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Nobody’s ready to start talking about the "mean streets" of Seattle. But an alarming spike in street violence in this usually mellow city has everyone running scared. Mayor Mike McGinn, calling the increase a “public safety emergency,” pledged Monday to beef up police patrols and urged citizens to help combat lawlessness in their neighborhoods.
“This is an issue that requires more than just a police response,” McGinn said at a community meeting in the city’s hard-hit Rainier Beach neighborhood, one of several hit by killings this year. Many of the nine slayings so far this year remain unsolved.
“I cannot emphasize enough that our response to crime and safety in our communities is dependent upon a very strong partnership between city government and the community,” he said. “Everyone who lives here, who works here, who shops here, and who comes here to enjoy what Seattle has to offer deserves to feel safe and secure.”
Gee, nine murders? Around here, we call that "Englewood."
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posted by SCC at 12:09 AM
58 Comments:
Isn't It Ironic? The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to "please do not feed the animals" because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.
This is how communities that don't pander to the ghetto element react when crime occurs. Here they just stick their fingers in their ears, close their eyes and hum very loudly when the issue comes up. We wouldn't want to upset the entitlement crowd with the truth.
Seattle Police Chief John Diaz must drive through the South Pct. with a bullhorn shouting "Knock it off!"
If this fails, arrangements must be made to release Gary Leon Ridgway, the most prolific known serial killer in U.S. history, from the penitentiary at Walla Walla. Provide Ridgway, also known as "The Green River Killer", with a nondescript van and weapons to prowl the South Pct. until the situation stabilizes.
Dear Citizens of Chicago:
Please do not let yourselves be fooled by such articles. This is Chicago and NOT Seattle. Things like that do not happen here.
You chose me as your ruler because you understand that I know what is best for you. I want you to trust me as I say to you in the most transparent way possible, we do not have a crime problem here in Chicago. I believe in this so much that I am willing to continue reducing the total number of police officers on the department, just to prove to you that even I believe every word that comes out of my mouth. If I believe it, then you can, too.
What people consider as crime get blown way out of proportion and grossly exaggerated. Please know that I have everything under control in this city. And somewhere in my list of priorities is your safety and well being. I will never let Chicago become a Seattle. You can bet on it.
Sincerely yours,
Rahm Emmanuel
Jody is looking good about now.
I don't see that type of admission happening around here.
Rahm and McNutty's egos wouldn't allow it.
They had better leave room for "crime is down" on the political tombstones of daley,jfled,mc sauced,and quinn and obummer. The Frank/Fran Fluff Factory better shift into high gear. Time to trot out the Mrs. or a photo opp at an orphanage.
This city is so naive and stupid.
The only people that can properly take credit for pushing gangs to the burbs are the dumb yuppie scum who flocked here to drink and fuck to stem their boredom of the burbs. Now that their hair isnt purple anymore and they have sobered up and have kids they are saddled with huge mortgages in condos built by polocks and are feeling the "rahm hate" of taxation, squeezing them into foreclosure and back into their moms basements.
NEWT said it best... Austerity Measures do not work in a free society...the public will just "fire you".
Are you listening you little prick.?
Anonymous said...
Isn't It Ironic? The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to "please do not feed the animals" because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.
2/28/2012 12:12:00 AM
So you are alluding that people who are on food stamps are animals? You do know that now the largest group receiving food stamps are senior citizens? With many baby boomers retiring and not having much money to retire on, that number will likely grow even larger.
I love how some of my coworkers talk about "the entitlement crowd", "animals who want benefits", etc. then you turn around and DEMAND a raise, an increase in your benefits, a guaranteed pension, etc....
2/28/2012 03:38:00 AM
So hilariously true. I had friends who bought condos in Bucktown for $800K. No that is not a misprint; a freaking condo for $800,000. This was back in 1999.
They just loved raving about living in the city and how much it's changing, crime is down, the schools are great, they are happy paying high property taxes because the city is so wonderful.
Now they have two kids and the wife is out of a job. They are about to default on their mortgage and want to move back to Hoffman Estates.
I just heard that a group of nurses got a permit to march in May at the start of the G8Nato. Is this group tied into the occupy group? I think they are.
The G8/Nato is going to be a big problem for the CPD but so is the Occupy nut jobs. The unions are behind a lot of this. What is your union doing for you? Read this:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/its-coming-union-leftist-leaders-announce-99-spring-and-traning-in-places-of-worship/
Anyone riding the Orange Line lately can't help but notice the gang graffitti EVERYWHERE these days - inside the cars, on the platforms, station walls etc. Welcome to the city of Chicago Midway airport travelers and businessmen!
