Peoria ChronicleI found the link
to this John
Kerry quote at North Georgia Dogma
:
“The obligation of the United States government is to rapidly
internationalize the effort in Iraq, get the target off of American
troops, bring other people, particularly Muslim-speaking and
Arab-speaking Muslim troops, […]
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According to my referral logs, I am getting hits from Fanatical Apathy
, but I can’t find the link anywhere.
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Lots of juicy news in this morning’s /Journal Star/:
*/JS:/* City Manager search resumes
*/JS:/* O’Malley still testing job-market waters
Columnist Phil Luciano makes himself useful for a change and does some
real reporting on the case of Steve O’Malley, who accepted a job offer
to become Peoria’s new city manager. While the city hadn’t officially
hired him, they were negotiating […]
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I know, I know. Others have blogged about this article
from The Australian, but I needed to do it, just so I would have a link
of my own at the reader for future reference. Here is an excerpt.
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Let more people carry guns. Hey, that not my opinion. I’m just stating
the facts .
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The /Chicago Reader’s/ Mike Miner writes about the culture in Chicago
in which police,
prosecutors and judges consider themselves frontline warriors in the
battle agianst crime.
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Keeping abreast of the news: A strip club patron is upset that a dancer
lactated on him
, so he filed a
complaint with the cops. Via Smoking Gun
.
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Speaking of Glenn , his blatant
link-whoredom inspired me to check out his daily reads, where I found
the following new additions to my blogroll: Ink Stained Banana
, Illusionaire
, Begging to Differ,
Kung-Fu Tales
and Jivha The Tongue.
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Sorry, I couldn’t resist that headline.
The /Chicago Tribune/ ombudsman defends
the decision to censor the word “sucks” out of the cartoon “Zits,” but
not do the same to “Doonesbury”:
Trudeau is an 800-pound gorilla in the comics world, a fellow who
can do pretty much what he wants.
Wycliff also entertains us […]
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When I suggested that AOL’s entry into blog creation would lead to an
increase in the amount of trolls leaving rude comments at non-AOL blogs,
was accused of elitism and classism and every other politically
incorrect ‘ism imaginable. All I did was point out the accurate fact
that the when AOL membership took off in the mid to late-’90s, […]
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I better watch my ass.
If this can happen to a Chicago reporter who is audacious enough to report on an
alderman, I can only wonder about what revenge I could face from certain members of the Peoria City Council and administration:
The curious public feud between the City Council’s most powerful alderman […]
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There’s a ton of Peoria news in today’s /Journal Star/.
*JS:* Cat: Law tilts scale to unions
The company is upset about a law that defined temp agency employees as
“professional strikebreakers,” which is already illegal under a state
law from 1975. If the recent addition is illegal under federal law, as
Caterpillar suggests, why isn’t the 1975 law?
*JS:* Labor […]
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NYC cops are using those strange-looking, two-wheeled Segway personal
transportation devices to patrol the streets
. One of their duties is
to ticket other Segway users.
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According to my blogroll, AintNoBadDude has
a new post, but the latest one I see is dated Sunday, July 27. What is
going on?
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This is a two-day wrap-up, cause I missed yesterday’s report. Even
still, this is more Peoria-based coverage than one usually finds in
these Peoria-based news media Websites.
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