Another terror attack in London, Islamic State celebrates

This is the fifth terror ISIS terror attack to strike Great Britain this year.

From the Daily Mail:

Police are today hunting for the 'bucket bomber' who tried to blow up a rush hour Tube train amid claims the terror suspect is armed with knives and may have left other devices.

The crude IED could have killed dozens but failed to properly detonate and sent a 'wall of fire' through the carriage injuring at least 22 people including a ten-year-old boy.

Terrified passengers were seen covered in blood with scorched hands, legs, faces and hair – others suffered crush injuries during a 'human stampede' as they 'ran for their lives' at Parsons Green station in west London at 8.20am.

Photographs show what experts believe is a 'pretty unsophisticated' bomb in a flaming white bucket inside a Lidl freezer bag with Christmas lights protruding out of the top - a type of fuse encouraged by ISIS in its online manuals and magazines.

The Islamic State is celebrating the subway bombing.

ILL-inois: Ex-supt Wyllie outsmarted by feds, indicted for fraud

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This guy Wyllie is a model educator for corrupt Illinois. Really, I mean it.

And I don't believe the feds are finished with Lincoln-Way schools. Wyllie couldn't have possibly have been acting alone.

But don't forget--that property tax money, that bond revenue, it's "for the kids." Oh, and a dog training school. Maybe Lincoln-Way students should be believed when they tell teachers, "A dog ate my homework."

Too bad Wylie is 79--if found guilty he won't get a Rod Blagojevich-type 14 year sentence.

From the Daily Southtown:

Lawrence Wyllie, the former Lincoln-Way superintendent who led the south suburban district into academic prominence, then set it on a course of fiscal ruin, has been charged with fraud.

Federal prosecutors allege Wyllie, 79, hid the "true financial health" of Lincoln-Way High School District 210 by misusing millions in bond money and fraudulently spent school district funds on personal projects, including Superdog, a dog-training school he ordered built.

Wyllie also pocketed more than $30,000 in unused vacation days and a retirement bonus he wasn't entitled to, prosecutors charged.

In 1989, Wyllie became Lincoln-Way superintendent and oversaw the district's expansion from a single school in New Lenox to four different campuses before retiring in 2013. Educators across the state considered Wyllie a leader in school finance and praised Lincoln-Way for its high achievement while spending less per pupil than most other districts.

But as Will Farrell famously said to a department store Santa Claus, the autocratic and egomaniacal Wyllie was "sitting on a throne of lies."

And to think just this afternoon I was wondering myself, "It's been months since there has been a juicy ILL-inois public corruption indictment." Well, the drought is over.

Wyllie is collecting a $300,000 annual pension.

Steyn: Hillary is like 'O.J. looking for real killers'

Like O.J. Simpson and his search for the "real killers" of his ex-wife, Hillary Clinton needs to look no further then the reflection in her mirror.

Mark Steyn explains.

Hey Washington Post: All White House press secretaries lie for their boss

Whether it's Pierre Salinger (John F. Kennedy), Ron Ziegler (Richard M. Nixon), or Dee Dee Myers (Bill Clinton), all White House press secretaries lie for their boss, who is the president of the United States. All of them. Someone needs to let the man child who writes for The Fix blog for the Washington Post, Callum Borchers, about this reality of falsehood. Read his post if you must: Sean Spicer basically admitted that he was willing to lie for Trump,

Where does the Washington Compost find these writers? Probably at the so-called elite colleges and universities.

IG: Crook County Jail school in Chicago falsifying credits and attendance

Fire the principal? How 'bout pressing charges against her? For fraud, misuse of taxpayer funds...

From the Chicago Sun-Times:

The alternative high school operated by the Chicago Public Schools inside the Cook County Jail has been falsifying credits and attendance for hundreds of students for years, cheating some of the city’s most at-risk students of an education, CPS’ inspector general has found.

In a report Tuesday detailing a litany of academic fraud, Inspector General Nicholas Schuler called the York Alternative High School at 2700 S. California “a credit mill.” Schuler is urging CPS to fire its principal, Sharnette Sims.