CALIFORNIAZATION...
I have friends in Seattle and have been there a few times. Had things been a little different I might have been a Bellevue Washington Cop.
Californization is what happens when there is any major disaster, natural like an earthquake or forest fire or manmade riots or economic collapse and some Californians say they have had enough and move to Seattle. Seattle has a good climate with a mild winter that has long cloudy periods with misty rain that can last for weeks.
The Seattle has many high-tech companies with a low unemployment rate. Seattle/Everett Washington is the REAL HOME of Boeing Aircraft and many other high-tech companies. There are lots of coffee shops, theaters, restaurants and a great public transit system.
Washington state also has a very liberal public aide and medical assistance programs and this helps to create the "birdfeeder effect". It is also what you would call a “sanctuary state”.
So when and crisis befalls California there is always a few people that say the hell with this California lifestyle pull up stakes and move to Washington. With any immigrant group, you get the criminal element moving in along with the good. Washington was a great place to live but by putting out the “birdfeeder’ and becoming a “sanctuary state” you get the term "Californiazation".
It's NOT that there's more violent crime, it's just that the Police are racist.
When Munoz is allowed to remain uninvestigated, unindicted, and untouched as alderman, despite the Chicago Magazine revelations, and he is only emboldened to run for Clerk, then you know that the article's point that the criminals are running the government.
Daley: years of familial corruption, much well-documented.
Burke: years of familial corruption, not as documented in media but easy enough to find.
Cullertons: years of familial corruption.
Mell/Blagovich: years of familial corruption; only the "ethnic outsider" who speaks so blatantly on wiretaps he should have expected, is actually prosecuted and eventually convicted.
Munoz: criminal gang family.
Jarrett: corporate slumlord socialite, teamed w/corporate white-collar criminal Penny Pritzker (Superior Bank, looting of relatives' inheritances, etc - Read Gus Russo's "Supermob" book for more Pritzker chicanery)
Fitgerald/Alvarez: hacks who refuse to investigate and prosecute the serial political corruption, content to pursue the samll fry. This is comparable to pursuing the streetcorner dealers while allowing the distributors and gangleaders to remain untouched. Ever so often an aging and/or minor-player corrupt politician is arrested (Beavers, for instance) to distract voters.
Our government has zero interest in aggravating its voter base (20% gang association?) and political donator base (gangleaders, reverunds, and non-resident downtown business "leaders"). There's no recognition of street crime run amok because we're witnessing a policy of fairy tale: "what you say, is what you believe". Why recognize the crime problem and lack of civility if to address it means a politically unpalatable discussion of inherent criminality in lower class behavior - which will offend Jesse Jackson and the Reverunds. Our city-state emperors, first Daley and now Emmanuel, don't recoganize a rampant lawlessness of their many citizens, preying upon other citizens, because it's a problem they can't tackle, won't tackle, and thus chose to ignore. If you don't give something credence, then it simply doesn't exist for you.
Notice how the same two dozen community-corporate leaders are always appointed to civic task forces, boards, and blue ribbon committees. Always the "don't rock the boat" hail and hardy folks who are also major financial contributors to our elected officials. Never new blood. Everyone vetted beforehand to ensure that everyone is "singing from same page". Lots of pompous people determining our fate while actually only serving their own interests and ego.
Chicago has never ever had the quality of governmental leadership, or corproate leadership, present at many other more progressive and successful cities. Our representatives (talk Healy and Davis) tout Chicago as an "international city" panacea, as if such self-identification cures the lack of responsible leadership from themselves and their cohorts.
G8/NATO month will be telling. I'm hearing that downtown building owners are likely to board-up their storefronts in advance of the protests, and certainly most are stockpiling food, cots, and provisions for their building staff. Pity the office workers trapped in their cubicles during that week. At least they won't be teargassed during the protests, because McCarthy's comments suggest that someone realized that the downtown buildings' fresh-air intakes would absorb much of that tear gas, and suck it into their HVAC systems, to gas their occupants too.
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Sincerely yours,
Rahm Emmanuel
2/28/2012 01:06:00 AM
Did I not read somewhere that this mayor is making even MORE use of his Personal Protection Detail than King Daley and his evil spawn actually did?
