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According to an article in the Chicago Tribune,  the village of Dixmoor hasn’t paid their employees, a fire truck and ambulance were nearly repossessed and the gas station where Dixmoor fueled their vehicles was paid late for the third time and the village can’t go there anymore for fuel!

Here’s the link to the article.  Pretty sorry state of affairs.

<a href=”http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-dixmoor-0719-20100718,0,3645581.story”>Dixmoor woes</a>

What the hell is going on?  Team mascots getting attacked?  In front of kids who love those mascots? 

Wotta bunch of a**holes!

No bull: Mascot attacked at Odyssey Fun World :: The SouthtownStar :: News

Henry Michael Gargano, convicted of killing two Northfield police officers in 1967, is set for release on September 3rd.

Read the Chicago Tribune article on this <a href=”http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-0715-northlake-parole-20100714,0,7443503.story?track=rss“>Northfield Poice Officer killer set to be paroled</a>

I’m using a USB app suite (liberkey)right now but don’t have the plugin for Flash because it’s a library computer.  Anyone manage to get flash working?

Here’s more info on the FCC obscenity rule getting quashed by the Federal Court:

<a href=”http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2010/07/13/court-tosses-fcc-naughty-language-policy-about-f_n-time/”>More on FCC</a>

Okay, you guys. You know who you are…the ones who haven’t bothered to install service Pack 3 on the XP computer. This is fair warning: THERE WILL BE NO MORE UPDATES OF ANY KIND FOR XP USERS WHO HAVEN’T UPDATED THEIR SYSTEMS TO SERVICE PACK 3!!!!!!

Here’s the link to the USA Today article:

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 updates to stop this week – USATODAY.com

well, well. It’s about time. I figured that his choosing the Bahamas was not the brightest idea, since he would bound to be recognized.

Here’s a link to the story in the Chicago Tribune:

‘Barefoot Bandit,’ who ran from law for 2 years, drawing thousands of fans, caught in Bahamas – chicagotribune.com

It’s been all over the news: Chicago cop shot with own gun by career criminal outside police facility at 61st and Racine.

The link that follows is a letter that Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed recieved after she published a column last Wednesday on Ofcr. Soderberg.  YOU NEED TO READ THIS.  This is straight from the blue line, from a man who does the job that needs doing.

Letter from the blue line

Can you believe it?  Blago would HIDE in the can to avoid stuff he didn’t want to deal with!!

Wotta FU!  And THIS is who we stupidly elected as governor?

Damn.

Think REAL hard about that.  New rules went into effect today that will definitely affect you!

New file sharing rules kick in today