Quoting Rudyard Kipling
This is as amusing as it is timely:
- “I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.” Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936; Nobel Prize for Literature 1907)
We didn't realize that we and Mr. Kipling shared a Nobel Prize in our pasts. And that Mr. Kipling was evidently an astute observer of the Chicago condition.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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I had to do a thesis on Kipling back in the day - great stuff!
Mr. Kipling WAS referring to the local politicians when he called them "savages", right? Or was it the media?
Either way, he was decades before his time.
Old Rudyard had great vision. He must have sensed what Chicago would become. A vast wasteland of predators and scumbags.
I'm reading the Devil in the White City and I believe that quote is in the book. I like Chicago, but he is correct, it is inhabited by savages.
"Savages?"
>pfft<
He should see the place now. He'd be reaching a hand back towards his gunbearer for the heavy double rifle...
Hizzhonor targets cabbies limiting their driving time to just 12 hours a day -- Expect to see the food stamp caseloads explode.
In other news it looks like hizzhonors friends at the CME will get double bonus tax breaks as well as Sears..
Picking and choosing who is going to win and who is going to lose. It has nothing to do with free markets, a good education and working hard. Nope, it's all about who knows who and what dirt you have on them.
The city caves and gives into the terrorist extortion demands again. But why stop there? There's no reason to! Time to position for another round of tax break demands as nothing is going to change the employee wage dynamic of cheap Asian and illegal immigrant labor. Give us another tax break or we'll cut your tax revenue producing jobs.
Out of everything going down in this atmosphere of corruption this is like the only "troubling pattern" we've been able to find...am I right?
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Council committee OKs nearly $3.9 million in police misconduct cases
Updated 5:18 p.m.
A City Council committee today approved paying more than $3 million to settle two cases of alleged misconduct that, according to one key alderman, indicated “a troubling pattern” ...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/
Funny you should mention your Rudyard Kipling Nobel prize connection, SCC, as he was ALSO a well known partaker of the lap dancing establishments as are yourself. Anyway, here is a holiday story that will surely warm your hearts... you and Rudyard both:
Admiral Theatre Offers Lap Dances For Holiday Toy Donations
(Credit: Admiral Theatre)
Admiral Theatre, albany park, Lap Dances, Lap Dances For The Needy, Lawrence Avenue, Toy Drive
CHICAGO (CBS) — If you’re a stingy, Scroogey type at Christmas, the Admiral Theatre has an incentive for you to change your ways.
Yes, that Admiral Theatre.
Beginning Monday and continuing through Saturday, the Admiral is offering a free lap dance to anyone who donates an unused, unwrapped toy.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/12/12/
admiral-theatre-offers-lap-dances-for-holiday-toy-donations/
*Editors note*
Please leave your adult toys at home and in the wrapper!
O.T. But worth a read.
"For the first time in 14 years, firearms-related deaths will outnumber traffic and 'other'-related deaths," Floyd said.
A National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund preliminary report said that in 2011, 62 law enforcement deaths are attributed to firearms, 60 deaths are attributed to traffic-related instances and 44 are attributed to other causes. This likely will not be the final tally. The full statistical report will be released December 28.
http://m.cnn.com/primary/_jELdRI-ia1J8HM3o8
West Side, Inside Do-Nothing said...
Mr. Kipling WAS referring to the local politicians when he called them "savages", right? Or was it the media?
Either way, he was decades before his time.
12/13/2011 01:09:00 AM
No doubt Kipling envisioned the Daley Crime Family.
Anonymous said...
Out of everything going down in this atmosphere of corruption this is like the only "troubling pattern" we've been able to find...am I right?
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Council committee OKs nearly $3.9 million in police misconduct cases
Updated 5:18 p.m.
A City Council committee today approved paying more than $3 million to settle two cases of alleged misconduct that, according to one key alderman, indicated “a troubling pattern” ...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/
12/13/2011 03:12:00 AM
How many millions of Chicago tax money was kicked back from TIF funds to charities ran by Daley's wife? It was written in the contract that a specified amount must go to the charities.
