“Embarrassed by Illinois”

At the Oak Park library, July 17, 2013 — from Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters — “some dramatic government failures”

The CPA who had urged Sen. Harmon to “do something about corruption” continued.

“To say the pension situation is complicated is a classic delaying tactic. We are spending way more than we are taking in. People leave Illinois [in large numbers]. . . . Taxes are huge, hit even homeless people, some of whom I help. You are part of the problem. not the solution.”

Not even the voluble Rep. Lilly directly engaged him. Harmon did not. Nobody in the audience picked up on his complaints. In the ensuing lull, someone asked about taxing retirement income.

It’s “on the table of [sic] discussion,” Lilly said.

Another man said he was “embarrassed by Illinois.” He cited National Public Radio, Wall Street Journal, and other outlets. “It’s the worst state . . . “

Lilly denied it. “I have an opinion. The media doesn’t represent the facts accurately. The facts don’t state that. . . . I’m very proud to live in Illinois . . . Look at your [sic] history . . . We must come together . . . I celebrate that. . . . This is a great state [in which] to raise your family!”

Harmon conceded “some dramatic government failures,” naming none. “We are climbing out of the hole.”

The Chicago Tribune, he said, “has bashed the heart out of us.”

Illinois Blues is available in paperback, epub and Amazon Kindle formats.

Lookin’ good for GOP holding senate numbers

Swing-state blues no more — at this point.

Republican hopes to hold the Senate are being bolstered by a Quinnipiac University poll showing GOP incumbents leading in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, three critical swing states.

“The numbers seem to be breaking the Republican way in the battle for control of the U.S. Senate, at least when it comes to the critical swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

Getting used to Trump.

Source: Quinnipiac Poll: GOP Looks to Hold Senate As Dem Swing State Challengers Falter; ‘Trump No Hindrance Down-Ticket’ – Breitbart

Fact-checkers checked

 

By James Taranto, who is catching up with my thinking before I had even revealed it:

Longtime readers know this column does not [approve of “fact check” journalism].

Some good work is done under the rubric of “fact checking,” but the label is deceptive.

Calling it “fact checking” is meant to convey an extra degree of objective authority, but “fact check” journalists do not limit themselves to questions of verifiable objective fact.

They present themselves naively and deceptively as above the fray.

Frequently they accuse politicians of dishonesty interpreting facts that are not in dispute. Sometimes their “rulings” are mere opinions on matters about which they do not know the facts, or that are not factual questions at all.

Read JT further on: How to Destroy Journalism – WSJ

Islam, Revolution, and Black Lives Matter

The enemy within?

In a speech delivered to the Annual MAS-ICNA (Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America) Convention in December 2015, Nihad Awad, the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), urged Muslim Americans to take up the cause of Black Lives Matter.

“Black Lives Matter is our matter,” he said; “Black Lives Matter is our campaign.”

At the same conference, Khalilah Sabra, another activist, told the Muslim audience, “Basically you are the new black people of America… We are the “community that staged a revolution across the world. If we could do that, why can’t we have that revolution in America?”

“That revolution” is apparently a reference to the “Arab Spring” revolutions which were inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood and which brought death and destruction to wide swaths of the Middle East and North Africa.

This kind of talk does no favors for Muslims who want nothing to do with disruption.

Source: Islam, Revolution, and Black Lives Matter – Crisis Magazine

LeBron and Co. Turn ESPYs Into Black Lives Matter Propaganda

Wednesday’s event didn’t feature a single athlete condemning the “Ferguson Effect,” where cops are pulling back from fully doing their work following the BLM uprising and the drumbeat of cultural criticism.

Maybe they’ll mention it at the 2017 ESPY Awards. Just don’t hold your breath.

You could say you can’t blame the roundballers, who have to concentrate on game films, etc. Yet and still, they are appallingly uninformed. How could it be otherwise?

A just-released study by a black Harvard professor crushed the BLM mantra about shootings involving police officers and people of color.

So did excellent reporting by Heather Mac Donald. Apparently, Wade [heading for murder capital Chicago to join the Bulls] didn’t see that information. It’s not fully his fault. The media did its best to downplay it.

They have their narrative.

Source: LeBron and Co. Turn ESPYs Into Black Lives Matter Propaganda | PJ Media

Man Dressed as Woman Caught Taking Pictures of Woman in coed bathroom

Gimme those ol’ unisex toilets, gimme those ol’ unisex toilets, gimme those ol’ unisex toilets, they’re good enough for me.

Makes me love everybody . . .

It has saved our fathers . . .

It was good for the prophet Daniel . . .

Gimme those ol’ unisex toilets, gimme those ol’ unisex toilets, gimme those ol’ unisex toilets, they’re good enough for me.

It was good for Hebrew children

. . . .
And it’s good enough for me

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Apologies to Songwriters BAIRD, J / TRADITIONAL, PD

And publishers Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

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