UberPocky

I’m talking of course about Illinois Governors. Governor Rod R. Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday morning. There was a public criminal complaint filed against him and therefore two arrest warrants created. One for Gov. Blagojevich and one for his chief of staff John Harris. They were both arrested. The day was good.

Let me start by airing my dirty laundry. I HATE Gov. Blagojevich (henceforth known as “Blago”). He has made what I would call many bad decisions. I did not vote for him in 2006. I could not vote when he was first elected in 2002. However, just like Pres. Bush, Blago is the leader of this state. I would never call for his impeachment unless it’s proven he’s done something Illegal. This criminal complaint is the most amazing thing I’ve ever read. It reads like a mob document. For all those who have not red it please do: Blago Criminal Complaint. I have no doubt every one of these things are true…

So here are the options.

1. He Resigns. That will never happen because of who he is: An egotistical, uncaring, everything for me nothing for you, Governor.

2. The State House and Senate impeach him. This is more likely. There is great political will in this state at the moment to kick him out, however, they have to have a trial and that would likely take months.

3. Wait for the actual trial to occur and have him convicted… that could take YEARS.

OR #4: BREAKING NEWS: Ill. Attny. General Lisa Madigan is asking for the Governor to be temporarily removed from office because he is unqualified to lead. “I understand that this is an extraordinary request, but these are extraordinary circumstances.” This now goes to the state supreme court and they choose to take it up or not. They will decided if he should be ousted or not. (This option could only take HOURS)

We shall see how it happens but I promise you this Governor will be humiliated and removed. Thank God.

Target Rats:

The rat sign, and the rat!

So here are all the results from Super Tuesday. I’ll be keeping it updated though the evening. I will be watching ABC News on the TV, with our local ABC station: ABC 7 Chicago. I will be keeping tabs on CNN Politics on the internet.

Note: The official delegate counts probably won’t be out till tomorrow or Thursday. These are estimated delegate counts, based on the popular vote.

1,681 Delegates are up for grabs in the Democratic Party, 1,020 in the Republican Party

I will be updating as I get information.

I will have a post-game with a final delegate count either Wed or Thurs.

LAST UPDATE: Wednesday Feb 6th, 8:32 a.m. (All Times Central)

continue reading…

HELLO ILLINOIS!

Elections don’t do well for ease of use. We all know this. However, this primary is going to be incredibly difficult. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t vote. Just that you need to be careful. Here’s the issue: The ballot is going to be set up so the first part of the ballot is the presidential nominees. The second part of the ballot is going to be big local elections, like Secretary of State (it’s only an example, he actually isn’t up for reelection). Also anything inside your township/neighborhood will be in this section. The third part of the ballot will be DELEGATES. The fourth part is like any other election, judges.

Yes, Illinois you must vote for specific delegates. I heard this earlier today on Chicago Public Radio. However, they didn’t give me as many details as I would have liked. So I had to research. I was unable to obtain a specific ballot for Oak Park. So I could not see who the delegates where, however, I found another Illinois ballot from Whiteside County Sixteenth Congressional District. Here are their delegates then I’ll explain the system. continue reading…

I’ve been going to a Unitarian Universalist church recently. Unity Temple here in Oak Park. It’s a congregation that accepted me with open arms, even though I called myself a Pagan/Wiccan. I had never felt this way in a church before. I felt welcome. It was strange to me.

I don’t know if you all know my religious history. My mother is a Protestant and my father is a Roman Catholic. Neither of them were very religious, but I could tell they both wanted me to be a lip-service what they were. When I was a child Grandma Mary, she wasn’t actually my Grandmother, she was a babysitter that started dating my Grandfather after a while. Well, she took me to the church across the street from my house every once in a while. I think they are Roman Catholic church, I’m not entirely sure. I never felt very comfortable there. She, had a lasting effect on me though, she asked me what I didn’t like about it. She asked me what I did like about it. She taught me to question things, and make a rational decision. Not to get emotional and make snap decisions. I was a very emotional child, to those I opened up to like her. I didn’t cry much, but I always felt it. I was able to talk to her about my emotions. She taught me emotion doesn’t belong in certain decisions. She took me to a couple of different churches, but tired to keep me within Christianity. None of them seemed to fit. She was in the process of molding me.

She died when I was still young. I must have been 9 or 10. I think it was December 1994, so I had just turned 9 the month before. She was the first interaction I had with death. No one close to me had ever died before. I did not understand. It’s been 13 years since then. And now I think I’m realizing where she wanted me to be. She was a Roman Catholic like my father. She would have preferred I became that, but she was trying to get me to explore. When she died, I shut down. For at least a year I was completely emotionless. I started calling myself an Atheist. I couldn’t even walk into a church anymore. I was dead set against religion. I hated the whole idea of it. From when I was 10 to when I was 14 and a half. I festered this absolute hate for two things: emotion & religion.

I killed every emotion I had, it was completely strange. I couldn’t connect with anything or anyone that wasn’t already connected to me, nothing new. Grandma Mary died during 4th grade. I was in a private school at the time. Alcuin Montessori. It was an interesting school, and I had some good friends so nothing seemed to change there for the time being. Atheist. Atheist. All the religious influence in my life had vanished in that one death. Between 5th and 6th grade, I changed schools. 6th grade became the worst year of my life. I failed every class. I had no motivation, no friends, no companionship, no beliefs of something greater to fall back on. It was an absolute travesty. And I was made fun of because I was the ‘new kid’ everyone else had been there for ages. One person, Charles Davis, made an effort to become my friend. And I have no doubt he saved my life. That was a very depressing year, Suicide never crossed my mind, but only because I was too young and didn’t know what it was.

There’s more, it’s just getting too long for the front page: continue reading…