Quick Hits
A few stories of interest - the Cook County Morgue can't seem to do anything right. Now they're giving away dead bodies:
- According to records from the Cook County Public Administrator, in many cases family members did not give permission or even know that the bodies had been removed and used for experiments or teaching.
For nearly a decade at the Cook County Morgue, bodies were not made available to medical schools for dissection and research use.
Last September, when newly-hired county medical examiner Dr. Stephen Cina started, that policy changed.
Changed without telling the families of identifiable persons that their bodies were being "donated." Is there anything that the morgue can't screw up?
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City equipment breaking down? Specifically, ambulances?
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City equipment breaking down? Specifically, ambulances?
- It could have been a matter of life or death last month when a city ambulance broke down while rushing a gunshot victim to a hospital for emergency care.
How could that happen? [...]
Gee, maybe a lack of routine maintenance, a general disregard for warranty service and running vehicles 24/7/365 into the ground with no replacements in the pipeline for outdated equipment? It couldn't possibly be that, could it?
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And Rahm wins again - 50 school closures in less time than it takes to boil and egg:
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And Rahm wins again - 50 school closures in less time than it takes to boil and egg:
- History was made in Chicago Wednesday in about 90 seconds, but most of the folks who witnessed firsthand the death of a record 50 Chicago Public Schools didn’t even realize it.
Rather than list the names of the doomed elementary schools, the Board of Education took a single group vote on most of the closings that will affect some 27,000 children. The board secretary read out the numbers assigned to each resolution and asked for the vote.
But onlookers didn’t even get that, as the board president resorted to parliamentary maneuver to speed the process along.
“Madam Secretary, if there are no objections from my fellow board members, please apply the last favorable roll call,” Board President David Vitale said, referring to the previous vote of six ayes and 0 nays. And with that, the bulk of the history — 49 of the 50 schools closed — was made in a unanimous sweep.
Four schools were removed from the original list, so Rahm got about 90% of what he wanted, far better than the 75% we had speculated that he wanted.
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
33 Comments:
Those who are screaming the loudest pay the least taxes, Id say
But we got $100,000,000 for a private funded institution that can't seem to field a winning team.
Q: So What's it gonna cost?
A: $55 Million Dollars.
Everything that Rahm does now cost $55 mil, dollars.
Maggie Daley Park -- $55 Mil,
Basketball Stadium for DePaul -- $55 mil
hahaha. WTF?
I mean really. Like how many trees and bushes do we need for a park? $55 mil!
Close 50 public schools and jam the kids into an overcrowded classroom.
Yeah that'll help test scores and invest in our future. Also sends the message to the kids on how important the corporations think they are in 'Growing the GDP"
Who we kidding?
Rahm and the city council will grow Chicago's GDP using ObamaCare to treat the gun shot victims fighting over drug turf.
Teacher says; "every time you hear a gun shot a pharma salesman gets a bonus and a politician gets a campaign donation"
Don't eff it all up now and pass a conceal carry law. The violence may fall and that will hurt Chicago's GDP growth.
The Nation.com has Rahm on blast.
Check it out..
Rahm Emanuel's Zombie Pigs vs. Chicago's Angry Birds
My kids are into Angry Birds, a game they love for the same reason I once obsessively played Super Mario Brothers: its appeal is incomprehensible to the adults around them. This inscrutable game, however, has one essential truth: you have some pissed off birds compelled by rage to put down some zombie-looking pigs. After a sad effort to play the game myself, I had my own epiphany: this game is actually a metaphor for the city of Chicago. Please bear with me. Angry Birds is more Chicago than the Sears Tower, Wrigley Field or deep-dish pizza. The lunacy, the violence, the plethora of increasingly crazed pigs and those fierce feathered fowl all represent the political actors in a city that’s gone over the edge.
It all starts with the person who seems committed to win the current spirited competition as the most loathsome person in American political life: Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The same Mayor overseeing the closing of fifty-four schools and six community mental health clinics under the justification of a “budgetary crisis” has announced that the city will be handing over more than $100 million to DePaul University for a new basketball arena. This is part of a mammoth redevelopment project on South Lakeshore Drive consisting of a convention center anchored by an arena for a non-descript basketball team that has gone 47-111 over the last five years. It’s also miles away from DePaul’s campus. These aren’t the actions of a mayor. They’re the actions of a mad king.
If you want to understand why Mayor Rahm has approval ratings to rival Rush Limbaugh in Harlem, you can point to priorities like these. The school closures are taking place entirely in communities of color while the city’s elite feed with crazed abandon at an increasingly sapped trough. As Karen Lewis, the Chicago Teachers Union chief who led a victorious strike last September fueled by rage at Mayor Rahm, said, “When the mayor claims he is facing unprecedented budget problems, he has a choice to make. He is choosing between putting our communities first or continuing the practice of handing out millions of public dollars to private operators, even in the toughest of times.”
