City's G-8/NATO costs could hit $65M (Let's thank our leaders and dumb asss white liberal protesters)

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's team announced Thursday that the May summit meetings of world leaders will cost up to $65 million, downtown Chicago will remain open amid security restrictions and protest rules will be revised following complaints they were too strict.
Lori Healey, executive director of the private G-8/NATO host committee, estimated the cost will be between $40 million to $65 million.
As many as 7,500 delegates representing up to 80 countries are expected to attend the back-to-back summits May 19-21, according to event organizers. The summits will be held at the McCormick Place convention center and most of the dignitaries and their delegations are expected to stay downtown.

Illinois unemployment up sharply to 9.9 percent

                    No more needs to be said

Retails sales dropped 50% overnight following a robbery and shooting in the parking lot of Orland Square Mall in Orland Park

 News spread quickly of an elderly white woman being robbed and shot by a black female in the parking lot of the mall late last night. The crime appears to have taken a substantial toll on the cash receipts for the mall today with an estimated 50%+ overnight decline.
 Orland Park and Tinley Park have experienced a large spike in violent crime since many residents of the Chicago CHA Projects were re-located to this area after former Chicago Mayor Richard M Daley demolished the project residences that his father, former Mayor Richard J Daley, had built in the 1960's.

Punk ass liberal ACLU Plans Lawsuit Over Welfare Drug Tests

The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida plans to challenge the state's law requiring new welfare recipients to pass a drug test.

An ACLU spokesman told The Associated Press Wednesday the lawsuit is being filed on behalf of a 35-year-old Orlando man, Luis Lebron.

The spokesman says Florida's drug testing law is unconstitutional, saying it violates the Fourth Amendment's search and seizure protections.

No further details of the lawsuit were immediately available.

Gov. Rick Scott signed the drug testing bill into law in July. Under the law, welfare applicants must pay for the drug tests. If they pass, they'll get reimbursed. If they fail, they can't get benefits for at least a year, and could face child abuse charges.

Judge orders liberal punk ass Medill student journalists to turn over 500 e-mails

A Cook County judge Wednesday ordered Northwestern University to turn over roughly 500 e-mails student journalists exchanged with former Medill Innocence Project head David Protess detailing their probe into whether the wrong man was put behind bars for a three-decade-old Harvey murder.

The students were working under the direction of attorneys at the university law school’s Center on Wrongful Convictions and were “acting as investigators in a criminal procedure,” Judge Diane Gordon Cannon said.

Northwestern had argued that the e-mails were protected under the Illinois Reporter’s Privilege Act and did not have to tender the materials to prosecutors.

Assistant State’s Attorney Celeste Stack said Wednesday’s ruling was a welcome relief after a “frustrating” two years of legal wrangling on the case.

Save for the e-mails, Northwestern has turned in materials from the students related to McKinney after the prosecutors filed a subpoena.

But Stack noted that the original notes, memos and transcripts students had compiled were destroyed.

“The only reason we got what we got was because [investigators] searched hard drives of the Innocence Project’s computers,” she said.

Prosecutors have questioned Northwestern journalism students’ tactics on the McKinney case, accusing them of, among other things, paying for an interview. Protess retired from Northwestern last month — just after announcing his plans to step down amid the accusations and questions about his truthfulness in dealing with university lawyers in connection with the criminal case.

The "This is where your tax money goes" parody (It's Free Swipe Your EBT) HAPPY LABOR DAY AMERICA

EBT is the California version of the Illinois LINK card

Hiroshima vs Detroit 50 years later... Which is more destructive, The Atomic Bomb or liberalism?

Here's more on the subject- Detroit in RUINS!

