From an email sent by Jim Fruin, Bloomington alderman: From: Jim Fruin <jafruin@comcast.net> Date: 07/28/2013 8:07 AM (GMT-06:00) To: ‘David Hales’ <dhales@cityblm.org>,’Barb Adkins’ <badkins@cityblm.org>,’City Council and Mayor’ <citycouncil@cityblm.org> Cc: ‘Bobby Kerns’ <bkerns@cityblm.org>,’Alex McElroy’ <amcelroy@cityblm.org>,’Craig McBeath’ <cmcbeath@cityblm.org>,’Kathryn Buydos’ <kbuydos@cityblm.org> Subject: Transparency – section on website I’d suggest that Campaign contributions be easily accessible on our website. We need to […]
Why Are The Chinese Gobbling Up Real Estate And Businesses In Detroit?
July 31, 2013 by 1 Comment
Michael Snyder Activist Post July 30, 2013 Something very strange is happening to Detroit. Once upon a time, it was the center of American manufacturing and it had the highest per capita income in the United States. But now the city is dying and the Chinese are moving in to pick up the pieces. Lured by news stories […]
Fly on the Wall: the black churches program
July 31, 2013 by 1 Comment
The program for troubled west-side youth is getting glorious reviews – by the organizers. The council members who voted against it are getting vilified by none other than Rob Fazzini: The city council members who voted for the small financial investment should be proud of these impressive results. Thanks to the Mayor and those who […]
Hot weather and climate change–a mountain from a molehill?
July 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Climatism: A Mad, Mad, Mad World by Steve Goreham CHICAGO, July 3, 2013 — On Sunday, Death Valley temperatures reached 129oF, a new June record high for the United States, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas reached 117oF, tying the previous record set in 1942 and 2005. National Geographic, NBC News, and other media […]
OUCH! SENATE GLOBAL WARMING HEARING BACKFIRES ON DEMOCRATS AND SENATOR BOXER
July 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Expert witnesses totally dismantled warmism July 22, 2013 by Marc Morano http://watchdogwire.com/florida/2013/07/22/ouch-senate-global-warming-hearing-backfires-on-democrats-and-senator-boxer/ During yesterday’s Environment and Public Works hearings, Sen. David Vitter asked a panel of experts, including experts selected by Boxer,“Can any witnesses say they agree with Obama’s statement that warming has accelerated during the past 10 years?” For several seconds, nobody said […]
The area Communists
July 30, 2013 by 1 Comment
by: Diane Benjamin Today there is a letter to the editor in the Pantagraph that Marxists, Communists, and progressives will love. The title is “Flat tax unfair to the poor”. I could start with “Life isn’t fair”, put the concept goes much deeper. History lesson: America has had a revolutionary effect on the WORLD! Through […]
Fly on Wall: How Obama won
July 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
From another email making the rounds: Subject: Prophesy Fulfilled H.L. Mencken (born 1880 – died 1956) was a journalist, satirist, critic, and Democrat. He wrote this editorial while working for the Baltimore Evening Sun, which appeared in the July 26, 1920, edition: “As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, […]
Congressional Liars Repeatedly Protect Obamacare
July 30, 2013 by 2 Comments
Published Mon, Jul 29th, 2013 Floyd Brown, Chief Political Analyst I love the Tea Party members of Congress. They’re courageous, principled and, at times, innovative in their use of legislative rules to make major statements about policy. It’s too bad they face a wily foe who poses as their friend. You see, the GOP leadership in Congress […]
Bloomington Police Press release
July 29, 2013 by 7 Comments
No mention of concealed carry? No, the police is there for you. The 2nd amendment must mean call the police, you aren’t able to defend yourself. History shows attacks stop when the thugs don’t know who is ready and able to defend themselves. Check the crime rates in Florida after concealed carry was passed. […]
Fly on the Wall: This and that
July 29, 2013 by 1 Comment
I hear the IT guys at State Farm can apply for a transfer if they want out of Bloomington-Normal. Still believe in 10 years they will be employing 15,000 people here? Did you know the Indians are being sent back to India and will work from there instead? Maybe government funding of a bypass, Community […]
Liberals Unhinged!
