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      <title>Comments On: In or out, Mr. Congressman?
    
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      <![CDATA[Okay, we won't tell you........
    
    Of course, you can always ask the nose-cam 'man'.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Atwhay ethay Uckfay?????]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Oh, Shit. Don't tell me Dick Mell's kissing Jesse Jr's ass?????????.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[You Suck]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Fuck off News Flasher, Go with Jessay Juniah to Toys R Us, And SEE if you don't get arrested.
        
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      <![CDATA[Alderman 'Dick' Mell proposed a city income tax, which, he claims, will replace '85%' of the tax burdens currently imposed upon the citizens by the city government taxing bodies.
    
    Does this mean that Dick Mell has also been nuzzling J.J. Junior's ball sack?
    
    C'mon, nose-cam man, tell us all about the tag team action you and Dick Mell have been enjoying.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Fcuk Jesse Jr]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[And FURTHERMORE!!!!.....Re-"I Know"!!!!!........Take your loverboy Jesse Jr & His CITY INCOME TAX schemes & STICK IT up your SORRY ASS!!!!!!.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Not A Jesse Jr Brownnoser]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Get lost you Joe Moore-Jesse Jr Brownnoser, Go sniff their asses.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[re 'i know', aka jjllb, aka fojjb, aka ?????]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["No,...."
    
    No what?
    
    No, you don't own a nose-cam?
    
    No, you won't share your nose-cam pics you take, when you're nuzzling your nose all over J.J. Junior's ball sack?
    
    No, you don't do anything else, while you're nuzzling J.J. Junior's ball sack?
    
    Or, No, you decline to specify how often you sniff J.J. Junior's ball sack?
        
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          Posted by re 'i know', aka jjllb, aka fojjb, aka ?????]]>
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    <author><![CDATA[Fcuk Off Jesse Jr's Boytoy]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[You ALSO do it to your sodo-pedo partner Joey. Fuck You, Jesse Jr & His CITY INCOME TAX schemes.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jesse Jr Loves Little Boyz]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[No, YOU SUCK them THOROUGHLY, As YOU would with Tony "I Married A Sunni Muslim" Prickraka, The Skeptikal Asshole, The Nigerian Heroin King who gives fellatio to Jessay Jr, etc.
        
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      <![CDATA["I Know
    November 5th - 5:05 p.m.
    .....And YOU smell like Jesse Jackson Jr's balls!!!!."
    
    
    So, what do J.J. Junior's balls smell like?
    
    And, how often do you sniff them?
    
    And, what else do you do, while your nose is nuzzling J.J. Junior's ball sack?
    
    How about some POV pics with your nose-camera?
        
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      <![CDATA[.....And YOU smell like Jesse Jackson Jr's balls!!!!.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:05:01 -0600</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA[Fuck off Skeptikal Brotha, Your man Jesse Jr would turn Chicago into Shittown, USA.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Extra, Extra]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Blair Hull??????, The one who ran for a suddenly imploded US Senate run, Because of his OJ situations????????.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[As For....]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[As for Hilary's people, masquerading as 'skeptical brutha', thanks for reminding us how full of shit 'regular' dumbocrats are.
    
    With your mirror-image brothers and sisters in the 'regular' retardican party, you knuckleheads have really fucked up our country.
    
    Personality Politics, along with the Love of Money, are the root causes.
    
    HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT
    
    is the beginning of a solution.
    
    Simple
    
    Effective
    
    Easy
    
    S.E.E.?
    
    Just Do It.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Orion]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Skeptical Brotha,
    
    Shut the fuck up! We love being enslaved by the machine and don't you forget it!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[re: 'skeptical brotha']]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Thank you, Hilary, we already know your opinion of Barack Obama.
        