Than there was all the hundreds of millions wasted on Millennium Park used to do over work done wrong in the first place.
Than there was the hundreds of millions of $$ fleeced out of the City for the massive theft of our parking ticket revenue/ And the Skyway money and there was the almost sale of Mildway Airport.
And Burke has the nerve to stamp his foot for less than $4 million and screech "this crap has got to stop"? No wonder he feels he needs an armed cadre of door openers.
Blago did relatively little compared to the massive embezzlement of public tax money pulled off by Daley and Burke and the rest.
I enjoy seeing Chicago, however it's in my rear-view mirror...
goodby Shitcago.....
Mr. Kipling was a rugby player
I wonder if it was a reference to Kipling when Steinberg wrote of the people that called the citizens savages and thugs in a recent column?
The city caves and gives into the terrorist extortion demands again. But why stop there? There's no reason to! Time to position for another round of tax break demands as nothing is going to change the employee wage dynamic of cheap Asian and illegal immigrant labor. Give us another tax break or we'll cut your tax revenue producing jobs.
12/13/2011 03:07:00 AM
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Businesses don't pay taxes, their customers pay the taxes in the higher price of their products.
So all of you Occupy Wall Street types, please get a class oin economics from a professor other than a Maxist.
Federal Attorney Fitzpatrick said that the things Blago did, would have Lincoln spinning in his grave.
Whatever Blago did, he only had about six years to do it.
What About Daley, Burke, Madigan ?
Did they ever do anything, that would cause someone to spin ?
Pray there is a Heaven and a Hell, because there is no Justice In Chicago or Illinois.
OT: Playboy heading to LA. Another business leaving Chicago.
yes i believe a slogan during those times and decades more was " NO IRISH NEED APPLY" If doubters just look at the picture of the St Valentines massacre. i believe it reads orientals and negros apply in back no irish need apply. Savages yea and no family or civilized rules. chicago is a microcosm of unlawfullness. society and government and media corupt. Use your vote!
Possibly the saddest recent example of savagery was that of the band of children found beating the scared and lost dog with broom handles and a bat. The dog, having been locked out by the family who no longer wanted her, left a blood trail to her former home. Someone at the trib actually reported it today and yesterday.
Anonymous said...
Federal Attorney Fitzpatrick said that the things Blago did, would have Lincoln spinning in his grave.
Whatever Blago did, he only had about six years to do it.
What About Daley, Burke, Madigan ?
Did they ever do anything, that would cause someone to spin ?
Pray there is a Heaven and a Hell, because there is no Justice In Chicago or Illinois.
12/13/2011 03:55:00 PM
You can bet Hell will be full of these cretins!
Kipling had a great love the average soldier. Kipling who is called the poet of imperialism but Kipling had a respect for the population of India which was lacking in most poets of the time.
A great quote which is not by Kipling but by Orwell is: You sleep safe in your beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do you harm!"
George Orwell
Neil Steinberg has requested the burning of all books hence forth.
"No Irish need apply".....
I can live with that
SIR Donkey, Esq.
If the State of Illinois ever needed an enema(it does)they would stick the tube right in Chicago. Stay safe CPD, watch your backs-savages abound..............
One of my favorite quotes about Chicago was from the late comedian Richard Jeni...
“I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough, let's go west.'”
It's too bad "No Irish Need Apply" wasn't in place when Daley ran for Mayor. Chicagoans would have a lot les debt and corruption now.
Reading the Book Gangs of Chicago:An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld (Illinois) by Herbert Asbury
A good read. Chicago as it started not much after a settlement to the 30's. In all honesty, with the exception of open gambling houses, (which are making a comeback) and bordello's EVERYWHERE,, not much has changed and history seems to be repeating itself! I still recall West Madison and South State being as seedy as in the book in my youth. if you can,,,read it, it is ver good and enlightening!
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