Obama administration calls the federal Government a "Family", first God now the family is replaced

From Michael Savage:
the media over-hyped Hurricane Irene – and so did the Obama White House, hoping to make the president look like a hero.
As part of the hype, government talking heads went on TV, assuring Americans that FEMA and "all aspects of the federal family" were "working as one."
Michael Savage found such talk anything but reassuring, telling listeners Tuesday night:
"This is the new low for Obama: they're now changing the word 'government' to 'family.'
"That's what Napolitano and Carney are calling it now: the 'federal family.'
"We know about 'newspeak' from books about propaganda, but under Obama, it's taken on a new meaning.
"Why do you think they dropped the word 'government'? Because they know you hate government. You understand that government is a band of thieves.
"The last 'family' I heard about was the Sopranos, and before that the Corleones in The Godfather. But now we have a new 'family' called 'Federal.'
(CIC will ad Charles Manson and The Family to Savages list)

"Do you feel safer now? You shouldn't. You should be terrified".

Indiana College Bans "Too Violent" National Anthem (More liberal brainwashing directed at our children)

Tiny Goshen College in Indiana has banned the "The Star Spangled Banner: at all sporting events because the Mennonite school's president considers the National Anthem's words to be too violent.

The 1,000-student school had already banned the words last year, but the band could still play the music for patriots in attendance. Now, the school has banned the song entirely, according to NBC Sports.

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If you're gay you could get free college money (More liberal brainwashing directed at our children)

Elmhurst College in suburban Chicago has become the first in the country to ask students directly on admissions applications about their gender identity and sexual orientation.
On their application it states: “Would you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) community?”
Students who answer “yes” may be eligible for a scholarship that will pay up to a third of tuition, said Gary Rold, the college's dean of admissions. The information also will help officials direct incoming students to services and groups that could help them on campus, Rold added. (Elmhurst College and Gary Rold are full of shit,Crime in Chicago added.)

This is how the public Schools and the left brainwash your children- School Reading List Featured Books on Lesbian Sex, Gay Orgy

Today, required reading for students apparently includes “Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines,” a book that features a scene depicting a homosexual orgy and “Norwegian Wood,” a book that features a sex scene between a 31-year-old woman and a 13-year old girl.

That’s right. Books on gay orgies and lesbian sex as required reading for students.
Even more disturbing, is that the books reportedly on the required reading list were not just for high school students, but for middle school  students as well.
“There were some words and language that seemed to be inappropriate as far as the parents and some of the kids were concerned,” he said.
Fox adds:

One book, “Norwegian Wood,” was on a list for incoming sophomores in an honors English class. The book included a graphic depiction of a lesbian sex scene between a 31-year-old woman and a 13-year old girl, according to a report first published in the Gloucester County Times.
“I don’t think that’s relevant for any teenager,” parent Robin Myers told the newspaper. Her daughter was assigned to read the book.
“I was just kind of in shock,” she said.
The other book in question was “Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines.” That book included depictions of drug usage and a homosexual orgy.
“That has created a controversy,” Earling told Fox News Radio, referring to the drug usage – along with the lesbian and gay sex scenes. “We’ve pulled them from our summer reading list.”

In a misguided effort to keep ahead of the curve, school districts are substituting classic literature — that has served to educate millions of students for decades — with graphic books that are perhaps only intended to push a social and political agenda on the students who read them.
Read full story here: The Blaze

Illinois politicians praise new deportation policy as Border patrol arrests Illinois man on sex assault warrant

Homeland Security officials announced today that authorities will review the cases of about 300,000 illegal immigrants facing possible deportation. Those without criminal records get to stay indefinitely and a chance to apply for a work permit.
That's right the liberals what to wait until the illegal alien kills, rapes or robs you or your family before they deport them. Like below. Thanks Sentor Dick Durbin, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez and Obama.

A Mexican citizen wanted on a Cook County warrant for a sexual assault charge has been arrested when he tried to enter the United States in Laredo, Texas, officials said today

Allen West: I‘m Here to Lead Blacks Off the Democratic Party ’Plantation’

GOP Rep. Allen West believes that the Democratic Party is akin to a modern-day “plantation.”
West made extremely bold statements throughout the interview, apparently undeterred by any negative response he might receive from the Democratic Party or from fellow African Americans. Commenting on anger that was seen  at a Congressional Black Caucus (of which West is the only GOP member) town hall meeting in Detroit this week, he said: The people on that plantation are upset because they’ve been disregarded, disrespected and their concerns are not cared about…I’m here as the modern-day Harriet Tubman to kind of lead people on the underground railroad away from that plantation into a sense of sensibility.” West went on to dismiss some African American leaders as “nothing more than overseers over that plantation” and he stated his belief that white liberals have relied upon people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to support Democratic policies. These individuals, he claims, have failed to addresses important matters.
READ FULL STORY AND SEE VIDEO HERE: ALLEN WEST

How can you tell that the British rioters are a bunch of liberals gone wild?