It’s hardly just the labor-left of Chicago pointing out how breathtakingly heartless these priorities are. Rick Telander, the lead sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, penned a piece subtly titled, “With Rahm’s DePaul plan, we’ve entered a new arena of stupidity.” After making clear that DePaul’s team is hardly a magnet for city hoops fans, Telander wrote, “But forget that. Guess who will have to cough up about $100 million to build the thing for the private Catholic university of 25,000, through bonds and the usual sneak attacks of wallet-siphonage—Yes! Taxpayers! Ta-dah!”
The fact that Rick Telander wrote these words matters. The wine is out of the bottle and the horse is out of the barn. In 2013, it’s no longer a few of us cap-wearing Cassandras shouting that the end is nigh if we keep hollowing city budgets to pay for these monuments to corporate welfare. It’s Rick Telander. It’s the Chicago Sun-Times sports page. It’s all of us.
It must be pointed out that this deal, even by the standards of shady stadium operations, has people scratching their heads. Building an arena for a third-tier college basketball program as the heart of a new convention center? Was his second best idea a new snack called Nuts & Gum? I spoke to Neil DaMause, the co-author of the bible on stadium boondoggles, Field of Schemes, to get his thoughts. He said,
I’ve seen dumber things than a mayor offering to spend $173 million in tax money ...
It get's better...Check the link above for the full piece he's just warming up!
Rahm got 100% of what he wanted. The saved schools were recommended to be saved. The board rubber-stamped the Rahm/BBB recommendations.
Hey Scc. http://news.yahoo.com/urban-renewal-big-us-cities-showing-strong-growth-040147793.html About halfway down it even mentions Chicago. So this means things are getting better right? We will all get raises and the pension will be funded right? Am I right?!? Hell yeah! High five! Yeah! Hey.... Don't leave me hanging..........
Police are next. He will take 55 of something. He always gets what he wants. While every sits around he is plotting to come after you and pave the way for his bankers friends. You think he is going to stop with janitors, teachers and others? ha ha ha
Watch how the scores of the displaced students dramatically increase. Better teaching? Maybe. Better statisticians and number manipulators? Definitely!
You leave your "Loved Ones" remains lying on a slab for 90 days and then you're upset because he/she is given away for medical research? Morgue needs to start charging rent!!
Sorry Off Topic...
How can anybody do reports on 9 year old Dell OptiPlex computers with 512 meg of RAM? They have millions of dollars to throw away at cease fire and Magey park.
But they cant spend a measly $3000.00 to purchase more ram for these Crap Dell computers we have. Nobody maintains them. The fan ports are full of dust. They are popping drives like crazy from over heating.
Then some super tech goof comes in and says.. I re-Imaged all the computers Meaning Format the drive so it should run better. Well when you are running multiple programs with 512 meg of ram these outdated dells will run like frozen molasses. For Christ sakes Windows XP will take up 200 meg of that ram.
Sometimes up to 10 minutes for a screen to come up. The computers freeze constantly. How about setting us up to be successful for a change. These Dell OptiPlex mini's would run from 4 to 8 times faster... depending on the ram the processor will allow. Some only will take 2 gig while some will take 4 gig. What used to take me 40 minutes on paper now takes me at least 3 hours on the turtle Dell computers. How about some help??
If a body is "unidentifiable" how do you tell the family? Just sayin.
several parents were howling that it is an attack on black and brown youth--- currently 90 percent of the cps is comprised of black and brown youth and 10 percent caucasian--- it's not an attack on minorities, it's an attack on inefficiencies that have festered for years and years--- if these "parents" are concerned that their children will have to walk thru hostile territory then maybe they should escort their children to school or move to bolingbrook....
The press is starting to use words like " Chicago style politics and Chicago the murder capital. " Due to Obama, Emanuel, and McCarthy, Chicago has been turned into a dirty word. It now represents criminality and failure.
Does this mean I have to send my kids back to a catholic school again?
We do need more empty buildings.
is this a small play to a larger plan to remove these idiotic students and their useless parents out of the city? sure they can maybe still cram into other schools/classrooms but this may help push a little bit more of the scum out of the city. I don't know but I am trying to be optimistic.
As for the morgue you know that someone was making money off of those dead bodies. Besides being sent to teaching schools how many of those unclaimed bodies were sold for parts. Only in Crook County.
maybe if the ''parents'' of these children pitched in a tiny bit...oh, guess the people on the freebie wagon don't get it.and what are my taxes paying for?
I love it, Emanuel cries broke for pension plans and makes no mention of funding pensions from anything.
Yeah, now let him control gambling with zero oversight. LMAO. Ok, let's legalize rape while we are it too. Shit Rham why not just get rid of the police and fire department altogether! Pension issue solved. So tired of the nonsense with city of Chicago politics.
What's going on ith our contract, say something Mikey
Anonymous Anonymous said...
If a body is "unidentifiable" how do you tell the family? Just sayin.
5/23/2013 08:16:00 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
You leave your "Loved Ones" remains lying on a slab for 90 days and then you're upset because he/she is given away for medical research? Morgue needs to start charging rent!!
