Former Joliet City Councilman Jim McFarland Found Guilty of DUI

(PS) Late Thursday evening former Joliet City Councilman Jim McFarland was found guilty of DUI charges. McFarland resigned from his elected seat as city councilman in 2016. After 3 1/2 hours of deliberations the jury reached a unanimous verdict of " Guilty". 

As of Thursday evening it was stated by the Will County States Attorney that this now makes DUI number two for McFarland.  The first DUI was not in Will County but this charge may massively effect McFarland's driving and criminal record. 

The Will County States Attorneys spokesman Chuck Pelkie stated that due to this being McFarland's second DUI he would not be eligible for court supervision.  McFarland faces up to 240 hours of community service, 5 days in jail, fines and his licence will be revoked for 1 year at the end of which he will have to appeal to the secretary of states board to re en state his licence. 

Governor Bruce Rauner's campaign is back with the same old song and dance

(PS) Hours after Republican State Senator Sam McCann announces his run for office, Governor Bruce Rauner's campaign is back with the same old song and dance. Having spent less than 30 seconds on running a sort google search, I stumbled upon a Rauner camp ad as seen below.

Already off to a bad start. Successfully utilizing the same tactics against Republican Jeanie Ives, Rauners campaign is hoping the same disgraceful stye will work again. However, looking at the math he is clearly failing. With McCann in the race, Rauner needs to be fully focused on a positive swing for his run instead of yet again trying to associate other candidates to Mike Madigan and the Chicago Democratic machine. 

The likelihood that Madigan is helping a Republican candidate run as a 3rd party opponent is slim to none. Madigan has shown again and again in election year that his sole focus is State Representative's elected. As that, is what keeps him in power. With Republican Governor Rauner already in a tough spot with his Republican base there would be no need for Madigan to dabble in Republican politics. 


Rauner has been taking hits from his own party since the primary election ended. The chairman of the Illinois Republican National Hispanic Assembly resigned her position after the shortly after the results. "I cannot in good conscience support Bruce Rauner," Yvonne Sencial Bolton of Will County said in her resignation letter.

With mummers of concern about Rauners core values already, compounded by a 48.6% of his own base voting for Jeanie Ives, Rauner has the potential loss of half of his own republican voting base to compensate for. That number is not even including those voters who do not come out until the general election. 

The current direction of Rauners campaign could mean ruin for Rauner himself. 

Illinois state Sen. Sam McCann, R-Plainview, announced early Thursday that he plans run as a third-party candidate for governor of Illinois

Illinois state Sen. Sam McCann, R-Plainview, announced early Thursday that he plans run as a third-party candidate for governor of Illinois, with this new announcement we will see more issues for Republican Governor Bruce Rauner.  

Rauner is widely viewed as an underdog in the race for the state's highest office against billionaire J.B. Pritzker. McCann's campaign with the Conservative Party stands to draw votes away from Rauner, who had alienated a lot of his conservative base. Rauner barely defeated state Rep. Jeanne Ives in the Republican primary this March.

"When I announced I was not going to run for Senate, I said the Republican Party under Rauner was unrecognizable to me," McCann said in a statement. "Rauner has smeared the reputations of proven conservatives and abandoned the principles that millions of Illinois' working families hold dear: economic liberty, traditional values, and law and order."

This will be a new venture surly causing a huge shake up in our Illinois gubernatorial race this coming fall. 

The United Nations Security Council has failed to approve a Russian-drafted resolution on Saturday

The United Nations Security Council has failed to approve a Russian-drafted resolution on Saturday that would have condemned "the aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic by the U.S. and its allies in violation of international law and the U.N. Charter."

U.S., British and French forces railed Syria with more than 110 missiles on early Saturday morning, in response to a chemical attack that killed more than 60 people last week, in the largest intervention by Western powers against Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Putin said the U.S. actions in Syria made the humanitarian catastrophe worse and caused pain for civilians and the government.

"Russia in the most serious way condemns the attack on Syria where Russian military servicemen help the legitimate government to fight terrorism," Putin said.

Did World War 3 Just start before our eyes?

       The question being whispered across the world tonight is did world war three just start? Well the answer at this point is no one knows. With the US and allies bombing Syria this evening it will surely cause a stir leading to more sanctions and possibly even more military action in the west. But realistically this could be a world war three hit or miss. As Russia and other allies of Syria have warned the US and allies to stand down they must now somehow in a show of strength make a move. 

   

  As president trump and allies are finishing up a round of air strikes, Syrian officials as well as Russian official must now figure out exactly how to react to the situation at hand. Less than 20 hours ago Russia warned the United States that an airstrike could spark war and now the move has been made on our part to move forward with an air strike. 

In the coming hours we will see where this military conflict leads the United States and Russia who are once again on cold war terms.  In a statement, Antoly Antonov said, "We warned that such actions will not be left without consequences.

"All responsibility for them rests with Washington, London and Paris. Insulting the President of Russia is unacceptable and inadmissible," Antonov added.

We will see in coming days exactly what is in store for future relations between the US and Russia. 

US and Allies Bomb Syria

(PS) As of 2 hours ago the United States, France and the UK officially began dropping bombs on Syria. "A combined operation with the armed forces of France and the United Kingdom is now underway," President Trump said in an address to the nation. This coming just days after Syria was accused of using chemical weapons on its citizens for the 50th time in the last 7 years of the nations civil war. 

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria along with Russia pointed the chemical attack at British military in the last 72 hrs accusing the British of causing the initial chemical attack. The US and allies stated earlier in the week that they in fact had evidence proving the attack was linked to Bashar and his regime. 

Three targets were listed as the Pentagon spoke on Friday evening. 

• A chemical weapons storage facility west of Homs
• A chemical weapons equipment storage and an important command post, also near Homs
• A scientific research facility in Damascus, allegedly connected to the production chemical and biological weapons

The US Secretary of Defense James Mattis told reporters there were no reports of losses in the operation. This report coming in the last few hours. The US and allies now await response from Syria and or its allies North Korea and Russia. With multiple verbal warnings back and fourth we will move forward to see what is coming in the following days.