Rod Bigliarvich

Maybe he can share a room w/ Ryan & the taxpayers can save some $$$.

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Originally posted by nc42dad:
Maybe he can share a room w/ Ryan & the taxpayers can save some $$$.

That would be great, as long as our do nothing Senator Dick Durbin isn't successful in petitioning the President for clemency for the jailed former Governor. The clemency campaign might be the most work he's done since he got elected. Nice message to the public...we politicians have to look out for each other...no partisan politics there!

It just seems that corruption reigns in this State. I remember back in the 60's how they would uncover dead people voting for Mayor Daley - multiple times. Apparently these guys think they are above the law.....

Some of those prisoners are going to like that hair dew of his!!!

It reigns in a bigger arena than this state nc how about at the federal level. Sorry I know this is way off baseball topic.

Having in an interest in political shenanigans, I find fascinating the coincidence of the Trib filing for bankruptcy one day and Blogo getting arrested the next. Particularly in light of the allegations in the affidavit regarding the IFA and a $100 mil tax benny to the Cubs.

I can see the smile on Royko's face right now.

What's more fun, watching the "powerful" taking a fall, or Christmas shopping? I'll take the former. What a bunch of knuckleheads.

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Life imitating art!

I haven't lived in Illinois in a decade or so. Good to see that nothing has changed. Now if I was a Blago appointment, I may start squealing now to avoid the Holiday rush. They are going to investigate every person that got a job from Rudy and his Government. This is gonna be good.

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Originally posted by nc42dad:
It just seems that corruption reigns in this State. I remember back in the 60's how they would uncover dead people voting for Mayor Daley - multiple times. Apparently these guys think they are above the law.....

Some of those prisoners are going to like that hair dew of his!!!

In the news conference, the press asked the FBI special agent in charge if Illinois was the most corrupt state in the US, and the agent responded that although he didn't have enough knowledge on the other 49 to make that statement, he'd bet that Illinois is right up there, bucking for #1.

Illinois has to be right at the top considering this will be the 4th governor to serve time in the last 35 years: Kerner, Walker, Ryan and now Blagojevich.

The Tribune filed for bankruptcy protection. This form of bankruptcy has more to do with their ability to move around money and restructure their company to fix debt.

I did a lot of reading on our governor today. Sounds like an indictment is soon to follow. There are a lot of accusations of bribes, kickbacks, etc. My particular favorite is the one where the governor won't let the Tribune sell Wrigley Field unless they fired all the editorial writers who were calling for the governor's head.

Absolutley a new low for Illinois.

CPLZ,I do wonder how our esteemed Sen. Durbin feels today about his plea to pardon Geo Ryan? Oops!

Kudos to the editor of the Trib for holding the story so as to allow the investigation to continue. These day's that's a rarity.

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I agree concerning the Tribune. Their editorial board has been riding hard on the Cook Co. Board...hopefully the mess at the county level will come under Mr. Fitzgerald's scope next.


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I think this is a great day for Illinois.

The only thing that could make me happier would be if Todd and Richie go down, too.

I thank God for Peter Fitzgerald, our former U.S. Senator....In an "It's A Wonderful Life" moment, can you imagine if he never was born? Or never decided to run for the Senate? If not for Peter, then Patrick (not related) would never have been assigned here. He's been a godsend for all of the good and decent people in this state. John Kass ranks right up there for me, too....not to mention Mike Royko, may he rest in peace. With a smile.

I am totally sick of the corruption in this state.....I hope they ALL get rooted out.

Gotwood!

Maybe a picture of Blago and Al Cappone together would be nice here! Don't they kind of look alike?

Well this is a ray of hope for Pontiac. Blagojevich, against all logic and advice of government officials, had been insisting on closing our prison and moving most inmates to a minimum security prison (Pontiac's is maximum security) that is not a facility nearly of the caliber. A government committee advised that it not be closed due to the fact there was no advantage to closing the prison and the impact to Pontiac would be devastating. The thought was that Blagojevich had a vendetta against our area's state representative, who tried and failed to take Secretary of State last election. He was singlehandedly making the decisions in our case, despite lacking any good reasons to do it.

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As requested nc42dad.






Here's a pic of Blago when he was a youngster over in eastern Europe somewhere.



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And here's one of Capone when he was a young punk.

