tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56465092024-03-07T23:32:51.264-06:00Earl's PearlsShowing everybody that journalists and politicians are incompetent, dangerous, and just plain stupid. Plus an occasional thought on random things like yums and the Chicago Cub.Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-88790806896773429152011-07-24T18:55:00.006-05:002011-07-24T19:50:31.454-05:00It's been a long time since I've posted. But some azzclown at Salon.com named Michael Takiff published a sickening anti semitic screed about Eric Cantor and how he is an embarrassment to Jews. Actually the self hating anti Semite Takiff the Jew is the embarrassment.Here's his column w my fisking in italics. These days Eric Cantor is steering the United States Treasury to default (ahhh the sole Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-62884900638982798502010-06-03T09:01:00.002-05:002010-06-03T09:07:27.721-05:00It's Blagopalooza!!!!It's like Christmas, my birthday, and Arbor Day all at once. Our former governor Rod Blago Blagojevich goes on trial today. Blago masterminded a criminal enterprise from the governor's office shaking down concrete manufacturers, congressmen, president elects and most diabolically the CEO of a children's hospital. I'm never able to decide if Blago is deranged, genius, Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-70048443173762198332009-01-16T16:41:00.001-06:002009-01-16T16:42:44.192-06:00Incredible.You don't pay your taxes because you can't afford it, the taxing entity penalizes you and grabs any assets it can. The state of California over charges you and then says "sorry we can't afford to pay you back".One of many reasons to be thankful not to live in California. It's like Michigan with more traffic.Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-36966649260098132032009-01-15T09:24:00.002-06:002009-01-15T09:26:49.965-06:00New Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Cmte, John Kerry is going to have his first hearing soon. What's the topic? Terrorism? China? Middle East?Nope. Global Warming. Can't one of his staffers get him a current weather map?Is this really what we need to be focusing on right now? What's next? A unicorn.Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-22160508503317101782008-12-27T14:16:00.003-06:002008-12-27T14:50:47.479-06:00This In a Nutshell is Why Newspapers are Going Extinct.This is an opinion column in today's Wall St. Journal. The author writes for the Newark Star Ledger. His hopeless and clueless arguments and lack of knowledge of the subject matter upon which he writes show far more about how irrelevant the old media is than he can possibly fathom. By PAUL MULSHINENewark, N.J.When my colleague at the Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-18002769884571001142008-12-23T10:12:00.002-06:002008-12-23T10:19:03.468-06:00ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINTThe New York Times is still considered the greatest newspaper in America and maybe the world. Perhsps that is all the proof we need that big time journalists are the most insipid people around. If you made it past high school, you learned when writing something factual to validate your sources. How many people at this newspaper failed to verify that a letter Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-18779880173725782262008-12-22T14:35:00.003-06:002008-12-22T14:43:03.996-06:00Want further proof that people in the newspaper industry are too stupid to be trusted?How about this quote from an employee of the Rocky Mountain Daily News which is on the verge of shutting down:“I am beyond stunned,” said the veteran political reporter Lynn Bartels. “To me, what happened was literally like a ship capsizing in the middle of the night.”Got that? Mr. or Ms. Bartels is beyond Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-24144220748200025562008-12-22T11:12:00.002-06:002008-12-22T11:20:37.013-06:00Destined To Fail.That would be our incoming president. I know the sycophants in the media think he's brilliant. Most of his stooge voting base probably didn't realize the Democrats already controlled congress before the last election. I've met the guy. I've worked out with the guy. He doesn't have the chops. Or like the rest of them he's pathological. I don't blame him for that. It's the Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-90998042816691873762008-12-22T10:58:00.002-06:002008-12-22T11:09:06.225-06:00I'm back. Not necessarily better than ever. But back anyway.There's going to be a whole lot of stupidity coming out of Washington with the new administration and the criminal enterprise that is Chris Dodd and Barney Frank. So somebody has to discuss it before going to the reeducation camps.Lets start with Caroline Kennedy. It's amazing how the sycophants in Washington think she'll be a good Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1129643060606525692005-10-18T08:42:00.000-05:002005-10-18T08:44:20.613-05:00Watching the White Sox go to the World Series as a Cub fan is like watching your sibling win the lottery.I like the Sox, but they're not my true team. It's cool that the Series is coming to town but it's a constant reminder of the true uselessness of the Cub.Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1121711624613765882005-07-18T23:54:00.000-05:002005-07-19T11:56:18.033-05:00I Be Gettin All Learneded.Every time the sociologists get involved we take one step further into the abyss.Now a skewl districk in Californa is going to teach or use ebonics for their underachieving, low income students.Bill Cosby has just got to want to beat these administrators upside the head with a bag of jello pudding pops. Can't wait to see how all dem pimps and hoes do on their tests. Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1121645934223216042005-07-17T19:15:00.000-05:002005-07-17T19:18:54.226-05:00My Meeting With DustySo, after my son's little league playoff game yesterday, Cub manager Dusty Baker watched his son's.He pulled up on his wicked Harley. I caught him immediately and asked if he would sign a paper for my son who was already gone. He saw me in my coache's shirt and cap and asked if we'd won our game.I told him that we did not have our best player who missed half the season for Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1120487036171993092005-07-04T09:23:00.001-05:002005-07-05T22:32:13.426-05:00I was at the Cub game yesterday. It was (save for the baseball), a beautiful day that I enjoyed in the company of my almost 8 yr old.I could not help but think as I looked at the people on the rooftops the blue sky, and the majesty of Wrigley Field on this July 4th eve, "what a craphole this ballpark is".I have loved and savored the sentiment of Wrigley Field as much as the next guy/girl (I may Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1120150902640281142005-06-30T12:00:00.000-05:002005-06-30T12:01:42.646-05:00"It's not an orgy. It's a toga party""It's not a pay raise. It's an adjustment so that they're not losing their purchasing power." -- Majority Leader Tom DeLay, on the House's scheduled $3,100 salary increase next year.Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1119461175594715342005-06-22T12:23:00.000-05:002005-06-22T12:26:15.600-05:00Hello, I must be going.... sorry got into a Groucho riff there as I was mulling the top 100 movie lines.How "they're not gonna stop us, we're on a mission from God" didn't make it is beyond me. My other big beef was that the token Animal House line was Toga Toga. This instead of "Over? Nothing is over until we decide it is."Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1117651332430222092005-06-01T13:40:00.000-05:002005-06-01T13:42:12.440-05:00Beyond Belief"Obesity, which already affects more than 300 million people and an alarming number of children, must be recognized and treated as a disease with deadly complications, a leading expert said on Wednesday.Up to 8 percent of total healthcare costs in some Western countries are attributable to obesity and related problems. It is a leading cause of preventable death -- so shedding excess Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1116608113819397072005-05-20T11:49:00.000-05:002005-05-20T11:55:13.826-05:00True story. I offered to watch my neighbor's son one evening. His communion was the next day and his folks were preparing for a celebratory brunch. I figured he could come over and play with my son while they got their house ready. His mother asked if he could come over in his pajamas.I responded "Sure, it's Michael Jackson night at our crib". A good time was had by all. And no we did not Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1116279125948999722005-05-16T16:22:00.000-05:002005-05-16T16:38:10.250-05:00So more quality time this weekend with The Modelchic. Saturday night We hung out at La Passage in the back room and she entertained the troops by doing some hot dancing on their little stage for lack of a better term. Only women are allowed up there. Which is fine because it kept me from having to show my dance moves or lack thereof to the whole room.She kept me out until 4 am. Although I had to Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1115997309834227372005-05-13T10:00:00.000-05:002005-05-13T10:15:09.840-05:00Oh my aching head. It feels like somebody dumped Nebraska on it.No it's not what you're thinking. I'm not hungover although I did drink last night. I went to the U-2 concert and sat mega close to the stage. Unfortunately, I didn't bring ear plugs and 12 hrs later my ears are still ringing. I'm at the age where I need to take ear plugs to concerts and apparently also at the age where I can't Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1115323201237174912005-05-05T14:58:00.000-05:002005-05-05T15:00:01.243-05:00Just wondering:When they have to change a tire on a jet, how does that work?Do they have to take all the luggage out so they can get to the jack? And then do they jack the plane up?Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1114793361924114982005-04-29T11:46:00.000-05:002005-04-29T11:49:21.926-05:00Your Chicago Tax Dollars at Work.A woman took her dog for a walk. She did not have a leash on the dog. That's a citation and a fine. So far no problem. Ticket her ass and send her packing.The woman didn't have her wallet and ID on her. Just keys. Afterall she went to walk the dog, not rent a car.So the Cop(s) haul(s) her in. Then she spent 8 hours at the station or in the lockup.How manyJayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1114710695183600012005-04-28T12:50:00.000-05:002005-04-28T12:51:35.183-05:00Is it just me, or do you get the nagging feeling when you pay your cab driver that you're funding Al Qada?Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1114545463884294272005-04-26T14:55:00.000-05:002005-04-26T14:57:43.886-05:00The Last RoundupThe Feds nailed a ton of wiseguys here in Chicago yesterday.What I love about the wiseguys is the nicknames. My favorite is Joey "the clown" Lombardo. The Clown is in hiding apparently as the Feds didn't find him when the swooped. Another guy is named "No Nose". You can't make this stuff up. Since I'm making fun of Joey The Clown Lombardo, it's probably best that I go into Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1114183321849934922005-04-22T10:18:00.000-05:002005-04-22T10:23:01.870-05:00Who says the government and the military do not find ways to be cost effective?China is the growing menace as they continue to become an industrial and military power. It would cost trillions in dollars and millions in lives to use the US military on China. So we're contracting out the operation. Finally some privitization of a government function.Altria is going to provide Marloboros to the Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646509.post-1114114864739666982005-04-21T15:15:00.000-05:002005-04-21T15:23:35.143-05:00 GET A FUCKING LIFE!!!We start a new feature in our little universe today as titled above.People are already camped out for the next edition of Star Wars which doesn't open until May 19th. "Wow" you say. "Camping out for a month to see a movie is pretty fucking lifeless. What could be more stupid than that?"I'm glad you asked. The lifeless losers are camped out at Grauman's Chinese Theatre Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117624213491901889noreply@blogger.com0