Apparently, when you start a post with the words “Raquel Welch’s metal-lined black satin bustier” you get a lot of new visitors. So, welcome to those arriving here from the New York Times and Blogrunner.
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But, but, but … lawyers are only supposed to represent popular clients
Eugene Robinson gets it right on the Al Qaeda 7 controversy.
A group that Liz Cheney co-chairs, called Keep America Safe, has spent the past two weeks scurrilously attacking the Justice Department officials because they “represented or advocated for terrorist detainees” before joining the administration. In other words, they did what lawyers are supposed to...
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I always suspected those things are dangerous weapons (UPDATED)
Raquel Welch’s metal-lined black-satin bustier set all alarms at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport last week.
Welch, 69, had planned to change out of it into more comfortable — and less metallic — traveling clothes after taping an appearance Thursday on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” to promote her new book, “Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage.”
But Welch, a Chicago...
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Educators at work: Tenure denial causes rampage
It used to be when word came out that there’s been a campus shooting one assumed it was some disgruntled loner, or a kid who was picked on one too many times. Now, we have a new threat to worry about: College educators upset they have been denined sweet, sweet tenure:
A biology professor at...
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Google Broadband? You bet your ass it will play in Peoria
Here’s an idea, Peoria City Council. Instead of throwing good money after bad building hotels and shiny glass riverfront museums, how about investing in something that WILL draw high0tech jobs to Peoria. Something like THIS:
Google, the world’s biggest online search engine, wants to turbocharge your Internet connection.
The company said Wednesday it is getting into...
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America’s educators at work: Teacher accused to hitting student in the face with a clipboard
You don’t want to interrupt a teacher at Huntington Beach, Calif. You’ll get a clip board tossed at you:
The suit alleges that Pontes sustained bodily injury, shock, and injury to his nervous system. He needed X-rays, hospitalization and an ambulance, the suit says.
Also:
The suit says Higi struck Pontes Sept....
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Lawmaker takes in on the chin for belly dancer
I really hope this guy doesn’t find himself in electoral trouble over this.
Via the Associated Press:
Democratic (Ohio) state Rep. Robert Hagan said he was assaulted Sunday the Lemon Grove Cafe. Hagan said a man asked him to step out of the way of his view of belly dancers on stage and then taunted him...
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Marty Wombacher has it made following a familiar formula
Remember the publication Nearby Nite-Life? The guy who ran it used to go around and visit bars with his camera, take a punch of pictures and post them in this little newspaper that was distributed to his advertisers. He made enough money at it to keep the thing going for decades.
I do believe the...
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America’s educators at work: Teeny toy gun grounds for suspension
From the New York Daily News:
Patrick and a friend were playing with Lego figures in the school cafeteria on Tuesday when he pulled out the faux machine gun and stuck it in the hands of his plastic police officer.
Boom! Trouble ensued, with Patrick’s mom getting a phone call from Public School 52 Principal Evelyn...
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What is it about being a principal turns some people into complete dicks?
Student Denied Diploma After Blowing Kiss:
STANDISH, Maine — Justin Denney’s family watched as he ascended the Cumberland County Civic Center stage during graduation Friday night to accept his diploma, but the superintendent told him to return to his seat.
The Bonny Eagle High School senior’s mother said she can’t believe her son’s taking a bow...
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Some chicks for Monday
I dunno what it is, but I’m in the mood for some Dixie Chicks. I remember when this video came out, my mother and her sisters LOVED it. The men in the family were nervous.
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HP computers are racist
Wasn’t this a “Better Off Ted” episode?
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Monday morning linkage
Some links to consider
If you ask me, putting an environmentalist on the joint Peoria City/County Landfill Committee is akin to putting a member of the Flat Earth Society on the board that oversees NASA.
California conservatives are going to war against of of their own for having the audacity to cast a vote in favor...
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New Peoria blogger
A Writer of Wrongs is written by former PJS scribe Terry Towery.
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New Blog Peoria blogger: Thoughts for Life
Thoughts for Life has just one post for now.
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TMZ to ‘The View’: Thanks for the hits
‘The View” co-host Joy Bahar on the Tiger Woods scandal: “TMZ knows everything.”
They should just send her a check.
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It’s safe to read Little Green Footballs again
I have to admit that a few years ago, I used to read the blog Little Green Footballs a lot. But my enchantment with LGF shrunk as my disillusionment over the Bush administration’s handling of the War on Terror grew.
Apparently it’s safe to go back now:
The American right wing has gone off the rails,...
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YouTube Sunday
Rather than take the time to actually write posts today, I’m going to just post YouTube videos.
What would you think if you saw this? A nuclear attack, maybe?
Scarlett Johansson fondles her firm, round …
When Batman met Captain Kirk ….
