Archive for May 30th, 2010
41 Days Later, Obama Still Hasn't Solved the Gulf Oil Spill Problem (but finds time to go on vacation…again)
Can someone please explain to us — because we really and truly do want to know — why Obama has not solved the Gulf Oil Spill Problem yet?
In 2008, the Media and DNC told America to push Hillary Clinton to the side, because her experience and proven competence didn’t matter, because Obama was “unique” and “special” and “could do anything”. He was “The Lightbringer”, “The One”, and he was sold as a bill of goods that could magically solve all of our problems.
In the general election, the Media and the DNC told America to push John McCain to the side, because his experience and years of service to this country didn’t matter, because Obama was “unique” and “special” and would usher in a Golden Age of Hope and Change.
Well, when does that start, exactly?
Is the photo above Hope, or is it Change?
Sure looks like a bird covered in oil that should be chirping a happy song somewhere, perched on the horn of a unicorn, according to what the Media and DNC promised of the Obama presidency.
Epic.
Fail.
Mike Rogers from the movie Outrage and Mark Kirk
After Memorial Day, Mike Rogers from the movie Outrage (a film about closeted gay Republicans like Charlie Crist and Larry Craig) has promised to out Mark Kirk, using Kirk’s betrayal of DADT to expose his hypocrisy.
This is what we told you months and months ago would happen…and this is what we kept warning Republicans the media would do to save Alexi Giannoulias once Giannoulias started to tank as a Senate candidate because of Broadway Bank.
If Rogers goes ahead and does this, and Kirk is outed, the way we said this would go down, then certain people at Illinois Review and the GOP in Illinois have an awful lot of explaining to do — since they attacked us with full force, on a personal level, after we warned Republicans this would happen to Kirk.
We WARNED them of this because we did not want to see Giannoulias win that Senate seat. We tried to HELP the GOP, and instead Fran Eaton at Illinois Review decided to publish one of our names in a piece she wrote. Prior to Eaton’s article, we were all 100% anonymous on this site, but Eaton did that to punish us for talking about the open-secret of Kirk (we know Eaton from political events in Chicago, as she’s known to never miss anything that has a buffet or so much as a passed cheese tray attached to it…she’d attend the opening of an envelop if there was at the very least a Snickers promised). All of the attacks that have come from the Left in 2010, and all of the damage that has been done on a personal level to one of us, was because of Fran Eaton at Illinois Review…ostensibly working on behalf of Mark Kirk, to hit us back for speaking the truth about him.
So, if Rogers does what he says he’s going to do…and Kirk’s outed the way we warned you he would be…then we’d like to see Illinois Review and Fran Eaton herself answer questions about why they did what they did, to people who only tried to do all that they could to stop the GOP from running a fatally flawed candidate who was destined to lose a winnable seat.
We saw all of this coming last year, and told you all as much.
It’s going down just as we told you it would, Fran.
QUESTION: How can you personally change the way business as usual is done in government?
We don’t have a lot of time today, as we’re caught up trying to solve another mystery, this one “The Case of the Unticketable Car”, and we’ve got some people lined up to interview and meet with about what could be a much bigger story than just one BMW being on a “No Ticket List”.
But, in the last few days, we’ve now encountered two separate oddities here in Chicago that we realize could change the way government conducts itself. There’s the fact that ordinary citizens can report on something like the “Do Not Ticket List”, and apparently expose those behind it, where the Chicago Tribune and other “real reporters” never bothered to bring any of this to light. Then, there’s the union waste we spotted the other day on the Belmont Red Line stop, where we saw one man sweeping while four union “supervisors” and “safety inspectors” watched him work — while all of them collected full pay, at a time when the Chicago Transit Authority claims it is broke and has no money to properly continue services. YET, it has enough fund for the union to send five lazy guys to a train stations to watch one of them do a half-baked job sweeping an already clean platform?
We believe, as citizens, we’re experiencing a personal evolution…it’s become clear to us that we need to carry video equipment with us at all times and start recording every instance of waste and corruption we can spot in Chicago. We’re going to meet with someone who can teach us how to make and post YouTube videos right here on our site, and build that capability into a new site when we can get that online too. We certainly can’t spend all of our days chasing after stories like this, but when they fall in our laps we’re going to make noise about them — when, in the past, we would have noticed it, complained about it to ourselves, then never taken it any further.
Well, we’re committed to taking things further from now on. We’ve reached a point where this site, as a hobby, has more or less become what we do…and we don’t intend to go anywhere.
If we root out the stories and make our videos or catch things on film, we need your help to do the research that will go into the essays we write about these things. Every mystery or oddity we encounter can be a little project, pooling all of our resources. Five guys in Boystown can’t change the world, but combine us with all of you out there, and we might just change the way business is done in our government.
If we’re effective, we hope we become a model for others out there at other political sites…because just imagine if every politically motivated person out there started DOING SOMETHING about the problems in their cities, instead of just reading about all of this garbage, sighing, telling family members about it at the dinner table, then feeling hopeless that no one is paying any attention.
Do you realize you could be playing a major part in getting them to pay attention?
You can take that step from being an observer into becoming an activist.
That’s NOT the dirty word we always saw it as…it’s, in fact, a synonym for “patriot”.
All of this takes an awful lot of work, but we think America is worth it.
The Tea Party Movement proves there are many of you out there who think the same thing.
We do not need to wait for a rally or a protest to send a message to those in government…we can all do that every single day, by calling them out on their waste and busting their corruption wherever we find it.
There are many mysteries to solve.
How can you help us?
Sunday Open Thread: May 30th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Sunday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
What are you doing tomorrow to honor those in uniform on Memorial Day?
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Can you help us solve a mystery?
It’s the “Case of the Unticketable Car”, and we ran a post on this yesterday we want you to read if you didn’t catch it.
What we need now are the names, phone numbers, email, and mailing addresses for everyone you can think of who needs to know about a “Do Not Ticket” list that’s apparently out there in the City of Chicago. As the comments in the Second City Cop thread indicate, this appears to be much bigger than just this one BMW in a yellow curb zone in Boystown.
If there really is a list of cars that the Parking Meter people aren’t allowed to ticket, because they are VIPs of some kind, then the public needs to be made aware of this so that everyone and their mothers can apply to be on this “Do Not Ticket” list too. Those of you in other states should apply as well, just in case you ever drive to Chicago, so that you won’t get any tickets and will be free to park anywhere you like as well.
How do we get the light shined on this “Do Not Ticket” list?
Ideas?