July 29, 2013 by 1 Comment
by: Diane Benjamin There is nothing funnier than a liberal losing an argument. Hard as they tried in the past to not reveal their political leanings, not getting exactly what they want brings out their true feelings. Government and more government. Government must fix all problems. Government creates problems? More government is needed to fix […]
Why Rob Fazzini isn’t fit to be alderman
July 27, 2013 by 2 Comments
by Diane Benjamin If you haven’t kept up on the Schmidt-Fazzini racial rout, see this link: https://blnnews.com/2013/07/25/racism-under-every-bush-if-you-want-it-there/ Fazzini couldn’t help but show his brilliance by responding again to the email: He is our President winning by a landslide, and he is a black man. We need to accept and embrace both. Robert B. Fazzini […]
Weekend Fun – Sort of
July 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Non-Racism on the Bloomington City Council
July 26, 2013 by 10 Comments
by: Stanley Wonders (Where have you been hiding Stanley? Welcome back!) Since Bloomington is a proud “Not in Our Town” town, surely we can never go too far to prove it! Especially in our elected officials! But just to BE SURE, some of them have given you the apparent ultimate PROOF. In response to a […]
Fly on the Wall: Cheers to Judy Stearns
July 26, 2013 by 1 Comment
The Pantagraph hinted and the rest of the Council is trying to bury that Judy is the one who discovered paint on the historic monuments in Miller Park. She reported that a few had been painted to the City – but the City didn’t listen. Later in the week the rest were painted! So much […]
Maybe Local Schools wouldn’t need tax increases if . . .
July 26, 2013 by 1 Comment
Illinois dumped Common Core! Georgia has now joined the states of Alabama, Utah, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania in withdrawing from the national Common Core tests. With this latest state withdrawal, the program appears to be in danger of unraveling. According to Politico, now that the new math and language tests that are tied to theCommon Core national academic standards […]
The Chief Community Organizer’s August agenda
July 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
We don’t have leadership, we have community organizing. Get what looks like a lot of people all talking the same, you get what you want. At least it used to work, but the game is up. The GOP will fall for this and think the country really wants action on these items. So you can […]
Another Progressive Company
July 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Why do they want to overturn Citizens United when it benefits their side too? Probably every knows by now the Progressive Insurance is named Progressive because the name applied. In case you didn’t know and don’t want your money going to left-wing groups, here is another company to avoid:
Making the News, Not Reporting It – Why Did the Networks Ignore the Facts?
July 26, 2013 by 1 Comment
By Editor-in-Chief on July 24, 2013 The February 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin might never have happened if school officials in Miami-Dade County had not instituted an unofficial policy of treating crimes as school disciplinary infractions. Revelations that emerged from an internal affairs investigation explain why Martin was not arrested when caught at […]
Illinois: I’m entitled!
July 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Retired doctor earns highest public pension in Illinois history CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) – As the pension crisis in Illinois moves even closer to the tipping point, a milestone of sorts has been crossed without notice — until now. A retired doctor with big-time credentials will get a public pension of more than a half million dollars […]
Will they investigate?
July 25, 2013 by 2 Comments
This post is a part of the investigation BlnNews, Edgar County Watchdogs, For the Good of Illinois, and other citizens have been jointly investigating concerning Illinois corruption with processing of Medicaid claims. http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2013/07/they-have-been-notified/ They have been notified! For over 7 months we have been investigating issues related to Health and Family Services and its relationship […]
Racism under every bush-if you want it there
July 25, 2013 by 4 Comments
by Diane Benjamin First, I have two black relatives, but I had to think about it first. Non-racists don’t think about people’s skin color. They are relatives – not BLACK relatives. Judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Evidently, only people who want to see racism still do, […]
Obama’s Amnesty History
July 25, 2013 by 1 Comment
A JUDICIAL WATCH SPECIAL REPORT A Special Illegal Immigration Report Timeline to Backdoor Amnesty, 2009-2013 The conspiracy by the Obama Administration to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens by whatever means, constitutional or otherwise, in the United States began within days of Barack Obama’s first inauguration. The following timeline outlines the extent of this conspiracy to […]
Our taxes vrs others
July 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
by: Diane Benjamin Since there are discussions about raising sales tax, it is worth comparing Bloomington – Normal to surrounding cities. Then, since sales taxes aren’t the only taxes, let’s compare property taxes. Not only does a group of developers expect you to fund soccer fields and a Community Center, the local school districts are […]
Think the world didn’t make sense before? See this: UPDATE
July 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The amendment failed to pass. This is a link to the vote: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll412.xml 134 Republicans think it’s just fine that the NSA is collecting data on all of us and storing it in Utah. They include Adam Kinzinger, John Boehner, and Eric Cantor. Republicans voting to take away power from the NSA were: Rodney Davis […]
