I drove to North Carolina over the summer and had to drive through the southern tip of Illinois. I fueled up before entering; left some bodily fluids along the roadside, and held a middle finger to the north as I drove through. All because of their position on guns. I refuse to visit or spend money in states that are so abusive of the Second Amendment. F*** Rahm Emanual!

Gun Juden.

Add: Or Gewehr Juden I guess. Who needs laws when you can bring the power of the state against lawful activity by decree? Of course this is a restrain of trade. Interstate trade given all the out of state manufacturing. Seems like this is an abuse of office. I have no problem cutting Chicago off. Haven't been there in 30 years.

I'm stuck in the Democratic People's Republik of Kook, yet outside of Chicongo. I do all I can to avoid the city and I make sure that the CSO and others looking for my patronage know why I they are not getting my business. I'm doing as much of my spending as I reasonably can outside of the DPRK, including that for guns and ammo.

I refuse to set foot in that town because it is not a safe place to be.

I will not do business with any company affiliated with Chicago.

I won't go back to ****cago.

They outlaw handguns for the law abiding meanwhile the south-side thugs are shooting up the place and now are turning the magnificent mile into ****.

No problem. Chicago is a lib dump. I don't regret leaving that place 27 years ago.

This guy should have already been recalled for his inability to do anything with the crime in his city. He wasn't even eligible to run for mayor in the first place due to residency requirements and his appeals court overruled the first court who said he wasn't eligible. It's all a scam. Nothing is legit or real in this country anymore.

What these gun control freaks don't get is the economic impact banning guns will cause. In the past 4 years, I bet a large part of the GDP came from gun sales including manufacture jobs, retail jobs, commercial rents, distributor suppliers, parts manufacturers, ammo manufacturers, etc etc......

I look at a distributors website and see thousands of products for guns. Just think if they banned most of the guns that these parts and accessories were for.

There are load of gun manufacturers on the East coast and they need to reevaluate where they are producing product. If their states want to put limits on their products, then it is time to go. I spoke to my manufacturer in Switzerland today and am trying to get them to build product here. He told me that they had spoken with Kimber in NY,but the costs were too high.
I explained to him that costs on the easter seaboard were probably up to 50% higher then down south or in some of the western states. I don't understand why these companies don't move and move the tax revenue they produce to a more gun friendly state. This would definitely send a message......

Remember the words of Pastor Martin Niemoller:
First they came for the Socialists [assault rifles], and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Socialist [gun owner].
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.

Here's a list that also tells you whether the HQ is in Chicago proper or one of the 'burbs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co....

For one thing...

Exchanges

Chicago Board Options Exchange (Chicago)
Chicago Stock Exchange (Chicago)
CME Group (Chicago)
Nadex (Chicago)
National Stock Exchange (Chicago)
OneChicago (Chicago)
U.S. Futures Exchange (Chicago)

MillerCoors (Chicago)

Quaker Oats Company, a unit of PepsiCo (Chicago)

Oh, and Wrigley, which means


Juicy Fruit (1893)
Spearmint (1893)
Doublemint (1914)
Freedent (1975)
Big Red (1975)
Extra (1984)
Winterfresh (1994)
Surpass (2001)
Orbit (reintroduced 2001)
Orbit White
Eclipse (2001)
5 (2007)


Altoids
Bubble Tape
Cool Air
Eclipse
Excel
Hubba Fergie
Spec Savers
Gummi Savers
Life Saver Minis
Life Saver Fusions
Creme Savers
Lucas (Spicy)
Skwinkles (Spicy)
Starburst
Skittles
Lockets
Tunes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wm._Wrigle....

Rahm has already lost control of most of his city. The street gangs have far more power than he does. They even control his county jail. The same is true where Section 8 and scattered site public housing have taken in the folks who were moved out of Chicago when Daley the Junior tried to gentrify the city to attract the Olympics. About a quarter of my town is now ungovernable. The same is true elsewhere in the state and across the country. He is flailing about trying to regain power, and it is not going to work. Civil society no longer really exists in our cities, and instead we are going back to tribal structures.

And, when you look at the red/blue electoral maps, you see that Rahm and his ilk are not much loved out in the hinterlands. Consent of the governed is becoming increasingly problematic.

Boeing

Somehow I think the mayor of a major US (bankrupt) city carries much more weight than Karl.

The problem always is that there is really no cohesiveness or resolve within the ranks of the little people. The little people will always follow. The big boys hold all the big money and all the power - in terms of law and force.

