Chicago 2016

[Shea]

So after hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money, thousands of tons of carbon being dumped in the atmosphere and the most powerful man in the world NOT DOING HIS FLIPPING JOB....Obama failed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091002/...l/oly2016_bids

Too bad dude, now get back to the job you were actually hired to do.

[Nick_Ninja]

Bombs in Madrid

AIDS in Rio

Where can I buy tickets?

[Devaclis]

Bombs in Madrid

AIDS in Rio

Where can I buy tickets?

The Dakar > The Olympics

[Nick_Ninja]

The Dakar > The Olympics

Yeppers

[Devaclis]

$100 million is what they are estimating the entire campaign cost.

If they had a child killing competition in the Olympics, Chi town would be at the top of the list.

[Pandora-11]

Stunned! I really thought that the Obamas wouldn't go unless it was already a done deal. Wow....

[Matty]

I guess they didn't want Gangmember beatings as a new event.

[Devaclis]

Rio just got it. Yay! Kidnappings, whores, and filth!

[puckstr]

Rio just got it. Yay! Kidnappings, whores, and filth!

Bring an EXTRA Ear if you go

[salsashark]

Rio just got it. Yay! Kidnappings, whores, and filth!

So... really, add some 2X4 beatings and you have Chicago?!

[Horsman]

We are all going to be dead in 2012... party like it is 1999 now... LOL

[dirkterrell]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA9Z8KEsNyo

Dirk

[CYCLE_MONKEY]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA9Z8KEsNyo

Dirk

Dood, that's friggin' hilarious!

[CYCLE_MONKEY]

My question is: If you have a screen name that ends in "Mute", why can't you just STFU?

[Wintermute]

Shea, I'm sure you'll say now that you condemned Bush when he spent 4 days watching the Olympics in China. Uhh-huhh.

With a payoff of tens of billions, an investment of 100 million ain't shit.

Chicago lost weeks ago, because:
a. We get a lot of the Olympics.
b. South America has never had the Olympics.
c. It's harder to get into the US since 9/11. (Right or not, it was a factor from what I heard.)

Obama was asked to go as a last-ditch effort by the Chicago committee. They knew it was a long shot, and Obama knew it was too. That's why he didn't want to go, because when they inevitably didn't get it, the pile-on commenced. It's pretty disgusting how gleeful the right is that the U.S. lost out on billions worth of jobs and commerce.

Pigboy Limbaugh:

LIMBAUGH: For those of you on the other side of the aisle listening in who are upset that I sound gleeful -- I am. I don't deny it. I'm happy. Anything that gets in the way of Barack Obama accomplishing his domestic agenda is fine with me.

"Tears of a Clown" Beck:

"Do not go anywhere. Don't -- do not look at the screen. Don't -- don't go to any other radio stations. Nothing. You don't want to hear this news -- I mean, please, please let me break this news to you. Oh, it's so sweet." [After a commercial break, Beck's producer stated that] "The first round of voting is up for the Olympic games, and the first city" [at which point Beck interrupted, saying] "Wait! Wait for it! Wait for it. Enjoy this -- savor this moment." [The producer continued] "And the first city to be eliminated is Chicago." [Beck later asked his producer if Chicago's elimination was proof that Obama had "failed."]

We've come from "USA! USA! USA!" to this horseshit.

And way to condemn a great American city of 8 million people because of one incident, guys. I guess Columbine should define Denver, huh?

[dirkterrell]

Shea, I'm sure you'll say now that you condemned Bush when he spent 4 days watching the Olympics in China. Uhh-huhh.

With a payoff of tens of billions, an investment of 100 million ain't shit.

Interesting reading:

http://www.econ.queensu.ca/working_p...ed_wp_1097.pdf

As we see from Table 5 above, even the most generous measure of net benefit ofthe Olympics – Event Benefits minus Event Costs – is negative (-$101m), although by a lesser amount than was anticipated at the beginning of the project. This figure is “helped” by fully evaluating the extra surplus from the spectacle and the Halo.

However, there are a number of factors which push the actual net benefit of this much-celebrated project even further into the red. The first, of course, are the infrastructure costs discussed in section 1. While this paper did not rigorously assess these, a casual perusal of the Infrastructure Costs and the non-Olympic Infrastructure Benefits which might be expected reveals that the net contribution of Infrastructure to the Olympic “bottom line” will be negative by hundreds of millions of dollars. While these costs are obvious, the standard counter-argument is that they will be offset by the “economic impact” of the Games. However, section 4 of this paper revealed that “economic impact”, when correctly accounted for, is not nearly as large as is generally assumed. When combined with the substantial upside risks inherent in costs of public works projects48, the expected overall net benefit of hosting an Olympic Games is substantially negative.

