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) - [the performance starts 49 sec. into the clip]:

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.

West Northfield SD 31 Annual Tax Hike Ploy: Teachers' Salaries Listed

Listed below are the names and 2011 salaries of the teachers and administrators of West Northfield School District 31.

You will note that despite the educational establishment's pleas of poverty, they were strangely able to give all their teachers nice hefty little pay hikes over the previous year (we posted last years' salaries here during the last tax hike contratemps - this years' are posted below, whereby you can note the increases.)

Although qualitatively teachers are undereducated -
schools of education attract the lowest SAT students

This is the little North suburban, Chicago area elementary school district whose education establishment seems to annually try to squeeze more cash out of its cash-strapped residents with tax hike referenda.

They keep getting swatted down by recession-beleaguered taxpayers who've had quite enough. By a 2 to 1 margin the people did that just this past year.

But here they go again!

On the March 20th primary ballot the education consortium is again asking their taxpayers to agree to fork over yet another $446 or so per homeowner a year in property taxes.

And this time the teachers are money laundering a portion of their fat salaries into a political action committee aimed at forcing thru the vote, so as to, in turn, safeguard those very salaries and gold plated pensions (lifetime pensions of 85% of their salaries for their top 3 earning years.)

As usual, the teachers are spinning gloom and doom scenarios if their tax grab fails again -- crumbling buildings, extracurricular activity cuts, bigger class sizes -- the usual.

Never, of course is there ever a murmur of the possibility of these unionized employees of the taxpayers taking actual cuts in their fat salaries -- as was commonplace for teachers during the earlier economic depression of the 1930s and is common today in unionized private sector firms facing economic hardships.

Obama calls it "shared sacrifice". The teachers' own union was abuzz with excitement over Obama's election, but want none of this "shared sacrifice" talk.

Last year we printed their 2010 salaries. Printed below, here, are the 2011 salaries for their 9 month gigs as elementary school teachers. No fat at all here, right?

As before these are provided courtesy of the Family Taxpayer's Foundation Teachers' salary database. You can get more in depth data on the length of service, education specialty etc. at the FTF site.


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West Northfield SD 31 2011 - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

NAME SALARY
Ament, Arlene $103,261
Aydt, Alicia $61,544
Barbanente, Laura $55,779
Bass, Amanda $56,908
Baumann, Jackie $59,167
Bergman, Janette $90,068

Suburbs Need More Blacks to Avoid Boredom: "Interfaith" Housing Outfit



Alinsky disciple, Schechter says more
blacks will combat suburban boredom

I've heard a lot of reasons put forth in defense of open housing and fair housing efforts, but Wilmette lefty "community organizer", Gail Schechter has come up with a true original.

She says that Chicago's Northern suburbs need more blacks because they will make the places "less boring."

In an op-ed from AOL's soon-to-be-defunct Evanston Patch, Schechter quotes an obscure ruling from an obscure New Jersey judge who said suburbs needed more minorities to avoid becoming "culturally dead, aside from being downright boring."

I really never thought of it that way, but maybe Miss Schechter and the Garden State magistrate have a point.

Schechter, the well-remunerated chief honcho of the Saul Alinsky-styled, "Interfaith Housing Center of the Northern Suburbs," recently mounted an abortive campaign to get Winnetka to put in low-income housing. She argued that Winnetka has far too few blacks and cheaper housing in that upscale suburb would effect more blackness there.

But by an almost 3 to 1 margin, the residents there said: "nuts to that."

But just think how much more interesting Winnetka would be if it had the hefty black population quota that Schechter wants.

A Winnetka Globetrotters-styled team
would provide fun for the whole family

If boring Winnetka had the 11% black population that Miss Schechter deems necessary, the leafy suburb could start its own novelty basketball team along the lines of the Harlem Globetrotters.

They could call it the Winnetka Wizards and they could put on exhibition games where the agile black b-ballers would spin balls on their index fingers, do really wild and weird dribbling, slam dunk on every inside approach and generally run rings around the hapless, pasty-faced, all-white Lake Forest Generals.

That would certainly liven up an otherwise dreary Winnetka afternoon.

Or maybe, Miss Schecter envisions combating Winnetka ennui with something along the lines of the Jesse White Tumblers. They could call them the Bob Dold Balancers.

From Miss Schechter's newly enlarged black populations, the best black little kids could be enlisted to do handstands, tumble, run, jump and otherwise provide merriment to assembled throngs of heretofore bored Winnetkans.

A group like the Jesse White Tumblers would
provide merriment for bored Winnetkans

For the artier set, of which there is no shortage in Winnetka, newly North suburban-settled Afro artistes could be enlisted to put on performances of Porgy and Bess, The Wiz and readings of Maya Angelou's head-scratching cryptic verse.

The possibilities are endless.

Yes, perhaps Schechter and her ACORN-styled activists are right in advocating more blacks as a badly needed tonic for the boredom that plagues quiet, leafy, crime-free Winnetka.

In fact, in Schechter's ideal, race-quota driven world, Winnetkans and other suburbanites could find themselves with nary a dull moment --- ever.

Chicago's Wackizany Republicans

More out of ancient habit than anything else, once in a blue moon I go to the Chicago and Cook County Republican websites to see what those clowns are up to now -- and they never disappoint.

