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Long ago,
a lake surrounded by large summer homes on the hillside, with a hotel/resort and a train stop from Chicago.

I rode my bicycle through town, going to work on most dry days, many Asians, very few blacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Ellyn,_Illinois

Find an available home, some must be moving out.
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&sca_esv=137b759269c363f4&sxsrf=AE3TifMbGGDBbB4OA3mUrX7h7qg6Rf29wA:1751995515512&q=glen+ellyn+il+homes&udm=2&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIeuyr9ljWioGWIw0oasFed3q5v-jrTO4UFmLjWc-eQrSDAn5yCiUOywCEMyD2GzPsD4p6NxyE0nWcubdFo_geguuEzTyhb5YnZGp9oc-5cJgdOWVqSlpwqlRFBrxaDT9YXk-Cdymu63-zeABH1e7STtPakvrAsNBjNpc49sGHXpjHEuW6dw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqr-by462OAxWERjABHS-lDTkQtKgLKAF6BAgaEAE&biw=1649&bih=768&dpr=1.13

—”Glen Ellyn deserves this. Stupid woke idiots.”

The same as the rest of DuPage.

Trump received 42% in Dupage.

Maybe better in Keeneyville or Cloverdale, but not by much.

Pools are crazy expensive to maintain.
Many in my area have closed.

That said, I see “instant” pools popping up in unused retail sites.
Appears to be a large area but shallow above-ground pool sitting on the existing slab.

I wish them well.

—” The only person in the pool was the manager that was shoved into it.”

Not many actual swimmers in the mob, if any.

Sadly, my DuPage County, once a bastion of conservatism, is going left.
A vast wave has abandoned Chicago and brought their voting patterns with them.

—”With the new welfare/work requirements in the BBB there should be plenty of people signing up for lifeguard work.”

Unlikely that any of the 947 blacks shown on the 2020 census will be looking for work as a Glen Ellyn lifeguard.

—”Time to exercise our 2nd amendment rights.”

You will be in prison, and your target will own all of your stuff.

Your targets will also win a ghetto lotto, funded by taxpayers.

And in the unlikely event you luck out on target, they will collect total 24/7 care and feeding in perpetuity.

—”Glen Ellyn was being culturally enriched.”

Or maybe not.

I lived next to Glen Eylllyn for years, Many beautiful homes...

Sadly, my DuPage County, once a bastion of conservatism, is going left.
A vast wave has abandoned Chicago and brought their voting patterns with them.

At first thought, it’s a big money day for the Glen Ellyn pool.

But this crowd only consumes, and never pays.

The flash mob was originally planned for Naperville but Naperville police had a different plan, and Glen Ellyn has less than ten cops.

Anywhere there are nice things, they will steal it or destroy it.

https://youtu.be/Op5zCLl_ll8?si=pvuMRzRiNOZT-2RZ

Video depicts chaos at Glen Ellyn pool: Twerking, fireworks and manager shoved into water

Can you twerk out a car window?

Full txt:

https://archive.ph/83wHD

POWERFUL.

A house floating down the river...

You want to write about war? Brotherhood? Male alienation? Good luck.

THE ODYSSEY translated by Emily Wilson.

As good as it gets and proven over time.

I previously read a different translation, tending to MEGO.

The first half is good, into the second half and I could
not stop. I read all night, and already knew the ending! THAT GOOD.

Guessing the translator might adjust the ending for modern readers' sensibilities; fear not.

Sometimes I read a random section to enjoy it again.

On occasion, reread Tennyson's "ULYSSES".

How Ulysses(Odysseus)puts the band back together to sail forever.

"Forever and forever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!"

..."Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

My kind of guys.

The Treaty of Friendship and Commerce was actually signed between the United States and France in 1778, not Russia.

Most of your post is BS!!!

—”And even when they “win” studies have shown that their lives go downhill”

A friend of a friend won two million.
A few years later, he said he overspent and had to return to work.

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https://x.com/tsgnews/status/1940442830729891899

Dead or severely disabled, coming soon.

—”Has a traffic court judge in New Jersey stopped it yet?”

That comes much later.
Soon, it will be a near-endless stream of BS lawsuits, taking years in the courts.

Coming from the same nuts that demand more bird choppers and bird burners to power $100k EVs.

Then the traffic court....

If that is your best shot, so sad, too bad.

—”Just another Democratic effort...”

...To elect our worthless fat slob governor to higher office.