Thanks to @DailyHerald, here’s a useful resource for contacting Illinois legislators. Some use their personal email addresses, and there’s no single state IL email domain? Good government FAIL. Daily Herald | How to contact your lawmakers Leaders Rep. Michael Madigan House speaker, 22nd District Springfield office: 217 782-5350 Chicago office: 773 581-8000 E-mail: mmadigan@hds.ilga.gov Fax preferred: 773 581-9414 Sen. John Cullerton Senate president, 6th District Springfield office: 782-2728 Chicago office: 773 883-0770 E-mail: john@senatorcullerton.com Rep. Tom Cross House GOP leader, 84th District Springfield office: 217 782-1331 Plainfield office: 815 254-0000 E-mail: tom@tomcross.com Sen. Christine Radogno Senate GOP leader, 41st District…
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It would piss you off, right? I know it would really make me angry if that happened to my mom, but I can’t check because the information is hidden behind a registration wall AND a “member in good standing/temple recommend number” wall. Because when she was alive, she was really horrified by the idea that everyone in her family had been baptized against their will, after they died, and that someday she would, too. Well, it’s apparently happened to President Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. I think it’s a terrible breach of spiritual protocol, the church’s own supposedly “hard and…
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The problem was the “saint” in the name, as Utah is the state of the Saints. The Salt Lake private school has changed its name so that it will seem less parochial sounding and easier to market to local families looking for an educational alternative. Rolly: A sign of the times? – Salt Lake Tribune Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s School has been a prominent fixture in Utah education for about 130 years. Founded by the Episcopal Church, the school has proudly boasted on uniforms, school communications and signs its motto: “Nihil Longus Deo†Never Far from God. Until now. The school…
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The Ultimate Frisbee Team dropped trou, lost the season when Club Sports canned ’em. That’s my old school. Go Pantsless Ducks! U of Oregon to Frisbee team: No pants, no season PORTLAND, Ore. – In the world of intercollegiate Ultimate Frisbee, it’s ultimately not cool to go without pants. So said a student board that governs club sports at the University of Oregon when it ended a highly-ranked team’s season after five players shed their pants and underwear April 11 during sectional play at Oregon State University in Corvallis. The squad had already been on probation since November for serving…
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He’s a conspiracy nut confused about who actually carried out the OKC bombing (hint: not brown-colored socialists or Islamofascistocommunitariangaylibotards). He would have gone to the rally, but FBI arrested him at his hom. The elderly, non-energetic man he thought was the organizer was also contacted by the Feds on his way to the rally, and quickly disavowed all knowledge of the conservatwit’s activities. FBI Arrests Oklahoma Teabagger For Twitter Threats | Threat Level from Wired.com An Oklahoma City man who announced on Twitter that he would turn an April 15 tax protest into a bloodbath was hit with a federal…
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LOLcats, fight for your right to NOM NOM NOM! Also, teabagging FAIL! @nomtweets can suck it #savenom My mom-in-law and sister will be wondering what this is about if she happens to read this post. Where to start? It’s just this Internets thing, you know? Maybe I’d better put the rest of this behind a “MORE” link. See you after the jump, as the cool kids say…
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F-16s following stolen plane — chicagotribune.com It was unknown how much fuel was in the plane or how much training the student pilot has acquired, Kucharek said. The Web site cessna.com indicated the Cessna 172 Skyhawk is a four-seater with a range of about 790 miles and top speed of 141 mph. They evacuated the Capitol building in Madison, WI when the guy went over about an hour and a half ago, and he’s headed our way or beyond us by now. But what the heck? What’s his story? Obviously, he doesn’t have the radio on, he ignored “non-verbal” signals…
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An item about a French pole vaulter running naked with his equipment past Parisian tourist spots got plenty of media interest, but Yahoo Odd News ran it with the headlineDon’t go there, it’s too obvious!
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Zion senior prank pokes fun at school — chicagotribune.com “Stick a fork in it, we’re done” and the school lawn got aerated, too. This is yet another test, but this bookmarklet invoked an older plugin, WPhone, that formats the blog for mobile phones. And has a clunky interface with no visual/HTML buttons. Sigh.
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Husband: Was wife’s airport death avoidable? – Chicago Breaking News On the worst day of his life, Bob Small discovered his wife of 44 years slumped over and unconscious in her chair at the San Juan airport. Barb Small had suffered a heart attack while her spouse had stepped away to the restroom. When Small suffered a heart attack March 7 at Luis Muñoz MarÃn International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, no emergency medical personnel rushed to help her, no airport workers could administer CPR, and no one could immediately find a defibrillator, Bob Small said this afternoon. Twenty…