tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post6021098116246748182..comments2024-03-28T15:05:10.372-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: Flashback 2011: If only Rod read different KiplingNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-15591519041046681552020-02-18T15:41:42.980-06:002020-02-18T15:41:42.980-06:00Yes, Blago was a nefarious politician — like many ...Yes, Blago was a nefarious politician — like many — but I always felt his sentence was excessive considering what other politicians had done and the sentences they received or never received! Interesting to read an excerpt from “The 12 Most Corrupt Public Officials In Illinois History: Paul Powell” at nbc.com. It talks about Paul Powell when there was no Secretary of State office in the 50s and motorists wrote checks directly to him. You can imagine where some of those checks were going. Powell was never convicted but after his death thousands of dollars were found in shoeboxes in his hotel room. I still recall hearing about that when I was just an innocent grade school kid — made a big impact on me learning about dishonesty in the politicians we elect. Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15373960140777556685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-24684266351289655862019-08-09T08:36:08.038-05:002019-08-09T08:36:08.038-05:00I voted for Vallas in the primary and Topinka in t...I voted for Vallas in the primary and Topinka in the election, mostly because I'd met her and my brother worked for her. I was more shocked and outraged at her loss than I was at Hillary's. Plus, I could never forgive Blago for proclaiming, "No new taxes," while introducing "Take me out to the Ball Game" in the 7th inning of a Cubs game -- that should have gotten him an additional 7 years at least.tatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-31348381745679027532019-08-08T20:21:53.225-05:002019-08-08T20:21:53.225-05:00Blagojamoke was the moron who proposed tearing dow...Blagojamoke was the moron who proposed tearing down Cole Hall after the NIU shootings and spending forty million to build some hideous monstrosity that included one of those memorial monuments they used to build to honor the working-class heroes and martyrs in East Germany during the Cold War. Luckily, the university and the community and the rest of the state hooted him down almost immediately. "Time heals, not bulldozers..." one wrote. "Tear Blago down!" wrote another. In the end, this loser tore himself down.<br /><br />Kipling wrote extensively about both San Francisco and Chicago in "American Notes" (1891)--the chronicle of his west-to-east travels across the U.S and Canada during 1889. He said very little that was positive about either place, generally disdained America, and dismissed Chicagoans as "savages"--so after reading his quite derogatory travel book as a youngster, I really had no further desire to kipple.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-84034125284832511662019-08-08T16:09:33.663-05:002019-08-08T16:09:33.663-05:00I hate myself for having voted for this bastard tw...I hate myself for having voted for this bastard twice. Even though I'd met Judy Baar Topinka personally and immensely respected her, I voted for Blago because I was afraid that Topinka's much-vaunted "frugality" was a euphemism for typical Republican bitching over every dime that goes to help non-rich people.<br /><br />Lesson learned: In politics, ideology doesn't always trump character.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-20571710522167189392019-08-08T13:21:38.329-05:002019-08-08T13:21:38.329-05:00I wonder if I'll find Stalky & Company and...I wonder if I'll find Stalky & Company and Soldiers Three as engaging as I did 60 years ago. Just purchased all Kipling wrote for $1.99 to find out. <br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-58557641661665561342019-08-08T13:20:21.708-05:002019-08-08T13:20:21.708-05:00Keep close watch as this trial balloon from the Co...Keep close watch as this trial balloon from the Cowardly Liar surely conceals some ulterior motive. Meanwhile his children wait with aching hearts and his wife with tortured knees to be delivered from Rod's purgatory. <br /><br /><br /><br />JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613528527379198505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-31301528286020772112019-08-08T12:54:37.665-05:002019-08-08T12:54:37.665-05:00"If" is a fairly awful poem, but Kipling..."If" is a fairly awful poem, but Kipling did indeed have depth, and was a wonderful lyricist. I don't care much if Blago is pardoned, but hate to see Trump putting his own, self-referencing, spin on the case.<br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-66531424246991736832019-08-08T09:30:28.001-05:002019-08-08T09:30:28.001-05:00I have a placard in my office. It says “If you can...I have a placard in my office. It says “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...you clearly have failed to understand the seriousness of your situation.” <br /><br />I consider this my personal mottoAnniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831580101168618303noreply@blogger.com