No wonder he thinks there is no crime!
Rumor has it the national guard has been activated for the g8 and will be stationed at the uic dorms
Anonymous said...
Jody is looking good about now.
2/28/2012 01:47:00 AM
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You're fucked in the head. J-Fled is a piece of shit that fucked over an excellent Copper. Cozzi lived to be a Cop, and not only did Asshole Jodi take that away from him, he had him taken away from his family and friends- time he'll never get back.
I'm tired of you jerks saying that you "miss Jodi" and "miss Daley". They're BOTH pieces of shit that stole/steal from this once-great city and brought morale down to an all-time low.
Our "leaders" today think they can just close their eyes and ears and hide under their desk and think everything will just turn out nice. Doesn't happen that way in the real world. Criminals can read these political assholes from the get go. As we all know they can spot these spineless bastards in a New York second. Did I mention New York? Our Thugs and Gangbangers can smell the fear a mile away. Anyway it is just a sign of the times we live in. This country is fucked up from the top to the bottom. Politicians think they can just "kick the can down the road" and things will straighten themselves out. All of us can see the handwriting on the wall. Better stock up on food and ammo folks.
Those damn white college prep hooligans!
Jody is looking good about now.
2/28/2012 01:47:00 AM
Please stop it.
We call that "a typical (warm) weekend in Englewood".
Or just "Weekend in Englewood". That'd be a nice name for a perfume, don't you think? Notes of gunpowder and Screamin' Hot chips . . . .
(OT) With all the G-8/nato trouble coming why would a Chicagoan let a bunch on animals from all over this country and world come here and destroy this city,then they go home with the memories and rest in their peaceful areas? With all the "real men" we have here we can hope and pray that some organize and come downtown to show the morons who are coming to destroy just what men are made of! Just think a few of them get the shit kicked out of them not by police but by taxpaying citizens whop don't want the city wrecked, their woman and children hurt also!
Citizens of Chicago this si not about rahms misguided views this is about YOU and YOUR families,you think things are bad now with Quinn cutting many things for the poor wait until the costs of this savage destruction are tallied! Toronoto spent over 800 MILLION dollars for security to keep the animals at bay and the city was still mostly destroyed!
The Chicago police are getting no help from the suburbs per Chuck Goudies report 26FEB12 www.abc7chicago.com click on I-Team report, so it is up to you the citizens to use "social networking" to compare notes and if needed take up arms to stop the invasion! Chicago is not Toronto,or Seattle, we handle things the "Chicago way," no you will never see the liberal media calling for a response as "if it bleeds it leads" is their credo!
THE QUESTION IS? ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH TO GET INVOLVED AND ASSIST THE POLICE? OR WILL YOU HUNKER AND HIDE? YOUR CITY YOUR CHOICE YOU DECIDE!
Chicago has been a "Public Safety Emergency" for decades.
Isn't It Ironic? The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to "please do not feed the animals" because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.
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Best analogy ever.
Jody is looking good about now.
Masters, stay off the blog.
Some jag bag said,"Jody is looking good about now."
A real cop said..."JFled is a pencil pushing non-cop joke", who caused this mess in the first place. Don't forget he started the "crime is down" bullshit as the bodies piled up at the morgue.
He also made policy that netted him thousands of city taxpayer dollars, prior to him being fired. He should be in jail and you should be in an insane asylum for thinking hwe was good for CPD. GFY.
EXT: The Daley Center, Noon
C.U. Two figures standing looking toward the building.
Curley Bill "You smell that Johnny? That's Chicago."
Johnny Ringo "Smells like everything died."
They both take a last look around.
Curley Bill "Well....Bye!"
The only people that can properly take credit for pushing gangs to the burbs are the dumb yuppie scum who flocked here to drink and fuck to stem their boredom of the burbs. Now that their hair isnt purple anymore and they have sobered up and have kids they are saddled with huge mortgages in condos built by polocks and are feeling the "rahm hate" of taxation, squeezing them into foreclosure and back into their moms basements.
2/28/2012 03:38:00 AM
Nicely said. And the truth. As much as I would love for us Police to take credit for the gangs moving. All you have to do is look at Humboldt Park/, Wicker Park, Pilsen
It's not that a "public safety emergency" is "right around the corner for Chicago." We've had one going for decades.
Oh -- I don't need to go any farther. Someone else here has put one right between the eyes.
