We have a piece of good news to report from the Illinois gubernatorial race, in which the creationist duo of Bill Brady and Jason Plummer were rejected by the voters.
As we noted last week, both Brady and his running mate are young earth creationists, in favor of teaching Biblical creationism alongside evolutionary science in public schools. Kudos to the voters of Illinois for saying no to ignorance.
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Charles Johnson Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:48:06pm |
New feature in the LGF Master Spy — you can now see user logins and logouts in real time.
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SteveC Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:51:44pm |
As we noted last week, both Brady and his running mate are young earth creationists, in favor of teaching Biblical creationism alongside evolutionary science in public schools.
You just can’t make this stuff up!
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Charles Johnson Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:51:46pm |
It’s very cool to see people logging in and out. One thing I noticed immediately in testing this feature this morning is that a lot of people never bother to log out.
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SteveC Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:52:43pm |
re: #3 Charles
It’s very cool to see people logging in and out. One thing I noticed immediately in testing this feature this morning is that a lot of people never bother to log out.
*blushes* Is that a bad thing? I usually don’t.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:53:08pm |
re: #3 Charles
It’s very cool to see people logging in and out. One thing I noticed immediately in testing this feature this morning is that a lot of people never bother to log out.
Guilty as charged. Does not logging out have an adverse affect of any kind on your equipment?
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Decatur Deb Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:54:24pm |
Will save some dangling conversations. And superficial sighs.
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bratwurst Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:54:37pm |
I took no joy in voting for the incumbent Democrat Quinn (Blago’s lieutenant), but the stupid needs to be stopped wherever possible. While I do not deny I am a registered Democrat and a proud liberal, the GOP could have EASILY had my vote here had they nominated someone who is both fiscally responsible AND socially moderate.
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HappyWarrior Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:54:45pm |
That’s good to hear. Have a good friend from Illinois and Brady seemed like bad news to me. Still no official result on the Connolly-Finian race here in Va-11 but it’s looking like Mr. Connolly may pull it out which would be great. He’s really helped out us students at the university. Finian is just another right wing hack.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:54:47pm |
re: #6 SpaceJesus
i dont think i ever log out of anything
I know. That’s why I always fill your comp with octogenarian pr0n when you ain’t lookin’.
/
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Charles Johnson Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:55:40pm |
It’s neither good nor bad - just something I noticed. Doesn’t hurt anything if you don’t log out - except maybe in work situations or where others can use your computer, I guess.
One thing it affects is the ‘Show Users’ feature, though — if people never log out, their name will still show in that list for about 30 minutes after they’re no longer actually browsing LGF. I had to use a timeout limit in that case because there’s no way to tell if they’re really still there.
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Varek Raith Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:56:03pm |
re: #1 Charles
New feature in the LGF Master Spy — you can now see user logins and logouts in real time.
Damn.
Now my forum cloaking device is useless!
/
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SpaceJesus Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:56:29pm |
then again spacejesus is just an account shared by barack obama, the young communist league and 4chan anyway
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TedStriker Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:56:29pm |
re: #3 Charles
It’s very cool to see people logging in and out. One thing I noticed immediately in testing this feature this morning is that a lot of people never bother to log out.
I only “log out” (read: close my browser window) of LGF whenever I log out of whatever machine I’m on at work when I leave for the night or when I shut down my main desktop at home when I go to bed…otherwise, if I’m logged into Windows somewhere, LGF is up.
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:56:38pm |
re: #3 Charles
It’s very cool to see people logging in and out. One thing I noticed immediately in testing this feature this morning is that a lot of people never bother to log out.
I resemble that. I pop up the tab every so often and take a look but I usually don’t post much, just read. Of course, changing between three machines all the time probably hashes that up a bit too. Is it a problem for your system?
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wrenchwench Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:57:00pm |
If you never log out, will it still show you as logging in when you arrive?
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Charles Johnson Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:58:58pm |
re: #16 wrenchwench
If you never log out, will it still show you as logging in when you arrive?
Depends how long you’ve been doing something else with no LGF windows open. If your session has expired, but you set the Remember Me button (which uses a cookie), it will show you as logging in again at that time.
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SteveC Sat, Nov 6, 2010 12:59:59pm |
re: #17 Decatur Deb
I can check out, but I can never leave.
You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here!
/
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:01:17pm |
Fuckin’ OT: Fuck! Fuckin’ vandals and thieves! I can’t even nurse a gawt-damn hangover in peace. Now I gotta go to the hardware store, then fix some shit. Ain’t no rest for the wicked. Actually logging off now, peace y’all.
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TedStriker Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:03:03pm |
re: #17 Decatur Deb
I can check out, but I can never leave.
The Eagles’ “Hotel California” is in California (Beverly Hills, to be exact), Charles is in California (when he isn’t in his secret nitrogen-enriched underground lair at Denver Int’l Airport)…coincidence?
/I think not ;-P
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Decatur Deb Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:05:24pm |
re: #21 talon_262
The Eagles’ “Hotel California” is in California (Beverly Hills, to be exact), Charles is in California (when he isn’t in his secret nitrogen-enriched underground lair at Denver Int’l Airport)…coincidence?
