Firefighter Mayday

Here's a guy with a spotless disciplinary record...AND who won the Lambert Tree Medal, the highest City Award for heroism at great personal risk. 

That and $3 will get you a cup of coffee in Groot's Chicago (click for larger versions):

For removing a "Defund the Police" banner on the public way, 30 days?

We took out the phone numbers because there are still plenty of assholes trolling for personal info here. If you are of a mind to make a donation, stop by any firehouse. These posters will be up citywide.

Thanks Groot!

We suppose this is one way of looking at the Nashville bombing:

Thanks?

Step Right Up Lab Rat!

Anyone know where this guy got his medical degree?

Rich doesn't mean smart at everything. Just so everyone is clear:

• [N]ormally the FDA wants 10 years of data to approve something like this, or 3 years with expedited approval. But this vaccine was only researched for 8 months and they trust all of us to "just take it", no questions asked. Not to mention, Pfizer and Moderna got blanket protection from the federal govt that they CANNOT be sued by someone or a family forliability if the vaccine kills someone or makes the sick.

Paraphrasing some guy we heard about once, we have far more questions than answers here.

We've had a Flu Vaccine for how many years now? Extensive trial and error....and it has to be changed every single year because the flu virus mutates. How effective is the flu vaccine?

• 2004 - 10% effective - lowest recorded
• 2010 - 60% effective - highest recorded

The last three years, it's been 38%, 29% and 45% (estimated). That doesn't instill confidence in an entirely new type of vaccine that was developed over 6-to-8 months.

Get informed.

Only Third?

Well, she had big name competition from both coasts:

• In celebration of a 2020 that desperately needs to come to an end, here is a list of the Top 10 Worst Mayors in the nation. These mayors most definitely use Orwell’s 1984 as their policies and procedures manual, if not their Bible.

  It comes as no surprise that all 10 of the mayors on the list are Democrat (something about that political party), and that five of the 10 are mayors of West Coast cities (something about the Pacific Ocean).

  Several of the mayors have overseen a mass exodus of people from their cities, and even their state in a 10-month period. But most of all, every one of these mayors stand out as abject failures of governance, with constituents that literally despise them.

Groot came in third, behind DeBlasio (NY) and Garcetti (LA).

Start Firing Teachers Groot

Abandonment of employment is a good starting point:

• Most of the Chicago Public Schools teachers and staffers who are scheduled to return to classrooms next week for the first time in nine months have tacitly agreed to do so — but almost a third of them requested to work from home or take a leave of absence.

  The district ended up rejecting most of those requests, according to CPS data released Tuesday on the 7,002 pre-kindergarten and special education cluster program employees who were told to return to work Jan. 4 following the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic closure.

  Two-thirds of those employees — 4,684 of them — didn’t ask for leave or accommodations.

  Another 2,010 employees applied to stay home or take leave. The district granted 861 of those requests and rejected 1,149 others, or about 16% of all returning workers. An additional 308 requests are pending, according to CPS.

For all those that don't show up - post 1,149 job openings and they'll be 2,000 applicants the next day. 

All non-tenured and all at the low end of the pay scale.

Win-Win Gorot.

Hubris

Anyone remember electing this guy to any office whatsoever?

• In an interview last week with The New York Times, Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted something that many of us have suspected for some time: The media-anointed, all-knowing guru of COVID has been fudging the truth in order to encourage what he views as better behavior from the American people. Put simply, Fauci has been acting less like a public official and more like a parent keeping certain truths from his children.

  This quote, which has been rightfully making the rounds, really tells the whole tale. Asked why he changed his mind about how much vaccination would result in herd immunity, Fauci said, “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent … Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.

This isn't some tin-foil hat conspiracy. This is a bureaucrat lying to achieve a political end. Combine that with the over-counting we linked to yesterday. Then look at the political football being played with the flu numbers and the Hydroxychloroquine info changing on a daily basis.

There's way too much info out there that people aren't seeing because they keep watching XiNN and other lame-stream media outlets.

Hotlanta Disaster

Desperate times call for desperate measures:

• The shooting death of a 7-year-old girl has prompted an alliance between police, politicians and businesses who are ramping up calls to establish a private security force to supplement the Atlanta Police Department.

  The $1.62 million plan will address crime in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta. 

