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Trying to Catch A Breath
Again, forgive me for the radio silence. I have things that I am working on, but the time just seems to elude me to actually finish them. I feel completely run ragged. I have gone back to reading Rod Dreher. He’s someone whom I tend to read for streaks and then put down. I’ve always felt that there were some things he did an absolute brilliant job writing about and I’d get hooked, and then he’d…
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O Holy Night - John Kass
O Holy Night – John Kass
By John Kass December 24, 2022 For all the children who should be loved always, but especially on this night, with our arms wrapped around them and a long goodnight kiss on the temple, a kiss more precious than anything wrapped in a box. For every parent who stands quietly in the darkened doorways of… O Holy Night
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jon taffer: hm. this succotash, is NOT suffering!!
sylvester: fuck me
an old-timey prospector in a theme park 120 miles away: yeehaw, partner! i have dysentery!
Matt Shuham at TPM (09.15.2020):
Attorney General Bill Barr acknowledged in an interview last week that, as the nation’s top law enforcement official, “I’m not supposed to get into politics.” Then he went and did it anyway.
In a wide-ranging conversion with Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass, which Kass partially quoted in his column last week, Barr said he believed “we are going to find ourselves irrevocably committed to a socialist path” if Joe Biden is elected president.
“I think if Trump loses this election, that will be the case,” Barr said. “In other words, I think there is now a clear fork in the road for our country.” Kass published audio of the interview on Monday.
At various points in the interview, Barr referred to “many” people in government working surreptitiously to thwart the administration, and said that increasingly, Democrats’ message “appears to be ‘Biden or no peace’ — the only way this is going to stop is if you put Biden [in office].”
“That is rule by the mob, and we’re approaching that,” Barr said. While Biden has repeatedly denounced violence, Trump has inflamed fears of “antifa” violence if Biden is elected.
The interview was just the latest in an administration seemingly determined to demolish the line between politics and government.
Later, Kass asked about the 1619 Project, a New York Times Magazine feature focused on the impact of slavery on American history.
The President recently threatened on Twitter to defund states whose schools use the project as a teaching tool, soon after signing an executive order aimed at eradicating the use of anti-racism training in the federal government — or as White House budget director Russell Vought called them, “un-American propaganda training sessions.”
“That’s happened, and it’s going to take a while to deal with,” Barr said after naming the 1619 project, though it’s not clear what specifically he was referring to. He later agreed with Kass when the columnist asked if Barr supported government efforts to “push down” on the 1619 Project being taught in schools.
Then, the attorney general shared his view that “the only way out of this is school choice” and that parents should receive a government credit card with up to $15,000 to spend on schooling.
Barr’s comments on voting by mail in the interview, which Kass quoted in his Tribune column on Thursday, have made headlines since: The attorney general falsely said “there’s no more secret vote with mail-in vote” and that therefore voting by mail was more susceptible to bribery and “outright coercion.”
Barr made similar comments publicly on Thursday — despite several states having voted primarily by-mail for decades, and despite many Trump administration officials who’ve voted by mail, including Barr himself and the President.
Barr told Kass that liberals’ concerns over Trump refusing to concede a losing election were merely projection. (Trump has asserted to supporters, “the only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged.”)
“They are creating an incendiary situation where there’s going to be loss of confidence in the vote, it’ll be a close vote,” Barr said. “People will say ‘The President won Nevada — oh, wait a minute! We just discovered a hundred thousand ballots, every vote must be counted!’”
In an interview recently on WGN Plus’s The Chicago Way podcast with right-wing Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass, “Attorney General” William Barr repeated numerous lies, including the false assertion that Joe Biden will usher American towards a “socialist path”, dismissed valid concerns of Trump not conceding if he lost the election by calling it “merely projection”, and launched more nonsencial attacks on the 1619 Project.
From the 09.14.2020 edition of WGN Plus’s The Chicago Way:
Who or what is John Kass and why is he promulgating the Big Lie?
John (Jack) Kass is a far-distant, way-out, right-wing columnist.
Jack Kass
As such, he is a follower of Trump (who himself is neither right-wing nor left-wing, but rather wing-ding).
Kass really should write for Brietbart or sit glassy-eyed on the Fox News couch defending Trump’s latest lies.