Just to give you an idea as to how execrably useless and absurd Chicago's Republican activists are, I am reprinting below an exchange that occured in The Chicago Republican, the official site of the Chicago Republican Party, Eloise Gerson, Chairman.

The bizarre exchange of comments begins with a criticism of the blog piece's author and then devolves into absolute weirdness.

What is truly odd is that this exchange took place over a period of 10 months, when apparently these Republican dynamos had nothing better to command their energies.

Read it and weep:

...
written by gary karlin, April 15, 2011

Lila Pifer shouldn't even be interviewing anybody in the
gop after what she did to here former partner at njp
frank bennett rowder
...
written by Gary knows who I am, August 16, 2011

Great interview, Lila!

I had the misfortune of dating the above poster. Gary needs to get some help so he can have an accurate perception of reality. Seriously, he just kinda forgot he had a warrant for his arrest for contempt of court! I tried to help him after he allegedly got evicted from his apt - fed, clothed, bought him medicine - but it was all based on a lie. He even tried to con me into marrying him! He KNEW he had a warrant after convincing me that all was A-OK with the courts and was finally arrested for it on 8/8/11. How humiliating! No wonder he never even tried to get a job! An employer would have reported his whereabouts to the child support agency! He even lied about his birthday (most likely because he knows I do background checks on anyone I date). That's what I get for trying to help a so-called "friend." He can go play the "I'm a poor little victim" game someplace else!
...
written by Gary Karlin, December 17, 2011

Jennifer Brower will be sued for defamation of charactor. She married a NAZI, so she is one to talk, see here - http://onepeoplesproject.com/i...ntifa-news
...
written by Anonomous, December 20, 2011

Wow. Jennifer Brower of Naperville, I think it best that you should have stayed on Xanax and Lithium for your Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Going off your medication and creating wild stories like this and being involved with your ex-husband the Nazi (see here http://onepeoplesproject.com/i...&Itemid=14), you should be seeking therapy!


...
written by Jennifer Brower, January 25, 2012

LOL the “Conservative” Welfare King Baby Daddy owes his CHILD over $100K and dares to question my honor? Gary, who fed and clothed you, bought you medicine, and made sure that you weren't homeless in the winter while YOU were supposed to be looking for work? I did more for you than you ever did for your awesome daughter! She is a great person & deserves better!

It's amusing that the deadbeat dad dares to bring up MY divorce? You sound bitter like Marianne Gingrich does now that Newt doesn't support her anymore! Yeah, my ex-husband of a year turned out to be a loathsome National Socialist abusive mamzer piglet. So, I got a restraining order & divorced the bum. I also talked to the proper authorities and helped to ensure that no National Socialist group would thrive in the Chicago area. I turned a bad situation into a good one AND my daughter respects me for it. YOU, however, are the same deadbeat jailbird who refuses to live up to your responsibilities. How dare you call yourself Conservative when you refuse to work and rely on the government to support you! Gary, be a man, get a job and take care of your kid. You disgust me.
...
written by Gary Karlin, February 08, 2012

Jennifer Brower of Naperville, you misrepresented yourself as a Christian. You have not belonged to a CHRISTIAN CHURCH for several years. You belong to the Free Masons, an occult that worships all the worlds religions including Satanism. Not once did you ever sing or worship the Lord in church - a southern baptist church. You defend your LIBERAL sister and YOUR LIBERAL mother.

GO TO HELL BITCH! FUCK YOU!
...
written by Gary Karlin, February 08, 2012

Jennifer Brower belongs to the Free Mason occult, the one that worships all world religion including Satanism and is pushing for the one world order. Not once did you ever worship Jesus in church. You are also a confirmed NAZI sympathizer and very sick in the head with your Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It isn't right that you spread lies about a guy who dated you a few times and you are jaded that I rejected you!

This exchange is apparently ongoing and can be viewed in all its inanity at the Chicago Republican site.

Is it any wonder that this is an indisputably one-party Democrat town?

New Trier HS Teachers Celebrate Recession With Hefty Pay Grab

A full 219 of the teachers and administrators at New Trier
pull down more than 6 figures for their 9 month gigs

(Editor's Note: The salary list was updated on 9/9/13 to reflect 2012 salaries. The New Trier teacher's $100k+ club went up to 256 from 219 over the past year.) 

Posted below are the 2012 salaries of teachers and administrators from the New Trier Township High School System.

These salaries reflect the 3.5% pay hike that the IEA teachers union squeezed from the taxpayers in  August 2011-- despite the fact that the average American worker -- if he has a job at all -- got a lessor pay raise on average.

The IEA is again saturating the Chicago airwaves with feel-good ads encouraging a "living wage" for teachers and a decent pension for their retirement years.

Judge for yourself if these salaries are living wages or outright opulent pay grabs. Keep in mind that the average SAT score for university School of Education students is 964, vastly lower than those of the general student population -- making teachers the poorest educated of all professionals.

Further consider that the powerful teachers unions have used their massive political clout to secure lifetime pensions which are 85% of the average of the teacher's 3 highest salary years. Only 41% of all American workers, the people who pay for these salaries and gold-plated pensions, receive any pension whatever.

The 2012 New Trier High School's teachers names and salaries posted below were garnered from the Family Taxpayers Foundation Teachers Salary database, which in turn was acquired via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Illinois State Teachers Retirement Fund which was compelled to release the data.

