The Payton Prep Graduation Ceremony and a lucky graduate is being awarded the “Bruce Rauner Most Clouted Graduate Award”… to the snickers to all attending… except…
Anon221, great minds..I was typing one out on the dress code and word got there first.
To the Post:
Rahm: “I didn’t think it was possible to have a lower approval
rating than mine, but Bruce, you pulled it off.
Rauner: “Wanna see that bailout money disappear faster than my positives?”
Durbin: “How about those Cubs?”
“I’m not saying Republicans are controlled in the General Assembly, but the last time I ordered take-out, Goldberg had to sign off on my side dish!” - a GOP GA member’s opening remarks.
“Yeah, the Governor holds all this money over our heads. How scary is that? Just last week we asked for an anvil over our heads instead” - another GOP GA member.
“I nearly took a job in the Administration. They said I’d get a state car. Of course, maintenance, gas, and insurance aren’t possible, but you get a car… ” a GOP GA member
===“I nearly took a job in the Administration. They said I’d get a state car. Of course, maintenance, gas, and insurance aren’t possible, but you get a car… ”=== The Auditor General.
“Mike Madigan members are called Mushrooms… or Ducklings, Ducklings… Mike Madigan Members are called Ducklings, were called ‘The $20 million Mock Caucuses” a GOP GA Member
“I’m not saying Gov. Rauner is choosing people way too young to be in the General Assembly, but luring them to the House to vote by PokemonGo… ” GOP GA Member
Dick and Rahm, I can see further than you and YES Illinois is headed for a disaster so please tell Madigan and Cullerton to wake up before we hit the iceberg.
“Governor Rauner loves his Montana ranch. He loves it. It’s just wide open, vast, nothing there as far as the eye can see. No one knew Rauner wanted Illinois to be like the view at his Ranch… “
“Governor Rauner really cares about small businesses. If you ever need someone to win a Twitter award for your restaurant, he’s the first guy I’d call… “
“Evelyn… Evelyn Sanguinetti… Yeah Gov. Rauner chose her (hired her!).., yeah, he hired her… She said she had magic… remember… I didn’t know vanishing was her magical power… “
“State Fair is just around the corner… Sen. Durbin will be there, will you be there Mr. Mayor?… Well, state fair is coming up… that means Gov. Rauner has a limited amount of time to find a former governor to head up the parade volunteer list… “
“Ever follow Governor Rauner on Twtter, it’s fascinating… if you wavy to know what group is being short changed that week, odds are Governor Rauner took a selfie with them… ‘Hey FFA, selfie?’… ‘Veterans, how about a quick picture?’… ‘Go Panthers, E-I-U!’… Fascinating Twitter… “
“Governor Rauner enjoyed visiting the University of Illinois a while back… He enjoyed is so much his next cost is scheduled for 3:30 AM during Spring Break… “
Dateline: Evanston, IL. On Tuesday, aldermen signed off on a plan to repurpose one of the city’s most popular recreational areas, Mount Trashmore. In an effort to promote tourism in the city, sculptor Chisel N. Stone has been commissioned to turn the mounded landfill into larger-than-life statues of famous Illinois politicians, including…..
“Governor Rauner went to Dartmouth… Great school, Ivy League… They must not have taught Julius Caesar right because I think that ‘I’m not here to praise her, I’m here to bury her’ seems a bit off when I think about it… “
Hey Dick, Rahm, What’ya say we give Willy an A for effort on this Caption Contest and just leave it at that. The guy’s never without a charger for his phone, that’s for sure.
“Governor Rauner and Mayor Emanuel are close, they’re so close that when Governor Rauner told Mayor Emanuelhe was going to run for Governor… but as a Republican… Mayor Emanuel said ‘Promise?’… “
- Joe Schmoe - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 2:51 pm:
Governor, keep your hands to yourself!
- One of the 35 - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 2:53 pm:
Which one is Curley?
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 2:54 pm:
Durbin, to himself: “I’m just gonna turn down the Beltones now before these two fools start talking.”
- Norseman - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 2:54 pm:
It’s hard to hold a smile when getting goosed by the Gov
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 2:57 pm:
“Senator Durbin, Mayor Emanuel,… (Pause)… ”
- Diana Rauner opening remarks…
- MSIX - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 2:57 pm:
“And now it’s time for everyone’s favorite game, Spot the Looney!!”
(Hat tip to Monty Python)
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 2:58 pm:
Evelyn Sanguinetti gives prepared remarks as others look on…
- 35/Shields - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 2:59 pm:
Here’s the signal, I’ll pull my left ear whenever I’m standing near someone I don’t like.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:00 pm:
Ron Sandack at the podium explaining that taxpayers are more important than people as the the crowd “Whooooooo”s him.
- wordslinger - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:01 pm:
“Goldberg — you told me they were going to wear ties!”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:05 pm:
The Payton Prep Graduation Ceremony and a lucky graduate is being awarded the “Bruce Rauner Most Clouted Graduate Award”… to the snickers to all attending… except…
- Dutch3001 - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:05 pm:
“Dick! Quit pulling your ear! I told you to do that only as a warning when old crabby pants is…right…behind….us….”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:06 pm:
Not Pictures, a speaker… “… and that’s what Labor thinks about Bruce Rauner!”
