More News from Chicago :: "Chicago pays $22.5 MILLION to woman who was gang raped..."

"Two Bizarre Cases with the City's Finest at Fault"
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 17, 2013 | Bryan TX

[Picture LINK] City agrees today to give the staggering sum to Christina Eilman who was released from police custody into a high-crime area where she was gang raped and plummeted from a seventh floor window...

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City of Chicago to pay millions to settle cases of wrongfully convicted man Alton Logan, raped woman Christina Eilman who fell from window | abc7chicago.com: "January 15, 2013 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A man wrongfully convicted of murder and a woman who fell from a seventh-floor window after being raped could both receive millions of dollars in settlements from the city of Chicago.

Alton Logan was freed in 2008 after spending 26 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Logan says detectives under now-convicted former Area 2 Commander Jon Burge were behind the coverup that led to his conviction for the murder of an off-duty Cook County corrections officer."

'via Blog this'

Homicides in Chicago were up 17% in 2012 from the previous year. It is reported that the total of 500 for the year hit in December before the year ended.

" ... McCarthy issued a statement declaring: “The city has seen its 500th homicide for 2012, a tragic number that is reflective of the gang violence and proliferation of illegal guns that have plagued some of our neighborhoods.”

While saying every homicide is unacceptable, he went on to laud the department’s overall crime reduction. (Jeremy Gorner and Peter Nickeas | Tribune reporters. December 28, 2012. Here) ... "

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http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8954998
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/20593424/city-council-to-vote-on-33-million-in-settlements-for-police-misconduct-cases-christina-eilman-alton-logan
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-12-28/news/chi-chicago-2012-homicide-toll-20121228_1_latest-homicide-500th-homicide-tragic-number
http://thebeerbarrel.net/threads/chicago-pays-22-5-million-to-woman-who-was-gang-raped.18686/

MooPig College Football Bowl Watch 2012 -- 2013 :: "South Carolina vs Michigan"

VIDEO: Jadeveon Clowney delivers crushing hit in Outback Bowl - NCAA Football - Sporting News: "Clowney’s prowess was on display for the nation Saturday against Michigan. Peeved by a bad spot on faked punt by Michigan that gave Michigan the ball, Clowney made the Wolverines pay."

This YouTube has 1,788,076 Views, submitted by ESPN Published on Jan 1, 2013 "Jadeveon Clowney with a huge hit on Vincent Smith to force a fumble."
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1. Andrew Mascharka 14 hours ago --  I'm a michigan fan but that was the BIGGEST hit I have ever seen

• Reply · 19 reifsneider 9 hours ago --  he hit him back into 2012

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http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2013-01-01/jadeveon-clowney-hit-south-carolina-michigan-sack-fumble-recovery-outback?ncid=webmail27
http://youtu.be/W26Dcns1Mxg

MooPig Graphiques and Rewildings :: Detroit Sweeps the Yank's!!

EXCERPT  |  " ... Welcome, my fellow Yankees fans, but please stop pointing your fingers at Alex Rodriguez! Our historic ALCS sweep at the hands of the detestable Detroit Tigers happened because we are merely victims of circumstance and once again find ourselves on the wrong side of luck! (Rob Iracane. 23 hours ago. HERE)
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" ... Do we wipe out a season of greatness merely because the final four games were an unprecedented disaster? No! Do we call out the offenders who led us into the toilet anyway? Yes!... "

And so on, and so on, ... blah, blah, blah, chitter -- BALK!!!!!!!!!


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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/concession-speech-2012-york-yankees-201234163--mlb.html
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1382142-mlb-playoffs-2012-keys-to-victory-for-tigers-and-giants-in-world-series

MooPig's Puzzlement Department :: "Deconstructing Detroit"

Detroit Re-Photography: Slideshow: Places: Design Observer:
Waiting Room, Michigan Central RR Depot, Detroit, 1973-2010
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http://places.designobserver.com/slideshow/detroit-rephotography/32008/2208/9#slide

I remember sail cloth masted, trimmed taut ...