Just look at the photo evidence......

Plaque to mark effort to integrate Rainbow Beach, to bad it got integrated with shit

A new landmark will be dedicated this weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of efforts to integrate Rainbow Beach on the South Side.
During the summers of 1960 and 1961, demonstrators staged "wade-ins" at Rainbow Beach to protest segregation.

Organizers of the dedication ceremony set for Aug. 20 say mobs used violence to keep black visitors from using the beach.
Protest leaders Norman and Velma Hill were seriously injured on Aug. 28, 1960 when they tried to use the beach as part of the "wade-in." The beach was integrated the following summer.
Velma Hill says the "wade-ins" inspired people across the city to work against discrimination.
A plaque honoring the demonstration will be installed on the lakefront.

The integration worked so well with crime so thick, you can't tell the aggravated batteries from the robberies, good job!

 

Liberal Europe starting to crash and burn- Riots spread from London on third day

LONDON — Looting and rioting continued in London on Monday as the police called perpetrators “criminals,” while others blamed the poverty and a mistrust of police in the city’s poorer neighborhoods for the violence that erupted over the weekend.
More than 200 people have been arrested, 35 police officers injured and dozens left homeless during the three days of rioting. Police cars and residential buildings were set on fire and shop windows smashed as unrest spread from the north of the city Saturday night to the south and eastern districts the next day.
In the nation’s central city of Birmingham, dozens of people attacked stores in a main retail district, spreading the chaos beyond London for the first time since violence broke out.
As authorities struggled with the unrest, Prime Minister David Cameron said he will cut short his summer vacation and convene a meeting of the government’s crisis committee Tuesday.
Riots first broke out in the north London borough of Tottenham on Saturday after a peaceful protest against the fatal shooting by police of a 29-year-old local resident turned violent.
Mark Duggan, a father of four, had been traveling in a taxi when he was fatally shot in disputed circumstances. A police officer was also shot in the incident, which happened in a “pre-planned” event under Operation Trident, which investigates gun crime in London’s African and Caribbean communities.
However, others blamed unemployment, insensitive policing and opportunistic looting for the worst violence the city has seen in years. Police and politicians insisted the disorder was the work of a criminal minority and not a sign of social tensions or security lapses ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games.
On Sunday, the violence spread farther north to Enfield and to Brixton in the south of the city. By Monday, it had reached Walthamstow and Hackney in the east. By Monday night, the violence spread to the northern city of Liverpool.
London’s main shopping area, Oxford Street, also saw some disturbances. Sky News reported that a bus had been set on fire in Peckham, in south London.
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More liberal double talk (Who was fooled by Emanuel's big Government cutting?)

• Story #1 -Mayor Rahm Emanuel today sent a letter to city employees explaining why he’s decided 625 of them need to be laid off.
  
  Harkening back to his campaign, Emanuel said that as a candidate he told Chicago residents he would be honest, tell the hard truths and make the tough choices.
  
  “Last Friday, I had to make one of those tough choices,” he wrote
  
  The layoffs, which will save an estimated $10 million to $12 million for the rest of the year, will help Emanuel close a $30 million shortfall he inherited from former Mayor Richard Daley.
• Story #2 - Calling them the "lifeblood" and the "economic engine" of the city of Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday announced a new office to help immigrants open small businesses.
  
  One out of every five Chicagoans, the mayor said, are immigrants, and they're 50 percent more likely to start a small business.
  
  The new office -- The Office of New Americans -- will "drive the other pieces," said Emanuel, including licensing and permitting, and will make sure immigrants feel welcome and are aware of the services available to them.
  
  How does he plan to pay for it? The administrative cuts he made to his office shortly after he was inaugurated will cover the new expenses, he said.
  
  "There's money in the budget to do this because I made dramatic cuts for this, with this in mind," he said.

