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Oliver Willis in attendance. One of his tweets:

From the lowest forms of humanity gathered in our great capital today:

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 11:04 AM) More Healther propaganda. When a guy like Glenn Beck, who once said this: ...tells people to go to Washington to protest something I can't help but to agree with Maher's assessment.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 10:34 AM) Is there some huge protest in Washington today? CNN is showing some BIG crowds. By far the biggest 'tea party' protest yet. "The million moron march" - Bill Maher

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 10:12 AM) It's likely going to be a wash on donations. There has been a front page Druge ad for Wilson and the GOP is reporting he will go over $1,000,000 in recent contributions. Top that off with his insurance industry bribes, I don't think he will be at a fund raising disadvantage for elections next year. His opponent, who happens to be a war veteran, will have the advantage of running ads of Wilson looking like a complete douche bag at that speech. Can't imagine moderates and independents wanting to be linked to a petty hyper-partisan.

I was in NY that week for my first work road trip. A group of 6 of us were going to spend the week in Long Island and as we descended late Sunday night towards Laguardia I noticed the twin towers out the window. Monday night at dinner our group discussed cutting out of work early on Wednesday or Thursday to go down and check out the towers. Obviously those plans changed Tuesday morning. We wound up being stuck in Long Island until Wednesday afternoon. That's when they finally let some ferries take people off the island. Before that we couldn't start our drive back home in our rental cars since the bridges going back to Manhattan were shut down. While on the ferry we passed Manhattan and could see the smoke plumes from ground zero. Finally landed in Connecticut and continued our long road trip back to Chicago. What a memorable way to kick off my career out of college.

We can move into 2nd place tonight as well.

Santo, They botched the whole Swisher thing. Fine. Move on.

QUOTE (Yoda @ Sep 11, 2009 -> 02:58 PM) I was a freak'n 6th grader and a scared one at that when my social studies teacher warned us of the footage he would present before the classroom. I'm now a sophomore in college and more informed on the happenings of the modern world we live in. Informed of the modern world you are.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 11, 2009 -> 02:43 PM) I have been watching John Adams the last few days, great miniseries by the way. But while watching it, I repeatedly find myself wondering why they haven't made a miniseries or epic based on George Washington's life. Someone pointed out to me that there was a movie in the 1980's starring Barry Bostwick as Washington, but that doesn't exactly cut the mustard for me. With all of the epic movies and miniseries in the recent past, why haven't they done one about the man who most consider the greatest American ever? After learning about him in the Adams series I started to question how great Washington really was.

BTW, Rob Miller apparently has raised over $750K since the incident.

Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon wants the congressman who shouted at Obama out of office and out of his party—and he's donating $1,000 to his opponent.

What the f*** did I just step into?

QUOTE (GasHeGone @ Sep 11, 2009 -> 12:16 PM) All we gotta do is when series. For sure

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 11, 2009 -> 07:20 AM) It is also a pretty common behavior that if people feel they are entitled to something they will do it just out of spite. Like showing up at a President's speech with an AK-47 hanging over your shoulder?

Happy birthday pals!

Twins did their part today by losing now if only KC could hold on to their 2-0 lead. Washburn with a high pitch count already.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 02:08 PM) Guys it is pretty simple. They are exempting illegals because the administration knows in the near future there will be no illegals. They will all be citizens and therefore eligible. That's why there isn't even an effort to find out if someone is here illegally or not.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 08:47 AM) Multiple layers... For one thing, raising the world profile of the city will result in significant increases in tourist dollars coming to the city (aside from just during the event itself). I can't imagine that'd have a lasting effect. Are people from all over the world clamoring to visit Atlanta and Salt Lake?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 01:31 PM) Ap's take on Obama's speech. They actually dare to say somethign sort of bad against dear leader. http://rpc.blogrolling.com/redirect.php?r=...blogspot.com%2F What's the point of posting a biased blog entry commenting on the speech? For every one of those there's another blog claiming it was an amazing speech.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 01:18 PM) That is kinda the point of winning the Olympic bid. They HAVE to fix these problems if they win it, or they risk the probability of Chicago looking like a craphole to the rest of the world. We get a month worth of tourist headaches in exchange for fixing some major transportation problems. I'll take it. That's my beef though. Their plan does not call for fixing public transit. This would be a golden opportunity to overhaul a decrepit infrastructure.