Date: 2025-06-04
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Da Vinci
PAX: Banks, Tortuga, Stock boy, DQ, Panhandle, SAGA, Jolly, Da Vinci, Katniss FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
We met in the parking garage to save lives from deadly lightning strikes.
Warmorama to Dan Fogelburg Illinois (burpee on Illinois) including Prisoner squats to confirm Jolly’s heartless cynicism
The Thang:
“As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America’s characteristic landscape.” –Walt Whitman, Specimen Days (1879)
Who said it? 10 penalty thrusters for wrong answers
· A study published by the University of Illinois Chicago in 2022 ranked Illinois as the second most corrupt state in the nation, with 4 out of the last 11 governors serving time in prison. But New York and California, respectively, ranked first and second for federal public corruption convictions during this period.
– What is the second most populous city according to 2020 census? Aurora.
How many of the top five are decreasing in population since 2010 census (2 out of 5)
Exercise pairing:
Curls and flutters to Sweet Home Chicago, The Blues Brothers · Statehood: 1818; 21st state (territory established: 1809) Skull crushers and box cutters to Illinois Blues by Skip James · State bird: northern cardinal
· State flower: violet
Merkens and BBSU to Chicago by Sufjan Stevens
· The state’s official snack food is popcorn
Derkens and Freddy Mercuries to Chicago by Frank Sinatra
– Slogan: Land of Lincoln
Motto: State Sovereignty, National Union
Rows and Bicycles to Illinois by Rick Pickren or Hard to Say I’m Sorry by Chicago · Official dance: Square dance
Shoulder Press and LBCs to Calling Out Your Name by Rich Mullins or · State bird: cardinal
Hand release merkins and to Green Grass Grows by Tim McGraw
Moleskin:
1865 Grant returned to Galena to a grand reception of thousands, his onetime home, that onetime great northern port city. Then it was back to Washington for two terms, but after that he couldn’t stay home. It wasn’t exciting enough.
Joan Waugh argues the Ulysses S. Grant was a “natural leader on the battlefield but was not an especially effective leader of his country… inability to clean up his own administration was a blight on his presidential record. Grant’s disdain for politics might be responsible for some of the corruption in his administration… loyalty to those who served him prevented him from ruthlessly purging his administration of ineffective or corrupt politicians.” On the other hand, Ron Chernow argues he successfully presided over the difficult task of Reconstruction, but shows how after his presidency he was defrauded, financially ruined in expensive New York, and faced great difficulties owing to his restlessness.
Beware of being promoted beyond your competence or the restlessness that takes you from home. Maybe Grant should have stayed home right here in Illinois.
COT: Prayers for Stock boy family and Tortuga mom, and silence.
Tags: ao_tar_pit, Banks, Tortuga, Stock boy, DQ, Panhandle, SAGA, Jolly, Da Vinci, Katniss
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