinal Francis George - Chicago, President, USCCB
10. Archbishop José Gomez, San Antonio


11. Bishop William Higi, Lafayette, IN
12. Archbishop Alfred Hughs, New Orleans
13. Bishop Jerome Listecki, La Crosse, WI
14. Bishop William E. Lori, Bridgeport, CT
15. Bishop Robert Lynch - St. Petersburg
16. Bishop Joseph Martino - Scranton
17. Bishop Charles Morlino - Madison
18. Bishop George Murry, Youngstown, OH
19. Archbishop John J. Myers - Newark20. Bishop R. Walker Nickless - Sioux City.
21. Archbishop John C. Nienstedt - Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota
22. Bishop Thomas Olmsted - Phoneix
23. Bishop Kevin Rhoades - Harrisburg
24. Bishop Edward J. Slattery - Tulsa
25. Bishop Anthony Taylor, Little Rock, AR

Cardinal George and most Catholics do not object to the President being invited to Notre Dame, but not as a recipient of an Honorary Law Degree or Commencement Speaker.

Notre Dame's Jenkins was too cute by half and seemed to believe that MSNBC could 'shout' this controversy quiet. 'Oh, Joe Biden, Teddy Kenendy, John Kerry, the Daley Lads, Chris 'Milky' Matthews and Bill Maher are all Catholics and they have no problem with this Honor! Let's bring People Together and smear Catholic Faith and Morals!'

It's here. It will stay.

Ann Deegan of Glen Ellyn had this poignant response to Bill Daley's bumptious kiss-up in the Chicago Tribune:

April 7, 2009
In response to William M. Daley's commentary ("Uneasy mix of religion and politics," Commentary, April 3), Cardinal Francis George deserves praise for his stand on Notre Dame's invitation of President Obama to speak at its commencement ceremony and receive an honorary degree. It should be noted that the cardinal expressed his opinion on behalf of the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, of which he is president, not as Archbishop of Chicago. He stated in that speech, "As president of the U.S. bishops' conference I have to speak precisely for the bishops and not in my own name, as I could as Archbishop of Chicago."

If Notre Dame's invitation were for the president to participate in a debate about issues such as abortion or embryonic stem cell research, Obama would be an excellent choice to represent the opposing view. This invitation, however, is meant to honor a man who adamantly opposes the Catholic Church's view on these matters and has publicly demonstrated this through major policy decisions and appointments since taking office. This is simply not the place or the setting for a person of such diametric views.

If Notre Dame is truly a Catholic university, it would respect the inappropriateness of such an invitation. Those who signed off on the decision need to reexamine "what it means to be Catholic" and recognize the disrespect their decision has for the Catholic Church and its followers, particularly those at Notre Dame. I respect the cardinal and his fellow bishops for their courageous and correct response.

Ann Deegan,Glen Ellyn

Euphues, Ben Johnson, Ben Jonson, Monogamy, and Michelle Leigh the Weather Bee!

It is virtue, yea virtue, gentlemen, that maketh gentlemen; that maketh the poor rich, the base-born noble, the subject a sovereign, the deformed beautiful, the sick whole, the weak strong, the most miserable most happy. There are two principal and peculiar gifts in the nature of man, knowledge and reason; the one commandeth, and the other obeyeth: these things neither the whirling wheel of fortune can change, neither the deceitful cavillings of worldlings separate, neither sickness abate, neither age abolish. --- Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit


I have never, ever knowly taken illegal drugs, and I would never embarrass my family, my friends, my country and the kids who love me. Ben Johnson - famous Cowboy actor

The ports of death are sins; of life, good deeds:
Through which our merit leads us to our meeds.
How willful blind is he then, that would stray,
And hath it in his powers, to make his way!
This world death's region is, the other life's:
And here, it should be one of our first strifes,
So to front death, as men might judge us past it.
For good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
Ben Jonson


I am conflicted! I am a devout monogamist - married or otherwise. I am single minded and soul'd to the superb woman who holds my heart and soul in her delicate fingers. I was steady as Don Larson on October 8th 1956 with my beloved wife Mary, who went home to Christ eleven years ago. However, I am a Male and can not throw switch on the circuit that shuts off the juice to the stupid bone between my ears.

Thus, during my late wife Mary's final days she noticed that I always had FOX 32 New on in the morning when I ministerd to her blood work, pills, comforts and immediate wants.

'Checking out the blond bimbo with the righteous knockers,Bucko?'
No Sweetie - I like Fox weather and news.

'Bullshit.'

Honor Bright

'You making plans for after my departure? Look simpleton, that Knocker Numbskull wouldn't know clouds from laundry -( mimicing the Uber-Sexy Ms. Leigh with dead-on venom and skill) Helllllllo Chicago its Cold out today on Leather Day!. . . and SoooooooooWet!'

You do me great dishonor, Mary!

' Oh, Yeah, Bright-boy. You clowns are pathetic. It's the Male Stupid Bone - that thing that passes for a brain in you guys! Did You join her Fan Club yet???'

ENOUGH, Madame! . . . and so it would continue.

Like most of us saggingly sorry middle aged males, Michelle Leigh was part of a Man's hearty breakfast!

Yesterday, I received a notice that said Miss Leigh has her own Weather Site! I am enchanted!

I remain One Conflicted Bottle Nosed Dope -Pat Hickey - He's fun to watch;
So is Michelle Leigh - women universal notwithstanding! Check out Michelle Leigh's Weathervibe site -click my post title.

Gentlemen, get a hearty breakfast again!

Warm thoughts, Indeed

People of Guam - Fear Not the Taepodong-2! The Community Activist in Chief and The United Nations are On It!

President Obama took a pimp slap from Kim Jong IL like an Ivy League college boy in bar full of Chorus line dancers: Meek, Annoyed, Hurt and Non-threateningly Fawning.

