Pekin Prattles

Do you know Julia???

2012-05-04T08:40:00.000-04:00

You should......she is living out of your wallet.......http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304743704577382360840908318.html Yours and mine that is!

& Somehow Obama thinks it is ok????

Duke

Obama Campaign Memo....distribute to all who are drinking the kool-aid!

2012-04-30T14:56:00.001-04:00

This shall serve as your official guideline to the campaign from here to eternity....er, November......

1. Obfuscate/berate/lie/delay/hide/ignore......these are our key words to success in November.
2. NEVER-EVER Discuss, explain, or admit there are economic items to be discussed in the election. WE HAVE NO ECONOMIC ITEMS TO DISCUSS!
3. The economy is not an issue this year!
4. The things to discuss are; women's issues, dog-eating, and any item which is going to reflect NO CONSIDERATION of accomplishments/achievements/things done-well during our first 3 years....
5. EXCEPTION: Osama Bin Laden's killing.........This shall be trumpeted, loud and long, and from every mosque....er, tower.......Ignore the fact that an Admiral was in charge and carried out the mission..... this was to give "The One" ability to disavow in the event the mission failed!
6. oUR ECONOMY IS "RECOVERING"....AND BY CURRENT FIGURES WILL BE HEALTHY AGAIN IN 2020!!!!!

Nuff, said.....go out and trumpet the message....or hide it if such is necessary!

LOL

Duke

Secret Plans For Evacuation of Chicago....?

2012-04-28T10:38:00.000-04:00

Must be something that would embarrass Nobama!

Duke

GOVERNMENT.....Its What Made Us Great!

2012-04-27T09:47:00.001-04:00

The saddest part is, many folks reading this will NOT HAVE A CLUE what this means.....They see no difference between government and people. PrezBO is of the Govt. made us great school. Anyone taught civics prior to about 20 years ago will understand the people and their businesses and their hard work made us great! Taught civics lately, and you'll get another whole mix of platitudes about the common good (socialism), and such. Duke

"If I Wanted America To Fail!"

2012-04-23T00:19:00.003-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CZ-4gnNz0vc

Duke

"On or before April 15th of each year.........."

2012-04-23T00:13:00.004-04:00

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/20/three-years-and-no-senate-budget/

Duke

& Then There Came a Storm!

2012-04-22T23:45:00.000-04:00

Politics are so very, very polarized today.....I remember when I watched our politicos negotiate for major legislative3 pieces.....both sides involved. Now, we have a system where one party decides to pass a major healthcare bill, encompassing 1/6th of our economy, and the ENTIRE process is conducted behind closed doors. The product, some 2,700 pages, is delivered and voted upon.....NO deliberation....no chance for amendments...just here it is and "We have to approve it to see what is in it!" is the watchword of the House Speaker. How sad....

If you have any doubt about why the country is in this shape, simply look to this. One party controlled things for the period of 2006 until 2010....(of course they had a lame-duck President for 2 years), and they managed to only blame the opposition for not getting anything done. They held the Presidency, House and Senate for 2 years and again blamed the opposition for not getting anything solved about the economy......Bah Humbug!

The Senate, that august body of great deliberators, controlled by the Democrats to this day, has not enacted/passed a budget in more than 1,000 days, despite a law requiring them to do so.....They are above the law. Why, if they pass a budget it will expose how much they are spending...it will expose how much they either have to RAISE TAXES, or LOWER BENEFITS.....Democrats cannot stand to lower benefits, and they will not be able to raise taxes significantly! Sooooo, No budget!

But it is ALL George Bush's fault. They may begin to find another fall-guy by 2016 or so, but I doubt it.

Criminals in my estimation....criminals leading us down the path to the end of this great Republic!

Duke

WOW.....New post, and I have a new screen!

2012-04-22T23:32:00.001-04:00

YEP....I just went to post and found my entire posting screen changed. Obviously blogspot changed....Oh well, it is the way of the future.

Goodbye, Illinois!

2012-04-11T13:11:00.001-04:00

Too good not to repeat!

Goodbye to Illinois

Former State Senator and Republican Cook County Board President candidate Roger Keats and his wife Tina are leaving Illinois to live in Texas. They bid farewell to their Illinois friends with the following letter.

Dear friends,

As we leave Illinois for good, I wanted to say goodbye and wish all of you well. I am a lifelong son of the heartland and proud of "The Land of Lincoln" state.

After 60 years, I leave Illinois with a heavy heart. But enough is enough.
The leaders of Illinois refuse to see we can't continue going in the direction we are and expect people who have options to stay here.

I remember when Illinois had 25 congressmen. In 2012 we will have 18.
Compared to the rest of the country we have lost 1/4th of our population.
Don't blame the weather, because most of us love the 4 beautiful seasons of Illinois.

Illinois just sold still more bonds, and our credit rating is so bad we pay higher interest rates than junk bonds. Junk Bonds!

