Rahm hates Freedom, Democracy, right to collective bargaining- well really I could go on and on...

Not that you didn't already know this... http://m.rollingstone.com/?redirurl=/politics/blogs/national-affairs/why-rahm-emanuel-hates-democracy-20120403

Trust

The oddly named "Infrastructure Trust" gets to the heart of the matter in its very name. Time has long since passed when anyone trusted a Chicago mayor with the taxpayers hard earned money. So, what history, what experience and what tangible evidence can this mayor offer that he is indeed trustworthy?

Saturn devouring his Son-Goya (Wikipedia )

Veterans day

Spend some time today thinking about those who served and are serving. Getting them back home is Priority One. Once they're home we need to make sure there's a place for them. Keep faith with the young people who've shed their blood for stupid old men who can see no way to peace without sucking the life blood out of young men and women of their nations.

Uh-oh...veterans and OCW and Occupy Chicago?!

From the Chicago Tribune:

Occupy Chicago, anti-war veterans' group hold demonstration

Occupy Chicago protesters joined forces with an anti-Iraq-war organization Friday afternoon to honor former soldiers and to advocate for the end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Occupy Chicago, anti-war veterans' group hold demonstration

Hallelujah- We are saved! The CTA will ride again! Finally the the scions of the Cook County Democratic machine were able to conspire and collude to do something other give each other fat contracts. There's still time though there is still plenty of legislative session left to screw something important up.

Eve of Destruction

As we sit on the precipice of a massive though modified tax increase it is useful to look at what "brung" us here to begin with. Big dollars for settlements on lawsuits against police misconduct, that's one! Municipal contortion to get the 2016 Olympics, that's another! A mayor who never met a TIF he didn't like, whew - it's gettin' hot in here! Let's not forget that old standby, City Hall corruption - you name the department and they got goin' on, know what I'm sayin'?! Lucky for us all, that at this particularly providential moment in time that at the state level there is a crack group of leaders whose special skill is infighting and insufferable pouting. Oh how I miss Romper Room! And the mayor has the clear unyielding vision to place at the mouth of the Chicago river, which of course runs backwards, a giant and great symbol of what every taxpayer will be getting over the next decade. They call it a "Spiral" but we all know what it really is... and what is really being done to us.