And keep in mind, despite the fact that a full 256 of the New Trier employees are pulling down more than six figures a year for their 9 month gigs (up from 219 last year), these are not even the highest paid in the state, being surpassed by those in the Lake Forest and Niles Township (Skokie, Morton Grove) high school payrolls.

Teacher Salary Database: Click on the individual government employee's name for more information on that person.

New Trier Twp HSD 203 2012 - Download data
NAME	SALARY
Anderson, Rachel	$81,677
Apetean, Anca	$11,574
Arado, Lindsay	$92,506
Arends, Alicia	$69,103
Arvanitis, Athena	$100,491
Atwell, James	$123,873
Axon, Sarah	$67,909
Bachman, Ariell	$69,050
Bachmann, Kristina	$85,274
Baeb, Michael	$141,421
Baliukaite, Egle	$64,211
Bar, Julie	$93,007
Barbe, Lisa	$130,309

City Colleges of Chicago Adopt Cook County Jail Smoking Policy

No more smokes for this scholar

The Cook County jail banned smoking and the possession of tobacco by inmates back on August 1 2005 and the City Colleges of Chicago on this past January 12th belatedly followed their health conscious lead.

To squeals of glee from the comfortably salaried health police at Chicago's various megabucks cancer societies, lung associations as well as assorted other pecksniffs, do-gooders, buttinskies and nannies, something called the Chicago City Colleges District-wide Student Government Association voted in the ban.

One can only imagine who these SGA ass kissers and hall monitors were, but they can't be the brightest bulbs around -- after all -- they attend the Chicago City Colleges. And they certainly haven't the faintest conception of individual freedom or students rights.

So now it is a crime, in the eyes of the educational bureaucrats at Chicago City Colleges to so much as have a pack of Marlboros or a can of Skoal on one's person while on their premises -- just like at the Cook County jail, a venue whose hospitality has, no doubt, been enjoyed by more than a few of the City Collegians.

And, as of May 1st, some area public housing authorities will force their indigent residents to forgo tobacco use as well.

So, as of the March 1st effective date of the tobacco prohibition, a goodly number of the 120,000 scholars at Harold Washington, Olive Harvey, Kennedy-King, Richard J. Daley, Wilbur Wright and Malcolm X Colleges should feel right at home.

Stealth Chinese Drug Paraphernalia in Chicago Area Dollar Store

Those clever Chi-Coms have devised a
dope pipe which looks like a tobacco pipe.
They sell them in Dollar Stores

Many municipalities around Chicago and elsewhere have long had ordinances banning the sale of "drug paraphernalia" -- dope pipes, bongs and toke clips -- the kinds of things that would readily be found in the ubiquitous "head shops" of the late 60s.

But leave it to those clever, entrepreneurial Chinese to find a way around this.

While walking in Skokie this past summer, I spied a product in the window of the Dollar Store at the corner of Oakton and Knox.

It's box blared "Durable Tobacco Pipe".

Having recently resumed pipe smoking after a bit of a hiatus, and attracted by the $2.99 price tag, I went in and bought it.

Sure it wasn't going to be a Peterson or a Savinelli, but for 3 bucks, if it did anything at all, It was a steal, right?

It looked just like a regular old bent briar smoking pipe.

Made by the Chi-Com Zhaofa Corporation of Shanghai, its box told me in broken English that the product was:

"--Durable and can be used repeatedly for a long time.
--Made of high-quality special materials. Not contain any harmful objects.
-- The rubber ring can prevent smoke and tar from leaking.
--Remove tar while using for about 10 times.
-- Replace with an auxiliary rubber ring if damages."

I have been buying pipes for some years and never was treated to such admonitions before and frankly, I'm still not sure what some of them mean.

So when I got my new $2.99 Chi-com pipe back home, I discovered that I was now the proud owner of a very cleverly disguised dope smoking pipe.

The bowl contained a perforated metal lining which cut the bowl size in half -- perfect for a small bit of pot.

The "rubber ring" to "prevent smoke and tar from leaking" was actually an adaptor that fit above the metal lined semi-bowl, and had a very tiny bowl, perfect size for smoking a crack cocaine "rock" or a bit of hashish -- but utterly useless for tobacco smoking.

Stuck with the crazy thing, and $3 poorer for it, I decided to at least give it a try with tobacco in the steel semi-bowl.

The taste was hideous. And the steel bowl became almost too hot to handle.

A friend suggested that the awful taste may be due to the fact that the "steel" bowl may have actually contained some lead -- a not uncommon occurrence in Chinese products.

So if any of you readers out there find yourselves with possible use for a well disguised, Chinese made dope smoking apparatus, I have an almost unused one available for a mere $3.

Or I'll trade it for your grandfather's good old, well broken-in briar tobacco pipe.

AON and Playboy Fleeing "World Class City" Chicago

Chicago native Hugh Hefner is
heading for the warmer ambiance of El Lay

Two longtime pillars of the Chicago business community, AON insurance and Playboy announced this past week that they are moving their corporate headquarters out of Chicago.

Playboy, which was founded here in 1953 by native Chicagoan, Hugh Hefner, originally planned to move only its editorial departments to the West Coast, but announced on January 13, that it was moving everything out, lock, stock and bunny ears.