North Korea broke the rules, once again, by testing a rocket that could be used for long-range missiles," said Mr. Obama. "This provocation underscores the need for action - not just this afternoon at the UN Security Council, but in our determination to prevent the spread of these weapons. Rules must be binding . . . Today I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons!" said Mr. Obama. Wow! Is He Mildly Concerned.

But U.N. will do . . . .nothing, but free-load in New York.

Japan had called for the emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on Sunday. But the 15 members agreed only to discuss the matter further, diplomats said.

The United States, Japan and South Korea say the launch violated Security Council resolutions banning the firing of ballistic missiles by Pyongyang, imposed after a nuclear test and other missile exercises in 2006.

Council diplomats said China, the nearest North Korea has to a major ally, and Russia were not convinced the launch of what North Korea said was a satellite was a violation of U.N. rules. Three other countries supported this view.

"It's 10 against five," one diplomat told Reuters.

The U.S. military and South Korea said no part of the Taepodong-2 rocket entered orbit.

South Korea's biggest daily the Chosun Ilbo, quoting government sources, said the rocket flew 3,200 km (2,000 miles), which would put the U.S. territory of Guam nearly in reach.

Kim Jong Il is said to have had a stroke. President Obama is in robust health.

Kim Jong Il just pee'd on your Florsheim's Mr. President!
Keep Hope Alive!

More Likely - Kiss Your Ass Goodbye.

Charter Schools Offer Hope - Teachers Union the Anchor of Failure

I have three kids in a charter school and two in union CPS schools. The quality difference between the teachers and the kids performance is stark.

Comment on Chicagoist Click my post title for the full Chicagoist feature.

Charter Schools offer a stark contract to Chicago Public Schools - Catholic Schools Offer much more than that - real documented success. Charters are pretty good alternatives to wasteful and incompetant public schools dominated by Teachers unions.

Teachers unions seem to do little more than haven the useless, and protect the lazy.

Public School Teachers want to be considered Professionals like accountants, doctors and lawyers, but demand to be insulated from accountability. I worked only in Catholic Schools and worked only with professionals - the weak and the incompetant went off to find new lines of work - some in the Public Schools.

Chicago Catholic School Superintendent Mary Paul McCaughey noted in talk to the Fifty of Friday Club last week that graduates of Catholic Schools go on to college - 97% go on to college.

CPS is saddled with a less than 37% high school graduation rate for young men.

CPS is staffed with 100% Chicago Teachers Union membership - Marilyn Stewart CPS President spent last year locking a rival out of his offices at CTU. ( see the Ted Dallas Document above)

Yet Marilyn Stewart offered this about Charter Teachers joining CTU:

CTU President Marilyn Stewart and Illinois Federation of Teachers President Ed Geppert, Jr. had this to say in a joint statement: “We are very supportive of this strong group of teachers and staff at the Chicago International Charter Schools’ as they form a union. These charter school teachers and staff are acting today to improve their schools’ operations and environment for their student’s performance. We feel as strongly as they do that the views of teachers and staff are critical to school success and that school administrators must formally recognize the teachers and staff contributions. Their dedication will help their schools become trailblazers of innovation and collaboration within community.”

These charter school teachers and staff are acting today to improve their schools’ operations and environment for their student’s performance.

Marilyn, you have got to be kidding! For real?

Charters were enacted to offere real competition and not 'same old, same old, Marilyn!

It's not about power for you Marilyn! It's about the Children! It's all about the Children! Right?

A real hard-hitting journalist should take a very, very hard look at Marilyn Stewart's hard run at Charter Schools.

I think something stinky is afoot!

Palm Sunday - Cardinal George the New Cardinal Von Galen - Two Heroic Voices Over the American Cowed and Cowardly!

"These are people, our brothers and sisters; maybe their life is unproductive, but productivity is not a justification for killing."

Clemens August Graf von Galen: Neue Forschungen zum Leben und Wirken des Bischofs von Muenster. Edited by Joachim Kuropka. (Muenster: Regensburg. 1992. Pp. 439. DM 48.) Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bishop of Muenster (and, after the war, Cardinal), earned the reputation of being a resister to National Socialism. At home and abroad, von Galen was depicted as a representative of the "other" Germany; the Germany which refused to be co-ordinated to Nazism's ideology. He received worldwide fame in August, 1941, when he delivered a series of sermons in which he took aim at Nazi policies, ...

During the Palm Sunday homily at Sacred Heart Church, Father McKenna brought up the heroic Clemens August Cardinal Graf Von Galen - some handle that.

Von Galen was beatified in 2005 by the Church and paid a mere nodding attention to that fact.

However, at the tiny French Mission Church in Washington Heights on the south side, Father McKenna sparked my interest.

Father McKenna mentioned the beating that Francis Cardinal George had been taking in media and from Chicago pols on the wrong side of the Notre Dame suck up to Abortion.

Father McKenna paralleled the heroic voice of Cardinal George to that of the forgotten German Cardinal Von Galen who defied Hitler and his Cult of Death.

Like Abortion, a political will that murders the elderly, the helpless and the undesirable is a cult of Death. Hitler hated smoking and loved Abortion and Euthanasia was aided and abetted by the cowed and the cowardly-Hitler advanced science and research over morality.

The Bishop of Muenster railed against this Cult of Death. Like the Archbishop of Chicago, Von Galen, a German aristocrat ( hence the Graf Von) was vilified by likes of Alfred Rosenberg, Joey Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler, as well as the Agent of Change - Hitler. Cardinal George took a sucker slap from Bill Daley, the Mayor's Brother, probably because the Daley's want President Obama to lean on the Olympic Committees , so Pat Ryan can get some Insurance Business. Abortion can be a huge help to the Olympics! Yes! We Can!

