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"Peaceniks" at work: Increasing Military Recruiting Office Attacks

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:01:38 PM
I just don't get "peace" protesters.    They are so violent against those they disagree with.  Check out this story.   Shouldn't  they be the most peaceful?  But story after story keep coming about their violent behavior.  They are going to kill somebody if they don't knock it off.   But nobody is noticing much, due to little coverage of these attacks.   Yes, they are attacks.  

Yet the media thinks pro-lifers are the ones that are violent.   Yet there are far more attacks on military offices then abortion clinics.   There have been one or two over the last thirty years on abortion clinics,  but yet more the fifty attacks recently on military offices.   So who is violent?    Of course the media gets it wrong again!  And you thought they were fair? 
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Democrat's More Corrupt

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:38:10 PM
If you follow the news on mainstream media you would think that corruption is a Republican problem.   But of course the opposite is the truth.   Far more corruption is on the left side of the politics of America.    Corruption is a way of life for Democrat controlled city governments like Chicago.    Voter fraud is very common in the Democrat party going back though history.   Richard Nixon most likely won the 1960  election but due to voter fraud Kennedy became president (thanks to the first Mayor Daley).  

Today Fox News is reporting on this story.   Saddam paid for a trip for three Democrats (who oppose the war by the way).   Of course Fox will most likely be the only major to report this.   The mainstream media will not report on this at all or very little when they are forced to do so.   They will not identify them as Democrats,  and even may "mistakenly" mislabel them as Republicans.   When no party is said in these types of stories it is always a Democrat.    Republican don't get that break,  they are always labeled.    And there is way more coverage.  It would be top news if they were Republicans. 

Democrats talk the talk but do not walk the walk.   They aren't all that interested in ending corruption since they do most of it.   They don't care about who actually wins elections,  they need to "fix" to get the "right" outcome.    The media is on their side so things look the way they do.   Democrats have been behind most of the corruption in this country since they were founded.


On a different note check out the "protest cam" on the main page of Fox News.   It shows the nitwits outside the Marine Office in Berkeley.  Some people just have too much time on their hands.   I wonder if they know they are on camera,  I doubt it since liberals don't like Fox News much,  and don't consider them a news organization.   Of course Fox is the only news organization actually following the "rules" they all say they follow on fairness but never do. 
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"Peace" Protesters Disrupt Easter Church Service: 6 Arrested

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Monday, March 24, 2008 12:04:39 AM
I don't know why liberal "protesters" think they have the right to disrupt a church service,  but they do.   Today in Chicago it happened during the Easter service at Holy Name Cathedral.   Read about it here.   This nonsense happens more often then you probably think.   One of the few places that should be free of politics is a church service.  And for the most part it is.   Thankfully six were arrested for this crime (Yes, laws were broken).   But all to often the politics are placed in the service by those running the service.   We all know who else I am talking about. 

A church service isn't and shouldn't be a arena of politics.   It does a great disservice to all.   If you like politics do it outside, we need places free of it.  
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Iraq War Five Year Old: Liberals In San Fran Driven to New Levels of Weirdness!

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Friday, March 21, 2008 2:51:40 AM
New Photo Report from Zombietime about the protest march of the usual left wing wackos in San Frans.   Check it out here.   The strange "reality" of this city continues to make me wonder.    How people think anything they believe about the US government and in  particular George Bush could be true.

The website shows in living color the reality of liberal "protests" etc.  you don't see on TV or other "mainstream" media.   TV reporters always interview the clean-cut person from the various groups,  never the wackos that are the majority of these groups.   The groups that make up the today's left wing are a wild and often incompatible bunch of causes.    How "peaceniks" and Middle Eastern terrorists  are on the same side is truly bizarre.   But here is brave soul who shows it as it really is,  the way we have always suspected (or actually seen) on how these groups really are.  Like the not very peaceful (sometimes very violent)  "peace protesters". 
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Why Cook County Taxes won't be Coming Down any time soon!

