October 31, 2014

today i am driving up to help kelly westlund spit in the koch bros faces.

wish us luck.
i will try to pop in and let you know how it is going up there.

but how about some wind for kelly's sails, du?

knr

October 30, 2014

whoever may be suffering due to charter schools, here in chicago it is the pedophiles.

i have said this many times-
charter schools in chicago, which are run by largely non-profits, are not taking students from district schools so much as they are from the catholic schools.
i believe the clergy abuse scandals are driving a mass exodus from catholic schools in chicago.
they were mostly the only "anything but my local district school" option available. now that cps has made many more options available to families, the catholic schools are collapsing.
charters are only a part of this, with many open enrollment cps specialty schools.
there are a few small chain charters. but most are either university run, or ethnic/language focus non-profits.

this is about the 3rd or 4th mass closing for the archdiocese.

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20141029/portage-park/archdiocese-close-six-schools-chicago

note the comments.

October 28, 2014

doctor doom is at boot camp.

he is spending 2 weeks at a boarding/training place here, called found chicago.
good folks, smart trainers. they also do rescue.

he is gonna come home a perfect dog, i think.
they put up a daily youtube of what they are doing. so far it goes along with my own philosophy and methods. so, they are building on what i have done with him.

helps me get over missing him. also eases my mind about spending 5 days in wisconsin for the election. good timing.

October 27, 2014

non-citizen voting

anybody else see this? going around fb.
aside from the ridiculously low sample ##, wtf?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/24/could-non-citizens-decide-the-november-election/

October 23, 2014

(Bruce Rauner's firm) Deerfield drug company sued over heart treatment for premature babies

FTC accuses Ovation Pharmaceuticals of price gouging and antitrust violations

December 17, 2008|By Bruce Japsen, TRIBUNE REPORTER

A Deerfield-based pharmaceutical company gained control of the only two drugs that treat premature babies' heart defects, then raised the cost of treatment nearly 1,300 percent, the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday in a lawsuit that accused Ovation Pharmaceuticals Inc. of violating antitrust laws. The FTC said Ovation engineered an unlawful acquisition when it acquired the drug NeoProfen in January 2006 from Abbott Laboratories, knowing it was buying the only rival to a drug it bought just one year earlier. Ovation already held the rights to Indocin I.V., a drug developed by Merck & Co.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-12-17/news/0812160546_1_ovation-pharmaceuticals-premature-babies-premature-infants

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his name is not mentioned in the article, of course, but my fb source tells me this is rauner's firm. dont have time to chase that down this minute. maybe someone can confirm or deny.

October 20, 2014

mitochondrial autonomic dysfunction.

well, my little girl, 21yo, may have found the answer to her many head scratching medical problems. the doc, wisely, has refused to tell her what he is looking at, but from what he did tell her, it looks like this is what they are testing for.
she gets the final round of tests on friday.

this, of course, answers all of my head scratching questions. he told her i def have it if she does.
and her sister, too, who has a somewhat different set of bizarro symptoms.
and at least one of my sisters.

my mom must have had it too. she was pretty healthy and strong all her life, but had at least one symptom that fits this, an occasional complete, fairly violent, emptying of her entire digestive system.

doc says i probably have a more latent version, but i intend to go see the same doc, and i'm thinking by the time i get done with him, he will take back that latent thing.

no treatment, no cure. i am sure the joy of finding the right answer will be short lived.

anyone else have this?

October 17, 2014

road trip anyone?

planning to gotv in wis 7th, wausau.
anyone want to be toe to toe with the kochsuckers and kkkarl for kelly westlund and mary burke?
if kelly wins, mary burke wins.
anyone?

October 14, 2014

for people who really ought to be out knocking on doors-

point by point answer to city of chgo citations against my house and farm.
my house-
https://www.facebook.com/MoahsArk/posts/825288960826118

farm citation also at link.

du nonsense, mostly. unless you have the good sense to have the same fools on ignore.
thank dog for old friends.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025647068

October 10, 2014

friday news dump from illinois gubernatorial candidate bruce rauner.

Republican candidate for Illinois governor Bruce Rauner released his 2013 income taxes late Friday afternoon.
The release reveals Rauner made more than $60 million and paid more than $17 million in state and federal taxes. He also gave more than $5 million to charity.
“I’m nobody that nobody sent and independent of the special interests,” Rauner said in a statement Friday. “Unlike Pat Quinn, who put self-dealing and cronyism ahead of the people, I’ll put the people first and end decades of corruption in state government.”
For


Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Rauner-Releases-2013-Tax-Returns-278857661.html#ixzz3Fmx0cO48
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October 10, 2014

meanwhile in the real world.

https://www.facebook.com/MoahsArk/posts/821277924560555?comment_id=821454674542880&reply_comment_id=822452244443123&offset=0&total_comments=83

as i said in my earlier thread, complete strangers see this differently than du. to say nothing of folks who actually know me, and have been here.
a shame that a few completely baseless allegations have destroyed my connections here. a place i used to be so proud to belong.
makes me quite sad.