Translation: he’s a dead man.

Jaibones on May 6, 2008 at 8:27 AM
What if it is real and you refuse to pay attention?

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil?”

Conspiracy theories have a certain characteristic. They rely on a specific sequence of separate events happening together, which each have low individual chance, because they are based on speculation as opposed to fact. When all the probabilities are multiplied together, the resulting conspiracy is as likely as…well, space aliens adressing Congress.

CHICAGO (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers first-round draft pick Rashard Mendenhall was robbed at gunpoint along the Chicago lakefront early Monday, his mother and agent said.

The former running back was not hurt in the robbery, during which two people stole Mendenhall’s wallet and cellular telephone, his mother, Sybil Mendenhall, told the Chicago Tribune.

“He didn’t get hit or anything, he didn’t get hurt or anything,” Sybil Mendenhall said. “He’s fine.”

Police spokesman John Mirabelli said a man and a woman were robbed at the lakefront around 2 a.m. Monday by two offenders, but declined to identify the victims. No one was in custody for the crime, he said.

“It was obviously a scary moment,” Mendenhall’s agent, Mike McCartney, told the Chicago Sun-Times. “But he is fine. He is doing great. He said he doesn’t have anything that is worth his life.”

The Steelers selected Mendenhall with the 23rd pick in this year’s NFL draft.

The 20-year-old Mendenhall skipped his senior year at Illinois to enter the draft. He was the 2007 Big Ten offensive player of the year.

Well Philly and Cleveland could give almost everywhere other than Chicago fits when it comes to shady dealings.

William Amos on May 6, 2008 at 8:21 AM

Is it any surprise that the most corrupt elections and most corrupt governments are in our big cities?

Is it any surprise that the Demoncrats get the overwhelming majority of their “votes” in our big cities?

Look at where the Demoncrats did and did not want to do recounts in Florida during the 2000 election. How corrupt are things in Miami?

In the 2008 election, what exactly happened in Washington State? McCain was behind most of the night, then was suddenly ahead and they stopped counting the votes before they were done!

Whoa!!! on the bikers…at least not ALL of us. Lots of those Teamsters I was talking about ride.

Funny how all this s–t shakes out, huh Jailbones? Can’t take those dems anywhere!

I heard Obama was “mad” about how this Wright stuff is dominating the media. Oooooh!!!! Mad! Scary.

I’m gonna steal a line I saw on another blog…”I bet he swings a mean fanny pack!”

LOL!

Too much conspiracy crap.

Jaibones on May 6, 2008 at 8:27 AM

What if it is real and you refuse to pay attention?

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil?

And let us also pray that more of the filth will spill on that empty suit in North Carolina. I’d like to see Obama where he really belongs – running for alderman of Hyde Park with the full throated support of his little marxist friends there.

Jaibones on May 6, 2008 at 8:19 AM

I agree with you that Obama is Marxist. Many (most?) readers here have come to the same conclusion. My concern is that not only are most Demoncrats Marxist, but also many Republicans are undercover Marxists. Things like the following are very concerning to me:

During the August recess of 2005, [Indiana's Senior Senator, Republican Richard] Lugar, who was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, went with Senator Barack Obama to Russia to inspect nuclear facilities there. They were detained for three hours at an airport in the city of Perm, near the Ural Mountains, where they were scheduled to depart for a meeting with the President and the Speaker of the House of Ukraine. They were released after a brief dialogue between U.S. and Russian officials and the Russians later apologized for this incident.

What exactly where Obama and Lugar talking about with the Russians for a “brief” three hours?!?

That sounds like a practical summit meeting to me.

Given Obama’s Marxist statements, like favoring higher capital gains taxes (even when that has been proven to generate less revenue) because it’s about “fairness”, I think voters have a right to know what Obama discussed with the Russians.

Syd B. on May 6, 2008 at 9:32 AM

I don’t read Debbie very often, but I suspect that her criticisms (outside of the war zone of Detroit) are largely political, and not criminal. Michigan is a big-government, nearly socialist operation, and I don’t agree with much of what they do. I just mean to say that the voters seem well informed and fully engaged.

And it’s probably fun to mention also that they have a radical wing – I shudder to think of them as the political right – but a bunch of militia nuts, bikers, and Ron Paul fans. Birchers, I think they’re called.

read the whole thing…

Keemo on May 6, 2008 at 8:31 AM

Ed’s version.

And if I were B.O., I would be sweating bullets right about now as well. Who knows what little tidbits of knowledge Tony is blathering to the Feds concerning his personal dealings with Mr. Hope And Change?

Great comment, but I have one disagreement: Michigan. Detroit is a cesspool of black racial corruption and a kleptocracy, but the rest of the state is really a model of political action. I know hundreds of people there, and I can’t think of another place where local politics is so actively and honestly engaged.

Ask Debbie Schlussel, who posts here frequently, (debbieschlussel.com) what her thoughts are on her home state, Michigan. I’m not suggesting that there aren’t good people who are honestly seeking decent government, but there are enough serious cultural issues in that state to fill a mosque.

Enough said; you win hero status for the day! At some point, the people will need to take back our country from these thugs, and throw unions across the border into Mexico where they belong.

Jaibones on May 6, 2008 at 9:13 AM

Agreed… It’s not that the guy is smart, it’s a matter of the guy being bought (created)… One can only imagine how powerful the mafia would be with their own President, and many members of both houses. Democrats; the most powerful mafia ever created.

LtE126 , you were right the first time. “their”

Buford Gooch on May 6, 2008 at 9:18 AM

Keep your day job – it’s they’re, as in “they are”.

THAT trial was in Chicago, too.

Hmmm…

Funny about the Teamster’s thing. Most of the Teamsters I know, every word out of their mouths are n-g–r this, or f—-n’ sp-c’s that…now their gonna sleep with who they hate?

LtE126 on May 6, 2008 at 9:12 AM

Finally, someone who can keep it real. Way to go, Lt.; those are the Teamsters I came to know and love.

When I was in the local trucking business in south suburban Chicago, one of our best clients asked us to cross a Teamsters picket with a supply to keep their client’s business open. We were aggressively anti-union, so we did it with glee.

There at the site, the Mobsters were in the process of grabbing a non-union sub at his moving truck, dragging him out and throwing him on the ground and kicking him, and busting up his truck. We told our guy that if someone stepped in front of his truck, to run over him.

read the whole thing…

Keemo on May 6, 2008 at 8:31 AM

I did. Pretty sure AP and Ed had it covered here, too. My comment on it then was that with this odd promise to the Mobsters International, Obama had either unwittingly or stupidly positioned himself to the political left of Bill and Hillary, Gore, Kerry, Edwards, and Mao.

Again I ask – why does everyone think this guy is so smart? He does a lot of really stupid things.

Bigger questions:

1. How will this affect Comrade B.H.Obama?
2. What is his role on the negotiations?