Playboy didn't explain why it was leaving for LA. Ultra-lefty California is going broke, just like Illinois and it certainly is no tax haven. Maybe Hefner just likes the weather and ambiance of El-Lay better than that of glacial Chicago.

But AON Corp., which is heading for greener pastures in London cited the financial benefits of a more global effective tax rate overseas compared with the United States

That makes sense when you consider that the top corporate tax rate in the US is 38% compared to 26% in the UK. And the Conservative British government has enacted a schedule for further reducing corporate tax rates to a top rate of 24% by 2014. In contrast, the socialist-oriented Obama regime continues to howl for ever higher corporate taxes.

Add to this the recent move of Illinois Democrats to increase state taxes on corporations by 65% and you don't have to be a genius to see why it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to do business here and hire employees here.

AON Founder, Chicagoan, W. Clement Stone
would have surely approved of AON's move

AON was started by Chicagoan W. Clement Stone in 1925 with a $100 loan, a shoeshine and a smile. The thrifty and positive-thinking Stone turned that into Combined Insurance and then in turn into AON -- one of the largest risk management firms in the world.

Stone was a hard-core business conservative and a big financial backer of President Richard Nixon and the, then dominant, Illinois GOP.

Love Chicago, as he might have, Stone is surely not turning over in his grave at news of this hard-headed, sensible, decision to abandon Chicago.

In fact, W.Clement Stone would surely have approved of AON's decision to flee Chicago's socialist morass.

Zion-Benton Twp. SD 126: Hefty Salaries For Petty Union Malcontents

The Zion-Benton SD 126 union workers were
appalled that they should pay for health
care increases like everybody else

Posted below are the 2011 salaries for all of the teachers and administrators from Zion-Benton Twp. School District 126.

These are the very same union government workers who showed their colossal concern for educating youth, by shutting down their schools for four days last week as they went out on strike.

They were appalled by school board proposals to slow down their salary schedules to take it longer for them to haul down the fat $100k plus paychecks for their part-time 9 month gigs.

So committed to education
that they shut down their schools

They were shocked that -- like the private sector workers who pay their salaries --they were actually asked to pay for the health insurance premium increases, that their friend Obama's health care scheme provoked.

Here are the names and salaries of these Zion-Benton SD 126 trade unionist government workers as taken from the Family Taxpayers Network Teachers salary database, which was obtained under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit:

Zion-Benton Twp HSD 126 2011 - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

