Posts Tagged as ‘Chicago’

October 2, 2009

Fail USA and woooo hooo!

I’m pretty disheartened by all the to do going on over the airwaves and on the internet today. Seems Rush Limbaugh was in absolute GLEE that Chicago lost the Olympics, he said (paraphrasing here) that of course Chicago lost, because Obama is “an imbecile.”
Over at my very favorite hate speech website, Fox Nation, the joy [...]

October 2, 2009

Chicago loses Olympic bid

So, seems big bad Chicago was eliminated in the first round of voting by the International Olympic Committee to host the Summer Games in 2016.
Well…
Dammit all to hell.

October 1, 2009

Why I support the Chicago Olympic bid

My brother Tommy posted recently on his blog why he hopes that the city of Chicago is awarded the 2016 Olympic Games. Among his reasons for supporting the games, he talked about benefits to the city’s infrastructure, the increase of revenue, a boost to the local job market, and of course, the “cool factor” of saying, [...]