http://www.centercoin.com/images/50states/2003/il_quarter.gifThe other
day, I noticed the commemorative quarter for the state of Michigan.
Their choice was — get ready for this — an outline of the state of
Michigan.
The mind boggles at the creativity.
Do I detect a committee decision here? Is this the design that /least/
offended everyone?
At least they’re not like Ohio, which claims credit for the Wright
Brothers’ […]
Well, we’re off to Haiti
.
I’m still waiting for someone to explain how this protects American
lives (other than those Americans still over there despite instructions
to leave).
Is Haiti harboring terrorists? I doubt Osama is hiding in a spider hole
over there.
Do we want to get in the business of surpressing what appears to be
popular unrest?
How is what is […]
From the Journal Star: Civic Center hotel among ideas
While offering up no details, Peoria City Manager Randy Oliver admitted Friday that “there has been some interest in attaching a hotel to the Civic Center.”
“Anytime you have a convention center and there’s not a hotel immediately attached to it, there is some interest by some people […]
Anna Nicole Smith and Danny DeVito clown around during the Los
Angeles Lakers’s game against the Sacramento Kings on Thursday, Feb.
26, 2004, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo).
Geeze, those puppies weigh more than Danny does.
Imagine the conservation Danny had with wife, actress Rhea Perlman,
after she saw this photo.
“But honey, we were just clowning around! That’s why I […]
? ABC News: Martha Stewart Judge Drops Securities Fraud Charge
/The judge in the Martha Stewart trial threw out securities fraud
charges against the trendsetter on Friday, saying prosecutors had
failed to present sufficient evidence to allow the jury to decide
the matter.
[…]
Kudos to Jennifer Davis and Matt Buedel for two great articles.
Journal Star: Downtown hotel seeks city money
Owners of the Hotel Pere Marquette want $1 million a year in city tax dollars for the next 20 years for operation of the historic hotel, as well as a $6 million loan from the city for renovations, a […]
Crap! Crap! Crap!
I’ve had the damn thing only two months and now my car, a 1991 Chevy
Lumina, is down for the count. It started stalling on me at stop lights
yesterday. It also acted like it had no oil pressure. I intended to take
it in for a tune up tomorrow under the obviously erroneous assumption I
could […]
From Rhetorica Network :
/Writing teachers often advise students to avoid cliches — those
tired old expressions (such as “tired old expressions”) that rob
writing of it vigor. Clich?s are as old as the hills and as boring
as watching paint dry./
Heh.
[…]
… that this project /won’t/ include “temporary” HRA taxes?
Journal Star: Pere renovation coming soon
Details of a “joint effort” to extensively renovate the Hotel PereMarquette could be released in a few weeks, one of the hotel’sowners said Wednesday.
“We met with Caterpillar a couple weeks ago and scheduled to meetwith them again in another two weeks. And […]
? /Journal Star/: LST could dock in Peoria
/A local businessman said he’s willing to give a rent-free dock
space to a not-for-profit group seeking a permanent location for a
one-of-a kind World War II ship.
Alex Grieves, owner of the Spirit of […]
? Journal Star: Abuse shelter struggling to fund project
/As its fund-raising deadline for a construction project approaches,
The Center for Prevention of Abuse is struggling to raise the final
$400,000 it needs.
Futhermore, if its goal of $4.2 million is not raised […]
… Bush might not even *be* on the ballot in Illinois.
It’s all because the GOP scheduled its nominating convention after the
certification deadline in Illinois.
The Democrats are, of course, peeing in the pool
.
Heh heh heh. The Republicans don’t look so smart, do they?
My position: Bush should be on the ballot. But not if state law isn’t
changed […]
Rush Limbaugh is warning
against the rising tide of government censorship of the radio.Why?
Because if conservatives in power can silence Howard Stern today, then
six years later when the liberals are in power, they can silence Rush.
I suppose that’s a principled position to take.
Oliver Willis finds a cause worth fighting for
:
/If we are to be on the side of right, we must intervene in the
Haitian crisis. Our policy towards their refugees has been, to put
it mildly, bullshit and as the most powerful country in the
[…]
Question: When is a naked breast OK?
Answer: When a baby is attached to the end of it. Any other time,
especially during a half-time performance, it’s indecent.
? Chicago Sun-Times: Public breast-feeding pushed
/Almost half of the states allow breast-feeding in public places,
but a LaGrange mother discovered the hard way […]
