Newsalert: Chicago to Borrow $1. 1 Billion Dollars: William Daley Jr. to Make 2.64 from Underwriting Fee
Chicago being part of Illinois (I think that’s how it works), we might consider what a jungle it is in here — as if we didn’t know — in view of this item:There’s more [to the story of the city’s borrowing another billion-plus to stay afloat]:
The senior managing underwriter on the $1.1 billion borrowing with an estimated $2.64 million in fees is Morgan Stanley. The company’s affidavit was signed by William Daley Jr., . . . .
Category: Blithe Spirit
“Heinous” to violate Vatican embargo?
Italian magazine publishes leaked version of pope’s eco-encyclical | Crux.
A Vatican official, speaking to Bloomberg News on Monday, called publishing the document before Thursday a “heinous act,” and various clergy urged media organizations to respect the official embargo date.
That’s a bit much. If he were redefining the Trinity and they beat the embargo, it would be one thing. But the endorsement of man-made global warming by a chemistry major? Please.
Illinois blues: Oak Park senator can’t figure Governor Rookie, who won’t play ball
It is 2015, and the Illinois whose fiscal worries were exaggerated by Republicans in 2013, as the Oak Park senator said, is in trouble that even he must recognize.
It’s this first-term governor whom he cannot understand and who doesn’t seem to give a hang, which makes him a very bad enemy to have to face.
Reuters reports the latest from Governor Rookie, that he has ruled out “a short-term spending plan to keep the state operating beyond the July 1 start of fiscal 2016 if there is no deal over a full-year budget.”
What the . . . ? No short-term budget? . . . .
Read the rest here: Illinois blues: Oak Park senator can’t figure Governor Rookie, who won’t play ball.
How a Democrat state senator explained Illinois finances in 2013: Not a problem
The Donald of Oak Park, its senator in Springfield, where he’s high in the ranks of the Ruling Party, smooth-as-silk boss of Oak Park’s Democratic Party organization, took to the podium at Oak Park’s Carleton Hotel on a glorious day in late June of 2013 for his annual report to the Business and Civic Council.
It was time to explain things to bankers, business owners and operators, and other issues-aware citizen consumers and taxpayers with skin in the game to varying degrees and/or psychic income from allegedly progressive political victories and enactments.
The state was in a state of turmoil, confusion, and all-around hyperactivity. The two legislative chambers were at odds over a pension solution. The governor, a one-time gadfly with Oak Park roots, was soon to cut off legislators’ pay checks to punish them for inactivity.
For the Donald, however, it was what-me-worry time. . . . . Read the rest
Retirement and Irrelevance
Teenagers think they know everything, yet they know almost nothing about life. They are barely educated and lack even the smallest morsels of life’s experience. They think their parents are old and out of touch. They truly believe they can do everything in life better. This isn’t a shocking revelation, but just the normal growth progression of life.
In a short 4 years or so, they will garner the coveted Bachelor’s degree and in a few more years, they may even have more framed wallpaper for their office. This is a dangerous time for them. They have been convinced, through teachings and titles, that they actually know stuff. And to some degree that’s true. They know stuff that other people know, but they haven’t discovered anything on their own, they lack the practical experience of life.
It’s only after a few years in the workplace that they discover how much…
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The whatever-it-takes gang from national TeeVee
Illinois blues: Madigan delivers body blows to Rauner’s extremities
Illinois blues: Rauner in press conf., socking it to the opposition
Illinois blues: Rauner in press conf., socking it to the opposition.
Catch him here. He’s good.
Nailing Chi Trib’s Steve Chapman, the flabby one
Strongman Barack Obama Goes Full Stalin: Tells Secret Court To Ignore Law He Signed 4 Hours Earlier, Extend Illegal NSA Surveillance
He has no sense of the rule of law. It’s all pragmatism with him. Utterly without principle. What works is good. Shades of the old black revolutionary “whatever means necessary. Whatever it takes.”
No morals in politics, said Lenin; only expediency. No vision except what’s in front of his nose. Small man.
Ends and means, according to Alinsky.
(Go News Alert.)
