Misguided Chicago North Suburban Highland Park High Loons scrap team trip to Arizona

What misguided idiots these people are a couple townships over from here, where they are far more concerned about their "High Society" image than they are about their students,  you can bet.

And furthermore, we now have yet another reason as if we already don't have enough, the first thing that needs to be done immediately after November is indeed  the second thing on the "List of things Americans need to do" and that is to "dismantle teachers unions starting yesterday, and now".


These people couldn't get jobs anywhere but the educational system as the old saying goes "those who can, do, and those who cannot "teach" ". An industry that's  long been hijacked from the citizenry at large who fronts the bills for the now outrageous groups which are run and act more like Soviet Union aged Indoctrination Mills than anything, as our terribly dumbed down society can attest.

So, this school takes my tax dollars and now they're going to meet me and ten thousand other local citizens enraged by this moronic decision they made and when we get done these girls will be going to Arizona you can bet Obama's skinny Kenyan backside..

Some School Links and contacts

North Shore School District 112 Contact here.

Highland Park High School /  Principal - Brad Swanson

Phone: 224-765-2001
Email: BSwanson@dist113.org
Web Page

 Team members Lauren Evans and Marguerite Biagi 

say they disagree with the district's decision. (Heather Charles / Tribune)

Reveling in its first conference championship in 26 years, the Highland Park High School girls varsity basketball team has been selling cookies for months to raise funds for a tournament in Arizona. But those hoop dreams were dashed when players learned they couldn't go because of that state's new crackdown on illegal immigrants.

Safety concerns partly fueled the decision, but the trip also "would not be aligned with our beliefs and values," said District 113 Assistant Superintendent Suzan Hebson. That explanation, though, smacks of political protest to parents upset by the decision.

The news, which was broken to the team Monday by coach Jolie Bechtel, comes as critics of Arizona's controversial law call on professional athletes and others to boycott the state.

Last month a New York congressman asked Major League Baseball to pull next year's All-Star Game from Phoenix, and protesters recently picketed Wrigley Field when the Arizona Diamondbacks played the Cubs.

But tossing a high school team into the heated debate has left parents and players baffled and angry.

"Why are we mixing politics and a basketball tournament?" said Michael Evans, whose daughter Lauren is a junior on the team. "It's outrageous that they're doing this under the guise of safety."

Lauren Evans said she thought the concern was probably that one of the players could get stopped and questioned.

"It shouldn't be a problem," she said. "I don't think it makes much sense. We shouldn't be a threat. We just want to play basketball."   continued here

Administrative Imbeciles, as with decision making from the ADULTS in that place I'd rather trust the children to run the place better.

The people involved in this decision should be fired but won't and once again we owe that to the Unions so it's time to bust their asses as they're far far too powerful and are ruining the nation right at it's core.

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10,000 People In New Lennox for Tea Party Express, No Ink..

Contrarily, Oprah Up the Ying Yang Today

That's right, 10,000 people showed up for the Tea Party Express in a town called New Lennox and I can't find jack squat on any newspaper or local news channel coverage WHAT SO FREAKIN EVER!

read those comments from the Oprah thread linked above I found for this post, it's filled with Tea Party People..funny as hell....

This is from The Tea Party Express blog, look at the people at this thing just outside of Joliet yesterday!!

Tea Party Express – Official Tour Blog: "Breaking news from New Lenox/Joliet, IL… the sheriff’s office is reporting to us that the crowd estimate for the rally here is 10,000+ and they are shutting down a portion of Interstate 80 for traffic control do to the massive influx of people.

Here’s a few pictures from my camera phone of a small slice of the audience…"

10,000 freakin people and and not diddly in the SunTimes (my go to paper since my blog shows there every week), the Tribune or the Local Daily Herald......

