Rebuild Him ??

6 million on Hydro.


6 Million on Choo Choo Station.

Beating Back the Partners

Knock Knock.


Who's there?


Hydroelectric Equity Partners


Hydroelectric Equity Partners Who?


EXACTLY !

Soldiers are heroes, not politicians

I usually don't bother with the Whig on a Saturday.

I can sports in a gazillion other places and the dead tree is nearly as thin on Saturday as it is on Monday. Take out sports scores and the real estate listings and there's not enough left to cover the bottom of the birdcage. Maybe if you took Saturday and Monday's papers and put them together...

But I wanted to see how they would cover a story about a local hero, a Purple Heart winner in PFC Kevin Gerding.

I should have known better, but even I didn't think the Rag was this bad. They ran a picture on Whig.com of Aaron Schock handing Gerding his medal, but the story was all about Schock. NOTHING on Gerding and what he went through as he earned that medal defending our country.

Doug Wilson can pick up the phone anytime to talk to Schock about issues. I'm sure they have him on speeddial to badger him about highway bullshit. But the story started off with how all of the Chamber of Commerce crowd laughed at Schock's witty banter over tea and crumpets and, naturally, there was the obligatory part about highways that the Obama administration has put off some transportation plan until next year.

Really? Why not build more roads? Get out the credit card. We're flush with cash, bitches!

Nothing in that story about Gerding. These fuckers suck off every politician in the country every day but they can't give any column space to a real local hero? My God, even the TV stations got this right.

Some might give The Whig credit for at least running a photo because they are so used to their mediocrity, or they are just shills for them.

And we're glad to see the boys read Fire. The city is really having trouble finding someone to write them a check for about $70 million for hydro when they don't have a license? Shocked. Fire pointed this out a couple of weeks back.

If you haven't already sworn off these asshats, now would be a great time.

Contributing Bloggers

If you haven't noticed, the posting here has increased the past few days. I have been quite busy and have slowed down on the things I want to post about. QNO usually covers what the Whig either missed or chooses to ignore so it leaves me limited thoughts to ramble on about......Sooo.... I have asked (begged) a few friends I know if the would like to contribute to Fire and maybe this will keep the activity here going. I still will be adding stuff from time to time and I am currently waiting for the river to drop below flood stage so the pro-hydro people will pull their heads out from (not there) the muddy flooded shorelines and start promoting hydro again.

Thanks for stopping by.

WGAFF: C listers

Now that Bret Michaels is done making the Quincy cougars moist, what will the Local Q have to report on now?

I wonder if they will refer to him in every story about him now as "Bret Michaels, who appeared in Quincy in August, 2010" like they do every other person who ever took a shit in Quincy?

SLC for GUV

Quincy Fire proudly endorses Scott Lee Cohen for governor of Illinois.

Pat Quinn is a career politician who has been at the public trough for over half his life. Knew Blago was a piece of shit, but rode his coattails. In other words, typical Democrat.

Bill Brady is a career politician who has done very little in politics (at least he has a business background) and says he won't tell people how he'll solve Illinois' budget mess until AFTER he's elected. Dumbass.

Hey we know what Scott Lee Cohen is. He won the Democratic nomination for lt. gov. until the Dems ran him off because they didn't like his background. Have those SOB's looked at their own backgrounds?

SLC also used to hook up with the chick in the pic. Not bad. And look at him biting his lip! It's almost as good as the dude who does Bill Clinton on Saturday Night Live. SLC feels your pain, bitch!

SLC in 2010. Illinois can't do any worse.

Patti likes her men like she likes her juries

Maybe it's because she's a dirty talker.

Maybe it's because she's got a really big mouth.

Maybe it's because her sister is a lesbian and she might have certain tendencies in her DNA.

Regardless, I think Patti Blagojevich is kinda milfy.

Looks like her man be gone for awhile. Not as long as he should have been put away, but still gone long enough she might get lonely.

I'm sure there are some of his old Quincy Democrat cronies who have the Blagojevich's home number. When Rod leaves, would one of you please send Patti's number Fire's way?

Bud...resign

We get it. You're not a quitter...even though you quit the County Board.

But, dammit, they are offering you your seat back...again. The judge has ruled and her appeal is going to be upheld. You are toast. They'll drag this out until it is too late for you to file to run in the spring.

Thanks for all of the no votes and we appreciate the martyrdom, but put this whole fucking mess behind all of us and resign. There's bigger fish to fry.

(Photo stolen from QNO)

So much for the hype

So before the overhyped launch of "The Local Q" (which tells you where the Cheeseburgers are going to play next and when Bret Michaels is taking his next shit in Quincy) the QNI hype machine gave us MidwestAgNet.com, which was supposed to do everything for farmers except milk the cow.

But I saw the pics of the chick who was running MidwestAgNet.com and I'd let her shuck my corn! Notice I said 'chick who WAS running MidwestAgNet.com.'

It looks like the QNI servers only have room for so many Websites, so to make room for Local Q, the farm site is GONE or, excuse me, is on 'indefinite hiatus' as of June 23.

You mean with all of those free TV, radio and newspaper ads this site didn't succeed? Really? Don't be surprised when Local Q suffers the same fate.

Somebody tell the Whig/WGEM gang that people are tired of their take on things. Also ask where Laura Johnson and Tyler Tomlinson went. And how the fuck did you let Nora Baldner go to work for KHQA?

The moral of the story: The next time you see one of the Oakley Mafia telling somebody how their shit don't stink, ask them how the farm site is doing and if the chick who was running it is free Saturday night.

Ah...Do your Job ??

Director of Transit Lines recommending approval of the proposal from Route Match, Atlanta GA, in the amount of $54,052 for a new scheduling system using New Freedom/State Capital Assistance Grant and Federal Grant funds through IDOT.

Illinois does porn

From The Onion

SPRINGFIELD, IL—The State of Illinois acknowledged last week that in an effort to stay afloat during the worst financial crisis in its history, it had begun performing in adult films.

Officials said that since ending the 2010 fiscal year with a record $4.7 billion in unpaid bills, Illinois has been actively pursuing roles in sexually explicit direct-to-DVD features, but is only doing so until it can get back on its feet.

"I want to be perfectly clear on one thing," Quinn said. "Illinois does not do anal. I don't care how many times someone tells us that just one double-penetration scene will help keep the state's homeless shelters open for another winter or put an additional 150 state troopers on the road. There's a line we simply will not cross."

Added Quinn, "Well, I mean, it'd have to be a lot of money."

2010 Hydro Update

Reading JRG's Blog on the "Wants, not needs" got me back on the Hydro track, well...... that and a morning inside enjoying the AC.

Bob brings up the point " We were supposed to have an equity partner in place by late June, early July at the latest. Guess what? July ends Saturday."

Today is August 1st so let's crunch some numbers.

Here is the information that I retrieved off the rivergages.com for this years thru 7/31/10.

Pool is river level at Quincy Filter plant, Tailwater is from L&D 21 and Fall is the difference between the two. The OEM of the Hydro generating turbines states that the minimum fall needed to produce electricity is 1.4 meters or 4.5'. The Chart here has the results color coded as below 4.5' as red and above 4.51' as green.

As you can see that there has been only 35 days so far this years that the multimillion dollar Hydro project would produce electricity. This is 212 days into the year.

Do the math and this is a whopping 6% operational efficiency.

Maybe that explains why the partners are not beating a path to city hall.

Thinking Michael may add some input ???

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