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Saturday, March 15, 2008 7:54:45 PM
There is a news story in today's SouthtownStar about Cook County employment levels.   In spite of promises to lower employee counts it has been rising sharply.  Read about it here.   Todd Stoger had promised to lower employee numbers to under 22,000.  Today it is over 23,000 with 1,100 NEW jobs being created with the tax increases.  So it will be far north of 25,000 soon.    There are as many employees of Cook County as there are residents of the entire village of South Holland. 
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Taxpayers don't get a break today either!

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Friday, March 14, 2008 1:50:40 AM
For an election year,  taxpayers sure aren't getting a break this week.    The Senate has voted down a proposal to ban earmarks for one year.   They can't stop spending for one lousy year!  Us voters, sure are big chumps these days.   Read about it here at Fox News.   They also note that the Bush tax cuts are coming to an end soon,  and they don't look to likely to be extended.   You think they would wait till next year to pull this kind of crap,  but no.

Not that I was expecting much from the Democrat controlled Senate.   I hope the Republicans get their act together or we will be paying taxes through our noses this time next year if the White House has a Democrat calling it home. 

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Real Estate Transfer Tax going up in Chicago, Taxpayers still get hit hard even when leaving!

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:46:41 AM
One of  the nice things about practicing real estate in Indiana is the lower cost to our clients on closing day.   Granted it isn't free,  but it is so far less costly then a closing in Illinois.   For one thing,  you don't need a lawyer on simpler,  uncontested closings (that is most closings folks!) saving generally about $500.   Plus we don't have a high transfer tax,  it fact we have NO transfer tax.   Most people buying homes don't have left over cash.    That's because buying a house is expensive enough already.    So instead of buying more house or buying things you may need for your new place your paying taxes and lawyers.   Not fun when neither are contributing anything to buying your new house.

But that is not the case in high cost Illinois.   You have to hire a lawyer,  whether or not you need one or not.  And there is a transfer tax ($7.50 per $1000, increasing in April to $10.50 per $1000).   Generally it is paid by the buyer,  but cash strapped Chicago wants the seller to pay as well.  Read about it in the Tribune here.   Of course the politicians gets it wrong, taxing away any profit (if there is one)  from  the seller.    It makes me mad when Alderman Stone arrogantly says he won't cry for the sellers (because prices had been rising in the past) as he steals the money they might have made from their sale (like most people aren't buying another property, so it a double tax to boot.)  Chicago's market is soft so an increase is not welcome (not that a tax is ever welcome) nor any good for the market.  

Then next week or whatever they will be complaining that people can't afford homes!   DUH!!!!!!    Of course their "solution" will be more government only making things worse for everybody.   Of course the real solution will not be discussed.  That would of course be the repeal of the transfer tax not the raising of it.    Its time for a good ol' tax revolt!  


Oh,  by the way only the following states don't have real estate transfer taxes.    Alaska,  Idaho,  Indiana,  Louisiana,  Mississippi,  Missouri,  Montana,  New Mexico,   North Dakota,   Oregon,  Texas,  Utah and Wyoming.   Some states also make you pay other
taxes such as capital gains etc  some of which are higher then what your realtor will make from the sale.   
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Sales Tax Rate goes up in Cook County. Illinois taxing everybody out of state

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Sunday, March 09, 2008 5:53:19 PM
Are they nuts?  The cook county sales tax (already very, very high) is going up! again! To a mind boggling 10.25%,  which would make it the highest in the nation.  It would meet up with the insanely high restaurant tax in Chicago, that I have written about in the past.

Don't they know people will shop in other places like Indiana and online?  I guess not.  Indiana has the lowest sales tax in the Chicago area so come on over and save some money folks.   They added new people to the employment rolls in Cook County so this increase is more then a budget hole "fix".   Cook County will do nothing to save and spend less.   It will drive all the economic activities out of the area.   Here a piece in the Tribune on people buying in Indiana or other counties instead of Cook County.

