None of this is good, but can we stop hearing about all the deaths in Iraq? Should we pull out of Chicago?
Body count. In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago, 221 killed in Iraq.
Sens. Barack Obama & Dick Durbin, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Gov. Rod Blogojevich, House leader Mike Madigan, Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike), Mayor Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J. Daley)…..our leadership in Illinois…..all Democrats.
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago. Of course they’re all blaming each other.
Can’t blame Republicans, there aren’t any!
State pension fund $44 Billion in debt, worst in country. Cook County (Chicago) sales tax 10.25% highest in country. (Look’em up if you want). Chicago school system one of the worst in country. This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois. He’s gonna ‘fix’ Washington politics?
You may know I’ve got the page on my blog with all the e-mails we get that we secretly love but pretend to be annoyed by…well this one is so good it gets main page billing!
I absolutely love this one…… AMEN!
*Father/Daughter Talk*
>
> * A young woman was about to finish her first year of
> college. Like so many others her age, she considered
> herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and was very much
> in favor of ‘the redistribution of wealth.’
>
> She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather
> staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based
> on the lectures that she had participated in, and the oc
> casional chat with a professor, she felt that her father
> had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep
> what he ; **thought should be his.
>
> One day she was challenging her father on his opposition
> to higher taxes on the rich and the addition of more
> government welfare programs. The self-professed
> objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be
> the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded
> by asking how she was doing in school.
>
> Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a
> 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it w as tough to maintain,
> insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load
> and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go
> out and party like other people she knew. She didn’t even
> have time for a boyfriend, and didn’t really have many
> college friends because she spent all her time studying.
>
> Her father listened and then asked, ‘How is your friend
> Audrey doing?’
>
> She replied, ‘Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes
> are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a
> 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a
> blast. She’s always invited to all the parties, and lots
> of times she doesn’t even show up for classes
> because she’s too hung over.’
>
> Her wise father asked his daughter, ‘Why don’t you go to
> the Dean’s of fice and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your
> GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That
> way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that
> would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.’
>
> The daughter, visibly shocked by her father’s suggestion,
> angrily fired back, ‘That wouldn’t be fair! I have worked
> really hard for my grades! I’ve invested a lot of time,
> and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing
> toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!’
>
> The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently,’Welcome
> to the Republican party.’*