By the time the little people wake up all the damage is usually already done and is essentially irreversible.

Can anyone cite a spending boycott that has actually worked?

What I dont get is why that city hasn't totally collapsed. I mean really, Rahm frickin Emanuel? What in blazes is wrong with those people.

Let me see if I got this straight....

Trust thy Government but not thy neighbor?

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massach....

Maybe they were real Police, maybe not. Yet another reason for the 2nd and 4th amendments. THIS would NEVER happen to me.

Noodleman wrote..

. . . a spending boycott that has actually worked?

Boycott of table grapes starting in 1965.

Started in order to gain recognition for the California Farm Workers Union which was advocating for better treatment for illegals. Now, illegals and their sympathizers are pretty much in control of Calif, getting close in other states, and even the national gov't is on the verge of caving in to them.

Pretty damn successful, I'd say.

Sears and KMart?

I would have loved if this ticker included New York State, and ESPECIALLY New York City to this boycott as well.

Tourism is one of New York City's last saving grace.

When New York City loses money, the whole State suffers. Gov. "Cummo " and Mayor "Doomberg" should to feel the wrath of a boycott to teach these Statists a lesson.

Just my 2 cents though.

I'm going there.

Definitely time to boycott any business based in Sh*tcago. there is a very instructive blog,

today's tally--
31 homicides as of Jan. 25, 13

naturally Emanuel is doing nothing to stop Black murders...

"Boycott of table grapes starting in 1965."

I challenge that Peterm99.

The grape boycott from my recollection was geared toward the rights of LEGAL seasonal agricultural workers, and was not promoting rights for illegals. Back in that era people hated illegals with a passion. The grape boycott did nothing to improve those sentiments. The only reason attitudes have improved somewhat for illegals is because the media had beaten down the citizen masses with intense propoganda for the last decade. And any good propogandist knows that if you beat down a good person with lies for an extended period of time that eventually he will roll over on his back and submit. That is where we are today.

The grape boycott really (practically speaking) did not really improve the life of the agricultural workers, who are still pretty much treated like a slaves in the fields today.

In fact, I did not know one person who stopped eating grapes back at that time. The price of grapes went up. If there was a large uneaten supply of grapes it would seem that the prices would have dropped. But they were high and went higher to my recollection. Grapes were a luxury in my household due to price. How do you explain that?

Noodleman -

You are correct about the fact that people hated illegals back in those days.

Here's my recollection of the UFW episode: UFW wanted to be recognized by the growers. They refused. UFW started promoting a boycott. Chavez became a folk hero, embraced by the politicians, for fighting for workers against the evil corporations.

Some opponents of the boycott believed that the UFW made no effort to distinguish between legal seasonal Mexican ag workers and workers here illegally and they were concerned that if wages were raised, they'd attract even more illegals. (I can categorically state that I frequently heard the underlined sentiments expressed - I cannot vouch that the UFW made no distinction.) I do remember that in all the speeches, news reports, discussions, etc. that I heard, the supporters always referred to poor "Mexican farm workers" (I can't recall when Hispanic or Mexican-American became the authorized PC terms), with zero mention that some might be illegal. (Note that this is exactly the strategy of the pro-illegal folks today: they always accuse their opponents of being "anti-immigrant" rather than "anti-illegal immigrant".) I also remember seeing a news clip where someone arguing for the UFW position explicitly said words to the effect that "it doesn't matter if they're legal or illegal, all farm workers deserve more than poverty level pay".

I also recall that there seemed to be a two-tiered approach to the boycott by grocery stores: 1.) Some had Calif grapes for sale but had signs encouraging people to buy the non-Calif grapes instead to show support for the farm workers, and 2.) some had only non-Calif grapes and had signs stating that they would not sell Calif grapes at all in order to support the UFW. I expect that the price of table grapes rose for two reasons: 1.) the UFW actually refused to pick table grapes at some of the larger growers, thus curtailing supply, and 2.) the additional costs to the stores which sold primarily non-Calif grapes was passed on to the customers.

IMO, once the UFW "won", the support of many Calif gov't officials and a not insignificant part of the Calif population at large for the plight of the farm workers seemed to morph into support for illegals in general. (And the propaganda to do so has been pushed for far longer than the last decade: recall the Reagan era amnesty.) Anyway, that's the basis of my opinion that the table grape boycott was the initiator of the chain of events leading us to the point where the fed gov't is just about ready to roll over for the illegals.