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

football...period

i've changed my mind. now i want brett favre to play forever. he sucks so bad that it's comical to watch him try to play the game. last year's performance non withstanding, his time to retire was about 5 years back and his crying 'woe is me' act wore thin long ago. his egomaniacal behavior has long irritated me and watching him get beat up every week is a joy. please, please keep playing.

several BCS bowl bids are on the line this week including the national championship game in arizona on january 10th. oregon is slated to play auburn BUT if alabama beats auburn on friday, it will open the door for boise state to play in the big game. LSU would be a better choice because they play in a real conference but it might be nice to watch oregon end the chatter out of idaho forever.

something that is ending this year is the ACC's automatic berth in a bcs bowl and it's about time. the acc is a basketball conference and their weak repesenative simply steals a spot from a deserving team, which might be an undefeated tcu this year.

congratulations to the university of wisconsin and their probable trip to the rose bowl but look for the speedy stanford cardinal to run up the score on the one dimensional and very slow badgers.

are the bears for real? we'll see next sunday. the NFL has moved their game with the eagles and michael vick to the national broadcast at 3:15 so the entire nation will find out. i still think the packers are going to the super bowl. ouch. that hurts to say it.

how about that game in wrigley field? interesting to watch....but just one time. it's still a crap hole that's not suited for football......or anything else.

nice job by illinois to get bowl eligible and i think they get the texas bowl on 12/29. northwestern should get the 'ticket city' bowl on new year's day. seriously! the game takes place in dallas. don't ask me.

i know you're dying for this nugget. the are THIRTY FIVE college bowl games this season and they are being held in such exotic places as detroit,
el paso, shreveport, memphis and mobile. there are also games in d.c. and new york. ah, outdoors on the east coast in january. hold me back.

finally, check this out. NAVY, ARMY and AIR FORCE are all going to a bowl game this year. i think the last time that happened there were dinosaurs roaming the planet. HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING!!!!

THOUGHTS & THINGS

the african-american coalition hasn't learned a thing from political history in chicago which is you CAN'T be elected mayor unless you have ONE strong candidate, ala harold washington in 1983. washington took advantage when state's attorney richie daley and incumbent mayor jane byrne wouldn't compromise on a single candidate and although together they received 63%, washington's 37% won him the primary and a historical position in chicago. james meeks, carol mosely braun and danny davis need to set a lunch date.....soon.

there is something very wrong in our country when 1 in 10 have gone to bed hungry in the last year. i want you to imagine this scene. you're watching late night tv and you get a case of the munchies but there's NOTHING in the fridge or the cabinets to stem your hunger. NOTHING in the entire house. not a slice of bread or microwave popcorn or some oreos. zip. nada. absolutely nothing edible in the house. we can't imagine that happening to us, can we? that really needs to change in this country.

the cubs & tom ricketts have a lot of nerve. he wants $200 million of our tax dollars to remodel that crap hole on the north side. in these economic times? screw him. i'll take better roads & sidewalks instead.

thanksgiving is the BEST holiday. the aromas, moist brined turkey, sweet potato pie (along with pumpkin) and the wonderful feeling that i'm about to burst. perfect.

sears announced that they're open all day on thanksgiving. whatever happened to everything being closed on a holiday and people just relaxing for one day? i miss that a lot.

everyone laughs at my cell phone and probably, rightfully so. it doesn't take pictures, it doesn't have a keyboard or flip open, and the only application i know about is what you fill out for employment. it weighs a half pound and can double as a paperweight. BUT no one will ever steal it.

jon burge ring a bell? he's the chicago police commander who cost the city $19 million in civil settlements because he got most of his confessions by torturing suspects. burge is due to be sentenced this month for perjury and obstruction of justice and an interesting dilemma awaits the judge. the federal probation department has recommended a sentence of 21 MONTHS and the prosecutors have asked for 'substantial' jail time with the federal convictions carrying a maximum penalty of 30 years. burge is 68 years old and a bonafide war hero who was awarded the purple heart, the bronze star, two battle commendations and the cross of gallantry in vietnam. so what type of sentence do you get for lying?

sounds a little fishy.......the AMA has reported that omega-3 fish oil pills DON'T prevent flare ups of atrial fibrillation. omega 3 is still good for you but if you're just taking them for an irregular heart beat, save your money.

to all those people bitching about the new security measures at the airport............stay home. or better yet, ride a greyhound bus from chicago to los angeles for 50 hours and then let me know how that trip was!

if we don't talk, have a great holiday!

NOTHING BUT SPORTS

anyone watch 'undercover boss' on tv sunday night? todd ricketts, who is apparently the idiot brother of cubs owner tom ricketts, went undercover and part of his deal was being a hot dog vendor. unable to sell his final four dogs, smarmy todd takes twenty bucks of his own money and buys the final four so he can move on to the next load. no problem. but what does the jackwagon do with the hot dogs? he throws them into the garbage can!! he couldn't find 4 kids at the park who'd like a dog for free? he needs to be slapped.

which happens first next week when the vikings come to town: adrian peterson runs for 200 yards or brett favre passes for 400? this is the titanic getting ready to leave port.

SEC football is simply the best in the land. the game on saturday between LSU and alabama was one for the ages.

i would love to see boise state enter a real conference and play the big boys every week. 12-0 would rapidly turn into 8-4.

northwestern & illinois play on november 20th in wrigley field and with those two defenses, the game might end 99-98. they both remind me of teams in the MAC conference....mid-majors.

i think illinois coach ron zook & bears head coach lovie smith should start having their houses appraised for sale purposes.

zenyatta is a pretty cool race horse even though she lost her perfect record by a nose in the breeder's cup. how much is a nose in racing? about 4 inches. but 19-1 is still a pretty good record. happy retirement.

the bears got screwed in the jay cutler trade. no discussion.

the bulls are going to be a lot of fun when carlos boozer returns from his injury in a couple of weeks.

the blackhawks are learning quickly how hard it is to repeat as champions.

and misl soccer has reached the semi-finals.......never mind.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

guy thoughts

the green bay packers showed yesterday exactly why they will win the division by two games. winning on the road is tough enough but shutting out the home team? they have a hospital full of players but they still find a way to win on the road. game, set and match.

in volleyball & racquetball, the 'kill shot' is simply a ball that your opponent can't return. in football, it's a hit that from which your opponent can't recover. the kill shot is coming soon for brett favre. immobile for the most part and hampered with a faulty mental clock, he is a sitting duck late in the game as evidenced yesterday. and by the way, if he's not concussed.........

just curious.....what happen to the allegations of brett sending his pee-pee over the tweeternet?

my hatred for notre dame multiplied ten fold this past week when declan sullivan died because officials at the school weren't smart enough to shut down the tower in the high winds and then the professional spin jobs start. obnoxious coach brian kelly spins that it 'was just another practice and it didn't seem terribly windy to me.' what a dick. the sullivan family isn't even at the funeral and he's making excuses already. this is the part where i'm supposed to write that i hope the family gets millions but it won't make any difference to the university. insurance will cover most if not all of the settlement and life will go on at the golden dome........but not for declan sullivan. screw brian kelly and screw notre dame. forever.

how nice is it to watch a world series where the fans aren't wearing parkas and snow boots? and they want to EXPAND the playoffs? bad move.

cleaning the garage is a lot like cleaning your living room. if you'd put things back in their original place when you were done with them, it would only take a ten minute sweep rather than 4 hours.

it's a good day to put up the christmas lights because mother nature will eventually turn her back on the good weather. later.