Being a father is a sacred trust and a blessing from God. Being a father is not just a joyful responsibility. Actually having a father and knowing him, having him be a part of your life, is also a blessing. What a shameful thing it is for a man to ignore a child that is his. Dan Proft knows this first hand, so we wish him a special "happy Father's Day."
One of Dan Proft's favorite sayings is, "We need to invest in families." I'm sure he means time and love, in addition to other peoples' tax dollars. Proft frequently says that we should all "respect life." He means that he's anti-abortion, of course, but I'm so sure that he also means that children who are already born and leading their young lives should be respected, too, and that their fathers should be there at every step of the way. To merely allow someone to be born and then to abandon them, after all, is not very respectful.
Dan Proft is the guy who placed sixth in the Illinois Republican primary for governor back in February. He claims to a "conservative" and is even referred to (although often with snickering) as "the ultra-conservative Dan Proft." Proft calls himself an "unapologetic conservative." As such, I'm sure, he knows and cherishes the meaning of being a good father. He was an adopted child, after all, and therefore knows first hand just how horrible it is for a child to not have one's real father in his or her life.
"Our most important right is the right to life," Proft said on his campaign website. "A respect for life means more than defending the unborn, it requires us to serve those born to disadvantageous circumstances and to find them loving homes for them. Thirty-seven years ago, I was adopted by parents who made the choice to welcome me into a loving, caring home. There are many children today who need stable homes, and those children, and the families that welcome them will have no stronger advocate in the governor’s office than me. According to the Dave Thomas Foundation, 60% of Americans have been personally touched by adoption. I am glad to say that I am a product of that happiness today."
As a student of social trends and current affairs, Dan Proft must be well aware of the fact that growing up without a father is one of the leading causes of juvenile deliquency and, later, a life of crime and/or academic failure. That's not to say, of course, that all fatherless children turn out bad, but the fact is that a disproportionately high number of them do.
Proft promised that - if elected governor - a Proft Administration would "Defend life from conception to natural death." I'm oh-so-sure that he must have also meant that a good father would do that for his own child, and not just leave that sacred duty to the government - or anybody else.
I'll bet that Dan Proft, as a Christian and a conservative, remains celibate and would never think of sleeping around. No sir, not Dan Proft. He's pure as the driven snow, you know, and that's why you should hang on his every word, whether he's speaking at a VFW hall or as a regular commentator and talk show host on WLS 890 AM.
Proft noted that it "is entirely natural for parents to want the best education possible for their children." Not just education, of course. I'm very certain that Dan Proft means that parents want the best of everything possible for their children. I'm sure that if he had a beautiful young daughter he'd want the best for her. Proft would want to see her grow up, to make sure she's studying, getting along well with other kids, dreaming the right kind of dreams, setting the right kind of goals. If Dan Proft had a daughter (hypothetically, of course) he'd be proud to publicly escort her to the opera and show her off. He'd want to be at her high school and college graduations, and eventually to walk her down the aisle at her wedding. If he had a son (again, hypothetically), Proft would want to play ball with him, do the graduation routines, and teach him to treat women with respect and dignity, and to always do the right thing. Right?
So, happy Father's Day to Dan Proft, a guy whose biological father was not in his life but was fortunate enough to be adopted into a loving household with both a mother figure and a father figure. See how well Dan Proft turned out? He's an inspiration to all of us, no? Remember: Any animal can sire a litter of offspring. It takes a real man to be a dad. I have no doubt that Dan Proft, and you and I, will remember our fathers - our dads - on Sunday, June 20.
"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter." ~Euripides
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Now We Know Aldermen's Shit Don't Stink
Oh, to be a member of the Royal City Council of Chicago. But even Chicago royalty - and those who think they should be treated royally - are challenged now and then.
Some of the 50 pompous asses on Chicago's City Council, also known as "crooks" or "aldermen," think they're too damned good for security checks. You know, the same security checks that their subjects must endure when entering many a public building. We've known for many years that most of them are elitist prisses, but their recent whining about being required to walk through a metal detector merely offers reconfirmation.
The Chicago Sun-Times's Fran Spielman (a favorite) reported on this latest examle of pomposity on October 30:
Chicago aldermen with their noses out of joint today demanded to know why they are searched along with the masses at the city’s central headquarters for administrative hearings.
Spielman quotes one of the aldermen, an elitist prick who seems to feel that his gold badge magically proves to security guards that he is not bent on committing physical harm with a weapon:
“Why am I searched as an alderman and as an attorney?…I don’t want to be searched going through a city building. There’s only 50 of us and we all have gold badges,” said Ald. Howard Brookins (21st).
Oooooh, not only as an alderman, but as an attorney! With a gold frikking badge! Brookins, however, was not the only pompous ass in the room. Among the others was Her Royal Lowness Carrie Austin:
Budget Committee Chair Carrie Austin (34th) was so “offended,” she warned Bruner what might happen if he fails to “take another look at your policy.”
Pompous Ass Austin actually threatened to screw with somebody's budget just because she was being treated like anybody else entering the city’s central headquarters for administrative hearings. Elitist? Austin's abuse of power and position fits the definition. Hell, she is the definition.