5/23/2013 07:41:00 AM
How about FOUR DAYS? Bodies were shipped out in four days.
That's hardly enough time to make a fair attempt at identification through prints or dna and it isn't enough time for someone from out of town to make it here to identify and make arrangements for a funeral. Sometimes it takes more than four days just to track down a family member on an IDENTIFIED deceased.
Try to remember what it's what like to be a decent human being before you post antagonistic crap.
Giving away bodies, I'll take two. Now to the taxidermist, then get the red tuxedos and lanterns...
Meanwhile , City unions and their employees still don't get it or perhaps the union leaders are in on it who knows.
Rahm is there like gimmie another hundred million dollars of pension money and Imma put it over here on 27 red -- betting on a Depaul basketball stadium and Navy pier upgrade.
Who wins? Well if you borrow money with banks win of lose the banks get theirs. Who loses if the basketball fans don't show. The taxpayers, The workers with city pensions because the bond holders have to get paid first so we'll just skip your retirement and healthcare payments and pay our bondholder friends instead.
People should be out in the streets saying HELL NO.
Instead we wait for the 50 city council to rubber stamp the mayors plan because it too long and too much trouble to read. Ahh just pass it, pass it. Like the parking meter deal. Like the maggie park deal, the cameras, the bike paths.
Just give the mayor another $100 million and let him put it on six and eight the hard way and let's hope it works out because there is no backup plan if it goes wrong.
Just give the mayor unlimited casino power like the 75 year parking meter contracts. What could possible go wrong, right?
People should be camped out at city hall asking what the *** you think you are doing? But nope.
Will you ever learn Chicago?
Let me ask ya..
The city budgeted for a bunch of school zone speed trap cameras. No-one at the time really knew if the plan to close 50 schools was gonna be approved at the time, right? So the money has been approved.
So now there's 50 schools closed that don't need the cameras installed so we take that money budgeted for that and use if for the mayors friends and don't have to account for it too much because the money has already been approved, right?
Isn't that how it works or do I have it wrong? How many million we talking?
This is what is wrong with the justice system..do the math.
At the time of his death, he was on parole in a 2009 narcotics conviction, for which he had been sentenced to six years in prison. In February, Wimberly, apparently on parole, was charged with domestic battery and had an order of protection issued against him, according to court records, but the case and the order of protection were dropped after he was readmitted to state prison.
Wimberly was paroled again, however, on March 14, according to state records.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-cops-man-stabbed-to-death-in-domestic-dispute-20130523,0,6142489.story
Anonymous said...
Giving away bodies, I'll take two. Now to the taxidermist, then get the red tuxedos and lanterns...
5/23/2013 06:05:00 PM
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STOP. You're killin' me. (Pun intended)
CPS is the biggest drain of tax dollars in the state of Illinois. I say close 100 schools. How about you feed your child breakfast and pack them a lunch as well. Then drive or walk your children to school. Oh wait that's asking way to much of so called parents. These Democrats better stop catering to these people or there won't be any money left and this state will go bankrupt. Enough is enough. You don't like public education get a job and send your kids to a private school. I'm really sick and tired of people "demanding" things they don't deserve or work for.
Sometimes up to 10 minutes for a screen to come up. The computers freeze constantly. How about setting us up to be successful for a change. These Dell OptiPlex mini's would run from 4 to 8 times faster... depending on the ram the processor will allow. Some only will take 2 gig while some will take 4 gig. What used to take me 40 minutes on paper now takes me at least 3 hours on the turtle Dell computers. How about some help??
5/23/2013 07:49:00 AM
DUDE! I couldn't have written this better myself. I thought I was the only one.....One reason they now run so slow is the re-imaged computers are ALL networked,
so the gurus can fix them remotely.
this is the biggest problem. That's one reason PCLOGIN no longer works, not to mention they can spy on you at any time. Watch the hard drive light. It is CONSTANTLY on, You're right, they need to be replaced. I figure computers on 24/7 for 7 years have the equivalent of almost 32 years on them. Hey, how does WORD work for you? I'll bet it tries to install something when it first starts and then the install fails.
People moving away no doubt played a role in this:
Chicago Population Growth: Census Data Shows Windy City Growing -- But More Slowly Than Other Hubs
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/23/chicago-population-growth_n_3327135.html
Cook County Morgue giving the bodies away...
Naaah! This is Chicago.
They are on sale in the display case at so much per pound just like at Jewel or Dominick's.
Hmm...the redevelopment of South LakeShore Drive (where Richie Daley lives) now needs to have a gigantic new stadium for DePaul University (the alma mater of Richie Daley & his father...)
Who cares. Close them. We're paying for the waste
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Cook County Morgue giving the bodies away...
Naaah! This is Chicago.
They are on sale in the display case at so much per pound just like at Jewel or Dominick's.
5/24/2013 01:19:00 AM
I got this new leather jacket, cost me over ten grand....
like it?
its 100% lawyer's skin...
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