NAME SALARY Ahonen, Cyranda $64,146
Alger, Joseph $53,449
Anderson, Katrina $72,037
Anglada, Lawrence $89,189
Anselm, Thomas $71,019
Arason, Christine $58,922
Asciutto, Mary $70,576
Barnes, Latoya $42,285
Barnes, Lauren $44,061
Belmont, Alice $104,982
Berkley, Jonathan $50,477
Bible, Lonnie $120,419
Blase, John $73,455
Blickhan, Lorie $82,431
Booth, Jerry $129,344
Boroski, Brian $87,386
Boyle, Dayle $81,347
Brenneman, Jeffrey $42,048
Brown, Heather $18,295
Brown, Jennifer $84,660
Buck, Anne $117,301
Budzik, Mary $121,520
Burd, Jeffrey $83,562
Bush, Christopher $46,934
Byrne, Emily $49,517
Cade, Abigail $41,982
Cannon, Sarah $45,889
Carlson, Jacob $99,138
Catalano, Pietro $48,889
Ceskowski, Stephen $97,370
Cianfrani, David $60,661
Clark, Christine $219,646
Corcoran, Michael $81,456
Courtaway, Katherine $42,842
Cruz, David $67,992
Curtin, Brian $133,875
Cuttill, Drew $52,873
Davis, Jay $110,310
Davis, John $108,670
Derifield, Alison $42,444
Di Gangi, Melissa $68,235
Digrazia, Christine $87,634
Dodge, Angela $40,139
Dotson, Bridget $56,372
Drucker, Paul $70,668
Duncan, Catherine $69,334
Dziekan, Rebecca $70,733
Edwards, Jarrett $75,275
Engstrom, Heather $69,716
Engstrom, John $53,661
Feekin, Christine $45,453
Felske, Bonnie $68,000
Fenchel, Todd $91,503
Ferguson, Krista $44,007
Flores, Samuel $58,788
Galgan, Tadd $90,933
Goldman, Barry $44,283
Gomez, Andrew $90,644
Goss, Susan $101,373
Grafman, Deborah $50,132
Gregg, Tara $59,501
Grieco, Tina $72,011
Grubb, Judith $111,686
Hall, Brent $51,852
Hanrahan, Melissa $72,986
Harmeling, Chris $63,027
Harvala, Jennifer $52,810
Harvala, Matthew $61,284
Helland, Elise $102,894
Holdcroft, William $65,524
Hoy, Jennifer $82,703
Hughes, Travis $65,035
Humphrey, Sarah $49,654
Ianson, Donna $91,841
Isaacs, Michael $49,844
Isquith, Adrienne $90,783
Joel, Stacey $57,034
Johansen, Sandra $91,296
Johnson, Carrie $87,715
Johnson, Nicholas $71,394
Johnson, Rebecca $69,475
Johnson, Tanya $43,790
Kapolnek, Erin $43,890
Karner, Michael $68,495
Keefe, Erin $49,110
Knight, Timothy $56,828
Kohler, Tina $62,083
Kolarik, Jasey $67,125
Kuhl, Heather $57,616
Lashever, Laura $91,002
Latham, Erin $49,922
Leden, Maggy $75,890
Ledman, Michael $72,246
Lee, David $109,632
Levy, Eric $53,038
Lichter, Susan $112,455
Liddle, Audrey $129,470
Lieberman, Allison $71,825
Lindemann, Linden $112,962
Lindle, Karen $83,242
Livas, Matthew $43,313
Lobo, Jeffrey $64,253
Lopez, Erin $64,845
Lucke, Margaret $91,964
Luedtke, William $64,935
Lukavsky, Molly $48,184
Lunsford, Hal $75,518
Mahoney, Jonathan $50,177
Mahrt, Sarah $50,466
Manning, James $86,073
Marhefka, Jennifer $48,659
Martensen, Scott $82,021
Massong, Amanda $40,061
Massong, Ludwig $137,595
Mc Laughlin, Laura $55,241
McGue, Corinne $94,404
McKay-Guzik, Kellye $35,990
McKnight, James $50,842
McLaren, David $83,024
McNamara, Timothy $52,842
McPherson, Nathan $49,694
Means, William $129,185
Melott, Melissa $67,342
Meyer, Jessica $54,954
Meyer, Maureen $134,085
Michmerhuizen, Jesse $79,560
Mitchell, Ryan $74,896
Mudarth, Melanie $57,023
Muff, Rebecca $86,110
Muff, Robyn $107,350
Myrum, Jeanne $68,587
Nadolna, Rachel $45,836
Neilsen, Leslie $50,351
Niemi, Burton $101,333
Niemiera, Kristen $77,750
Oconnell, Daniel $51,262
Ogren, Sandra $111,934
Patterson, Jill $59,910
Paulsen, Marsha $94,239
Pavelske, Mary $58,486
Peckler, Scott $101,009
Pelli, Jody $71,197
Pickering, Amy $73,966
Prostka, Eric $43,634
Raymond, Emily $47,837
Reese, RaVonya $54,674
Regnier, Kelly $93,784
Richter, Steven $118,307
Ritchey, James $64,860
Rodriguez-Newton, Colleen $64,387
Rosenquist, Karen $107,842
Rossie, Nicholas $65,074
Rubin, Brad $66,208
Ryczek, Michael $87,340
Rymer, Michelle $70,222
Rymer, Richard $82,691
Scherer, David $63,151
Schiappacasse, Timothy $49,659
Schneider, Calvin $156,399
Schwisow, Lindsay $53,437
Sevener, Jeffrey $67,140
Sexton, Julie $69,597
Sherman, Genevieve $84,110
Shorey, Lauren $49,579
Smyk, Kevin $99,057
Standridge, Michelle $72,840
Stanghelle, Deborah $53,744
Staples, Tiffany $54,190
Stateler, Mark $74,200
Stavropoulos, Alexander $49,303
Stecher, Ariane $51,537
Stone, Ella $41,957
Strauss, Arden $102,419
Strickland, Robert $112,586
Subrinsky, Jordan $72,436
Surin, Barbara $67,992
Sutz, Howard $73,449
Swanson, Steven $40,591
Swanson, Suzanne $88,629
Tangorra, Launa $55,508
Tate, Nina $109,152
Tennant, Stephen $89,750
Theodore, Melissa $70,650
Usher, Nakisha $61,063
Valerugo, Brian $78,258
Villalobos, Ernesto $65,815
Vlagos, George $56,679
Voss, Spence $67,330
Vukovics, Joseph $50,886
Waddick, Emily $60,527
Wade, Cheryl $79,433
Ward, Lynn $64,750
Waters, Christopher $64,006
Weigel, Jeff $85,992
Weiner, Angela $80,000
Westover Tejada, Suzanne $58,035
Will, Deborah $78,927
Willems, Kate $53,266
Wiltjer, Alyssa $43,357
Womack, Elise $99,108
Woodson, Lisa $60,717
Worrell, Dr. Gail $141,028

Walgreen's Goes Soviet-Style: Do You Want a Bag For That?

Gum at Red Square: No Shirts, No Shoes,
No Service and Bring Your Own Bag

Some years back I read that the large Soviet-era Moscow department store Gum, required their customers to bring their own bags.

Gum was a one place shopping venue for Russians to buy just about everything from shoes to groceries -- that is on those rare occasions when the store actually had shoes or groceries in stock.

And they had so little respect and concern for the customer that they wouldn't even supply a simple convenience such as a bag.

Now it seems, the Deerfield-based national drug store chain, Walgreens is going the same route.

After you pay for your purchase at Walgreens these days, the clerks ask you, "Do you want that in a bag?"

WHAT!!!

Walgreens Clerks Now Ask You If You Want A Bag

This is obviously a new corporate Walgreens policy, although the clerks I have asked deny it.

At three different Walgreens stores -- Howard & Western on the Evanston/Chicago border, Milwaukee & Western in Bucktown and in the Loop -- I have been asked by clerks: "Do you want that in a bag?"