“It’s not a matter of giving anybody any preference. But us that are aldermen—we are the ones who set your budget. If we’re the ones setting your budget maybe we’ll take an adjustment” downward, if the policy is not rescinded, Austin warned. Full article at Chicago Sun-Times...
In other words, bow down to me, commoner, kiss my ring or I shall punish you for your insolence. Well, screw you, Howard Brookins and Carrie Austin, and screw all the rest of the pantloads on the City Council who feel that they're above the law and deserve special treatment. Shove your gold badges up your gold-plated asses, with the pins well extended.
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Mayor Daley's Grave
“I don’t know why you already put me in the grave.”
~ Mayor Daley, Chicago
Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley, the arrogant ass who heads Chicago's government, made a little joke yesterday. Dan Mihalopoulos told us about it in his Clout Street column yesterday:
At his first City Hall news conference since Chicago failed to land the 2016 Summer Games, Daley was asked if he expected to pay any political price for the loss."None whatsoever" Daley replied.
Like I said: Arrogant. Ass. After participating in one of the lamest presentations ever given to an International Olympics Committee (IOC), which finally put a city whose vast majority opposed hosting the 2016 Olympics at ease, and after spending countless (they're still counting) dollars on the effort, Daley was glib. He's always glib. He's a jolly, glib, arrogant ass.
“I don’t know why you already put me in the grave,” he said. “I know you’re all planning on it, don’t worry.”
Ha ha ha. With approximately $500 Million in TIF money sitting idle somewhere now that it won't be used to displace thousands of poor people and enrich his political allies in the name of making Michelle Obama's father's ghost happy, Mayor Daley thinks nobody will hold the whole boondoggle against him. Nah, why should we? With the constant swirl of corruption around him, Daley thinks that most voters in Chicago are too stupid to unelect him.
Is Daley right? He might be, but I think this time that he's wrong. Many of remember his unauthorized midnight destruction of Meigs Field, a perfectly functional - and profitable - airport. He's the guy who says you can't own a handgun to protect yourself even as he is escorted by his cadre of armed bodyguards. Daley is the man who has presided over the dismal failure known as the Chicago Public Schools and thinks that throwing more money at the unions and having a mystical pow-wow with Arne Duncan, his failed former CPS chief, and the U.S. Atty. General Eric Holder, will magically end the murders of school kids. Daley's the guy who has presided over higher and higher taxes, and tougher and tougher restrictions on businesses. He's the jerk who told us all that Millennium Park wouldn't cost a dime of taxpayers' money, and he's the arrogant ass who wanted us all to believe up to the bitter end that the 2016 Olympics wouldn't cost us anything either. Daley is the kingpin of the local Democrat Machine, an organization that the most efficient Mafioso could only imagine in the wettest of dreams.
Okay, that's my rant. Let's turn to a rant by "Garrison," who left this comment on Gaper's Block on October 2:
I'm so tired of my fellow Chicagoans making excuses for a poorly run and corrupt city.
What has Daley done for the City exactly?
And after you say beautiful parks and flowers, then what?
Are you going to perpetuate the myth that he made the City "livable" again, created an Urban Renaissance and people moved back to the City?
That happened in spite of Daley.
That has been a cultural and social phenomenon that has happened all around the country. He wasn't Mayor of Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Portland, Philadelphia, NYC, Boston and dozen other places that this has happened. He gets zero credit for it.
I'm sure some here are just like many of my friends, more than willing to forgive Daley's sins because "turning him out of office would make Chicago look bad". Oh the irony...
I'll make one more comment. The majority of voters in Chicago have repeatedly shown themselves to be as dumb as sheep. Look at the quality of our City Council, voted in by those sheep. Daley is repeatedly re-elected even while the voters complain about his corruption and the declining quality of life in Chicago, the violence, the crime, the huge tracks of poverty, the rising taxes. And we should not forget that the voters in Chicago also vote in Cook County elections. Todd Stroger, current President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, is living testimony to the severe stupidity of the majority of those voters.
With voters like those, perhaps Daley the Ass knows he can afford to be arrogant.
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Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley, the arrogant ass who heads Chicago's government, made a little joke yesterday. Dan Mihalopoulos told us about it in his Clout Street column yesterday:
At his first City Hall news conference since Chicago failed to land the 2016 Summer Games, Daley was asked if he expected to pay any political price for the loss."None whatsoever" Daley replied.
Like I said: Arrogant. Ass. After participating in one of the lamest presentations ever given to an International Olympics Committee (IOC), which finally put a city whose vast majority opposed hosting the 2016 Olympics at ease, and after spending countless (they're still counting) dollars on the effort, Daley was glib. He's always glib. He's a jolly, glib, arrogant ass.
“I don’t know why you already put me in the grave,” he said. “I know you’re all planning on it, don’t worry.”
Ha ha ha. With approximately $500 Million in TIF money sitting idle somewhere now that it won't be used to displace thousands of poor people and enrich his political allies in the name of making Michelle Obama's father's ghost happy, Mayor Daley thinks nobody will hold the whole boondoggle against him. Nah, why should we? With the constant swirl of corruption around him, Daley thinks that most voters in Chicago are too stupid to unelect him.
