Aaron Schock once got his arm twisted on Air Force One.So that makes him an expert on presidential arm twisting in favor of health care reform, according to conservative site Human Events:
“Since they can’t offer legislative changes to get people’s vote, since they can’t negotiate on the substance of the bill, the only thing...
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Where’s Schock: Not on Air Force One (this time)
Schock backs free trade agreement
From a press release from Aaron Schock:
Last week, President Obama declared his plans to double domestic exports over the next five years and announced a renewed push on the pending free-trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea that are currently pending.
Yet it is time for the reality to match his rhetoric. Despite these...
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Schock announces academy nominations, at least one will cause some tongues to wag
I predict some complains about at least one of the names on the list. It’s Daniel Ardis, son of Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis. Schock nominated him for the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
Yes, it’s a big benefit for the son of another GOP politician. But remember, the relationship between Mayor Ardis and Schock has...
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Schock prepping for U.S. Senate run?
The State Journal-Register’s Bernard Schoenburg has some questions about our Congressman:
Are U.S. Rep. AARON SCHOCK, and his chief of staff, STEVEN SHEARER, trying to influence who gets on the Republican State Central Committee? And if so, why?
Those questions are being asked by some Republican county chairmen in central Illinois.
And some of them are asking...
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Maddow attack a cheap shot, columnist says
Most the reviews of Aaron Schock’s performance on Sunday’s Meet the Press has been negative. Most of the coverage has been partisan, too. Maybe that’s because conservative-leaning commentators didn’t want to talk about it.
But I received a link to this column in my mailbox, from Byron York of the Washington Examiner:
To Schock, the good...
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A happy (unintended) consequence
I post this information in the interest of full disclosure.
Recently, I’ve been commenting on Aaron Schock’s appearance on Meet the Press on Sunday. MSBC commentator Rachel Maddow appeared with Schock. My posts pointed out that on the facts alone, Maddow was right, and Schock was wrong, on the issues discussed and excerpted.
As a lower-case...
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Schock seems to have gotten his facts wrong in Miranda rights claim
This was the exchange between Rachel Maddow and Aaron Schock on Meet the Press:
MADDOW: What’s the basis of the assertion that reading someone their Miranda rights in unsafe? We did that with every single person who’s been arrested on terrorism charges since 9/11. No one’s ever made an issue of it until the Obama...
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Ford and Maddow take on Schock
It’s an interesting segment. Rachel Maddow points out the innacuracy of insisting that reading an accused an accused terrorist his Miranda rights somehow is contrary to national security or is something new with President Obama:
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Schock is right: He’s no Constitutional law expert
Bernard Schoenburg asked Congressman Aaron Schock about the question he would have asked President Obama had he got the chance. That question should have been about the Republican accusation that the president is somehow soft on terrorism because he wants some accused terrorists to face civilian criminal charges:
“I think it’s wrong to give non-Americans...
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Schock defends pork spending in his district
Pork is bad, bad, bad … unless it’s for the 18th District, or so says Aaron Schock.
Republican U.S. Reps. Aaron Schock and John Shimkus were at Lincoln Land Community College today to tout a $350,000 grant for a green technologies education program.
They both voted against the budget bill funding the project after pushing for...
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It’s Schock vs. Maddow on Sunday
I’m hearing that Aaron Schock and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow will appear on Meet the Press this Sunday. Here is Maddow laying some smack on Republicans for voting against the stimulus, complaining about it being bad for the country, but then trying to grab all the stimulus funds for their districts than they can...
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Schock opposes one-party gridlock
This is a pre-primary appearance of Congressman Aaron Schock on MSNBC. He’s discussing the frustration he says voters feel over one-party rule in Illinois. He’s also critical of “gridlock” in Illinois. Seems to me a way to avoid gridlock is for even a small minority of the minority party to participate in a small...
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Peoria lobbies for the opportunity to increase debt and tax burden
Merle Widmer thinks even less than I do of the city and county’s hiring of a lobbyist:
The lobbying group has already been give partial credit for the landing of a $500,000 federal grant for a pennycress bio-diesel plant near Mapleton. However, an article (with Aaron Schock’s picture) in the 10/06/09 issue of the JS...
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Press release: Schock Joins Bipartisan Effort to Urge President to Release LIHEAP Funds
Press release:
Schock Joins Bipartisan Effort to Urge President to Release LIHEAP Funds
Washington, DC –Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL) joined 132 of his colleagues in writing to President Barack Obama this week, requesting he release emergency funds from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
“As gas and home heating prices continue to rise, consumers are...
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Will Schock support ’social justice’ for illegal immigrants
A Springfield-based “social justice” organization is holding vigils outside Congressman Aaron Schock’s office there urging him to support immigration reform legislation. Part of the bill is “hawkish” in that it boosts border security. The other part is “dovish in the issue in that is makes it easier for those already here to become citizens.
And...
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‘My parents voted for Aaron Schock and I still had to pay for this lousy T-Shirt’
Behold in all its glory: Aaron Schock 2012 T-Shirts, Aaron Schock 2012 Gifts, Artwork, Posters, and other products.
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More fallout from Schock’s pro-torture comments
Lest anyone think that only one of Aaron Schock’s potential opponents is opposed to torture, Carl Ray had an op-ed in today’s Journal Star. He made many good practical points, including that torture accomplished nothing and only strengthens our enemies resolve. But he made a moral point as well:
The only thing exceptional about our...
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More fallout from Schock’s torture comment
From The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan:
At some point, someone close to him needs to pull him aside and say “keep your head down, learn the issues before you go on television and start spewing things that can’t be unsaid.” The fact that he hasn’t even toured the prison in his own...
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Schock: Another stimulus? That’s insane
Press release:
Schock: The Definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Thing Twice and Expecting Different Results
Stimulus II pours billions into the same failed policies of the original stimulus, while adding to the national debt
Washington, DC – Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL) issued the following statement after Speaker Pelosi’s Stimulus II legislation passed the House today...
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Hirner wants Schock to apologize for endorsing torture (UPDATED)
She released this in the form of a PDF file. Basically, DK Hirner wants Aaron Schock to apologize for saying on Hardball that he saw nothing wrong with using torture on prisoners.
UPDATE: Here’s a press release:
Hirner calls on Schock to Apologize for Torture Endorsement
Calls torture endorsement by Schock reckless and out of touch with...
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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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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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Iron Man 2 Trailer (OFFICIAL) | Home Video Marketing March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
if you guys think this is amazing, wait till the Avengers movie comes out. dakkota92 Says: March 19th, 2010 at 4:03 pm. he wanted more money they said no soo he quit. SilentWorld13 Says: March 19th, 2010 at 4:08 pm …
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Mail It To Team-Up: Captain America Cartoon and My theory about … March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
Of course this would mean that he could be a villain in Iron Man 3 or even the Avengers movie. Now what if each major villain of the Marvel heroes banded together? Mandarin for Iron Man, Red Skull for Captain America, Loki for Thor, …
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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, [...] […]
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- 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 […]
- FireFly & G&D Integrated March 14, 2010On 5/28/07, Jennifer Davis and Molly Parker wrote "Finding a FireFly Fix Over Breakfast" in their 'Word on the Street' Column in the JS. Quoting the column, " braving buckets of snow, former Mayor Dick Carver, current Mayor Jim Ardis, state Representative Dave Leitch and a Peoria businessman showed up for breakfast at Le Peep. Over t […]
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