tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post6809190212809234120..comments2024-03-29T05:29:08.934-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Flashback 2002: Fighting slavery's legacy—Reparations reconsideredNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-76639959991631859582020-07-15T10:39:25.015-05:002020-07-15T10:39:25.015-05:00"his obsession with exclamation points, what ..."his obsession with exclamation points, what a goof"<br /><br />True. Though I don't actually partake of Mr. Prine's reality-adjuster, "I'm just tryin' to have me some fun."<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmjnQjRvPUQ Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-63940668286583187392020-07-15T01:47:31.649-05:002020-07-15T01:47:31.649-05:00As for Nixon's anti-Semitism, he's been de...As for Nixon's anti-Semitism, he's been dead for 26 years, so I don't care, while Jackson, Farrakhan & Sharpton are all still alive & spreading their hate. Now we have a couple of black football players spreading anti-Semitic bullshit, along with Nick Cannon spouting bizarre anti-Semitic crap. Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-55424841600698769122020-07-15T01:37:29.311-05:002020-07-15T01:37:29.311-05:00I wrote that the last honest alderman was Paul Dou...I wrote that the last honest alderman was Paul Douglas, which means I called the all the white ones corrupt, or didn't that get through to anyone. I also wrote that Chicago is the most corrupt place in the United States & that includes crooks like Burke & the Daleys! As for Jakash & his obsession with exclamation points, what a goof!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-43035632051140628862020-07-14T20:25:50.121-05:002020-07-14T20:25:50.121-05:00Jakash — Was that East Rogers Park?🤣Jakash — Was that East Rogers Park?🤣SandyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14070366627628604352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-62499130144471540642020-07-14T18:18:50.362-05:002020-07-14T18:18:50.362-05:00Why am I not surprised?Why am I not surprised?Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-34580239823484320362020-07-14T16:49:08.417-05:002020-07-14T16:49:08.417-05:00WhoaWhoaFMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-74021326633285408962020-07-14T16:48:42.971-05:002020-07-14T16:48:42.971-05:00Not sure, but I believe the homage is to the secti...Not sure, but I believe the homage is to the section of Clark St. in Rogers Park, not downtown, Sandy. I could be wrong. <br /><br />Thumbs up to "seemingly," though! <br /><br />If it weren't for that "lost at sea" Lightfoot, all the city's pension problems would have certainly been cleared up by now, I think we can all agree. Hell, she's had (checks notes) 14 months to get this dump back on track, and it's not like we've got any other problems she's been dealing with. Given that Clark St. refers to her opponent in the general election as Taxwinkle, I've a hunch that he wouldn't be expecting any better from her, however. ; ) Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-3426153907347091052020-07-14T16:03:24.861-05:002020-07-14T16:03:24.861-05:00The incorrect part is your general philippic again...The incorrect part is your general philippic against black leadership as corrupt and anti-Semitic. "It amazes & disgusts me, that when they finally got into the halls of power, instead of helping their own people, they decided to line their own pockets!" As opposed to whites? I would hate to see a contest between who's more of an anti-Semite, Jesse Jackson or Richard Nixon, but it'd be close. I didn't read your initial message before I posted it, Clark St., because you are a regular and trusted reader. But it is nothing to be proud of. <br />Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-43911091639887530822020-07-14T15:31:41.654-05:002020-07-14T15:31:41.654-05:00I've never worked for any government, ever!I've never worked for any government, ever!Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-90010919194065379012020-07-14T15:31:15.197-05:002020-07-14T15:31:15.197-05:00Is there anything in the last paragraph that's...Is there anything in the last paragraph that's incorrect? <br />The answer is no!Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-79736877331919674392020-07-14T13:44:24.258-05:002020-07-14T13:44:24.258-05:00I always look forward to your emphatic and seeming...I always look forward to your emphatic and seemingly knowledgeable comments, Clark St.