McHenry County Blog

When I pulled my Chicago Tribune out of the plastic bag and put it on the kitchen counter, you see what I saw:

From my point of view, this is where ads are placed to interfere with my reading the front page. Usually I just rip them off.

This time my political antennae went up as I read the first part of President Ronald Reagan’s famous TV debate question:

“Are you better off now

Why would that be on the front page of the Tribune the day for President Barack Obama’s second Inauguration Ceremony?

As I turned the paper over, I read the rest of the question:

than you were 4 million years ago?”

Down at the bottom in much, much smaller type was “The Croods.”

Turns out it has nothing to do with Obama, but is promoting a movie called “The Croods” coming out on March 22nd.

I’ve seen copy cat bumper sticker from the one below that Bush-haters displayed during his last term in office didn’t predict the future.

I can’t find it now, but I did find this anti-Barack Obama T-shirt:

Obama was privately sworn in today. The public ceremony will be held tomorrow.

Since it’s a school holiday for Martin Luther King’s birthday, I guess school kids won’t be treated to watching the Inauguration.

With the Federal government ordering electric car manufacturers to make their cars noisier, don’t you think this sticker I found on a car in the man Algonquin Library parking lot is appropriate?

You’ve heard of thinking outside the box, right?

I found this T-Shirt in Springfield a couple of years ago.

The box policy-makers in Springfield have been in for decades is that

“We can vote for the pension increase or to divert pension payments to current State Aid to Education, because we won’t be here when the bill comes due.”

Still another Christian T-Shirt found at Disney World:

Here’s what’s on the front of the tee shirt:

Another night with no school, so it must be time for more high school freshmen to come over for a sleepover.

One of my son’s friends recently wore this T-Shirt:

Here’s another religious T-shirt that I found at Disney World.

It bears a message of peace.

The back of the tee shirt has a map of Africa with a message.

Keely cat sits on the landing guarding the upstairs.

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The T-shirt below was found at Disney World:

I’ve made my guess as to what “Zauber kann den Frieden erhalten” means.

If I am wrong, please correct me.

If I’m correct, it’s not a bad Christmas season message.

A perfect T-shirt for Christmas Eve.

This young fellow was wearing over Thanksgiving vacation at Disney World.