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		<title>Time to replay things&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First&#8230;.Happy Belated Birthday Rod.  I think for the first time in all my years of blogging about you, I saw a truly humbled man tonight in a news interview about the family adopting a new dog.  I have to admit, that when first hearing this story I assumed it was just another BS manufactured story [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blagoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5793651&amp;post=285&amp;subd=blagoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First&#8230;.Happy Belated Birthday Rod.  I think for the first time in all my years of blogging about you, I saw a truly humbled man tonight in a news interview about the family adopting a new dog.  I have to admit, that when first hearing this story I assumed it was just another BS manufactured story to reflect on the Blagojevich family and wonderful they are.  Why wouldn&#8217;t I?  Look at everything we&#8217;ve been forced to endure, since his fist being accused of selling Obama&#8217;s Senate seat.  Every move they&#8217;ve made, every interview, every camera shot, was carefully calculated to get the biggest bang, for their buck by a PR firm, or attorney.  Now it&#8217;s over.  It doesn&#8217;t matter, and I have to admit, even I feel bad for them.  I think most of my feelings are for the kids, but in that interview on Fox News, you didn&#8217;t see &#8220;angry Patty&#8221; either, but for the first time ever&#8230;..I think we&#8217;ve seen a defeated Patty, who now really needs to step up the &#8220;mom&#8221; job.</p>
<p>The kids are reading a lot, seeing a lot on TV and probably hearing things constantly at home, yet, it&#8217;s their dad everyone&#8217;s talking about and sometimes, no matter what they say, it doesn&#8217;t matter.  Some day they might find out that he was probably set up by the higher-ups to divert attention from the real issues at hand.  A seated U.S. President who very well may have known about what was going on, but to acknowledge that would put a ripple in everything &#8220;American&#8221; that people for too long now, have seen&#8230;.but ignored.</p>
<p>Yeah&#8230;..Rod&#8217;s going to jail.  I would much rather it be the <em>real</em> criminals, though.</p>
<p>(to be continued&#8230;.)</p>
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		<title>warming up a whole new crowd&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s talk of a new NBC Reality Show setting up as we speak.  With Trump&#8217;s Presidential debate falling apart before it even airs, there&#8217;s a rumor that cameras are being installed at 2 Federal penitentiaries (ala CBS&#8217;s Big Brother Reality Show).  Inmates are already screaming about &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;m in JAIL! Can you leave me alone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blagoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5793651&amp;post=276&amp;subd=blagoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s talk of a new NBC Reality Show setting up as we speak.  With Trump&#8217;s Presidential debate falling apart before it even airs, there&#8217;s a rumor that cameras are being installed at 2 Federal penitentiaries (ala CBS&#8217;s Big Brother Reality Show).  Inmates are already screaming about &#8220;<em><strong>Hey, I&#8217;m in JAIL! Can you leave me alone now?</strong></em>&#8221; that&#8217;s going to be airing sometime in the first quarter of 2012 (ok&#8230;not really, but you know they&#8217;re talking!)  The show will of course be centered around the 4th Illinois Governor to go to jail, Rod Blagojevich.  While Leno cracks jokes in his Monologue about Rod, the draw to this show will obviously be when <strong><em>Rod finally tells all</em></strong>.  One of the most pressing questions on anyone&#8217;s mind in this (yet another) post-conviction era of Illinois Governors sent to prison, and probably the single biggest fear of his new neighbors (or cellmates!), will be <strong>THOSE BALLS!</strong></p>
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<p>Most likely having landed in prison from an investigation triggered by his very own father-in-law, Chicago alderman Dick Mell after a family argument, Rod bragged about his Testicular Virility earning him the coveted &#8220;Testicular Virility Man&#8221; cartoon debuting here 8 years ago on Blago-blog.com (yeah&#8230;..I&#8217;ve been at this too long).</p>
