You can read and follow the trail here.
For those not too familiar with Chicago, the area around Wrigley Field, home field of the beloved (and usually inept) Cubs, is a very nice part of the city. The SouthSide, where the White Sox play, has always been a gritty part of the world. Group muggings and street violence just aren't part of life up in Wrigleyville.
Things are becoming increasingly unglued in Chicago, ya'll.
OS shares this, just to remind one and all that this is Obama's city and state, run by his former campaign manager and chief of staff.
This is a city that has been in the hands of Obama's political ancestors and current chums for decades.
This is the future that awaits the country, if it is left in their hands.
Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
Monday, March 12, 2012
Friday, January 28, 2011
Rahm Emanuel's Back On The Ballot
Unanimous decision by the Illinois Supreme Court.
So, the guy who led Obama from Chicago to The White House now goes back to run Chicago.
This should be interesting. By the time November 2012 arrives, Rahm will need to resurrect anyone as a live voter who died within the last forty years within the environs of Cook County, in order to counteract the actual live voters in the rest of the State of Illinois who will not be voting for HopeyChangeyVersion2.
Like 1960, all over again.
So, the guy who led Obama from Chicago to The White House now goes back to run Chicago.
This should be interesting. By the time November 2012 arrives, Rahm will need to resurrect anyone as a live voter who died within the last forty years within the environs of Cook County, in order to counteract the actual live voters in the rest of the State of Illinois who will not be voting for HopeyChangeyVersion2.
Like 1960, all over again.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Ruh-Roh: Rahm Emmanuel Declared Ineligible For Mayoral Candidacy By Illinois Court Of Appeals
HT Second City Cop
Here's the news, just in.
Early voting begins Jan. 31.
This will, of course, be fast-tracked to the Illinois Supreme Court.
If he loses there, be assured he will venue-shop at the Federal level. But, can any Federal judge realistically claim jurisdiction over a city election?
But then again, they've claimed jurisdiction over school districting for over forty years now...
Rahmbo can't claim it's about civil rights. His opponents include a Black Woman(check!), a black Hispanic guy(check!), and a white Hispanic guy(check!).
This could get interesting. What's he gonna do with alllll that money he's extorted--I mean gathered--for his mayoral candidacy?
The real issue is: Is Rahmbo a Chicago resident? Or is Chicago his own Rotten Borough?
The guy renting his house has an opinion:
Emanuel, a former North Side congressman, had served Obama in Washington from January 2009 until October. When he left for the White House, Emanuel rented his North Side home to Rob Halpin.
Halpin refused to move out when Emanuel returned to Chicago and briefly staged his own run for mayor.
Halpin applauded the ruling. “Now I feel vindicated by the court,” Halpin told WGN-AM radio.
Residency, Halpin said, is “one of the rights that goes with the rent payment.”
Halpin said “it’s very clear that only one resident” could be attached to a single residence, “unless it was some sort of hippie commune.”
(The wheels on the bus are coming off, coming off, coming off...)
Here's the news, just in.
Early voting begins Jan. 31.
This will, of course, be fast-tracked to the Illinois Supreme Court.
If he loses there, be assured he will venue-shop at the Federal level. But, can any Federal judge realistically claim jurisdiction over a city election?
But then again, they've claimed jurisdiction over school districting for over forty years now...
Rahmbo can't claim it's about civil rights. His opponents include a Black Woman(check!), a black Hispanic guy(check!), and a white Hispanic guy(check!).
This could get interesting. What's he gonna do with alllll that money he's extorted--I mean gathered--for his mayoral candidacy?
The real issue is: Is Rahmbo a Chicago resident? Or is Chicago his own Rotten Borough?
The guy renting his house has an opinion:
Emanuel, a former North Side congressman, had served Obama in Washington from January 2009 until October. When he left for the White House, Emanuel rented his North Side home to Rob Halpin.
Halpin refused to move out when Emanuel returned to Chicago and briefly staged his own run for mayor.