Once, when my purchase was a six-pack of Walgreens' excellent house brand beer, the clerk asked: "Do you want that in a bag?"

I said, no, I'll just tie the six-pack to my belt and walk down the street and pull off the cans and chug them as I go along, the way the Canadians do --- of course I want it in a bag.

The provision of a bag to shopping customers is a convenience stemming from the free-market understanding that the consumer is king. Bags for American shoppers are as customary as providing cream and sugar for a restaurant customer's coffee.

But apparently infected with some corporate fixation on "going green," Walgreens has decided to "go Soviet" --- and to let the customer be damned.

Oh Boy -- Obama is So Screwed!

Even Obama's base
is drying up and blowing away

Forget the polls that show Barack Hussein Obama with the lowest approval ratings at this point of any American President in recorded history.

Here is what I have heard on the streets of Chicago and Evanston:

-- A very animated Irish 20-something guy was in front of the Whole Foods on Chicago Avenue in downtown Evanston 2 Saturdays ago collecting signatures to get his wife on the ballot as an Obama delegate to the Democrat National convention. He was good looking, engaging and had an endearing smile.

He was striking out a lot.

Ultra-liberal Evanston went more than 70% for Obama, last time and Whole Foods generally attracts a health-oriented, lefty crowd.

I asked him "How're you doing?" He replied -- "Holy shit -- this is a rough crowd -- even our people seem to be pissed off at Obama."

--- I ran into Charles, a well spoken, well attired -- but with a slight growth of beard -- black man in the Starbucks on Main St. in Evanston yesterday. He was reading -- I was on my laptop. We began chatting and it turned out that we knew a lot of the same guys from our same era who had played sports on the North Shore.

He told me -- "Do you know 30% of the men in the US are unemployed today --the men --what does that say for our future?" he said. "I don't care what they say -- Obama and all the rest of them have just totally screwed up," he said.

--- I ran into Kenny -- a 53 year old black guy with a glass eye. He was coming outside of the McDonald's on Dempster and Dodge in Evanston. He asked me for a light. I asked him for a cigarette. He split his in half and we both smoked.

He told me tht he had worked for a black entreprenuer, who owned an auto repair shop on Main, near McCormick for more than 30 years. He just went out of business -- Kenny lost his job -- the entrepreneur is now driving a bus for $8 per hour, Kenny said.

"I don't care what they say about Obama being a black man and all that," he said. "This guy has totally fucked us all up."

Hey David Axlerod -- are you listening?

Even your base has dried up and blown away!

Teddy Kennedy Was An Even Bigger Moron Than We Thought



B.O. and Teddy: Icons of the American Socialist Left


I actually met U.S. Senator Teddy Kennedy. He lumbered into the urinal next to mine to take a leak -- it was in a mens room on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol one fine autumn day in the early 80s.

Freshly out of college, I was there to deliver some news releases to the Senate Press Gallery. It was one of my duties in my exciting new job as semi-writer, semi-gofer.

As the years went on, I had ample time to extensively study Kennedy's horrendous voting record. He was a socialist, pure and simple -- and unlike his older brothers, he was decidedly anti-American in almost every public policy and foreign policy position he took.

He consistently garnered 0% ratings from the American Conservative Union and 100% ratings from the ultra-left wing ADA.

I thought him an idiot.

But I didn't realize what a complete nincompoop Teddy Kennedy actually was until I read recently, Laurence Leamer's fascinating 2001 tome, The Kennedy Men, 1901-1963.

This was no right-wing diatribe book. Leamer, a former New Republic writer, had the full co-operation of the Kennedy family.

And among the things he chronicled was the fact that:

Teddy was thrown out of Harvard for cheating on a Spanish test!

Now I can see perhaps getting tossed out for cheating on a calculus final exam, or a physics test -- or even a classical Greek exam.

But Spanish?

Only the absolute dummies took Spanish at my prep school, where you were expected to at least carry your weight in Latin, if not both Latin and Greek.

But Spanish?

In the fall of 1950, Teddy found himself in danger of flunking Spanish and losing his eligibility to play intramural sports unless he scrambled to pull off at least a C-minus in Spanish.

So he persuaded a less intellectually challenged student than he was to take the Spanish final in his place and the test proctors immediately caught on to the ruse. (Leamer, Page 277)

Both Teddy and the test taker were thrown out of Harvard for at least a year. So Teddy was told by his father's lawyers that it would look good for his readmission prospects if he spent a year or so in the U.S.Army.

So the great iconic liberal -- the genius of health care reform -- went down to the Army recruiting office and Teddy compounded his display of boneheaded Spanish cheating idiocy, by accidentally signing the wrong Army induction forms and enlisting in the U.S. Army for 4 years! (Leamer, Page 278)

His father Joe, was furious and was no doubt convinced that he and Rose had spawned a complete imbecile.

So the politically formidable former bootlegger and pro-Nazi U.S. Ambassador to England, Joseph P. Kennedy had to spend the next year pulling strings to get his moron son, Teddy, out of the Army after only 2 years, instead of the 4 to which he had contracted.

Although, in fairness, Teddy might have a mitigating excuse.

He might have been drunk that day.

So there you have it -- political icon of the American Left, Teddy Kennedy,  flunking Spanish and filling out the wrong form so as to accidentally sign on for 4 years in the Army, instead of 2.