My favorite quote of all by our esteemed governor came back in July when he accused reporters of asking stupid questions and shot back "I have nothing to fear but the TRUTH". Well, it looks like his worst fears just came true!

Some say it's a sad day for Illinois - I say it couldn't be a better day. And hopefully this is just the beginning. I think Rod also sealed the door on George's cell as well with this one...

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One heck of a cub fan is our boy Blago.

Until he can hold them hostage for more dough anyway!

Glad to see BO (that "mother fletcher")on the
good side of town.

heh heh heh!

There's a reason I always called him Gov. Balonyb****!
This should be a happy day for Illinois; let's root them out. That is, as soon as we're over mourning Maddux's retirement. Hey, let's get Larry Himes locked up with BalonyB**** and his staff!

I really don't see why Illinois is getting so much press over this. All people in the great state of Lincoln know that it is a news story if a politico DOESN'T go to jail.

Now that would be amazing.

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Originally posted by play baseball:

I thank God for Peter Fitzgerald.

I have a prediction for you...

Peter Fitzgerald will be promoted to Washington soon after the President Elect becomes the President. There may be things that could be dug up in Illinois that he may not want to come to light, and promoting the bulldog gets him off the case.

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Patrick Fitzgerald may be promoted...that's likely, but Peter Fitzgerald, God bless him, will probably remain a private citizen.

We need Peter to run for Governor!

My bad, thanks for the correction.

It's pretty interesting to put together the Senate Candidate numbers that the press release talks about with the actual players. Jesse Jackson's doing the backstroke now. I see where David Axelrod now says he misspoke when he told the press right after Obama vacated his seat, that Obama had spoken with Bigliarvich about who to use to fill the vacancy.

It's pretty obvious Valerie Jarret knew the score and could see what was coming based on Bigliarvich's actions when she withdrew her name.

Where are all our upstanding public officials that were part of all this wheeling and dealing? How come none of them stood up previously and contacted the US attorney? Hopefully there's plenty of mud to wear, because it looks like there will be plenty of faces to plaster it on by the time this is done.

The biggest question seems to be how high up will it go...

Since the Reagan administration, it has been common practice for new presidents to fire all 92 federal prosecutors. Reagan did it. Clinton did it. George W. fired all but 2, one was in the middle of a terrorist case and the other was investigating Hillary Clinton's pardon activities. It will be interesting to see if Mr. Fitzgerald has a job after January 20th. I think that is some of the reason why he rushed in and got Rod a little early.

How does the politics of Maryland compare to Illinois politics?

I saw the BA cover the other day, pretty cool.

Does any of this mean that I'm going to get my money back? I thought that someone said $50 for the senate senate seat.

Spiro Agnew was the former governor of Maryland.
Nancy Pelosi's father and brother were mayors in Baltimore. We have our own crosses to bear, just not as many of them.

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Originally posted by biggerpapi:
CoachB25, what do you know about Illinois politics? You live in Southern Illinois.

Heck, I live 4 miles south of I-80. I'm irrelevant to Illinois/Chicago politicians as well.

Why'd I have to "know anything?" I had a spare $50. Now, I might have to actually work the rest of my life!

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Originally posted by biggerpapi:
Heck, I live 4 miles south of I-80.

I'll bet you talk funny too.

Totally off topic, but how about the shot of Drew Brees, Coach Tiller and Kyle Orton immediately after the game having their picture taken? Tiller looked like one proud papa, still wearing his Purdue colors.

Back to Blago.

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Something tells me that this phrase will be trotted out again soon...

"There is no controlling legal authority that says this was in violation of law."

Rosy - I saw that too. It says a lot about Tiller as both of the QB's looked like they really did want to be in the picture.

Back to Liarvich........

So now Ryan apologizes? Call me a cynic, but how stupid do these guys think we are? The only reason he apologizes is because he thinks it is his only way out of prison - nothing else has worked.

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rEEL, rEEl StoOpid !

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Our Gov negotiating with prosecutors as he enters his house yesterday...



"Gimme five &*%*$#@ years instead of fifteen and I'll &*%*$#@ sing like a &*%*$#@ Tufted Puffin on &*%*$#@ karaoke night!"

Now Hot Rod can join former governor Ryan in the Illinois POS Hall of Fame.

a crooked Chicago politician? How is that news?

