The saga of hazing charges being committed by athletes from Erie, Illinois High School continued in the news. The accuser went before the Erie School Board and stated his claims of hazing. According to the QCOnline story, the victim stated: “as a freshman and sophomore, he experienced many hazing incidents, as did others in those [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Erie Illinois School Board Extends Cone of Hazing Silence
Posted in Current Events, Fleecing the Sheep, Illinois, News, Politics, Scalawags, Scoundrels, Wheres the Beef!, tagged children, Erie Illinois, Hazing, Law and Order, media, opinion, school, United States on February 28, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Illinois Treasure Hunt – Legislator Wants a Vice Tax on Strip Clubs
Posted in Current Events, Entertainment, Fleecing the Sheep, government, Illinois, News, Politics, Quad Cities, Scalawags, Scoundrels, Wheres the Beef!, tagged media, Movies, opinion, sex, Sin tax, Taxes, thoughts, United States on February 17, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Illinois legislation just doesn’t learn from its mistakes. They have spent decades making the State of Illinois unfriendly to high-paying manufacturing jobs to the point – that companies still considering US locations, like Caterpillar Inc, for building industrial plants turn and run the other direction. So the State has had to begin to rely on [...]
Wind Power Gasping for Air – Erie asking Where’s the beef
Posted in Current Events, Fleecing the Sheep, Good Samaritans, government, Illinois, Quad Cities, Scalawags, Scoundrels, Wheres the Beef!, tagged energy, Erie Illinois, media, opinion, Renewable, school, technology, Terrorism, United States, Wind on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I see where subsiding for wind power my be on its last leg, under a new budget. I guess that makes it put up or shut up time for those hawking the benefits and savings from wind power. I personally hope that wind power “will” have a future, if we are to ever free ourselves [...]
17th District Democrat Primary – Silence is Golden
Posted in Current Events, Fleecing the Sheep, government, humor, Illinois, News, Politics, Quad Cities, Scalawags, Scoundrels, Wheres the Beef!, tagged 2012 elections, Bustos, Democratic Party, Democrats, Eric Reyes, media, opinion, Phil Hare, thoughts, United States on February 16, 2012 | 3 Comments »
In an article posted on QCOnline, Democrat candidates for Congressman of the 17th District of Illinois, George Gualrapp and Greg Aguilar made statements that fellow Democrat candidate – the Rock Island Democratic Politburo anointed one, Cheri “Phil Hare in a Dress” Bustos has been avoiding debating the other challengers. Hmm, suspicious? As I stated in [...]
A Sign of the Times to Come?
Posted in Culture, Current Events, News, Scoundrels, Stupid is as Stupid Does, Wheres the Beef!, tagged children, Crime and Punishment, Democrats, family, Law and Order, media, opinion, Republicans, science, sex, technology, thoughts, United States on February 12, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Caution the following post deals with adult subject of a sexual nature. An article on Time’s News Feed makes you wonder if the US is behind the times when it comes to protecting the USAmerican human gene pool from accidental incestuous breeding? According to the article tiny Iceland has created an ancestry and genetic website [...]
Digging for Gold in an Iron Deposit
Posted in government, Illinois, News, Politics, Quad Cities, Wheres the Beef!, tagged business, media, opinion, thoughts on February 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I have a love/hate relationship with polls and surveys. They are both often used tools. They may be informative, they may be useless or they may simply be fools gold. My personal opinion is that most fall in the fools gold category find – of a lustrous mine luring prospectors with false promises of immeasurable [...]
Dirty Little Secrets Revisited
Posted in Culture, Current Events, Fleecing the Sheep, Illinois, Life, News, Quad Cities, Scalawags, Scoundrels, Wheres the Beef!, tagged Crime and Punishment, Erie, Hazing, Law and Order, media, opinion, Prophetstown Illinois, Scholastic wrestling, Sexual harassment, thoughts, United States on February 7, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Back on 01/21/12 I blogged about a media story involving claims of hazing by participants of the dual community wrestling program of Erie and Prophetstown Illinois. The original report hinted that the school board figured it would be settled quickly. Well it was and it wasn’t. The accuser, team members and coaches did a very [...]
