Hey Baldy!

St. Baldrick's is fast approaching:

• We're just over two weeks away from St. Baldrick's 2010!
  
  There is still time to sign up for anyone that still wants to join us on Friday, March 19th from 0700 -1700 hours at the Academy, Area 2, or Area 5. Signing up is easy, just go to www.stbaldricks.org and under "find an event" type in Chicago Police in the venue box and choose your location. If you are returning from last year, simply use your login information and click on register for 2010’s event.
  
  For those unfamiliar, St. Baldrick's is an organization that raises money that goes towards research of a cure for childhood cancer. Participants agree to shave their heads in support of the kids who lose their hair in chemo treatments, and seek pledges for doing so. Fundraising is easy once you tell people what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. There is no minimum to raise and no amount is too small, however to get a t-shirt you do need to raise at least $50.00.
  
  Participants with longer hair are also able to donate hair longer than 12" to be used by "Locks of Love" to make wigs for the patients that do lose their hair. Colored hair cannot be used for Locks of Love unfortunately.
  
  Should you have any questions contact: Bill O'Reilly for the Academy event at chromedome1269@sbcglobal.net, Bill Murphy for the Area 2 event at 50murf@comcast.net and Anne Zamzow for the Area 5 event at annezamzow@yahoo.com.

Mark your calendars.

Martín Palermo goleador histórico de Boca.

En un partido memorable, Martín Palermo llegó a la tan ansiada marca de 218 goles con la camiseta de Boca para igualar el récord de Roberto Cherro y ponerse como máximo goleador en la historia del club.

No fue fácil. A los 13 minutos Boca perdía 1-0 y a los 25 Montoya le atajó un penal al Titán. Pero, fiel a su trabajosa historia, ya con el partido 1-1, puso su gol a los 40.

Palermo suma 218 goles en 354 partidos jugados en Boca. 175 corresponden a los torneos locales (269 partidos) y 43 a copas internacionales (85 partidos).

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OPINIONES SOBRE EL CASO PALERMO

Por otra camiseta de la selección argentina.

No es bueno – se dice – mezclar la política con el deporte (ya están mezclados). 

Pero recordando que hace pocos días todos los presidentes de América (salvo Canadá y EE.UU.) acompañaron en apoyo de la soberanía argentina sobre las Islas Malvinas, viene la observación.

Argentina ya tiene su indumentaria para Sudáfrica (titular y suplente) y los tiempos no dan para el lanzamiento de una nueva.

No obstante, existe un grupo en facebook, Yo también quiero esta camiseta en el mundial, que ya cuenta con más de 70.000 fans.

Agradecemos a los lectores, colaboradores, amigos, periodistas y curiosos que acompañan LPND y nos permitieron superar la barrera de las 400.000 visitas y a Bloggerball que publica un reportaje sobre el blog.

Puertas abiertas a quienes quieran arrimarse al fogón para seguir creciendo. Por el fútbol.

Chicago to Join the USA

Advice to Chicagoans - Go buy a gun before they're all snapped up:

• Most of the Supreme Court justices who two years ago said the 2nd Amendment protects individual gun rights signaled during arguments today they are ready to extend this right nationwide and to use it to strike down some state and local gun regulations.
  
  Since 1982, Chicago has outlawed hand guns in the city, even for law-abiding residents who sought to keep one at home. That ordinance was challenged by several city residents who said it violated their rights "to keep and bear arms" under the 2nd Amendment.
  
  The case forced the high court to confront a simple question it had never answered: Did the 2nd Amendment limit only the federal government's ability to regulate guns and state militias, or did it also give citizens a right to challenge state and local restrictions on guns?
  
  All signs today were that five justices saw the right to "bear arms" as national in scope and not limited to laws passed in Washington.

First of all, Shortshanks is going to lose out on tens of thousands in sales taxes as all gun shops are currently located in the suburbs. This amuses us.

Second, he's going to waste millions more attempting to make registering a gun nearly impossible. He's going to lose those cases in court because even if he wants to "tax" a Right guaranteed by by Constitution, he cannot make it so exorbitantly expensive that regular citizens are frozen out of the process. That means your Englewood resident is entitled to be able to own a legal handgun the same as a Gold Coast condo dweller is.

We may have to wait until June, but today it looks like Chicagoans were restored a Right that an out-of-control despot had deprived them of for years and the despot looked like a complete ass while it happened and was weakened politically once again.

More Stupidity

First, the mayor makes a dumb comment:

• If the Chicago ban is struck down, it will endanger the lives of police officers, Daley warned.