Racing aboard the Great Lakes schooner Denis Sullivan - latimes.com:
Participants do the jobs that 19th century sailors did as this replica navigates Lake Superior's unpredictable waters.
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By Karin Winegar, Special to the Los Angeles Times
January 22, 2012
EXCERPT  "  ... Reporting from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.— At dawn on the dock, a few sailors kiss spouses and dogs goodbye. Then we muster on the quarterdeck: 17 crew (nine volunteers and eight professional sailors) ranging from a 19-year-old South Carolina college student to a 76-year-old Michigan farmer.
I have cruised the South Pacific, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean on the most luxurious ships afloat and have been crew on sailing and racing sailboats for decades in inland lakes, the Great Lakes and the Caribbean. As a volunteer on a tall ship, however, I knew I'd have a rare chance to learn classic skills and be part of a genuine adventure. I was leaving private staterooms, spa treatments and five-star table service far behind. Now I would sleep below decks in a narrow bunk, stand watch, eat shoulder to shoulder and scrub the galley afterward; it sounded grand. ..."

Tuft of thundercloud trailing anvil head,
For a moment dove eating crumb of bread
From bronze rail before flight
With point on horizon to sight
Full wind, full rudder churns freshwater white.

Out to quiet sailing had set we
With jib and full sail cast
As have sturdy fellows past.

I could hear almost the Old Salt
From his boat in briny harbor forgot
Talking as frapped his rope
'... Bloody Lake Mich, choppy old moat,
'... Choppy when the wind blows,
'... Meaner'n a blistered nanny goat.'

Leaning with gaunt arm bare
Upon bronze gunwale, pushing aside thick hair,
Squinting ignobly in bright sun-glare
With meaty fingers tugs at pipe there
Aboard chapped lips points to east horizon
Of inland mare, fashions scowl for his next quip
As great barrier of clouds form at fast clip

'... Tha' water my life did I impart,
'... Not much left for Almighty God to sort.'

Flipping pocket flap open like a hatch
Wriggling fingers while digging for a match
To strike against all that scratch
Of a standard jaw, put he then pipe to pucker,
Match to pipe bowl, sucked he flame to tobacco;

Returning to his task murmuring just audible
Pipe clenched tightly in teeth and jaw
Spatted he to indicate his final card
Whispering as puckers he a humid draw:

'... Wha'cha gonna do ... Wha's one to do ...
'... Wha' character does she reflect when tide low
'... How can tide pool stand for long
'... in ancient thirsty sand?'

Calm smile now on his face in half shadow ...

'... To where my life depart; to live a mariner
'... For what did I impart these hands?'

I remember sail cloth masted, trimmed taut
To gather wind for friends at steady knot
A chance to depart on lake large as a sea
And to cross horizon in time eternity
With promise for life, love and for loss.

by Pat Darnell


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http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-threemasted-20120122,0,5456603.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Ftravel+%28L.A.+Times+-+Travel%29
http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=902154554461446972&postID=1204137838310423977

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Everything Should be Alright Now

by Ric Capotosto | Oct 20, 2011 | Zeeland, MI

[PHOTO: Capable New Leaders in Libya.]

12:28 PM (15 hours ago)
The reassuring photo of a 20 year old in an American baseball cap should put to rest any doubts that Libya is now in the ablest of hands and the long awaited social equality and economic boom are just around the corner. Brandishing Kadafi's old $ 100,000 pistol, the young man is poised to be among the top members of the new government.

Then why do I have a premonition that in less than one year there will be a story, no doubt including a photo, about this young man being imprisoned and hanged for retaining ties and affections for things western and other traitorous qualities?/?



RC

UPDATE!! More News from Michigan :: "Veggies are Shrubs, too!"

As Seen on FaceBook HERERetrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Bryan TX

 Photo Credit: Julie Bass

Michigan Woman Faces 93 Days in Jail for Planting a Vegetable Garden : TreeHugger

93 Days in Jail :: Veggie Tales
Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  July 9, 2011  |  Bryan TX
This is a really great article about our lives in the neighborhoods. I have thought of planting veggies and herbs in my front yard because it is the only place we get sufficient sunshine year round. Why not?