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Marty Wombacher has a new Website
How would I describer Morning Sucks? Imagine I Can Has Cheezeburger if it were written by someone with a really, really bad attitude.
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Any comments? Anyone?
Please visit Merle Widmer’s site. It seems that there are some problems commenting. Leave a few friendly comments and report back to me, OK?
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Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates The Blog Peoria Project, which promotes community-based citizen journalism in his hometown, Peoria IL. Call me at (309) 863-5748 and leave a message.
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It a development that surprises almost no one who’se been paying attention at District 150, it seems that the renovations at PHS are not being done in a competent manner March 21, 2010Billy Dennis
This arrived in my email inbox moments ago:
District 150 Administration and School Board
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We are writing as concerned parents and supporters of Peoria High School students. We have been attending school functions and meetings hoping to hear about the upcoming changes for PHS and have been incredibly disappointed with the district’s total lack [...]Original post by Billy Dennis
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In a development that surprises almost no one who’s been paying attention to District 150, it seems that the renovations at PHS are not being done in a competent manner March 21, 2010Billy Dennis
This arrived in my email inbox moments ago:
District 150 Administration and School Board
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We are writing as concerned parents and supporters of Peoria High School students. We have been attending school functions and meetings hoping to hear about the upcoming changes for PHS and have been incredibly disappointed with the district’s total lack [...]Original post by Billy Dennis
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The only thing missing from yesterday’s tea-bagger protest was Bull Connor, attack dogs and some fire hoses March 21, 2010Billy Dennis
Some of the anti-health care people sure do have some interesting views on race:
Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told a reporter that as he left the Cannon House Office Building with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a leader of the civil rights era, some among the crowd chanted “the N-word, the N-word, 15 times.” Both Carson and [...]Original post by Billy Dennis
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Spring Turning March 21, 2010witchsbrew
The Cosmos strives for equilibrium today. The hours of daylight and dark are equal. Spring returns–even if the day is dark and cold, rainy, snowy, spitting sleet. It’s the thought that counts.
Modern Wiccans call the day Ostara. I am not found of the name. Like Easter itself, the name is taken from a Teutonic lunar Goddess Eostre. Mike Nichols, author of The Witches’ Sabbats, from the website of the same name, “Her holiday, the Eostara, was held on the vernal equinox full moon.” Technically that will fall on the 29th of March. According to Nichols, the Roman Catholic Church divided the vernal holiday into Easter–the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox–and Lady Day, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on March 25th. This, of course, the day that the Angel Gabriel announces that Mary is “with child.” “Lady Day” was the name used by our first Wiccan founders.
I think I prefer the simpler “Spring Turning.” It was the phrase I used in my own fiction back before I was “officially” Pagan. It signifies a becoming. As Nichols says, it’s a springboard to Beltane, May 1st. Processes begun at the equinox find fulfillment at Beltane.
I hadn’t planned to celebrate the day, but a friend called late in the morning and said, “Let’s go to Bloomington to the Mennonite Relief Sale.” The day was dreary; and I knew that by the time we got there, most everything would sold, but I hadn’t been to the Relief Sale since it left Peoria. I was pleasantly surprised to get a bunch of pussy willows. I can’t remember the last time I had pussy willows.
And on the way back, I asked to stop in a Kelly Seed to look over their new shipment of heirloom seeds. I haven’t decided yet if I am going to plant a garden this year or slit my wrists, but Global Village in the Heights is collecting supplies for Haiti this month, and one of the things on the list is garden seeds. So I bought heritage melons, squash, radishes, and corn. And a packet of mixed lettuce if I decide to plant for myself. Spring is such a fickle time of the year…
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How Railroads Promote Ind’l Development – Past and Present March 20, 2010David P. Jordan
I think the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway’s 172-page Industrial Development Brochure is incredible for its detail, and it shouldn’t leave prospective buyers of listed properties and buildings with too many questions. But if they do have any, they can always contact the railroad.
Closer to home, RailAmerica’s Toledo Peoria & Western Railway lists these properties. I’m curious, though, why two of them, here and here, which are nowhere near TP&W track, are listed (furthermore, they could find out that “Middle Road” is not spelled “Middel.”).
Genesee & Wyoming, Inc., owner of two local shortlines – Illinois & Midland Railroad and Tazewell & Peoria Railroad – provide few details on their website, but it does say this:
I&M’s extra-wide 200-foot right-of-way, and adjacent industrial sites on both I&M and T&P, offer excellent location opportunities for manufacturing, distribution and transload facilities.
Before the Internet Age, railroads published and circulated booklets detailing industrial development sites in various communities they served. One example was the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad’s 1964 booklet. One page of the Peoria section, which appeared in the railroad’s 1963 Annual Report, can be viewed by clicking the thumbnail below.