- LINK - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:07 pm:
Hear no evil.
Say no evil.
See no….
Wait a minute!
What you talkin about Willis with that “Say no evil?”
- Bogey Golfer - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:09 pm:
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
- Bogey Golfer - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:10 pm:
At your service day and night; we do the job and do it right. ACME (from 3 Stooges).
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:11 pm:
Anon221, great minds..I was typing one out on the dress code and word got there first.
To the Post:
Rahm: “I didn’t think it was possible to have a lower approval
rating than mine, but Bruce, you pulled it off.
Rauner: “Wanna see that bailout money disappear faster than my positives?”
Durbin: “How about those Cubs?”
- BIG R. Ph. - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:11 pm:
Where’s Shemp?
- Rich Miller - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:12 pm:
Hear no evil, see no evil and… evil.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:12 pm:
“I’m not saying Republicans are controlled in the General Assembly, but the last time I ordered take-out, Goldberg had to sign off on my side dish!” - a GOP GA member’s opening remarks.
- Highland, IL - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:13 pm:
Rahm: “Dick you’ve got my endorsement.”
- A guy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:14 pm:
DD- “When I do this, people think I have Secret Service protection”.
BR- “Get a Q-Tip man”.
RE- “This is what relevance looks like at the moment.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:14 pm:
“Yeah, the Governor holds all this money over our heads. How scary is that? Just last week we asked for an anvil over our heads instead” - another GOP GA member.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:16 pm:
“The governor wants us to vote our conscious. Yep… we vote our conscious he said and he’ll make us unconscious.” - a GOP GA member.
- A guy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:17 pm:
DD- “I’ve always had a thing for Carol Burnett”.
BR- “I thought I heard it. Now I smell it”.
RE- “Wonder if they know it was me”.
- tecwfm - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:18 pm:
Jeff Dunham’s replacements for Bubb J, Walter and Peanut
- @MisterJayEm - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:18 pm:
As the Ghost of Lincoln Weeps
– MrJM
- A guy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:19 pm:
“Hey look, it’s Willy and Sling and they both have I phones. Uh oh. Norse still using a chalk slate”.
It’s Friday boys. Having a little fun.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:20 pm:
“Whoever smelt it dealt it, Senator”
- A guy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:20 pm:
Last one in the pool is a……Rahm.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:21 pm:
“I nearly took a job in the Administration. They said I’d get a state car. Of course, maintenance, gas, and insurance aren’t possible, but you get a car… ” a GOP GA member
- JS Mill - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:21 pm:
DD- “What, no carhartt?
BVR- “We are in Chicago not Bloomington. Not dropping my G’s either”
RE- What a tool.
- A guy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:21 pm:
The elevator door is going to open any second. Ready??
- Cubs in '16 - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:22 pm:
“Those aren’t pillows!”
- Stones - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:22 pm:
Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard!
- warthog - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:23 pm:
One guy gave this nation Obama and then, in turn, Obama gave this state the other guy. Oh man!!
- A guy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:23 pm:
===“I nearly took a job in the Administration. They said I’d get a state car. Of course, maintenance, gas, and insurance aren’t possible, but you get a car… ”=== The Auditor General.
- Cubs in '16 - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:24 pm:
Rahm: “Take the pic from an angle that makes me look…..unhobbit-like”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:25 pm:
“Mike Madigan members are called Mushrooms… or Ducklings, Ducklings… Mike Madigan Members are called Ducklings, were called ‘The $20 million Mock Caucuses” a GOP GA Member
- AC - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:25 pm:
A reporter asks Durbin to retell that Lincoln joke he’s famous for, Rauner looks on ponderously, Emanuel laughs hysterically.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:28 pm:
“The next one of us Governor Rauner replaces will bring down the Republican Caucus’ median age to ‘Can I see your ID please?’… ” GOP GA member
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:30 pm:
“I’m not saying Gov. Rauner is choosing people way too young to be in the General Assembly, but luring them to the House to vote by PokemonGo… ” GOP GA Member
- Norseman - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:31 pm:
A guy, that’s the latest in my neck of the woods.
- One to the Dome - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:31 pm:
Hardrock, Coco and Joe
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:31 pm:
“Governor Rauner told us he cares about his state… We asked which state and he said he’d get back to us” GOP GA Member
- the old man - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:33 pm:
Dick and Rahm, I can see further than you and YES Illinois is headed for a disaster so please tell Madigan and Cullerton to wake up before we hit the iceberg.
- Dr X - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:34 pm:
Oh come on
Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest
- Slugger O'Toole - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:35 pm:
I’m Hard Knocks, I’m So-So, I’m Slow (Christmas in July)
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:36 pm:
“Governor Rauner loves his Montana ranch. He loves it. It’s just wide open, vast, nothing there as far as the eye can see. No one knew Rauner wanted Illinois to be like the view at his Ranch… “
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:42 pm:
The governor’s hands are tiny
- Anonymous - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:42 pm:
Dick, Rahm you guys ever have that Willy guy tell you that You Own It?
