We won't have the Toddster to kick around anymore

And unlike Nixon, it's hard to foresee some dramatic career turnaround, though there's probably an elementary school somewhere in town looking for a new hall monitor.

At least he's going out classy!

Preckwinkle says when her staffers requested information, they got mounds of unorganized or incomplete paper, among other issues.

Cook County government has never had a reputation for squeaky clean dealings, but things appeared to get worse under Stroger. A court-ordered monitor says he violated political hiring more than 150 times since 2008.



"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."
-- Studs Terkel

Our long metropolitan nightmare is over

Is this the last phokking plane ride we have to pay for?

Happening today
• Now: Governor flying to Springfield

Maybe our next gubnor will discover that the gubnor has, like, an office and s#i+... right there in the phokking capital...

"This is William Kristol’s last column."

The new rezzzidence of the former Rezzzidunce?

And there was much rejoicing

apart from the smoldering ruins left behind, what will LoC have left to whine about?

News item: world ends tomorrow

The End of the World

Some scientists, on the other hand, went to the European Court for Human Rights to try to stop the collider being turned on. They fear it may create a black hole – which would certainly violate our rights by sucking the planet into... well we don't really know. Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith of Cern says: "The chance we produce a black hole is minuscule." Which is not all that reassuring. But he adds: "Even if we do, it can't swallow up the Earth." It would be too small, and disappear in moments. In any case, they will only send the hadrons in one direction this week. The collisions start in October. Until then, at least, we're not all doomed.

we'll have to content ourselves with the memories (and the ongoing s#i+-blowing-up)

Campaign For America's Future: "Thanks For The Memories!"

If Richard Clarke were VP this wouldn't be happening, or, stick your head between your legs and kiss your @ss goodbye (cont'd)

The Pakistanis are our very good friends and allies (see also: Earf blowing up), espatially, da rezzziDUNCE's boy, Pervez "Pervy" Musharraf...

Nuclear Ring Reportedly Had Advanced Design

WASHINGTON — American and international investigators say that they have found the electronic blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon on computers that belonged to the nuclear smuggling network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist, but that they have not been able to determine whether they were sold to Iran or the smuggling ring’s other customers...

But the latest design found on Khan network computers in Switzerland, Bangkok and several other cities around the world is half the size and twice the power of the Chinese weapon, with far more modern electronics, the investigators say. The design is in electronic form, they said, making it easy to copy — and they have no idea how many copies of it are now in circulation (YAY!... Ed.)

Yurp: wid da tarrists (cont'd)

'Yurp' Says Auf Wiedersehen to Dubya
'Bush Damaged America's Image Around the World'

German politicians from both the ruling coalition and the opposition are taking aim at outgoing US President George W. Bush ahead of his week-long farewell trip to Europe. The Iraq war, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib have damaged America's reputation, they say.

where's the gratitude?

Maliki raises possibility that Iraq might ask U.S. to leave

BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki raised the possibility that his country won't sign a status of forces agreement with the United States and will ask U.S. troops to go home when their U.N. mandate to be in Iraq expires at the end of the year.

Making news out of no news (cont)

June 13, 2008
Where has Clinton gone?
Posted: 05:25 PM ET
From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Her every step over the last 17 months was captured by a legion of cameramen and a press corps of journalists from around the world.

But for the last seven days, Hillary Clinton has been nowhere to seen, and Washington is speculating about where exactly the ubiquitous New York senator has gone.

Is she camping out in her Georgetown home or is the former presidential candidate back at her Chappaqua estate? Perhaps she ventured to an isolated vacation spot, far removed from cable news and the political chattering class.

Members of her formal presidential campaign and her Senate staff aren't saying.

If she'd been out & about all week, they'd probably say she's taking attention & the limelight away from Obama. So she disappears, and now that's news? Where is she? Why the phokk do we care? She lost. She's not relevant anymore. Don't we have enough to think about? Leave Hillary alone! I'm serious!

IF? (cont'd)

"I regret the words I chose on Sunday. These words are inconsistent with Senator Obama's life and message, and I am deeply sorry if they offended Senator Clinton or anyone else who saw them."
-- Michael Pfleger

He Gone

George Will is now the only conservative capable of speaking in polysyllabic words.