Why America is in decline
July 24, 2013 by 3 Comments
by: Diane Benjamin This morning I received the following email. I redacted her last name and email address. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Katie <> wrote: My name is Katie, I am 24 years old, and I volunteer at Progressive Public Affairs. Right now I am working on a project to spread the […]
Obamacare’s Branch of the NSA
July 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Community organizers will use a Federal Data Hub to sign up people for subsidies — and even ballots. By John Fund President Obama has had a poor record of job creation, but at least one small economic sector is doing well: community organizing. The Department of Health and Human Services is about to hire an army of […]
Conservatives sick of ObamaCare have a plan
July 23, 2013 by 2 Comments
GOP SENATOR SAYS COALITION TO BLOCK AND DEFUND OBAMACARE IS GROWING, NAMES NAMES U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) told TheBlaze Monday he has recruited more than a dozen Senate Republicans to help him defund President Barack Obama’s landmark health care law. Fifteen Republican senators, including Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Ted Cruz (Texas), John Cornyn (Texas), […]
Family wrestles with state Medicaid bureaucracy
July 23, 2013 by 1 Comment
by: Steve Stout steves@mywebtimes.com 6/1/2013 http://mywebtimes.com/archives/ottawa/display.php?id=476510&query=Chalkey A Streator family, frustrated by the state’s constantly changing Medicaid rules and regulations, worries about the future well-being of their medically fragile son and other children like him as they fight the bureaucracy for help to keep his costly prescriptions within the family’s reach. Gary and Christine Chalkey’s son, Jacob, […]
‘Marriage Equality’ Isn’t the Only Goal
July 23, 2013 by 3 Comments
Written By David E. Smith Illinois Family Institute In their efforts to redefine marriage, most homosexual activists become apoplectic at the suggestion that there is more to their efforts than just their purported goal of achieving “marriage equality.” They dismiss the comments of homosexuals like lesbian journalist Masha Gessen who states that the institution of marriage “should not exist,” and that […]
Does expanding medicaid mean better health care?
July 23, 2013 by 4 Comments
View from Michigan – nothing different than Illinois: Medicaid Recipient: ‘When I ask where I’m supposed to go, I’m told the hospital’ By ANNE SCHIEBER Julie Henry has been on and off Michigan Medicaid for more than 20 years. She knows about the difficulty in finding a doctor who will accept Medicaid and why the system routinely forces her […]
Free Government Phones in Bloomington!
July 22, 2013 by 1 Comment
Courtesy of Dan Moore. The picture was taken last week. The tent was on the corner of W. Market and Western. Does it look like they have an income verification system? Your tax dollars being redistributed.
Normal Property Tax Assessments
July 22, 2013 by 1 Comment
by: Diane Benjamin As previously reported, the Town of Normal paid $725,000 for the Underwood House, at the time it was appraised for Real Estate tax purposes at $480,225. (https://blnnews.com/2013/07/20/the-real-facts-on-the-normal-purchase-of-the-underwood-house/) Are the assessed values that bad in Normal? I decided to look at some recent property sales in Normal to see. Also included are a […]
U.S. FACES BRAND-NEW CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
July 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Seizure of components reveals threat that could devastate American infrastructure By: F. MICHAEL MALOOF The recent seizure of a North Korean freighter carrying Cuban, nuclear-capable SA-2 missile components for refurbishment has resurrected the spectre of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when another communist nation developed nuclear dealings with America’s island neighbor. Richard Fisher, a military […]
OBAMA CO-SPONSORED LEGISLATION STRENGTHENING ILLINOIS’ “STAND YOUR GROUND” LAW
July 22, 2013 by 1 Comment
From Illinois Review: http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2013/07/obama-strongly-supported-stand-your-ground-when-in-illinois-senate.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FbYHz+%28Illinois+Review%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail CHICAGO – This past week President Obama publicly urged the reexamination of state self-defense laws (see remarks below). However, nine years ago then-State Sen. Barack Obama actually co-sponsored a bill that strengthened Illinois’ 1961 “stand your ground” law. The Obama-sponsored bill (SB 2386) enlarged the state’s 1961 law by shielding the […]
Coup d’etat
July 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By: Paul Craig Roberts The American people have suffered a coup d’etat, but they are hesitant to acknowledge it. The regime ruling in Washington today lacks constitutional and legal legitimacy. Americans are ruled by usurpers who claim that the executive branch is above the law and that the US Constitution is a mere “scrap of […]
The Global Warming Hoax Explained for Dummies
July 20, 2013 by 1 Comment
The Real Facts on the Normal purchase of the Underwood House
July 20, 2013 by 3 Comments
by: Diane Benjamin The citizens of Normal are lucky that Koos has abandoned plans for the Underwood House. The idea was to create a showcase of green technology so all citizens could see how to retro-fit their houses. It would have cost you a fortune. Unlike what the Pantagraph reported today, there was no appraisal […]
Weekend Fun – Sort of
July 20, 2013 by 1 Comment
More low information media: Pantagraph again
July 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
by Diane Benjamin Reporter Phyllis Coulter did a story about Geothermal energy systems paying off big for local schools. Yes, it does pay off big. But, then facts got in the way of her ideology – or maybe she just isn’t that smart. Quote: “The systems don’t use fossil fuels” . That appears to be […]
