The news of the week has been, of course, Mayor Jerry Schweighart's well-publicized, and woefully moronic 'birther" opinion that Barack Obama has been less than forthright with the original copy of his birth certificate.

The comments are certainly ignorant and demonstrate he has the brains of a sheep (no disrespect intended. We know many sheep dogs, and many sheep. Most sheep we know are just meek and need something to flock to), but hardly novel. Remember please, that this is the state of ILL, and in the last year, there has been no shortage of dumb utterances.

For example, here are some from ILL alone in just the past year that you may remember:

“There's no secret clout list.” -B. Joseph White lying about the admissions scandal that, as the Tribune so poetically put it,"sunk his presidency." (The skunk's claim was later discredited after emails of his own lobbying for Tony Rezko's family members surfaced)

”All admissions... should be based on merit .” -White again. Anyone who was familiar with his thoughts and actions regarding his work during and after at the University of Michigan can spot this fib easily.

“It's very confusing to the University and the community."-Renee Romano insulting the intelligence of the average citizen of ILL,after being caught attempting to limit free speech of those who support retired Chief Illiniwek.

-Students aren’t qualified -Jarred Hall equally capricious of students (he himself is one, by the way...) who dared think critically of the University after the DI posted a list of faculty and employee salaries.

“You never asked” -Roland Burris explaining why he committed perjury during his testimony about the sale of his senate seat.

“I don't that's a productive use of my time - Dick Durbin explaining why he would not meet with his own constituents.


And here are some other winners:

"The system worked." -Janet Napalitano when the only reason people were not killed by the Christmas Day bomber was his hands were in his underpants.

"Baby Killer!"- Rep. Randy Neugebauer to Michigan Representative Bart Stupak.

"I don't worry about the Constitution on this."- Phil Hare on the Constitution's limits of congressional power. (Hare also pulled a DI and could not tell the difference between the Declaration of Independence)

“...acted stupidly- Barack Obama's description of a police officer in Cambridge responded to a burglary report.


And of course

"I don't think he is American, personally.“ -Jerry Schweighart


Schweightt's claim was ignorant and unnecessary. But it was hardly the only one.

Posted by Alpha Hound

Rosebud

That is what many a citizen journalist may say when they get citizen canned.

Rather than dwell on the sure-to-be ad nauseum chit chat on Brown's victory in MA, and Durbin's threat of nuclear options, we would rather take a look on something else Durbin is up to.

Under the radar, our mangy senator Durbin is trying to strike back at citizen journalists by pushing them to extinction. Along with Diane Feinstein (whom, if you all will recall, is now the person that decides who our senators are) is pushing to insert language into press shield laws that only apply to those are a "salaried worker" of an "entity" that "disseminates information by print, broadcast, etc."

Grave this development is, but fear not. We Hounds have other ways to get our news out.

Posted by Alpha Hound

Pimping ain't Easy

Friday's major headlines (except for ABC and NBC) was the sting operation that exposed some nuts in ACORN to be in the process of offering tax advise to illegal prostitution and human trafficking groups. The people in question were under cover, but has started a long-overdue review of the practices of ACORN and its affiliates.

Some of the more interesting responses was the Census Bureau severing its ties with the group, saying this latest scandal was "the tipping point."

The US Senate just passed an amendment to block funding to ACORN in a Housing an Urban Development bill. The vote was a whopping 83-7.

Two of the mangy senators who voted against the amendment were none other than ILL own homegrown Roland Burris (a senator who has no democratic authority to vote on anything), and Dick the Dick Durbin, who as we have already posted, has openly declared he values the votes of Mickey Mouse and the Minnesota Vikings more than he does with meeting his own constituents.

Posted by Alpha Hound

People of Illinois: You are a waste of time

These are the words of Dick the Dick Durbin as he scoffs at meeting his own constituency in our home town of ILL. Meeting with them is, Durbin says, "not a constructive use of my time."

A time that we coercively pay for.

Durbin says he is meeting with more important people central to the "discussion" on nationalized health care including his overlords in the teacher unions whom he rewarded earlier in the year as high executioner of the D.C. school voucher program. Others included those without health insurance (namely illegal immigrants), and doctors (maybe? As David Scott seemed to think, doctors may not qualify as constituents. Or doctors).

Meanwhile, NBC-Chicago has an amusing posting on Dick the Dick's latest harangue-especially as it points out that Durbin has managed to piss off his own heard of sheep over the public option takeover.

On one final note, while Durbin may find us all a waste of time and care no more of us than dogs (or Hounds) being run over in the street, he has made time to help his staffer's daughter prepare to get through the UI admissions process.

Posted by Alpha Hound

Don't forget, part of the reason we have this worm in office is because of Dick the Dick Durbin...


Posted by Hound No. 3