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Don't like the post-financial-mentdown bonuses AIG paid workers? Fine, you redneck lyncher

Really, AIG? REALLY?

“That was ignorance … of the public at large, the government and other constituencies. I’ll tell you why. [Critics referred] to bonuses as above and beyond [basic compensation]. In financial markets that’s not the case. … It is core compensation.

“Now you have these bright young people [in the financial-products unit] who had nothing to do with [the bad bets that hurt the company.] … They understand the derivatives very well; they understand the complexity. … They’re all scared. They [had made] good livings. They probably lived beyond their means. …They aren’t going to stay there for nothing.

The uproar over bonuses “was intended to stir public anger, to get everybody out there with their pitch forks and their hangman nooses, and all that–sort of like what we did in the Deep South [decades ago]. And I think it was just as bad and just as wrong.

And if you didn;t hate AIG then, you probably do now.

The GOP continues its slide to destruction

Apparently, the wife of ONE former GOP official was a tad rude to another former GOP senator. There is much blathering about it HERE.

If you are going to shoot 14 people, try to not shoot them ALL AT ONCE

Breaking news: Four men charged in the public park shooting that wounded 13 people on Chicago's South Side were ordered held without bond today.

I'm going to Peoria City Council tonight

It starts at 6:15 p.m. I'll be there. There's some weirdness I've gotta check out.

My worthless knicknacks and crap just got 65 percent cheaper

Yep, my CAFE PRESS site is selling stuff for 65 percent off. Go. Buy.

My new donation site

Is here: http://www.gofundme.com/TheUndergrounder

Nearby night life on The Undergrounder?

So here's a plan. Anytime a bar buys three months worth of ads, I'll show up once a month and snap a bunch of photos of patrons having a good time, and I'll post them on The Undergrounder. And I'll post them on this site's Facebook page, letting everyone Tag the photos.

Yep, sounds like a plan.

What's the difference between the MALE managers at McDonalds and the FEMALE managers?

The female managers all work behind the counter, taking orders and cooking and serving food. Oh, they also go out in the lobby and wipe off tables.

The male managers all stand at the corner of the counter, leaning on it, and chatting with visitors for over an hour. Never see 'em working.

Hell, I can do that.

Paige Davis is completely nude and does a strip tease in the play 'Chicago'

Actually, she's fully clothed.

But I know what when I ran a few mildly risque photos on my old blog and labeled them "Paige Davis nude" and "Paige Davis stripping," incoming Google hits shot through thew roof. And for several years, I got five or six hits every day from those search words.

So, anyway, here's a photo of Paige Davis hugging the stuffing out of WHOI anchor Mark Welp:





The lucky bastard.

And here is Paige Davis in the risque cover from TV Guide that got her fired from The Learning Channel:



Yep. They fired her. And the show was cancelled a few months later. Serves 'em right, the doofuses.

'Band aid' at The Undergrounder

What kind of an underground paper would be be if we didn't promote the local music scene? If your rock 'n' roll, country, jazz or blues band if going to be playing ANYWHERE in Central Illinois, use the Contact Page to tell us about it. Be sure to give of the time, date, location (the name an general address of the joint) and what the cover charge will be. And if you've got artwork, PLEASE be sure to attach it to an email to peoriapundit@gmail.com.

And I am looking for a reporter who cam compile a list of musical acts and venues, which will run every week.

Is Anthony Bourdain sampling Nigella Lawson's voluptuous parts? Unknown ....

From HERE:

British TV chef Nigella Lawson has taken refuge at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles — and is crying on the shoulder of “The Taste” co-star Anthony Bourdain — following her split with art collector husband Charles Saatchi.

Lawson and Saatchi divorced in July after Saatchi, the co-founder of the powerhouse ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi, was caught on camera choking Lawson at a London restaurant.

Since then, we hear Lawson has moved into the Chateau Marmont while she’s filming the second season of the ABC food-competition show, “The Taste.” A source told us, “She has been keeping herself very low-key.”

We also hear the voluptuous TV chef has been getting emotional support from the star of CNN’s “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.”