  City Council members Howard Shook, J.P. Matzigkeit and Matt Westmoreland plan to allocate $125,000 of their municipal funds to the Buckhead Security Plan, a proposal for a private police force in the business district.

This sounds somewhat like what Groot was trying to force through where the Michigan Avenue merchants would "voluntarily" raise taxes on themselves to hire private security - probably that HLSA outfit run by retired Captain Robards-Dillon.

So it's not so much of a "defunding" as it is an additional cost of doing business.....but the connected get the money directly.

More Courts?

Has Evans been paying attention? No one is getting arrested, Crimesha is refusing to prosecute, Dart empties the jail every night, and even the cops aren't arresting people (or folks):

• Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans wants to establish a new court branch for adults who are accused of criminal activity between the ages of 18 and 26, according to a column by Evans in the latest Illinois Supreme Court newsletter.

  “The time has come for the establishment of a third branch of courts,” Evans writes, “a court that recognizes the intermediate stage of biological and social development between children and mature adults. The court would be known as ‘Young Adult Court.’”

  Evans said his proposed court branch would “give specific consideration to the mental and physical characteristics of this age group.”

He should be talking about layoffs amongst the public defenders, states attorneys, jail guards and court personnel.

Unforeseen Scandal (UPDATE)

Remember, this is Groot's Command Staff  (Brownie is a figurehead with no actual power).

Groot's staff vetted these people, allowed the test scandal to fester, and continues to allow incompetent "merit" promotees to "recommend" other "merit," and then Groot signed off on the bump up:

• What's with the a certain female commander getting her son out of lockup or RWOC with two pistols in the car he was in or driving. Didn't she get in trouble for doing the same thing when working in Fugitive Apprehension several years ago. Oh I get it, you're a female with multiple meritorious bumps, you're kid\relative gets arrested and you make calls to get everything go away! This is the Chicago way on this job. Great job

Hasn't even been commander for a week and this happens. Great picks there Groot.

Didn't some commander get demoted a few years back for appearing at the desk and demanding his son be released and his car un-impounded following a UUW arrest? Franklin? Matthews?

UPDATE: Some charges approved. Multiple guns, and the driver certainly wasn't going to be shooting with both hands. Someone got RWOC somehow - no Constructive Possession? - but having high ranking members raising UUW offenders. This isn't an issue somehow?

0.32 BAC

Four times the legal limit. That's what we used to call a "professional drinker:"

• Former Ald. Proco “Joe” Moreno was charged with DUI and reckless driving after his Audi rammed and sideswiped at least eight cars along four blocks of a street in the Gold Coast before smashing into a tree Sunday night.

  Moreno, 48, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition after the string of crashes around 9:30 p.m. in the 1200, 1300 and 1500 blocks of North Astor Street, according to police. The charges, all misdemeanors, were filed against him after he was released, according to Chicago police.

  A police report indicated Moreno’s blood alcohol level was 0.32%, or four times the legal limit. Neither Moreno nor his attorney could immediately be reached for comment.

Not Proco Joe's first brush with infamy:

• Moreno is still fighting charges of insurance fraud and obstruction of justice from an incident in early 2019 when prosecutors say Moreno falsely claimed his 2016 Audi A6 had been stolen from his garage. Moreno allegedly had turned the car and its keys over willingly only hours earlier to a woman he had dated.
  

"...dated..." Pardon our laughter.

Shots Fired At / By Police

This one slipped under the radar - no one hit overnight Sunday:

• Chicago police were searching for two men after gunfire was exchanged with officers in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side late Sunday, authorities said.

  An officer drew his weapon and shot at least once toward one of the men who had shot at him and his partner, according to a preliminary statement from the department. No one was injured.

Be careful out there.

Fake Stats

The government is...lying?

• Washington State's COVID death numbers could be inflated as much as twenty percent according to a new study by the Freedom Foundation, based on an analysis of death certificates.

  In May, The Freedom Foundation, an Olympia based think tank, released a report which revealed that the Washington Department of Health was recording every death in which the deceased previously tested positive for the virus as a COVID death. At the time, the Freedom Foundation estimated that COVID deaths in the state were being inflated by as much as thirteen percent by deaths from other causes including even gun shots victims. After a review of the death certificates, that number could now be as high as twenty percent of all COVID deaths in Washington through September.

