Ha Ha Ha!

Now this is some funny stuff, we don't care where you live:

• The folks in Canaryville love red light cameras during the Holidays. All you got to do is put the family in the back of the pick-up truck, run the red light at 47th and Halsted and you got yourself a Christmas card picture. Cheaper than going to Sears.

We're loading up the pick-up now with the kids dressed in their Christmas finest.

Olympic Candles?

Is it true that the candles passed out at the "2009 Festival of Lights presented by Mayor Richard M Daley" had stickers strategically placed over "Chicago 2016" logos?

It would truly be amusing if so.

Bánfield gana: TAPA Nº 123

INDEPENDIENTE 1 BANFIELD 2

Exercise in Futility?

Bears are three-point dogs at home tonight and pretty much 100% pooches with the offensive line.


The Blackhawks on the other hand are looking pretty sharp the past few weeks, winning 6 in a row including the first two of their Circus road trip by convincing 7-1 and 5-2 margins.

They're playing tonight on the west coast, so after the Bears dig themselves a hole at halftime, we'll be switching over.

Independiente 1 Bánfield 2

Persistente la lluvia, persistente Independiente, persistente Bánfield, persistente Silva.

Independiente estudió para jugar su final en su nuevo estadio, porque del resultado del partido dependía el resto de la ahora pálida suerte anual. Y salió a complicar a Bánfield tomando el terreno, la iniciativa y presentando un aceitado sistema defensivo de off side.

Tomando nota de las debilidades del taladro (3 de los 6 goles que recibió fueron de larga distancia) y aun más bajo la lluvia, los locales probaban de lejos y Luchetti respondía en uno y dos dudosos tiempos.

Así, sin salidas de libreto, Independiente aparecía dominador hasta tres cuartos y Bánfield (bicho) más esporádico y punzante mientras el adelanto defensivo de la última línea roja surtía efecto: Silva quedaba colgado y protestando una y otra vez en un partido especulativo y lejos de una apertura.

En el segundo tiempo Independiente encontró la conocida llave: Darío Gandín tomó una pelota en ¾ y le dio de aire para embocarla ante un estático Luchetti (´3). El estadio se encendió y apagó en instantes: tres minutos después (´6) Lucas Mareque, emulando a Alayes, cabecea hacia su arquero errando el cálculo y dándole el empate a Bánfield.

El juego siguió del mismo modo hasta mediados del segundo tiempo, cuando en cancha pesada las piernas rojas aguaron el plan. Entonces Bánfield retrajo a James Rodríguez (salida durante el 1º tiempo) y liberó a Quinteros por derecha, marca que jamás fue tomada.

Silva seguía insultando al aire y acariciándose la calva: se comió un pelotazo al arco de su compañero Battión y rozó el palo en un cabezazo de córner (´63).

Pero a los 76, cuando Quinteros se despegaba solo por tercera vez, (Silva) la recibió en el área y le cambió el palo a Gabarini.

Y fue un merecido premio para Bánfield, puntero invicto, que no juega al off side, que es más sencillo, que regula, muerde, nunca desespera, parece tener la cuota de suerte necesaria y, sobretodo, persiste.

OFF TOPIC: TUVIMOS EL ACIERTO DE VER EN VIVO TOTTHENHAM 9 WIGAN 1

We Can Only Hope

Please let it be so:

• Mayor Daley's decision to blame the media for Oprah Winfrey's career-altering choice to pull the plug on her syndicated talk show after her 25th season is preposterous. But it's also incredibly revealing.

  When the mayor said, "You keep kicking people, and people will leave," he just might have been talking about himself. Daley has been on the warpath about the media in recent months -- to the point of aggressively challenging reporters.

Challenging? Here's a mayor, born into privilege, silver-spoon and all, never had to dirty his shoes walking to school, barely passed, may not have even passed the bar exam without a bit of "help," moved from one political job to another, never on his own achievements but on the backs of others' skills, jumps into the mayor's job because someone died and gets an almost free ride for two decades and then some from the media.

Now he's pissed because some people are finally noticing the emperor has no clothes and hasn't had any for twenty-plus years? Get over yourself Shortshanks. Has anyone seen the Tribune advertisements about how they're "keeping an eye" on the political class? If the Tribune and it's ilk had been keeping an eye on Daley for the past twenty years, we wouldn't be in this cesspool we're currently drowning in.

Any halfway decent politician can sweep into the 5th Floor next election. We only hope Shortshanks is giving serious thought to leaving. Maybe even in handcuffs.

What Did He Say?

How many years was this doofus with the feds? And he said what?

• Police Supt. Jody Weis labeled Pallohusky the "Bernie Madoff" of the sergeants' association, referring to the New York financier sentenced to 150 years in prison for stealing billions of dollars from investors.

Huh? Madoff scammed tens of thousands of people out of billions of dollars in a Ponzi scheme of epic proportions. This is an alleged theft of $600,000. A largish amount by regular folks standards, but only two years salary for J-Fed.

You'd think he'd have learned the difference working with the feebs. They're mostly accountants nowadays. The only thing J-Fed seems to have learned is how to (A) go for the flashy statement, (B) get the soundbite on the news, and (C) listen to what Masters says because he's the guy the mayor sent over to keep an eye on shit.