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Lunchtime shorts
Friday, Jan 5, 2007 - Posted by Rich Miller * Note to blog readers: Reader comments will be turned off early Friday evening as usual, but they’ll be opened again on Sunday because it’s a session day. * Let’s see, we’ve got the lottery privatization, the student loan portfolio sale, tollway, and all sorts of other privatizing plans still under consideration. The Bond Buyer [hefty subscription] adds this little tidbit.
* The Bond Buyer also reported that the state has “hired Goldman, Sachs & Co. and UBS Securities LLC to serve as financial advisers on a potential privatization of the state Lottery to help finance a $10 billion education program that includes $1.5 billion of new borrowing for school buildings projects, officials said yesterday.” * Chicagoist interviews Cook County Commisioner Forrest Claypool
* Rahmpire? Man, that’s a horrible photo. * ‘It’s a pretty awesome feeling‘ - Hare takes over for former boss in House * Class action claims AT&T charged hidden connection fee * Topinka selling off mementos * Krol: What has changed since Obama said ‘no’ to ’08?
* Huntley: Biotalk or biotech? In which does Illinois want to be leader? * Political Insider: “Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is actively interviewing potential staffers for a 2008 presidential campaign, though he has told at least one that he still hasn’t made a final decision about running yet.” * Jakobsson proposes mandatory vaccination for girls * Simpson: Council is starting to put independence on the agenda * Mayor Daley’s campaign website is up and running
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- Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 5, 07 @ 12:54 pm:
“Venthole,” I have no idea how that vile comment of yours made it through my comment screens, but consider yourself banned.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 5, 07 @ 1:03 pm:
And that means your alter ego is also banned, by the way. I checked your IP address. Done.
- fedup dem - Friday, Jan 5, 07 @ 1:49 pm:
So Mayor Daley has his campaign website up. It’s too bad someone hasn’t linked it to the comic strips that are on-line, because Daley’s record has been one sick joke.
- DOWNSTATE - Friday, Jan 5, 07 @ 1:53 pm:
What happens when there is nothing to sell or privatize?
- zatoichi - Friday, Jan 5, 07 @ 1:58 pm:
Is there any statement or action that Obama has made or done that some columnist has not recorded, studied, analyzed, and checked for consistency just to write a column? I know people in public life get all kinds of attention, but Barack is being put into hyperdrive. Better check the color of his socks.
- Snark - Friday, Jan 5, 07 @ 3:04 pm:
Since this is an open-ish thread, Rich I hate that you changed your RSS feed from full to preview. I understand that you want people to click through to see your ads, but couldn’t you just include your ads in the feed? Talk to Klau and Jake for help on that.
Just from a personal point, I find that of the feeds that don’t offer the full feed I often read them less.
P.S. If it wasn’t intentional and you have no idea what I’m talking about, your RSS feed in my aggregator always showed the full blog post, now (starting earlier this week I think) it only feeds the first few sentences and I have to click through to your site to see the full post.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 5, 07 @ 3:17 pm:
I don’t think I could put five or six ads in each feed. I know how you feel about the clipped feeds, but I do need to make sure people see the ads. For now, I think, it will stay.
- Wally from the Western Suburbs - Friday, Jan 5, 07 @ 3:58 pm:
I went to the Garage Sale, not a Lot, I did get 11 Blue Books though for $20, so not bad, some from the 80’s
I was also able to know who put out the BUCK FLAGOVICH, Bumper stickers as there were stacks of them there, other than that just knick knacks and the like
- Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 5, 07 @ 4:01 pm:
LOL
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Jan 5, 07 @ 5:13 pm:
So, Ethics Test takers, if Bradley Tusk leaves State Government and goes to work for a bond house, is the firm:
a) ineligible to bid on State work for one year.
b) can bid on State work because Tusk is not an owner
c) is wired tighter than a new screendoor for the Lottery deal
d) none of the above
- True Observer - Friday, Jan 5, 07 @ 5:26 pm:
Bill Bradley had a verbal SAT score of 485 and the media made him out to be a genius.
There can be no trust in admission to or graduation from any university.
Where are the writings of Hillary, Obama, et. al. when they were in school.
How come they are hiding them?
That will reveal their true scholarship because they didn’t have ghost writers then.
Just because someone can give a good performance in a particular setting doesn’t prove intelligence.
Every night on TV you can see hundreds of great and moving performances.
- Bill - Friday, Jan 5, 07 @ 5:32 pm:
AA,
b and c, obviously.
- JohnR - Friday, Jan 5, 07 @ 11:32 pm:
True Observer -
Obama was editor of the Harvard Law Review, and there is no question that he wrote his books. He was also a university professor.
- Squideshi - Sunday, Jan 7, 07 @ 12:31 pm:
Kroll strikes again. I don’t fault him for being a good investigative reporter, but I wonder if he’ll balance things out by digging up some dirt on conservatives too–rather than just going after Whitney and Obama.