I suspect this Blago episode is a diversion concocted by C-Rove so Palin could keep that campaign wardrobe without drawing media attention

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Hey Blago...I know you defeated Judy, who plays the accordion, but I didn't know you played the concertina(wire)!

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Where will the scandal lead papi?

Are you suspecting that St.Louis University had anything to do with this?

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Originally posted by Hopperhop:
Now Hot Rod can join former governor Ryan in the Illinois POS Hall of Fame.

Some mood music for the two of them.

Soon... after this bum gets removed...we, the taxpayers are going to have to foot the bill to change all those signs on the toll road that have Big-liar-vich's name on them. Why did we, the citizens of IL, need the Governor's name on them in the first place? So the next guy will put his name up there for two years at our expense, until the next election and then we will have to do it all over again. I really don't understand..........or maybe now I do understand why IL has no money.

Illinois not have money? What are you talking about? They spent millions trying to rid our society of the ugly scourge of seat belt violators in their famous "click it or ticket" campaign. I know I sleep so much better now.


Table 6: 2006 Number of Paid Advertising Spots for Click It or Ticket Statewide

Television advertisements 4,488
Radio advertisements 4,243

These numbers have climbed significantly since 2006. Your taxpayer dollars at work.

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Soon... after this bum gets removed...we, the taxpayers are going to have to foot the bill to change all those signs on the toll road that have Big-liar-vich's name on them. Why did we, the citizens of IL, need the Governor's name on them in the first place? So the next guy will put his name up there for two years at our expense, until the next election and then we will have to do it all over again. I really don't understand..........or maybe now I do understand why IL has no money.

I get a kick out of this as well. Why in the world is there a sign with the governor's name on it at every entrance into the state? I haven't seen other states that have that..

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Can you say EGO!!!!

Yep, "CHICAGO!"

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Thanks to ol' blue eyes, Frank Sinatra.



Our Kind of Town?

Now this could only happen to guys like us.
And only happen in a town like this.
So may we say to each of you with your distrust,
As we hear from each one of you a hiss.

This was our kind of town, Chicago was.
Our kind of town, Chicago was.
Our kind of people stool,
People who now finger you.

Now each time we roam, Patrick is.
Calling us at home, Patrick is.
Now we just frown like a clown.
It was our kind of town.

Our kind of town, Chicago was.
Our kind of town, Chicago was.
Our kind of ra$$-ma-ta$$,
And it had all that cash!

And each time we leave, Patrick is,
Tuggin' our sleeves, Patrick is.
The Dirksen Federal Building, Chicago is.
Home of Fitzgerald, Chicago is.
One town that may let us drown,
It's not our kind of town!

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Originally posted by biggerpapi:
How about the money wasted on this stupid campaign telling us that our non-digital TVs won't work in February?

How many people could this possibly affect? And why do we taxpayers have to buy those ancient people free convertor boxes?

And papi...



...who are you talking about?

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Originally posted by CPLZ:
Illinois not have money? What are you talking about? They spent millions trying to rid our society of the ugly scourge of seat belt violators in their famous "click it or ticket" campaign. I know I sleep so much better now.


Table 6: 2006 Number of Paid Advertising Spots for Click It or Ticket Statewide

Television advertisements 4,488
Radio advertisements 4,243

These numbers have climbed significantly since 2006. Your taxpayer dollars at work.

I just want to put this in the present tense. They are spending millions. In our town, Troy, you'd better not drive around without a seat belt. Why? Well we're one of those "target communities" where law enforcement can make extra money via overtime enforcing that law. Both local and state law enforcement do so on a daily basis. We're also one of those "target communities" chosen to enforce speed laws. Therefore, our local enforcement writes THOUSANDS of tickets per month. Again, the incentive for the officer is that they get to work overtime BUT MUST WRITE 2 TICKETS PER HOUR. We have a weekly newspaper and one full page is devoted each week to putting the names of the speeders in the paper. IMAGINE ONE FULL PAGE.

Correct me if I am wrong but I believe that State Reps/Senators are excempt from speeding tickets if they are in session?

It is pretty obvious things need to change around these parts (IL.)

The politicians want to you be connected via the TV so they can "buy" their seats thru advertising! Who are they kidding? If we are home watching TV...we are not out protesting all their ridiculous pork projects too.

