Fuck its silent in here.......

[J. Walter Weatherman]

BTW... I flipped to CLTV last night for a glance at the returns. They had Clarence Page on opposite John Kass, who I'd had the good fortune to have never had to watch on TV before.

Holy shit, that guy is worse live than he is on the printed page.

Mumble, mumble, mumble, vague and insubstantial insinuations about Rahm's residency issue, turn away from the camera, mumble, mumble.

[CT III]

BTW... I flipped to CLTV last night for a glance at the returns. They had Clarence Page on opposite John Kass, who I'd had the good fortune to have never had to watch on TV before.

Holy shit, that guy is worse live than he is on the printed page.

Mumble, mumble, mumble, vague and insubstantial insinuations about Rahm's residency issue, turn away from the camera, mumble, mumble.

That's the White Knight of City Hall you're bad mouthing.


I've heard Kass before because every once in awhile The Score or ESPN1000 gets it in their head that Kass might know shit about sports and grants him a fill-in slot.  And it is always awful.

[Waco Kid]

BTW... I flipped to CLTV last night for a glance at the returns. They had Clarence Page on opposite John Kass, who I'd had the good fortune to have never had to watch on TV before.

Holy shit, that guy is worse live than he is on the printed page.

Mumble, mumble, mumble, vague and insubstantial insinuations about Rahm's residency issue, turn away from the camera, mumble, mumble.

Usually when Kass talks the anchors have this what the fuck is he talking about look on their faces.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Royko was also terrible on election-night television coverage.*

*apologizes to Royko's corpse for mentioning him in the same sentence as Kass.

[Gilgamesh]

Royko was also terrible on election-night television coverage.*

*apologizes to Royko's corpse for mentioning him in the same sentence as Kass.

Meatball.

[Chuck to Chuck]

MayorRahm is off with Wesley Crusher, I guess.

http://twitter.com/#!/MayorEmanuel

[Wheezer]

Mary Mitchell was good for an uproarious hour during the WGN radio coverage in blaming Braun's dismal performance on everything within grasp, which did not include Braun.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/24/948968/-Map-of-Chicago-mayoral-election-results-by-precinct

The map below, put together by mapping guru jeffmd, shows the results of last night's elections by precinct. Blue is for Emanuel (who won 2,087 precincts), red for Chico (410), orange for del Valle (47). Oh, and green for Carol Moseley Braun, but you can't tell with her, since she won exactly one precinct. There were also 11 ties. (The dashed line toward the top represents Rahm's old congressional district, IL-05, now held by Dem Mike Quigley.)

[Gilgamesh]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/24/948968/-Map-of-Chicago-mayoral-election-results-by-precinct

The map below, put together by mapping guru jeffmd, shows the results of last night's elections by precinct. Blue is for Emanuel (who won 2,087 precincts), red for Chico (410), orange for del Valle (47). Oh, and green for Carol Moseley Braun, but you can't tell with her, since she won exactly one precinct. There were also 11 ties. (The dashed line toward the top represents Rahm's old congressional district, IL-05, now held by Dem Mike Quigley.)

The person who put that map together was clearly strung out on crack.

[Gilgamesh]

DPD, but good ol' Abe sure was such a rapscallion back in the day.

On December 5, 1840, Democrats "proposed an early adjournment, knowing this would bring a speedy end to the State Bank. The Whigs tried to counter by leaving the capitol building before the vote, but the doors were locked. That's when Lincoln made his move. He headed for the second story, opened a window and jumped to the ground!"

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/02/24/when_lincoln_fled.html

[Gilgamesh]

TPD...

God bless America.

In the wake of the health reform repeal vote in the U.S. House and the ongoing legal challenges over the individual mandate, nearly half the country either believes that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been repealed and is no longer law (22 percent) or doesn't know enough to say whether it is still law (26 percent). Roughly half of Americans (52 percent) accurately report that the ACA is still the law of the land.

http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/8156.cfm

[Internet Apex]

TPD...

God bless America.

In the wake of the health reform repeal vote in the U.S. House and the ongoing legal challenges over the individual mandate, nearly half the country either believes that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been repealed and is no longer law (22 percent) or doesn't know enough to say whether it is still law (26 percent). Roughly half of Americans (52 percent) accurately report that the ACA is still the law of the land.

http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/8156.cfm

Are those significant numbers?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/02/24/2011022400582.html

N.Korean Forces Crack Down on Protesters in Border Town

Hundreds of people clashed with security forces in the North Korean town of Sinuiju on the border with China on Friday, a source in the Stalinist country said Wednesday.

The military was deployed to quell the demonstration, leaving some protesters wounded.

The source said police officers cracking down on traders in a market in Sinuiju after the public holidays marking leader Kim Jong-il's birthday beat one of them unconscious. The victim's family protested and many other traders went along to support them.

When it looked as though other people might join the traders, security agents and military troops moved in. Rumor has it that four or five people were killed in the resulting clashes, but no details of civilian casualties are known.

The security forces were reportedly on emergency alert in the area after the incident. A defector from Sinuiju said, "Since Feb. 15, I've had difficulties communicating with my contact in Sinuiju. I called him at a pre-arranged time but his mobile phone was turned off."

The source said while the protest was sparked by the crackdown in the market, it was an eruption of long pent-up discontent.

The regime had promised to dole out special rations to Sinuiju residents ahead of Kim's birthday on Feb. 16 but reportedly failed to keep the promise. People were also angry that the regime was once again trying to interfere with their attempts to earn a living in the market.

Meanwhile, the online newspaper Daily NK reported on Wednesday that the regime created a special mobilization force to prevent any demonstrations similar to the recent uprisings in the Middle East.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/02/25/2011022500370.html

[Slaky]

Honest question to all:

Is it unpatriotic to want to change your country? Can you not simultaneously love your country and want to implement/adapt new ideas?

[BBM]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/24/948968/-Map-of-Chicago-mayoral-election-results-by-precinct

The map below, put together by mapping guru jeffmd, shows the results of last night's elections by precinct. Blue is for Emanuel (who won 2,087 precincts), red for Chico (410), orange for del Valle (47). Oh, and green for Carol Moseley Braun, but you can't tell with her, since she won exactly one precinct. There were also 11 ties. (The dashed line toward the top represents Rahm's old congressional district, IL-05, now held by Dem Mike Quigley.)

I found the braun dsitrict.