Is Daley right? He might be, but I think this time that he's wrong. Many of remember his unauthorized midnight destruction of Meigs Field, a perfectly functional - and profitable - airport. He's the guy who says you can't own a handgun to protect yourself even as he is escorted by his cadre of armed bodyguards. Daley is the man who has presided over the dismal failure known as the Chicago Public Schools and thinks that throwing more money at the unions and having a mystical pow-wow with Arne Duncan, his failed former CPS chief, and the U.S. Atty. General Eric Holder, will magically end the murders of school kids. Daley's the guy who has presided over higher and higher taxes, and tougher and tougher restrictions on businesses. He's the jerk who told us all that Millennium Park wouldn't cost a dime of taxpayers' money, and he's the arrogant ass who wanted us all to believe up to the bitter end that the 2016 Olympics wouldn't cost us anything either. Daley is the kingpin of the local Democrat Machine, an organization that the most efficient Mafioso could only imagine in the wettest of dreams.
Okay, that's my rant. Let's turn to a rant by "Garrison," who left this comment on Gaper's Block on October 2:
I'm so tired of my fellow Chicagoans making excuses for a poorly run and corrupt city.
What has Daley done for the City exactly?
And after you say beautiful parks and flowers, then what?
Are you going to perpetuate the myth that he made the City "livable" again, created an Urban Renaissance and people moved back to the City?
That happened in spite of Daley.
That has been a cultural and social phenomenon that has happened all around the country. He wasn't Mayor of Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Portland, Philadelphia, NYC, Boston and dozen other places that this has happened. He gets zero credit for it.
I'm sure some here are just like many of my friends, more than willing to forgive Daley's sins because "turning him out of office would make Chicago look bad". Oh the irony...
I'll make one more comment. The majority of voters in Chicago have repeatedly shown themselves to be as dumb as sheep. Look at the quality of our City Council, voted in by those sheep. Daley is repeatedly re-elected even while the voters complain about his corruption and the declining quality of life in Chicago, the violence, the crime, the huge tracks of poverty, the rising taxes. And we should not forget that the voters in Chicago also vote in Cook County elections. Todd Stroger, current President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, is living testimony to the severe stupidity of the majority of those voters.
With voters like those, perhaps Daley the Ass knows he can afford to be arrogant.
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Ald. Joe Moore Screams "F--- You!" to Crowd at IVI-IPO Dinner
The event was a nice, civilized, invitation-only affair, but the crude 'n rude, discredited Alderman Joe Moore screamed an angry obscenity at the guests as they tried to have a good time at the IVI-IPO's 65th Annual Independents' Day dinner. The IVI–IPO is a not-for-profit, multi-partisan, independent political organization.
Moore only paid for a ticket to the general dinner. He did not pay the additional $200.00 to attend the pre-dinner, V.I.P. Reception at 6:00 p.m. He was denied entrance for not having a ticket, but he tried to crash the party, and was told he didn't have a ticket, at which point Joe Moore lost his mind and screamed "F--- You!" at the entire room. He then stormed out, passing Governor Quinn on the way. "This is pay to play!" Moore was heard saying to the Illinois Guv. UPDATE: Contrary to what another blogger is writing today, Moore was NOT "escorted out." He left voluntarily and did not have to be forced to leave, nor was he ever perceived to be a security threat.
Here's the invitation, with highlights emphasized (click image at left to enlarge it). You can see more at the IVI-IPO's web site (while it's still posted on their site).
You can bet that there are a lot of influential political types who left the IVI-IPO dinner talking about what a rude jackass Alderman Joe Moore is. Of course, I've been telling you that Alderman Moore is a rude jackass since October, 2006.
More details from Lorraine Swanson at LakeEffectNews.
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Asshole Mayor Daley Uses Asshole Tactics for Children's Museum Assholes
Chicago Mayor Richard "Asshole" Daley hopes you're stupid. In the fight to bring the Chldren's Museum to Grant Park, which would violate laws preventing just such at thing, Daley pulls out two tired old tricks that Democrats just love:"It's for the Children" and "You're a racist if you disagree with me." Don't believe me, read it in today's Sun-Times:
Playing the race card once again, Mayor Daley said today he’s not afraid of a protracted court fight over his plan to build a $100 million Children’s Museum in Grant Park because he’s firmly convinced he would win it.
Imagine that - a Democrat playing the race card! The Sun-Times continues:
“A 5-year-old child is worth fighting for. . . . I believe that as a parent. I believe that as a grandparent. I believe that as a mayor. . . . It’s very important to have a great children’s museum next to Millennium Park. I’m very passionate about it,” Daley said.
That's right. Mayor Asshole says that if you don't agree with the Children's Museum's attempted land grab, you hate children. What an asshole.
Morons on Wheels
Photo taken Sunday afternoon, March 16 on Morse Avenue, Rogers Park, Chicago. This is an all too common site.
Young imbeciles leave their bikes strewn on the sidewalks, creating a hazard for pedestrians.
What kind of assholes are the parents of these little pukes?
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