<br />With the moniker you chose, am I right to assume you work (or worked) in one of the Cook County buildings downtown ? :)SandyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14070366627628604352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-67754966738697633532020-07-14T12:21:14.011-05:002020-07-14T12:21:14.011-05:00Wow. I won't even attempt to deal with the re...Wow. I won't even attempt to deal with the remarkably incendiary, wide-ranging broad-brushism you've cobbled together there, Clark St. <br /><br />I will note, however, that I was on pins and needles reading it. You were so restrained in the first several paragraphs that I spied no exclamation points at all. How could you ever hit your quota? I almost lost hope. But that last paragraph -- Hallelujah! 3 in 4 sentences to get you to the half-dozen that I consider the sweet spot. <br /><br />Neil's column was excellent, of course. The fact that it's as timely now as it must have been then, and would have been in 1970 or 1870 is plenty depressing, though. <br /><br />"We limit our intake of information to stuff we agree with" is largely how we got to the point where a 21st-Century superpower could even conceive of electing a reality-TV star and lifelong racist, sexist grifter as president. Interesting to see the notion addressed from the perspective of 2002, though Paul Simon pretty much had nailed it in "The Boxer" in 1969. "Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest."Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-3593721113391521162020-07-14T01:56:21.110-05:002020-07-14T01:56:21.110-05:00West Germany & now unified Germany, paid repar...West Germany & now unified Germany, paid reparation money to Jews that survived the Holocaust & to some children of the victims for their stolen property. But many have never received anything from the life insurance their murdered parents paid out for, especially from German & Italian insurance companies. A few descendants have managed to sue to get some stolen art works returned, but tens of thousands of art works stolen by the Nazis from Jews illegally remain in either public museums or private hands, throughout Europe, Asia & even some in the United States. <br /><br />But no reparation money has gone to children, grandchildren & great grandchildren of those murdered.<br /><br />The US Government paid out $20,000 each to all the surviving Japanese Americans who were put in relocation camps about 30 years ago. But again, it only went to those that had been in those camps, not to the children of any who died prior to that time.<br /><br />If this country were to pay out cash to the descendants of slaves, it would tear this country apart in a new Civil War! There isn't a single former slave alive today & I don't believe there is a single person alive who was the child of a slave. <br /><br />I honestly don't know what can be done to improve the lives of black Americans other than more jobs, which would lead to better housing & healthcare, but Wall Street conspired with both the Republicans & Democrats to move millions of manufacturing jobs out of our cities & into China, in the insane search for higher & higher profits for a few billionaires. <br /><br />But with the murder of Martin Luther King, the black community has been cursed with the alleged leadership of anti-Semitic scum, such as Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan & Al Sharpton. And worse locally, the various black aldermen, county board members, legislators & other government office holders, have decided that they are going to be as corrupt as their white predecessors, but have been thoroughly incompetent at it, as so many have been caught by the feds & gone to prison. If I recall correctly, Chicago has managed to have two, father/son sets of aldermen get caught taking bribes for some of the most absurdly small things, but also one alderman took bribes to allow a massive fly dumping site at Roosevelt & Kostner, that was an incredible 70 feet tall, before the city finally spent millions to haul all that construction debris away!<br /><br />It amazes & disgusts me, that when they finally got into the halls of power, instead of helping their own people, they decided to line their own pockets! <br /><br />As far as I can tell, the last actual honest alderman Chicago had was Paul Douglas & that was in the 1940s & he left the city council at the age of 54 to join the Marines to fight in WWII. All of them since then, even & especially the good government types, has turned out to be corrupt in some way or another. <br /><br />Chicago is easily, the single most corrupt place in the United States! And Chicago is the most incompetently run city in the country! <br />That definitely goes for Lightfoot, who is totally lost at sea as mayor. She got rolled by the rotten teachers union last fall & now with massively reduced tax receipts, there's no money to pay for their obscenely high pensions!Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.com