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      <![CDATA[Barack&acirc;&#128;&#153;s Betrayal
    Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
     
    
    
    Barack Obama, displaying his peerless skills as a courtier in Rich Daley&acirc;&#128;&#153;s racist court, endorsed the Mayor in his bid against a qualified, competent, and honest opponent: Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown.  &acirc;&#128;&#156;I had made a determination well before the exploration of my presidential candidacy that this was the right thing to do.  I am a Chicagoan.  I care about the city.  This is where I live. This is where my wife works.  This is where my kids go to school, and I want to continue to see the city make the progress it has made.&acirc;&#128;&#157; By turning his back, he shows his true colors to anybody intelligent enough to see the import of this endorsement for what it is: a betrayal of justice and a betrayal of the black community.
    
     
    
    The politically astute could see this coming because the Mayor&acirc;&#128;&#153;s brotha Bill Daley, a former Clinton Commerce Secretary, was added to the Obama campaign payroll in an &acirc;&#128;&#156;advisory&acirc;&#128;&#157; capacity. Obama really believes what the pundits breathlessly write about him and was duty bound to return the corrupt favor to the Daley regime.
    
    Some of you might say, &acirc;&#128;&#156;It&acirc;&#128;&#153;s just politics,&acirc;&#128;&#157; or &acirc;&#128;&#156;He has to cut deals to get to the next level.&acirc;&#128;&#157;  To that, I would ask, who does he step on to elevate himself to the Presidency? And by what right does he spend political capital to endorse Rich Daley and spit in the face of the black community? These questions are best answered by examining the political culture of Chicago and by revealing in explicit detail the victims of Daley&acirc;&#128;&#153;s regime and Obama&acirc;&#128;&#153;s ambition. 
    
    CHICAGO&acirc;&#128;&#153;S POLITICAL CULTURE OF WHITE SUPREMACY & CORRUPTION
    
    During Harold Washington&acirc;&#128;&#153;s historic campaign for Mayor of Chicago in 1983, he was introduced at an event by a preacher as, &acirc;&#128;&#156;an amalgamation of all the good qualities of past mayors. There were no good qualities to be had, Washington said upon taking the podium, Daley included: &acirc;&#128;&#156;He was a racist to the core, head to toe, hip to hip, there&acirc;&#128;&#153;s no ding or doubt about it. He eschewed and fought and oppressed black people to the point that some thought that was the way they were supposed to live, just like some slaves on the plantation thought that that was the way they were supposed to live. I give no hosannas to a racist, nor did I appreciate or respect his son. If his name were anything other than Daley, his campaign would be a joke.&acirc;&#128;&#157;
    
    The general election campaign against Harold Washington in 1983 was hands down the most racist in Chicago history. Cook County Democratic Party Chairman Ed Vrdolyak succinctly put the naked hostility and public revulsion expressed by the white community at the prospect of having a black mayor by saying, &acirc;&#128;&#156;It&acirc;&#128;&#153;s a racial thing. Don&acirc;&#128;&#153;t kid yourself. I&acirc;&#128;&#153;m calling on you to save your city, to save your precinct. We&acirc;&#128;&#153;re fighting to keep the city the way it is.&acirc;&#128;&#157; (Controlled by white ethnics) 
    
    Washington defeated Incumbent Mayor Jane Byrne andCook County State&acirc;&#128;&#153;s Attorney Richard M. Daley, son of the legendary mayor in the Democratic primary.After the primary, neither lifted a finger for Harold Washington. Their white supporters and the Democratic machine outside of black precincts defected en masse to the Republican challenger, Bernard Epton.
    
    From Gary Rivlin&acirc;&#128;&#153;s book &acirc;&#128;&#156;Fire on the Prairie,&acirc;&#128;&#157; &acirc;&#128;&#156;Whites attending Epton rallies startled reporters with their frank comments about not wanting a nigger mayor. They held up signs calling Washington a &acirc;&#128;&#156;crook&acirc;&#128;&#157; and took to wearing a variety of political buttons decidedly racial in appeal: one showed a watermelon with a black slash through it, another was simply all white. VOTE WHITE, VOTE RIGHT one popular T-shirt boldly proclaimed.&acirc;&#128;&#157;&acirc;&#128;&brvbar;They passed out literature saying, &acirc;&#128;&#156;You will be robbed or killed. White women will be raped. With a black police chief there will be absolute chaos in the city.&acirc;&#128;&#157; 
    
