final thoughts for 2010

brett favre gets fined $50,000 for tweeting his pee pee. sounds like a lot, right? well, if you make 100,000 a year instead of 16 million, the same percentage would be about $750.00. seven hundred and fifty bucks. wow, bet that really hurt brett.

the african-american caucas is losing focus in the chicago mayoral race. loudmouth candidate danny davis WARNS bill clinton & president obama to not campaign for rahm emanuel or relations with the black community might suffer. query.....would davis turn down the president's help if he supported davis?? davis needs to shut up. now he's going to pick who can campaign and who can't? good luck.

sleazy carol mosely braun and her amigos are mad at a sun-times columnist who ragged on braun in his column. braun's buddies want neil steinberg fired for writing the column but the managing editor told them nicely to go pound sand.

NY city....a teacher has been paid $97,000 a year for the last 13 years NOT to teach. roland pierre was charged with sexual misconduct with a student in 1997 but all police charges were dropped and he was never disciplined by the school. instead, he goes every day to the "rubber room" where teachers serve the equivalent of a 'time out' when they screw up but do no work. the school superintendent doesn't want him back in the class room and the 75 year old pierre refuses to retire so he just shows up every day.........and does zip for 97k. nice gig.

my heart goes out to those two firemen who died in chicago when a roof suddenly collapsed. as a retired cop, i can tell you that we always made fun of firemen because MOST of the time, they watch tv, play cards, shoot baskets, surf porn, eat, sleep and only work 115 days a year. but i would never have their job. god bless their families.

hey, if you still have a roll of kodak film laying around from aunt sophie's wedding, get it to the processor because the last kodak shop closes in a couple of days and the company no longer makes the specialized chemicals that you need to develop kodachrome film. remember photo huts?

a couple of interesting crimes this week. wheelchair bound man waits in the cold for help outside a closed loan store and when the employee unlocks the door early to help the poor man inside, the guy suddenly is cured and jumps up with a gun and robs the store and runs away. well thought out.

but the other side of the coin was in river forest where the uncle is arrested for shoplifting while his nephew (waiting in the car in the parking lot) gets whacked for burglarizing the car next to his. wonder if they met up in bond court?

you don't think that the bears could actually.............naw.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

thoughts & things

ninety-five year old woman passes away in waukegan. two weeks later, a family member delivers her favorite waitress a thousand bucks for 'being nice' to her........and that's pretty nice too.

hear about the bad luck burglar who broke into a chicago company and vandalized all the machines for the coins? he made quite a haul and even brought his own bank bags to carry the loot. when climbing back to the roof, he slipped off the SECOND step of the ladder (only two feet up) and when he landed on his feet, the bag slipped from his hand and weight of the coins broke his foot in two places. righteous.

ok, rahm emanuel goes to washington d.c. to work for the president and now they challenge his residency in chicago because he rented his house out while serving his country? if that's the case, then every overseas soldier is now a resident of afghanistan. quit wasting our time & money.

speaking of wasting money, how about the cubs paying a .196 power hitter TEN MILLION DOLLARS for one year? and ricketts wonders why he has money issues.

oprah, do me a favor. give your money QUIETLY to charities and stop this "hooray for me farewell tour." god, is she irritating.

the infamous cabrini-green housing project in chicago officially closed yesterday when the last resident was moved out and i see where some of the media is romanticizing that property but the reality of the situation is that it was a jungle inhabited by animals who had no respect for anything including themselves. having been there numerous times to pick up prisoners and witnesses who fled from lake county, i know that most of you would gag at the stench just walking through the hallways but that's how those people chose to live. you might be poor but i know you have a mop, a broom and a dust pan. but they chose to live in squalor & filth. animals. no sympathy.

i see where the new video barbie doll is under suspicion because of the possibilities of 'secret' filming. has the FBI been to a camera store lately? if you want to buy a tiny video camera, you certainly don't need barbie. quit wasting our money.

christmas cards are apparently on the way out as people look to save money in difficult times. the post office anticipates 'only' 1.5 billion cards which is a 15% drop from last year. another reason they hate the internet, which is driving the postal service into extinction.

keep your eye on the situation in melrose park. long rumored to be crooked, several high ranking police administrators were found guilty of duty related felonies and the pension board justifiably took away their pensions. so now the current police admisnistrators have kicked the pension board out of the station because of their pension revocations. watch for the attorney general to start sniffing around which is the last thing they want in melrose park.

here's bullshit wrapped in a MAJOR package. an 11 year old pitcher in little league is struck in the side of the head by a batted ball and unfortunately, loses his hearing in the right ear. the parent's course of action? you guessed it--file suit against the maker of the aluminum bat but here's the real kicker................despite the pending litigation and the 'clear & present danger' of aluminum bats cited in the suit, the parents have allowed their kid back in baseball! quit wasting our time & money.

finally, keep your fingers crossed for the bears this weekend. adios.

sports thoughts

the bears are 9-3. please explain how. any weakness they have will be exposed this week against new england and mr. tom brady. as the hawk says before important sox games........"strap it on, cinch it up and hunker down" because this game will tell you everything you need to know about the bears. contenders or pretenders?

the early holidays are nice but nothing warms the cockles of my heart more than watching brett favre getting crushed face first into the turf and being knocked out of the game on the first series. even better is that backup quarterback tavaris jackson performed well when he got his chance to play which gives coach leslie frazier some food for thought.

the white sox and kenny williams don't win them all but you always have to give them an "A" for effort and the big splash signings of free agents. adam dunn, a.j. and now maybe konerko back in the fold? i wonder if that rumor about adrian beltre is true?

and on the other side of town? they signed jeff baker. who? i said the same thing. he's a third baseman who hits .270 and has no power. when you only hit 4 homers while playing in colorado, you really have NO power. i hope the cub fans are preparing for 90 losses........for the next three seasons.....because this team is god awful.

how sweet was that when boise state lost????!!!! now we don't have to hear the whining about how they got screwed by the BCS and the best part is that one loss knocked them from a big payday all the way down to the las vegas bowl on 12/22. shows what the voters think of them overall.

and who got dealt the worst hand in the bowl games? believe it or not, it's the wisconsin badgers who have been put into a 'no win' situation in the rose bowl. beat TCU and everyone says, "so what, they come from a nothing conference" but if you struggle or lose to them, you become the poster boy for over-rated teams. wisconsin has to win by 30 points just to save face and finish second in the polls.

bye for now