<p>All kidding aside, and not wanting Rod&#8217;s balls to go to the wayside now that it&#8217;s all said and done, I commissioned my ace on-the-spot artist <a title="Dave Curbis' website" href="http://crazyideas-curbis.blogspot.com/">Dave Curbis</a> for something a little more up to date and with the times, pertaining to Rod and his unbelievably stupidity, and yes&#8230;.balls.  Dave graced me with this little ditty, that I had to share.  I&#8217;m calling it &#8220;Dec my Balls, bitch!&#8221;  Let&#8217;s face it&#8230;Rod&#8217;s destine to be the top-banana in prison.  We now know that Rod not only talks the talk, but he walks the walk&#8230;.even when it&#8217;s off a plank!   The only cliff-hangers now will be, <em>will the obvious people soon join him?</em> Lot&#8217;s of people are squirming right now, from current and former Congressmen to a sitting President, because anyone who believes that the man seated in the White House right now, HAD NO IDEA THAT ANY OF THIS WAS GOING ON RIGHT UNDER HIS NOSE, is either just plain stupid, or will have to plea the 5th.  If this investigation stops with Blagojevich, justice will not had been done and it will prove once and for all, that both of Rod&#8217;s trials were in fact, nothing more than a dog n pony show specifically designed by some very high-up people, to draw attention off of the truth.</p>
<p>Merry Christmas Rod and Family, but you apparently STILL haven&#8217;t done the right thing, and all the faith in God, isn&#8217;t going to lessen your sentence now.</p>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll say it again&#8230;&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(June 27, 2011) GO TO JAIL ROD!  DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200! You CAN though, hand deliver a message for us all in telling George Ryan, that he&#8217;s in GOOD COMPANY!  Maybe you and George can laugh it up about Patti eating spiders while fighting for the toilet some night soon! I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blagoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5793651&amp;post=260&amp;subd=blagoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_265" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blagoblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/monopoly-go-to-jail-card1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-265" title="monopoly-go-to-jail-card" src="http://blagoblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/monopoly-go-to-jail-card1.jpg?w=300&#038;h=172" alt="Mr. Blagojevich, GO TO JAIL.  DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200.00, JUST GET OFF THE NEWS!!!" width="300" height="172" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mr. Blagojevich, GO TO JAIL. DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200.00, JUST GET OFF THE NEWS!!!</p></div>
<p><strong>(June 27, 2011)</strong> GO TO JAIL ROD!  DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200! You CAN though, hand deliver a message for us all in telling George Ryan, that he&#8217;s in GOOD COMPANY!  Maybe you and George can laugh it up about Patti eating spiders while fighting for the toilet some night soon!</p>
<p>I would also like to sincerely thank U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and F.B.I. Special Agent in Charge of Chicago, for their relentless pursuit of these turds who for the last 12 years have duped the people into thinking that politics in Illinois are about the &#8220;people&#8221;.  Politics in Illinois are about the status, money and clout you have, and nothing else!</p>
<p>Everyone on the news tonight is talking about how Rod&#8217;s own party disowned him long ago.  OF COURSE THEY DID, and you can probably nail down the day to the day when the original story about the Feds possibly listening to Blagojevich, broke!  There isn&#8217;t a Democrat in Illinois who&#8217;s sleeping well tonight because know this&#8230;&#8230;Rod Blagojevich, a politician literally <em>manufactured</em> by Richie Daley,  is a little shook&#8230;..to say the least.  This is a man who for the last 930 days since the FBI came to his house and arrested him, laughingly believed that the people were that stupid, that they&#8217;d let him off of his crimes.  Who could possibly believe that Rod, the guy who gave free rides to seniors, was capable of this?  The answer to that question is of course, the 12 jurors in this most recent trial.</p>
<p>For those who conveniently forget, Rod&#8217;s original claim to fame was solely do to his father-in-law, <a title="Chicago Alderman Richard Mell, Rd Blagojevich's father-in-law" href="http://33rdward.org/" target="_blank">Chicago Alderman Richard Mell</a>, his first job in politics was for Eddie Vrdolyak.  He then went on to become an assistant State&#8217;s Attorney under Richie Daley, who just loved Rod because he&#8217;d do anything, no matter how ridiculous.  Then with Daley&#8217;s official nod and blessing, Rod was brought into Congress as <em>&#8220;the guy with the funny name!&#8221;</em>.  He gained fame when he tried to ban .50 caliber guns and ammo (because those <em>are</em> the weapons of choice for gang-bangers, right? lol!).  He took on the NRA with Daley &amp; Chicago&#8217;s endless pockets and political backing only to lose miserably but like Daley, his motto was &#8220;Even Bad Publicity, Is Good Publicity&#8221;.  He didn&#8217;t win his congressional seat from the voters&#8230;.he won it because of his father-in-law and Richie Daley, again believing that he&#8217;ll do anything, no matter how stupid it may seem!  Yeah&#8230;..they were right.</p>
<p>Blagodope unfortunately, started believing his own BS.  People who were making things up about how wonderful a guy he was and how capable a politician he was were all on Rod&#8217;s short-list.  His wife Patti, (former truck driver turned Real Estate mogul) turned out to be his chief enabler.  Having his ear 24/7, even Patti started to taste the things that could be, if they played their cards right.</p>
