Violent Street Crime Hits Suburban Skokie: Section 8 Housing Blamed

North suburban Skokie has been called a lot of things over the years. Folk music great and onetime childhood resident, Steve Goodman called it "tacky and uptight." Syndicated columnist Sidney Harris described the Dempster street corridor as " the ugliest commercial strip in America."

But it has never been called a violent place -- until recently.

 Over an 8 day period in late April, 2 Skokie residents were violently assaulted and robbed on the streets there.

 And more than a few residents of that ultra-liberal enclave have begun to question the wisdom of the suburb's new found diversity and the profusion of new Section 8 low-income tenants there.

 Both attacks occurred in the general vicinity of a bloc of multi unit dwellings in an area between Oakton and Main Streets, just East of Skokie Boulevard. The two-flats and semi-detached duplexes there were cheaply thrown up in the early 60s. They were a bit tawdry at the time and more so today.

Over recent decades, some cheap-buck-artist landlords began buying them up. More than of few of these squires were more than happy to accept the quick cash offered by the federal goverment's low-income Section 8 vouchers. As a result, the standards for Skokie residence have, you might say, lowered a bit.

More than a few of these New Skokians were, until recently denizens of the now bulldozed Chicago public housing projects. One of them, a certain, Stanton Demaret, was indicted for mob action and assault in the August 2011 Chicago flash mob attacks.

 The persons sought for the recent Skokie street attacks have been identified as "black men in their 20s."

\ In the April 20th attack, a middle aged woman was slashed with an ice pick and robbed of $500 outside the 7-11 at Main and Skokie Blvd. In the April 28th attack, a 54 year old man was beaten senseless by 2 suspects, his jaw and teeth broken and robbed of $250 on nearby Louise St.

 The liberal-left Skokie voters were always big on big-government social action and "diversity." Now they don't know quite what to make of their new violent crime reality.

 Some have been questioning the wisdom of living in the midst of so much Section 8 housing. How uncomfortable that must be for Jan Schakowsky and Barack Obama liberals.

 Several years back, the Skokie Village government issued an automobile sticker with the uplifting slogan, "Celebrating our Diversity." One wonders who's really celebrating now.

Black Racists Attack White Kid In Oak Park While NU Nitwits Parse Words For PC

Last Friday, black thug Alton Hayes III and his black teen sidekick robbed and beat a white kid senseless in Oak Park because they were upset with the Trayvon Martin case. The two were exercising black racial revenge indiscriminately against any random "white boy," as they called their victim.

Alton Hayes III of Oak Park  charged with a felony
hate crime for  attack on a white man

At the very same moment, a dimwitted Northwestern University undergrad by the name of Dan Camponovo, who bears an uncanny resemblence to Flounder from the classic movie Animal House , was agonizing on the pages of the Daily Northwestern over the racism inherent in the term, "shady."

Flounder look-alike, Dan Camponovo

If you need further proof that the leftist academy has entirely lost its mind, just take a look at the imbecilic maunderings of this white boy Camponovo.

Young Camponovo was aghast when he overheard a person on the El refer to the area around White Sox park as a "shady neighborhood."

The sensitive NU lad somehow conjured up the notion that "shade" was somewhere in the misty past a pejorative term for negroes, hence in Camponovo's new PC world, we can no longer use the term shady without causing great offense.

I guess you can then add that to the term "niggardly." A Maryland teacher was fired for using that proper English word, derived from the Nordic, hnøggr, meaning stingy, during a discussion of school funding.

Proper English be damned, the PC catechism takes precedence!

Lithuanians on the Southwest side used to refer to blacks as "smokes." So I guess Camponovo and his co-religionists will now mount a crusade to purge our language of the use of smoke, smokey and smoke-filled room.

Heaven knows the psychic agony that use of such words could cause to tender African-American sensibilities.

At least as much as the physical agony suffered by an innocent white kid who was robbed and beaten within an inch of his life by two black racists -- egged on by the likes of malevolent knucklebrains like the Daily Northwestern's Camponovo.

