Worth a Look?
Maybe:
UPDATE: link is now the amazon.com website - it saves you a couple of bucks.
- New book coming out on Rahm, on Amazon, recommended by Ben Joravsky:
Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago's 99% by Kari Lydersen
"I urge everyone to read Lydersen's book. Over the last few months, many Chicagoans have told me they didn't realize who they were voting for when they cast a ballot for Emanuel. Thanks to Lydersen, they'll have no excuse in 2015."
—Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader
UPDATE: link is now the amazon.com website - it saves you a couple of bucks.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
41 Comments:
>>>"... Over the last few months, many Chicagoans have told me they didn't realize who they were voting for when they cast a ballot for Emanuel. ..."
WTF!!! He is a Democrat, what more did they need to know.
Not only that how many people didn't realize who they were voting for when they voted for OBAMA.
They wanted to purge themselves of the "white guilt" put upon them during the liberal 70's and 80's.
Are they sorry or what.
Strange bedfellows indeed. Never thought I'd a plug for something from Haymarket Books here.
As long as we're recommending books, also available on amazon: Cocaine, Sex, Lies, and Murder by Larry Sinclair.
amazon went to court to defend their right to sell this book as non-fiction. The judge shocked the media into their usual pattern of simply not reporting the news when he refused to uphold an injunction sought by the Obama camp and David Axelrod specifically, who was threatening a defamation suit. Instead, David Axelrod's lawyers, paid for by the Obama campaign, had to concede they could not prove Sinclair had any intention but to tell his side of a story.
The book's release date is 12 November. I just pre-ordered it online.
He is a mayor of the people, for the people. Always looking out for the little guy.
This book is likely a distillation of what various SCC posters have been saying for years...
Rahm fell from Heaven (Chased out of the White House for disrespecting FLOTUS & POTUS's BBF Valerie Jarrett) and landed in Chicago.
Funny... Before this undersized, maniacal manling put his name on the ballot he was running all over the city picking VERY unnecessary fights with Police, Firemen and Teachers by talking shit about how he wanted to cut their throats and the throats of thei rfamilies financially.
Heh... Rahm gearing up for a second term because he didn't get the desired one term cake-walk and swinging on the screen door ass-fucking he promised everybody...
With an assist from the media, Rahm has succeeded in villifying this segment of Chicago's remaining middle class in the eyes of the public...
Let's see now...
According to a city web site, there are @ 32,000 muni employees excluding teachers...
With Rahm's blood-letting at CPS there are perhaps just under 20,000 teachers?
So you have around 52,000 muni employees?
A little less than 2% of the total population of this city?
OK...
You have 100K hard core shitbirds and another 500K in shitbird affiliates and supporters who contribute nothing but shit, grief, death and destruction?
Who is getting bent backwards and ass-fucked by Rahm and his supporters in the Gold Coast/North Shore phony-assed tax skating charity, political fundraiser and cocktail party circuit?
>Jeopardy "Get A Clue" theme playing... Doo-doo-doo, doo-dah doo-doo doo...<
Who has Rahm (and shortshanks too) succeeded in fitting with the shit-shirt of Chicago's "fiscal disaster" in spite of ample evidence of the former facilitating the "misplacement" of an estimated $12 to $15 BILLION of taxpayer treasure over his term in office?
>Jeopardy tune again...<
How many of you good people (who can think for themselves, much to Rahm's chagrin...) think that Rahm is only here to insure that the evidence of the largest municipal financial crime scene is destroyed?
...No matter how many lives he has to turn upside down to do it?
Show of hands?
The name of the game is total divesture of muni employees from their pensions in the name of "reform" and re-assignment of those monies to the same banker, financier and investor carrion Rahm is trying to parcel this city off to.
"We had to burn the village to save it."
Rahm has particulat animus toward The Police...
Maybe he's concerned that The Police might form the nucleus of a concerted push-back against him and what he's doing?
Heh... People do seem to get concerned when the Cop hits back...
We hope the "Great Correction" is upon us.
It will be MUCH MORE than pissed off Policemen beating the bushes hunting for these rotten fuckers...
Yeah... The book may be worth a look.
RANT: (OFF)/On
If the Evil Raccoon Eyes has to raise property taxes by 50% to shore up our pension funds in 2015 then his goose is cooked. Good.
Pre-order on Amazon. November 15, 2013 release.
..."Might be worth a look. Anyone read it yet?"
Labels: city politics
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Release date on Amazon, November 12, can be pre-ordered and you should get it on release day.
So far, only released to the press, nook reviewers and the usual bunch that gets stuff early.