I really don't care, but Nigella Lawson.

Kate Upton purple monkey dishwasher

District 150 is at war with its constituents

It's entertaining, momentarily, to watch a school district at war with citizens. Then you realize YOU are getting fucked along with everyone else.

I mean, it's one thing for District 150 School Board Rick Cloyd to interurpt gadfly Terry Knapp during Monday night's budget session to demand that Knapp only speak about the budget.

Knapp -- my former WHS freshman biology teacher -- is a great gadfly, but he can ramble on a bit. Stay on the topic of the budget, Knapp was told by Cloyd. Knapp, who at that instant was going on abut Valeska Hinton Early Childhood Education Center, was furious. I'm getting to the subject of SUMMER SCHOOL, which is in the budget, for all of $2,000, he said.

Stay on the subject of THE BUDGET, Cloyd insisted, obviously not hearing very well.

This exchange went for a minute, and Cloyd eventually shut up and let Terry finish his thoughts.

Earlier, another former teacher Sharon Crews, was tearing the D-150 board a new one over how it budgeted money to fight her frequent Freedom of Information Act Requests. None of her requests were for the names of children or staff, so it makes no sense to send her requests to lawyers for review. And those budget items she requested information on that were supposed to be on the Web. They weren't, she said.

And David Kinney, comptroller/treasurer, gave a report on how they can remodel athletic fields. And he really, really, really wants to make sure they plan for the coming of lacrosse. Not that you and I have ever played this game. Not that our kids ever play the game. it'sx being pushed by the state. So, it would be wide to spend money, NOW, to make our fields playable for lacrosse, because the state government is planning on pushing lacrosse down our throats.

The lacrossapocolypse is coming.

And that's my version of last night's school board meeting.

To spare itself further embarassment, the Peoria cops have moved the Armadillo OFF Linn Street

I drove down Linn Street this morning and noticed that the Armadillo, the Peoria Police Department's experiment in un-armed and unmanned nuisance abatement, has been removed from its location on that street. This happened a day after the Peoria Journal Star made note of the most recent example of the flaccid threat the Armadillo posed nearby thugs: A armed attack that happened right in front of the Armadillo, an attack I mentioned IN THE PREVIOUS POST.

I suggest they plant the Armadillo out in the Weaver Ridge subdivision, where the sons and daughters of Peoria's elite and near-elite generally can smoke dope in their parent's basements without any fear of the Man.

Thugs have absolutely no fear, whatsoever, of the 'Armadillo'

You can kiss this fad goodbye. Peoria polish for the past several years have gushed over it's two Armadillo vehicles. Just park either of the two former armored secuerity vans in from of a track house and the bad guys would freak out so much, the bad actors would move along, allowing traumatized neighbors to recover their neighborhood.

Well, that's NOT HAPPENING SO MUCH ANYMORE. Not that the alleged fear ever happened much, once they figured out there was no cameras inside.

The whole 'armadillo" thing was created for public consumption, not to put any actual fear into the hearts of Peoria's unabashed miscreants.

I don't get Miley Cyrus

Do you know what Miley Cyrus looks like? A 13-year-old girl who sticks her tongue out all the time.

How do right wing fascists disenfranchise liberals and Democrats? In Wisconsin, they use blatant fraud and misinformation

I love Brad Blog for stories like this. Now, THE STORY ITSELF really pisses me off:

The Americans for Prosperity mailer, sent out in Wisconsin last week in advance of tomorrow's state Senate recall election of six Republican state Senators, included instructions that absentee ballots must be submitted by August 11th --- even though the election in question is actually tomorrow, August 9th.

The PO Box described as the "Absentee Ballot Application Processing Center" on those mailers belonged to a Rightwing family group tied to the anti-abortion movement. A spokesperson for the group, as we reported, said that while they were part of a "coalition" with AFP, they claimed to have had no idea AFP was using their PO Box on the mailers until they started receiving them, and that they hadn't seen the mailer before it went out. For their part, AFP claimed the incorrect date was simply a "typo" in two districts where they had sent the mailings, and that "liberals" were making a "mountain out of a molehill" about it all. Late last week, however, in a followup mailing, the group admitted that it had gone out to "everyone" in all of the state Senate districts, rather than just the two where Democrats will face recall elections next week (as opposed to tomorrow's GOP recalls) and blamed the incorrect date on their printer.