Back in Hitler's Germany, where the Nazi's put on just a Swell Olympics, the mentally handicapped, the elderly, the insane, the deformed and the unwanted murdered as Research Tools to make health issues more viable. Cardinal Von Galen loudly attacked the Cult of Death and Racism - Yep, the Catholic Archbishop of Muenster loudly attacked the persecution of German Jews as well.

For his efforts, Hitler had Von Galen -placed under house arrest - he couldn't and didn't want to make the bishop a martyr. Can't have that - Nein!

Von Galen died shortly after the War and Progressive Revisionist history swept his heroic efforts under the carpet.

Like Cardinal George, Blessed Cardinal Von Galen is a heroic voice for the weakest and most vulnerable.

Nuanced Progressive Thought on Abortion

Here is the response from an American Progressive to Cardinal George's heroic and priestly Defense of Life in the recent Notre Dame Controversy:

As per usual, the religious whacks are only interested in a clump of developing cells and don't give a damn about living, breathing, walking, feeling children who are abused in their care. I suppose it is in line with the ex-Nazi Youth Pope who curses the use of condoms and sane sex education. This makes me sick.

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IHS - Iota Eta Sigma - Cardinal George, Palm Sunday, and Chicago

At Little Flower Grammar School near 79th & Wood Street - it was actually on 8000 S. Honore, I believe that it occurred just after Bold Teddy got back from bashing Spain in Cuba, I remember asking one of the Sisters of Mercy, Sister Doralese ( who genuinely and cordially hated my guts), about the meaning of the Three Letters that seemed to adorn every altar, pillar, and church facade in the Church Universal.

S'tir? What's them three mean?'

'Them three what? Them three what? Speak like a Christian and not one of them 69th Street Loafers.'

S'tir, the them three letters what's on the altar over by there.

'What specific three letters, you horrible little man!' ( for Authenticity - hiss and spit each syllable)

IHS - them there.

'Are you some hillbilly? Ask -'Sister Doralese, I have a name you know, please explain the meaning of acronym IHS?'

'S'tir, explain the acorn on the altar over by there.

'God's Mercy! Kneel down! Now! Stay kneeling! Open your books while this one learns some manners!'

And so another paragraph was added to the volumes of my ignorance. Many, Many years later, I learned that each letter represented a Greek Letter: I -Iota - H ( or Haitch as some of the ignorant FBI Foreign Born Irish would pronounce the strange bi-consonant - yes, it was BI - it could swing both ways!) eta and the S stood for Sigma - the collective use by persecuted Christians symbolized Christ - IHSOUS Jesus This is what Jesus would have sewn onto his blue blazer - the Monogram of Jesus.

'Sharp, there Jesus! Man you are Mel Collins; Sea Breeze Lounge Clean! Yeow!Get it at Lyttons?'

Naw, Baskins over on 95th near Longwood! Half-a -Yard On Sale!

'Son of God -You are Duked Out Nicely for a poor kid from Bethlehem!' . . .

Sorry, but I digress . . .

I recalled one of my painful lessons learned from the Sisters of Mercy, because of the rough week Francis Cardinal George has had again at this Holiest of Times to Catholics and most Christians - Easter.

Last year, Cardinal George and the parishioners of Holy Name Cathedral parish were splattered with blood from six nitwits who wanted to domestic terrorists.

This year Holy Name Cathedral caught fire and Cardinal George found himself again attacked by media morons for defending the faith in the flap over Notre Dame ( Neutered Dome -rather) affirmation of President Obama as Abortionist in Chief by conferring an Honorary Degree upon the most strident Abortion President in American History. Barack Obama has set himself up as the Abraham Lincoln of Abortion.

That's nice - but no Catholic school should honor that political decision.

Cardinal George lit into that decision and Religion Swami goofball at the Chicago Tribune's Manya Brachear is soiling her Speedo's in response:

how could the cardinal be surprised that his remarks went viral when the world was on the edge of their seats to hear what he had to say?

With all due respect, Cardinal, in the age of YouTube, every conference is a press conference.

The cardinal's diplomatic words on Friday might have guided the conversation earlier. In clarifying his remarks, he expressed deep respect for Obama and the office of the President. He also acknowledged that he and Obama agree on many issues.

“On other things, particularly on this issue, he has his own principles that are well thought out,” the cardinal said

In fact, the cardinal implied, Obama’s plan to speak is not really the central issue that should be discussed.

“In Catholic community, whatever anyone does affects anybody else,” he said. “We can think of scandals. We can think of problems. Therefore, no institution that calls itself Catholic can be unilateral.”

“So the decision in a sense corroborates our theology,” he continued. “What one of us does in Catholicism affects us all and I think that’s the question that has to be discussed.”

What do you think? Is the issue Obama at Notre Dame or is the issue really how the invitation was offered to begin with?

With all due respect ( Code for 'Gee that is really stupid!') Manya . . . are you really that stupid> Of course you are a Chicago religion writer! Chicago Newspapers compete to have the absolute biggest dummies write about religion.

The Cardinal spoke very clearly - Notre Dame is wrong in giving President Obama an Honorary Degree, because he is the most strident Abortion President in history.

It is not about dialog - it is not about having the President on campus - it is about affirming a grave sin to all Catholics ( whether they choose to believe that or not) and a school that has shed its right to call itself Catholic.

Today, is Palm Sunday which always seemed like the most Politically Correct Feast Day in the Catholic Cycle. It is the MOST phony - a real political rally for Jesus as he rides into Jerusalem on a Donkey ( DNC?) to hypocrites waving palms - that is all of us. We wave Palms - pay lip service to our Faith and Scream for Crucifixion in four day - like go along with President Barack Obama's will to make Abortion - the killing of children just a dandy feature of American life.

Cardinal George is no Palm Waver. He takes the hits - with great and stunning regularity.

Cardinal George is one hell of a priest in an age dominated by Clerical Cupcakes and Doctrinal trimmers.