  “If you allow people to arm themselves, that places all first-responders — paramedics, police, anyone — in jeopardy going into their homes. You don’t know if they have a gun,” the mayor said

Well, we already don't know if they have a gun Shortshanks. We're sure we've wandered into dozens of domestics where there was a gun somewhere in the house. But by being aware of what was going on and making sure things got calmed down, nothing bad happened.

And then J-Fed rises from Daley's lap and chimes in with his two-cents:

• Police Supt. Jody Weis added, “Every time there’s a domestic disturbance, we [will] have to assume there’s a gun.”

Un-fucking-believable. First, a guy who hasn't been more than twenty feet from a gun his entire life, seeing as how the CPD babysat him, drove him everywhere, and has been his bodyguard for over 60 years now. And then a clueless feeb who has never been anywhere near a domestic disturbance (or maybe once depending on the rumors you hear) thinks he has to tell us to "assume" there's a gun on the scene of a domestic. Well supercop, we already know there's a gun on the scene, hopefully two. We brought it there you idiot!

Someone want to clue these strokes in? Because we're tired of doing it.

Zidane: "prefiero morir..."

[caligula & nanu bauza]

2006. Final del mundo. Francia – Italia. Zidane fue expulsado por Elizondo. Francia perdió la Copa y Zidane nunca más volvió a jugar al fútbol.

2010. Zizú habla con Diego Torres (El País):

"Sí, claro que me lo reprocho a mí mismo - dice Zidane - pero, si yo digo 'perdón', también estaría admitiendo que lo que hizo él fue normal. Y para mí no fue normal. En el campo pasan cosas. Me ha pasado muchas veces. Pero ahí no pude aguantar. Porque además... No es una excusa. Pero mi madre estaba enferma. Estaba en el hospital. Esto la gente no lo sabía. Pero era un mal momento. Más de una vez insultaron a mi madre y nunca contesté. Pero ahí... Y pasó. Y pedirle perdón a éste... Si hubiese sido Kaká, un tío normal, un tío bueno, claro que le habría pedido perdón. ¡Pero a éste! Si le pido perdón, me falto el respeto a mí mismo y a todos los que quiero con toda el alma. Pido perdón al fútbol, a la afición, al equipo... Después del partido, entré al vestuario y les dije: 'Perdonadme. Esto no cambia nada. Pero perdón a todos'. Pero a él no puedo. Nunca, nunca... Sería deshonrarme... Prefiero morir".

“Se dio la conversación”. Tímido e introvertido, Zizú habló y habló…

"Sin saberlo, Enzo (Francescoli) me ayudó para todo… cuando tienes 14, 15, 16 años... Es la peor edad. Te preguntas qué vas a hacer, contestas a tu padre, te juntas con quien no debes y eres fácilmente influenciable. Ahí tienes que tener algo a lo que aferrarte para concentrarte en algo importante. Para mí, fue Enzo. Cuando se lo digo, se alegra, pero no entiende exactamente cómo me ayudó. Además, cuando le veo, no hablamos de igual a igual. Mi sensación de respeto me contiene. Él ha sido... Cuando le conocí, me impresioné aún más. Me dije: 'Al final, he tenido razón'. Tuve una buena intuición".

Ya vimos como Jorge Carrascosa salió a hablar de su renuncia al Mundial 1978, 18 años después. Cómo Cruyff salió a explicar su renuncia al Mundial 1974 después de 34 años. 

No es nada. La familia Verne tardó 126 años en encontrar en un baúl los originales de Julio para publicar “París en el siglo XX” y los científicos tardaron 502 años en presumir que la Gioconda estaba embarazada cuando posaba.

O quizás las declaraciones de Zizú tengan alguna relación con esto.

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The Beginning of the End

Hopefully, good news in a few months:

• Chicago's longstanding ban on handguns within city limits will go before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, in a case that will have serious legal ramifications nationwide.

  Handguns have been outlawed in Chicago for 28 years. But in 2008, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court reversed a handgun ban in Washington, D.C., emboldening gun-rights activists to challenge the Chicago law. Suburban Oak Park, which has even stronger gun legislation, is also involved in the lawsuit.

A number of local media outlets are still quoting Daley's inanities about banning guns reduces violence, somehow missing the fact that in the 48 states with concealed carry or shall-issue laws experienced double-digit reductions in violent crime and even bigger drops in property crime. Gun laws only affect the law abiding and do nothing to stop a criminal who is already intent on breaking the law.

A ruling should be handed down around June.