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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,494 |
| Posted: | | | | CNN reporting on the Govenor Blagojevich scandel in Barak's home state ,, Thank goodness we're off the BIG 3 bailout today .. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 940 |
| Posted: | | | | Yes, the perp-walked our governor off to jail this morning. Too bad, he was doing such a bang-up job of screwing up the Illinois economy. | | | Kevin |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,635 |
| Posted: | | | | If this guy spends time in prison, then four of the past eight governors of Illinois will have done so. What an interesting level of honesty exists in their seat of executive power... they have an 50% chance of not having a felonious governor! | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 4,596 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting VibroCount: Quote: If this guy spends time in prison, then four of the past eight governors of Illinois will have done so. What an interesting level of honesty exists in their seat of executive power... they have an 50% chance of not having a felonious governor! Ain't tradition grand | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 1,414 |
| Posted: | | | | The interesting part is the corruption is thoroughly bipartisan; it's as if you can't get elected governor there unless you're a corrupt SOB. | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Posted: | | | | It's good to be King.. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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Registered: May 29, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 3,475 |
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| Posted: | | | | I think the basis for all this corruption is Chicago politics. With over half the state population concentrated in Cook and the surrounding ring of counties, it is very difficult for anyone to become elected to a state-wide office that can't swing the vote from that highly populated and highly corrupt area. Things there are run pretty much the same today as they have been since the days of Al Capone. We were discussing this at work this morning, and decided what Illinois needs to do is to build an exclusive convicted ex-governor prison. All states could send them here, but since we have so many, transportation costs would be minimized. | | | Kevin |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,635 |
| Posted: | | | | | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Posts: 1,328 |
| Posted: | | | | It's a sad state of affairs. But how is this really different from Hillary and Barrack? Hillary gets $10M to pay off campaign debt and gets appointed Secretary of State for supporting Barrack Obama. Govenor Blagojevich asks for money and a job for appointing a replacement Senator. | | | My Home Theater |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,494 |
| Posted: | | | | But not on eBay ... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 21,610 |
| Posted: | | | | I didn't vote for him, I saw this train wreck coming, I fear it will only get much, much worse.
Since when do reporters submit questions in advance of a presser...some returned with notes saying "inappropriate". Smacks of attempts to control the press and censorship. Don't ask any question he doesn't want to answer.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!! CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it. Outta here
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| Posted: | | | | Quoting VibroCount: Quote: If this guy spends time in prison, then four of the past eight governors of Illinois will have done so. What an interesting level of honesty exists in their seat of executive power... they have an 50% chance of not having a felonious governor! Don't tar the whole state because of a few bad apples. 99.9% of the corruption in Illinois government originates in Chicago in the Democratic political machine run currently by the Daly clan. And yes, that includes the Republican governors who've been nailed as well, since they can't operate without the blessing of the Chicago machine. If we could, we would cut Chicago and the collar counties out of the map of Illinois! | | | John
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 2,694 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting xradman: Quote: It's a sad state of affairs. But how is this really different from Hillary and Barrack? Hillary gets $10M to pay off campaign debt and gets appointed Secretary of State for supporting Barrack Obama. Govenor Blagojevich asks for money and a job for appointing a replacement Senator. Don't be surprised that Hillary is cut from the same cloth as Blogojevich and the rest. After, she was born and raised in the Chicago burbs! | | | John
"Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice!" Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964 Make America Great Again! |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 940 |
| Posted: | | | | I got this in a email today: Illinois new State Slogan:
Illinois: Where our Governors make our license plates! | | | Kevin |
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