By Steve Rhodes
All your Monday favorites – SportsMonday, The Weekend In Chicago Rock – will appear on Tuesday! It was a busy weekend in the podcast studio. There’s gold in there, though.
The Beachwood Radio Network
* The Beachwood Radio Hour #35: Don’t Feed The Comptrollers.
The real Judy Baar Topinka. Plus: Worldwide Hate & Rahm vs. the Leftovers.
* The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #29: Bears Remorse.
Coach-killer Cutler kills Kromer. Plus: Professional Baseball Comes To Chicago! And: Blackhawks Bungle.
The War On Christmas
It’s real – and the Illinois Republican Party is leading it!
Tonight the Illinois GOP will host a “holiday party,” not a Christmas party. Get O’Reilly on the phone!
Our very own Tim Willette and I did a little more digging into this abomination and unearthed some more details about tonight’s event.
* Open rectal hydration bar, 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
* Dunk tank featuring a black man with his hands up.
* Totally not-gay Christmas carols.
* Egg nog featuring eggs from totally caged chickens.
* Privatized Christmas tree from subsidized farm.
* Ornaments provided by JP Morgan Chase and the Democrats.
* Rahm Emanuel tip jar.
* Raffle! Prizes include Art Laffer’s napkin, Mike Ditka’s chewing gum, one hour of free fracking, and Comptroller.
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BeachBook
* From Bush To Obama, Eyes Wide Shut.
“On the second day of Barack Obama’s presidency, he prohibited most forms of physical torture. On the third, a CIA drone strike he authorized killed up to 11 civilians.”
* Why Germany Has It So Much Better Than The U.S.
Hint: High wages.
* CIA’s Mistaken Detention Destroyed German Man’s Life.
Just one of many.
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TweetWood
Obama protected torturers from criminal charges but also civil suits (http://t.co/vNfVNja1vA) & int’l investigation (http://t.co/FK571Qe73G)
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 14, 2014
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The United States of America: every Sunday news show proudly features a torturer or, at best, an advocate of torture http://t.co/kpYsNiRnj8
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 14, 2014
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Torturers, apologists for torturers, pardoners of torturers. TV makes room for everyone’s voices. Except those of the men who were tortured.
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) December 14, 2014
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“I couldn’t help but notice that everything that the article said about me was incorrect.” http://t.co/Qv5EO5CBx5
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) December 15, 2014
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Vox’s @Max_Fisher got the Spiegel/Merkel story completely wrong: fundamental factual errors http://t.co/XmI03jYVMj – http://t.co/oBDxJIcgSL
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 14, 2014
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No, the Obama DOJ has not put an end to the Jim Risen case https://t.co/be9kB1cevR – https://t.co/9dJ4G26DBY
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 14, 2014
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24 would have seemed a lot less cool if every torture session started with Jack rectally feeding someone
— Joshua Topolsky (@joshuatopolsky) December 15, 2014
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I need to make this disclaimer. All of our spaces have always been & continue to be infiltrated by CPD. It has been more intense lately.
— Side-Eye (Forever) (@prisonculture) December 15, 2014
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they’re tearing down Z Frank! but u can still get the print here! http://t.co/vA49UvoJ6T #Chicago #RogersPark #gifts pic.twitter.com/SiYeYCjwVj
— helene smith (@helene_smith) December 15, 2014
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The Beachwood Tip Line: Ajar.
Posted on December 15, 2014