ABC Shows Zimmerman Injuries - Chicago Tribune Continues Lynchmob Drumbeat

ABC News released photos of George Zimmerman's injuries
backing his claim that he was attacked by the black teen he shot

The Chicago Tribune is really getting to be a truly execrable newspaper. Hours after ABC News released exclusive photos of accused gunman, George Zimmerman's bloodied head, corroborating his statement that he was attacked by the black teen he shot, the Tribune continued its sensational coverage pandering to the black victimization crowd.

And just as leftist Law Professor, Alan Dershowitz, was calling the prosecution "immoral and stupid" and possibly illegal if the bloodied photos of Zimmerman were covered up, the Tribune posted a 1:17 pm update mentioning neither the ABC evidence nor Dershowitz's devastating comments.

I was only one among many who suspected that the lamestream media's hoopla and readiness to cheer on the black race hustlers' cries for "justice" was yet another media lynching of a white man (Zimmerman is white and Latino) in the same vein as the Duke University Lacrosse Team travesty and the Tawana Brawley fiasco.

Sure enough it's turning out that way -- a veritable Bonfire of the Vanities scenario.

The Chicago Tribune has been so blatantly remiss and dissembling in its coverage of the George Zimmerman case - fanning the fires of a rush to judgment - that it really doesn't deserve to be taken at all seriously any more.

 Isn't it time that the largely elderly, white, center-right demographic that still have the Chicago Tribune delivered to their doorsteps cancel their subscriptions en masse? Who will organize this?

Austria In Economic Free Fall, Embraces US Ghetto Culture

This past January, Standard and Poor's downgraded the Central European nation of Austria's credit rating for the first time ever.

Little Austria is quickly beginning to resemble Greece and Portugal, the economic basket cases of Europe. In fact it is well on its way to having all the economic decrepitude of our own Detroit, the economic basket case of the US, where unsalable houses and factories are being torn down to make way for farm land.

Austria's National Singing Champions:
The aptly named Trackshittaz

So now that Austria is economically beginning to resemble bankrupt, decaying Detroit, it is only natural that it should wholeheartedly embrace the aesthetically bankrupt, decadent hip-hop, urban ghetto culture.

It is doing that by sending a ridiculous hip-hop group, appropriately named Trackshittaz, to represent it in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, performing an elegant little number called, Woki mit deim Popo (Shake Your Ass.)

More on that in a minute.

Austria is going broke because it is under the leadership of the socialist SPO party, a gaggle of leftists who belong to the Socialist International and the Party of European Socialists.

In fact, all but two of the Presidents of Austria since 1945 have been either a member of that party or nominated by these, Austria's own Bolshevisti-lite.

Like the elephant-eared Obama and our other home-grown lefties, the Austrian SPO has steadily pushed Alice in Wonderland government giveaways with little concern as to how they're ever going to be actually paid for.

Days before the 2008 Austrian elections, the SPO pushed a big social spending package, abolishing all college tuition and fees, promulgating a costly nursing care giveaway and a basket of other cash goodies for families.

Mothers in Austria now get 4 months paid maternity leave and 3 years of cash handouts. That should come as a real boon to all those Moslem immigrant mothers in Austria who seem to be the only ones having children there these days.

Perhaps Austria is giving us a glimpse
of life during the German Weimar Republic

Well now Austria's chickens are coming home to roost. This past January, Standard and Poor's downgraded Austria's credit rating for the first time ever. With that, they joined Greece, Portugal, Ireland and other European counties which seem dead set and determined to spend their way into 3rd world status.

Which brings us to the news that the birthplace of Mozart and resting place of Beethoven has now embraced 3rd world American ghetto music.

Only natural I guess.

In a nationwide competition, managed by the state-owned ORF radio, an almost absurdly humorous band of Austrian hip-hop wannabees, calling themselves Trackshittaz, won the right to represent the country in the annual pan-continental Eurovision Song Contest (ESC.)

The annual event is being held right now in that renowned tourist mecca, Baku, Azerbaijan.

