Shssh (Coal Black)

Here's the teachable moment for the Illinois State Historical Society: It's time to recognize that African American coal miners, enslaved and indentured, launched the Illinois coal industry -- including the so-called "first coal mine" in 1810 -- and when the state of Illinois ratified its constitution in 1818, a largely overlooked loophole allowed for legal slavery in the crucial tax-revenue-generating salt works, generated by coal mines, in the out-of-sight Shawnee Forests of southern Illinois.

Fat Ain't Sexy? You Ain't Watchin' Christie Porn!

I've Had Another Name For It But,...Whatever

"Obama came to power because the American people were suffering from a bad case of charismaphilia,..."

-- Milt Rosenberg, a social psychologist who hosts a radio show in Chicago, in a story about the president not even being liked in Illinois - where he served as a senator - though peoples there, too, have no one to blame but themselves (with that bad, bad case of "charismaphilia") and can't go pinning nothing on what my black ass has been doing, reading The Times Online.

Well, Buddy, We've Got Two Little Problems Now: You're In Our Culture And - Try As We Might - We Don't Take To Murdering Children

"It is against our religion; we do not do this in our culture."

-- Alaeddin Hadid, giving a warning to Illinois' Orland Park police - after they released a mug shot of his wife, Nour Hadid (above) who was arrested for beating their 2-year-old niece to death over four days - which certainly sounds like a job for Jihad Watch.