    Washington&acirc;&#128;&#153;s first three years as Mayor were marked by a bitter and protracted battle with a white cabal of Alderman for political primacy.Stung by their loss of access to the power of the Mayor&acirc;&#128;&#153;s office and the political patronage that serves as the lifeblood of a ward heeler, they reacted like spoiled children and became obstructionists hell bent on crippling Washington&acirc;&#128;&#153;s authority. They hurled racist insults and taunts dripping with homophobic invective toward the Mayor. Moreover, they conspired with a compliant media in a racially motivated PR campaign to stoke white fears in an effort to stymie Administration initiatives. 
    
    The swirling cauldron of white racial animosity towards the black community shaped the politics of Chicago then and still shapes it today.  Two years ago, the Daley machine that seized power after the death of Harold Washington wouldn&acirc;&#128;&#153;t give Barack Obama the time of day during his run for the Senate.  
    
    In keeping with the tenants of racial preferences and political nepotism for their own, they endorsed Dan Hynes, the son of Tom Hynes, an acolyte of the Daleys and pinstripe bigot who challenged Mayor Washington&acirc;&#128;&#153;s re-election by running against him as an independent. Now, when Obama&acirc;&#128;&#153;s star shines brightly enough to put the lights out on Daley&acirc;&#128;&#153;s re-election as Mayor, they endorse him for President.  How convenient.   
    
    CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT: KLANSMEN IN UNIFORM
    
    July of last year saw the release of a whitewash report by Special Prosecutor Edward Egan, which was the culmination of four years of investigation and $7 million in taxpayer funds.  The report acknowledges, according to a new standard news report, &acirc;&#128;&#156;clear proof that torture took place at Area Two, a 60 square mile police district on the city&acirc;&#128;&#153;s south side,&acirc;&#128;&#157; during the 70&acirc;&#128;&#153;s and 80&acirc;&#128;&#153;s.
    
    Kari Lydersen, a staff writer for New Standard News wrote, &acirc;&#128;&#156;Significantly the report lacked any mention of the racial component which some critics saw as the most important facet of the case.  Almost all of the 60-plus men who claimed to have been tortured by [Jon]Burge and other officers are black; the officers were all white.  Alleged widespread racism on the part of officers was just part of an overall racist justice system; in the 1970s Chicago prosecutors were known to compete in a game called &acirc;&#128;&#156;niggers by the pound&acirc;&#128;&#157; to see who could convict the most black defendants.
    
    From the website of the University of Chicago&acirc;&#128;&#153;s Police Torture Archive: Between the years of 1972 and 1991, approximately [192] African American Men and women were arrested and tortured at the hands of former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and officers under his command at Area 2 police headquarters.  Some of these victims were as young as thirteen years old. Various court cases have established that the methods of torture used in the interrogation of suspects included electric shock to the ears and genitalia, mock executions, suffocation, and burning. While Jon Burge was ultimately fired by the Chicago Police Department, not a single perpetrator of the tortures has ever been criminally prosecuted.  Ten of those tortured were sent to death row.  
    
    According to the Chicago Reader, &acirc;&#128;&#156;More than 50 men alleged that they were tortured by Burge and his detectives during Daley&acirc;&#128;&#153;s term asCook County state&acirc;&#128;&#153;s attorney, from 1981 to 1989. He was put on notice several times, most dramatically in the case of Andrew Wilson. Photographs of Wilson&acirc;&#128;&#153;s stitches, burns, and alligator- clip wounds made compelling evidence in court, underlined by [DA]Hyman&acirc;&#128;&#153;s failure to ask if Wilson had given his statement voluntarily. Received copy of letter from Dr. John Raba, who as medical director of Cermak Hospital examined Wilson&acirc;&#128;&#153;s injuries, urging police superintendent Richard Brzeczek to investigate. Brzeczek told Daley he had promised to investigate all cases of police brutality but did not want to jeopardize Wilson&acirc;&#128;&#153;s prosecution and asked for guidance. Daley sent no reply.&acirc;&#128;&#157; 
    
    Daley&acirc;&#128;&#153;s tenure as prosecutor is stained by his craven capitulation to an electorate and a power structure in thrall to an ideology of white supremacist hate.  Prosecuting police officers for their sadistic torturing of black criminal suspects, and their prosecutor enablers on his staff would have permanently put an end to his political support in the white ethnic wards of Chicago that still had fond memories of the brutal repression of anti-Vietnam political dissent at the 1968 Democratic National Convention ordered by Daddy Daley. Ultimately, Daley&acirc;&#128;&#153;s power rests on a foundation of deliberate indifference.  
    