This is a big deal in Europe with, they claim, more than a billion TV sets tuned in to see the best musical act each nation has to offer.

ABBA and Celine Dion first came to public attention via this event.

And Trackshittaz, an essentially, albeit unintentionally, comic attempt to mimic low-life American black culture, is the best Austria could come up with.

Take a look at the video. Honestly, it looks like a Saturday Night Live parody of Hans and Franz doing a hip-hop routine.

So Austria is mirroring its economic decline with patent evidence of its cultural decline.

I think Austria is just giving us a little glimpse of what pop culture must have been like during the pre-Hitlerite, German Weimar Republic years.

Roll Over Beethoven!

Here is Trackshittaz, performing Austria's 2012 national entry in the Eurovision Song Competition, the elegantly entitled, Woki mit deim Popo (Shake your ass):

Chicago Illegal Alien Lobby Now Endorsing Candidates

It was really only a matter of time. First the illegal alien apologists at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) told us that the illegals were just here to do jobs that Americans won't do.

Illegal Alien Puppetmaster
Josh Hoyt

Then they made it all about the children. You don't want to heartlessly send their poor kiddies home, do you?

Then they got a bit bolder. You wouldn't want to heartlessly deprive the poor kiddies of a taxpayer supported college education, would you?

But finally we've gotten down to the real goal of the leftist illegal alien lobby -- to influence our elections. More precisely, to permanently secure power for liberal left Democrats with the aid of a welfare dependent 3rd world lumpen proletariat voting bloc.

And to further this end, the Grand High Priest of Chicago's tax-exempt illegal alien lobby, Joshua Hoyt, is now openly endorsing candidates.

Just before the March 20th Illinois primary, voters in Lincoln Park, Wicker Park and Bucktown were sent a campaign piece touting the virtues of State Senate candidate, Patricia van Pelt-Watkins.

You may remember her as the fringe candidate in last years' mayoral election who became famous for being called a "crack-head" by Carol Mosely Braun during the mayoral debates.

Hoyt Endorsed van Pelt Watkins (R) who was
called a "crackhead" by Carol Mosely Braun (L)

On Miss van Pelt Watkins' campaign brochure were listed a number of endorsements -- Dawn Clark Netsch, The Brady Anti-gun PAC, the IVI-IPO -- the usual liberal suspects. But then at the end of the list of endorsers was a lone cryptic name, sans affiliation -- "Josh Hoyt."

Lily white, WASP, Hoyt, the longtime director of the illegals' lobby group thought it would look better if an actual Latino immigrant were nominally in charge so he nominally stepped aside and now pulls the strings of his immigrant puppets using the title of ICIRR Chief Strategy Executive.

Unable to directly bring his non-profit 501(c)3 ICIRR illegal alien lobby legally into the fray, Hoyt has taken to the simple expedient of marking the pro-illegal alien candidate with his own personal endorsement.

It is clearly on the margins of the law, but what has this advocate of illegal alien lawbreakers ever done that was clearly within the confines of the law?

The Catholic Church used to signify approved books with something called an imprimatur.

High Priest of the illegal alien lobby, Josh Hoyt, now pronounces on approved pro-illegal candidates with his personal blessing.

Lincolnwood Voters Say Nuts To Leona Helmsley-Like, High-Life Education Elite

Little suburban Lincolnwood (pop. 11,700) hasn't been a Republican voting town for a long time. It regularly votes liberal Dems into office, although not with quite as much gusto as its seedy neighbor to the North, Skokie, or its city jobholder-laden Sauganash and Edgebrook Chicago neighborhoods to the South.

But in last Tuesday's elections, Lincolnwood residents displayed a contempt for government elites more in line with Barrington tea-partiers than anything seen in that vicinity in a very long time.

By a whopping 91.07% margin Lincolnwood voters told their corrupt education elites that there was no way in hell they were going to vote them a $25 million tax windfall.