"This is how communities that don't pander to the ghetto element react when crime occurs. Here they just stick their fingers in their ears, close their eyes and hum very loudly when the issue comes up. We wouldn't want to upset the entitlement crowd with the truth."
--2/28/2012 12:53:00 AM
There it is. Thank you, brother.
This is what happens when you fuck the police over...no one wants to work for u!These officers have had enough of being thrown under the bus by the citizens and public officials...try revamp the entire department and in comparison from seattle to Detroit and it will make Detroit look like Disney World!
Good police work =law suits
=Firing
=thorwing officers under the bus!
Stay safe officers not worth your careers if no one cares!!
"The only people that can properly take credit for pushing gangs to the burbs are the dumb yuppie scum who flocked here to drink and fuck to stem their boredom of the burbs. Now that their hair isnt purple anymore and they have sobered up and have kids they are saddled with huge mortgages in condos built by polocks and are feeling the "rahm hate" of taxation, squeezing them into foreclosure and back into their moms basements."
--2/28/2012 03:38:00 AM
Yeah, the "urban pioneers."
...or not having kids, as the case may be. I mean, simple demographics would tell you that there has to be a saturation point on the highly visible trend of same-sex couples taking over one old neighborhood after another, getting taxpayer grant money for "Historic Bungalow Restoration" and walking border collies with cute sunglasses and neckerchiefs tied on.
People with jobs like "brokers of convention space" in the middle of a depression...
"Isn't It Ironic? The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to "please do not feed the animals" because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves."
That is fucking hilarious!!!!
I love how some of my coworkers talk about "the entitlement crowd", "animals who want benefits", etc. then you turn around and DEMAND a raise, an increase in your benefits, a guaranteed pension, etc....
2/28/2012 04:35:00 AM
In the last 15 years I have seen a steady decrease in benefits from my job and a huge increase in my cost of living here. I have seen my City services decline and my property taxes triple.
I see criminals I and my fellow officers chase for blocks on disability for 'asthma'. I see the same bastrds selling dope w/ food stamps in their pockets. Almost half of this Nation DO NOT pay taxes, and many of them get a Government check.
I have had a job since I was 12 years old. I can beef if I want to.
Anonymous said...
Isn't It Ironic? The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to "please do not feed the animals" because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.
2/28/2012 12:12:00 AM
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Bravo !!!!!! Well Said, and so truthful !!!
Jesse Jackson said...
It's NOT that there's more violent crime, it's just that the Police are racist.
2/28/2012 07:37:00 AM
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And JJ is an asshole who preys on the people he claims to help !!!!
So you are alluding that people who are on food stamps are animals? You do know that now the largest group receiving food stamps are senior citizens? With many baby boomers retiring and not having much money to retire on, that number will likely grow even larger.
I love how some of my coworkers talk about "the entitlement crowd", "animals who want benefits", etc. then you turn around and DEMAND a raise, an increase in your benefits, a guaranteed pension, etc....
2/28/2012 04:35:00 AM
first off, if the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it. no one faults those who actually need help eating every day. no one.
secondly, are you really comparing those who work for their income, and have been for most, if not all, of their lives, with those who have never did an honest day's work in their life?
really?
Jody is looking good about now.
2/28/2012 01:47:00 AM
coming out of the closet, are we?
Hey SCC:
I'm sure you notice the thread on Detective Shaved's blog: "Detroit citizens no longer rely on police as self-defense killings skyrocket
The people of Detroit are taking no prisoners....Justifiable homicide in the city shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year, as citizens in the long-suffering city armed themselves and took matters into their own hands. The local rate of self-defense killings now stands 2,200 percent above the national average. Residents, unable to rely on a dwindling police force to keep them safe, are fighting back against the criminal scourge on their own. And they’re offering no apologies."
After Rahm Emanuel has decimated our police force, response times will be like in Detroit: about 25 minutes, compared to the national average of less than 10 minutes. As the saying goes: "when seconds count, the police are only minutes away."
The good citizens of Chicago (black, hispanic, and caucasian) will eventually realize that as long as the handgun they keep in their house was purchased legally, the penalty for not going registering that gun is a slap on the wrist, and unenforceable, due to the fact that it is essentially un-Consitutional. Remember that wonderful, elderly black gentleman a while back thay shot an intruder coming into his house? The city did not penalize him even though his lawfully purchased gun was not registered.
