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I’ve got a heavy day ahead of me and the company Christmas party to go to tonight, so I may not be back to blogging until sometime tomorrow morning.  Please utilize this as an open thread.
The latest on the Blago scandal
A rundown:
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We got some serious rain here in Charlotte and most of the state today. Somewhere in the neighborhood of over two inches. By the time I left the 8-5, it was down to a drizzle, but the clouds were some of the thickest I’ve ever seen. See the dark images that look like thick smoke in the middle and top parts of this picture? Those are the clouds.
Jesse Jackson, Jr. claims to have not spoken to Blago in four years
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr (D-2nd District, Illinois) – aka “Senate Candidate #5” claimed in a press conference yesterday that, up until Monday, he had not met with disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich for four years.
John Fund: Obama did nothing about Chicago corruption – but now he can help change it
As I and many others have noted on more than one occasion, for as “different” (read: “honest and open”) a politician as Barack Obama has claimed to be the last two years, he rose in Chicago politics in large part on the backs of far leftists and “Chicago Way” types as Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, Emil Jones Jr., Rev. Wright, Father Pfleger, the Daleys, and soon-to-be-former Gov. Blago. He had the opportunity for 8 years as a state Senator to try and institute real change in a city known for its history of corrupt politicos big and small, but failed to do anything meaningful about it.