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    Baby Stroger Kept Cancer Secret For Election

    What do voters need to know? | Chicago Tribune Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, who zealously guarded details of his father’s crippling stroke last year, kept his own cancer diagnosis secret as he campaigned to succeed him, his administration acknowledged Tuesday.Todd Stroger, who learned about 10 months ago that he had an early stage of prostate cancer, had his prostate gland removed Monday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, county spokeswoman Ibis Antongiorgi said. “The doctor expects a full and speedy recovery,” she said. More B.S. from the Stroger political clan, and of course as I thought, he didn’t have the…

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    Village Idiocy

    Via: Flickr Title: 06-19-07_1942.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 19 Jun ’07, 7.43pm CDT PST The Village, its wisdom, decided to repave all the streets in our subdivision this summer, and the notification letter was received Wednesday, when we went out of town. Although they’d previously announced we’d have more notice, they actually gave only 2 days’ warning before taking off the first layer of asphalt, on Friday. We returned Sunday night from our trip to find that the street was blocked off to thru traffic, but somewhat driveable. Good thing we moved the cars this morning before we left, they…

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    Photographic Proof

    …that I can parallel park.  This skill will come in handy in the coming weeks, as the driveway will be all torn up due to the street reconstruction project. Via: Flickr Title: 06-19-07_1940.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 19 Jun ’07, 7.42pm CDT PST

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    Bunny With A Deathwish

    Via: Flickr Title: 06-19-07_1924.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 19 Jun ’07, 7.25pm CDT PST Seen at Walgreens: a rabbit not long for this world, given the nature of his nesting material.   And no, I did not pose it there – someone else out here in the bland, featureless suburbs has a somewhat roccoco sense of humor. Oh. Wait… this just begs to be cheezburg0red.