Off The Record

All you erudite people out there (there are more who claim to be than actually are) the 1^st Amendment of the US Bill of Rights includes Freedom of Speech. We are exercising our right to freedom of speech! If you don't like what you read here, you are reading it of your own free will. If you don't like it, exercise your free will not to read it. We know what we will be writing in the future but you won't. We're sure however, you'll hear about it from someone else. Rest assured we will continue to blog. We thought of it first. You didn't.

For those of you who might have missed this one, Catch Her in The Wry had a posting titled Shaking bitter women back to reality. The posting links to an excellent essay written by Darrel James, award winning author of the new anthology "Notes from the Edge." James's essay is an interesting comment on the modern feminist movement from the male perspective that highlights differences between Women's Rights and the modern feminist movement. A quote from that essay, "If you weren't so bitter about the broken promises of Feminism, you would be able to see the difference between Feminism and Women's Rights."

We blogged back in August about the government fraudulently reporting the numbers for the Cash for Clunkers Program. Now the AP is reporting clunker pickups were traded in for new pickups instead of highly fuel efficient vehicles. 95,000 new vehicles purchased under the program got less than 20 miles to the gallon.

My dear Mrs. J. Callabash! Your efforts have been of the utmost importance to me. Let me extend my heartfelt thanks and appreciation. I have benefited exponentially. My efforts are truly not worthy of all these benefits you have given me. I greatly appreciate them, none the less.

Lesley Gore I salute you! (Words set to "It's My Party")

"It's my Blog, and I'll Blog if I want to,

Blog if I want to, Blog if I want to,

You would Blog too, if you knew any news!"

This is no surprise….our tax dollars are being used to pay for campaign work for Cook County Board Clerk Dorothy Brown's campaign. Earnfare employees (a state funded job training program) were ordered to gather signatures to fill Brown's petitions for her run for Cook County Board President.