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Rahm should have to pay court costs.
He knew it was against the rules for him to run this cycle. Tried to do it anyway. Arrogant fuck.
I took a fish head out to see a movie, didn’t have to pay to get it in.
Roly-poly fish heads are never seen drinking cappuccino in Italian restaurants with oriental women. Yeah.
“Dead, dead, dead, dead.”*
*Only Democrat approved civil language used in this comment.
F-Bombs for everybody!
I guess Rahm shouldn’t have talked so openly about attacking the public pension problems in Chicago…
All in all, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
Wow.
poor monkey what an awful day he’s having
I got a chubby just seeing the headline.
The best part: Carol Moseley-Braun is now the front-runner. If you thought Dick Daley was stupid (and he is) you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Something tells me that right now Rahm is in a Chicago hotel banquet room holding an impromptu lunch with city Aldermen, some Illinois State Congressmen, all their bought judges and a few of his Mayoral campaign staff, giving a speech that starts: “Life goes on. When a man becomes preeminent he’s expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms. …Enthusiasms.”
Watch out for the ball bat fellas.
Combine with the new Illnois tax rates just put into effect and Detroit is looking to finally get out of last place. Wisconsin and Indiana are rubbing their hands in glee.
Awwwwwwwwwwwww…..
Is the IL Supreme Court in the tank, or is the actual law going to prevail?
Somewhere I read a headline that claimed that if anything, the Il. Supreme Court will be more hostile to Emmanuel’s position than not. But who knows?
Doesn’t matter who is mayor of Chicago; it’s a runaway train headed for hell. Or one of its seedier suburbs.
Mayor Mosely-Braun?
Dear god, this should be fun.
Flee.
Doesn’t matter who is mayor of Chicago; it’s a runaway train headed for hell.
The whole state is bankrupt and I say good on ’em. I hope they don’t abandon course now, it’s so far along we may as well keep with these twerps to the finish and see where it ends. The voters have it coming, anyway.
It’ll be lots of fun.
Gary Chico (backed by the ever Alderman Burke who may or may not have had some pull with the Appellate Court) should be smiling by now…
This will go to the IL SCT, but that will come down to a fight amongst partisan “D” elements and their pull over the various Justices from the 1st District – Chicagoland… I’d like this if it wasn’t helping slice and dice the State where my family and I live, work and go to school.
Lincoln wept.
Entropy – so you wish ruin on me and mine? I didn’t vote for any of these slobs. My choices in the primary elections I vote in have been as close to classical liberal values as is available. Same for the general elections.
I am putting myself up for precinct committeeman and jumping back in to make the effort to steer this state back on track.
But you want us not to reverse course, but go over the cliff instead?
But you want us not to reverse course, but go over the cliff instead?
Probably a common sentiment here, and it applies to my state also (CA). We just re-elected a full Democrat House, Senate, and Governor; there is no intent to change course. Should the Feds bail us out or should we be forced to live with the consequences of our electoral actions, demonstrating to the entire country the true end-result of progressive governance?
I would not want a Fed bailout – Illinois does not deserve one.
I just don’t want people cheering the collapse of the State I live and work and my kids are growing up and going to school. Do such people hope I lose all the value in my home? Do they wish my employer to leave?
How about hoping we can head this disaster off instead?
First Keef, now Rahm… January is becoming schadenfreude month
How funny is it that Obama’s right hand man gets sued off a Chicago ballot?
LTC John, here’s to you rerouting the Chicago River, Hercules style. Californians, you’re fucked. Get out now.
SCIL will overturn this. The will of the Peepul of Chicago will not be impeded by some technicality. After all, if Bammie doesn’t have to show a Birf Certificate, why should Rahm have to show any pesky proof he’s a resident. Can’t you raaaaacists just take his word for it?
Dude, I live in Cook County, so the “I live and work and my kids” things are just going to deflect straight off my cold dead heart without so much as a nick.
I didn’t vote for these people either. And it’s not my job to suffer for the ones who did.
Democracy is the belief that the common man knows what he wants, and deserves to get it; good and hard.
And most do indeed deserve it, I am indeed a democrat by that definition.
If they don’t face the consequences of their choices, I don’t see how else they’ll learn.
But you want us not to reverse course, but go over the cliff instead?
I often suspect it’s the only way it will ever happen. I fear fiscal conservative types will fix things just enough to keep it on life support for another decade or two.
I just don’t want people cheering the collapse of the State
I don’t want a lot of things but sometimes I get them anyway. (Like our government, for instance.) The collapse of the State is not the collapse of all things within the state. Demagogous straw men aside, I do not wish your children to die or whatever. I don’t want you to lose your job (unless you have a government job). But I still ‘hope he fails’. You’ll pry my incendiary and hate filled rhetoric from my cold dead hands. You’re damn straight I will cheer if the organized crime syndicates masquerading as a city, county and state governments go into Chapter 7. And possibly, move to Indiana. Whilst singing ‘We don’t need no water let the motherfucker burn!’ as I fly down 294 to I-80 east.
Or better yet…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8vmaj75xzE
Note to self: stick to making fun of California and Michigan.
So, umm… Does this mean Rahm won’t be pissing on the ashes?
I know it’s a trap, but WTF is up with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb–1AxmgZ8
Well Entropy, that Tool song is definitely one sure way to get people to ditch those particular California Muni-Bonds.
Not that it matters. California, Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc…
Deck chairs.
I don’t know about the others but my Michigan has balanced the budget every year, it’s in the constitution. Plus we just elected a conservative Republican governor and both houses of the legislature have large Republican majorities and the Supreme Court is generally conservative leaning.
They have only begun and I have hope.
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/01/02/the-end-of-days/?singlepage=true
http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0452011876/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295912154&sr=8-1
Learn to f’n swim.