'And I would like to thank Niecey Nash for wearing that dress ...'

Niecey Nash and Kerry Washington pose at some post Emmy Award thing.

Damn, girl.

So, Christina Hendricks, who's the dork ruining this photo?

Note to Hollywood actresses: When posing on the Red Carpet, please leave your douchbag hubbies and boyfriends at home. No one wants to see Christina Hendricks all cleavagey while she's standing next to some dork:

Good riddance -- ADM is moving out of Decatur

Well, some civic booster-types are going to get their panties in a bunch over THIS:

Agribusiness giant Archer Daniel Midland Company says that after 44 years in Decatur, Ill., it is looking for a new location for its headquarters.

CEO Patricia Woertz says in a news release Monday that ADM needs what she called a global center with better access to customers and other employees around the world.

The company said in the release that it wouldn't publicly discuss details about where it might relocate.

Meanwhile, Crain's Chicago Business is reporting that ADM is moving to Chicago.

And with luck, they also close up their plant on Peoria's riverfront.

Why would that be lucky for Peoria? Because the plant stinks. it stinks to Holy Hell.

Tell someone you're from Peoria, and they will mention three things:

1. Big Als.
2. Caterpillar.
3. That God-awful stench.

I've gotten off work at a job WAAAAAAAAAAY up on Pioneer Parkway, taken a deep breath, and almost retched from the distinctive odor of ADM. I've driven through South Peoria on days when environmental conditions were such that ADM had caused a think brown haze to lower visibility to about one block.

And you cannot tell me that stench has not caused prospective employers to get back on the plane and leave.

But you mention these problems to any civic leader and they'd just mutter something about jobs and tax revenue and try to move away from you.

What else would I expect? The stench problem is worse in the South Side, and who gives a fuck about anybody who lives there. If they mattered at all, they'd live up by Weaver Ridge.

Cops are SWARMING all over North Peoria today

I just took a trip up to far North Peoria with my Dad.

And we passed, no kidding, four cop cars on patrol. Because when you have a non-fatal home invasion out in Weaver Ridge THAT is the most important crime that requires a full-forced response from Peoria's Finest.

'But people are actually DYING in South Peoria,' you might ask. 'Shouldn't THAT also merit a response?'

Ha.

I predicted this back when the home invasion happened.

This Modern World takes on XBox evil

Why not? They sure as HELL are waging war on us

A couple posts ago, I suggested hanging a few CEOs from lamp posts and let their deaths be an onject lesson for CEOs everywhere.

You would have thought I suggested having fried baby for lunch.

Yet the 1 percenters want to eliminate health care, cut Food Stamps, etc. How many people to you think die every day while these bastards cut and cut and cut?

Yes, it's class warfare.

Can I have one for Christmas? I promise I'll clean my room ....

A JET PACK. An honest to goodness Adam-Strange-style jet pack. Me want.

According to Aviation Week the Auckland-based company has conducted initial manned test flights of the latest prototype of its ducted-fan Jetpack after receiving a permit to fly from New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority. The single-pilot machine is being developed to comply at first with rules governing microlights, but new CEO Peter Coker acknowledges Martin will have to work with individual regulators around the world if the Jetpack is to fulfill its promise as a “motorbike in the sky.”

Designed for a cruise speed of 30 kt., range of 30 km (19 mi.) and endurance of 30 min., the vertical-takeoff-and-landing Jetpack is attracting interest for uses as disparate as search and rescue, pipeline inspection, corporate events, flying displays and a “jetpack experience” for thrill seekers. As an unmanned heavy lifter, with the ability to carry a 150-kg (330-lb.) payload, the machine is being looked at by the agricultural and film industries, Coker says.

I'd settle for Sofia Vergara

I mean, as long as Elizabeth Warren is married.

