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… ’cause I figure he could use some cheering up right now.

“The Fightin’ Squirrels? “
Oy …

Here come the /Journal Star/ links about the Ryan resignation.
? Just a little could make a big impact

OK, so there’s this 13-year-old girl being raised by her 29-year-old
sister — their mother is a drug addict, you see. She’s a top student,
but she needs $2,000 to go to Congressional Youth Leadership Council in
Washington, D.C. The older [...]

My work schedule means that I often don’t get to post about breaking
news until long after it happens. I’m glad I was able to get something on the Web about the Ryan resignation before it actually happened.

Jack Ryan is thisclose

(R.R.) to bowing out of the race.
Now, the GOP actually has a snowball’s chance to keep the
Max-Cleland-supported Obama

out of the U.S. Senate
/Among possible replacements mentioned: State Sen. Steve
Rauschenberger

and dairy owner Jim Oberweis, both of whom lost [...]

I don’t have much time before I’m off to work (after a three-day
absence), but I have time for a brief sampling of today’s /Journal Star/.
? Peoria’s ‘dropout factories’

/Two Peoria high schools are among 2,000 in the country termed
“dropout factories” by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
[...]

? West Main preservation sought

/On Tuesday night, the City Council agreed it needs to pay more
attention to its businesses.
By Wednesday morning, the Historic Preservation Commission voted 4-1
to recommend designating a portion of West Main Street as a historic
[...]

Well … so much for his hopes to join a /professional/ basketball team.
Heh heh heh.

Livingston led Peoria Central to Class Double-A state titles the last two years, and was named Illinois’s Mister Basketball last season. He’s the fourth Illinois Mister Basketball to go straight to the NBA from high school, joining Kevin Garnett, Darius Miles [...]

Well … so much for his hopes to join a /professional/ basketball team.
Heh heh heh.
/Livingston led
Peoria Central to Class Double-A state titles the last two years,
and was named Illinois’s Mister Basketball last season. He’s the
fourth Illinois Mister Basketball [...]

So what’s wrong with getting pumped up before a court appearance
?

So, I’m watching “Celebrity Poker” on Bravo network. It’s about half-way
over when they show a commercial for next week’s episode, which will be
the championship match, featuring winners from all earlier episodes.
And guess whose smiling face they showed at the table? None other than
Maura Tierney — who just happens to be playing on /today’s freekin’
episode/. Gee, [...]

Chase Ingersoll informs me of _two new blogs_ of his creation. All are
of interest to Peorians.
A few months ago, I talked him into starting Q4
, which is creating quite a
stink in certain circles. He also joined Blog Peoria
and is making the site
pretty interesting.
Since then he has created Peoria Recover House
, a group blog my [...]

Funny, isn’t it, that people blame poor communication for their complete and utter failures, both moral and professional. It seems to me that Kay Royster has made is perfectly clear how much contempt she has for underlings and another who disagrees with her.
One of these days, she going to learn what Peorians have been trying [...]

? Stuff.co.nz: Pot-smoking dominatrix joins election race

/Her campaign workers left postcard leaflets in mailboxes featuring
{Carol] Taylor with one breast exposed under the banner “Can the
cannabis crackdown.”
She is fighting to legalise the use of marijuana for medicinal and
[...]

So, my nifty cell phone vanishes. I don’t know if I left it in my car or
what. It doesn’t matter. I call my number and some female answers and
tells me I have the wrong number. *Right*. I called back and they had
changed my voice mail message.
So I call my cell phone company, Sprint PCS, and [...]