Taxpayer here. I've been trying to get this book by Lydersen for a few weeks now. Funny thing is the Chicago Public Library has not ordered it yet. Usually, if they don't have it, the search will pop up with it's on order. They seem to have all Lydersen's other books she has written. Nothing like censorship in this day and age. I'm going to get it off Amazon where the going price is $11.82 with free shipping if you order over $25. "Things that make you go hmmm hmmm hmmm."
when they cast a ballot for Emanuel........ gee all 30% of eligible voters who even bothered to vote?
Rahm in a cakewalk...we are so screwed
Read it......say goodbye to Rhambo the man is so egotistical and power drunk it's unreal. Dump this can of worms before he can do anymore damage. Take his yes men with him.
Do you think Chicago Public Libraries will be allowed to get it?
Not.
I would love to give Ben a big hug.
I just wonder if he would enjoy it as much as I would?
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Sort Of OT.
Trivia Question Of The Day.
What did Rahm Emanuel have in common with the late Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead?
Of course nobody will read the fucking thing. Voters are stupid. Yes the will whine like fucking babies but RE will start kissing ass before election and people will landslide him in for another term.
SCC, Thanks for bringing this up. Before you waste any money on this book, check out the people "endorsing" it. EVERY one is an avowed leftist, like that disgusting pig Karen Lewis, Jarovsky (lefty Reader "journalist"), Balanoff, the SEIU moron who buses sick people to various suburban hospitals to overload the ER's in futile attempts to force unionization of nurses, and Patel & Bruno? My God, two more garbage peddlers!
The author, Lydersen, writes for the Washington Post, New York Times and The Progressive, three of the worst liberal rags pumping out yellow journalism today. And, she teaches journalism. Is there any wonder why journalists are a joke today?
Here's the best part: This pathetic group of liberals is attacking Rahm for being too conservative! I know he's hated, but he must be doing something right if these clowns are trying to ambush him. Now if I could only figure out what is "right" about him...
Why spend your hard earned dollars on the book. Unless you just flew in from Mars, most reasonable thinking persons realize that after nearly three years in office, Rahm is just a self-serving prick.
Made my contribution to the city today . $2540 fine at 400 W Superior on 2 minor business violations I wasn't even aware of being violations. Compliance on both was shown.Too bad , unlike every other court in the city, everyone appearing there is always guilty on all counts and everyone gets punished.If we could switch these guys with the states attorneys , every criminal in the city would be locked up for the maximim sentence.My fear at this point is that this is only the beginning , the city will be coming after more and more businesses with minor obscure violations and getting exorbitant fines. As a business owner you really have to consider moving or shutting down. As someone who is in criminal court regularly, it makes it even worse, because you see criminals go unpunished every day .
Not only that how many people didn't realize who they were voting for when they voted for OBAMA.
They wanted to purge themselves of the "white guilt" put upon them during the liberal 70's and 80's.
Are they sorry or what.
9/28/2013 12:19:00 AM
Obviously not. They voted for Obama a second time.
With an assist from the media, Rahm has succeeded in villifying this segment of Chicago's remaining middle class in the eyes of the public...Yeah... The book may be worth a look.
9/28/2013 01:51:00 AM
The book is written by a member of the same liberal, progressive media that has been assisting Rahm. If you think it's worth a look, you are contradicting yourself. So what is it? Are they helping him or hurting him? You can't have it both ways.
The Box Chevy Phantom said...
This book is likely a distillation of what various SCC posters have been saying for years...
...Yeah... The book may be worth a look.
RANT: (OFF)/On
9/28/2013 01:51:00 AM
Why use thirty words - heh -when a thousand will do just fine? Heh. The above poster is waaaaay too in love with the sound of his own voice. Oh, yeah, forgot; heh.
Yea we need a Magoty Daley park like a whole in the head
Who the fuck voted for Rahm? Everyone knew he was tied to Obama and Daley jr. Shitkago got exactly what it deserved.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Made my contribution to the city today . $2540 fine at 400 W Superior on 2 minor business violations I wasn't even aware of being violations. Compliance on both was shown.Too bad , unlike every other court in the city, everyone appearing there is always guilty on all counts and everyone gets punished.If we could switch these guys with the states attorneys , every criminal in the city would be locked up for the maximim sentence.My fear at this point is that this is only the beginning , the city will be coming after more and more businesses with minor obscure violations and getting exorbitant fines. As a business owner you really have to consider moving or shutting down. As someone who is in criminal court regularly, it makes it even worse, because you see criminals go unpunished every day .
9/28/2013 12:54:00 PM
Just got a letter from the City with a $6,000.00 fine for having a fence that's over six feet and no peepholes in apartment doors.
