Mayor Dikefoot pulls a Daly/Meg's Field
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/m ... o/2310757/

Uncle Buck was a great movie.

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We Now Know That JOE BIDEN has been COMPROMISED by CHINA! (let that sink in)

Election 2020-The Largest Fraud in the History of Mankind.

*If you believe that Biden won, you also believe that Epstein killed himself*

"This action was taken after consultation with various stakeholders"

Give me a break. Monumentally stupid decision.

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Yup. I am pretty open minded, but this shit is going too far. Plus it reminds me that no matter how big of disdain I have for much of what counts as right of center politics, the left always riles me up more.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

I don't give a shit about the statue. But doing this only emboldens morons.

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It does. It also goes against the Sprungfeld Rule for historical figures.

I was always a Leif Erikson man myself. Leif Garret was also a trend-setter.

You are going to have to give up ALL of your traditions and values. This is really just a taste.

This mayor seems like shit.

I really worry about you at times. Leif Garrett?!?

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

I mean, if they can take down the Columbus statue, is there any hope for Tom Dreesen's?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Dreesen is still kicking. So can't take his statue down or he will sue.

Wow really? I thought this guy died a long time ago.
But seriously folks, I'm glad the guy who wrote The Goonies wasn't the subject of this thread. Thats who I thought this was about when I saw this name in RIP.

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How many Chicagoans even knew the statue existed?

Since Harry Carey died Dreesen has pretty much been forgotten by the world. Harry use to give him some good air time on cub broadcasts. I didnt know he had a statue too. thought it was a joke.

But, didn't he shake Sinatra's hand?

is that the rumor? I thought he and Frank were in good standing when Frank was alive.

What about the stakeholders in violence ridden areas where children are being murdered every weekend?

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This is such alarmist bullshit. Quit watching Fox News.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

This is what communists do everywhere they go.

Dreesen was on Dennis Miller's podcast about two months ago while promoting a book. He was surprisingly good, and while Miller kept on trying to lob softball questions Tom was actually pretty thoughtful.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

I always presumed there was one in Columbus Park. Never gave it much thought, just like virtually every other statue here.

And why does Dreesen have a statue? Or is that a joke?

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

I'm getting a little sick of this BLM shit invading every aspect of public life.

I'm gonna purchase Lightfoot's spoken word album 108.

108, or, How I Learned To Look Like a Mogwai.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Home Alone is a Christmas classic. A little trivia - he was also the director of Christmas Vacation but couldn’t stand Chevy Chase so he quit.

I always liked that band, the post-rock band

Nice guy, did a stand up act at a wedding I was at in 2001. So bizarre.

Wait, Dennis Miller has a podcast?

You have a link to it?

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I was at a golfing event with him for ex-caddies at Ravisloe (apparently he was one as a youth there.) Pretty good golfer, but it sounded like he was pretty much playing 5 days a week at that point (this was probably 8 years ago or so.)

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Wasn't he . . . like someone in the BeeGee's brother?

That was the insult that summer: "You throw like Leif Garret!"