January 25, 2011
January 25 is … Opposite Day. The wife and I really enjoy this day.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them
Chicago mayoral hopeful Rahm Emanuel the frontrunner in next month's mayoral election was tossed off the ballot by an Illinois appellate court panel Monday on the grounds that he did not meet residency requirements to run for mayor. The case will head to the Illinois Supreme Court on an expedited basis since the non-partisan primary is Feb. 22. I sure didn’t see this coming. I have been resolute in my position a lot of public money was being wasted on this fruitless fight. Ultimately, I do not live in Chicago and cannot vote in the election but the outcome will have real repercussions on my life and taxes and that of all Illinois citizens. I do not want a tax and spend Obama wannabee running Chicago.
The U. S. Postal service is considering closing up to 2,000 post offices across the country. That is in addition to the 491 post offices they announced they were closing last year. The Postal Service is also seeking a postal rate increase and it will review another 16,000 offices currently open, over half of the post offices in this country, that are working at a deficit. to determine which additional offices should be closed. This just shouts patronage jobs. A political payback heaven is being developed.
I find it amazing the post office loses money. It is a Constitutional creation which is still relevant and important. Plenty of mail gets delivered daily by the Post Office. It has a monopoly on home delivery. Reduce costs and raise revenues, business101, would help.
Sell advertising on stamps. I believe many consumer companies would hand out stamps rather than coupons. Give the buyer a price-break. Develop a glue that allows the stamp to be used on mail and then be worth a set amount of money towards the purchase of a product. This makes the coupon multi-use. The post office could sell the product stamps at a reduced postage rate. The purchaser can use the stamp and the mail recipient can then benefit by using the stamp as a coupon. Stamps could be designed to resemble a bottle of Coke, Tide, a Big Mac, the Taco Bell dog. Etc. The possibilities are endless. The company giving out the stamps can advertise their ‘green’ position in giving out reusable products as well as their patriotism in supporting the Postal Service. They may also save money in printing and distributing the coupons they now use.
To cut costs, all Post Offices should also be closed every Tuesday. The savings in overtime, utility expenses and gasoline would justify this position. The inconvenience to the consumer would be reduced by the internet services and vending machine services already offered by the Post Office
Jay Cutler tore his MCL. Not a complete tear or a severe rupture but a significant injury for an athlete. Awful hard to put pressure on a wounded knee but I guess the fans burning his jersey and calling him out as a quitter for failing to reenter the game Sunday are the experts. It isn’t like he was having a Hall of Fame performance during the time he was in the game.
Fitness Guru Jack LaLanne, 96, Dies at Calif. Home. I remember this guy from the fifties and sixties. He invented or at least should be given credit for inventing the exercise video. Jane Fonda, Suzanne Somers, Jillien Michaels, they all owe him a piece of the action. He was going strong until the illness that killed him, of which he was not aware of until several months ago.
Our country and world at war;
A man hiding in the attic of a home opened fire on law enforcement officers trying to arrest him Monday morning, sparking an intense firefight that left two police officers dead and a U.S. marshal wounded, police said in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Detectives are investigating why a man ran from deputies and then opened fire in a Wal-mart parking lot, sparking a shootout that left him and the woman he apparently was with dead and two law officers wounded police in Washington state said.
Our country is actively and openly prosecuting two wars around the world.
A spokeswoman for Moscow's busiest airport says 35 people have been killed by an explosion in its international arrivals hall.
Police have detained a person of interest in the shooting of Indianapolis police Officer David Moore. Officers said they had been searching for Thomas Hardy, 60, just before 5:30 p.m. Sunday in the 2300 block of Indianapolis Avenue, near 23rd Street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street. He was taken into custody without incident, Indianapolis police Sgt. Linda Jackson said.
Four Detroit police officers, including a commander, were shot Sunday afternoon inside a station in the department's Northwest District. The gunman who opened fire was killed when officers returned fire, police said. The station, which services the 6th precinct, is near Plymouth and Warwick roads. Commander Brian Davis suffered the most serious injuries, police said. He was taken to Sinai-Grace Hospital where he was in critical condition.
While the shooting of the two police officers and the U. S. Marshal was occurring in St. Petersburg, Florida, police were gathering for the funeral of a police officer killed there recently.
It is time to get serious and barbaric with individuals brazen enough to kill police officers. They clearly would have no problem shooting non officers. Let’s stop them before it gets worse and it will if we try to be politically correct in this situation instead of correcting the obvious problem. If the justice system won’t do its job, vigilantes will and should.
In Arizona, this is not the same thing. This accused voluntarily moved here and when his daughter started to enjoy her life in America, he took God’s law into his own hands not manmade law. She had shunned an arranged marriage and gone to live with her boyfriend. And Noor Almaleki ended up dying in an "honor killing" carried out by her own father, prosecutors say.
Faleh Almaleki, who had moved the family from Iraq to Arizona, apparently felt his 20-year-old daughter had become too Westernized, according to prosecutors. He allegedly crashed his Jeep into his daughter and her boyfriend's mother in 2009 as they walked across a parking lot. The daughter died from her injuries after two weeks in a coma. The mother lived.
Faleh Almaleki, who had moved the family from Iraq to Arizona, apparently felt his 20-year-old daughter had become too Westernized, according to prosecutors. He allegedly crashed his Jeep into his daughter and her boyfriend's mother in 2009 as they walked across a parking lot. The daughter died from her injuries after two weeks in a coma. The mother lived.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
DEKALB, IL 60115
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