An Elizabeth Warren candidacy is just about the only thing that would save my vote for the Democrats in 2016

I'd marry her, if she'd have me. Vote for her? Oh, HELL YA. And I'm more likely to vote for the Republican than I am for Hillary Clinton.

Complaining about Asian boy toys gets LGBT editor fired

You know, in a way, I'm glad The Undergrounder is a one-man operation. I don't have to worry ABOUT THIS SORT OF SHIT:

An ugly dispute over race and class at one of Texas’ biggest LGBT newspapers deepened this week when a former top editor added charges of sexual harassment to his complaints about the management of the Dallas Voice.

John Wright, who was an editor at the Voice since 2008, alleged late last week that he had been fired for complaining about a lack of racial diversity on its cover, and for causing conflicts with advertisers. He told BuzzFeed Saturday that he also left with concerns over the newspaper’s internal culture.

“After I got fired, I started looking at stuff I had collected over the years,” Wright told BuzzFeed. “And [former Voice owner] Robert Moore was sending me these pictures of these Asian boys. He goes to Thailand sometimes, and there is this bigger issue because I know a lot of wealthy gay males travel to Thailand and Mexico and I don’t know if they hire prostitutes or what, but it’s using a Third World country as a glory hole is the best way to put it. It’s pretty horrible.”

Boy, this hurts

Ouch. I mean OUCH:

A 66 year old Colombian man reportedly had his penis amputated after he overdosed on the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra in an attempt to impress his new girlfriend.

The man, a former member of the Gigante, Huila, municipal council, experienced pain after a few days of constant arousal. Doctors soon found that his organ was inflamed, fractured, and was showing signs of gangrene — which led to amputation in order to prevent the infection from spreading to the rest of his bodies.

Doctors have warned about taking drugs like Viagra without a prescription, due to the possible side effects.

I'm with Jack

Are you kidding me? The dude won THREE EMMYs and was part of TV FROM THE BEGINNING. And that scene where he wipes his hands on Tony Randall's tier is classic.

Yeah, but by all means, Emmy producers pander to YOUTH by fawning all over dead-ass druggie Cory Monteith, whose name I had to Google when he died.

Agreed, you never hear a logger campaining for not cutting down redwoods

Hey, we've got an out-of-control gang war in the All America City

Here's the LATEST, as of 22 minutes ago from Peoria one-and-only newspaper of record. Maybe we ought to resubmit that video.

Another day closer to doomsday

I was thinking this morning. How many millions, if not billions, of gallons of oil did we burn going to work yesterday? One day closer to that day when we will burn the last gallon of oil to come out of the ground. What will the oil companies to them? Probably retreat to their secret lair, where an undereducated populace will to toil raise food by hand to feed their sorry asses. The rest of us will be fucked.

A Rachel Welch hubba moment

Yeah, she's older than my mother. Sue me.

Bernie Shelton died for our sins

Bernie Shelton was killed leaving the Parkway Tavern in 1948. Contrary to popular belief, this did not end the "Peoria liberal" philosophy that left Peoria essentially wide open for liquor and gambling.

The switch to the City Manager form of government didn't do that either, contrary to propaganda from civic booster types.

No, the criminal masterminds stopped coming from the ranks of organized crime. The city then became controlled by the businessmen who buy and sell city councilmen.

The only thing that will clean up Peoria is a deadly food poisoning outbreak at the Lariat Club on election night.

Viva la pretend revolution

I'm not afraid of class warfare. We outnumber the 1 percenters by like 99 to 1.

If Caterpillar workers decided to kill the chairman and CEO, he'd probably die. His goons might take out a few though.

And would that be a big loss? No, not really. Cat stockholders would pick a new CEO, who would no doubt act nicer to workers, lest he or she be lynched like his predecessor.

Things started to get better for workers in the 1930s and 1940s is that they were scared shitless there would be revolution.

Right now, there's really no bit worry that the poor and unemployed will hold a revolution. People enjoy their unemployment benefits, their Welfare. Sure, there are some poor and lower middle class who are revolting. But they are numb nuts who are worried Obama is a foreign-born socialist who wants to take their guns.