/I think not ;-P
There’s a Hotel California in Vicenza, Italy, near the SETAF base. We often stuck our jet-lagged TDY visitors there to warp them a little.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:10:12pm |
re: #24 Cannadian Club Akbar
Where is LGf pages button?
Usually at the very top of “front page” and most others on my browser.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:11:38pm |
re: #25 Decatur Deb
Usually at the very top of “front page” and most others on my browser.
see it. Thanks
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Varek Raith Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:11:51pm |
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Decatur Deb Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:12:06pm |
re: #26 Virginia Plain
Um, where does the Master Spy appear?
Bottom line of the “Log-in” block. YMMV.
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albusteve Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:12:14pm |
re: #26 Virginia Plain
Um, where does the Master Spy appear?
right behind your eyeballs, following the Master Handshake
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:12:15pm |
This bit about Quinn’s victory shows a rather sharp divide between the urban and the suburban & rural voters:
Three counties including cook county helped carry Quinn to victory.
Brady won the other 99.
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Varek Raith Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:16:09pm |
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TedStriker Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:16:20pm |
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albusteve Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:16:50pm |
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Varek Raith Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:17:18pm |
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Semper Fi Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:19:57pm |
re: #22 Decatur Deb
There’s a Hotel California in Vicenza, Italy, near the SETAF base. We often stuck our jet-lagged TDY visitors there to warp them a little.
Preparing for my first trip to Italy my agent booked me on Alitalia and made accomodations at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Rome, which I nixed, saying no way will I stay there because of the name. I wanted something non-american. She got me something else a few blocks away from the BH Hotel. My room was about the size of a prison cell. Shoulda stayed with the BHH which I later saw during my wanderings and regretted my decision.
Logging off for football now. See ya later lizards.
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albusteve Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:21:18pm |
I think all creationist nominees should take a lie detector test to reveal their religious/political motives
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allegro Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:23:13pm |
re: #38 albusteve
Have you ever known one to keep it a secret? A stealth creationist?
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Varek Raith Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:24:06pm |
re: #39 allegro
Have you ever known one to keep it a secret? A stealth creationist?
I wouldn’t care what they believed if they wouldn’t let it interfere with their decisions like so many do.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:24:26pm |
re: #37 Semper Fi
If Semper Fi actually logged off in the last 5 min, it didn’t show yet in my ‘spy’.
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albusteve Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:25:03pm |
re: #39 allegro
Have you ever known one to keep it a secret? A stealth creationist?
yeah, I guess the barn door is open…I put them in the same bag as commies, or worse, Eagles fans
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Decatur Deb Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:25:31pm |
re: #41 Decatur Deb
If Semper Fi actually logged off in the last 5 min, it didn’t show yet in my ‘spy’.
“Show Users” says he’s gone.
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albusteve Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:27:30pm |
Zenyatta is going for 20-0 at the Breeders Cup….
any pony fans around?
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Varek Raith Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:27:31pm |
re: #42 albusteve
yeah, I guess the barn door is open…I put them in the same bag as commies, or worse, Eagles fans
Tough choice.
Voting for a communist,
or
an Eagles fan…
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Charles Johnson Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:29:30pm |
re: #43 Decatur Deb
“Show Users” says he’s gone.
There’s a difference between clicking the Spy button for an article (at lower right of the article) and the “LGF Master Spy” in the upper left login panel.
The Master Spy shows much more information — all comments in every thread, logins, new registrations, etc. The Spy for individual articles only shows the events for that article.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:34:36pm |
re: #46 Charles
Didn’t know that. I think I was in “Master Spy”, though. The logins were showing.
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Charles Johnson Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:35:55pm |
I did see Semper Fi’s logout in my Spy window.
Try it yourself - leave the spy window open while you log out and log in.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:41:19pm |
re: #48 Charles
I did see Semper Fi’s logout in my Spy window.
Try it yourself - leave the spy window open while you log out and log in.
Worked. I must have had both kinds of ‘spy’ open without knowing the difference.
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Amory Blaine Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:42:16pm |
My wife is making scratch pumpkin pie!! Woohoo
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wrenchwench Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:43:35pm |
You get to see a lot more sleepers with this feature.
mikec6666(Logged in)
Registered since: Apr 12, 2010 at 11:02 am
No. of comments posted: 1
No. of Pages posted: 0
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albusteve Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:47:37pm |
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wrenchwench Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:49:29pm |
re: #53 albusteve
mikeC sounds familiar
His one comment is pretty innocuous. I think the similarity with another nic is coincidental.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:51:12pm |
re: #53 albusteve
mikeC sounds familiar
I remember him. I think he took off with the Gulf Coast Pundit crowd. I think GCP closed down a year or two ago. The owner hated his posters, something about abortion as I recall.
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Charles Johnson Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:51:31pm |
re: #52 wrenchwench
You get to see a lot more sleepers with this feature.
Yeah, didn’t think about it when I programmed the feature, but it does have that capability too.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:52:11pm |
re: #56 albusteve
what ever happened to Cato…was he banned?
He had a series of flounces. The last one finally stuck.