How long is it going to take to get people really interested in tax reform and reductions?   It sure seems like it will take a lot.   I can tell you,  I avoid spending money in Illinois. 


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RIP William F. Buckley Jr. 1925-2008

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:42:37 PM
RIP    William F. Buckley Jr. 1925-2008
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Nader Enters Presidential Race

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:24:28 PM
Well,  the always running Ralph Nader is in the presidential race,  again!   Hopefully he will help split the lefty vote.   How these people think they have the winning hand by running so far to the left of anybody.  There are so few lefty voters to begin with,  and all these "candidates" keep running left and more left.  What planet are these people on?    Of course the "mainstream media" is giving him the credit of getting Bush elected.   Thats utter nonsense.   
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Elections and the Words that Candidates Use

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:17:05 PM
You just got to love some of the words that Candidates in Elections use.    They end up using them so much they don't have any meaning anymore.   Words Like:

Hope:    B.O. (Barack Obama)  loves this one in particular.    Of course his meaning of this word is way different from its real meaning.   He thinks that it is when the government comes to your rescue when something goes wrong.   Of course he doesn't want people to be able to help themselves,   then it would show that we don't need politicians like himself.   The U.S.A. needs far less government not more.    Thats why there are so many helpless people because the more government tries to do something,  the less a private organization or individual  will do.    Its a nasty cycle,  since the government is slow, costly, and in general not as efficient as a private group could be.    Hope is when a person thinks that they can get ahead in life.   Hard to do when a government is blocking all your moves. 

Change:  H.C. (Hillary Clinton) loves this one.    Of course "change" in my mind would be to do less of what we have been doing.   Not more.   Democrats talk "change" but then the "change"  is another helping of the same ol'  socialism.   Which doesn't work.  The U.S. has been trying since the 1930's to make it work, only President Reagan was able to dial it back a little.   Europe has been trying since then too,  but it fails there too.   But we must have "change".   How about we try the free enterprise system for a change.   It works pretty well in spite of all the regulation and taxes the government puts on it to stop it in it's tracks.  It shows how good it really is that it even does very well in spite of the forces against it.  Image how it could be if the natural thing for people to do is to start a business rather then waiting for a government hand out.  

It just show how out of touch with reality most Democrats are today.    To use those words in that fashion is just ignorant on their part. 

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"Know Nothing" Toledo Mayor tells U.S. Marines to take a hike

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Saturday, February 09, 2008 6:16:58 PM
This stupid anti-U.S. Marine nonsense has spread to more liberal politicians.    Read about it here.    Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner was "worried"  that the Marines would frighten people.   I don't know about you but self-righteous liberal politicians are far more frightening then Marines trying to train somewhere. 

I googled his name.    He looks like a real piece of work.   An all to often busy-body mayor most cities like Toledo can ill afford.   Pity they keep reelecting this chump. 
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Goofiness continues in People Republic of Berkeley vs. U.S. Marine Corps

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 7:04:26 PM
New page on Zombietime about the nonsense that the Marine Corps Recruiters have to put up with in Berkeley on a daily basis.    The city council even gave the protesters the parking space outside their door!    Do you think they would give the space  to Right the Life outside an abortion clinic?   Not a chance!   They would have to be across the street on another block,   Its the classic,  liberal vs. conservative  double standard protest.    Liberals are free to destroy property and do whatever,  conservatives have to protest somewhere else hidden so no one is offended.   

I didn't write about what the article I linked to last time about cutting federal funding to Berkeley.   Here is the link again.  It looks like most of these things shouldn't have been funded to begin with.   All nonsense that taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for in the first place.     All to the tune of $2 million or so.  Small change for the feds but not for most people.   Its all this "little stuff"  that adds up to the out of control spending in Washington.   

