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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Blagojevich will (most likely) be the fourth governor since the seventies to do time.
This keeps up, it could tarnish the image of Chicago politics.
ION, I made a lemon raspberry cake for my MiL's birthday yesterday. I recommend that flavor combination.
Any guesses?
Oprah?
The fact that children were killed is what got the whole Licenses-for-Bribes (its official name in the media) investigation rolling. Most Illinoisans shrug off governmental corruption, viewing it as part of the game that is politics, but innocents dying was the step over the line for us, or at least for me. When I heard that Sen. Durbin was petitioning W to give Ryan clemency, I nearly hit the roof. I sent him my first ever protest letter to a politician, asking him why he would do that when six children are dead.
Here's an editorial on the (reprehensible) effort to get Ryan released or pardoned that explains what happened:
ETA: and thanks for the reminder, Kathy - I need to write to Durbin as well.
My office is all abuzz with the news. We deal with politics all the time as part of the job, which means we're pretty much all wonks, so this stuff is a feast for us. The funny thing is that a lot of people are saying how glad we are that Blago got arrested, which is a rather sad comment that we feel relief that he got caught before he did any more damage.
They're saying that Candidate #5 is Jesse Jackson, Jr.
This keeps up, it could tarnish the image of Chicago politics.
Heh.
I'd have guessed him or Emil Jones, with him probably being the most able to access that kind of cash, so that makes sense.
Be nice if this improves Tammy Duckworth's shot. Though how they sort this out and get anyone in that seat without a cloud over them is a question.
They're saying that Candidate #5 is Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Wow.
ION, anyone got a million bucks I can borrow? I wanna be a senator....
And speaking of stupid:
Troubled US bank Merrill Lynch said chairman and chief executive John Thain has withdrawn his request for a bonus this year amid rising public anger over Wall Street's role in the country's financial crisis.
Yeah, you think? Moron.