There is so much wrong with Chicago. There is so much wrong with its mayor, Lori Lightfoot. Over at Wirepoints Matt Rosenberg adds more: In a city this violent, Mayor Lightfoot’s outburst against Justice Thomas constitutes a grave dereliction of duty.
Over this past weekend five people were shot to death, including a five-month-old baby girl in South Shore. The infant was inside a car when gunfire erupted from a second vehicle. Other fatal weekend shootings on the West Side in West Garfield and in Little Italy. On the South Side there were deadly shootings in Longwood Manor and Pullman.
There are at least 20 others wounded over the weekend.
What is worse than J.B. Pritzker as governor of Illinois? A President Pritzker. From my post at Da Tech Guy: Reasons to oppose Priztker for governor and president.
In San Francisco two weeks ago, voters chose to recall a radical pro-criminal district attorney, Chesa Boudin. Another Soros-DA, George Gascon, may face a recall election in Los Angeles County.
In Philadelphia, their Soro-funded DA faces a call for his removal from office.
From Fox News:
A group of Pennsylvania state representatives, Tim O’Neal, Josh Kail and Torren Ecker, announced earlier this month that they had opened impeachment proceedings against Krasner for dereliction of duty.
Good!
Mayor Lori Lightfoot's Summer of Joy continues in Chicago. Over this last weekend four people were shot to death. There of the homicides occurred on the South Side, one in Englewood, another in West Englewood, and one in Stony Island Park. The single West Side killing happened on the Near West Side.
There were 34 others wounded in shootings throughout the city, including five in a mass shooting in the South Side Douglas neighborhood.
That's a wrap for Peaky Blinders. Find out what I think of it at Da Tech Guy, Review: Season 6 of Peaky Blinders.
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| Caterpillar plant, Peoria Heights, in 2010 |
Last month Boeing announced that it's moving its headquarters to Virgina. Now Caterpillar, which has had its headquarters in Illinois since 1930, announced transferring its HQ to Texas.
ILL-inois just leaves a bad taste in many people's mouths. The Prairie State's reputation for rampant corruption and high taxes goes back decades, now Illinois is notorious for out-of-control crime and unsustainable public-pension worker debt--both at the state and local level.
One day we'll leave. Hopefully soon.
From the Peoria Journal-Star:
Caterpillar Inc. announced plans Tuesday to move its global headquarters from Deerfield, Ill., to the company's existing office in Irving, Texas.
"We believe it's in the best strategic interest of the company to make this move, which supports Caterpillar's strategy for profitable growth as we help our customers build a better, more sustainable world," said Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Jim Umpleby.
Caterpillar has had a presence in Texas since the 1960s, the company said in the news release. Illinois retains the largest concentration of Caterpillar employees anywhere in the world, with 12,000 in the Peoria region alone as of 2018.But those central Illinois Cat jobs will slowly trickle down to Texas. I've seen this movie before. Texas has a business-friendly government, gasoline sells a buck less down there, and there is no state income tax.
Two months ago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said that this year there would be a "Summer of Joy" in Chicago.
Over this past weekend six people were shot to death in Chicago, four on the South Side and two on the West Side. At least 28 others were wounded.
Hey Jackass! is keeping track of Summer of Joy killings. So far this season there have been 41 homicides and 163 wounded.
Good riddance to bad trash. From my post at Da Tech Guy: “Centrist uprising” against Boudin in San Francisco shows how extreme the “Ultra Left” Democrats are.
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| Lake Bluff, IL on June 7 |
Of course, the Democrats want to change the subject away from the wretched job they are doing. The Dems control Congress and the White House. A year ago, Joe Biden was calling inflation "transitory." Two nights ago, in a softball interview with Jimmy Kimmell, Biden bragged about the US economy.
From Yahoo Finance:
U.S. consumer prices accelerated in May to the highest since 1981, as Americans grapple with a surge in the cost of gas, food, and shelter, data showed Friday.The Bureau of Labor Statistics' May Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a year-over-year increase of 8.6% last month, up from 8.3% in April. Economists were expecting an 8.3% increase in May, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg.On a month-over-month basis, the broadest measure of inflation climbed 1.0%, compared to 0.3% in April. "Core" inflation, which strips out the more volatile costs of food and gas, rose 6% over the prior year in May, more than the 5.9% that was expected.The biggest contributors to the latest jump in inflation were shelter, gasoline, and food, according to the BLS. The energy index rose 3.9% month-on-month in May, with the gasoline index rising 4.1%. Compared to the prior year, energy prices in May were up 34.6%, the most since September 2005.
Matt Rosenberg writes on some disturbing news on violence at Wirepoints: It's open season on Chicago Police: shootings at cops up fourfold in 2020, 2021.
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| Lightfoot |
And while I firmly believe that Kim Soros-Smollett Foxx, the so-called prosecutor in Cook County whose formal title is Cook County state's attorney, is a menace to public safety and should resign, Chicago's failed mayor, Lori Lightfoot, went too far when she made some alarming comments.
"Given the exacting standards that the state's attorney has for charging a case, which is proof beyond a reasonable doubt - when those charges are brought, these people are guilty." She immediately clarified that statement a little, adding "and of course they're entitled to a presumption of innocence. Of course, they're entitled to their day in court. But residents in our community are also entitled to safety from dangerous people. So we need to keep pressing the criminal courts to lock up violent, dangerous people."
Foxx, among many things, has let too many accused violent criminals go free on no or low bail, or put them on electronic monitoring, which many then elude. Crime is skyrocketing in Chicago and the suburbs. But it might be you or me who is deemed "guilty" one day by an unbalanced public official like Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor and a graduate of the University of Chicago law school. Lightfoot is expected to announce her bid for a second term on Wednesday.
Instead of upending the perception of guilt and innocence, Lightfoot should instead be demanding the resignation of Foxx.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has declared it the Summer of Joy in Chicago. Of course the shootings are continuing.
Four people were shot to death, one each on the South Side and the Southwest Side--two others on the West Side.At least 24 others were wounded.
Beetlejuice is auditioning for a sequel. From my post at Da Tech Guy: America’s worst mayor, Lori Lightfoot, will announce she is running for a second term this week.
Yellen acknowledged that the administration didn’t expect the last year to play out the way it has. "I think I was wrong then about the path that inflation would take," she told CNN on Tuesday. (A Treasury spokesperson said later Yellen was merely noting that "there have been shocks to the economy that have exacerbated inflationary pressures which couldn't have been foreseen 18 months ago, including Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine, multiple successive variants of COVID, and lockdowns in China.")Oh, what you just read was an example of media bias. Sure, the Washington Compost reported Yellen's remark, but does so in the 14th paragraph. And look how the rag immediately jumps to protect the Democrat narrative. But all is not well. Any person who isn't an apologist for the Dems knows it.