They have only begun and I have hope.
geoff, I dumped Michigan into the pile because of it’s private companies’, state unfunded pension liabilities, and current deficit. Plus I saw this. It’s great that the new conservative legislature & court are in..but how to undo 30 years of horribly corrupt, liberal/ social justice bullshit with no money left?
During that 30-40 year period there was 12 years where things started coming back but of course once that happens, as we do on the federal level too, the public decides that that is a good time to put Democrats back in and the downhill slide continues.
This time felt different. Detroit is not the demographic power it once was having lost half it’s population. God I hate seeing Tiger Stadium looking like that. A lot of Detroit will probably revert to nature within the next 10 years.
Add this one to the pictures of Detroit ruins. It is a place I have many fond memories of from the 60s.
Those photos of Detroit remind me an awful lot of the Washington DC of 2277, as rendered in Fallout 3 — you know, 200 years after the bombs fell… ‘cept it’s only been about 50 years, and the bombs were progressive political policies, but still. (*)
But really, I feel like I’ve (virtually) walked through those same piles of debris.
* With some elements of Bioshock thrown in for good measure.
That could make a super ad campaign for the chamber of commerce.
Detroit: Tomorrow’s Dystopian Nightmare… Today!
That picture gallery should be labeled something like, “40 years of progress brought to you by the Democratic Party”.
Or, “Obamaland, the Future is Now”.
Does Detroit still have a Chamber of Commerce?
And if they do, is it just maintained for the delicious irony; a snarky in-joke?
“delicious irony“
The president of that august group is one “Eric Licht”.
I’m guessing his last name is pronounced more-or-less the same as “licked”… which the Beavis & Butthead-oriented part of my brain finds mildly amusing.
…because of it’s private companies’, state unfunded pension liabilities
:/ Meant because of it’s private companies’ undeclared pension liabilities AND state unfunded pension liabilities.
I tried to cut or paste to edit, or just went retarded.
Metro Detroit Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
Note to those particular members & subscribers: From what I understand, the best Michigan dildos are located in Ann Arbor. Go forth, enjoy bliss, and bother the state no more.
According to the German rules of pronunciation, “Licht” is almost “lisht”, but the hissing of the “ich” comes from further back in the mouth than the “sh” that comes from the teeth. (It’s tough to explain, but if you ever hear it, you know it.)
I know a lot of people with German surnames don’t insist on that pronunciation, but this one ought to if he doesn’t.
Alderman Burke’s wife is an IL SCT Justice… don’t count Rahm back in just yet….
Go ahead and make fun of IL – we deserve it. I just don’t want people blithley hoping that hospitals don’t get reimbursed, vendors don’t get paid, etc. Also, I’d rather not have my taxes go up another 67% to help pay off a BK of the one time “Land of Lincoln” (new motto for IL “will the defendant please rise”).
Oh, the only “government job” I have in IL is as an M-day officer in the ILARNG. I work for a remorseless Swiss multinational otherwise.
Illinois is in constant competition with Louisiana and New Jersey for most corrupt state in the union. These states are serious. If they were footballs teams, they all play far better than the Bears, Saints, and Giants (and or Jets) respectively.
Not to worry, Joe – the Attorney General is the daughter of the hugely corrupt and eternally office holding IL House Majority Leader. I am sure she’ll clean up things….eventually. Well, maybe this term, she was busy last term with other things….
Burke’s wife is on the IL Supreme Court? It just never ends.
I just saw a headline on how the net neutraliters focused on Filet Mignon Clyburn (the Congressmans’s daughter) to get the last yes vote they needed to take over and thought “I’m a little peckish”.
Mentos anyone?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122409083174236943.html
I care little for Peggy Noonan. I admire greatly her contribution to our country; I fear I can’t hope to match it.
From the opinion. Well, such appeals to authorial intent will never stick, especially when it comes to the law.
You never know where this intentionalism is going to pop up next.
#47 – Anne Burke, Lisa Madigan, et al. IL acts like it has an hereditary aristocracy.
Detroit: Tomorrow’s Dystopian Nightmare… Today!
This would make an awesome theme park. Guys like me with odd bits of football pads and skater helmets, wandering the wasteland, shooting paintballs at homeless guys (who look a lot like Ghouls anyway).
I suppose the gangers showing up to engage in actual looting and fighting with real bullets might pose some liability issues, but I’m sure we could work something out.
Entrophy – I’m with you all the way…well, in six years when we can leave the state for good and head down I-65 to KY.
There’s just no denying it: Illinois sucks. The progressive B.S. in this state is so thick you can tap dance on it. And most politicians do.
I don’t wish harm on any of my fellow Illinoisians– but our politicians do. They will bleed, squeeze, and drain the life out of any productive citizen alive just to keep their corrupt voting base fat, happy, and stupid. Illinois, like CA, MI, and NY have hit that wonderous tipping point for politicians– there are more voters sucking the government teat than those who are not, hence the election results you see. It won’t matter until the milk becomes watery, less frequent, curdled…
He’s not gone yet. Seems like somebody did have the foresight to grease the state supremes to go along, at least as far as issuing a stay.
Me, I don’t care. I try and take a Mencken-like attitude.
“Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want and deserve to get it – good and hard.”
I just talked to my dad, who lives in CA. He’s thinking that he might have to leave eventually because he figures the taxes may grow beyond his ability to pay them. He’s 84 and long retired, and his income is fixed even when expenses are not.
IL SCT stays the issue. Should be interesting to see when they schedule argument and such, as they are not in session right now…
They probably won’t Colonel. All they need to do now is ignore, ignore, ignore. Rahmbo’s back on the ballot and the issue is about to become fait acomplie..
I think mojo has the right of it.