Time for Thorns

That’s how the city has long been run,  but in this case I’m referring to the  no-fly zone order  which will apply to the skies during the NATO summit.   I suspect Mayor Rahm Emanuel is busily figuring out how to transfer it to street level.

This is more what  we’re accustomed to seeing in the Windy City,  where politics is the life blood and corruption is just business as usual.

Don Surber  uses the numbers  to promote his advice of all economy,  all the time for Republicans.   It’s sage advice,  and I wish they’d take it.

George Will has a fascinating column up on the appeal of his conviction for bribery of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.  I join him in hoping  it gets to the Supreme  Court so we will have a legal definition which separates bribery from politics as usual.  That said,  my friends in Alabama assure me that Siegelman is as corrupt and sleazy as most past Democratic governors of that state have been,  and more than a few of the Republican ones as well.

I would like to see someone  –  anyone  –  ask EVERY political candidate the questions Jack Abramoff poses here.

This column about  the new San Francisco/Oakland Bay bridge is why I loathe politicians,  and why I don’t trust government at any level.

Thanks to His Oneness  and the spineless Super Committee.

Now we have the largely  unreported tale  of a pharmaceutical company peddling a probably unneeded smallpox drug which may or may not actually work.  The Democratic donor who runs the company didn’t like what he was hearing from the government,  so he had the government’s negotiator replaced.  Can you say crony capitalism,  boys and girls?

Peter Bella used to be a Chicago cop.  Now he’s  letting it fly  at His Oneness with a new name for his agenda.  He didn’t mention that the Obamas aren’t due back from their taxpayer-funded Thanksgiving vacation until the day after the Super Committee’s deadline.

I had the most delicious post written about His Oneness  not only taxing  the sale of live Christmas trees,  but also claiming that the revenue would be used to promote the sale of same.   But,  alas,  the Obama Administration,  having taken ferocious heat for only a day,  has  backed off  the proposal.

How many times has His Oneness claimed he would never raise taxes on the middle class?   Yeah,  it’s hard to believe how stupid the most brilliant president we’ve ever had can be.

His Oneness has  been caught saying  what he actually thinks of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin  Netanyahu.  I’m not surprised,  and I imagine a tough old bird like Netanyahu is much amused that His Smartness was too stupid to check his microphone.