Citizen of Chicago: you do NOT need a crystal ball or a psychic to see into the future...just look at Detroit! Yes my friends, YOU TOO can participate in Justifiable Homicide to keep yourselves and your families safe. The city ordinances are just a paper tiger, and basically "fine only."
Ironically, this is going to be the future of the CAPS program: police encouraging citizens, and "partnering with the Community," encouraging Joe and Molly Citizen to arm themselves .....
"Together, We Can!"
G8/NATO meeting notes:
GMac: so, what do we have here, how are we progressing?
Deb: well, we're training folks....uh
Stevio: the Hawks aren't doing so good...
GMac: we need sufficient numbers of people trained, and equipped, to man the front lines, of each and every protest group, and establish a line of control....how are we doing with that?
Stevio: well, we started out with front line guys, then with third watch folks (lots of personnel, young and energetic); someone suggested we send the second watch personnel to the protests, folks who have 20+ years service, maybe they would have more "tolerance" and "understanding" for the protestors....
GMac: are they equipped?
Deb: uh, some, a few, the most, probably not...
GMac: this is our time to shine!....
everybody in room:....silence
The cities and towns across the county are cutting the size of their police force. They are more concerned with diverting money into their pockets. What's it going to take for people to open their eyes. This country is becoming a third world county. I might March in the G8 after I do my 12hrs tour. I'll March for us. The soon to become working poor. We work and get one step forward and Chicago, Cook County and Illinois taxes take us two steps back.
I work way more than one should have too. To many days at special and part time. All that and this job gets me no were.
I love the way they say we are pushing gang members out to the western subburbs. They also said we have the biggest gang problem in the nation. They estimated the gang members to be 250,000 strong in the Chicago land area.
A normal person would know nothing is under control with 250,000 gang members. They are moving to the subburbs because there is less competition with rival gangs and a whole uncontrolled drug territory. The economic trends are fueling the gangs as they did in the great depression (1920's).
The news papers and news stations lose all credibility, subscribers and viewers by not telling it the way it is.
Hey SCC:
I'm sure you notice the thread on Detective Shaved's blog
Of course we noticed it - since we wrote about it on the 9th of February.
Anonymous said...
Isn't It Ironic? The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to "please do not feed the animals" because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.
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I am a food stamp recipient. Food stamps provide employment and income to farmers, truck drivers and government workers. All kinds of People are employed through the food stamp program on many levels. Please don't criticize it. There is a long line of people who benefit from the program. When I see a cop in a squad car, I realize that there is a sergeant, supervisor, CAPS Officer, States Attorney and even a nurse in the medical section making a living and riding with that officer as well. Look at the big picture. Broaden your mind. It isn't just about a bag of cheese. We have more similarities than differences. I respect and appreciate what you do as police officers. The police officer's enemy isn't who he or she stands in line with at the supermarket, it is the politician who wants to take you pension and bargaining rights. You have an honorable profession. Please don't distract yourself by attacking the food stamp consumer. You have greater enemies and opponents in the public arena.
Alex Israel
Citizen of Chicago: you do NOT need a crystal ball or a psychic to see into the future...just look at Detroit! Yes my friends, YOU TOO can participate in Justifiable Homicide to keep yourselves and your families safe. The city ordinances are just a paper tiger, and basically "fine only."
Ironically, this is going to be the future of the CAPS program: police encouraging citizens, and "partnering with the Community," encouraging Joe and Molly Citizen to arm themselves .....
"Together, We Can!"
2/28/2012 06:48:00 PM
you just brought a tear to my eye, buddy, so heartwarming.
Thanks,
Chalkie
OT- My daughter goes to high school in a far northwest suburb. Today they had an assembly where the speaker came on to recruit the students to come downtown and march with them at G8/Nato. 5-10 thousand my ass, these people are trying to bring an army
I am a food stamp recipient. Food stamps provide employment and income to farmers, truck drivers and government workers. All kinds of People are employed through the food stamp program on many levels. Please don't criticize it. There is a long line of people who benefit from the program. When I see a cop in a squad car, I realize that there is a sergeant, supervisor, CAPS Officer, States Attorney and even a nurse in the medical section making a living and riding with that officer as well. Look at the big picture. Broaden your mind. It isn't just about a bag of cheese. We have more similarities than differences. I respect and appreciate what you do as police officers. The police officer's enemy isn't who he or she stands in line with at the supermarket, it is the politician who wants to take you pension and bargaining rights. You have an honorable profession. Please don't distract yourself by attacking the food stamp consumer. You have greater enemies and opponents in the public arena.
