Joe Walsh, a Republican congressman from Illinois, is refusing to attend President Barack Obama’s job speech. Stay classy, Republicans.

“I don’t see the point of being a prop for another of the president’s speeches asking for more failed stimulus spending and more subsidies for his pet projects,” he said in a statement issued Thursday. Meanwhile, Walsh did not offer any of his own ideas for how to create jobs.

Walsh, who is a member of the House Small Business Committee, has chosen to instead host a small business forum in Illinois. “The president needs to stop the speeches, get out of his office and away from all the White House academics and start talking to real people out there,” Walsh said. “They’re the ones who are going to create the jobs, not White House paper-pushers and bureaucrats.”

Walsh has already forgotten about Obama’s recent three day bus tour through the Midwest states. Obama held town hall meetings and talked to the “real people” out there that Walsh has accused the president of not doing.

Walsh also criticized the president and his jobs plan earlier this week, according to the Northwest Herald. He called Obama “idiotic” while speaking to a group of voters in Illinois on August 31.

“How idiotic is this president?” Walsh said. “I don’t want to be disrespectful, but he’s going to bring forth a jobs plan next week. Think about that for a minute. He’s been in office for three years. He’s destroyed job creation systematically for three years.”

Walsh plans on returning to Washington on Friday after the speech.

Let’s look at Walsh’s record on spending. In 2009, a bank foreclosed on Walsh’s condo and evicted him. His ex-wife is suing him for $117,437 for past due child support dating back from 2005. Walsh told his ex-wife that he did not have the money to pay, yet loaned his own campaign $35,000. He lost his driving privileges from April  of 2011 to July 2011 because he did not pay his auto insurance.

Really? How idiotic is that? This is who we should be listening to about fiscal matters and job creation. This man is a complete freaking idiot. Any regular joe that owed that much in child support would be in jail. Instead this congressman just doesn’t care of his children any more than he takes care of his voters.

This congressman should not utter a word about the president or anyone else until he cleans up his own house.

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Police officers risk their lives to protect the safety of others; at least that is what we are led to believe. And probably many cops out there are good people. But, unfortunately, the profession is also loaded with corrupt officers who only want to look out for themselves.  Higher-ups in departments fastidiously protect officers, even officers who may be doing something wrong. The latest examples come from Chicago and a ridiculous law that protects police officers from being recorded.

In July of 2010, Chicago police responded to a domestic situation at the home of Tiawanda Moore and her boyfriend. While separating the couple to sort out the details, Moore reports that an officer groped her breast and gave her his home number. Later on, when Moore and her boyfriend tried to report the incident to internal affairs officials at the Chicago Police Department, the couple was discouraged from filing a report, according to Robert Johnson, Moore’s attorney. “They gave her the runaround, scared her, and tried to intimidate her from reporting this officer — from making sure he couldn’t go on to do this to other women,” Johnson stated. Okay, so men in uniform protecting each other is not that newsworthy. But, Moore was arrested the very same afternoon suggesting that this form of protection goes way too far. What was her crime, you ask.  During her conversation that day with internal affairs investigators, Moore began to record the interactions on her Blackberry.  In Illinois, it is illegal to record people without their consent.  Especially, as it turns out, police officers.

“This is someone who is already scared from being harassed by an officer in uniform,” said Johnson. “If the police won’t even take her complaint, how else is a victim of police abuse supposed to protect herself?”

The treatment of Moore has prompted outrage from domestic violence groups all over the country. “We just had two Chicago police officers indicted for sexual assault, there have been several other cases of misconduct against women,” says Melissa Spatz of the Chicago Task Force on Violence Against Girls & Young Women. “And now you have Moore, who was trying to report this guy, and she gets arrested. The message here is that victims of unwanted sexual advances by police officers have no recourse — that the police can act with impunity.”

Clearly, the Chicago police have demonstrated their wacky priorities. The Chicago cops recently indicted for sexual assault face four to 15 years in prison. That is the same sentence that Moore could receive for recording a police officer. Recording an on-duty police officer in Illinois is a Class 1 felony, the same class of crimes as rape.

And Moore is not the only or most shocking case of the systematic application of the Illinois law to protect police officers. A Robinson, Ill. Resident is facing up to 75 years in prison after he recorded conversations he was having with police officers.  75 years with no prior convictions all because the police like to act the way they want to and not take any responsibilities for their action. It is despicable and the reason why the distrust of police officers is very justified throughout the United States. I guess Ice Cube had it right all along.

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Three UFOs were recently captured on video flying over the U.S. city of Chicago, Illinois.  In a video that lasts for nearly 15 minutes, an alleged UFO is seen hovering in the sky above a grocery store parking lot.  The cameraman was filming an American flag in the parking lot that was blowing in the breeze when the videographer noticed the UFO.

The alleged sighting occurred at 6:50PM on February 28^th.  The video is shaky and it is difficult to make out the UFO at first.  The cameraman tries to zoom in to capture the mysterious light better but the image becomes distorted.  Many people believe it was a planet that was captured and not anything from another planet.  During the last two minutes of the video, three UFOs can be spotted through trees.  One of bright lights is described by the video’s subtitles as purple but on the footage, the color does not change and remains white.  The entire video can be viewed on Youtube.

This UFO sighting closely followed another UFO sighting also in the skies over Chicago.  Alex Scerbicke of Bartlett, Illinois, recorded video footage of what appears to be a UFO or group of UFOs changing formation on February 19th. The video has since been removed.  According to the website, Niternat, some witnesses report that the light show happens every night in the same spot over Chicago.  One witness reports there are sometimes up to 10 lights in the sky near each other.   The lights are extremely bright and often rainbow colored.  Another witness stated he saw a strange pattern of orange lights in a giant V shape.  Believing they were just aircrafts in a hold pattern for O’Hare International Airport, he and his son drove their snowmobiles up a large hill to watch the lights.  The witness reports they watched the lights for over 30 minutes and they never moved from their position, just changed their pattern of lights.

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