and FURTHERMORE

When Kirk is kicking Burris's @ss in the fall of next year, people won't remember that Blago called the Democrats' bluff, they'll remember how quickly the Dems caved afterward.

Christmas Cupcakes

Southern Ill. 73, Northern Illinois 58
Box Score - Recap

Way to be representin' da nort'side, Huskies...

Syracuse 82, Canisius 60
Box Score - Recap

Nice try, Golden Griffins. Hope to see you again in the Loss column next year...
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Everybody Cranky

Quick Vote

Have you ever displayed or witnessed 'queue rage' -- visible anger or violence resulting from waiting in line?

Yes 70% 92281
No 30% 40255

Total Votes: 132536

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This is not a scientific poll, but it is profoundly idiotic

what's a little election-rigging if it means we got to keep the guys who were protecting our liberties?

Florida in 2000 you know all about. But did you ever seriously focus on Ohio 2004?
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anudder McClure hothead

Jose Guillen, who went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts on Saturday night, had a heated clubhouse exchange with Royals' pitching coach Bob McClure prior to the game against the Rays. The issue started when an agitated Guillen yelled, "Coaches don't need to be all up in our ... business." McClure, sitting close by, then said, "Jose, if you're talking about me, then you need to shut ... up." That obviously didn't go over well with Guillen and the two started an expletive-laced argument and had to be separated. No punches were thrown, but a few chairs got tossed around.

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The disappearing bees won't matter when this happens

Will drought erode the competitiveness of Australia’s wine industry?

Australia’s 2007 vintage was smaller than the previous few vintages as a consequence of drought and frost in 2006. Then the worst happened in the following year with an unprecedented second year of drought that resulted in severe cuts to water allocations for irrigators in the southern Murray-Darling Basin.

this just in

everything is pathetic

k-mad finds something to get pissed off enough about to get off his ass and post something cranky (cont'd)

News item -- Public schools Tibetans attend give short shrift to the Tibetan language, emphasizing Chinese instead. Ethnic Chinese hold most jobs, and Tibetan civil servants can be fired if their homes contain the traditional Buddhist shrine: a Buddha statue with incense sticks in front. Portraits of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan leader who has been in exile since 1959, are prohibited.

here's a shocker (prepare to be shocked) this is shocking (i'm totally shocked) are you sitting down?

It's not snowing. It wasn't snowing an hour ago. It wasn't snowing three hours ago.

prepare (not) to be shocked

Gas-tax transit plan goes down in flames

Macy's to Chicago -- go phokk yerselves

Macy's drops efforts to placate Field's die-hards
Nov. 08, 2007

(AP) — Somewhere between sliding sales and regular protests outside their downtown Chicago store, Macy's Inc. executives realized they had a problem.
Two years after the company bought May Co. for $11 billion and started replacing homegrown department stores with the Macy's brand, anger from stubborn Chicago shoppers over the loss of the iconic Marshall Field's chain refuses to subside.

Macy's executives have struggled in other cities to reel in customers who miss local department store favorites — including Kaufmann's and Filene's. But nowhere has the task proved more difficult than Chicago.

"There are a lot of people who just can't get over the Marshall Field's name change," said Frank Guzzetta, the former president of Marshall Field's who now is chairman and CEO of Macy's North, one of seven regional divisions. "Those people, no matter how hard we worked at it, have continued to be detractors."

That's why this holiday season, Macy's has all but given up wooing the Field's faithful.

Instead, executives are mounting a full-fledged campaign to bring in new shoppers — especially those who lack a deep-rooted Field's connection — to its flagship State Street store.

The changes include a wine bar in the store's Walnut Room — hallowed ground for generations of Chicagoans who make meals served by tuxedo-clad waiters part of a holiday tradition. There's also free Wi-Fi, the city's only FAO Schwarz toy store and college nights featuring denim fitting clinics — designed to target children, college students and young professionals flocking to new downtown condos.

Ok, if I ever need a clinic to figure out how to wear blue jeans, I hope one of you has the guts to step up and have me humanely destroyed.

The efforts all are flanked by a new advertising campaign, dubbed "Take Me To State Street."

Oh that is catchy... put that on a pillow...

"You have to, at some point, stop and say, 'I apologize. I'm sorry you feel that way' and move on," Guzzetta said.

A classic non-apology apology, as in, I'm sorry you misunderstand me, I'm sorry you're an idiot, I'm sorry my brilliance confuses you, I'm sorry you're so easily offended by the asinine things I say and do, etc.

Critics aren't making the transition any easier.

There were more protesters at an anniversary rally outside the store this fall than there were during the initial switch in September 2006, organizers said.

"We're not acquiescing," said Jim McKay, the founder of the anti-Macy's group Field's Fans Chicago, which organizes protests. "It's part of our civic identity, it's part of our history."

Chicago, which gave birth to the mail-order movement led by Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck & Co. during the late 1800s, began its love affair with the dry-goods store that eventually became Marshall Field's in 1865.

Over the decades, the retailer built its reputation on customer service (the company purportedly once sent all its elevator operators to charm school), eventually becoming as synonymous to the city as the Bears and deep dish pizza. Yeah, speaking of things that suck...

You do the math...

Apparently there is a madman running around NORTH LAKEWOOD attacking people...were they attired with "I Heart Bush & Cheney" t-shirts?

Another North Side attack