Halpin applauded the ruling. “Now I feel vindicated by the court,” Halpin told WGN-AM radio.
Residency, Halpin said, is “one of the rights that goes with the rent payment.”
Halpin said “it’s very clear that only one resident” could be attached to a single residence, “unless it was some sort of hippie commune.”
(The wheels on the bus are coming off, coming off, coming off...)
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Chicago, Chicago, Obama's Hometown: Murder Rate 2x LA, 3x NYC
Sorta' makes you want to stand up and cheer, knowing we got us a whole passel of Chicago pols installed in the White House, knowhuddImean?
It’s a shame that the public has to be reminded of this from time to time, but any cop can testify to this inescapable fact of police work: Where there is no punishment for criminal behavior, crime will flourish.
Nowhere has this been demonstrated with greater clarity lately than in Chicago, where the Sun-Times has taken notice and sounded the alarm. In a three-part series that concluded Tuesday, reporters Mark Konkol and Frank Main examined the violent incidents that occurred over a single weekend in Chicago two years ago. During that 59-hour period, from April 18 -20, 2008, forty people were shot in the city, seven of them fatally. Stop and consider that for a moment: one city, one weekend, seven people murdered, and 33 others shot but still alive.
As it happens, not a single suspect in any of those shootings has been convicted of a crime. One accused shooter, says the Sun-Times, awaits trial for killing his boss. The other six murders remain unsolved, as do nearly all of the non-fatal shootings that occurred that weekend. In 2009, Chicago detectives “cleared” 30 percent of the murders and 18 percent of the non-fatal shootings they investigated. But, as in any city, a “clearance” in Chicago does not necessarily mean a suspect was arrested, charged, and convicted, but merely that one was identified to the satisfaction of investigators. In some cases detectives are reminded of one axiom of big-city police work: today’s suspect is tomorrow’s victim. Police sometimes come across evidence identifying someone as a murder suspect only to discover he himself has been gunned down, either in retaliation for the earlier murder or merely as a consequence of his engaging in a high-risk lifestyle.
In response, this essay has been making the rounds in Chicago, penned by a officer in the police force. It is not, shall we say, a flattering assessment.
Everyone in Chicago knows it. Almost everyone in America knows it. In fact, a lot of people throughout the world know. Chicago is a city at war with itself - fast tracking to anarchy.
Leading us there have been two major root causes - public violence and public corruption. While Chicago has been under attack with its people fearful and hiding, its police department was twisted into paralysis by organizational decimation, incompetent leadership, self-serving politics and corruption.
After three dead cops in less than 60 days, the men and women of the Chicago Police Department are saying, "Enough!!!" We are sickened that our world-class police department has deteriorated into ruin in only a few short years. We are tired of a leaderless department. We are angry at an unsupportive mayor.
We must rise up together to take this city back from the thugs, gangs and rogues that infect our city. The good people of Chicago must also take a stand against the corrupt politicians and their cronies that have bled our city and police department dry.
And that's just the beginning of the essay!
Weren't we assured of the competence, vision, and moral clarity of The One, so successful in transforming the rough neighborhoods of Chicago as a community organizer?
It’s a shame that the public has to be reminded of this from time to time, but any cop can testify to this inescapable fact of police work: Where there is no punishment for criminal behavior, crime will flourish.
Nowhere has this been demonstrated with greater clarity lately than in Chicago, where the Sun-Times has taken notice and sounded the alarm. In a three-part series that concluded Tuesday, reporters Mark Konkol and Frank Main examined the violent incidents that occurred over a single weekend in Chicago two years ago. During that 59-hour period, from April 18 -20, 2008, forty people were shot in the city, seven of them fatally. Stop and consider that for a moment: one city, one weekend, seven people murdered, and 33 others shot but still alive.
