Hooray.

Moved to Camp David.

We can all focus on the BP Cup now.

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Team Cutler.

Another thing we lost because Soldier Field doesn't have a dome.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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This is my signature...

So CGS' threats to burn people worked after all. CGS for CSF President!!!

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Rahm probably added a few new expletives to his repertoire after receiving the news.

Is that the closest Omar Vizquel gets to a Championship in what appears to be his last MLB season?

Damn, I was almost looking forward to a 1968 Part Deux...

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1926-1931-1934-1942-1944-1946-1964-1967-1982-2006-2011

Good. That's all.

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I don't live in Chicago, but I work here. Was kind of hoping to use the whole thing as an excuse to miss work. Nothing says "I can't make it in today" like a good old fashioned building burning/stabbing/rape/public urination fest...

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This is my signature...

You've missed work due to a CSFMB outing?

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Sounds like a CSFMB event.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

No Olympics, now no G8. Time to tear the city down and build a brand new city that can handle these events.

We still get the NATO Summit.

Yay us!

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All of the cool delegates ae at that one, anyway. It's like the Pitchfork of summits.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

Pontiacs last chance for creating a good car:

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Nothing interesting ever happens here.

WRONG!

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

We kicked your grandpa's ass, now it's time to get your ass kicked---CPD

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Government was smart enough to realize CPD is understaffed and Ill-equipped to handle the G8. Would have been a disaster in Obama's home city. Not what is needed in an election year.

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Well then that feeds the machine that thinks he can't do anything or handle anything that comes his way.

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You must know CGS....right?

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

Why move one (G8) and not the other (NATO)? So the city drops its guard and the occupy/anonymous/et all protestors show up anyhow. Half-ass move on the government's part.

Split the protesters up? Let Rahm save face?

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If they moved it to DC maybe, but Camp David is in the Maryland woods near the Pennsylvania border. Not a place the protestors are likely to go.

Going by chatter on twitter and elsewhere, the occupy/anonymous types smell blood in the water with this retreat by Obama and want to continue with their plans to occupy/protest in Chicago in May. Keeping the NATO meeting here gives them a target and an international audience.

That still never seemingly catch anyone who committed a crime....nor prevent anything.

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

Of course not. They are there to line someone who is politically connected. Funny how those RED-light cameras never seem to fail.

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Quite possibly, Rahm and Obama decided this had all the potential to be a disaster for both of them. The G8 was the event more likely to draw heavy protests. The NATO meeting may have some demonstrations, but not the type of stuff the G8 was probably going to bring.



And yet, it is illegal and punishable by fifteen years in prison to record a police officer kicking the shit out of someone based on the premise that a recording might be deceiving and such recording is an invasion of the privacy of these "public servants".

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Don't take it personally.

Not really. A friend of mine was on a the jury during the high profile case of the woman who recorded the cops who refused to take her complaint against their brother officers seriously and attempted to discourage her from pursuing it. They found in her favor due to circumstances. And there is a federal judge in a different state who tossed a similar case on a constitutional basis. But right here in Illinois Lisa Madigan is fighting tooth and nail to keep that law in force.

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Don't take it personally.