Da Coach is gone. The Ditka family announced his passing this morning, shared by Jarrett Payton. He was 86.
MIKE DITKA. 1939–2026. RIP.
They called him Iron Mike. Chicago called him Da Coach. Football called him the man who turned the tight end from a blocker into a weapon.
Aliquippa kid. Pitt. Fifth overall in 1961. First tight end in the Hall of Fame. Caught everything they threw at him, then coached like the game still owed him something.
Player on the 1963 Bears championship. Player on the Cowboys’ Super Bowl VI team. Assistant on Super Bowl XII. Head coach of the 1985 Bears who ran the table and buried New England 46–10 in Super Bowl XX.
The only man who stood in both of Chicago’s last two titles, once in the huddle, once on the sideline with a cigar and no overcoat in a wind chill that would have sent anyone else inside.
Mustache. Sunglasses. Sweater. The stare. The Shuffle. Grabowski. He punched a locker, came back from a heart attack in 11 days, and never apologized for being exactly who he was.
The ’85 Bears were loud. Ditka was the reason they believed they were supposed to be.
Rest easy, Coach. Chicago won’t be the same. 🐻⬇️
Prayers for Diana and the family.
Wondering what you homeowners have to say about this:
"HYPOTHETICALLY… IF I BOUGHT MY HOUSE FOR $125,000 IN 2002 AND THE COUNTY NOW SAYS IT’S WORTH $487,000, WHERE DID I ACTUALLY MAKE $362,000?
Did I sell it? No.
Did I receive $362,000? No.
Did somebody hand me a check for the new assessed value? Obviously not.
But my property taxes still go up because, on paper, my house is suddenly worth hundreds of thousands more.
That’s the part that doesn’t make sense to me.
This isn’t income.
It isn’t cash sitting in my bank account.
It’s a number someone assigned to my property, and now I’m being billed based on that number.
If my stock portfolio doubles but I don’t sell, I haven’t turned that gain into cash.
If my salary stays the same, I don’t suddenly owe more income tax because someone thinks I’m worth more.
So why does owning a home work differently?
WHY AM I PAYING TAX ON A GAIN I NEVER REALIZED?
A house isn’t just an investment.
It’s where people live.
You can pay off the mortgage, own the property outright, and still face a bigger bill every year because the value of the house went up on paper.
At some point, you have to ask what “owning” something actually means if the cost of keeping it can keep rising because of money you never received.
THIS ISN’T ABOUT WHETHER THE HOUSE IS “WORTH” MORE.
IT’S ABOUT BEING CHARGED FOR VALUE YOU NEVER TURNED INTO CASH.
This is theft."
@Hunter_Eagleman CNN tried to publicly stream on live television the execution of a previous president and at the time, Republican party candidate for President.
@steelernation he has gone from one of the most loved players to disliked based on his change is attitude towards the team, the league, and the fan base over the last 2 years.
@EricLDaugh@GovernorShapiro is proposing to increase SNAP benefits by raising taxes on the people of Pennsylvania. On average the increase is $18 per person.
This is not going away, @CarnegieMellon.
You can block your comments all you want, but you can't block this scandal.
Address it now. You've had 20 days.
A week ago, @CarnegieMellon made it into the top 20 on @usnews’s Best Colleges list.
Other than this post, CMU hasn’t commented on this historic achievement.
Why? Because it’s been in hiding for 2+ weeks after one of its employees went on yet another racist rant.
CMU is allowing itself to be held hostage by its white-man-hating DEI hire.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨
Democrat Ohio Gubernatorial Candidate Amy Acton Drove on a Suspended License And Was Convicted of a First-Degree Misdemeanor, Which She’s Been Covering Up And Hiding From Ohio Voters
In May 1993, “Amy L. Beech”, known today as Amy Acton, @amyactonoh the Democrat nominee for Ohio Governor and the failed former Director of the Ohio Department of Health, was charged under Ohio law with driving under suspension or revocation. She was convicted of a first-degree misdemeanor, and the court reported six points to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
In Franklin County Municipal Court case 1993 TR D 118681, ticket S43543, she was charged for an offense on May 6, 1993, pled no contest, and was found guilty of a first-degree misdemeanor.
This is not a minor traffic infraction.
Section 4507.02(B)(1) of Ohio law from that year barred anyone whose license had been suspended or revoked from driving in Ohio during that suspension.
It was a first-degree misdemeanor under Ohio criminal law, not a parking ticket or a speeding ticket you mail in and forget.
The State Medical Board of Ohio asked physicians a direct question on the 1994 Application for Certificate to Practice Medicine. Amy’s conviction was entered on May 20, 1993. Her Ohio medical license, number 35.066895, was issued less than thirteen months later, on June 16, 1994.
Question 17 on paperwork for her State medical license asked:
“Have you ever been convicted or found guilty of a violation of federal law, state law, or municipal ordinance other than a minor traffic violation?”
Amy answered no. That was a lie.
She had already been found guilty of a first-degree misdemeanor for driving under suspension. She looked the Ohio Medical Board in the face and denied a conviction that was already on the court record.
That was the question. It asked whether she had ever been convicted or found guilty of anything beyond a minor traffic violation.
Driving under suspension is not a minor traffic violation. Under Ohio law from that year, section 4507.02(B), it was a first-degree misdemeanor.
That offense is in the first-degree misdemeanor tier because driving after the state has already taken your driving privilege away is a direct challenge to the licensing system itself.
The public court file still does not say why Amy’s license was suspended in the first place. That remains a mystery. What is not a mystery though is what she did next. She drove anyway. She was stopped. She pleaded no contest. She was found guilty.
Amy Acton has an obligation to explain her record to Ohio voters.
Why did she ignore her driver’s license suspension?
Every Ohioan is expected to follow the law. A candidate for Governor does not get a free pass when the question is whether she treated a state-ordered suspension as optional.
When the Medical Board drew a line between ordinary tickets and real convictions, driving under suspension fell on the side that required an honest answer.
Amy Acton is asking Ohioans to make her Governor.
Before they vote this November, they should read Question 17 as the Board wrote it in 1994, read section 4507.02(B) as the General Assembly wrote it that year, and read the docket as the magistrate entered it: guilty of a first-degree misdemeanor.
They should demand that Amy finally explain the suspension she was under, and why she chose to violate it.
A first-degree misdemeanor for driving under suspension was serious enough for the criminal code. It was serious enough for the Medical Board’s 1993 application to demand disclosure beyond a minor traffic violation.
Pretending otherwise is not nuance. It is deliberate evasion.
Why was her license suspended? Was she caught driving drunk? 👇🏻
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@LoomeredStrat
Hey, @KDKA, @WPXI & @WTAE: You were quick to report racist flyers in Edgewood. So why no TV coverage of racist postings by radical @CarnegieMellon prof??
* KDKA report on Edgewood: https://t.co/Brywcj57xX
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#DoubleStandard#FightRacism