McHenry County Blog

To its credit the Associated Press (reporter Sophia Tareen) wrote a story about the Illinois Tea Party endorsement for Congressman Don Manzullo.

But, wait a minute.

This Associated Press article by Sophia Tareen is stimulated by the Illinois Tea Party's having endorsed Congressman Don Manzullo over Congressman Adam Kinzinger. How on earth a 2010 Sarah Palin endorsement of Kingzinger is relevant is beyond understanding.

In its first paragraph reporter Tareen mentions a 2010 endorsement of opponent Adam Kinzinger by Sarah Palin.

What’s that all about?

And worse, the Chicago Tribune, in at least it’s online edition gives Palin’s old endorsement equal coverage with the Illinois Tea Party’s current endorsement.

This is an example of why readers distrust the mainstream media.

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I felt so strong about this bias, I called the Associate Press in Chicago. The Bureau Chief’s assistant sent me to an editor who knew nothing about the article.

She had to look it up using “Illinois Tea Party” as search words.

“Are you calling from Sarah Palin’s campaign?” she asked.

“No, I’m calling from this is why we distrust the mainstream media,” I replied.

She repeated “This is why we distrust the mainstream media,” pausing while it sunk it.

“Is it incorrect?”

“No, it’s out of context,” I replied.

“That’s your opinion.”

“What does a 2010 endorsement have to do with a 2012 endorsement?”

“That’s your opinion.”

“And that’s why AP is going down the tubes,” I said before thanking her for her time.

Some, but not all liberals are making a big deal about Sarah Palin’s targeting the district Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on a map on her web site.

Sounds like a feeble connection to me, but if liberals want to play that game when a pot smoking nut job is involved, perhaps the following could be used to counterbalance it.

It’s not called swine flu anymore.

Now, Washington officials are calling it “H1N1 Flu.”

Anyone think that will take?

109 identified infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control, plus the death of the 2-year old brought to the United States from Mexico by his mother for medical treatment.

Note that the title reflects the renaming of the flu to try to convince people not to stop eating pork, but the words “swine flu” remain underneath the table.

On Thursday, the World Health Organization declared a Phase 5 alert, which is a

“strong signal that a pandemic is imminent and that the time to finalize the organization, communication, and implementation of the planned mitigation measures is short,”

the CDC says.

And, what can you say about Vice President Joe Biden’s deviation from the Obama “don’t panic” line?

Here’s what Bloomberg wrote:

“The day after President Barack Obama urged the flu-worried masses to stay calm, Vice President Joe Biden went off the rails, saying he has urged family members to avoid airplanes and subways.”

Sarah Palin is looking better and better.

Concerning the borders, where Napolitano said “passive” measures were being taken Sunday and Tuesday. Wednesday, when she appeared before a Senate committee, she changed her tune.

This was in her statement today:

“But as the President noted last night, closing the entire borders would have no benefit at this point because the virus is already present in the United States. The comparison is clear. It’s like closing the barn door well after the horse has left.”

But, as one person asked me,

“Didn’t we have an ambassador in Mexico?”

Maybe even before the horse left the barn?

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The maps are from Google. Note that the one of Northeastern Illinois does not include the McHenry case reported by the McHenry County Health Department today.

I don’t want to make a big deal about it, but it deserves to be noted that the Chicago Tribune put the TEA Party demonstrations in the Chicago area on page 12.

Not a bad picture.

People saying the Pledge of Allegiance.

And the sign seems to be the bottom half of

It looks professionally produced…unlike the one with the same slogan I found at the Crystal Lake TEA Party on Route 14 that you see above.

Island Lake pig farmer Bob Wargaski. he who fought and beat “city hall,” lives outside the village limits, but obviously has “had it up to here” with the way the incumbents have run things there.

He commissioned the cartoon you see with the message

He clearly hopes that Island Lake voters “clean house.”

In the pot are

• Mayor Tom Hyde, whom the Daily Herald compared to Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, before he was arrested for forgery,
• Village Trustee Rich Garling, the Democrat who ran against GOP State Rep. Mark Beaubien last year, now facing battery charges, and
• Debbie Herrmann, who is running for Hyde’s job.

Wargaski offers the following advice to voters, which is not limited to Island Lake’s:

“Even in times of uncertainty, you still live in the greatest democracy of the world.

