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| Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
After looking this plan over, I would have to say that it fairly well epitomizes the Obama presidency - lots of fancy decorations put on something that amounts to very little. Somehow seems fitting for Chicago though. http://www.foxnews.com/politic...egressive-ideas.html | ||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Looks like a giant shack, a shanty. Most appropriate, and I hope it costs 50 billion dollars in the end. | |||
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safe & sound |
Doing what exactly? | |||
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| The Main Thing Is Not To Get Excited  |
Chicago is a really beauiful city in a beautiful setting, except for brutally nasty winters of course which take some of the fun out of it. So just taking into consideration that the profs and the locals want to maintain the look of the city puts me on their side. the shallowness of zippy and his fluffers isn't really Chicago's fault, whether in architecture or commerce. _______________________ | |||
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A Grateful American |
 "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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always with a hat or sunscreen |
Don't forget the absurd traffic, crime rate, and crazy murder stats. I've avoided the area since the mid '90s and you couldn't pay me to visit ChiTown these days. The wacko libtards and the Obozo footprint simple reaffirm my resolve to stay far far away. Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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| Raised Hands Surround Us Three Nails To Protect Us  |
The numbers in that article are baffling. Or I am just naive about how many people visit these places. Presuming the library was open 365 days a year it would have to average over 2,000 people a day. What are the daily visitor numbers for other presidential libraries? Edited to add a quick googling show that JFKs library holds the highest attendance for 1 year at 560k visitors. The next closest were Regan and Clinton at 450k. And those were peaks the averages looked to be around 200k. 2500 permanent jobs? I live in a county of 318,000 people while not huge by any means the ENTIRE county employs 3500 people. Only 1,000 more than this library. ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | |||
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Chip away the stone |
Yeah, that jumped out at me too. Let's see, at the leftist desired entry-level pay of $15/hour, 40-hours a week, that's $78 million a year in payroll expenses, at a minimum. Maybe that 3.1 billion "impact" they are referring to is losses. | |||
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I wonder how much the City of Chicago is chipping in? On a side note: can any Chicago members comment on DePaul's new arena? Is it a boondoggle? ...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV | |||
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delicately calloused |
The tall building reminds me of an Easter Island statue... You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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| bigger government = smaller citizen  |
All I keep thinking is that it's brutalist, which completely fits. It also probably means that in 15 years or so, it will also end up like all of the other monuments to communists. Abandoned, decaying, forgotten. “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken | |||
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| Chip away the stone |
Looks to me like it was inspired by a Star Wars Gonk Droid...   | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
760,000 visitors a year? Really? 760,000 visits a year? Only if it becomes an open-air drug market and hookers work the underground parking. | |||
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| Never Go Full Retard  |
Chicago Public School field trips. The onsite extracurriculars are fitting. They don't think it be like it is, but it do. | |||
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The inside of the ugly/taller structure looks like jail-cells to me. __________ __________ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy." | |||
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According to the article...
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Sherlock Holmes | |||
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What a load of crap. Given time, he next Cabrini-Green. Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. “If in winning a race, you lose the respect of your fellow competitors, then you have won nothing” - Paul Elvstrom "The Great Dane" 1928 - 2016 | |||
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| Move Up or Move Over |
And here I thought that single wide on the Arkansas river would remain the ugliest presidential building | |||
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The perfect place to keep The Messiah and his worthless family. | |||
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This Space for Rent |
Yeah, out of the back of the building you will be able to buy guns and crack. It’ll be the only pResidential center where they do an annual body count. Yes, come experience the true South side of Chicago. We will never know world peace, until three people can simultaneously look each other straight in the eye Liberals are like pussycats and Twitter is Trump's laser pointer to keep them busy while he takes care of business - Rey HRH. | |||
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