    I don&acirc;&#128;&#153;t care how many handkerchief head Nigras Daley surrounds himself with.  I don&acirc;&#128;&#153;t care how many Negroes people his Administration. I don&acirc;&#128;&#153;t care how many Negroes show up to his re-election press conference to create an illusion of inclusion.  I don&acirc;&#128;&#153;t care that Michelle Obama worked for Daley and treated her well. What he has done cannot and will never atone for this. Dorothy Brown finally realized that and has asked U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to investigateand prosecute the Klansmen in uniform responsible for these crimes.  
    
    On the Senate floor, Barack Obama opposed the Military Commissions Act because it gave short shrift to the rights of foreign terror suspects. He said, &acirc;&#128;&#156;&acirc;&#128;&brvbar;the fundamental human rights of the accused, should be bigger than politics. This is serious and this is somber&acirc;&#128;&brvbar;&acirc;&#128;&#157;  If he really meant that, he would be defending those same rights here at home, not endorsing a man who repeatedly turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the screams of scores of black men tortured by those sworn to protect and serve white supremacy in a south side Abu Ghraib. 
    
    From important quarters in the black community, we&acirc;&#128;&#153;ve heard a cacophony of uncritical praise. Jesse Jackson and the black press are simply delusional, and the black Chicago political establishment has clearly been corrupted.  Nothing else explains their cavalier attitude regarding Obama turning his back on Dorothy Brown, black victims of torture, the black community, and quite frankly, himself. 
    
    Debra Dickerson claims that Barack Obama&acirc;&#128;&#153;s heritage is not African American.  Born the child of a Kenyan and a white woman, he lacks the cultural legacy of a descendant of slaves. Moreover, she believes that because his upbringing was managed by white relatives that we have nothing in common.  It is my contention that the sistah is mistaken.  Barack Obama is an indentured servant to the Daley machine and a slave to his own ambition. In the new millennium, becoming a willing tool and psychological servant to a corrupt white power structure is very African American. 
    
    I expect better from a former community organizer, constitutional law professor, and civil rights attorney than the politics of expediency.
        
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    Obama Be Bold: Break with Backer on Torture
    
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    Senator Obama told the New York Times this week that he wants to stand out on the campaign trail. How about standing up against torturers and those who cover up for them, not just in Gitmo -- but in his hometown of Chicago? 
    
    Former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and officers serving under him stand accused of torturing some 200 mostly African-American men in custody in the '70s and '80s. In 2002, after a criminal investigation, four who had been sentenced to death and spent over a total of 70 years behind bars on false confessions extracted through torture were pardoned, Governor Ryan issued a moratorium on executions and a package of reforms was passed. Running for US Senate, Obama was rightly proud of SB15, his piece of that reform package, which required the videotaping of interrogations. When asked by an interviewer in 2004 why African Americans in particular should support his campaign, Obama pointed to his "track record of effectively working on behalf of the issues that they care about... I come out of a legislative session where I sent twenty-five pieces of legislation to the Governor's desk, including landmark videotaping legislation of interrogations and confessions, the first in the nation.&acirc;&#128;&#157;
    
    The Senator's work in the area of detainees rights and policing is a piece of his record he'd like the media to consider when they're accusing him of lack of expertise, but there's plenty more to be done. By the time SB 15 passed, the electric-shocks to-the-genitals, bags-over-head treatment had stopped, but justice has never been served. To this day, Burge (who was finally fired in 1992) is drawing a pension in Florida. He and the others have never been prosecuted. In 2006, a four-year, investigation costing Chicago tax-payers $17 million confirmed the allegations but declared it too late to act. Now Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley stands accused of running out the clock on the statute of limitations. 
    