Washington is hardly unique in this deliberate miscounting.

And Fauci is a bald-faced liar, too. 

Do a little research.

Another Moron Heard From

Tammy, vying to unseat Sparklefarts as the most useless and insulting senator in Illinois history:

 

She seems to be missing one crucial profession there. One that's been showing up every single day, working excess hours, days off and holidays cancelled with astonishing regularity all while being threatened with blanket defunding and whose families have been targeted merely for what they do.

And she includes teachers, who (on the Public School side) haven't shown up for work since March, have held helpless children hostage for political ends and who are astonishingly over-represented in the ranks of domestic terrorist organization who have been burning blue cities all year.

Really Corwin?

Some retirees really need to lock down their social media accounts:

Golly Corky.....maybe they get it from a different relative

Like an aunt....or an uncle.

Groot Success Story

Another Groot-tacular weekend:

• 6:30p Peaceful Tally: 10 killed, 20 wounded

And what's this total?? (found only on HeyJackass.com):

• Year to Date
  Shot and Killed: 710
  Shot and Wounded: 3440
  Total Shot: 4150
  Total Homicides: 783
  

Seven-Hundred-Eighty-Three....A memory stirs from 30 April:

• Chicago Police Supt. David Brown has an historically high goal for 2020: Keeping Chicago’s annual murder total under 300 for the first time in more than 60 years.

  Brown posed the challenge to department brass earlier this week, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times.

  Police records show the city hasn’t seen fewer than 300 murders in a single year since 1957. As of April 26, the department had opened 149 murder cases in 2020, a slight uptick from 2019, with the traditionally violent summer months just around the corner.

Which means that Brownie has Six-Hundred-Thirty-Four murders that he can call his very own - TWICE what he set as a target.

Of course, since we all know that Brownie doesn't run the Department, these are better described as Groot-icides.

Ghoul Pool Time

Everyone remember what this is for?

Purchase a random square for a set number of toothpicks.

Twenty-two Districts and three blank cards. 

Shuffle and draw cards to determine who gets what District - the three blanks are out (or just don't sell the last three)

Winner gets a shitload of toothpicks.

Here a Scandal, There a Scandal

Anyone know about a missing checkbook at HQ?

Because we're told it goes all the way to the top.

Targets

Someone is seeing what we're seeing:

• The NYPD has been on the alert for weeks for possible attacks similar to Friday’s deliberate RV explosion in Nashville, The Post has learned.

  An internal NYPD memo issued earlier this month warned that law enforcement were the "priority targets" for terror attacks involving homemade bombs and vehicle arson.

  The Dec. 14 memo, obtained by The Post, said violent extremists and "malicious criminal actors" might go after cops to exacerbate tensions, "exploit civil unrest" and incite further violence.

  The document referenced Al-Qaeda propaganda released on Nov. 26 that urged radical jihadists to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to attack "priority targets."

  Those targets included retired officers, business leaders, intelligence personnel and "soldiers and police of every brand."

Be extra careful, especially downtown.

 

Link fixed

Another Groot Scandal Brewing?

Keep making Groot uncomfortable:

• The talk at HQ is that a former very big boss poorly treated by the vile midget has provided the media with the whole Search Warrant package with a bow and is sitting on something even worse that ties Groot to this and something even more terrible. Her miserable treatment of anyone she encounters is about to cost her big time, and you’d think she would realize there are cameras and sound everywhere.

We can say this:

• In fifteen years of the blog, we can't remember having more leaks and insiders stabbing the mayor in the back than we do with Groot.

Some ends up true. Some might be wishful thinking. Some could even be disinformation trolls sent by Groot. But we can point to all sorts of instances of decisions being made or delayed or altered merely because we got info before it was released to the public.

Groot can't even fall back on blaming Brownie because we all know (and the FOP president pointed out) she is running the Department at a microscopic level. 

Whomever this "very big boss" is -and we're pretty sure we have a clue - it almost has to be someone with experience in covering up connected political scandals. That's a very short list indeed.

Illinois Humor

Seen on I-57 near Manteno:

Now if they'd just drive it around Chicago, Cook County and remind voters why everything in the northeastern portion of the state sucks ass.