Now, I'm not advocating that people start killing CEO's. I'm just saying that because CEOs aren't worried about being hung from lamp posts if probably one of the reasons were are still in this recession.

Will County Judge Gerald Kinney should be raped with a metal pipe wrapped with barbed wire, then hung from a lamp post while the citizenry throw rotten tomatoes at him

Well, that's why I would do to any JUDGE WHO THREATENS TO JAIL JOURNALISTS:

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Several journalism organizations are criticizing a judge's decision to find a suburban Chicago reporter in contempt for not disclosing how he obtained confidential police reports about a gruesome double murder.

Will County Judge Gerald Kinney on Friday fined Joe Hosey, a reporter and editor for the AOL news website Patch, $300 a day for not revealing who leaked him the documents. Kinney also said if Hosey doesn't disclose the information within 180 days he could go to jail.

The board of the Illinois News Broadcasters Association, which represents about 200 journalists, issued a statement calling Kinney's decision "a slap at the First Amendment."

This all boils down to the fact the the reporter in question works for Patch, an online-only news experiment. Dick Durbin is sponsoring legislation that would protect journalists, as long as they don't work for online news organizations. Fuck you Dick Durbin. Fuck you with an elephant's dick.

Here's some 1950s retro-smut for my loyal readers

Speaking of news that will do you absolutley no good whatsoever, here's an article from MESSY NESSY about 1950s pin-up queen Vicki Dougan, the real inspiration for Jessica Rabbit.

Mainstream media news that did me absolutely no good whatsoever

Real Housewives Star LuAnn de Lesseps Splits From Boyfriend Jacques Aszoulay.

From the PJStar.com.

Reading this news did not improve me life in the the slightest. It did not improve ANYONE's life in the slightest. Yet, a mainstream reporter spent all day tracking down the facts for this story. God knows how many editors spent their day refining it to make it perfect, because God help us all if a sentence ends in a preposition. And then, layout and distribution.

I didn;t link to this story. I refuse. If you HAVE TO READ IT, do a Google search. Google is good for this sort of thing.

OMG! A far North Peoria Crime Spree

That means there was, for the second day in a row, a MAJOR CRIME NORTH OF GLEN AVENUE. Meanwhile, shootings in my neighborhood often go unreported.

The "major crime" in question was a bank robbery. When is the last time there was a bank robbery and they DIDN'T catch the dude. You can rip off a dozen gas stations and get away with it. You can shoot taxi drivers and get away with it. But rob a bank? The Feds will get you.

So, exactly WHO does District 150 plan to sell THIS school building to?

The School District cannot find anyway to boost revenue except by selling off its assets. Luckily for them, they have ALL THESE BUILDING they used to use, but now they no longer have any use for. What luck! I rather doubt they can fit a WalMart into this site though:

Oner day after I lambast the city for Bigelow slum properties, SURPRISE someone mows down the weeds

I take full responsibility. Yesterday, about 25 hours ago, I tore the city a new hole for the state of at least three probably abandoned properties on Bigelow, just north of West Nebraska, with overgrown weeds in their front yards. And whadayaknow, ALL of them now have been mowed. And they look 100 percent nicer.

You cannot deny the facts. I bitch about something here, on this blog, and action from the city follows. Of course, there was probably months of bitching being down by the local neighborhood association, but HEY.

The city is going to give Emo's Ice Creak Shack $13,028 to repair the parking lot. Why? Just because

And you thought the city was out of money.

Abandoned properties in the Heart of Peoria

Take a drive on Bigelow between Nebraska and Republic. HORRIBLE properties; overgrown with weeds, taller than the fireplug in one yard. I'd be surprised if anyone has lived in them for the last ten years. Does the city NOT have any inspectors? I feel sorry for the owners/occupants of nearby homes.

Crowd-funded journalism in the River City

OK, folks. Here's the deal.

It has been suggested I "panhandle" to get the $10 needed to get in to see the Ansel Adams exhibit at the Peoria Riverfront Museum.

So, this is me panhandling. If I get, say, $20 in donations, I'll go. And I'll write a 600 word review.

Call it crowd-funded journalism.