Federal Judge Prohibits Prayer at Texas Graduation Ceremony

Religion

Federal Judge Prohibits Prayer at Texas Graduation Ceremony

| A federal judge has ordered a Texas school district to prohibit public prayer at a high school graduation ceremony.

Chief U.S. District Judge Fred Biery’s order against the Medina Valley Independent School District also forbids students from using specific religious words including “prayer” and “amen.”

The ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed by Christa and Danny Schultz. Their son is among those scheduled to participate in Saturday’s graduation ceremony. The judge declared that the Schultz family and their son would “suffer irreparable harm” if anyone prayed at the ceremony.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said the school district is in the process of appealing the ruling, and his office has agreed to file a brief in their support.

“Part of this goes to the very heart of the unraveling of moral values in this country,” Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott told Fox News Radio, saying the judge wanted to turn school administrators into “speech police

“I’ve never seen such a restriction on speech issued by a court or the government,” Abbott told Fox News Radio. “It seems like a trampling of the First Amendment rather than protecting the First Amendment.”

Judge Biery’s ruling banned students and other speakers from using religious language in their speeches. Among the banned words or phrases are: “join in prayer,” “bow their heads,” “amen,” and “prayer.”

He also ordered the school district to remove the terms “invocation” and “benediction” from the graduation program.

“These terms shall be replaced with ‘opening remarks’ and ‘closing remarks,'” the judge’s order stated. His ruling also prohibits anyone from saying, “in [a deity’s name] we pray.”

Should a student violate the order, school district officials could find themselves in legal trouble. Judge Biery ordered that his ruling be “enforced by incarceration or other sanctions for contempt of Court if not obeyed by District official (sic) and their agents.”

The Texas attorney general called the ruling unconstitutional and a blatant attack from those who do not believe in God -- “attempts by atheists and agnostics to use courts to eliminate from the public landscape any and all references to God whatsoever.”

“This is the challenge we are dealing with here,” he said. “(It’s) an ongoing attempt to purge God from the public setting while at the same time demanding from the courts an increased yielding to all things atheist and agnostic.”

Ayesa Khan, an attorney representing the student and his parents, told KABB-TV she was delighted in the judge’s decision.

“It caused him a great deal of anxiety,” she said, referring to her teenage client. “He has gone to meet with the principal to try and talk in a civilized way about long-standing problems, and the school district has continued to thumb its nose.”

The judge did grant students permission to make the sign of the cross, wear religious garb or kneel to face Mecca. But that’s not good enough for some students at the high school.

“It’s just a big surprise that one kid can come in and change what’s been a tradition since Medina Valley started,” student Abigail Russell told KABB-TV.

Fellow student Alicia Jade Geurin agreed.

“At graduation, I would love to be able to speak from my heart,” she told the TV station. “But in this situation I feel my freedom of speech and my First Amendment is being infringed upon if I can’t say what I feel.”

But the Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, hailed the judge’s decision.

“This is a high school graduation,” he told Fox News Radio. “It is not a church service.”

Lynn was critical of the attorney general’s allegation that the ruling was an attempt to purge Christianity from the public square.

“Any attorney general worth his salt would know that’s the issue and that this is not about promoting atheism,” he said. “That’s

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/02/prayer-prohibited-at-graduation-ceremony/#ixzz1ODvEuOxV

Civil union ceremonies in Millennium Park today (Welcome to the wonderful city of was)

CHICAGO BRINGING YOU MORE OF THE LIBERAL ANYTHING GOES SOCIETY, WHICH BRINGS US TO FLASH MOBS AND WILDING, INNER CITY SHOOTINGS AND KILLINGS. NO WONDER SUPER LIBERAL MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL HAD TO LIE ABOUT THE NORTH AVE. BEACH PROBLEM.
More than two dozen couples are to take part in civil union ceremonies in Chicago's Millennium Park today with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn in attendance.

The ceremonies are planned the day after civil union licenses were first made available in Illinois. Scores of same-sex partners across the state applied for licenses under a new Illinois law that recognizes them as couples for the first time.
City officials say 30 couples will participate in the civil union ceremonies. Cook County Circuit Chief Judge Timothy Evans will officiate.