    
    Daley &acirc;&#128;&#147; who abandoned his tradition of neutrality to back Obama in this year's Democratic primary -- has been involved in this story from the start. In 1982, he was Cook County's top prosecutor (the presiding state's attorney) when evidence linking Burge to torture was first brought to him by the superintendent of police. For eight years thereafter, he collaborated in prosecutions of Burge's victims -- and took credit for a high conviction rate -- without taking action to investigate. Now Daley is Mayor, his former assistant, Richard Devine, is Cook County state's attorney, and his brother, Bill Daley, is a senior adviser to Senator Obama. 
    
    Chicago justice-seekers have never given up. Not long ago, they testified in Geneva before the UN Committee against Torture. The Committee demanded action and the global scrutiny could count conceivable count against Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid. Independent prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald announced a federal investigation this September, not only to examine the torture, but also to review what looks a whole lot like a conspiracy to cover up (on which the statue of limitations wouldn't apply.) Most recently, on October 17, local Congressman, Bobby Rush (D-Il) wrote to committee chairman John Conyers (D-Il) requesting a Judiciary Committee hearing in the House. 
    
    I was just in Chicago, where this is the issue among would-be Obama supporters is ho. &acirc;&#128;&#156;[Obama&acirc;&#128;&#153;s] been very silent on this issue here. We haven&acirc;&#128;&#153;t really pressed him on it because he&acirc;&#128;&#153;s been involved in what he&acirc;&#128;&#153;s been involved in. We also realize he&acirc;&#128;&#153;s playing the politics of it all and Daley is a major, major actor in all of this. And he has to keep his fences mended,&acirc;&#128;&#157; said Flint Taylor of the People&acirc;&#128;&#153;s Law Office who has represented victims of torture in Chicago for the last twenty years.
    
    But if Obama wants to show courage, confronting one of his own hometown cronies could do it. Obama knows this issue and he knows what's right. A Senate investigation anyone? 
    
    Next: tackle homophobia. 
    
    
     
    
    www.lauraflanders.com
    
    Laura Flanders is the host of RadioNation on Air America Radio and the author, most recently, of BLUE GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians. You can find out more at www.lauraflanders.com.
        
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      <![CDATA[oh dick daley your so fine
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      <![CDATA[All you voters are so stupid.  Only smart people like me should rule.  
    Do any of the non voters have O'Hara airport deals.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[No thanks to Fran Coconate]]></author>
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      <![CDATA['We' didn't 'elect' Toddler.
    
    'They' perpetrated an effective fraud, first lying to the public, about the health and fitness-to-serve of the Toddler's daddy, (though one wonders why the few potential challengers for the office of county board president chose to not act to prevent such an obvious fraud from being effective), then cut numerous back-room deals, (for the support of  all the usual suspects), then played the race card ad nauseum, then counted on the many non-voters to do what they do, namely, not vote, and, finally, mustered their army of loyal gang-bangers, hooligans, miscreants and rascals to 'get out the vote'.
    
    It is worth noting that the 'black' citizens of this city and county have apparently embraced the old-school philosophy of 'where's mine', assisted by the cooperation of the 'white' dominated political machine, both groups depending upon the continued, and consistent, lack of action on the part of those many citizens who foot the bill.
    
    It is also worth noting that, apparently, our fellow citizens need an incredibly egregious economic dick-up-their asses, before they even begin to notice, or care about, the multitude of undemocratic activities engaged in by those who 'rule' over them.
    
    Has that economic 'dick-up-their-asses' become so painful, so egregious, so unbearably unpleasant, as to be enough to motivate those who don't bother to vote, or don't even bother to register to vote, to finally take the simple and effective actions to force the withdrawal of said 'economic-dick-up-their-asses'?
    
    Time will tell.
    
    
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      <![CDATA[Patrick Daley is a spoiled violent brat.  He should never be Mayor.
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