CoachB25,

If you look at any of todays law enforcement reports that deal with traffic violations, you will see that it no longer is about protection or service, it's broken down to profit levels. My own community just recently went through the decision process about installing red light camera's or not. It all boiled down to how much net profit the cameras would bring in. They installed them in an intersection that hasn't had a fatal crash in over a decade, at least, and where any kind of crash is uncommon.

Read the "click it or ticket" reports. It talks about how many tickets an officer needs to write, at a certain fine amount, in order for the campaign to be considered successful. And these are put together by our government.

That's not leadership, we could hire an accountant to run our government and save ourselves a lot of grief under the current criteria.

In many respects, government has gone from serving the people, to threatening and fleecing the people.

gotwood.......

Thanks for the Gabby Hayes memory.

Loved that guy when I was a kid.

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You're welcome. It's not quite in living color, but close soxnole.

Shoot...I didn't realize you were that old!

Rutherford, or Gabby as you refer to him, was quite the guy...



I, being an old f@rt myself, was particularly fond of him for his support of the Timber and Stone Act.

Blago was a creep, is a creep and always will be a creep. I don't know how he was elected twice.

But, while you guys are writing about him and click it or ticket, the Vice President actually admitted to committing war crimes, and it is barely covered by the media.

Cheney said he helped clear the way for torture (waterboarding) which the United States actually prosecuted in the past with the death penalty. Everybody went "yawn".

It is astounding. He also admitted he would have pushed for the war in Iraq even if they had know there were no WMD's. So we still spend 10 billion a month, continue to take casualties for a war that was fought for reasons really only known to Dick and George.

I guess Blago and seat belts are inportant stories. But the loss of life and treasure in Iraq, along with America losing it's moral high ground is a great tragedy. And as these two (Bush and Cheney) brag about their actions, everone twiddles theri thumbs. I hope at at least someone attemps to bring these men to justice.

Drew Peterson was able to top Blago this week.

Why not join the fun at moveon.org?

Gotwood, another thanks for the Gabby Hayes throwback. I can remember him in movies with a very young John Wayne. Does that make me older than Soxnole?

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the Vice President actually admitted to committing war crimes, and it is barely covered by the media.

So you wouldn't believe them for 7.5 years while they were in office, but now that they are leaving you are going to believe whatever they say?

Makes sense to me NOT

It's called admission against self interest. Plus , it is been apparent for a long time that the administration has condoned torture. It is just startling they would admit openly to crimes.

Just caught the press conference held by atty. fast Eddie Genson. Blago is right in line with the types that Genson has defended. He was just throwing mud at the wall hoping that some would stick. He said something about that the state should be paying him his fees and that our atty. general should be defending Blago, not trying to impeach him.

My wife loved every minute of the past case of accused rapist Gary Dotson, when then Gov Thompson held up her panties looking for semen stains. Well, this case we're about to bear witness to will be the biggest trial, with the biggest names in Illinois politics that we're ever going to see. Pull up a seat, grab some popcorn and enjoy the circus to follow.

Quoting a fellow hswebster "If you can read this thank a teacher; and because it's in English thank a soldier."

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Originally posted by itsrosy:
Gotwood, another thanks for the Gabby Hayes throwback. I can remember him in movies with a very young John Wayne. Does that make me older than Soxnole?

If the two of you old fossils would submit a small sample of yourselves I could get you an answer pretty quick...

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"Ya' know Duke...I hear tell young rosy is a sittin' out there in the fourth row a watchin' us!"

Those were the day's!

Gotwood, thanks for the hilarity.

That's all I've got left is a small sample!

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All we need is one rosy...



...send it on in!

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Haven't you heard papi?

"Break them off...they'll grow back."

Well, just like most everyone else I got some instant gratification when Rod got booted out of office.

On the down side there were a whole lot more of them (not all of them) in that chamber who should have gone right with him but you can't have it all.

You can go a lot of places and you will never find the collective scum that makes up our State Government. Just watching some of those crooks get up on their high horses was enough to take the fun out of it for me.

Just wait until he starts flapping his gums to Fitzgerald. He'll take down those that took him down.

Those in Crook County and Daleydom should have already started covering their tracks.