Cardinal George lives the three letters that I asked the Galway-bred theological genius Sr. Doralese R.S.M. ( Religious Sisters of Mercy) and was put on my knees for thirty minutes and rewarded with continued ignorance for years.

Cardinal George would have told me -

'Good Question , there Kiddo Here's the deal -
Jesus Christ in Greek is ΙΗΣΟΥΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ and written in the English alphabet is "IHCOYC XPICTOC" or "IHSOYS XPISTOS"

Starting in the third century the nomina sacra, or names of Jesus, were sometimes shortened by contraction in Christian inscriptions, resulting in sequences of Greek letters such as:

+ Jesus +
IH (iota eta)
IC (iota sigma) (first and last letter)
IHC (iota eta sigma)
IHS (iota eta sigma)
JH (iota eta)
JC (iota sigma)
JHC (iota eta sigma)
JHS (iota eta sigma)

+ Christ +
XP (chi ro)
XC (chi sigma) (first and last letter)
XPC (chi rho sigma)
XPS (chi rho sigma)

+ Jesus Christ +
IX
IC XC
IHS XPS
JX
JC XC
JHS XPS

The Greek letter sigma has been translated as both "C" and "S"
The Greek letter iota has been translated as both "I" and "J"

With love in Christ, Pal! Now, avoid trouble, you and all of your pals there - Kelly, Bigane, Miller, Ryan, Knight , Fiscelli, Panatera, Shea, and Smith - put that pack of Luckies up here on the desk Mr. Bigane! I'll see you after I'm done with Hickey here. -Say your prayers. Remember Mary Our Mother in All Things - you won't but try. Do your homework and everything will be Jake! Okay - here comes the Blessing! In the Name of the Father, . . .And the Son . . . And the Holy Ghost as was in the Beginning, is now and ever Shall be World Without End Amen! Stay off the Grass - Mr. Grogan just put down seed. The Luckies, Mr. Bigane! Pronto! The rest of you Lambs -Get!

Palm Sunday - it calls to mind many things.

Cardinal George - You are a Hell of a Priest!

Jesus! I gotta get to Mass! Clare! Get up! Hit the Shower! Yes, You are going! TS - it's Palm Sunday! Move!

Cardinal George is The Rock and Rockne is Andy Dick ND is Gutless!

Catholics are fair game to ridicule, scoff at and handcuff to child abuse. Catholics do it themselves, hell, I have.

However, I have never sullied my Faith outside of the Faithful. Notre Dame has shamed itself and every Catholic. Notre Dame thought that it was bullet proof and above Canon Law. President Jenkins believed that he had 'Finessed' -a great word that has lost a bit of its impact in our culture as a synonym for 'bullshitting' - the invitation and the event with enough fatuous grease that no one could object - An Honorary Degree for President Obama! Notre Dame will confer an Honorary Law Degree upon the most stridently Pro Abortion Man to ever serve as President of the United States.

Notre Dame did not 'merely invite' dialogue - that is code for bullshit BTW.

Notre Dame did not merely invite the President to campus.

Notre Dame did in fact affirm Abortion in all of its many manifestations by signalling to Abortion America that killing children is Okay!

Planned Parenthood's greatest achievement in its history is the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency and the nodding approval of people who should object to Abortion.

Parsing, Lying and Obfuscation are now called Nuance. Nuance made this all possible.

The school in South Bend, Indiana should be called the University of the Neutered Dome!

Catholics can and do criticize their Church - but not their faith, nor the faith of others.That is the domain of the Media.

Now, Cardinal George has rightly and strongly criticized the simpering Notre Dame President Jenkins, who cares more about the good opinion of Salon and Vanity Fair than he does about the John and the Synoptic Gospels. Jenkins thought 'Obama is the Top of the Pizza! The Kids Will Love Having Him Here! Abortion? No Biggie! Rockne would approve of Abortion and Stem Cell Research as long as the seatsIN Rockne Stadium are filled!'

The Media hates what Cardinal George did and the Media wants all the Nuanced voices to get into full agreement with Bill Maher and the Hip! Here are some of the comments on the NBC Blog reaction to Cardinal George's statement on Notre Dame:
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catholic Today at 2:45 AM FLAG COMMENT I went to a Catholic school. They were never involved in politics. Never talked about abortion. Of course they were French Canadian. I'm sorry, this Church is turning into a joke. I'm waiting for a condemnation of going into Iraq, or Guantanamo or how the US treated prisoners. Or the civilian deaths. Guess Aquinas isn't that catchy anymore. What the heck, lets be against abortion, keep wimmen out of the priesthood. Now that's a hot topic. Francis Cardinal George needs to go on a retreat. Until, oh, Advent. If he doesn't like the separation of Church and State we have in this country, maybe he can read the Render Unto Casear bit while he's waiting for his flight out of the country. Someplace that doesn't have the Internet. So he won't have to be such a Pharisee about ND. ... MORE > joey D Saturday, Apr 4 at 12:47 AM FLAG COMMENT This guy is a joke... why doesn't he address the PRIESTS that have SEXUALLY ASSAULTED ALL OF THESE YOUNG MALE CHILDREN over the years... it is embarrassing to say that I am a Catholic.. I do not even acknowledge it any more..This guy is a joke... why doesn't he address the PRIESTS that have SEXUALLY ASSAULTED ALL OF THESE YOUNG MALE CHILDREN over the years... it is embarrassing to say that I am a Catholic.. I do not even acknowledge it any more.. squarepegroundhole Friday, Apr 3 at 11:16 PM FLAG COMMENT IT IS a crime to kill. IT IS a crime to enter the USA illegally. IT IS a crime to molest boys.IT IS a crime to kill. IT IS a crime to enter the USA illegally. IT IS a crime to molest boys. Steve Friday, Apr 3 at 10:36 PM FLAG COMMENT The Cardinal has every right to speak his mind on this, and I don't think it's a violation of church and state, but why did he only talk about innocent lives? I believe that the offical Catholic teaching is that capitol punishment is also wrong. Would the Cardinal have been as upset if George Bush or Dick Cheny were asked to speak? They actually have the blood of innocents on their hands after invading Iraq based on erroneous or fictious information. ... MORE > George Sucks Friday, Apr 3 at 8:11 PM FLAG COMMENT Isn't this guy violating IRS laws by being a non-profit but advocating for or against a specific politician? Next time I get a letter from the Cardinal asking for money its going in the trash. Thanks a lot for giving catholics a bad name Isn't this guy violating IRS laws by being a non-profit but advocating for or against a specific politician? Next time I get a letter from the Cardinal asking for money its going in the trash. Thanks a lot for giving catholics a bad name

Nice and Nuanced there kids.

