Jesse Raub | jesse.raub@thedailyblank.com | 17 posts
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Many Chicago residents who opposed the bid to hold the Olympics in Chicago in 2016 have now switched their position after the potential ticket prices were revealed. Opening ceremony tickets are said to cost $1,700, while tickets to events could be an extra $1,500 for a single event. The prices were [...]
Late Tuesday evening, computer gamer Colin DeMoss came to the revelation that real estate agent, dentist, and lawyer Orly Taitz was actually just an Internet meme come to life. “I was just sitting there in my room, drinking some Mountain Dew and I was like, Orly? More like, ORLY?!?” DeMoss said. “I mean, yeah, it’s been [...]
Image via Wikipedia Benita Goodwin, a real estate agent for the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, has recently started a campaign to bring attention to a series of recent muggings in the neighborhood she represents. There have been five robberies linked to a few different groups in just one week, with most resulting in beatings and [...]
Image via Wikipedia During an intensive Senate confirmatoin hearing, Judge Sonya Sotomayor was asked some very intrusive, hypothetical questions, like, say, from Senator Coburn, if technology advanced to the point to keep a twenty-one week old fetus alive and healthy, would that affect the law’s view of abortion. But why stop there? There are plenty of other [...]
Senator Roland Burris has announced that he is dropping out from the race for the Senate seat that he currently holds after raising only $845. Burris was appointed to the seat by ousted governor Rod Blagojevich to fill the vacancy left by Barack Obama, when Obama became President. Actually, yeah. That’s not a joke. $845. It [...]
Image by The Wandering God via Flickr Former Vice President Dick Cheney has ordered new CIA death squads to target journalists who keep bringing up the former CIA death squads that were secretly ordered to target and assassination officials in Al-Qaeda. The decision to order the original death squads is under scrutiny for not informing Congress of [...]
Over 156 people have been killed in a conflict in China between two separate ethnic groups: the Han Chinese and Muslim Uighurs. The conflict probably started because one group was protesting something and then some police force or military cracked down on it with violence, or whatever, and now the other group is protesting that. Either way, [...]
Though the Illinois state budget was in a deadlock for months, a last minute donation from formerly stingy business man Ebenezer Scrooge saved the state from both raising taxes and cutting programs. Governor Pat Quinn was skeptical, at first, but came around quickly. “We have a duty to tell them that the money that we have on the [...]
Loan officers "concerned" about distinct aroma of brimstone and splattered goat's blood.
Hard hit by the recession, like the rest of America, the junior senator from Illinois was just looking for work.
Obama went out of his way to point out that Sotomayor was initially selected to be a federal court judge by former Republican President George H.W. Bush, adding, "so all y'all haters can suck on that shizz, and I'm looking at you, Steele."
