White house staffers gave Rahm Emmanual a dead Asian Carp wrapped in the Sun-Times and Tribune. I can’t wait for the wingnuts to get a hold of this.
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I’m not a morning person. I wasn’t a morning person when I had a 9 to 5 job. I wasn’t a morning person when I had to be in school at 7:30 am to feed the gerbils and water the impatients.
I’m not a fucking morning person when you call me at 6:30am and ask me to do you a favor that will cost me time and money. That you won’t cover. I’m not a morning person when you tell me I’m emotionally distant. Listen up asshat, I’m not emotionally distant, I’m not awake. What the fuck does that even mean?
Or rather I wasn’t then but I am now. I’m wounded. And I’m fucking seething. Never leave a wounded animal in the field, it will come back to haunt you. Or gore you.
No, I am not on facebook. And I never will be (I’m cheap, but I won’t sell out that cheap). So please don’t send me links to facebook pages-I can’t see them.
I’ve heard from several reputable sources that Pod Senior was running around the Art Walk telling listeners that the city demolished the buildings at 1920 s. Halsted because Pod Inc. had refused to condo them, and that Pod Inc. had spent 100,000 fighting this. Which is bullshit. I don’t doubt he said this, but the tale is rotten.
First off, the city didn’t do the demolition. They didn’t post the usual city demolition notices: I’ve woken up to find them plastered on places I’ve lived, their standard operating procedure. The scaffolding in place is the same rental scaffolding that’s been on that side of the street for a year, originally in front of the york building. The demolition has been going on for over two weeks for two buildings, city demolitions are lightning fast-just ask Eric and Sandy Tenfelde. City crews don’t start before 6:30am, there are laws about when you can begin construction, and I’ve sat in the park and watched them at work well before 7am. City crews and they’re contractors also know how to use their equipment, and don’t get supervision from Pod employees. Most importantly a city demo crew wouldn’t leave a facade standing, they demolish the whole building since even a short standing facade is potentially dangerous.
On a side note, the street has been renumbered several times (Pod has had his offices renumbered recently), and one of the buildings being demolished may be the original 1922 S. Halsted, the former location of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Shop #5, the location of a historic strike in 1910-11 that lead to breakthroughs in collective bargaining and arbitration. That link is the copy of the historical marker in front of it…
And secondly the city doesn’t tell you to condo your property. They may tell you to fix it, they may tell you to clean it up, they can tell you what businesses may be zoned for it, they may tell you to give it to them or to sell it to them at cost (eminent domain) they may tell you to tear it down, but they never tell you you to condo it. And I’m fairly certain they can’t (but then I’m not a lawyer).
So what’s going on here? I have some theories:
- Pod Senior has lost his marbles-somehow I doubt this seriously. It just doesn’t ring true.
- Someone is pulling his leg. Senior isn’t involved in the day to day operation, maybe someone in the office told him the story. After all, new sails and upkeep on yachts costs money, and all those units are empty…
- Maybe it’s partially true. Could be the city told Pod Inc to clean them up and bring them up to code, and Pod Inc. decided to demolish them as being cheaper then rehab or a city demo. And then Senior decided to spin it his own way (but don’t you need a permit for demolition?)
- Maybe it’s true. Stranger things have been known to happen, and it could be the city crew/contractors were really incompetent. Yeah, and the next mayor of Chicago will be a Republican…
- Something else entirely. Who knows, maybe the building was full of asbestos, or a secret toxic waste dump. More likely the buildings were standing in the way of something. Like new condos.
We’ll probably never know. Or maybe we’ll know soon enough, when Pod Inc. announces their new condos, or the EPA shows up…
160 hours:
Managers are forcibly ousted from their high paying corporate posts and forced to work at the bottom rung of the ladder for minimum wage. Unless they fail the drug screening, then they’re summarily discharged. As an added precaution to protect co-workers they’ll be checked for weapons several times a day. Their opposites are moved to their former positions (no drug screening for management). After a month, they’re both given performance reviews and either kept on in their current capacities or terminated. As the series progresses we check in on the former management as they try to work their way back to the top – or unemployment line and job hunt. and we follow the progress of the former burger flippers in the corporate clouds or unemployment line. Job counseling will be available, and we’ll rat out anyone who lies on their resume. Participants will chosen at random from the companies that are screaming the loudest about needing H1B visas or fight against raises to the minimum wage. Pilot epsiode will deal with Sun Microsytems and McDonalds.