[hcr25]

Is Obama even a US citizen yet?

[MetaLord 9]

It's pretty disgusting how gleeful the right is that the U.S. lost out on billions worth of jobs and commerce.
...We've come from "USA! USA! USA!" to this horseshit.

And way to condemn a great American city of 8 million people because of one incident, guys. I guess Columbine should define Denver, huh?

It's equally disgusting as it was when the Democrats carried on in the same manner of opposition to anything President Bush did during his term in office. Both sides are guilty and no one gets off the hook for it.


While the Olympics would have brought several jobs to the country, if that was the main motivation then why wasn't Detroit an option? Part of the reason that Chicago implored President Obama to represent them afar is that he is their former senator. I'm wondering how much that fact alone was behind Chicago's push to host another Olympics. An infusion of jobs is much needed in this country, but increasing debt to buy a few temporary jobs is not going to be a long term solution.

[Shea]

Shea, I'm sure you'll say now that you condemned Bush when he spent 4 days watching the Olympics in China. Uhh-huhh.

So your argument is that regardless of my position on the former administrations Olympic trip, I have no standing to question Obama? Is that it?

With a payoff of tens of billions, an investment of 100 million ain't shit.

Tens of billions? Show me where you get that figure?

Chicago lost weeks ago, because:
a. We get a lot of the Olympics.
b. South America has never had the Olympics.
c. It's harder to get into the US since 9/11. (Right or not, it was a factor from what I heard.)

So we spent how much money for him and his wife to fly there for no reason? Well I want that money paid back.

Obama was asked to go as a last-ditch effort by the Chicago committee. They knew it was a long shot, and Obama knew it was too. That's why he didn't want to go, because when they inevitably didn't get it, the pile-on commenced. It's pretty disgusting how gleeful the right is that the U.S. lost out on billions worth of jobs and commerce.

So Obama was just an innocent bystander, who against his will, was forced to go there on a mission he just KNEW was going to fail. Wow...

And way to condemn a great American city of 8 million people because of one incident, guys. I guess Columbine should define Denver, huh?

I'm sorry where did I condemn a great American city Wintermute? Or are you just using yet another strawman argument?

[Wintermute]

So your argument is that regardless of my position on the former administrations Olympic trip, I have no standing to question Obama? Is that it?

No, I'm just asking if you're an opportunistic hypocrite.

Tens of billions? Show me where you get that figure?

I'm not going to play link patty-cake with you. Google it yourself.

So we spent how much money for him and his wife to fly there for no reason? Well I want that money paid back.

You want the money back from Bush's trip too? Or are you just an opportunistic hypocrite?

So Obama was just an innocent bystander, who against his will, was forced to go there on a mission he just KNEW was going to fail. Wow...

I know it's foreign to you that anyone would ever do anything out of altruism.

I'm sorry where did I condemn a great American city Wintermute? Or are you just using yet another strawman argument?

Maybe I wasn't talking to you?

[Shea]

No, I'm just asking if you're an opportunistic hypocrite.

So you start out by name calling to prop up your assertions. Awesome...

I'm not going to play link patty-cake with you. Google it yourself.

It's your assertion that they will make "tens of BILLIONS" but are unwilling to substantiate it with any sort of facts because it's below you. Not very convincing.

You want the money back from Bush's trip too? Or are you just an opportunistic hypocrite?

Again with the name calling.

I know it's foreign to you that anyone would ever do anything out of altruism.

A growing theme of yours, to paint me as a cold heartless bastard. Speak to me in person sometime and see how fast your strawman argument falls apart.

Maybe I wasn't talking to you?

Perhaps, yet it was in a post directed entirely at me.

Sir you have taken every opportunity to portray this trip as the administration would like you to and call us all names. We have asked you to back up your assertions, with which you have only replied with name calling.

You hate Bush, I get it...yet defend Obama at nearly every turn (for nearly the same actions) and have the audacity to call me an opportunistic hypocrite.

[Wintermute]

Dirk, I'm not going to argue the minutiae of some random guy's Master's Thesis. Experience has shown that most Olympics have been economic wins. (Montreal was notably not.)

This country needs jobs and the Olympics would have provided some.

[Pandora-11]

Dirk, I'm not going to argue the minutiae of some random guy's Master's Thesis. Experience has shown that most Olympics have been economic wins. (Montreal was notably not.)

This country needs jobs and the Olympics would have provided some.

OMG!!!!!! ARE YOU ARGUING WITH DIRK????

[Squisha]

If the Chicago Olympic Committee wanted to get Rio out of the way, all they had to do was show a video of "City of God"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/

Based on a true story. And very disturbing.