And Teddy was the genius, de-facto architect of our new Obama socialized health care scheme.

Chicago's Zany Salvation Army Bell Ringers

Orwell said he'd never give
a Farthing to the Salvation Army

In his eminently wonderful chronicle of the plight of the homeless in depression era England, Down and Out in Paris and London, the great journalist of that era, George Orwell, ended his wonderful book by saying  "I will never fail to give money to a panhandler -- and I will never put another farthing in a Salvation Army kettle."

Orwell's complaint was that, when he was a member of the multitude of homeless in depression-era England of the 1930s, the Christian sect of the Salvation Army, wouldn't give the hungry guys a lousy piece of bread with margarine, unless they endured a long-winded evangelical religious diatribe.

The Salvation Army religious sect is better than that in the USA today.

No question, they help out a lot of people with food, clothing, etc. But their vaunted drug and alcohol religious-conversion re-hab program is an absurd throwback to their idiotic religious past.

Today they collect our money via bell ringers outside various Jewel-Osco and Walgreens stores throughout the Chicago metro area.

I would just -- in the past -- throw a little change into their kettles -- a nice Christmas gesture, you know.

But this year, I actually got to know some of the characters that the Salvation Army hires.

Some are decidedly weird -- some are outright scary.

Chicago Salvation Army bell ringers:
Some are decidedly weird -- some are outright scary

I got to know them while I spent the last few weeks gathering signatures outside of Walgreens' and Jewel-Osco stores, on behalf of a candidate for Appellate Court Judge.

I was standing right next to them, enduring the same bone-chilling cold and soliciting just as they were.

This is what I found:

-- The bellringers are paid employees of the tax-exempt 501(c)3 Salvation Army corporation.

-- They are paid, on the average, $400 a week.

-- One that I met, a black man named named Kenneth, outside the Walgreens at Waukegan and Lake Ave. in Glenview, was spouting wild political diatribes on behalf of Barack Obama (is this the official position of the tax-exempt Salvation Army Church?)

-- Another that I met, a Puerto Rican man, outside the Jewel-Osco at Kedzie and Howard in Evanston told me that he was a "streetwise" salesman -- who had sold a variety of items, including socks, T-shirts and drugs. He also told me that he that many bell ringers carried tweezers, so that if a dollar bill was just sticking up out of the top of the kettle, they could just pluck it out and pocket it. (Somehow, I got the idea that he might have had a pair of tweezers in his pocket.)

-- Another that I met, a rather loud, fat black girl from Lombard, in front of the Walgreens at Howard and Western, on the Chicago/Evanston border, wildly complained when I was smoking my pipe about 5 yards from her, in a fully legal fashion, 15 feet from the entrance -- with the wind blowing the smoke in the opposite direction. She wildly complained to the Walgreens manager -- who essentially told her to go F--- off. Great PR for the Salvation Army (don't ya think?).

A few years ago in Ohio, a Salvation Army bell ringer was convicted of stealing his entirely cash-packed drum.

Having seen the Chicago Salvation Army bell ringers, I am not at all surprised.

No wonder the great English writer, George Orwell told the Salvation Army to go F--- off.

Hitler Declares War on the USA: And Americans Respond with Might -- And Music

Four Days after his Axis partner Japan
attacked the USA, Hitler declared war on America

We're a little late on this one, since the 70th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's wildly self-destructive unilateral declaration of war on the USA was 6 days ago.

But reprinted below is a wonderfully cogent explanation of American's powerful mobilization against Hitler's National Socialists -- as well as against his murderous Imperial Japanese allies, that it provoked.

Included, very nicely, is music from the era. It is reprinted, by permission from the Chicago Schlager Music Review -- ed.

Here it is from the Chicago Schlager Music Review of December 11th, 2011:

Hitler Told Germans That The American Men
Would Not Fight -- WOW!, Was He Ever Wrong!

70 years ago today, Adolf Hitler, the elected National Socialist leader of the German Reich, unilaterally declared war on the United States of America.

Four days earlier, The USA had been attacked by Hitler's Axis ally, the Empire of Japan, which bombed the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in the American territory (now a State) of Hawaii, killing 2,800 Americans.

Declaring war on the USA was, perhaps Hitler's biggest mistake ever.

The Anglophilic US President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, had been looking for a way of getting the US involved militarily in saving Great Britain from the Nazi onslaught.

But due to formidable pressures from the millions of German-American and Scandinavian-American voters in the Midwestern US (who did not want to send their sons to fight German boys) and the millions of city dwelling Irish-American voters (who had nothing but contempt for their long-time enemy, Great Britain)  Roosevelt was unable to convince Congress to enter the European war.

But with his unilateral declaration of war on America on December 11, 1941, Hitler unwittingly solved Roosevelt's political problem.

After Hitler declared war on the American people, its elected representatives in the U.S. Congress reciprocated on December 12, 1941.

By 1944 American Workers Were Turning Out
9,000 Warplanes a Month -- More Than 300 a Day

In so doing, Hitler put the German people at odds with the greatest industrial power on the face of the earth.

Within a few short years, American workers would be turning out 300,000 combat aircraft -- (at one point 9,000 planes a month --  more than 300 a day) -- and 200,000 tanks and almost 1 million heavy artillery pieces.

