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I live in Illinois, Rush, do you think Durbin or Burris are going to listen to me?

‘promoted by GOD to be a mother’ will be the new mantra. Is it copyrighted yet?

Did she say she is a mother of seven?

She will no doubt be Olby’s worstest person of the world.

Nope. Sent it to his SC address at Joe Wilson for Congress.

I was one of the nearly ten thousand tax day tea partiers in New Lenox, Illinois on Monday. You’d hardly know anything happened that morning from the local press. Ignore us at your own peril.

Who is this guy? Tom Hastings? Never heard of him. I can see why, he’s a dope. He states:

“Does it not seem that when the U.S. can afford and not question nearly 1,000 military bases on other people’s sovereign soil — 287 of them in Germany alone...”

When I was in Europe, many if not most of these installations were called FOBs; forward operating bases. Manned by skeleton crews FOBs were in case of Soviet invasion. When our A-10s took off from my base in the U.K, they were supposed to kill ten tanks for every one aircraft loss. The FOBs were there for refueling, rearming, and the like. Many of these bases are now closed. There are only a few remaining active air bases in the U.K still active.

So this guy is probably looking at some numbers from the 1980s when we did have a bunch of foreign military locations. Which is why I say he’s a dope. For a critical thinker, he has no sound arguments, nor are his facts up to date. What he argues has no bearing on the debate at hand.

If I had written in my graduate class what Hastings wrote, the professor would have ripped me a new one.

Another race card? How big is that deck any way?

God dang, I can’t read garbage like this any more.

Is 2010 here yet?

“Joe Klein describes Republican critics of Obama as “racists””

The desperation of liberals, the race card. Whodathunk? You go on thinking that Joe, and watch what happens November 2010.

I sent Joe Wilson $25.00 this morning. Joe speaks for me.

Debbie Halvorson, 11th district, Illinois. She beat the AWOL republican Jerry Weller in November. The 11th was a stalwart repub district but a lot of dems from Cook Co. and Chicago have moved out this way. She is vulnerable in 2010.

Visit http://www.blogzillavilla.blogspot.com/ for video on the ‘Where’s Debbie’ protest.

Nancy Pelosi should review Section 8 of the articles under the powers of the Congress.

Section 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; To establish Post Offices and post Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of Particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards and other needful Buildings;--And To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

because his parents were in the Italian army there

Italy has an army?

I worked with a guy from the north African country of Tunisia a while back. I joked with him that he was African-American. Whoa there! He did not in any way consider himself an African let alone an African-American. He was Tunisian, not African! He told me that people of north Africa do not consider themselves as Africans. That was news to me.

So whenever I hear some one say they are African-American, I want to ask them, which country in Africa do you originate from? Its a long way from South Africa to Tunisia. Its like me being called a North American-American. Do I live in Mexico, the U.S., or Canada?

Zoe Baird

Kimba Wood

Great art work. Wish I had the skills! Right on, bro!

"I think he said Venezualan," "Nicaraguan."

There's a difference?

I remember the heat wave that struck Chicago in 1995 and especially July 13th, since that day was about 106 degrees. Every one I knew made it through okay. No one died. But the local media went nuts with the deaths attributed to the heat. Any death was labelled as a heat stroke death. It didn't matter if you were a hundred years old, ridden with cancer, vital organs destroyed by drug and alcohol abuse, and drowned in a pool, you were considered a heat stroke victim.

This number, 600 deaths or what ever it was, was hyperbole. You need to understand the news market here in Chicago. This place lives for a big rain, or snow fall, or cold weather. Local reporters are always standing outside O'Hare airport reporting on the snow fall, or by the Eisenhower Expressway videotaping the salt trucks as they ply the area roads.

During the heat wave of 1995, news reports showed dead bodies being lifted in coroner vans. Ten years later, even with all the killings and murders that take place in Chicago, (648 in 2002, fewer now) those scenes don't make it on the ten o' clock news.

"The photographer is actually Central American but that's just semantics"

I think he said Venezualan, but what ever, he realized he needed to get out. Sad to say that he was smarter than most of the Americans sitting at the CC waiting for help.