$975,000 for cataloguing the papers of  late Congressman Robert Matsui???????????    If this is so important why can't private funds be raised???  

A school lunch initiative to integrate lessons about wellness, sustainability and nutrition into the academic curriculum.  For the sum of $243,000!   Why can't liberals raise their own money when they are brain-washing school kids?   AND another  $87,000  for a second nutrition education program!   It costs over three hundred grand to teach nutrition in Berkeley? 

A public safety interoperability program for $94,000!   I don't know what that would be.  It must be coming from the department of homeland security money no doubt..   Since Berkeley doesn't  see the wisdom of military spending to prevent  terrorism  in  the  U.S.   

Image what else is funded by federal funds across the U.S.
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Obama Republicans!?!?!?! Not Likely

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Sunday, February 03, 2008 3:43:41 AM
I just read Salena Zito article "Obama Republicans".  Read it here.  

Being a good speaker is a plus in politics,  and Obama is that.  He may be compared with Reagan, speaking wise too. He may seem like a nice guy, he probably is.  He talks of being a uniter.  

But there is a big difference between Reagan and Obama.  Obama is a liberal.  Pure and simple.  He may want to unite people, but forget about conservative ideas.  It will be liberal all the way.   Do you want liberal policies for the next eight years?  

That means eight years (yes, eight) of new bad liberal judges.  It means anti-life, anti-military, anti-enterprise, anti-christian,  anti-american  foreign policy, anti-guns just to name a few.  If you like high taxes, lots of new rules in your business then vote for obama.  Forget about your conservative opinion to boot, we must be united!

If a good speaker and being a uniter is what you want, the price is pretty high.   It's too high in my opinion.  You shouldn't and cannot vote against your own beliefs and interests, its just wrong.   It was a great thing that Reagan was a great speaker, but he was successful because of his policies not his speeches.  Obama cannot be successful because liberal ideas are bankrupt. 

There shouldn't be the large amounts of "Republicans" (most of those saying it,  generally aren't Republican to began with)   crossing to vote for Obama.    Unlike the millions of Democrats that crossed  to  vote for  Reagan in 1980 and 1984.    Because for those voters, Reagan was the better candidate for their interests,  voting for Obama sure isn't for Republicans.  

Please don't vote for a Democrat because your mad.    Doing so will make things so much worse (because Democrats always think they have a mandate for some reason).     You may say we got past the Clinton years,  but we had the Republican congress to stop some of the nonsense,  which we won't have if Obama (or Clinton II)  wins.    And we are still paying the price for those years.   So do us all a favor and don't do it.
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Nitwit Berkeley City Council Hates U.S. Marine Corps: Tells Recruiting Station to Leave Town!

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Saturday, February 02, 2008 5:00:09 AM
I guess it isn't a surprise in "tolerant, progressive (ha ha ha)"  Berkeley that something like this happens.    Thankfully the Marines can disregard this stupidity,  and stay open.    I sure wouldn't want to be the recruiting officers,  maybe they can be reassigned somewhere quieter like Bagdad when their done with their tour in Berkeley.    It must be a shock to Marines to be around such weird people with no values.   Most places in this country ,  Marines  are seen as heroes,  not the villains,  but they got most things backwards in Berkeley.     Read about it here.    

If you have some time check out this website on the protest outside this Marine Office by Code Pink.  (Don't get me started on the complete idot-ocy of this group.) There is a great letter to the community from the officer in charge of the office.   It will of course, be completely ignored by those, who need to read and understand it the most.    That webpage is part of a site that shows the real side of liberal "protesting",  you will not see from the "mainstream media".    The fact that most liberal "protesters" are complete wackos,  who are not peace-loving,  are nasty,  have weird ideas about things,  and are not the clean-cut folks you see on tv.   Very eye-opening,  rated PG-13 and above.    The site is called zombietime.    It puts most "professional" media to shame for bad coverage.   The liberal counter protest to the pro-life march  is especially eye-opening.     
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