York has routinely granted attendance and course credit to students who already had left the jail or been moved to solitary confinement, where they couldn’t attend classes, according to Schuler. In one case, he said, a student who had gotten out of jail and was killed a week later was still being listed as attending class despite being dead, Schuler found.

Laura Ingraham: Trump exposed the Clintons for who they are

Laura Ingraham tells Sean Hannity here that Donald Trump exposed the Clintons for what they really are--amoral.

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Trump approval numbers rising

While his disapproval numbers are higher than his approval ones, Donald J. Trump didn't need high ones of the latter to win the presidency.

Still, this latest poll is good news from the president.

From AOL:

After suffering from depressed approval ratings during the summer, President Donald Trump just saw one of his biggest poll bumps in recent months.

According to the latest Rasmussen daily tracking poll, Trump's approval rating currently hit 44 percent on Monday after cresting to 46 percent late last week. That's the highest approval rating he's seen in that survey since early June, and up about eight points from his low of 36 percent in early August when his approval dropped below former President Barack Obama's threshold.

The latest poll also shows 55 percent of likely U.S. voters disapprove of Trump's job performance, with 45 percent strongly disapproving and 27 percent strongly approving.

Former Obama and Clinton official Panetta praises Trump admin’s response to hurricanes

Watch as Leon Panetta, who held multiple posts with the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations, praise the work of the Donald J. Trump administration in response to hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

(Photos) Moraine Hills State Park

On the Sunday before Labor Day Mrs. Marathon Pundit and I visited Moraine Hills State Park near McHenry, Illinois.

There's your beloved Blogger Laureate of Illinois.

And there is the First Lady of Illinois Bloggerdom.

But what about those flowers?

If yellow is your favorite color--it's mine--then late summer and early autumn are for you. Yellow wildflowers dominate prairie landscapes this time of year in the Midwest. Pictured are woodland sunflowers.

It's not September without goldenrod. Sunflowers and goldrenrod are the dominant flowers this time of year in northern Illinois.

The common evening primrose is an aberration. Its blooms are open from evening until early morning, not the other way around as many other flowering plants do it. Also, it takes two years for the common evening primrose to flower, so please don't pick the flowers!

Lake and McHenry counties in Illinois have many glacial lakes. This one, Lake Defiance, is one of the few that have not encountered development. It was formed when a large chunk of ice broke away from a glacier.

Here's a closeup of those lily pads.

Yes, Illinois has hills and what would Moraine Hills be without them? Moraines are glacial features, they consist of dirt and boulders left behind when the glaciers retreated.

I'm not sure if there are dead green ash trees past the goldenrod but they are deceased all the same.

Now we move to purple wildflowers. Above is fall phlox.

Those are New England asters.

With this lavender beauty, you twist a bloom one way, it turns back. You twist it another way, it still turns back. That's why it's called the obedient plant. But shouldn't it be instead called the disobedient plant?

Illinois doesn't have any mountains, so the America The Beautiful "purple mountains majesty" won't be found in the Prairie State. But we have purple fields.

There are wetlands at Moraine Hills.

That's Yellow Head Marsh, named for the Yellow-head blackbird which are said to live there. We didn't see any.

And with a bit of shadow you see Pikes Marsh.

Until this summer I hadn't seen a great blue lobelia, also known as the blue cardinal plant. Now I've seen it twice.

The orange jewelweed should be, in my opinion, called the mosquito flower. Every time I get near its tiny blossoms to bake a picture I get attacked by these bloodsucking nuisances.

Illinois' man-made disaster is its budget debacle. The Land of Lincoln spends more than it takes in and it has one of the worst-funded public pension systems of the 50 states. So of course we end up with spots like this, Opossum Run. Nearby, in a parking lot nearby that is open, I saw the only water fountain--it was broken--other than the one at the visitors center, which was closed. Near Pikes Marsh a wooden staircase is blocked off because an oak tree fell on it. The dead tree has been there for weeks, maybe months. What would Abraham Lincoln think?

A clump of smooth sumac seeds is called a bob. You can look it up!

Mrs. Marathon Pundit in the woods.

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