As it happens, not a single suspect in any of those shootings has been convicted of a crime. One accused shooter, says the Sun-Times, awaits trial for killing his boss. The other six murders remain unsolved, as do nearly all of the non-fatal shootings that occurred that weekend. In 2009, Chicago detectives “cleared” 30 percent of the murders and 18 percent of the non-fatal shootings they investigated. But, as in any city, a “clearance” in Chicago does not necessarily mean a suspect was arrested, charged, and convicted, but merely that one was identified to the satisfaction of investigators. In some cases detectives are reminded of one axiom of big-city police work: today’s suspect is tomorrow’s victim. Police sometimes come across evidence identifying someone as a murder suspect only to discover he himself has been gunned down, either in retaliation for the earlier murder or merely as a consequence of his engaging in a high-risk lifestyle.
In response, this essay has been making the rounds in Chicago, penned by a officer in the police force. It is not, shall we say, a flattering assessment.
Everyone in Chicago knows it. Almost everyone in America knows it. In fact, a lot of people throughout the world know. Chicago is a city at war with itself - fast tracking to anarchy.
Leading us there have been two major root causes - public violence and public corruption. While Chicago has been under attack with its people fearful and hiding, its police department was twisted into paralysis by organizational decimation, incompetent leadership, self-serving politics and corruption.
After three dead cops in less than 60 days, the men and women of the Chicago Police Department are saying, "Enough!!!" We are sickened that our world-class police department has deteriorated into ruin in only a few short years. We are tired of a leaderless department. We are angry at an unsupportive mayor.
We must rise up together to take this city back from the thugs, gangs and rogues that infect our city. The good people of Chicago must also take a stand against the corrupt politicians and their cronies that have bled our city and police department dry.
And that's just the beginning of the essay!
Weren't we assured of the competence, vision, and moral clarity of The One, so successful in transforming the rough neighborhoods of Chicago as a community organizer?
Monday, June 28, 2010
Supreme Court Confirms The Second Amendment: Chicago's Political Machine Gets The Smackdown
The Supreme Court ruled local ordinances interfering with the right to keep and bear arms unconstitutional.
The case comes in a suit brought against the City of Chicago's ban on handguns, which of course, only guaranteed that thugs could carry guns.
A big sigh of relief, and three cheers for justices who read black-letter Constitutional language for what it is.
The Chicago machine suffers another setback, blessedly.
The ruling, however, was 5-4, which means that the next Obama appointee would have voted against the Constitution, and in favor of the thugs.
Little wonder that Himself is so eager to ram through the Kagan nomination as quickly as possible.
He may also wish to reconsider his public scoldings of the Court during State of the Union addresses. This sort of thing comes back to haunt.
The case comes in a suit brought against the City of Chicago's ban on handguns, which of course, only guaranteed that thugs could carry guns.
A big sigh of relief, and three cheers for justices who read black-letter Constitutional language for what it is.
The Chicago machine suffers another setback, blessedly.
The ruling, however, was 5-4, which means that the next Obama appointee would have voted against the Constitution, and in favor of the thugs.
Little wonder that Himself is so eager to ram through the Kagan nomination as quickly as possible.
He may also wish to reconsider his public scoldings of the Court during State of the Union addresses. This sort of thing comes back to haunt.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
22 Shot In Chicago In One Day--No One In Custody Yet
H/T Marathon Pundit, the excellent Chicago-land blogger.
Life has been lively in ObamaLand, with 22 people shot in multiple incidents, and no one in custody yet.
Life has been lively in ObamaLand, with 22 people shot in multiple incidents, and no one in custody yet.
At least 22 people were wounded in separate shootings around the city roughly between noon Saturday and noon Sunday, including a man who died this morning after he was shot in the head, Chicago police said.
At a news conference this morning, Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis said that nearly half of the shootings appear to be gang-related, including the fatal incident. Weis added that at least two of the other victims have refused to cooperate with police, "which makes the job of our detectives ... far more difficult."
One of the shootings was particularly disturbing because one of the female victims was eight months pregnant, the superintendent said.