Illinois is ranked:
• 50th for fiscal policy
• 47th in job creation
• 1st in unfunded pension liabilities
• 2nd largest budget deficit
• 1st in failing schools
• 1st in bonded indebtedness
• Highest sales tax in the nation
• Most judges indicted (Operations Greylord and Gambat)

Five of our last 9 elected governors have been indicted. That is more than the other 49 states added together! Then add 32 Chicago Aldermen and (according to the Chicago Tribune) over 1,000 state and municipal employees indicted.

The corruption tax is a real cost of doing business. We are the butt of jokes for stand-up comics. We live in the most corrupt big city, in the most corrupt big county, in the most corrupt state in America. I am sick and tired of subsidizing crooks. A day rarely passes without an article about the corruption and incompetence. Chicago even got caught rigging the tests to hire policemen and firemen!

Our Crook County corporate tax system is intentionally corrupt. The Democrat State Chairman, who is also the Speaker of the Illinois House (Speaker Mike Madigan), and the most senior alderman in Chicago, each make well over a million dollars a year putting the fix in for their clients tax assessments.

Cook County's property tax system is a disaster: The assessed value of our Chicago home was 50% higher than the sale price. Our home value is down 40%, our property taxes are up 20%, and our local schools have still another referendum on the ballot to increase taxes more than 20% next year.

The Illinois system is unfair and incompetent. In the Hill Country of Texas (near Austin and San Antonio) we bought a gracious home on almost 2 acres with a swimming pool. It is new, will cost us around 40% of what our home in Wilmette just sold for, and the property taxes are a third of what they are here.

We are moving to Texas where there is no income tax, while Illinois just went up 67%. Texas sales tax is half of ours, which is the highest in the nation. Southern states are supportive of job producers, taxpayers and folks who offer opportunities to their residents. Illinois shakes them down for every penny that can be extorted from them.

I could go on, but enough is enough. I feel as if we are standing on the deck of the Titanic and I can see the icebergs right in front of us.

I will miss our friends a great deal. I have called Illinois home for essentially my entire life. But it is time to go where there is honest, competent, and cost effective government. We have chosen to vote with our feet and our wallets.

Our best wishes to all of you.

Cordially,

Roger and Tina Keats

My GOD! where have you gone Illinois???

Duke

Obama Wins!!!!!

2012-04-05T15:16:00.002-04:00

The PrezBO has once again won. He killed the Keystone pipeline. No matter his rhetoric.....In doing so he has forced Canada to abandon "special" prices to the USA for oil. Now the Canadians must look for backup markets.....China!!! There ythey will realize a much-larger profit than through the NAFTA guidelines which basically Obama abandoned by his killing of the Keystone project......

Obama wants this as a prime piece of his "we must drive prices higher" theory. Given that the Canadians must seek new markets, based upon his "no keystone" decision. WE, the gasoline-purchasers of America must pay for "Os" lame decision to charge us for his programs!

Duke

Unions oppose Obama/EPA Plans......

2012-04-05T15:09:00.002-04:00

Yeppers, it is so......

THIS SHAKES A LOT OF Govt.-Union Ideas...

Being a conservative/libertarian, I have to enjoy this!!!!!

Duke

Vitriol Beyond Compare!

2012-04-01T13:48:00.002-04:00

At age 69 I am experienced in Presidential campaigns and politics. However, that being said, I am NOT experienced at the vitriol and out-right attacks of the GOP candidates upon one-another. Rick Santorum.....fighting an up-hill battle which he has ZERO chance of winning.....is attacking any and every thing about Mitt. That may be what he sees as his only opportunity to get back-in-the-race.....but it is instead a death knell to him as a potential VP/Secretary/etc. if and when Mitt wins the Presidency.

To me this smacks of the entire violently-acidic candidacies of this year. It has nothing to do with a GOP win....it is ALL about the individual candidate.

We have here a President so weakened by his amateurism/lack of connection with the public/etc. as to make him an EASY defeat. But these GOP candidates, still working very, very hard to destroy one another, are leaving marks from which the GOP candidate (Romney) may have a hard time recovering. Forget the platitudes which will flow from Santorum's mouth, following his defeat.....He has cost his team, and cut their chances. He has stepped onto a field beyond previous contests.

Obama is counting upon this....readying videos of the attacks/the charges/ the missteps..... Obama is not a dummy. Hew is incapable of governing, but deftly able at assassination of opponents. It is going to be a long election cycle....and I am already ready to hide/cut off communication!

Duke

"Give Me Room To Cave!".....PREZBO Hizzelf!

2012-03-26T14:34:00.002-04:00

Yeppers, Mr. "Clear and Transparent" has once again forgotten that microphones obey the switch, not him......

He is now telling the Ruskies to help him; so he can help them!

This guys lies when he speaks.....ALWAYS!......Everything about him is "ELECTION!"... There is no meat and potatoes beyond that....

THIS IS THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD?

For God's sake man!

Duke

"Look Over There at The Mountain!"

2012-03-12T09:18:00.002-04:00

A good number of years ago the title phrase crept into our family. Its use was as a deflector when one of us didn't wish to answer a certain question, or continue a certain line of discussion.

