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Comment on Freedom of Information Dust-up with Sheriff Nygren by earth mother

earth mother — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:39:35 +0000

Really – Digging deeper, we make Cook County look good!!!!

Comment on Crystal Lake Middle School Fight Club? by Carolyn Quinn

Carolyn Quinn — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:17:51 +0000

Thinking of ongoing fights between these preteens as a club or boys-will-be-boys activity shows an attitude that doesn’t understand what Columbine did to our collective conscious at schools. Bullying is no longer tolerated with good reason. If off campus fighting endangers the safety of kids in our neighborhoods or if it interferes with their education, it has to be stopped. Sounds like maybe both those things are going on in our backyard.

Comment on Freedom of Information Dust-up with Sheriff Nygren by Laughing :)

Laughing :) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:17:21 +0000

It’s going to be a long seven months for poor Mr Nygren.

Comment on Freedom of Information Dust-up with Sheriff Nygren by Really?

Really? — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:00:12 +0000

Is this really a press release about a campaign worker having their feelings hurt? At very least he could have included the details of what he was asking for, or would that be too much “sunshine” for Mr. Mahon to share with us? The generic personal attack made by this press release stinks of typical dirty Cook County politics from this Cook County employee.

Comment on Freedom of Information Dust-up with Sheriff Nygren by earth mother

earth mother — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:24:28 +0000

Perhaps Nygren should get rid of one of the useless supervisors and hire 2 people to take care of the FOIA requests. It is the law after all, you do have to answer them. Perhaps there are just too many things going on in that department that need looking into!!!

Comment on Crystal Lake Middle School Fight Club? by david bachmann

david bachmann — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:15:32 +0000

We used to call this boxing………sheesh! I’m sure glad I grew up in a time where boys were ‘toughened up’ for life away from mommy and when a ‘wedgie’ was just that, a wedgie. At least the boys weren’t sitting in front of the video game player. This is just silly.

Now, if a group of boys ‘attacked’ another, then of course that is different and a serious offense not to be taken lightly. But if it’s guys ‘boxing’ or ‘cage fighting’ then it is their choice. Our ‘off campus’ arena was called a ‘basement!’ Back in the day.

Comment on Crystal Lake Middle School Fight Club? by C.H. Kay

C.H. Kay — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:52:39 +0000

In the voice of Harry Cary: “Holy Cow”! Cal has a blog entry about a school district that IS NOT D-158. Congrats Cal! Does Larry Snow know that you are slipping? lol

Comment on Noon Health Care Demonstration at Melissa Bean’s Woodfield Office Saturday by Joe

Joe — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:51:58 +0000

It’s a shame this issue can’t be debated on facts and groups like these have to resort to scare tactics and lies.

Comment on Noon Health Care Demonstration at Melissa Bean’s Woodfield Office Saturday by Ed

Ed — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:49:32 +0000

Imagine that, Tea Party people complaining, but never offering any solutions.

These Tea Partiers don’t care at all about finding ways to extend health coverage to over 30 million people that don’t have it. All they do is complain. They don’t want to help at all.

I urge everybody to take a look at the Tea Party Rally in OH recently where these people mocked a man with Parkinson’s disease that couldn’t walk – they called him a communist and then threw dollar bills at him, yelling “here’s your handout”. It is a prime example of Tea Party organizers generating fear and hatred towards others. I would post the link to the video here, but surely the comment would not be approved by the moderator because it would turn so many people off of the Tea Party movement.

Comment on Manzullo Gets Letter Saying Thomson Supermax on Way, Whether or Not Gitmo Prisoners Transferred by Penny Pullen

Penny Pullen — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:25:08 +0000

How can this be considered good news without a commitment that the Gitmo jihadists will not be transferred to Thomson? All the reasons that’s a bad idea are still valid. With Obama/Holder/Napolitano in charge, how can the State of Illinois transfer ownership of this facility to the feds? I had thought Cong. Manzullo was with the people on this one – the people who don’t want Al Qaeda ushered into Illinois.