These are Hip, Young and Happening People with no moral compass other than Popular Culture - they get news from the Daily Show and react to TV Coverage.

Nope, Catholics stand for somethimg - We call it the Nicene Creed that we say each Sunday at Mass after the reading of the Gospel.

. . .Et in Spíritum Sanctum, Dóminum et vivificántem:
qui ex Patre Filióque procédit.
Qui cum Patre et Fílio simul adorátur et conglorificátur:
qui locútus est per prophétas.
Et unam, sanctam, cathólicam et apostólicam Ecclésiam.
Confíteor unum baptísma in remissiónem peccatorum.
Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum,
et vitam ventúri sæculi. Amen

Here's the above in HBO standard English -

And in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceedeth from the Father, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified, who spake by the prophets. In one holy catholic and apostolic Church; we acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen

Now, the One Holy catholic and apostolic Church holds that ALL Human Life begins at Conception. That's when the rubber does not meet the road.

When is an abortion Okay? It's not. Well about about Rape? Nope. What about Incest? Nope. What about I did not mean to put a duck in her oven? Nope.

No Abortion. No how. Planned Parenthood owns Barack Obama and Barack Obama was elected the President the United States. Barack Obama is the Abortion President - more than Carter, More than Reagan, More than any President invited to Notre Dame.

Notre Dame is gutless. If you stand for nothing, you fall for anything. Notre Dame is no more different than the Media, HBO, Bill Maher. or Planned Parenthood.

Notre Dame Alumni are not happy with Father Jenkins. Who is? Knute Rockne is now played by Andy Dick*.

Francis Cardinal George is a Rock!


* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Dick

The Four Lads -Live At G20!

Silvio, Taro, Barry, and Andy! The Four Lads* Wow-ed the Gang at the Gee Twenty! G20! Recorded On and By BBC World Service!

This great mix of hits can be yours for Trillions of Dollars - still accepting US Currency! Hurry Though - this offer ends soon!


Side A

The mocking bird
Herman and the boys sing
Istanbul
The bus stop song
Gilly Gilly ossenfeffer katzenellen
There's only one of you

Side B

Enchanted Island
Moments to remember
Who needs you
No , not much!
Down by the river side
Put a light in the window


* AKA - The Trouser Snake Family Singers!

Illinois's Indicted All Stars - Universally Great Hair!

The Chicago Tribune captured the true nature of the Federal Prosecutors' Targeted Indictees!

They each and every one of them has absolutley magnificent hair!

Why SEIU's Progress Illinois Picked PZ Meyers, A Bigot, to Smear Congressman Shimkus

Nothing must be held sacred. Question everything. God is not great, Jesus is not your lord, you are not disciples of any charismatic prophet. You are all human beings who must make your way through your life by thinking and learning, and you have the job of advancing humanity's knowledge by winnowing out the errors of past generations and finding deeper understanding of reality. You will not find wisdom in rituals and sacraments and dogma, which build only self-satisfied ignorance, but you can find truth by looking at your world with fresh eyes and a questioning mind. PZ Meyers

That's PZ Meyers - getting hip with the kids who have to take his class. He really does look like a four star jerk-off.

SEIU hired the kids of Progressive Privilege - e.g. Josh Kalven is the son of Jaimie Kalven a Hyde Park Brahmin and Pan-Activist - to really get a radical roux going in the Gumbo that is Illinois Democratic politics.

Traditional Democrats - smart and hard-working people - find themselves in the audience forced to cheer the Leftist bilge from the Cheering sections: bloggers and nuanced Democratic Party spin-medics. Kind of like baby Axelrods.

The new Nuance - requires spitters and whiners to fill the air-waves ( remember Milt Rosenberg's Show during the POTUS Campaign?) and troll all over the Blogoshere. The Nuance has journalists in the vest pocket already.

Progress Illinois is driven by humorless and arrogant young kids and subsidized with Union Dues paid by SEIU members who are not well-represented by that Monster PAC that masquerades as Labor Union - in my opinion. Here's Young Master Kalven's use of PZ Meyers with Dues Paying Memebership Money going to Young Master Kalven:

Biologist Smacks Down Shimkus Straw Man
by Josh Kalven on March 30, 2009 - 12:40pm

Late on Friday, we posted some video of GOP Rep. John Shimkus' ridiculous remarks at a Capitol Hill climate change hearing last week. In the days since, the two clips have been burning up the internet. They provoked great responses from Think Progress, Matt Yglesias, and The Washington Monthly. But the best rebuttal has to come from University of Minnesota-Morris biologist PZ Myers (pictured right) on the blog Pharyngula. Here he is on Shimkus' contention that capping CO2 emissions could have the unintended consequence of "taking away plant food" and "doing just the opposite of what the people who want to save the world are saying":

They were part of an orchestrated effort to smear Illinois Representative John Shimkus (R.IL 19th District - Central Illinois - Coal Country) - hell, until the soul-patch commandos got all over John Shimkus, I never gave the poor man a second thought.