It seems to me this is the line of reasoning President Obama is using continually this campaign year. Oil prices spiral up and he wants to talk about nasty talk show hosts who use derogatory names, even if the person so named is an activist, most likely being booked onto the MSM circuit by former Presidential representatives just to perpetuate his feigned outrage. All of which points to the fact the President's talking points quickly become the talking points of a complicit media which constantly circles its wagons around the President's positions.

Even in the face of his attempts to point out the imaginary mountains it is indeed good to note his ratings are tumbling almost as fast as the oil prices are rising. Obviously imaginary mountains no longer fool the public, much duped in 2008 by the "Hope & Change" version of "Look over there at the mountains!"

Perhaps we, as a voting public, are a bit less naive this time around.

Duke

Enterprise to Earth....Ready for Landing!!!!

2012-03-10T23:22:00.002-05:00

The USS Enterprise (our 8th such named vessel), our 1st nuclear aircraft carrier, is going out on its last cruise.......50 years after its launch.......The longest-served vessel in the fleet of this country! This brings to mind several things......

I well-remember the pride I felt 50 years ago.....I was just out of high school....when we launched Enterprise. The 1st; and for years the only; nuclear vessel.

Now it is time for the lady to be pulled off the line....Her work done, her efforts never to be forgotten....through several wars; several conflicts.....she served well, and now she heads home for the last time.

I remember the same pride when the final flight of the Blackbird occurred. The plane the "flashed" from coast to coast in such a short time it was amazing.....

Why do they retire these icons? Because they have better; faster; more technologically equiped ships/vessels/planes. WE may not know of them yet, but if you think the F-35 is the only bird in our arsenal, or our planning you are wrong....

There is a lot of "space" out there USA.........

Duke

Breitbart Has Died.....His Ideas Have NOT!

2012-03-01T22:24:00.002-05:00

I commented on one blog today that the things Andrew Breitbart (God rest his soul!) had been working on about PrezBO were not lost due his death.....Now, confirmation from his cohorts....
I TOLD YOU SO!

Finally, we will get a true picture, to date hidden by Team Obama, of what O is and has been.....a carefully-hidden picture about to be unveiled. I love it!

Duke

Catholics Unite!!!!!

2012-02-14T13:53:00.001-05:00

The PrezBO has given more and more groups reason to abandon him.....

Duke

Media Matters......NOT!!!!

2012-02-14T12:30:00.002-05:00

The marvelous 501-c3 organization....tax exempt, as a media organization covering all sides, is now unveiled for what it has always been.....A DEM shill attacking FOXNews......They need to have their unbiased status dropped, and their tax exemption denied.

CHECK IT OUT HERE!!!!!

Oh, and by the way....this organization, which takes anti-gun money, has a team of "illegally" armed "bodyguards" protecting their paranoid leader......

Ah, peace and hippy beads!

Duke

Some Background on Obama????? Holy Free Radical Batman!!!!

2012-02-12T07:59:00.003-05:00

This, I am sure, has the left media (main stream) spinning, and yapping like lost puppies! Andrew Breitbart has told CPAC "I have college video of Obama to be unveiled this Summer!"

Gotta love having ANYONE in the media actually attempt to look at Obama like they do every GOP candidate. They seemed completely uninterested in his background, schooling, activities, etc. in the 2008 campaign!

This is gonna be a fun campaign!

Duke

BANDAID!!!!! Politics as Usual!

2012-02-09T14:24:00.002-05:00

WOW! A SETTLEMENT in the mortgage abuse!!!!

How Nice.....PrezBO gets a sound bite; Congress gets to say "we did something" & meanwhile NOT ONE PERSON is made whole.....and NOTHING is done to curb the Government-initiated programs letting folks who have no ability to make payments a loan on a house.

BANDAID!!!

Damn the politicians! Full speed ahead!!!!

Duke

& That Would Be???????

2012-02-08T15:19:00.001-05:00

The Obamaites have declared open war on religion.....

The result is a strong GOP reply!

A Definite Surge!!!!!

2012-02-08T12:38:00.002-05:00

This may NOT be good for those of us who ACTUALLY PAY TAXES!!!!!

My Billfold Hurts!!!! & you need to read about it!

Somewhere we have to correct this......Obama is NOT THE ANSWER, as his term-to-date has shown!

Duke

Another One (Green Theory) Bites The Dust!

2012-02-08T11:56:00.002-05:00

MAY DAY, MAY DAY,.....We're going down IN ANY FORM OF BELIEVABILITY!

Funny, as the folks bail from the sinking ship of Global Warming the media are not so much interested in reporting it! Golly, that is a surprise!

Duke

When the Government Decides How to Report #s....

2012-02-03T23:56:00.002-05:00

It will not be to your advantage, but THEIRS!

Nothing about the 8.3% unemployment number is real......

This tells a bit more about it!....Read it!

I certainly have.....

Duke

Sgt. Schultz Before Congressional Committee!

2012-02-02T18:15:00.002-05:00

O.K., so it is actually Eric, "I Know Nothing!", Holder who appeared.....and of course after he did his best imitation of testifying!

And, this will surprise you, when the committee got really serious, he screamed..... "Politics!!!"

Smirk!

Duke