EXCERPT  |  " ... This is not some gated community with HOA regulations. This is an ordinary, working class neighborhood in Oakland County, Michigan. Like nearly every other city in my home state right now, Oak Park is facing financial issues. Here at home, people are amazed that a cash-strapped city has the resources to investigate, charge, and prosecute a resident for something as innocuous as planting a vegetable garden. (Vanderlinden, Colleen. 7/08/2011. LINK) ..."

Oak Park, MI, city planner Kevin Rulkowski could only repeat what is common to front yards is acceptable. "... He said suitable means "common:" lawn, nice shrubs, and flowers. ..."

The city ordinance is not specific though, as to what plants are in those categories. Ninety-three days in jail, hearing on July 26th, creates a Go to Jail Card from the Monopoly Game, for planting the "wrong" plants.



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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/07/michigan_woman_faces_jail_planting_veggie_garden.php?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150253469533550_17522158_10150253773193550

How to Help

If you want to help support a gardener's right to grow food for her family (even if it is -- gasp -- in the front yard!) there are several things you can do:

1. Email or call officials for the city of Oak Park. Mrs. Bass has listed contact information for the mayor, city manager, and other city officials in the sidebar of her blog.
2. "Like" the Oak Park Hates Veggies Facebook Page.
3. Spread the word via Facebook and Twitter. By gaining attention to this particular issue, with this particular homeowner, the hope is that other cities will reconsider before they harass another homeowner for something like this.

What do you think? Should a front yard vegetable garden be a crime?

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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oak-Park-Hates-Veggies/184553881597878

Hey, Michigan, What's Up with This? Raise Taxes, Cut Services?

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Michigan Repub Gov Rick Snyder wants to Own it all ... ?
Retrieved by Pat Darnell

VIDEO:

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

"Last night on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show, Maddow explained that Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder is pushing a bill through that will give ultimate governmental power literally to corporations, thereby using shock doctrine tactics to create a dystopian government. Synder’s bill not only goes after collective bargaining rights, but does in fact seem to represent the Republicans’ final solution to killing democracy by enabling the replacement of elected officials, dissolving entire city’s government and handing them over to corporations. Snyder calls his “budget bill” a “shared sacrifice,” but it gifts corporations with 1.8 billion in tax breaks while hitting citizens with harder taxes, including seniors and other vulnerables, and cutting essential services to an already suffering region."

Above is the video from MSNBC: if you receive this post via email then you should go to the MooPig site to watch this VIDEO!!

"And like any good bully or dictator, the time to strike is when you’ve sucker punched your victim and he or she is lying on the ground helpless, barely clinging to life; people will give up all kinds of personal liberties when they’re desperate. So now they are striking at us by deploying Republican governors as missiles of economic warfare around the country; taking away collective bargaining, taking away Medicaid, pushing for state militias ruled by the Republican governor, and now in Michigan, literally giving the government to corporations. All of this will result in a Republican dystopia; a negative utopia often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government which entails a repressive and controlled state."

"Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is calling this power grab a “$45 billion cost-cutting budget,” thereby attempting to package an unprecedented power grab as the answer to fiscal woes. Governor Synder suggests these cuts are part of a “shared sacrifice”, as he tries to appeal to the renowned work ethic of heartlanders. Of course, that “shared sacrifice” raises taxes on Michiganders while cutting services and changes the state’s corporate tax structure so only large “C” corporations pay business taxes while all other corporations get off scot-free. This amounts to a 1.8 billion dollar tax break to business. This “shared sacrifice” eliminates tax breaks for seniors and low-income workers and gets kills many other income tax deductions for individuals."

"So, brothers, what's your story?"

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Say AAAHHHH to Michigan ....

Smitten by the Mitten
retrieved by Pat Darnell

MICHIGAN – [today]  Police pull over a woman who was wearing nothing but a bikini, and covered in Jello. She had a wrestling match at Dino’s Dugout Sports Bar and Grille she said.

Apparently it was to much effort to wash off and put her clothes back on. After taking a breathalyzer test her blood alcohol level was found to be twice the legal limit.

My question is…where is Dino’s Dugout Sports Bar and Grille, and how do I get there? -D. Dave [SOURCE]

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Fwd: giggle at this Snagglepuss...

from Composthlestoy... Michigan Correspondent.