Wildfire - December 2010 Edition

What burns your ass ?

I call Bullshit 11/22/10

"I'd be very pleased if we go through the holiday season without making an arrest for DUI," Copley said.

IMAGE Grants ?

Get out and VOTE !

What's the upcharge....

on getting some turf like Boise State for some Blue Devil Blue turf at Flinn Field ?

Not the best Dam Investment

QNO reports that the city will be showcasing the L&D 21 hydro project for a potential investor.

River projections for Monday will be 14.7 pool and a 13.7 tailwater.

Good luck on them whipping out their checkbook for a freaking foot of headwater.

Last time the potential for this to produce a single watt of electric was March 8, 2010.


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At least we know Brett's type

Sometimes I like eggs for breakfast.

Sometimes I like pancakes for breakfast.

Looks like Brett Favre likes to eat the same thing every day.

p.s. this post is Rocky Cola's fault. :)

Happy Columbus Day, suckers

Just remember while you are working your real job today to thank all of those tireless public servants in city, county, state and federal government who have a paid holiday with your tax dollars.

It gives the bastards who are running for re-election an extra day off to campaign...oh wait...they already give themselves the entire fucking month off to campaign.

My God, even the schools are getting it and many of them are in session today. Of course, that's because they don't want to honor Columbus and they get plenty of days off anyway.

Sun-Times luvs some Sexy Lexi

The Chicago Sun-Times sez...Giannoulias is young, just 34, but seasoned in life and politics. He’s got the stuff to be an excellent United States senator.

He's seasoned like a Kennedy, it looks like. Can he drive over a bridge? How do you say Mary Jo in Greek? Can I get a Hell yeah?!?!?!?!?!!

The Hell yeah is for the broads. I'd go pound some Ouzo and some tail with this dude, but I'm not givin' the Big O another automatic vote in Congress.

Robin, get Durbin on the Batphone

Did you know Mayor John Spring has a flashing light on his mayor's car (that you pay for)?

WTF does he use that for?

Will he use it when driving Durbin around to meet with campaign donors...oops...I mean...when he meets with community and business leaders?

First tenant for the new Riverfront Amtrak Mall

How fitting.

The trough never ends for City Hall

Glad to see the city is flush with cash again so the mayor, aldermen and department heads could spend a few days in a five-star hotel in Chicago.

These conferences are nothing more than taxpayer-paid vacations and people ought to let the folks in City Hall know they are sick of it.

By the way, I understand no Republican aldermen went on the trip.

It's all about the children

Are Quincy's teachers gonna strike?

Should they?

Shouldn't they?

What say u?

Under this 40, baby

Ever since I was 20, I wanted to be under a 40. 40 year old or 40 DD, didn't matter which. Although a 40 with a set of 40s...jackpot!

But it's the time of year for the local rag to pick out 20 people who have had their name in the paper or whose company can buy an ad and create a special section.

75 percent of these people work for taxing bodies or not-for-profits. That shouldn't be a surprise as those are the same people who city hall, GREDF and the local media empire believe are the chosen ones.

People who have their own businesses or actually have to produce something for a living are seen as second class citizens because those in power don't want self-reliance. They want you to think you can't get along with out them. Pretty liberal of them, huh?

Also notice that there are three members of Jim Mentesti's Junior Justice League on this year's list.

Can't believe the token QNIer didn't make it this year. I guess the Oakley grandkids still have plenty of years to make it.

You're a professional something anyway

So Ines Sainz was offended by a few catcalls in the Jets locker room, huh?

She says she's just a professional trying to do her job. She sure dresses like it.

She also showed up to Super Bowl media days once wearing a wedding dress and asking Tom Brady to marry her.

There are also pictures of her out there riding on the shoulders of football players and feeling their...biceps.

And of course there's the multiple magazine cover shots of her wearing a bikini and a smile.

This is like the chick who shows up with her boobs hanging out at the bar and then acts like Mother Theresa when some drunk walks up to her and says "Nice rack."

If you don't want the attention, keep your clothes on. Pretty simple.

Never forget

We didn't burn any Korans before they did this.

Not that we should burn them now, but to say the action might "cause harm"...please. Looks like they already caused the harm.

Try it again, bastards, and see what happens.

And if the dude in the Oval Office doesn't have the stones to carpet bomb Mecca, we'll find somebody who will.

If you were surprised, then maybe you need to go

From the City Hall/GREDF Gazette, regarding Gardner Denver:

Jim Mentesti, president of the Great River Economic Development Foundation, was also caught by surprise.

“I don’t think any of us saw this coming,” Mentesti said. “It’s hard to always know where everyone is ... but (businesses) are doing more internationally all of the time and we know connectivity to a major airport is important. Gardner Denver is a part of the global marketplace. We are living in a completely different economic climate than we once were.”

Waaaait a minute. We're Quincy. I thought anybody in the world can do business right here in little old Quincy. Isn’t that what Jimmy always tells us?

Perhaps if there had been someone from Gardner Denver on the GREDF board instead of the majority of governmental and non-for-profit glad handers, maybe the region's economic czar might have had a fucking clue what was going on.

During Broadcast Electronics’ 50^th anniversary last year, Mentesti said it was rare for a town of Quincy’s size to have a corporate headquarters. Talk about a self-fullfilling prophesy.

Mentesti, your time is up. Go play golf and drink...more than you already do...and get someone in here who can make something happen.

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.