A Chicago Blog

So now Daley is supporting Blagojevich’s horrible plan to purchase Wrigley Field. Why? Read between the lines. From the Sun-Times:
“Well, I think they realize it’s much more complicated . . . and that’s very, very important. We have a crisis at the CTA, and we have to get that crisis over with for both the [...]

Who would have thought, the Fed doesn’t want us to know how badly they are in debt. Here’s another new website.

From the Clout Street blog:
Blagojevich also appeared to try to put some pressure back on Mayor Richard M. Daley, saying he planned to discuss with Daley the idea of tapping into the city’s cash reserves from selling the Skyway as a way to stave off the Jan. 20 CTA cuts.
“Perhaps the mayor and I could [...]

From yesterday’s Tribune:
With her six children and husband tucked into bed, Yee Moua was watching TV in her living room just after midnight when she heard voices — faint at first, then louder. Then came the sound of a window shattering.
Moua bolted upstairs, where her husband, Vang Khang, grabbed his shotgun from a closet, knelt [...]

As has been the case all over the country over the past 20 years or so, a professional sports team is attempting to once again extort the state and local city government into paying for a new facility through taxpayer or municipal bond financing.
The benefits to the team owners are many:
 Getting the PUBLIC to pay [...]

So I’m really starting to like the idea of a Ron Paul Independent candidacy. This is not because I would vote for the guy necessarily, but because we desperately need some intervention in our existing party system.
Can you imagine a three-way race between Clinton, Paul and Huckabee. Believe it or not, Paul would actually have [...]

Mike is well aware of my passionate stance AGAINST the public subsidizing private enterprises.
Now, an idea is being floated to raise a restaurant tax to benefit renovations at Wrigley Field.
Needless to say, I am flabbergasted, and despite being a Cub fan, completely AGAINST the public subsidizing renovations to Wrigley Field…

That’s it, I’m starting a new group, Citizens for the Prohibition of Wrapping Paper. I don’t want to see any of you so called “environmentalists” out there using ANY wrapping paper.

But it’s just not working. So far they’ve put out this nightmare and this rather predictable parody of Rockin Around the Christmas Tree.

I do work for Sam Adams, but I would have posted this anyway. Honestly.