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* Bobby Schilling is running again and he appears tea partier than ever, perhaps because he was repeatedly slammed for becoming “too DC” in the last election. His new campaign slogan: “Bring Bobby Back”…

The former Congressman said we were defeated by 7% due to redistricting. “We need to do a better job of getting people out to vote,” Schilling said. “I’m the pizza guy and a dad. It’s not fun being in Congress, but I only have to look into the eyes of my kids and look at all the liberals ruining our country and it’s pretty easy to step into the race again.”

“We have to engage this country. People have destroyed this state and I am not going to sit down and watch this happen!”

Schilling said people are escaping to Iowa. Paul Ryan called him to encourage him to run saying Obama has big issues including the national debt, but that or fixing the economy is not his priority. His number one priority is taking back the House in the next election.

Ryan told Schilling, “By the time he is through, you will not be ale to recognize this country.” Schilling said Americans have to get engaged and help get America back on track.

Considering how poorly the article was written, I’m not sure that Schilling’s priority is actually “taking back the House,” since the House remains in GOP hands.

* Off topic, but I’ve been saving this story for a few days and this seems like the right time to post it…

Lt. Governor Sheila Simon is out trying to make sure today’s students will have a better understand of mathematics with the new integrated math curriculum. Simon and the Illinois State Board of Education released the state’s first sixth- through twelfth-grade math curriculum in May and urged middle and high schools state wide to implement the new courses this fall.

Simon visited Pinck-neyville High School Thursday morning, which is one of the Illinois schools which have adopted the program.

Simon says the program is about the student’s future and helping have the tools to compete for college and beyond. […]

The program is outlined to include all facets of mathematics. The students would not take algebra one year and the geometry the next; instead the, the different mathematics are integrated.

Apparently, The Southern has no editors. They’re obviously cutting back at the paper because they’re using a “news service” that appears to be sponsored by the Illinois Policy Institute for numerous front page stories, including…

* Wealthy move money to avoid estate tax

* Obamacare program raises ID theft risk

* Legislative leaders often fly on state airplanes

posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 3:03 pm

Comments

===…make sure today’s students will have a better understand of mathematics with the new integrated math curriculum.===

IL STUDENTS EXCEL IN MATH, JUST NOT WORD PROBLEMS

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 3:11 pm
“Apparently, The Southern has no editors.”

What else would you expect from Lee Enterprises?

Comment by Bill Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 3:11 pm
==People have destroyed this state==

==By the time he is through, you will not be ale to recognize this country==

Good election rhetoric to fire up the base, though I’m at a loss to see how the state our country have been destroyed.

Plus, who are these “people” that have destroyed the state? You would think they would be a little more specific.

Comment by Demoralized Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 3:12 pm
Not surprised about Schilling although he sounds like a parrot with the Tea Party rant. No specifics from him but hey it’s early. The crazy season for primary campaigns is commencing earlier and earlier.

Comment by Nearly Normal Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 3:19 pm
–It’s not fun being in Congress, but I only have to look into the eyes of my kids and look at all the liberals ruining our country and it’s pretty easy to step into the race again.”

“We have to engage this country. People have destroyed this state and I am not going to sit down and watch this happen!”–

You and the horse you rode in on.

You’re just thinking of the children, are you? How selfless. Living like a king as a Congressman isn’t fun? What a sacrifice.

The state’s been destroyed? So sad. But you’re a savior, I take it? Can you see my house from up there?

Geez, who’s supposed to buy this self-indulgent junk? If you want a Gohmert, or Bachmann, or Cruz, vote Schilling.

Comment by wordslinger Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 3:25 pm
Well, that’s just great, and not at all unexpected: The IPI slowly subsuming independent news sources.

Their stories will have better grammar and sentence construction than the Quill Newspaper piece on Schilling. But that might be the extent of the differences, as the slant will be the same.

Comment by Linus Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 3:26 pm
The II has found a “independent” newspaper(The Southern) who will run their propaganda as “real” news stories, even front page worthy? Isn’t that the dream of the Koch brothers- to feed people their beliefs as facts? The dumbing down of the populace continues …

Comment by Roadiepig Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 3:40 pm
It appears that President Obama was the “he” whose goal is taking back the House (in Rep. Ryan’s opinion). Clumsily written, to be sure.

Comment by Snucka Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 3:43 pm
Perhaps IPI would prefer IL legislative leaders fly on private planes donated by the private sector, just like former Missouri Governor Matt Blunt did? Of course, if those “donations” were exempt from FOIA (as Blunt claimed), we might see a stampede in Illinois to do so … .

Comment by Anyone Remember? Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 3:55 pm
Whats the big deal? So IPI fronts stories. They have sentences with nouns and serbs. And lots of fax. What more due you wont?

Comment by Langhorne Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 3:55 pm
“Simon and the Illinois State Board of Education released the state’s first sixth- through twelfth-grade math curriculum in May and urged middle and high schools state wide to implement the new courses this fall”

So not sure how much you can judge success of a math program after 2 months (or even a year or two).

It also appears that the Southern is ready to run just about anyone’s stuff. Tomorrow they are going to have the following on the front page

“The ladies loved OneMan’s brilliant tax plan. That and the fact that he had a musky Victor Mature-like scent. no. OneMan was definitely not a geek with a crooked smile. He was a babe magnet.”

Comment by OneMan Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 3:56 pm
Let’s see, how about 2 stories side-by-side:

1) “Lt. Governor Sheila Simon has newly found appreciation for mathematics”

2) “Lt. Governor Sheila Simon is running for Comptroller”

Wonder how much one influenced the other?