No one in custody for any of the incidents.
For those not familiar with Chicago, there is a strict hand-gun ban in place. Which means, of course, that law-abiding citizens who understandably don't wish to get sideways with the criminal justice system don't own handguns. And thugs, who care not a fig for the rule of anyone's law, do have them.
Hmmm....and if the armed thugs outnumber the police, and have the law-abiding types in the neighborhoods terrorized, what happens to the culture of the city?
Again, let's remember, this is the place from which President Obama rose to power. This is the culture and model of governance he knows. He steadfastly supports gun bans for the law-abiding.
Do we wish the Chicago model of governance, which produces this sort of outcome, exported to all fifty states, their counties, cities, and towns?
The map of Chicago murders for 2008:
And, as a reminder, Chicago has been run for decades by...
At a news conference this morning, Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis said that nearly half of the shootings appear to be gang-related, including the fatal incident. Weis added that at least two of the other victims have refused to cooperate with police, "which makes the job of our detectives ... far more difficult."
One of the shootings was particularly disturbing because one of the female victims was eight months pregnant, the superintendent said.
No one in custody for any of the incidents.
For those not familiar with Chicago, there is a strict hand-gun ban in place. Which means, of course, that law-abiding citizens who understandably don't wish to get sideways with the criminal justice system don't own handguns. And thugs, who care not a fig for the rule of anyone's law, do have them.
Hmmm....and if the armed thugs outnumber the police, and have the law-abiding types in the neighborhoods terrorized, what happens to the culture of the city?
Again, let's remember, this is the place from which President Obama rose to power. This is the culture and model of governance he knows. He steadfastly supports gun bans for the law-abiding.
Do we wish the Chicago model of governance, which produces this sort of outcome, exported to all fifty states, their counties, cities, and towns?
The map of Chicago murders for 2008:
And, as a reminder, Chicago has been run for decades by...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
The Second Largest City Of Poland...
..is (at least by folklore accounts), Chicago, Illinois.
It is so hard to know what to say, to express to these folks. To be Polish, by definition, is to carry a burden of true suffering in one's family history. Not the American-style neurotic suffering of 'Mom and Dad only bought me a Toyota sedan instead of sports-car, they never loved me...' sort of stuff.
Real suffering. Parts of the family tree that went away because everyone was killed. Poverty. Political oppression. Conquering armies staging massacres, bombing their cities into rubble. The shame of having the Nazis locate those camps on their soil. Real suffering.
So many emigrated to Chicago in search of a better life. If you read the Chicago papers, you don't see accounts of Polish druglords running gangs that terrorize and shoot up neighborhoods. It's the 'unrung bell' that doesn't get heard or discussed, since the daily brutalities of the city's life leave no room for that.
Contrast that with this.
These folks aren't perfect, but they may have something to teach us in coming days, if we have ears to listen and eyes to see.
and...
The Chicago Tribune published a photo gallery of mourning from around the world.
It is so hard to know what to say, to express to these folks. To be Polish, by definition, is to carry a burden of true suffering in one's family history. Not the American-style neurotic suffering of 'Mom and Dad only bought me a Toyota sedan instead of sports-car, they never loved me...' sort of stuff.
Real suffering. Parts of the family tree that went away because everyone was killed. Poverty. Political oppression. Conquering armies staging massacres, bombing their cities into rubble. The shame of having the Nazis locate those camps on their soil. Real suffering.
So many emigrated to Chicago in search of a better life. If you read the Chicago papers, you don't see accounts of Polish druglords running gangs that terrorize and shoot up neighborhoods. It's the 'unrung bell' that doesn't get heard or discussed, since the daily brutalities of the city's life leave no room for that.
Contrast that with this.
These folks aren't perfect, but they may have something to teach us in coming days, if we have ears to listen and eyes to see.
and...
The Chicago Tribune published a photo gallery of mourning from around the world.
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