This is Villa Park calling. I just wanted to say I think that skate park is a waste of time, money and manpower. If the parents think they should buy their kids a skateboard, then they should have someplace for the kid to use it. You buy a kid a bicycle, he goes in the street. They think it’s OK. You buy a kid a snowmobile, then you should have someplace for your child to use it—or one of those small gas-powered minibikes, you should have someplace for your kid to use it. The money should be used for other purposes if you can get it, and the manpower for the skate park is a waste of money, or the parents should have someplace for their child to use the toy they’re buying for them.

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Listen up, ladies and gentlemen, and all you hardworking taxpayers. Most of you are smarter than our president, vice president and senators. Not all of you, but most of you are. By that, I’m going to say that if you don’t have the money, you don’t spend it. You don’t go into debt, but our president and vice president, senators and congressmen, they don’t know what they’re doing. They’re spending all kinds of money and they borrow it. They don’t make the money, they don’t create the money; they borrow it from the Federal Reserve. They’ve loaned it to the politicians to spend, spend, spend, with high interest rates. That’s how the Federal Reserve head gets wealthy. That’s how England got wealthy many years ago—they loaned it to the country and charged them high interest rates.

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Again, Channel 2 News had more coverage of the illegals marching and let them speak, unlike the quick coverage and cut-off of the Americans gathering to protest taxes. It’s unfortunate, but Americans can’t take off work to march whenever they want to. There’s certainly a lot we could protest paying for. I don’t see immigrants suffering in America. They have cars, homes, food, etc. Americans have to work years for these things. I don’t think we could go to another country and have these things in such a short time with menial jobs.

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Can somebody please stop the media onslaught—this is a rhetorical question because I’m calling the media—of the swine flu, oh, I’m sorry, the H1N1 virus, because the people who raise hogs and pigs don’t want it associated with what’s supposedly going around. It’s one 1-billionth of a percentage of people who are dying, yet it’s almost a pandemic. So, let’s all get really upset and raise all sorts of bells and alarms. Stop it. The media has way too much, way too much power. Stop it. Stop it now.

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Another beautiful Sunday morning in Lilac Town. The lilacs are great; the village isn’t as much. We recently received a notice regarding the placement of our mailbox in relation to the street. We have until the far future date of June to fix it. If it’s not, there are fines threatened. I spoke to a village official, who said not to worry, the village probably won’t do that; it’s just so the snowplows don’t hit the mailbox. I don’t think there’s too much of a chance of that happening, given our great snow removal in this town. So, just another big government idea, more on my plate, more threatened fines. Don’t we pay enough taxes? How ridiculous. Worry about getting some business downtown and leave my mailbox alone. Learn how to drive and don’t make it my fault.

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Hi, SPEAK OUT. I am hoping that seniors who are disappointed in the village board voting to take away the taxi subsidy coupons to go to the airport will contact the village and voice your opinion. Let’s unite, seniors; encourage the trustees to listen to us and change the amendment.

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I wanted to thank the kind stranger who returned our dog after she wandered out on garbage day—the fence was left open. So, thank you very much for bring our Lucy Lu back to us.

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When the price of gasoline was over $4 a gallon, the post office raised the rates. And now that the gasoline came down, they never rescinded the rates. They want more. Where did that money go? Who’s kidding whom? Social Security is electronically sent to banks—they don’t have to pay postage. Where’s all that money going? They don’t want to give us any cost-of-living allowance. What happened to that money they spent on postage? That’s a tremendous amount of money and they’re not spending it on stamps. They’re electronically sending that money to the banks. Why aren’t we being told what’s being done with it? Don’t be afraid to speak up to your congressmen and senators and tell them if they don’t do what’s right, we’re voting them out of office.

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So we bail out Chrysler, and then the bankruptcy, and in the bankruptcy filing, Chrysler does not have to pay back $7 billion in taxpayer money? And it’s confirmed by the Obama administration? So they’re off the hook for $7 billion in taxpayer money—now that’s real change.

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I have a silly question. I thought that President Obama was for the voucher program, and now he cancelled the school voucher program in Washington, D.C. Looks like he’s not in favor of the school voucher program; he’s in favor of bailing out auto makers and banks, and not taking care of the kids, who are our future. Boy, that’s real change.

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This is Villa Park calling. There’s a house in town that the grass needs to be mowed. It just looks terrible in the neighborhood, and I just want to speak out and let everyone know.

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This is to the person who thinks I was talking about Hillary Clinton and using the planes to fly all over the world. She should—she’s secretary of state. I was talking about Pelosi. I think you have your person wrong. Nancy Pelosi shouldn’t be flying all over spending this kind of money, and that Obama is wasting $350,000 to take pictures of a plane over New York? Come on.

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Hello, Lombard. A Catholic priest named Rev. Michael Pfleger flew the American flag upside down. It is a signal of distress. His use of the flag was a political stunt. I think it shows a real sign of disrespect. There is a problem with violence in his neighborhood—he focuses on gun control instead of the real problem, concentrating on an all-out control with gangs. I am glad I moved out of Chicago, with all its posturing, gesturing, disrespect and manipulation of the truth.

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Look at that, Lombard. Oil prices are going up again. That darn Bush. Man, as long as he’s in office, an oil man in office, he’s causing the oil prices to go up. Oh, wait a minute; it’s not President Bush, it’s President Obama. The oil prices are going up and the media’s not talking about it. Could it be because of supply and demand, that the demand is going up? Supplies going down, causing the price to go up? No, that can’t be it. It’s Bush. It’s Bush. But he’s not in office; it’s supply and demand. All you people who said Bush drove the oil prices up, I think you’re wrong.

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Hey, folks. Our president just said he wants to cut $17 billion from the budget. Whoa, isn’t that amazing? He just spent a trillion dollars on pork, and now the media is fawning all over him because he’s going to cut $17 billion? This is nuts.

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This is Lombard calling. Yes, the elections did prove something. It did make a change in Lombard. It did make changes with the trustees. Perhaps all those people calling in and complaining don’t realize it’s the trustees who have the final say about everything that goes on in Lombard. Insofar as us being in the 1970s, we are far ahead of other towns around us in many of the things that Lombard has achieved, and all of this is thanks to Bill Mueller, who has put in the time and love that it all requires to make the Lilac Village one out of a hundred such places voted where everybody wants to live. That’s quite a privilege. We’re one out of a hundred in the nation. None of those towns were picked.

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This is for the person with the barking—or should I say howling—dog. Besides the constant yelping that I can hear even down the street, do you know your nearby neighbor just lost a family member and is grieving? Letting that dog constantly howl is so inconsiderate. And, to another neighbor who has let her dog run into other neighbors’ yards, your pet slowly killed two bushes I had spent time and money on. I know it isn’t my dog because of where the dead spots are. Lastly, to the neighbor who said he doesn’t care if his weeds get out of control, well, they already have; they’ve invaded my yard, again at my time and expense. Come on, folks, let’s be more considerate.