Sheila, some useful advice. If you have decided to get into Math, you might want to visit the Khan Academy. Link is: https://www.khanacademy.org/

It’s completely free. And extremely comprehensive. Btw, here’s a link to their ‘Knowledge Map’ - https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard

(Start at the very top right on the ‘MATH’ knowledge map - ‘Addition and Subtraction’ and go from there).

Comment by Judgment Day Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 4:15 pm
Wow. Did not realize Schilling lost by seven. I thought it was a closer race than that given all the talk of GOP taking the seat back. Now I wonder if the only Illinois races GOP can realistically hope to take back are IL-10 and Plummer free IL-12.

Comment by Johnny Q. Suburban Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 4:24 pm
–“I’m the pizza guy and a dad.–

I’m the world’s biggest pizza guy — in that I can eat it every day, all day — and a dad. So what?

–Schilling said people are escaping to Iowa.–

For what? Higher taxes? I lived in the Quads and all anyone does on the Iowa side is complain about how taxes are lower in Illinois. And how the other side gets a bigger slice of the pie from Springfield than they do from Des Moines.

Maybe it’s all the nincompoopery going on today in politics, but this phone-it-in negative stuff just galls me.

Dude, get some game or stay home. Congress is already full up with Eternal Victims.

Comment by wordslinger Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 4:36 pm
I saw Schilling speak on television recently and it was a fiasco. I don’t know who was coaching him and writing his stuff previously but that person is not in the picture anymore. He should stick to making pizza, though I gotta tell you it’s not very good.

Comment by Lil Enchilada Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 4:57 pm
===Schilling said people are escaping to Iowa.===

Bob, people will go Bob. They’ll go to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll drive up over the bridge not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at the state line as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, Iowans won’t mind if they look around, they’ll say, “It’s a higer rate of taxes per person”. They’ll ask Illinois transplants to fork over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they need and tax bases they lack. And they’ll walk out to the farmhouse porches; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They’ll find they have reserved seats somewhere at the supper club just outside of town, where they sat when they were children and their parents took them to complain about Illinois. And they’ll watch the new Iowans and it’ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces. People will go Bob.

The one constant through all the years, Bob, has been Iowa is not Illinois. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But the two states’ politics have marked the differences.

This exodus, this game: it’s a part of our past, Bob. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh… people will go Bob. People will most definitely go.

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 4:59 pm
Willy: Bravo

Speechless in admiration

Comment by walkinfool Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 5:04 pm
Willie, you wanna have a catch?

Dyersville is actually pretty cool. Didn’t some folks from Orland buy up the farm and were going to turn it into a baseball camp?

Comment by wordslinger Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 5:07 pm
- walkinfool -,

Thanks. Appeciate the props.

Anytime - wordslinger -….

I too have been there, in the Fall, around the last week of September about 16 years ago. It was misty/rainy, and the pictures are pretty sweet. The corn was high, and because the weather was the way it was, the “field” was ours, and that was even cooler.

Oak Lawn was where the investors are from.

Wade Boogs is a partner too.

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 5:18 pm
–Oak Lawn was where the investors are from.–

I took both my boys to play on separate occasions to the “Field of Dreams” national youth baseball tournament just south of Cooperstown. I think the folks in Dyersville were going for something like that.

Eighty teams from around the country and Canada, three games a day for a week in the beautiful James Fenimore Cooper country around Lake Glimmerglass in the Adirondacks.

Keep score for baseball all day, couple of pops at the two bars in Cooperstown at night, campfire and early into the tent in the hills for a week.

Blood pressure: Zero.

Comment by wordslinger Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 5:38 pm
When I went to Dyersville, you could “smell” the rain and the cornfileds and the field itself was just amazing.

Sometimes I can smell that “day” from 16 years ago when its misty/raining. Great memory for so many reasons…

Youth baseball, when right and done right - there is nothing better, or better for the soul.

To the Post,

===His number one priority is taking back the House in the next election.===

It’s one thing to have boilerplate jargon, but how about something you can reuse when you are holding on to the Majority, not when you were trying to get back the Majority.

Never let obvious facts get in the way of good rhetoric. Embarrassingly pathetic.

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 7:00 pm
Schilling is a pretty typical Republican.

Bustos is a pretty typical Democrat.

So, pick your choice.

Comment by Federalist Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 7:03 pm
I cannot possibly comment on this thread. For some reason, it makes very little scents to me. I blame all the cold fusion on OneMan’s announcement that he is brilliant and has a musky Victor Mature-like scent–and may be a geek with a crooked smile (while obviously important and a a bit unclear, it is qualified by the simple statement that he is a “babe magnet”).

In summary, I will vote for OneMan when he runs for DC pizza man because he has a good understand of math, English, and obviously knows how to confuse the ladies.

(Pfft. I obviously misunderestistood my confusion and got it right after all.)

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 9:05 pm
I had the misfortune to hear Schilling speak, or try to speak, for almost twenty minutes. When he was done stringing cliches together I still wasn’t sure what his point was! The most articulate Schilling from my experience is his son! Bobby Booboo has no message. People moving to Iowa? Really? Maybe from Missouri…..

Comment by Old and In The Way Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 9:41 pm
Willy……Outstanding! Maybe Bobby should try and get James Earl Jones to do his ads! Certainly better than listening to his meandering mumbles……

Comment by Old and In The Way Monday, Oct 7, 13 @ 9:44 pm
1) Booby Schilling is a goof. Lay off the Fox News. Cheri Bustos has had some issues (voting against SNAP funding) but that guy has little other to say than “Tea Party/ pizza good, Obama bad”.

2) It’s criminal that actual newspapers print stories from the IPI’s “Journalist-in-residence”. They should really be called out for it.

Comment by Rahm's Middle Finger Tuesday, Oct 8, 13 @ 5:16 am