Alex Israel
2/28/2012 09:35:00 PM
you make some salient points, though, i suspect, you've missed understanding the truly bigger picture.
the main problem is that you see yourself as a 'food stamp consumer', yet, you appear to not see yourself as a dependent of those whose earned income, (and i emphasize earned, as in worked to receive), is excessively taxed to fund your consumption.
and those 'politicians' you refer to, are, in effect and in actuality, buying your vote for their election/reelection, by paying you with these so-called 'entitlements', funded entirely by the excessive taxes paid by those who do actually earn their incomes.
so, when you say that we have more similarities than differences, i assume that you mean that, since i'm paying the taxes that put food in your belly, we're practically family, right?
Rahm sounds like Jim Jones drink the punch people and it will all be ok!
Mikey Shields please dont tell me its true about your conflict of interest rumors deals going on...I thought u were better than that!!
@Alex...you misunderstand the whole point of the post. The USDA tells us not feed one class of animal as it breeds dependency, yet fosters dependency thru SNAP of another group. You may have a legitimate need, I don't know, but I can guarantee that myself and my fellow cops have more experience dealing with people who don't deserve it than you do. We are tired of dealing with people who have a LINK card in their pocket along with more money than I carry in a month. I'm tired of people getting disability for asthma! I HAVE ASTHMA! In fact I believe its a result of the Gulf War. I don't get disability. I'm tired of talking to people who get a check for a "learning disability", who eventually admit they never went to school..THATS THE DISBILTY! No, that's bullshit!
"So hilariously true. I had friends who bought condos in Bucktown for $800K. No that is not a misprint; a freaking condo for $800,000. This was back in 1999.
"They just loved raving about living in the city and how much it's changing, crime is down, the schools are great, they are happy paying high property taxes because the city is so wonderful.
"Now they have two kids and the wife is out of a job. They are about to default on their mortgage and want to move back to Hoffman Estates."
--2/28/2012 04:41:00 AM
Good riddance.
I see the poor, the quiet, the elderly who have not slept in a regular bed for ten years now. What they have left is in boxes in the corner.
There were PEOPLE in all those buildings.
For every conversion of a rental apartment to a condominium, there was a family forced to move.
And move.
And move again.
Maybe from 4 1/2 rooms to 3 1/2 rooms to 2 1/2 rooms to 1 1/2 rooms to 1 room.
Can anybody guess the next step?
This immense upheaval, this ruinous expense and tremendous suffering and disruption has been completely ignored. A non-story, as it were.
Now I see huge luxury condos with desperate "For Rent" signs on the building. If someone could afford to rent that monster, they could afford house payments.
Oh -- the overall plans are to throw the renters out and convert those new buildings to condo ownership the second the speculators think they can swing it. Don't get caught again.
"urged citizens to help combat lawlessness in their neighborhood"
I don't think he would like my idea of helping very much. I don't dial 911.
"They just loved raving about living in the city and how much it's changing, crime is down, the schools are great, they are happy paying high property taxes because the city is so wonderful.
"Now they have two kids and the wife is out of a job. They are about to default on their mortgage and want to move back to Hoffman Estates."
--2/28/2012 04:41:00 AM
Man, when the bubble burst, there were some great newspaper stories -- one had-it-all, on-the-way-up young couple with fancy vaporjobs had just married. His condo, her condo, and they had money on a huge McMansion being built out somewhere.
The guy was, like, mildly perplexed that he'd listed the condos on the Internet for a whole week-and-a-half and they hadn't moved yet.
He was flexible, though -- had planned for all eventualities -- and was prepared to tough it out for "two or three months" if he really had to.
How many years back was that?
Tough shit for theose liberal beatoffs in Seattle. Let em have a taste of the mess they helped so much to create with their liberal democrat mentality. I hope their lives out there become a living Hell, just like here in Shitcago.
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I'm tired of you jerks saying that you "miss Jodi" and "miss Daley". They're BOTH pieces of shit that stole/steal from this once-great city and brought morale down to an all-time low.
2/28/2012 08:47:00 AM
We see a new all time low every day.
OT- My daughter goes to high school in a far northwest suburb. Today they had an assembly where the speaker came on to recruit the students to come downtown and march with them at G8/Nato. 5-10 thousand my ass, these people are trying to bring an army
2/28/2012 10:57:00 PM
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Hmm, so the speaker was advocating that the students be truants? GREAT message there.
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