According to state law couples must wait until the day after they secure licenses to have a civil union ceremony.

Ceremonies will include a string quartet and the Chicago Gay Men's Chorus will perform.

Emanuel calls the ceremonies a "historic milestone."

LIBERALS- ALWAY GOT THEIR NOSES UP YOUR BEHIND

FROM- SAN DIEGO UNION TRIB

Fireworks shows need new environmental review

What started as a battle over fireworks shows led to a sweeping legal victory Friday for environmentalists that could stymie a wide range of events needing city permits, from the Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon to birthday parties held at parks.
“According to the strictest interpretation of this, jumpy-jumps and everything else would be subject to environmental review if this ruling stands,” said lawyer Robert Howard, who represented the La Jolla Community Fireworks Foundation in the case. “It’s a breathtaking ruling.”
Superior Court Judge Linda Quinn said La Jolla’s annual Fourth of July fireworks show requires evaluation under the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA.
The case, filed by the Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation in Encinitas, targeted San Diego’s approval of the La Jolla event but eventually drew in a broad swath of city permits. San Diego officials said they issue about 400 special-events permits annually, along with up to 20,000 park-use permits for smaller-scale gatherings — most of which would now need environmental assessment.
“San Diego issues thousands of these simple park-use permits over the counter with the only consideration being space, just as other cities do across the state,” said City Attorney Jan Goldsmith. “Existing law has never been interpreted to require a CEQA review for this. ... This decision opens the door to absurd results. This is the reason appellate courts exist and we plan to ask for their help.”
Even before the judge’s ruling was finalized, Chula Vista officials on Thursday pulled the plug on their July Fourth show in the face of funding shortfalls and environmental challenges.
The future of La Jolla’s event was fuzzy Friday. Organizers likely can’t complete the time-intensive and costly CEQA analysis by July 4, but Howard said he would ask the court to allow this year’s event while the case is appealed.
City Councilwoman Sherri Lightner, whose district includes La Jolla, said she hoped to find a solution. “We have to strike a balance that protects the environment but also allows our finest traditions to continue,” she said.
On Tuesday, the City Council ratified a long-standing city policy of exempting fireworks shows from special-events permits unless food or alcohol is sold. It was an attempt to shield pyrotechnics from environmental challenges, but Friday’s decision means CEQA still applies.
Environmental impact reports can take a year and cost tens of thousands of dollars.
“Does that mean every event has to get a full environmental impact report? No, but it means that the city has to undertake the burden and applicants have to undertake the cost” of a lower-level CEQA analysis, Howard said.
He said some “events” such as temporary Christmas tree stands have existing exemptions under the law, but many others don’t.
Alex Roth, a spokesman for Mayor Jerry Sanders, framed the suit as part of a “bizarre crusade to stop fireworks.”
“What’s next, a lawsuit against swimmers for polluting the ocean with their suntan lotion?” Roth said.
Marco Gonzalez, a lawyer for the environmental rights foundation, exulted over Friday’s win, which comes after months of criticism against him for challenging an American tradition.
“If you were to sum it up with one word, I would say ‘vindication.’ It’s vindication for the environment ... and it’s vindication for my client because of the amount of disparaging comments and general negativity that was thrown our way when we were told that our lawsuit was frivolous,” Gonzalez said.
Earlier this month, his lawsuit had spurred regional pollution regulators to adopt a new permit for fireworks shot over beaches and bays. The mandate, based on the Clean Water Act, was a national first.
Gonzalez said he also is breaking new ground in seeking reviews of fireworks shows under California environmental law.
“There are a whole host of impacts that we know occur from fireworks shows, from marine mammals to marine birds to water quality to traffic to noise to the air,” Gonzalez said. “We want it studied and we want it mitigated.”
Tony Manolatos, a spokesman for City Councilman Kevin Faulconer, stood by the council’s exemption for fireworks. “I think banning fireworks on the Fourth of July is un-American,” he said, “and I think the majority of San Diegans would agree.”
Gonzalez has repeatedly said that protecting water quality and coastal species is patriotic.