<p>One thing they had to do under any circumstance, was to keep the Democrats in power in Springfield.  How could</p>
<div id="attachment_269" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blagoblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/blog_mexico.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-269" title="blog_Mexico" src="http://blagoblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/blog_mexico.jpg?w=300&#038;h=202" alt="Rod Blagojevich all but literally sent personal invitations to illegal aliens in Mexico looking for someplace to land" width="300" height="202" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Rod Blagojevich all but literally sent personal invitations to illegal aliens in Mexico looking for someplace to land</p></div>
<p>they guarantee to do that?  By providing entitlements for <em>millions</em> of illegal aliens who were flocking to Illinois upon hearing about &#8220;All Kids&#8221; legislation.  The state already guaranteed them schooling by banning schools from demanding &#8220;proof of residency&#8221; by way of a birth certificate.  What else could they ask for?  They have Welfare, they can work for cash without paying income taxes, they get free schooling for their children and now, free healthcare!  IT&#8217;S A GREAT COUNTRY, AMERICA!  Unfortunately someone, has to pay for these freebies and it turned out to be you and  me.</p>
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		<title>Blago: &#8220;Sentence Me! Please!&#8221;  (something stinks here!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Tribune and other media outlets are now reporting that Blago is asking to be sentenced now on his crime he didn&#8217;t commit. lol. Ok&#8230;&#8230;so for years we heard &#8220;when the truth comes out, I&#8217;ll be vindicated!&#8221;, and now&#8230;.with the retrial getting ready to start, he&#8217;s singing a different tune and no one is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blagoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5793651&amp;post=251&amp;subd=blagoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/4218398-418/rod-blagojevich-to-judge-sentence-me-now-and-cancel-retrial.html">The Chicago Tribune</a> and other media outlets are now reporting that Blago is asking to be sentenced now on his crime he didn&#8217;t commit. lol.</p>
<p>Ok&#8230;&#8230;so for years we heard &#8220;when the truth comes out, I&#8217;ll be vindicated!&#8221;, and now&#8230;.with the retrial getting ready to start, he&#8217;s singing a different tune and no one is getting the implications of this?  What could POSSIBLY make Blagodope change his mind about Jail?  Could it be&#8230;&#8230;Rahm taking office?</p>
<p>Could it be that Obama&#8217;s involvement WILL come out in this retrial?  Sure&#8230;..put it off until he&#8217;s at LEAST out of office.  At least then, years later, it won&#8217;t seem as bad that the President of the United States actually help sell his old Senate seat, right?</p>
<p>It also won&#8217;t matter that Rahm helped him 5 years down the road because he&#8217;ll have had plenty of time to charm Chicagoans by then.  He could be killing little kittens in some weird ritual and people wouldn&#8217;t believe it because he WAS the CHOSEN one, wasn&#8217;t he??</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s my take on this new development.  Obama and Emmanuel have both been notified that they WILL BE TESTIFYING IN THIS UPCOMING RE-TRIAL, and the information brought forth from this NEW testimony will bury both of them.  Therefore, Blago has been told to suck it up and say hi to George Ryan.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s always been the theory that crimes are not as serious when addressed years after they&#8217;ve been committed, especially with politicians.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think Blago should have a choice in this.  The people have right to know what this scumbag did while in office and who helped him do it&#8230;..period.</p>
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		<title>Did Jay Leno hit the nail on the head?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of nights ago, I was watching Jay Leno after the local news on NBC5 Chicago.   He got right into the news of the day about Chinese President  Hu Jintao spending a few days in Chicago, and had this to say about it&#8230; &#8220;While visiting Chicago, President Hu met with Cubs fans. Apparently, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blagoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5793651&amp;post=245&amp;subd=blagoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple of nights ago, I was watching Jay Leno after the local news on <a title="NBC 5 Chicago News" href="http://www.nbcchicago.com/" target="_blank">NBC5 Chicago</a>.   He got right into the news of the day about Chinese President  Hu Jintao spending a few days in Chicago, and had this to say about it&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><em><strong>&#8220;While visiting Chicago, President Hu met with Cubs fans. Apparently, he wanted to see some Americans who have suffered more human rights violations than his own people.</strong></em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><em><strong>Even though President Hu was only in Chicago for two days, by the Rahm Emanuel standard, he was able to establish residency and can now run for mayor of Chicago</strong></em></span><em><strong></strong></em><em><strong></strong></em><span style="color:#ff0000;">&#8220;</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Is there anything about Chicago that won&#8217;t make it the butt of every joke?</p>