Yet splat on the front pages of websites and newspapers they find plenty of room for this shi&

Oprah's Michigan Avenue site cordoned off -

Chicago Breaking News: "As the clock ticks down toward Oprah's 24th season kick-off celebration, crew members and private security were tightening the perimeters around the Michigan Avenue location to keep fans from camping out. The 'doors' won't open until noon.

Barricades and security officers were positioned on side streets early Tuesday morning while set-up crews worked under the glare of spotlights as they put the finishing touches on the large stage at the foot of the Michigan Avenue Bridge where Oprah will tape her show late this afternoon."

I mean, the Trib site even has a live webcam devoted just for the preperations and all the other crap associated with the Oprah 24 not 25 year celebration......

You'd think the first black pope was coming to town!!!! Or at least 2 or 3 of them......lol

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Health care is hot topic for talks here in my home Illinois District Monday Afternoon

This was the local townhall meeting here in my district known as the Illinois 10th congressional yesterday that for the most part was not very newsworthy other than so many people showed up that a second one has been scheduled which I will myself attend as soon as the details are released..

The timing of the meeting was somewhat strange considering it's daytime scheduling, which obviously prevented most day working men and women from attending, and I do hope that the next one is scheduled for the evening allowing those who couldn't attend this one to attend the next.

This was also the likely reason so many Obamanites actually attended this one (lol) according to one friend there, who said the crowd disbursement was nearly equal between those for and against the Obamacare plan

Here's a youtube of the event from the outside as these were the folks that couldn't fit inside the small room which was chosen for the meeting for whatever the logistical reasons were......

Here are some pix of the cramped indoor meeting, which
emonstrate the ridiculously tiny room chosen for the event

And the smaller crowd as opposed to the seemingly larger crowd
who couldn't cram into the obviously already tiny room ...

I had twice as many people in most of my college classes and lecture halls than were able to squeeze in there yesterday (well close at least ;) .. as I said a second meeting has supposedly being scheduled and we'll be at that one if we can

chicagotribune.com:An Arlington Heights town hall meeting on health-care reform led to impassioned debate Monday afternoon, with overflow crowds chanting, carrying signs and forcing a second meeting.

U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) added the second session after about 800 people -- on all sides of the debate -- showed up to voice their opinions.

Similar town hall meetings on health care have drawn large and vocal crowds across the country in recent weeks. In Arlington Heights, those at Monday's meeting alternately cheered, booed and applauded -- but stayed mostly civil during the question-and-answer session. Those left outside during the first meeting chanted competing slogans, holding signs such as, "Tort reform, insurer choice" and "Health care for all."

Parts of Sigwalt Street at Arlington Heights Road were closed about 2:30 p.m. to "mitigate traffic flow" during the meetings, Police Capt. Nick Pecora. He said building access for everyone except those there for village business was denied starting about 2:15 p.m. -- 45 minutes before the meeting began.

Brian Dvoret of Wheeling, who attended the first session, said he is unemployed and spends $1,000 a month to insure his family.

Dvoret supports a public option and would like to buy into a group health plan.

"The health insurance companies are ripping us off," he said. "I'm not for saying other taxpayers need to support my bill. I don't want that. I want the ability of equal competition."

Others such as Alan Minoff of Wilmette said they opposed the Obama administration's health-care reform proposal and wanted lawmakers to slow down and reassess the plan.

"There are other programs proposed by Republicans, which are very, very different ideas to reform health care," he said before the meeting. "It's not a rush."

This Congressman Lamar Smith (R-San Antonio) Townhall meeting wasn't quite as peaceful as the local one, as what at times had been a rowdy and loud crowd was also a largely civil crowd only shouting down each other at a few times, that was until the end of the meeting.



Read about the fight that took place here if you wish to...

Related articles

• Obama's health plan is tough on the middle class (money.cnn.com)
• The Cost of Not Having a Public Option (dailykos.com)
• Health Reform Fattens Big Insurance and Taxes the Young (health.usnews.com)
• Beth Coulson Set To Run For Mark Kirk's Congressional Seat (huffingtonpost.com)

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