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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The Future of News

Rest assured with this type of efficient delivery model that you will always be able to rely on the local newspaper to have its pulse on the community.

GREDF Airport

Date: 9.11.2001

Air Traffic Controller: Air boss we have two confirmed incoming planes headed for the pentagon and the World Trade Center. What should I do?

Air Boss ( who knows EVERYTHING): "This is probably more of a blip on the radar than anything else, This should run its course."


Nice!

QPD Irony

Situational irony is the disparity of intention and result: when the result of an action is contrary to the desired or expected effect.



Courtesy Rides, a service that provides free transportation to anyone who calls. Most of those who call are intoxicated individuals who need a ride home from a local bar and are grateful they won’t have to get behind the wheel and risk being arrested for DUI.

In an effort to protect the public the city council even changed the city code as to not allow this service to operate. He dropped his attempt to apply for a Taxi license because the Chief of Police had an issue with a $3k forgery bill.


Several of my favorite quotes include:




Duesterhaus said the ruling is about public safety.

"The public has a right to know that someone has checked out the driver and the vehicle," he said. "The licensing process is not so onerous that anybody of good character can do it."

Under questioning from aldermen, Copley said the police department hasn’t received any significant complaints about Courtesy Rides.



Pinnacle Security Systems comes strolling into town, fills out the needed paperwork for solcitors license and starts shaking down city residents under the full approval of the citys requirements.

Now the QPD warns of Pinnacle Security Systems concerns.


But hey, They met the requirements under the city code..........



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Poll/Feedback

My FAVORITE thing about QNI is..........

No License for you!

Cab License Nazi QPD Chief was quoted Friday by QNO that "Due to new information that has come to light today, I will be withdrawing the recommendation for a license and make a new recommendation one way or the other at a later time"

That new information was anonymously reported to be the story from QNO on Saturday that the Map detail from May 14 to May 29 only netted 2 DUI's. Several people overheard mumbling around city hall that there is no way the department can meet payroll on 1 DUI a week.

Diploma

Can you remember who signed your high school Diploma ?

......or could you give a rats ass? >>>>>>

Wild Fire

Just to damned lazy to bitch about......everything!

Visitor

Local leaders continue to prepare for Obama visit...

In the News.

Good news: Texas Staduim was imploded today!

Bad News: the Cowboys and their fans were NOT in there when it went down.

Hare Remover

Bobby Schilling for Congress

Wild Fire Week

Just too damned busy to post anything.

You pick the subject!

Hydro Cookie Jar

How many more people can the Mayor invite to eat out of the City of Quincys Hydro cookie jar ?

Michael Alexander and Associates as a lobbyist at a cost of $5,000 a month for up to 12 months.

Stoel Rives, LLC for those services at a cost of at least $250,000.

Great River Economic Development Foundation $3,000.

Mirror, Mirror.......

Hire fellow co-workers and friends that have zero experience on hydro projects to form a corporation to run the project.

Hire a fellow alderman's brother at 3 x's the going rate to form the corporations.

Appoint the city planner as project manager. Zero experience here too.

Hire Klingners for project planning.

Hire a fellow friend to lobby to acquire funding, mainly to pay for this funding.

Hire a power purchase negotiator for power that has yet to be generated.


"I don't know what political cronyism means"



Go in the bathroom and look in the mirror.