The Rock Island’s promotion of both the Galena Road Industrial Park and Pioneer Industrial Park caught the attention of the Peoria Journal Star, which mentioned it in a June 16, 1964 editorial.
Past and present, American railroads know that to remain viable long term they must continuously promote their services to prospective industrial and logistics firms. And the only change is the type of media.
- David P. Jordan
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I write this with all love and respect to the local guys because they ROCK, but Comcast is Satan March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
I’m the kinda guy who is always going to wait until the very last minute to pay his cable bill. Usually, I find out it’s due when I can’t get on the Internet
So I’m in the Comcast office on Dries Lane ever other month.
Those guys rock. Professional, friendly and quick. Kudos.
But when I have actual [...]Original post by Billy Dennis
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Day by Day: Skin status update 3/20/2010 March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
Today’s strip: Chris Muir is hearing my pleas. Sam is again in the low-cut, skin-tight little black dress. Chris treats up to a front view and a maddeningly curvaceous profile.
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Day By Day: Skin status update 3/19/2010 March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
Today’s strip: Now this is more like it. Sam is in a skin-tight, low-cut little black dress. There’s a front view and a side view. You go, Chris!
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It’s official: The Captain America movie is going to suck March 20, 2010justiceblogofamerica
Via Slashfilm:
Now there’s a slight update: according to IESB, the shortlist is now only three names: Chris Evans (Sunshine, The Fantastic Four); Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe, Stop-Loss) and Sebastian Stan (Gossip Girl). I’ve stumped for Evans before, but am a bit surprised that he’s still on the list, because of that Fantastic Four association. But that’s no big deal in the long run, as the Marvel Studios film universe has nothing to do with the Fox version of Marvel’s characters. (Confusing!) Evans is easily the best choice here.
Feh. We need a traditional square-jawed hero for this role, not some pretty boy. Evans is an X-games sorta guy. Cap is a baseball/football/track letterman kinda guy. And the FF movies sucked and that kinda stink don’t wash off.
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Let’s not kid ourselves, we are ALL thinking the same thing about that retired white cop who pulled a gun during a Pekin traffic stop and somehow didn’t get his sorry ass shot March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
But I am far, far to politically correct to suggest that a black guy who did this wouldn’t be sitting in the Tazewell County Jail right now. Just sayin’.
Here are some possibly related postsDecember 23, 2009 — Five Peoria police layoffs averted (0)November 29, 2009 — Pekin is on the right track (2)October 22, 2009 [...]Original post by Billy Dennis
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- City mulls over cuts to basic services, giving $37M to hotel developer March 20, 2010According to this Journal Star article, the City of Peoria is looking for ways to cut basic services like sidewalk and sewer improvements due to a nearly “flat projection” in sales tax growth. Meanwhile, according to this other Journal Star article, developer Gary Matthews is still pitching his hotel plan which relies on $37 [...] […]
- Should principals be empowered leaders or branch managers? March 18, 2010The extent to which mechanistic thinking is corrupting our culture might be illustrated in relation to any number of fields of activity. For instance, our educational system suffers disastrously from the dominion of the administrative mind, which is, by the very nature of modern administration, generally mechanistic in its thinking (and therefore unfitted to […]
- Another D150 administrator put on paid leave March 16, 2010District 150 Director of Technology and Library Media Services Mary Ward has been put on paid administrative leave as the district performs an internal investigation. If past is prelude, taxpayers may be paying her to do nothing for a long time. The last administrator to be put on paid administrative leave, Mary Davis, [...] […]
Merle Widmer’s Peoria Watch
- A Common Sense Judge March 21, 2010Forwarded to me by my daughter Mary Jo Greytak whose son is in the armed services. She checked with Scopes. All my family support strong judges and strong actions against terrorists, often called "insurgents" or "freedom fighters" by the liberal press. For comments on my site, please email them to me. If researched and factual info, I wil […]
- FireFly - What Community Leaders Said March 15, 2010"Calling FireFly 'the poster child' of Peoria NEXT", National City regional president Doug Stewart said that technology was not in short supply in Peoria. "Ideas are not our problem. The issue is management, first, and capital second. If we are going to hit a home run, FireFly is the closest thing we've got."Doug was probab […]
- FireFly Closer to Burning Bright March 15, 2010So wrote Molly Parker, reporter for the JS in May of 2007. The resolution by the County to guarantee, along with the city, a six million dollar loan to FireFly by National City Bank, State Representative Dave Leitch, Vice-President, who personally urged the County Board to approve this loan. Quoting Ms. Parker,"The resolution passed both committees by v […]
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- Sunday update: Lt. Governor hopeful videos March 21, 2010
- Reader comments closed for the weekend March 19, 2010
- *** UPDATED x1 *** Afternoon campaign roundup March 19, 2010
- More thoughts about Garrett’s lite guv candidacy March 19, 2010
- Question of the day March 19, 2010
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