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A “magical” caption contest!
Thursday, Sep 25, 2014 - Posted by Rich Miller * From the Palos Heights/Palos Park Regional Journal…
* The pic…  So, is this magician’s powers part of Bruce Rauner’s secret plan to increase spending, cut taxes and balance the budget? Maybe so. Or maybe Mr. Urban will make the nursing home scandal magically disappear. Or… ?
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- Roadiepig - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 9:48 am:
Hey Ron - watch as I make defined benefits disappear !
- Rich Miller - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 9:50 am:
BR: “Hey, Ron, you know that trick where you make your assistant disappear? Have you met my running mate?”
- Formerly Known As... - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 9:50 am:
== Bruce Rauner consults with his new budget director, Ron Urban. ==
- Precinct Captain - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 9:50 am:
I hope each of them checked their pockets afterwards.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 9:50 am:
“Have you both met my running-mate Evelyn? She’s magical too…”
- OneMan - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 9:51 am:
For a little background on Ron Urban…
http://www.geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Ron_Urban
- Formerly Known As... - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 9:52 am:
No Ray Wardingley?
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 9:52 am:
“The ‘other guys’ I met said they can make things…’disappear’, but they are too…messy…you know?
- Formerly Known As... - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 9:54 am:
OneMan - nice link. Mr. Urban is actually quite accomplished and has built a respected career.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 9:55 am:
“If I say ‘Time Travel’ to you guys…what do you say to that? Like it’s September, can you get to November?”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 9:56 am:
“You guys are good. You’re good. But, you know what? I have been successful at everything I have ever done, including smoke and mirrors…”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 9:57 am:
“I think I owned, at one point, a magic shop or something…”
- MrJM - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 9:58 am:
BR: “My solution to Springfield’s budget crisis? This guy found a whole bunch of quarters behind my ear!”
– MrJM
- Casual observer - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 9:59 am:
BR: Watch me pull a budget out of my hat.
- Grandson of Man - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:01 am:
“Presto! I’m not Ron Urban. I’m Senatuh Behnie Sanduhs from Vehmont.”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:01 am:
“Tricks? You call those..,’tricks’? I got a whole party fooled I am one of them, I got voters fooled I sympathize for them, I got some reporters and editorial boards fooled I am an answer to fix things… I even got some fooled that I believe the Dopey things I say! ‘Tricks’? Fellas, I am a walking magical miracle!”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:08 am:
You guys came just in time, ‘Slip and …’, Evelyn has run out of her invisible potion. It not real, of course, we humor her to keep her quiet, so do you guys have any blue Gatorade or something you can say a few words over, just for show…”
- Democrat Grrrl - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:10 am:
These are all good, but OW @ 10:01am will be hard to beat.
- Team Sleep - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:10 am:
What’s that behind your ear? It’s an $18 watch!
- MrJM - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:11 am:
Bruce Rauner magic trick: Fan out an ordinary deck of playing cards. Ask a volunteer to select one card from the deck. Tell the volunteer to look at the card and then to hide that card in a pocket. Buy a new deck of cards, drop it on the table and say, “Ta-dah! I’ll bet it’s one of these!”
– MrJM
- PublicServant - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:11 am:
Bruce Rauner pictured with the only two Urban voters likely to vote for him.
- The End Is Near - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:12 am:
“And if a nursing home magician did, in fact, saw a resident in half, that person should be held responsible.”
- Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:14 am:
Rauner: “Why’d you name your son after a car?”
- DuPage - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:15 am:
“A million dollars to magically change the ballots so I win”.
- Arthur Andersen - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:17 am:
One Urban legend meets another.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:22 am:
- AA -, very well played!
One has spent a great a deal of time working on illusion, slight of hand, and trickery…the other two are father and son.
- Jeepster - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:30 am:
He instantly turned Rauner from a Pro-Life Conservative into to Pro-Choice Liberal so he’s definitely got some strong mojo working!
- A guy... - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:35 am:
In about 40 days we’ll see what happens after the word “Poof”.
- 3rd Generation Chicago Native - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:39 am:
Bruce so confident that he will win is already booking entertainment for the inaugural event.
- zatoichi - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:40 am:
The sleight of hand meets the slight of plan.
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:42 am:
Do You Believe In Magic
Do you believe in magic in a candidate’s heart
How the budget can work out, because he is smart
And it’s magic, if believes that its true
Tax freezes work, debits don’t really accrue
He’ll tell you about the magic, gonna free us all
It’s like selling nursing home deals with one call!
If you believe in magic don’t bother to choose
Either candidate promises that you cannot lose
Just go and listen it all starts with a smile
Then they tell you stuff that cows stack in a pile
Your heart start beating and your face goes flush
They tell you lies that’d make Satan blush
If you believe in magic, come vote for me
And we’ll end poverty right now, just you and me
And maybe, if the economy is right
We’ll tax you some more, and you won’t put up a fight
And we’ll go building, baby, then you’ll see
How living in Illinois for everyone can be free!
Do you believe in magic, yeah
Do you believe like I I II believe
Now do you believe like I believe in magic
Do you believe like I believe in magic
Do you believe like I believe in magic
- dupage dan - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:45 am:
So, OK, I get Gov Quinn to climb into the box. What do I do next?
- Anonymous - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:51 am:
Pfft. Neither of these guys can match the magic of Rauners accountants
- MrJM - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:56 am:
“Actually, I have two lovely assistants — one is a Democrat™ and the other is a right-wing extremist. They help me dress myself.”
– MrJM
- NewWestSuburbanGOP'er - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 11:04 am:
So, that’s where Sanguinetti gets her magic fairy dust..
- AFSCME Steward - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 11:09 am:
After a series of missteps that resulted in a plunge in the polls, Bruce Rauner quickly rebounded by securing the old white male magician vote.
- Jocko - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 11:21 am:
How good at you at communing with spirits? I’m hoping to get Harold Washington’s endorsement.
- Jake From Elwood - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 1:20 pm:
“Local magician meets the Doug Henning of nursing home foulups”
- Truthteller - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 1:21 pm:
Magic meets tragic
- Cheswick - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 1:27 pm:
Renaud: Dad, I wanted you to pull a rabbit out of a hat, not a Rauner.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 2:27 pm:
BR: “Ron, I am adamantly, adamantly against revealing how I’ll do my budget plan trick.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 2:29 pm:
BR: “That yellow vest would go well with my Carhartt jacket.”
RU: “How you got Armani to tailor you a Carhartt jacket was some trick, Brucie!”
- Anonymous - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:15 pm:
who helped make ownership of the nursing home disapear,these guys
- Anonymous - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:23 pm:
will you guys stop levitating me
- Anonymous - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:29 pm:
graduation ceremony val victorian of magical thinking (center)
- Anonymous - Thursday, Sep 25, 14 @ 10:31 pm:
hold me back i feel like punching someone
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 26, 14 @ 5:29 am:
you have been succesful in making my poll numbers vanish
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 26, 14 @ 5:32 am:
the magicans reveal the man behind the curtian
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 26, 14 @ 5:36 am:
nursing home staff( dewey,cheatum and howe)
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 26, 14 @ 5:45 am:
that was some good magic rope
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 26, 14 @ 5:56 am:
hare club for men