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• On the article South Suburban Tick Spottings: Interactive Map

  bob busch

  8:29 am on Wednesday, May 22, 2013

  should be picked

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• On the article South Suburban Tick Spottings: Interactive Map

  bob busch

  8:29 am on Wednesday, May 22, 2013

  You can add 128th and 94th ave to your list.Last Sunday my wife piched
  up a tick in our yard.

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• On the article Illinois Politicians, Administrators Talk State Pension Issues (Live Blog)

  bob busch

  8:45 am on Monday, May 13, 2013

  Bob
  Notice of this event was on the patch last week.
  Republicans are very smart to avoid this exercise in frustration.
  Since the machine gerrymandered Southwest Suburban districts to their
  advantage why should Republicans get involved?
  Let these louts get credit for destroying the lives of retired individuals.
  Just make sure everyone who gets screwed get to the polls next time
  and never let them forget who screwed them out of their retirement.
  This should be a win win for the GOP.

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• On the article McCord Gallery Offers Rare WWII Exhibit

  bob busch

  8:44 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013

  I should not write so early.What Mr Loyd developed was the first flichett
  rounds for the us army.When he got to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in
  Maryland they evacuated the guard post and had the bomb squad remove the rounds
  from his trunk.

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• On the article McCord Gallery Offers Rare WWII Exhibit

  bob busch

  6:17 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013

  I hope some of the local people who contributed to the war effort
  are remembered. My former scout master Mr.Loyd who helped develop the first
  proximity shells and drove them from here to Maryland in the trunk of his car.
  If a bricklayers strike had not postponed the opening of buildings Palos would
  have been the site of the first atomic reaction as it was pile one was brought to
  the " Forest Lab" ( Argonne ) when it opened in our woods.

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• On the article Guns in Public Places: Where Do You Stand?

  bob busch

  10:35 am on Monday, February 11, 2013

  Fear
  I was at Bogan about a month when this happened. One afternoon during passing period I was watching the hall when i saw a boy slip a Beretta semi auto into his belt above the crack of his butt. The hall was full of kids so what to do?
  Well, I went up to him and said, "What is in your belt?" If he had so much as blinked his nuts would have visited his liver.
  Thank god he said "A prop gun for the school play..." Sure enough out came a copy of a real pistol. it was a perfect working replica of a Beretta semi-auto.
  I took him to security, and after telling the cop I proceeded to verbal unload on him. The fear did not kick in until later. But if it was real and he was bent on destruction that would have been it for a lot of people.
  If a cop had observed what he did he might have been shot. God was I stupid.

  That is the rest of a real situation that confronted me as a teacher.
  I believe in the second amendment and in concealed carry laws.
  But nobody seems to remember that along with the right to carry comes a responsibility to act in a rational mature way.If i was armed that day I might have
  acted out of fear and shot the kid.I hope along with weapons training everyone
  granted a permit to carry has to pass a psychological test to determine if they have the mental capacity ,and judgement, to be armed.
  The day that happened i was the only adult around.Every school needs armed guards,but they must not be adults in name only.

• On the article Guns in Public Places: Where Do You Stand?

  bob busch

  8:23 am on Monday, February 11, 2013

  Guns in school
  I was at Bogan about a month when this happened. One afternoon during passing period I was watching the hall when I saw a boy slip a Beretta semi auto into his belt above the crack of his butt. The hall was full of kids so what to do?

  What would you do?

• On the article Moraine Valley Starts Construction on Health Center

  bob busch

  8:02 am on Friday, December 28, 2012

  I am glad that MVCC is building the fitness center and i will probably join.
  But I hope they realize that its location is perilously close to a place rich in
  local history.It is directly south of Sullivan Spring and a native American camp
  rich in artifacts.It is also almost adjacent to the old sag trail form antiquity.
  One of the remaining earthworks in Palos is also only a arrow shot away.

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• On the article What Would You Improve in Palos in 2013?

  bob busch

  6:30 am on Sunday, December 23, 2012

  I would demand that the state rebuild the 86th ave bridge over the Cal Sag.
  We actually had a bridge there and at Kean Ave 50 years ago.If that proved impractical then put one at Roberts road .

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• On the article Palos Custodian a Poet at Heart

  bob busch

  8:25 am on Friday, December 14, 2012

  Good for him.
  Take a bow Palos he joins the long line of the creative to find
  inspiration in our green hills like Sherwood Anderson, Claude Buck
  and Thorstein Veblen.

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