<p><em>Look&#8230;.he even left clothes and stuff packed away in his house! Bwahahaha! </em></p>
<p>That, had to be one of the dumbest supposed precedents I&#8217;d ever heard.  People all over, have homes they&#8217;ve moved out of (keeping them as investment properties), and moved on.  I still have a few things in my mother&#8217;s house.  Does that mean that I can vote as Cook County resident now as well?  I don&#8217;t think so.</p>
<p>&#8220;But&#8230;.he still pays taxes on his home on Hermitage Ave&#8221;.   Yes&#8230;.because he still owns it.  Anyone who owns property in Chicago, has to pay taxes on it, EVEN IF THEY LIVE OUT OF TOWN, AND NOT IN THAT HOUSE!  That&#8217;s one of the dumbest excuses I&#8217;ve heard yet.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the bottom line for all the sheep<em></em> in Rahm&#8217;s herd&#8230;.  The City of Chicago states that you must live IN the city limits for a &#8220;year&#8221; PRIOR to running for office.  ( a year, is defined legally as being 365 days!) If he lived here, 360 of the 365 days of prior year, <em>then he doesn&#8217;t qualify&#8230;.period</em>.  Silly?  Maybe&#8230;maybe not.</p>
<p>The Residency Requirement in Chicago has been used and challenged on hundreds of occasions and to be honest, I can&#8217;t think of one time that they (being the City of Chicago), lost.</p>
<p>A few more serious questions regarding Rahm, are now&#8230;.did he file his amended Illinois tax return with the intent to commit fraud?  Did he commit Vote-Fraud by voting here in Chicago in the last elections?  Did he commit perjury when testifying before the board of Elections, knowing that he was not eligible?   This ruling will open up Pandora&#8217;s Box.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s just not the same Chicago as when you left, Rahm.  Sorry..life&#8217;s a bitch, eh?</p>
<p>(we can only hope that Patrick Fitzgerald is taking notes.)</p>
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		<title>A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Sept. 1, 2010) A Picture is worth a thousand words&#8230;.so the saying goes.  That is of course, unless it&#8217;s the picture of (Honest) Abe Lincoln that once hung in Rod Blagodope&#8217;s office&#8230;.then it may be 2000 words.  There&#8217;s a renewed interest in the auction of his belongings and I see this as a good thing, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blagoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5793651&amp;post=234&amp;subd=blagoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://blagoblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/blagoslinc.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-235" title="Blagojevich Auction Goods - Blagoblog.com" src="http://blagoblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/blagoslinc.jpg?w=236&#038;h=300" alt="" width="236" height="300" /></a>(Sept. 1, 2010) A Picture is worth a thousand words&#8230;.so the saying goes.  That is of course, unless it&#8217;s the picture of (Honest) Abe Lincoln that once hung in Rod Blagodope&#8217;s office&#8230;.then it may be 2000 words.  There&#8217;s a renewed interest in the auction of his belongings and I see this as a good thing, since Rod has apparently decided to shut up.  Now it&#8217;s my turn.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m Joe average citizen in Illinois, and everyone I&#8217;ve talked to about Blago  is just as disgusted as I am, at what they&#8217;ve let this man and his wife do before and during his trial.  If I hear Blago tell the sob story about <em>how the FBI came into his home in the middle of the night, while his little girls (or family, depends on which script he&#8217;s reciting) were sleeping and arrested him</em>, I&#8217;ll kick a cat somewhere (just kidding..).   The fact is, the FBI called him on the phone at 6am and said &#8220;get dressed, you&#8217;re being arrested), but his version is certainly more theatrical&#8230;.but then, that&#8217;s Rod.  I was honestlty surprised he didn&#8217;t come out in his Elvis PJs that morning.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the quote from the Sun Times, and you can read the <a title="Rod Blagodope gets arrested" href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1321300,rod-blagojevich-illinois-governor-custody-120908.article" target="_blank">full article here</a>.</p>