We need the criminal conviction too, or we will be funding his pension for the rest of his natural life. Unbelievable but true.

If you saw his press conference after the ousting was complete, you realize the man is definitely the master of staying on his message. Still talking about how he was there to help the common folk. Yeah, right. People in the crowd thanking him for free health care for their kids and free public transportation for seniors... why are they thanking him? He didn't pay for it - we do!

I just can't wait to drive down the tollway and not have to look at those aggravating signs!

To all you common folk... Elvis has left the State House!

Thank God we did not "Spare the Rod and Spoil the State". (at least any more than it is already spoiled from all of his actions or inactions!!)

Good riddance.

Rod..G'bye. And please, somebody smack him on the head as he's leaving. This guy is a bonafide goofball.

Pat Quinn..He's a very good man. Long time advocate for the people. He's humble, smart and a dedicated public servant. Let's see if he can do what needs to be done here...He has major respect on both sides of the aisle.

Why did Rod never communicate with Pat Quinn? Because Rod knew that Quinn was an honest guy with tons of integrity. Quinn would have checked Blag hard in any situation...best to keep your distance from a guy like that when you're an actively squirrelly individual.

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Congratulations to Governor Pat Quinn, Fenwick's very own!

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Hair helmet? What the heck is a hair helmet?

I tried to stay out of this one since it is a baseball site but I have to ask the question. If everybody is against the ex-gov for what he did why is nobody asking that all the contracts he did for the state get rebid? The jobs filled with questionable donations given to someone else? If the tollway contract for ex required a $550,000 donation (brib) whwy does that contractor still get the work even though he passed on an extra $550,000 to you the taxpayer? Aren't the companies and people that paid the bribes for the work or government job just as guilty? Okay back to baseball.

Is it true that Blago has been offered a two year radio deal for over $150,000 a year?

Blago makes or made a salary of $177,000 a year as Governor. If this radio deal is accurate he could end up making close too or more money a year on the radio. Only in America!

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But his hair...that whole carefully crafted thick topiary on top of his head will be wasted, totally wasted, on the radio.

Blago is making his debut on the David Letterman show tonight. That should be interesting.

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There's a reason why they just call him Blago

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Now that...




has been voted off...





and lost her appetite for...




she has been approached to play the lead part in...

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Roll out the Blago, we'll have a Blago of fun!

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Promises to be an entertaining late summer read!




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You really have to wonder if he's so delusional that he believes his own stuff, or thinks we're that stupid that we do?

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The verdict is in!

I think one of them has a crush on him!



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Originally posted by gotwood4sale:
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The verdict is in!

I think one of them has a crush on him!



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Ironically, the only count he was convicted for was lying - the topic of this thread!

Disturbingly, I believe one juror here was bribed. Is there one non-corrupt public offical in Illinois? If so, perhaps they can follow the money trail to this juror because I would be shocked if there were not one.

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"Is there one non-corrupt public offical in Illinois?"

Finding that single, honest, public official here in Illinois ("The Land of Stinkin") is a tall order CD.

The best I could come up with is this...




A non-stick frying pan. I'll keep looking.




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"Guilty"

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And a few "not guilties" thrown in.

Blago is facing potentially 300 years behind bars. He'll probably get seven to thirteen.

I wonder who won the lottery to be his cellmate? Only his hairdresser knows for sure.

"Where is that twit Fitzgerald?"

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This is for you news junkies.

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Rod Bigliarvich stars in the remake of, Let's Go To Prison!

I hope his 14 years holds up. To really punish Baloneybitch, they should have insisted that he get a crew cut. I think he'd rather do 20 years than cut his hair.

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My hair! It was effin' golden!

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Originally posted by gotwood4sale:
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My hair! It was effin' golden!

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thank you liberals for continuing to ruin Illinois..

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Originally posted by wogdoggy:

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Originally posted by gotwood4sale:
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My hair! It was effin' golden!

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thank you liberals for continuing to ruin Illinois..

Does George H. Ryan ring a bell? Illinois political corruption crosses both sides of the aisle my friend.

WogDog is the "Archie Bunker" of the internet...



Boy the way Glen Miller played...
Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us we had it made,
Those were the days...

Stifle yourself J Kennedy !!

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Originally posted by mood for baseball:
Stifle yourself J Kennedy !!