Problem is, I haven't owned that building since 1994. Got no idea who built that fence or why the doors don't have peepholes. The City That Works? Right.
Um, yeah. No.
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"The book is writtem by a member of the same liberal, progressive media that has been assisting Rahm. If you think it's worth a look, you are contradicting yourself. So what is it? Are they helping or hurting him? You can't have it both ways."
9/28/2013 01:35:00 PM
The book may be worth a look in the same manner Rahm has his minions climbing all over this blog/plant misinformation to glean whatever information they feel is useful to them.
Jeez... You know so much that you'd rather drown in the middle of the creek to prove a point instead of using the bridge.
Nuance and context is lost on some...
@ 9/28/2013 01:36:00 PM
The above poster gives a shit about Policemen and the fate/well being of this city.
The above poster is aware that much more than Policemen read this blog and posts in dialog form to amuse to a certain extent, provoke discussion and perhaps open some eyes to the realization that Policemen are people too.
Free country... You have every right to criticize but other than that, your contribution is?
We'll see if they woke, up next time around....
I couldn't take reading about Swan Lake that long - projectile vomiting may ensue.
--No Cop Here
trivia answers...they both were missing a digit on their finger, and...they both have/had dope smoking liberal masses that dance to their self absorbed tunes, and...they both are/were very frightened of tomatoes...
I'd like to read it, but I can't...read that is, I was edumacated by CPS.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Taxpayer here. I've been trying to get this book by Lydersen for a few weeks now. Funny thing is the Chicago Public Library has not ordered it yet. Usually, if they don't have it, the search will pop up with it's on order. They seem to have all Lydersen's other books she has written. Nothing like censorship in this day and age. I'm going to get it off Amazon where the going price is $11.82 with free shipping if you order over $25. "Things that make you go hmmm hmmm hmmm."
9/28/2013 07:31:00 AM
Yes, it's a great big conspiracy targeting you and only you.
Or, maybe the book hasn't been released yet and THAT is why the library couldn't possibly have it for you until 15 November. Pssst; you can't buy it yet, either.
Jack Straw said...
trivia answers...they both were missing a digit on their finger, and...they both have/had dope smoking liberal masses that dance to their self absorbed tunes, and...they both are/were very frightened of tomatoes...
9/28/2013 11:43:00 PM
Close, but no cigar.
Specifically, they both were missing one-half of the middle finger on their right hand.
And, they both have/had dope smoking liberal masses that dance to their self absorbed tunes, except the race and age numbers of their respective dope-smoking followers are vastly different.
Also, their common fear was not of tomatoes. Their shared fear was of BROWN PAPER BAGS filled with tomatoes.
The book may be worth a look in the same manner Rahm has his minions climbing all over this blog/plant misinformation to glean whatever information they feel is useful to them.
Jeez... You know so much that you'd rather drown in the middle of the creek to prove a point instead of using the bridge.
Nuance and context is lost on some...
9/28/2013 06:39:00 PM
Go ahead and buy the leftist's book. Me, I won't put any money in the pocket of a shitsack, atheist liberal media "journalist," and I won't buy anything sold by Haymarket Books, a company that celebrates cop-killing and prints books written by cop-haters. But you go right ahead. I'll be up on the bridge, pissing down on you as you float by on your "progressive" dream-boat. (Nuance and context aside.)
Anonymous The Box Chevy Phantom said...
@ 9/28/2013 01:36:00 PM
The above poster gives a shit about Policemen and the fate/well being of this city.
The above poster is aware that much more than Policemen read this blog and posts in dialog form to amuse to a certain extent, provoke discussion and perhaps open some eyes to the realization that Policemen are people too.
Free country... You have every right to criticize but other than that, your contribution is?
9/28/2013 06:55:00 PM
My contribution was that I edited your post down to the salient points contained therein.
>>>Anonymous said...
Not only that how many people didn't realize who they were voting for when they voted for OBAMA.
They wanted to purge themselves of the "white guilt" put upon them during the liberal 70's and 80's.
Are they sorry or what.
9/28/2013 12:19:00 AM
Obviously not. They voted for Obama a second time.
9/28/2013 01:18:00 PM<<<
The second time it wasn't the all same "they". It was just too late and "they" who now voted for someone else and the "they" who didn't vote the first time because they were convinced by the media Obama would win were overwhelmed by the "them".
Cops get the short end because "they" don't bother to vote.
Like all the Haymarket Scholars chiming in, perhaps you all can gather round Iron Mike for a group Hug.
is it on kindle? I only do kindle
is it on kindle? I only do kindle
9/30/2013 07:45:00 AM
It should be kindling.
Hi. My name is Kindle.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
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