[Chicago Tribune] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... 's Mayor Rahm Emanuel isn't in a difficult position. He's in an impossible position. It's not his fault! Nobody can eat 1,000 bananas in a single setting. Why can't we just help OJ find the real murderer ?
He was once a national media darling, given warm wet kisses by the Beltway media that could see the ambition in the man and predicted a future for him outside Chicago.
And who were afraid of what he could do to them when he was Champ's right hand fist...
But those days are done. And now when it comes to the blood pooling on the streets of his city, he's all but lost.
Homicides are up. Shootings are up from last year too. Police are overworked and overstressed. Their morale is caving, and scandals and resentment brew over promotions tests that look as if they were handled the old-fashioned political way.
The police that Rahm has no respect for, and they've returned the lack of respect. In spades...
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... the neighborhoods on the South and West sides where most of the killings take place don't trust the cops, or the mayor.
And based on the increased shootings and killings already this year, Chicago is right to fear it will all get much worse.
The mayor is in a tough spot, some of it his own making, but much of it the result of decades of complete dysfunction of institutions, communities and families in the Democratic city that used to work.
It hasn't worked since the end of the '60s when Richard the Elder was mayor. We had a series of hacks and fools follow that man. Ritchie Short-Shanks set up the final fall, and it's occurring on Rahm's watch.
And cops don't trust him to have their backs.
The street gangs pull the triggers at ever increasing rates and mock the police. I hear stories of gangbangers in cars screeching their tires, driving doughnuts on the pavement with squad cars nearby, the riders leering, daring, mocking the cops who sit there.
That kind of thing doesn't make the news. But neighborhoods have eyes. The people see. They know what it means. The thugs are fearless now. The polls show that those who live in Chicago's war zones beg for the shootings to stop. But they don't want cops coming in rough.
Black Chicago doesn't trust the mayor, not since he suppressed that video of Laquan McDonald, the black teenager shot 16 times by Jason Van Dyke, a white police officer.
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This situation reminds me of the problems faced fighting the Islamists - the bulk of the Muslims claim they want the bad ones to behave but they get all huffy if we hurt a baby bunny when we try to help. They provide the sea for the Islamofascist fish to swim in.
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The polls show that those who live in Chicago's war zones beg for the shootings to stop. But they don't want cops coming in rough.
then STFU. You'll get what you asked for, good and hard
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Frank, I thought it was, "Hold me closer Tony Danza".
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The newest wrinkle is the surge in shoot em ups taking place on the expressways as opposed to the neighborhoods. Crime scene results in a big shut down of a major artery for 4-5 hours.
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The conservatives should personalize this disaster. Post pictures and names of each murder victim. Do not refer to statistics. Keep a running tally of victims after the each weekend of chaos. Policy disasters have consequences...and in this case we should know the names of the victims paid the price of Emanuel's policy decisions.
[LI] Because the issue isn't contentious enough, Obama Administration Officials will issue a directive to public school districts nationwide, instructing them to allow students to use the restroom of their choosing.
Officials from the Justice and Education Departments have signed the letter which preaches against discrimination.
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“No student should ever have to go through the experience of feeling unwelcome at school or on a college campus.”
Except for the 98% that are not hoping for access to the restroom of their choice.
So this is another "Pro-Choice" issue.
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Time to take down the old glyphs/icons and words for the restrooms and put up new. The stick (l) and the oh (o), to designate bodily anatomy. To use the Left's own destruction of language - it's not gender, it's plumbing.
PC running amok. Someone has confused tolerance with submission.
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The Feldhofer Cave of the Neander Valley in Germany had no formal bathroom. I ask you, are these conveniences of modern civilization and concepts of privacy really necessary ?
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Too bad we're still paying all of those congressmen and wymn to make the laws, what with Presidential Directives and all. Appears to me there should be some sort of cost savings available for harvest.
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U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said "there is no room in our schools for discrimination" and was sending the directive Friday to school districts. Some told her not to bother.
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Everyone pushing this crap should institutionalized as they are danger to themselves and others. The people suffering this have a severe mental disorder that needs competent medical help, not encouragement in their disorder. It's no different than giving junkies free drugs thinking it helps them out.
But the enablers are criminally responsible for encouraging behavior that essentially leads to death. John Hopkins refuses to do these surgeries because the suicide rate is higher after than before.
[Chicago Tribune] A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Obama administration is unconstitutionally spending federal money to fund the president's health care law.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer is a win for House Republicans who brought the politically charged legal challenge in an effort to undermine the law.
At stake is $175 billion the government is paying over a decade to reimburse health insurers for reducing co-payments for lower-income people.
The House argued that Congress never specifically appropriated that money and has denied the administration's request for it. It says the administration is spending the money anyway, exceeding its constitutional authority. The administration has said it is using other, previously approved money.
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This is all sorts of screwed up - Congress should have shut the whole thing down from the start because this was freaking obvious.
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I'm sure the Supreme Court will find it's all okey-dokey - maybe it's not 'real' money but just some electronic funds and Congress only has to appropriate the real money, with the Administration able to spend all the fake money it likes.
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There was one hopeful sign within the high court last week. Justice Ginsburg was quoted as saying 'she would rather pee without men in her bathroom.'
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Judges are notorious for supporting the party in power. With Trump steam rolling to the White House, the judges are just swinging back to what appears to them to be the emerging side.
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The Supreme Court just makes up shit so these lower court rulings mean little to nothing. Roberts will say something like 'since the billions for insurance countries were borrowed they do not need congressional approval...' Or 'affordable care implies unlimited federally funded; therefore, it is legal...' Blah blah blah.
[NGINX.SPECTATOR.ORG] One wishes that after seven-plus years of demoralizing, ugly, incompetent and divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... leadership, there would be at long last something one might find in Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... that an average American could make peace with.
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In the foyer at Howard you will find oil paintings of its founders. White people dedicated to the founding of a minority University. Not black only. I suggest they remove those paintings of a symbolic repressive uncivil era.
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[LI] Because the issue isn't contentious enough, Obama Administration Officials will issue a directive to public school districts nationwide, instructing them to allow students to use the restroom of their choosing.
[Chicago Tribune] A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Obama administration is unconstitutionally spending federal money to fund the president's health care law.