Now, I really, really admire the guy. He was attacked for debunking the Cap and Trade Doctrine* which I believe to be a foolish and even stupid policy especially in the current economy - it will destroy the very weak Illinois Coal Industry.

In order to 'GET' Shimkus the beauties at Progress Illinois trotted out a biology teacher from Minnesota who hates all religion and got to be a loud mouth critic of GW Bush over Intelligent Design and etc. PZ Meyers is a nerdy little twerp who asked his students to sneak out a consecrated communion wafer.

Catholics ( Full disclosure I is one) believe God is present in the Consecrated Wafer as PZ calls it - Transubstantiation -His ( Christ's) body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the forms of bread and wine, the bread and wine having been transubstantiated, by God's power, into his body and blood.

PZ Meyers wanted a student to desecrate the Eucharist. He did not order his students to desecrate the Koran, like a heroic and very dead Danish film-maker happened to do, because in PC America PZ Meyers can desecrate the Eucharist of Catholics. Catholics are targeted by the hip - Bill Maher, HBO, MSNBC and the failing Chicago newspapers.

Catholics are anti-abortion, and against Gay Marriage and against Promiscuity in general. Hollywood needs all of the above. Big money.

The Pope and the Bishops can be mocked for speaking out on Catholic Doctrine. So can critics of Cap and Trade.

PZ Meyers is a cowardly, sad, over paid, but employed, self-absorbed punk. He is the perfect model of the American Progressive - secularists, hypocritical, and loud.

SEIU picked a plum with PZ Meyers.



*A central authority (usually a government or international body) sets a limit or cap on the amount of a pollutant that can be emitted. Companies or other groups are issued emission permits and are required to hold an equivalent number of allowances (or credits) which represent the right to emit a specific amount. The total amount of allowances and credits cannot exceed the cap, limiting total emissions to that level. Companies that need to increase their emission allowance must buy credits from those who pollute less. The transfer of allowances is referred to as a trade. In effect, the buyer is paying a charge for polluting, while the seller is being rewarded for having reduced emissions by more than was needed. Thus, in theory, those that can easily reduce emissions most cheaply will do so, achieving the pollution reduction at the lowest possible cost to society.

Illinois Violates No Smoking Ban - 'Oh Fitz! Ohhh Fitzy, Was It Good For You?'

Having been had for One Full and Change (1.8) Blagojevich Gubernatorial Terms*, a sore State of Illinois turned over to the powerful, yet strangely comforting limbs of Federal Law in Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

The 75 Page Indictment of Rod Blagojevich announced near meal time at Federal Metropolitan Correction Center was a thrust of powerful Government for a people needy and yieldy.

Illinois is languishing in a State of Ecstacy!~ Blowing Smoke Rings in the Air! Penny for your Thoughts,Fitzy?

This Federal indictment mounts the top of a steady stream of predictions made by this blogger that ranks right up there with Good Old Captain Edward J.Smith who announced to all and sundry on the bridge of HSS Titanic -'Let's see what this Baby Can Do! Open 'er Up!' -Go,Hickey !- McCain's The Guy! - Ryan Wont Do Time!s - Get a Balloon Adjustable Mortgage for Each of the Kids!

Yep!

Thanks Fitzy! I'll pass.


*

Blagojevich is heard on tape asking an aide if the $8 million could be withheld if the executive failed to pay.

Blagojevich called the impeachment case against him a witch hunt and refused to answer question from lawmakers or testify about details of the criminal investigation.

Instead, as the state Senate heard the evidence against him, the governor made the rounds of New York talk shows, proclaiming his innocence.

Ousted from office and replaced by Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn (D), Blagojevich signed a book deal. As recently as last week, he hosted a Chicago radio show to say that he was "hijacked" from office by his political foes.

Progress Illinois 'Scores' Anti-Catholic Bigot PZ Myers to Attack Congressman Shimkus

Our Bearded Clam-anti-Catholic Bigot* PZ Myers! Mollusks Love Attention!

Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers? There's no way I can personally get them -- my local churches have stakes prepared for me, I'm sure -- but if any of you would be willing to do what it takes to get me some, or even one, and mail it to me, I'll show you sacrilege, gladly, and with much fanfare. I won't be tempted to hold it hostage (no, not even if I have a choice between returning the Eucharist and watching Bill Donohue kick the pope in the balls, which would apparently be a more humane act than desecrating a goddamned cracker), but will instead treat it with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse, all photographed and presented here on the web. I shall do so joyfully and with laughter in my heart. If you can smuggle some out from under the armed guards and grim nuns hovering over your local communion ceremony, just write to me and I'll send you my home address.

PZ Myers

Progress Illinois is an SEIU Progranda Tool and it uses other Tools - Tools Like PZ Myers who is tenured Biology Teacher in Minnesota.

CLICK PZ - (Pretty Zygote ?) Myers' Anti-Catholic Spew. In a world where a geek like this is safe, because Veterans like John Shimkus fought to protect weak and stupid people as well as good productive Americans, Progress Illinois will pay money to attack the protector. Go figure.

PZ Meyers is a coward - a sad little man with a pay check. God Bless Him!

The guy is a clown, but Progress Illinois is a huge tent.

When John Shimkus debunked Cap and Trade - one of the wheels about to fall off the Obama Economic agenda and one that will consign President Obama to the Kid's Table at the next G20 Summit - if he gets invited back - the idiot industry - MSNBC and SEIU e.g. went to war on Congressman John Shimkus (R.IL) from Central Illinois' Coal Country.

Progress Illinois touted this infamous anti-Catholic bigot to debunk Shimkus?

SEIU is paying you clowns with working people's Union Dues?

*http://progressillinois.com/2009/3/30/biologist-rebuts-shimkus-strawman

Congressman Shimkus Gets A Bum Rap from Local Paper

State Journal-Register Bernard Schoenberg sucks up to SEIU's Progress Illinois and MSNBC's Bloated Bathtub Resident Keith Olbermann instead of doing his job.