Instead, he conducts his mischief by writing for the formerly right-wing, but now having adopted a bit…
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Some vintage Father’s Day cards for you. Fathers’ Day wasn’t an official holiday in the US till 1972, according to CBS’ Sunday Morning so that might explain why most of the vintage cards aren’t so vintage.
My Dad doesn’t wear a hat, but otherwise this captures one of his major roles.
Finally, here’s a good article about Fathers’ Day: John Kass’ Plenty of “Bad Ideas and a Few Good Ones for Hail the Patriarch Day.”
Happy Patriarch’s Day Some vintage Father's Day cards for you. Fathers' Day wasn't an official holiday in the US till 1972, according to CBS' Sunday Morning so that might explain why most of the vintage cards aren't so vintage.
Chicago's 13th Ward aldermanic race is a real David vs. Goliath story, but in this case Goliath is crushing David in what appears to be an overkill of massive proportions
The history of the little guy being squashed by massive Chicago political clout at election time is just too long to print without weeping.
But the story for today is so amazing that some Chicago election officials have never seen the like.
“No one can remember anything approaching this,” said an election official.
Really?
It’s overkill of epic proportions, like using a sledgehammer to kill a gnat, or firing off a nuclear weapon to kill a sparrow. A Southwest Side David vs. Goliath story.
The David is David Krupa, 19, a freshman at DePaul University who drives a forklift part time. He’s not a political powerhouse. He’s just a conservative Southwest Side teenager studying political science and economics who got it in his head to run for alderman in a race that pits him against the most powerful ward organization in Chicago.
The Goliath is the 13th Ward Democratic Organization run by House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, aka Boss Madigan, the most powerful politician in the state. Boss Madigan has long hand-picked his aldermen. He likes them loyal and quiet. The current silent alderman of the 13th Ward is Marty Quinn.
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To get on the ballot, Krupa was required to file 473 valid signatures of ward residents with the Chicago Board of Elections. Krupa filed 1,703 signatures.
But before he filed his signatures with the elections board, an amazing thing happened along the Chicago Way.
An organized crew of political workers — or maybe just civic-minded individuals who care about reform — went door to door with official legal papers. They asked residents to sign an affadavit revoking their signature on Krupa’s petition.
Revocations are serious legal documents, signed and notarized. Lying on a legal document is a felony and can lead to a charge of perjury. If you’re convicted of perjury, you may not work for a government agency. And I know that there are many in the 13th Ward on the government payroll.
More than 2,700 revocations were turned over to the elections board to cancel the signatures on Krupa’s petitions. Chicago Board of Elections officials had never seen such a massive pile of revocations.
“The board has received a few revocations here and there in very rare electoral board cases over the years,” said election board spokesman Jim Allen.
But more than 2,700? Impossible, no?
“They're pretty rare, and no one can remember anything approaching this volume of filings in past cases,” Allen said. “For the board, the next step is to begin the hearings on all of the objections that have been filed against any candidates' nominating petitions. We can't speculate, though, on the legitimacy or any other legal questions about any of the objections or the corresponding petitions.”
The number of revocations far exceeds the number of signatures Krupa collected. That means false affidavits were filed with the elections board.
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There is no litigation, yet, but election attorney Michael Dorf, who is representing Krupa, says this case is a “clown car of felonies.”
“You know the 13th Ward better than I do,” Dorf said. “This is clown school and election fraud. This is going way, way beyond the line. David is a huge underdog. Go ahead and beat him on Election Day, or do subtle fraud, like taking away yard signs, but when this number of false affidavits are filed, you’re talking fundamental fraud, epic fraud.
“We turned in 1,703 signatures. We compared them to the 2,796 revocations, and found only 187 matches, meaning only 187 people who signed David’s petitions filed revocations,” Dorf said. “So, what about the 2,609 people who didn’t sign for David but who filed revocations? That’s fraud. That’s perjury. That’s felony.”
King Solomon, Quiz for a Chicago Dance Party
What movie plot was emulated when Rep. Gutierrez passed the baton this week?
John Kass wrote an article titled, Luis, Chuy and Rahm: Chance or Dance, which reminded me of an old movie plot. It also reminded me of the most recognized King Solomon verse that applies to Chicago Politics.
If Interested,
Read the article HERE
Then guess the movie and saying.
Answers
Movie HERE
Before you read the…
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