<p><em><strong>Gov. Blagojevich got the call at 6 a.m. It was the head of Chicago’s FBI office to tell him he was being arrested.  “Well, I woke him up,” Robert Grant said. “The first thing he asked was this a joke. He wanted to make sure this was an honest call.”  Grant said he told the governor two agents were standing outside his door, and asked him to open the door “so we can do this as quietly.”  “He was very cooperative,” Grant said, adding that the governor’s two young daughters were asleep but his wife Patti was awake.</strong></em></p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t quite the way Blago said went down dozens of times in interviews, yet no one slapped him upside the head and said &#8220;yo Rod&#8230;&#8230;you&#8217;re full of ****!  Why?  I&#8217;ll say it right now&#8230;.Rod&#8230;you&#8217;re full of ****!  This guy makes up stuff in his head and recites it over and over again so many times that he may actually believe it!  That is a sickness, but you don&#8217;t want to give him reason to enter an insanity plea, either.</p>
<p>Blago flushed Illinois down the proverbial toilet (with the help of the Chicago Democrats) with his entitlement programs.   For years, he, along with people like Chgo. Ald. (22nd Ward)  Ricardo (<em>where&#8217;s the bottle?</em>) Munoz and Congressman  Luis Gurierrez,  have given millions and millions of dollars of state tax-payer&#8217;s money to organizations like the <a title="Illinois Coalition for Illegal Aliens" href="http://www.icirr.org" target="_blank">ICIRR</a>, who then dole out those very funds to the same people who put hundreds of thousands of protestors who then march downtown, costing us MILLION$ in police, fire and other services supposedly for the rights of criminals?  Yes&#8230;criminals.  Granted, sometime in future the Congress MAY adopt new immigration laws, but right now <em>as law is currently written</em>, illegal aliens are in fact, criminals, especially if they&#8217;re working here because they have to use bogus identification to get a job (much like that which Alderman Ricardo (where&#8217;s the bottle?) Munoz&#8217;s father went to jail for helping make, without his knowledge of course (LOL!).</p>
<p>Someone posted a comment in the DH write-up about not caring anymore and that we should just forget about Blago and the clown-car that transports him and the Chicago Dems to and from Springfield.  If I were moving out of state, I might think that way, but my wife and I, as well as my kids, still have to deal with the mess that they created for a long time to come.</p>
<p>Illegal Immigration is big business in Illinois.  It keeps those labor costs down so company profits can soar, and we all know who benefits from that, right?  I mean&#8230;in politics now, it&#8217;s <em>he who has the most money</em>, <em>wins</em>.  The only way to change it is to clean house in Springfield and I don&#8217;t think that will ever happen, and given past history, Illinoisans will once again shoot themselves in the foot no matter which way they vote, which feeds the apathy in this state amongst it&#8217;s registered voters, but then that&#8217;s what they want&#8230;.isn&#8217;t it.</p>
<p>Yes&#8230;..U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald was 100% correct in his statement that Lincoln would turn over in his grave, unfortunately he&#8217;s probably been spinning  in there for years now.</p>
<p>Oh&#8230;and here&#8217;s another one of the treasures obtained at the Blago Auction.  Enjoy.  There will be many more to come. <img src='http://s1.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>We are live at the storage house auctioning off the moron&#8217;s goods!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After talking to many people today about the Blagodope verdict(s), I learned something very interesting.  A  lot of people didn&#8217;t get or understand the term &#8220;Hung Jury&#8221;.  They thought it meant there was a 50/50 decision on his guilt when in fact, that&#8217;s the farthest thing from the truth.  A &#8220;Hung Jury&#8221; simply means that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blagoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5793651&amp;post=226&amp;subd=blagoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://blagoblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/moron.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-230" title="Rod Blagojevich - &quot;Moron&quot; - © 2010 www.BlagoBlog.com" src="http://blagoblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/moron.jpg?w=253&#038;h=300" alt="Rod Blagojevich - Moron" width="253" height="300" /></a>After talking to many people today about the Blagodope verdict(s), I learned something very interesting.  A  lot of people didn&#8217;t get or understand the term &#8220;Hung Jury&#8221;.  They thought it meant there was a 50/50 decision on his guilt when in fact, that&#8217;s the farthest thing from the truth.  A &#8220;Hung Jury&#8221; simply means that there was at least 1 person who didn&#8217;t think he committed the crime in question.</p>
<p>Granted, we weren&#8217;t in court.  We didn&#8217;t hear the testimony of the witnesses, but come on&#8230;..I&#8217;ve been calling &#8220;BullSH*T&#8221; on Blago since his election.  All this week&#8217;s verdict means is that they have perfected, the crooked politician.  It&#8217;s that simple.</p>