It may seem out of character for Republican U.S. Rep. JOHN SHIMKUS, R-Collinsville, to help disgraced former Democratic Gov. ROD BLAGOJEVICH with anything — but he did.

Yes, during a lull in the nationwide laugh-at-Blagojevich telethon, Shimkus admirably filled in as the Illinois politician caught in the media crosshairs, thanks to comments he made about global warming and God’s will during a U.S. House subcommittee hearing last week.

The discussion led to Shimkus “winning” the title of “worst person in the world” Tuesday night from Keith Olbermann of MSNBC.

And a number of Web sites, including www.progressillinois.com, sponsored by the Illinois State Council of the Service Employees International Union, have posted video of the discussion, which took place at the March 25 hearing of the U.S. House subcommittee on energy and environment of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Congressman John Shimkus is protecting his constituents from an idiotic economic strategy that will only increase the unemployed of Illinois and further diminish the Illinois Coal Industry -Cap and Trade is Stupid - It's The Economy!

President Obama is beholden to so many different radical leftist PACs that he is between a Poop and Sneeze.

Enviromentalists, Secularists, SEIU Sandinistas? Who can I turn to when No Body Needs Me?

Congressman Shimkus (R,IL) defends Illinois Coal and Illinois Taxpayers and gets attacked by SEIU and the MSNBC Tool Shed.

So what does State Journal and Register Ink-slinger Bernard Schoenberg do?

Well, I'll tell you what he did not do!

Schoenberg did not call Bob Gardiner**, President of ICG (Coal)- in Williamsville, IL , or Andrew Carter of Knight Hawk Coal inPercy, IL, or Mr. Van Villines of S-Coal Company in Elkville. That would be the Illinois Coal Producers, Bernard. That is on whom Cap and Trade would impact*.

So what does State Journal and Register Ink-slinger Bernard Schoenberg do?

He does a cut-and - paste Love Note of Progress Illinois the SEIU Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and America's # 1 Juice Bag Keith Olbermann' vile nonsense, like a 3rd grade girl staring at a poster of the Jonas Brothers.

Way to suck up, Bernard!

Congressman Shimkus, nice work for Illinois and America!

*http://www.illinoisbiz.biz/NR/rdonlyres/B774E1B9-104C-42D0-9757-DFB58E9E4714/0/IndustryContacts080527.pdf

Like Plump Girls Spurned by Colin Farrell and Waiting at Applebee's Chicago Media Will Wait and Wait for Fitzy to Indict Blago!

I think that maybe News Media Chicago will be waiting outside the offices of Patrick Fitzgerald like a homely fat girl waiting at Applebee's for the arrival of Colin Farrell ( 'He called and said he wanted to meet a nice normal girl and he had a Dublin Accent! He Said Brilliant and Shite alot!') Yep, Fitzy might just be a 'Flat-Out Villain.' A Cad! A Bounder!

Following the spurning, some in the News Media might get desperate and find solace in Salty Snack Piles and gallon flagons of Pop. Be positive! Eat Healthy.

ABC 7 had ordered a booth and a Nacho Platter with extra cheese and a 40 oz. Diet Coke.

By Ravi BaichwalApril 1, 2009 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- An indictment charging former Governor Rod Blagojevich with corruption is expected as early as Thursday.
The indictment would replace a complaint charging Blagojevich with crimes including an effort to sell President Obama's former U.S. Senate seat.
The buzz around the federal courts is that with a deadline looming, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald will hand up an indictment against the former governor.. . . If there's an indictment Blagojevich and his co-accused from December 9, former chief of staff John Harris, would be notified electronically. They wouldn't have to go to court until an arraignment date is set on any new charges.
Any new defendants will be given the . . . he's not? . . .but I thought . . .(sniff). . .

Ohhhhhh Ravi, (sniff) he's cruel.

Blago! Here's the TV Line-up (sorry, that was cruel) for Tonight April 2, 2008 -Unless Fitzy Changed Your Plans.

'I'm Rod Blagojevich - and I'm here to sit on your porch with my legs covering a few more steps than a normal guy and have your Towhead wondering if I am just another of his Mom's 'Uncles' or really the Governor of the People! Hey this MILF is way better than the Tons o' Blubber squeezing me out of that coach on the View~'


I think former Governor and WLS Talk Apprentice Rod Blagojevich just may be home tonight to enjoy the fine Television Programing from WOW Cable - Assuming that Rod and Patty enjoy and pay for WOW Cable.

I think that maybe News Media Chicago will be waiting outside the offices of Ptraick Fitzegerald like a homely fat girl waiting at Appleby's for the arrival of Colin Farrell ( 'He called and said he wanted to meet a nice normal girl and he had a Dublin Accent! He Said Brilliant and Shite alot!') Yep, Fitzy's might be a 'Flat-Out Villain.'

This indictment runs out on April 7th -

Here's tonight's view, Rod!

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Blago may run-out the clock

Yes indeed, I believe that Patrick Fitzgerald - might - might mind you - have been tapped on the Federal shoulder, whispered into the prosecutorial, by an Iago attached to the newly elected White House Resident.

Soto Voce - ‘Fitzy, here’s a Bigg-un! Blago is selling the Senate Seat! Get him into the Green Room! Exit Stage Left! You can indict Him Later! The Guy can not Shut-up! He’s as Dumb as a City Hall manager - you know them ‘Hey Loooook, it’ll be okay the Guy won’t forget you! Trust Him!” See? Put a Bag over Blago Fitzy! Hope and Change!’