You’re both laughing, so you have!!! That makes me feel better.
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:45 pm:
Hey look Goldberg is going to show the turnaround savings
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:46 pm:
“Governor Rauner really cares about children. He’ll first see if your kid is in the way of his kid, but then… “
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:48 pm:
New water ballon heads for the state fair
- Ducky LaMoore - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:50 pm:
How pictures look when Barickman is the photographer.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:51 pm:
“Governor Rauner really cares about small businesses. If you ever need someone to win a Twitter award for your restaurant, he’s the first guy I’d call… “
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:51 pm:
This year’s newest halloween mask
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:52 pm:
Thumbs up govenor
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:54 pm:
Electonic licenced grass bowl checker
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:54 pm:
“Evelyn… Evelyn Sanguinetti… Yeah Gov. Rauner chose her (hired her!).., yeah, he hired her… She said she had magic… remember… I didn’t know vanishing was her magical power… “
- Wensicia - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:55 pm:
Goldberg: “We can thank Bruce Rauner for bringing transparency and accountability to the office of the Governor.”
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:56 pm:
Career politicians
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:58 pm:
“State Fair is just around the corner… Sen. Durbin will be there, will you be there Mr. Mayor?… Well, state fair is coming up… that means Gov. Rauner has a limited amount of time to find a former governor to head up the parade volunteer list… “
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 3:59 pm:
Poetic musings from the Goldberg letters
- strobby - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:00 pm:
Look the lions are eating another one of the peasants
- Casual observer - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:00 pm:
BR: you both know we’re on our last term, right? Right?
- Sinequanon - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:01 pm:
Duck, duck, goose you both! How’s that for pinning the tail on the donkey!
- Name Withheld - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:04 pm:
Famine, Pestilence, and Death
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:04 pm:
“Governor Rauner is big on communication. He so big on communication sometimes he’ll pretend he called you… “
- z - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:06 pm:
Who did the wet willie?
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:08 pm:
I thought you wanted you message out not an outside massage
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:09 pm:
“Ever follow Governor Rauner on Twtter, it’s fascinating… if you wavy to know what group is being short changed that week, odds are Governor Rauner took a selfie with them… ‘Hey FFA, selfie?’… ‘Veterans, how about a quick picture?’… ‘Go Panthers, E-I-U!’… Fascinating Twitter… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:11 pm:
“Governor Rauner enjoyed visiting the University of Illinois a while back… He enjoyed is so much his next cost is scheduled for 3:30 AM during Spring Break… “
- PublicServant - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:11 pm:
Is he still behind us?
- Iron Lady - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:13 pm:
Dewey, Cheated and Howe.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:15 pm:
“Bruce, your arm is long”
- Former hillrod - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:16 pm:
Wynken, Blynken and Nod.
- Donner and Blitzen away - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:18 pm:
I’m Hard Rock, I’m Coco, and I’m Joe
- Anonymousse - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:19 pm:
Dateline: Evanston, IL. On Tuesday, aldermen signed off on a plan to repurpose one of the city’s most popular recreational areas, Mount Trashmore. In an effort to promote tourism in the city, sculptor Chisel N. Stone has been commissioned to turn the mounded landfill into larger-than-life statues of famous Illinois politicians, including…..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Trashmore_(Illinois)
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:20 pm:
“Governor Rauner went to Dartmouth… Great school, Ivy League… They must not have taught Julius Caesar right because I think that ‘I’m not here to praise her, I’m here to bury her’ seems a bit off when I think about it… “
- Former hillrod - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:22 pm:
The butcher the baker and the candlestick maker.
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:26 pm:
You still got that fish on you the govenor sent?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:30 pm:
“I asked the Governor what are his favorite board games and he said, Risk, Sorry, and… Liquify all the assets, take all the profits… “
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:30 pm:
Collectivist triad
- Former hillrod - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:37 pm:
I always wondered what a triple bogey was. Now I know.
- A guy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:41 pm:
Hey Dick, Rahm, What’ya say we give Willy an A for effort on this Caption Contest and just leave it at that. The guy’s never without a charger for his phone, that’s for sure.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:44 pm:
“Governor Rauner and Mayor Emanuel are close, they’re so close that when Governor Rauner told Mayor Emanuelhe was going to run for Governor… but as a Republican… Mayor Emanuel said ‘Promise?’… “
- wordslinger - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:45 pm:
We live in interesting times. Military coup underway in Turkey, NATO member.
Take a look at the map and all the countries that border Turkey. Heavy stuff.
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:45 pm:
Thinkers
- Cubs in '16 - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:47 pm:
- strobby - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:00 pm:
Look the lions are eating another one of the peasants===
That right there is funny I don’t care who you are!
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:49 pm:
===Military coup underway in Turkey, NATO member.
Take a look at the map and all the countries that border Turkey. Heavy stuff.===
Woah.
NATO ally with a military coup. Wow.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Jul 15, 16 @ 4:50 pm:
Turkish military coups are not all that rare. We’ll see where this one goes.
Have a great weekend!