20 million American men would leave civilian life and take up arms (including this writer's German-American father and uncles) and become one of the most potent fighting forces ever to take the field in world history.

Those civilian-soldiers fought two powers on two widely divergent fronts, ranging from Burma and China in the West all the way to Berlin and Prague in the East.

Hitler scoffed at Americans calling them "a bunch of undisciplined gangsters who would never fight."

But one Wehrmacht Lieutenant in Italy wrote in his memoirs after the war, "They told us the Americans would never fight. But when the Americans kept coming and coming up the hill at us -- wave upon wave -- I was never so scared in my life."

As Usual, The Americans
Went To War With Song

His sentiment was echoed by the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS men who looked out from their bunkers on Hitler's fortified "Atlantic Wall" on the morning of June 6, 1944, only to see the sea filled with thousands of American and British ships of all kinds and the skies filled with US warcraft in what was the greatest amphibious military invasion in world history.

38% of the United States Armed forces consisted of German-Americans, including the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Eastern Theater of Operations, General Dwight D. Eisenhower (later an American President) and a key combat General on MacArthur's Pacific command, General Robert Eichelberger.

In fact, Americans had a wartime joke that went: "The reason we won the war was because our Germans were better than their Germans."

And as usual, Americans went to war with music.

Here is the very famous Big Band hit of 1943, "The American Patrol," by the famed US trombonist and Big Band orchestral leader, Major Glenn Miller.

At age 38, Miller was too old to join the US Army, but he pulled political strings and obtained entry into the US Army Air Corps and was tragically killed when his plane went down over the English Channel when he was on his way to entertain US and British troops in France. "The American Patrol" was among his greatest ever compostions:



Here is the Andrews Sisters big US wartime hit, "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B":

"He was a famous trumpet man from 'round Chicago way.
He had a boogie style that no one else could play.
He was the top man in his craft.
But then his number came up and he was called to the draft.
He's in the Army now.
A blowin' reveille.
He's the boogie woogie bugle boy of company B."

It's Chicago Election Season: Irish Fillipinas, Polish WASPS and Stealth Jews.



Jessica O'Brien - A Fair Irish Lass
From County Cork on the Auld Sod

 The 2012 Chicago election season officially began last night at 5pm. That was when hopefuls for state and local judicial office in Illinois needed to have submitted their nominating petitions to the State Board of Elections down in Springfield.

For weeks now,candidates and their ward heelers have been accosting and annoying citizens in train stations and at shopping malls, pleading for signatures on the petitions requisite to getting a spot on the March primary election ballot.

A perusal of the submitted petitions suggests that this years' crop of hopefuls has been as skillful as ever at playing the Chicago ballot ethnic name game.

In ethnically Balkanized Chicago, the stealth ethno name game has been elevated to a high art form.

On the ballot, you will see a dizzying array of ethnically transmorphed names. all designed to convince you that the candidate is really a reliable member of your tribe.

That is why you will invariably see a large number of female judicial candidates resurrect usage of their maiden names and append them by way of hyphen to the non-descript names of their WASP husbands.

For instance, Susan Smith, Attorney, will become Susan Murphy-Smith, candidate for Cook County judge and ardent daughter of Hibernia.

The most notorious example of this was a Northwest side State Representative in the 70's and 80's by the name of Pete Peters.


Peter Piotrowicz Peters -
Kielbasa Between 2 Slices of Wonder Bread


That white bread moniker was good enough to get him elected when his district consisted of white bread Sauganash and Lincolnwood.

But when his district was gerrymandered to include heavily Polish, Niles, Mr. Peters miraculously re-discovered his maternal Polish roots and thereafter appeared on the ballot as Peter Piotrowicz Peters.

You might say he put a little kielbasa between the two slices of Wonder bread.

This year we have a Cook County judicial hopeful by the name of Jessica O'Brien.

The name conjours up images of a fair Irish lass, strolling the lanes and byways of County Cork on the auld sod.

Thing is, Mrs. O'Brien was born Jessica Arong in Cebu City on the Philippine Islands, half a world away from the Emerald Isle. But Filipino's are not a potent voting bloc in Chicago and her feminism notwithstanding, Ms. Jessica Arong-O'Brien is more than happy to bear the male oppression of using her husband's name -- for ballot purposes, at least.

In the still heavily Waspish North Shore suburbs, the Democrats favor Jewish candidates with decidedly Waspy-sounding names.

Lake County's 58th State Rep. district was for the past decade represented by a peroxide blond with the non-descript name of Karen May. Ms. May, along with her husband Mort, belongs to a prominent Highland Park Jewish congregation   but saw no real electoral upside to putting her name on the ballot as Karen Rubin-May, her feminism also notwithstanding.

May is retiring now, but to replace her the Democrats are putting up an ultra-left wing civil rights lawyer, a  U-Cal Berkeley grad named Scott Drury.

Scott Drury - High Anglican
Name and Yiddish Accent

Despite his High Anglican moniker, Mr. Drury is a Jewish gentleman and member of Highland Park's Congregation Solel.

In the same Lake County District, Republicans are running a State Senate candidate - a former U.S. Army combat helicopter pilot and distinguished Highland Park medical doctor, family man, and avowed Conservative Jewish congregant, named Arie Friedman MD.

He is using his real name.