<p>Nobody talks to anyone direct, about anything direct.  It&#8217;s all &#8220;he said, she said&#8221;.  Why didn&#8217;t the prosecution invoke the Drew Peterson &#8220;Hear-say&#8221; law?  Why didn&#8217;t the jury take that into account???  Is that law ONLY reserved for Drew Peterson?</p>
<p>Why didn&#8217;t someone create a &#8220;Blagodope Law&#8221;??  Surely you could get people to line up and say &#8220;yes&#8230;..I met him and he truly IS an idiot!&#8221;</p>
<p>Bottom line is that they tried him in Chicago, and in Chicago&#8230;..this is the status quo and it&#8217;s obvious that even when you pick 12 jurors&#8230;..odds are, one of them will disregard the &#8220;law&#8221;, and consider it&#8217;s in Chicago in his decision.  Someone needs to take that juror out and show him the books on Illinois, they drag him through the streets of Chicago&#8217;s south side, so he can with his own eyes see, that the tens of millions or maybe even hundreds of millions of dollars that Blagodope squandered on his own personal interests, could have built one hell of a police force in Chicago.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t be too proud of that one lone holdout Rod.  That simply means that to 95% of the people out there, you really are the idiot you portray on television.</p>
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		<title>Juror didn&#8217;t want to fight&#8230;.so they let him off?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s not exactly what being a juror is about.  It&#8217;s not about keeping peace in the jury room, it&#8217;s about justice being done and the fact that they let this verdict go on the sale of the senate seat charge, tells me that this jury was sold out.  One person, who knows that they&#8217;re going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blagoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5793651&amp;post=224&amp;subd=blagoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s not exactly what being a juror is about.  It&#8217;s not about keeping peace in the jury room, it&#8217;s about justice being done and the fact that they let this verdict go on the sale of the senate seat charge, tells me that this jury was sold out.  One person, who knows that they&#8217;re going to be infamous very soon for being the lone-holdout, made the decision to let corruption win in this case.  A sad testament to our laws.  He should have been tried in Omaha, Nebraska.  Not Chicago.  How stupid was that.</p>
<p><a title="Rod Blagodope proclaiming his innocence after his conviction!" href="http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/politicians-react-blagojevich-trial-20100817" target="_blank">Fox News Chicago played the entire rant by Blagodope</a> after the trial.  1, he should had shut up a lot earlier than he did.  2, he almost put his own wife Patti, to sleep.  Watch the rant.  Watch Patti&#8217;s eyes bouncing as if she&#8217;s reading along with Rob, what he&#8217;s suppose to say.  Then at the end&#8230;.his mouth outruns his brain (not hard to do..) and starts spouting about how good it is to hear his innocence on all counts&#8230;.(but 1 he mutters). lol!</p>
<p>This morning, Fox News was asking people about the &#8216;cost&#8217; of a retrial and everyone was saying no, that&#8217;s too much etc&#8230;</p>
<p>Where was Fox News asking people about all the stupid gun manufacturer lawsuits that the City of Chicago had started?  What&#8217;s the cost of Chicago being  &#8220;sanctuary city&#8221; for illegal gang bangers and their families?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s get the proper perspective on this please.  We need this re-trial at ANY cost, and they need to bring in Barack Obama and company (Rahm, Jesse Luis&#8230;etc&#8230;) so we can the proper &#8220;scope&#8221; of this investigation.</p>
<p>I said it 2 years ago when this whole ordeal started&#8230;.to sit back and think Obama had nothing to do with the sale, or attempted sale of his seat, is just flat out ignorance.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re all tired of corrupt politicians.  We&#8217;re not reaping any great benefits from these tools and their criminal minds.</p>
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		<title>GO TO JAIL ROD!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go to Jail Rod!!!  The hung  jury on the other counts simply means you&#8217;ve covered your ass well! EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF LEGISLATION, ESPECIALLY &#8220;EXECUTIVE ORDERS&#8217; need to be re-examined to see if there were ulterior motives for signing them! What happened to your day in court, Rod??? LOL!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blagoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5793651&amp;post=216&amp;subd=blagoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF LEGISLATION, ESPECIALLY <strong>&#8220;EXECUTIVE ORDERS&#8217;</strong> need to be re-examined to see if there were ulterior motives for signing them!</p>
<p>What happened to <em>your day in court, Rod</em>???</p>
<p>LOL!</p>
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