Enter Roland Burris

The proton center being built at Northern Illinois University has been put on hold supposedly because of the sinking economy.
At least that is the reason being given.
Enter Roland Burris. That's right. The Illinois lame duck senator.
He and his partner, Fred Lebed were hired to win "approval from state hospital regulators to build a $140 million cutting-edge cancer treatment center, even though the board had initially opposed the idea and approved building a similar facility just a few miles away." This facility is the NIU proton center in question. But Central DuPage got the approval it sought by arguing that there "was room for more than one proton center in the Chicago region (even though) there are only five such facilities operating in the United States.
It will be interesting to see where Burris lands after he vacates the senators office.
I hope he enters a reading class. I watched with embarrassment as he tried to read his speech when announcing that he wouldn't run in 2010. I wondered if his decision had anything to do with the fact that he had only raised $845 towards it. His announcement made me wonder, "How hard can it be to be a U.S. Senator when you can get in without knowing how to read your own speech".
Of course we currently have a president who reads a TelePrompter for everything he says.

Don't get me started.

Have a nice Monday.
Blessings,
Rick