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Question of the day
Monday, Dec 18, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller It’s a holiday week and I’m expecting comments will be pretty light for the next several days (before I shut down the blog for a week or so). Let’s have a little fun today. This has been done by others, but I don’t think we’ve ever touched on it here. Our current state slogan is, of course, “Land of Lincoln.” Come up with a new one.
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- Niles Township - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 10:32 am:
Land of Corruption is OK by Us (we keep voting them in anyway!)…maybe a little long for the license plate. Happy holidays to all!
- sam - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 10:32 am:
“Oh, I thought Chicago was in Michigan or Ohio or something.”
- Doodle - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 10:34 am:
Pay-to-Playland
- The 'Broken Heart' of Rogers Park - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 10:39 am:
In lines with the governor standing behind a soybean field promoting a corn based gas product - I say ‘Land of Dumb Governors’.
- fedup dem - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 10:41 am:
“Corrupt Pols ‘R’ Us!”
- zatoichi - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 10:41 am:
Land of Thinkin’
- Snidely Whiplash - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 10:42 am:
“A vote for corruption”
- Ali Bin Haddin - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 10:45 am:
“Where’s My Piece of the Action?” This would make a good two liner, top and bottom of license plates, wrap around coins, seals, flags, etc. I suggest a nice 3/4 profile showing the good side of Al Capone, a bottle of booze and a Tommy Gun. An alternative would be a full size outline of a convicted governor, (your choice of individual) holding a citizen upside down by the ankle with change, dollar bills, contracts and other loot streaming from the citizen pockets.
- just a thought - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 11:00 am:
We’ll Show California What Budget Problems Are! or Land of Chapter 11.
- Bluefish - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 11:10 am:
Land of Lincoln Turning in his Grave
- anon #1 - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 11:12 am:
Land of Crooks
Land of Shame on Us
- Ken in Aurora - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 11:13 am:
“Imbeciles in Horto”. Wait, no - that’s for Chicago.
- capitol view - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 11:20 am:
hey, “just a thought” - did you know that the State of Illinois was created for the specific purpose of going into debt? Everytime Congress createdd another state, it diminishes the power and influence of the current states already in it - adds two more Senators and at least one more House member. But Congress wanted to link the Mississippi River with Lake Michigan, for trade and commerce to circle the entire nation at that time. And the Congress did not want to pay for it with east coast generated tax revenues. So the residents of the NW territories were told that if they agreed to issue state bonds to pay for an Illinois(River) - (Lake) Michigan canal, then Congress would not look too closely at their statehood application. (The Illinois River links to the Mississippi, for those of you geographically challenged.)
The State’s founders said okay - but then they saw the proposed boundaries of the new state that Congress intended for them. It was all of Illinois up to just south of Joliet! The Illinois area settlers said - wait, if we are going to put up the bonds for the canal, then we want the economic benefit of it at Lake Michigan terminus. So the northern boundaries were shifted up to the current ones. And the State of Illinois was created - with what would emerge as Chicago as part of it. Two years later, the State founders kept their word and issued bonds for the Illinois-Michigan canal.
Before the canal even opened, though, a new phenominum emerged across America. The railroads! So the canal was obsolete even before it opened, and the lack of use almost bankrupted the State.
The conclusion can only be that being heavily in debt is a proud Illinois state government tradition. Putting up the current Capitol almost did us in, too. Maybe not license plate logo material, but a fact…
- Anonymous - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 11:22 am:
Stinkin Land of Lincoln
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 11:31 am:
“Land of The Simpsons”
- Lovie's Leather - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 11:37 am:
la tierra de Lincoln
- ZC - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 11:42 am:
“Grateful for Louisiana”
- ZC - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 11:43 am:
“Land of Lineage”
- Bubs - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 11:55 am:
Land of Wink and a Nod
- Lovie's Leather - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 12:01 pm:
The land of maximum wage
- PalosParkBob - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 12:12 pm:
“Never Blame the Booster for what the Sucker Does”
- Wumpus - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 12:19 pm:
Land a stinkin.
Contest ova! Wumpus wins
- independent downstater - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 12:23 pm:
Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be stolen today.
- respectful - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 12:24 pm:
“Where’s mine?”
- kdruben - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 12:46 pm:
Graceland
- Squideshi - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 1:18 pm:
Free and Equal, for Some
- lockport - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 1:47 pm:
“Land of the Leeches”…sucking the taxpayers dry!!!
- The Abstract Prosaic - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 1:48 pm:
“Illinois: At least it’s not Mississippi!”
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 2:25 pm:
“The Combine State.”
PS: The Old-Timers here will remember one of my all-time favorite political quotes: “Someday the license plates in Illinois will read ‘Land of Burris’.” -Roland Burris, ca. 1980
- Citizen A - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 2:29 pm:
Ubi Est Mea
- Angie - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 2:40 pm:
Political Petri Dish Illinois, Where the Host Organism Dies
- Beowulf - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 3:15 pm:
“I. O.U.”
- Beowulf - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 3:16 pm:
“It’s Miller Time”
- Common sense - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 3:20 pm:
“Land of the Unfree”
- Rich Miller - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 3:24 pm:
LOL, Beowulf.
“This is MY country…”
Not.
- Confused Republican - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 3:49 pm:
The Land of Liars……which sad to say, in this state, the Republican Party, my party, is. You cannot believe any of them.
- HoosierDaddy - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 4:48 pm:
“Just a few more miles and you’ll be in Indiana!”
- Anonymous ZZZ - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 5:02 pm:
kdruben …. “Disgraceland” is more like it.
- KenoMan - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 5:59 pm:
“America’s Pay-to-Play State”
- Disgusted - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 6:32 pm:
Subpoenas R Us
Land of Crooks & Liars
Back-Scratch Central
Emil’$ Patch
Neverchange Land
Pirates’ Paradise
- dekalb demo - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 6:55 pm:
I thought, historically, we were called “the sucker state” because settlers fell for the overblown “land of milk and honey” advertisements to get them out here, and found swamps and fever
- Boone Logan Square - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 7:43 pm:
Terra of Obama
- So-Called "Austin Mayor" - Monday, Dec 18, 06 @ 10:34 pm:
“How much ya got?”
- Saluki Yayhoo - Tuesday, Dec 19, 06 @ 12:15 am:
“Governor Rod Blagojevich’s Land of Lincoln”
Land of Indictment
The Capitol Punishment State - “We convict more politicians than people!”
“Welcome to the Machine”
Illinois: The Check is in the Mail
- Whizbang - Tuesday, Dec 19, 06 @ 2:07 am:
Illinois home of the Prairie Pirates?
- Nene - Tuesday, Dec 19, 06 @ 8:07 am:
All Kids — Will pay for our foolishness.
- Squideshi - Tuesday, Dec 19, 06 @ 9:04 am:
Illinois: Former Home of the Illinois
- Apocalypto - Tuesday, Dec 19, 06 @ 11:27 am:
FOR SALE
$ ILLINOIS $
BendOverLand
- Randy Alesia - Tuesday, Dec 19, 06 @ 4:23 pm:
Land of nepotisim,Play to pay welcome to Illinois.Merry X-Mas Rich