Here’s what the G told us in December when Blagomania got launched:

“First of all, there’s not an indictment, realize. It’s a complaint. So I don’t want people to understand it’s an indictment. We filed a criminal complaint.”
Pat Fitzgerald Dec 9, 2008

“The criminal complaint is a charging document that is supported by the affidavit of a law enforcement agent that is intended to set forth and establish probable cause and that probable cause can be tested in a preliminary hearing,” Randall Samborn 2008

“Governor Blagojevich has been arrested in the middle of what we can only describe as a political corruption crime spree. We acted to stop that crime spree,” Pat Fitzgerald 2008

Time for John Shimkus to Retire Dick Durbin!

John Shimkus has every crack-pot loudmouth in Illinois and beyond Blagoland calling for his scalp - the MSNBC Doublemint Twins - Butch Maddow and Tubs Olbermann - the SEIU Internet Comic Book :Progress Illinois -to name but a few. i.e. Keith Olbermann also named Shimkus last night's "Worst Person In The World" (the relevant section begins at the 3:15 mark): . . .During her recurring "GOP In Exile" segment, Rachel Maddow took aim at the downstate Republican's assertion that we are a "carbon-starved planet" . . .et . . .

In recent days, we at Progress Illinois and others in the left blogosphere have been slamming Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) for recent comments illustrating his climate change skepticism. So you can only imagine our embarassment after coming across this breaking news from the Christian Science Monitor:

In an unprecedented move Wednesday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee rescinded the Peace Prize it awarded in 2007 to former US vice president Al Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, amid overwhelming evidence that global warming is an elaborate hoax cooked up by Mr. Gore.

We hope Rep. Shimkus accepts our deepest apologies

Yack, Yuck! That was for April Fools - they're only Funnin' - what a palm of pansies that floral Bouquet at Progress Illinois do be!

That is all to the good for me! This guy has just got to be Okay! When Progressives started to bad mouth Paul Vallas during his final days as CPS Chief - I knew that this was just the guy to be Illinois Governor. However, SEIU and the Boiled Beet Progressives of Illinois were Just Mad! Mad I tell You! for Blago!

We got Blago - didn't we Cupcakes? Progressives put Blago into Office. Way to go!

If Progressives detest John Shimkus, then this must be the man to rid Illinois of Dithering Dick Durbin! Or . . . take the seat away from that Tombstone of a Public Servant - the Junior U.S. Senator from Illinois the Guy Dick Durbin . . .what did he say about him? Give it a minute.

John Shimkus* has a Marquette Park name and 3rd District World View ( Pro-Real Labor; Pro-Life; Pro America) but comes from downstate Illinois - just like Dick Durbin.

Senator Dick Durbin is Joe Biden with the personality of a dial tone.

Senator Durbin speaks his mind. I defend Durbin's right to his opinion and wholly value his complete inability to articulate whatever the hell that might be.

John Shimkus is a Loogan ( Lithuanian) Lutheran (Catholic without Controversy) and a Republican ( 19th Ward Democrat without Obligations). I can work for this guy.


John Shimkus - You are Okay!

*The federal government has no business bailing out private sector companies, as we began doing last year. I voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) or $700 billion Wall Street bailout.


Had we not bailed AIG out to the tune of $170 billion, we wouldn't have to worry about how much AIG employees get paid or $165 million in bonuses to people in the very unit of the company that caused these financial problems. But since the U.S. government now owns 80 percent of this company, we are compelled to make sure our tax dollars are protected.


Another major problem was additional government intervention in the stimulus bill, which I also voted against. Had the Democrat leadership given us proper time to read the bill, we would not be in the situation we are today. Democrats themselves admit they did not read the stimulus bill. And if we had not rushed it through, I am positive there would have been a prohibition against bonuses for companies receiving federal bailout assistance.


It is unfortunate that we didn't have that opportunity. It is unfortunate that the Treasury Department intervened through Sen. Dodd. It is unfortunate that we continue to spend tax dollars on buying private companies.
Congressman John Shimkus

Get Us Some O' That Reee - Form! 'N Moral Rectitude!

Pop-eyed and Passive Aggressively Grinning Carol Marin squirts out another dictum to everyone!

"Let's not let lawmakers leave Springfield in May without casting their votes for real, holistic reform."

Holistic - as coined by Apartheid Daddy Jan Smuts -"The tendency in nature to form wholes that are greater than the sum of the parts through creative evolution."

You know 'thinking outside the Box!' Like going to a doctor when you have a boil on your arm and he attaches a power hose to your rectum! 'This may cause some discomfort but it is holistic! you know -ayurveda, chiropractic, homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, naturopathy, Unani and reflexology therapies!'

Well Carol is worried about that there REEform for our State and Local GUV- Mints.

Governor Pat 'Lawnmower' Quinn* an Old Timey REE-former is on it!


Quinn's Staff: The reason he's pullin' our pants down.
Quinn's Staff: Gonna paddle a little behind.
Quinn's Staff: Ain't gonna paddle it - gonna kick it, real hard.
Quinn's Staff: No, I believe he's gonna paddle it.
Quinn's Staff: I don't believe that's a proper characterization.
Quinn's Staff: Well, that's how I'd characterize it.
Quinn's Staff: I believe it's more of a kickin' sitcheyation.


Gov. Pat Quinn: I'll press your flesh, you dimwitted sumbitch! You don't tell your pappy how to court the electorate. We ain't one-at-a-timin' here. We're MASS communicating!


Sara Feigenholz: We could hire our own midget, even shorter than his. Mike Quigley!
Quinn: Wouldn't we look like a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies, bragging on our own midget, doesn't matter how stumpy. He's Goin' to D.C. Anyhoo!


Pat Quinn: Moral fibre? I invented moral fibre! Patrick Tiberius 'Lawnmower' Quinn was displaying rectitude and high-mindedness when that egghead you work for was still messing his drawers!

Moral Fibre N' Moral Rectitude On Demand! Demand Some of Whole Heeping Helpin' Full Today! Tell Carol Sent You! Don't Wait For Change!

* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190590/quotes