Posted on 10/04/2009 9:10:03 AM PDT by skimbell
The Olympic Fiasco
I think most Americans were rooting for Chicago. As I wrote on NRO’s corner, I know I was. But Rio had a really convincing hope and change/ multicultural/new guy on the block case. And consider: given the recent bad windy city publicity (You Tube beatings, state and city corruption, Blagoism, Daley ward mobsterism, rumors of pre-Olympic wheeling and dealing on land angles, administration Chicago hard-ball Rahm Emanuel/David Axelrod politics, etc.), Chicago, Illinois ,was seen abroad as less competitive, far less competitive, than the other cities...
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
You were what?
Replacing the phrase, "This reminds me when McCain suspended his campaign to save the economy".
Home to about 7 million people, it recorded 2,069 murders last year compared with 510 in Chicago, a city of 2.8 million
Anyone have stats on Tokoyo crime?
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