And for good measure, by a hefty 65.1% margin they told their Village government elites that they weren't at all interested in ceding their long-standing right to elect their own Village Clerk. Their mayor wanted to give appointive powers for that post to a gaggle of political insiders.

What spurred the uncharacteristic Lincolnwood anti-government backlash was the blatant arrogance of the village's School District 74 education establishment.

The elected school board, in cahoots with the education bureaucracy contrived to build a new multi-million dollar middle school without going to the taxpayers for approval.

They engaged in legal shenanigans by planning a covered walkway from the existing school to another building so that the demolition and reconstruction would be considered repairs to an existing building.

A taxpayers group filed suit to demand a referendum on the proposed $25 million project and it forced the education monopoly to relent.

To top this, the Lincolnwood grass roots activists filed dozens of freedom of information requests which were grudgingly honored by the educ-establishment and, lo and behold, they discovered a morass of big money abuses.

School Bd. President
"Diamond Dave" Koder

In short, they discovered the education establishment living high on the hog on their hard-earned dime. Among other things the FOI documents disclosed:

-- A 2011 Cadillac CTS leased for the school superintendent, Mark Klaisner

-- An insurance claim for $1,968 to repair rear-end damage done to the superintendent's Cadillac

-- $4,400 in gas charges made by the superintendent for his Cadillac

-- A $14,000, 16 person trip to Orlando, that included a visit to the John F. Kennedy Space Station

-- A $13,500 trip to San Francisco that included a $600 dinner tab (complete with 6 bottles of wine, probably not Mad Dog 20/20) for four people

>-- School board President David Koder charging $139 limousine rides to O'Hare airport from his Lincolnwood home before flying first-class on the San Francisco education junket, where he then charged taxpayers $100 for "Grandview breakfasts" in his high-end hotel suite.

In the face of the growing Lincolnwood citizen furor, the local education establishment acted as if this was simply a very natural, normal state of affairs.

They defended the school superintendent's free gas and Caddy by bleating that the poor guy deserves it, because his $200k annual salary is less than that pulled down by some nearby Skokie education bureaucrats.

Rather like saying Baby Face Nelson can't be blamed because John Dillinger raked in a whole lot more boodle.

And the School Board President, "Diamond Dave" Koder, justified his taxpayer subsidized, Leona Helmsley-like spending lifestyle saying that no one ran against him last time, so he had to take the job.

"There was nobody else to fill my seat," Koder bleated. "I won't be seeking reelection next year because I know I'm not going to win," he said.

Boy he sure got that straight.

David Axelrod's Communist and Commie-Inspired Mentors

David Axelrod, the Chicago-based political operative who serves as Barack Obama's Svengali has long been rumored to be a "Red diaper baby," i.e. one brought up from childhood by Communist parents and mentors.

Axelrod, the man who whispers in Obama's ear
was mentored by David Canter, a Soviet Agent

Now, Paul Kengor a professor of political science at Grove City College has published an exhaustive analysis of Axelrod's mentorship by people with strong Communist Party USA ties, including one who was brought by his American Communist family to live in Stalin-era USSR and who was later deemed an agent of the Soviet Union by an arm of the US Congress.

The 12 page article appears as the cover story of the March issue of the American Spectator and it makes for riveting reading.

Axelrod got his start as a big-time reporter for the Chicago Tribune on the recommendation of leftist Don Rose. Axelrod had previously worked for the Hyde Park-Kenwood Voices, a local paper owned by Rose and David Canter, the Soviet educated son of overt American Communists, who was himself deemed a Soviet agent by the Democrat-controlled Congress of the 60s.

These were the people who forged Axelrod, the man who whispers in Obama's ear.

The American Spectator article is likely the most in-depth look at the Communist influences on Obama's key operative that will appear in print.

It analyzes everything from Axelrod's mother's work for the communist infiltrated New York PM publication to his own key role in electing Harold Washington Chicago's mayor.

It is well worth reading. Especially since the Chicago Tribune, New York Times and Washington Post regularly do puff pieces on Obama's guru without even hinting at facts which point to his undeniably deeply red roots.