“Embedded in the foundation that our predecessors created, is the opportunity for citizens to choose their governing leaders.

“It is all citizens’ responsibility to know the integrity, creed and qualifications of those they elect to represent them.

“As you approach your opportunity to exercise your voting rights, make sure you educate yourself on those candidates seeking to lead your local government.

“Are they qualified?

“Do they conduct themselves with integrity? Are they knowledgeable?

“Are they willing to seek the truth?

“You don’t want to elect those with a self-serving credo.

“Your choice will have lasting ramifications on your community.

“One way or another, you will be directly affected by those who are handed the scepter of power, good or bad.

“Long ago my grandfather said to me, ‘Listen to the mouth, but watch the feet, it is a dead giveaway to who the person really is.’”

Click to enlarge the cartoon or the picture of Bob Wargaski using his hand as a gun like two Island Lake village officials said “threatening” tee shirt wearing Vietnam Veteran Greg Kachka before they had him arrested.

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In the group shot was taken the day Fox News was in Island Lake to interview Greg Kachka. On Kachks’s flag-bedecked front lawn are Laurie Rabattini, who has the “What’s happening in Island Lake?” blog and running for village board, her finance, who was filming also, Rob Rekosiewicz, Tom Martin, a former trustee who wife is running for village clerk Bob Wargaski pointing with his unloaded hand, Dave Labuz, and Teresa and Village Trustee John Ponio, who is running for village president, plus homeowner Kachka, who is also running for village trustee. The village trustee candidate on the slate that Wargaski is supporting who is missing from the photo is local contractor Dwaine Schaal, whose family has been a part of Island Lake since its beginning. He’s interested in cleaning up the corruption in Island Lake.

Today’s message of the day was found on the back of a vehicle in a handicapped parking space at the Crystal Lake Post Office.

I asked if I could take a photo of it and, then, where the man had gotten it.

“Arizona” was the answer.

Today’s message of the day was found on the back of a vehicle in a handicapped parking space at the Crystal Lake Post Office.

I asked if I could take a photo of it and, then, where the man had gotten it.

“Arizona” was the answer.

This depiction of John McCain and Sarah Palin was found in the McHenry County Republican Headquarters on Route 14 in Crystal Lake at the old Pauly Toyota dealership building.

It says,

McCain is ready to draw his six shooter and Palin is holding a rifle.

In the foreground one can see a skinny guy with big ears.

This depiction of John McCain and Sarah Palin was found in the McHenry County Republican Headquarters on Route 14 in Crystal Lake at the old Pauly Toyota dealership building.

It says,

McCain is ready to draw his six shooter and Palin is holding a rifle.

In the foreground one can see a skinny guy with big ears.

Thanks to Dan Curry’s Reverse Spin for finding these comments from Salon.com liberal commentator Camille Paglia:

Liberal Democrats are going to wake up from their sadomasochistic, anti-Palin orgy with a very big hangover.

The evil genie released during this sorry episode will not so easily go back into its bottle.

A shocking level of irrational emotionalism and at times infantile rage was exposed at the heart of current Democratic ideology — contradicting Democratic core principles of compassion, tolerance and independent thought.

One would have to look back to the Eisenhower 1950s for parallels to this grotesque lock-step parade of bourgeois provincialism, shallow groupthink and blind prejudice.
I like Sarah Palin, and I’ve heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is — and quite frankly, I think the people who don’t see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma.

So she doesn’t speak the King’s English — big whoop!

There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes. She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist.

I stand on what I said (as a staunch pro-choice advocate) in my last two columns —

that Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism.

Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World.

As for the Democrats who sneered and howled that Palin was unprepared to be a vice-presidential nominee — what navel-gazing hypocrisy!

What protests were raised in the party or mainstream media when John Edwards, with vastly less political experience than Palin, got John Kerry’s nod for veep four years ago?

And Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, for whom I lobbied to be Obama’s pick and who as on everyone’s short list for months, has a record indistinguishable from Palin’s.

Whatever knowledge deficit Palin has about the federal bureaucracy or international affairs (outside the normal purview of governors) will hopefully be remedied during the next eight years of the Obama presidencies.

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The Sarah Palin rally in Laconia, New Hampshire, above was caught by a former McHenry County resident, who forward the photos to McHenry County Blog.