The Evanston Everyman 8/5/09
If good looks was a minute/ You know that you could've been an hour- Smokey Robinson, 'The Way You Do The Things You Do'
Last one in is a rotten egg!
- According to ComEd, the power outage on June 28 affected 4,878 customers and was caused by a problem with the 34 KV line. Power at HQ was out for about two hours. I wanted to make a bagel. Damn you, 34 KV line!
- Monday’s Rules Commitee meeting came to the conclusion that we did “pretty well” in lapping up stimulus funds. $750,000 wil go to updating the Shani Davis Center, $350,000 to water plants, $1 million to District 65 to get greener. No word on the $1 million Michael Brett grant. Get working, Jan!
- The committee also discussed whether we need a lobbyist in Springfield. If by lobbyist, they mean someone who’s willing to make moral compromises, spread money around, and make Free Lunch his middle name, than Evanston, I’m your man!
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The Evanston Everyman 4/23/09
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The inspector general for the TARP program announced Tuesday that more than $2 trillion of the $3 trillion dollars handed over to the financial industry lacks proper accounting. If you use the FBI figure that 10% of all federal money given to the private market gets lost to fraud, you have $30 billion dollars. Over the first three months of the year companies like GM, AIG, Citigroup, and others spent $9.2 million to lobby the government for more funds. GM received an extra $5 billion dollars last week, and Chrysler received $500 million in temporary loans to stem the tide until their restructuring deadline. Yet The Post reported that Chrsyler Financial turned down financial aid because their executives did not want to accept mandated compensation limits. Meanwhile, the rest of us struggle to make our bills and hold up our heads. Don’t let the Man ever fool you. He’ll always get his.
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Making light of the boot is a bootable offense.
On the all-time sucky thing list, getting a parking ticket for your disabled vehicle has to rank fairly high. Not over having a bird shit on you (still hot at No. 1( and something that has happened to me personally three times, THREE- really, what are the odds of that?)), but well above stepping in dog poop (a common occurrence in dog rich-owner poor Evanston). I walked out to my car an hour ago to move it because I believed the street cleaning days were Wednesday-Thursday. Alas, no. So now I have two parking tickets and not even one working car. Maybe I should take a hint and give away the busted car? Yes, I should. It’s on the list, people. It’s a real list. On a chalkboard. Next to the front door.
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Yeah, we’ve been on a lengthy hiatus here at Shambollocks!. An outbreak of paranormal experiences which would fluster the firm of Venkman, Stantz, and Spengler bombarded us since our last post. My computer breathed its last breath. A friendly neighbor took my bicycle, on which I put in a good day’s work fixing, off the back porch. Locusts swarmed over this cold, gray land by the lake. I fell into some Bootsy Collins kind of deep funk.
I left you. I apologize. I do.
I can’t promise it won’t happen again. But I will tell you that I will do my damnedest to prevent it.
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