Here's the agenda for Tuesday's Peoria City Council meeting

It's HERE. There's some potentially vile shit being perpetrated here, it looks like. I may have to go just to HOPEFULLY shed some light.,

Is it time for a national voting holiday?

That was an interesting suggestion made to me today? People are disenfranchised by simply not having the time to vote. They might has two different part-times jobs, with different shifts on the same day, Or, they may spend two hours a day commuting on public transportation.

But try telling the 1 percenters that they have to give their minions THE DAY OFF. Good lord, the shit will fly.

What I'm afraid will happen is that banks and government offices will close and everyone else will be expected to work.

Bruce Rauner issues press release revealing what an uncomplicated ass he really is

Bruce Rauner has virtually no chance of becoming governor. And one thing I've noticed about no-shot politicians: They issue LOTS of press releases. And Rauner today issued one claiming that the ONLY thing that will boost employment rates in Illinois is the immediate defeat of Gov. Patrick Quinn.

First, the economy sucks on all 50 states. Not just in states headed by Patrick Quinn.

Second, I rather doubt that there are employers waiting by the phone, ready to open factories in Illinois, upon hearing that Patrick Quinn is no longer governor.

Now, Quinn has been a huge disappointment. Why? Because he used to be a reformer. But now he's just another suck ass Illinois politician.

Another home invasion?

Here's the press release:

Peoria Police were called to the 4300 blk of Longmeadow Ct., Peoria, regarding a home invasion. During the home invasion, two of the home owners’ vehicles were taken, by multiple suspects. Both vehicles are entered into police databases as stolen, and that they were taken during this incident. We are requesting assistance in locating these vehicles. The first car is described as a black 2009 BMW 750L, IL license #LXRYHOM. The second vehicle is a white Mazda SUV, IL license #TVOLS2. If these vehicles are seen.

DO NOT approach either of them, but please call the Peoria Police Department with this information. Investigation continues ...

If you have any information regarding this investigation, call the Peoria Police Dept at 673-4521, or Crimestoppers at 673-9000.

Here's the neighborhood on a Google map:


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Holy shit! That's off of Weaver Ridge Boulevard! That's a serious White Person neighborhood. No wonder they issued a press release.

Five bucks say they will solve this before the home-invasion murders on Margaret.

Chuck Todd bangs donkeys

Stupid, lazy mainstream journalists:

The high cost of preventing death my terrorism

"Ohio State University political scientist John Mueller and Mark Stewart, an engineering professor at University of Newcastle in Australia recently estimated that the U.S. has spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security measures since 2001 (this figure does not include the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan). Assuming that 2,300 Americans might have been killed by terrorists inside the United States, this implies a cost of more that $400 million dollars per life saved. Typically when evaluating the costs of protective regulations, federal government agencies set the value of a life at about $9 million. "However, terrorism is especially frightening (that’s why they call it “terrorism”), so the average citizen might want to spend double the usual amount to prevent a death. But still suggests that on a reasonable benefit-cost basis public and private spending is 20 times too much to prevent deaths from terrorist attacks. Now let’s retrospectively add the tragic 3,000 deaths from the 9/11 attacks to take into account the remote possibility that terrorists might be able to pull off another similarly spectacular assault; that still means that nearly $200 million is being spent per plausible life saved. "A good bit of the trillion dollars has supported measures that threaten our liberties by beefing up the national security state. Since 2001, we all get to enjoy airport security theater; we must carry proper “papers” in order to gain admission to federal buildings; and federal minions have felt free to wiretap without warrants."

http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terrorism-should

Advice I have received regarding the content of The Undergrounder, a gonzo, underground blog

1. No sex.
2. No cussing.
3. Nothing too risque in terms of photos.
4. None of that radical political shit.

Double murder on West Margaret in Peoria

No doubt in retaliation for the shooting in the East Bluff the day before yesterday. Emerge Peoria is reporting that her peeps have been hearing shooting after shooting all night. The police released NO NAMES, NO AGES of the victims. We're mushrooms, folks. Kept in the dark and fed a steady diet of shit.

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