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albusteve Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:52:32pm |
re: #55 Killgore Trout
I remember him. I think he took off with the Gulf Coast Pundit crowd. I think GCP closed down a year or two ago. The owner hated his posters, something about abortion as I recall.
his wife was busy having babies if I recall….never heard of GCP
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albusteve Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:53:56pm |
re: #58 Killgore Trout
He had a series of flounces. The last one finally stuck.
oh well, that’s too bad
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wrenchwench Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:53:58pm |
re: #51 Amory Blaine
My wife is making scratch pumpkin pie!! Woohoo
Two weeks ago, I made a couple of them, substituting butternut squash for pumpkin. It’s even better!
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Cheechako Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:54:36pm |
OT - Eye exam for old guys:
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Amory Blaine Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:55:47pm |
re: #61 wrenchwench
Sounds good. 1:1 ratio? I’ll convey the tip to the wife. TY!
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Usually refered to as anyways Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:56:21pm |
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Decatur Deb Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:57:18pm |
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albusteve Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:57:19pm |
re: #65 ozbloke
Thats just mean.
Anyone got a magnified glass?
click your scroll wheel and scroll to enlarge
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Ojoe Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:58:09pm |
Since space and time are inextricably connected, “how old is the earth” is really an incomplete question without an answer.
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wrenchwench Sat, Nov 6, 2010 1:59:16pm |
re: #64 Amory Blaine
Sounds good. 1:1 ratio? I’ll convey the tip to the wife. TY!
Yep, treat the butternut just like you would the pumpkin. It’s just another squash! Mr. w says it tastes more like what his grandmother used to make a whole lot of years ago. He theorizes that, since butternuts keep longer, she switched when the pumpkins ran out and never told anyone.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:00:43pm |
Just hit this amateur montage while scanning Simon and Garfunkle vids. There are some neat shots, makes Greenbelt MD look good.
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Usually refered to as anyways Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:00:50pm |
re: #67 albusteve
click your scroll wheel and scroll to enlarge
I only have a few sarc tags left, and I was saving them, but thanks…
Please don’t tell me I can get some more from the left of the right shift key.
By the way, real happy to hear you are doing better…
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palomino Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:01:26pm |
re: #68 Ojoe
Since space and time are inextricably connected, “how old is the earth” is really an incomplete question without an answer.
But I think we can probably all agree that 6,000 years old is not the answer.
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HoosierHoops Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:02:54pm |
re: #72 palomino
But I think we can probably all agree that 6,000 years old is not the answer.
Those damn lying rocks!
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palomino Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:05:52pm |
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engineer cat Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:08:30pm |
re: #68 Ojoe
Since space and time are inextricably connected, “how old is the earth” is really an incomplete question without an answer.
old enough to know better
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HoosierHoops Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:09:41pm |
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Ojoe Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:11:39pm |
How big does the universe appear to a light particle?
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Ojoe Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:15:13pm |
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:16:43pm |
re: #80 Ojoe
Photons aren’t sentient.
But in the spirit of your question:
The poetry of science, with Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:19:12pm |
re: #3 Charles
It’s very cool to see people logging in and out. One thing I noticed immediately in testing this feature this morning is that a lot of people never bother to log out.
that would be me, I usually have dozens of windows going at once, too much bother to find the LGF one to log out!
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:41:41pm |
Any chance of getting the upding / downding / favorite / report buttons in the Spy?
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Lidane Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:42:50pm |
Completely OT, but speaking of evolution and creationism, I’m sitting here debating whether or not I want to go to a book signing tonight by Greg Graffin of Bad Religion. He’s got a new book out which sounds interesting.
Problem is, I’ve been out and about all day and have walked at least three miles, if not more. My legs are tired. Guess I can see how I’ll feel in an hour.
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Charles Johnson Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:45:33pm |
re: #84 negativ
Any chance of getting the upding / downding / favorite / report buttons in the Spy?
I tried it once, but the problem was that with the unpredictable scrolling it was way too easy to miss, or worse, hit the button for the wrong post.
Instead, you can click the username on a comment, which opens the individual comment page, and do it from there. Where things are nice and stable and not moving all around.
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:48:09pm |
re: #86 Charles
Got it. Spy is actually easier to use (for me), so as to avoid mangling posts out of carelessness. I just have a hard time remembering to USE it.
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Sat, Nov 6, 2010 2:50:34pm |
re: #85 Lidane
I didn’t know about him getting PhD and teaching evolution. That’s pretty cool.
If you go to the book signing, be sure to tell him I hate his ridiculous music with a purple passion. I’m sure he’ll care what some anonymous jackass on the internet thinks.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Nov 6, 2010 8:05:38pm |
re: #8 bratwurst
I tried to get someone better nominated, and couldn’t. I did vote for Bill Brady, feeling that voting against the machine was the most important thing. I disagree that Brady losing was a good thing, since Illinois is now liable to suffer higher taxes and no real reform. But Brady had serious problems and they cost him the election. It’s worth noting that Mark Kirk (who is not a SoCon) did win election to the Senate in Illinois. So it looks like Illinois voters didn’t want a kook (Brady) nor a crook (Alexi Gianoullis). That’s not a bad thing, either.
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