Posted on 10/01/2009 10:22:17 PM PDT by STARWISE
Watch live coverage from Copenhagen starting at 1:45 a.m. Friday as Chicago and the other bid cities present.
Chicago will be the first to present to the International Olympic Committee on Friday. Watch that live on-air on Channel 7 and online on ABC7Chicago.com, starting at approximately 1:45 a.m.
ABC7Chicago.com will also carry presentations of the other three bid cities, Tokyo, Rio and Madrid.
Online coverage will also include live video of the gatherings in Chicago and other cities around the world.
Starting at 4:30 a.m., watch Channel 7 for an expanded ABC7 News This Morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...
Forget Lady Macbeth. I want maggief to post more pictures of hot princesses.
Now we know why Obama wants to end secret balloting!
“Michael Jordan didn’t show up,” said Margaret Johnson of Chicago. “His city asked him for help and he turned his back on us.”
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And that HAD to have been purposeful .. MJ
must’ve had a serious bone to pick with some
Chicago official.
Vote has been taken .. announcement of winner
should come in under 30 mins.
Go RIO!!!!
“They hurt Buddy! Lets get em, girls!”
From the archives ... Letizia and Carla
Forget Lady Macbeth. I want maggief to post more pictures of hot princesses.
LOL! Or perhaps Brazilian beauties if they host?
Rush will be ON FIRE today!!!
That’s a great one for the archives. Thanks.
Note how the Chicago Tribune changed their front page picture already .. LOL.
LOL! “We’re losers!”
Yes he is! I can't stop grinning..:)
sw
Sure thing. I am not a racist, especially when it comes to babes.
I am besides myself with sheer giddy joy.
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news local-beat - Olympic Crisis Averted! - Vote goes our way. Really.
Updated 11:04 AM CDT, Fri, Oct 2, 2009
Be thankful, Chicagoans.
Sometimes you win by losing.
This is one of those times.
The Olympics are fool's good. A sucker's bet.
(Obama: "Chicago Most American of American Cities")
And you were the sucker.
There will be recriminations. The mayor's approval ratings are already lower than at any other time in his 20-year reign. And the criminal defense bar can't be happy. There would have been indictments. Somebody would have gone to jail if the Olympics had come here.
Not that the graft won't continue; it just won't be as glitzy.
But the truth is, we're better off.
"In spite of all the propaganda and everything - I don't want to call anybody a liar - but no one's ever made any money out of them," Rupert Murdoch once said.
Reams of economic studies back him up.
"It's fair to say that the bulk of the serious studies on the costs and benefits of the Olympics suggest that, in terms of direct benefits, they are unambiguous money losers," Mark Spiegel, the vice president for economic research at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said recently.
"There has never been an Olympic Games that has made a profit," Robert Barney, director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies at the University of Western Ontario told NPR this week.
"No reasonable person thinks that the direct benefits of hosting the Olympic Games or any other mega event cover the costs," says Andrew Rose, an economist at the Haas School of Business at the University of California in Berkeley.
Those facts got lost in the hype. The mighty Daley PR machine - and a compliant media - got taken. But the IOC picked another sucker instead.
So what to do now?
Dennis Byrne suggested this week that the mayor ought to keep Chicago 2016 intact and redirect it to creating "a bright new city" even without the Olympics.
But the truth is, you'd have to start from scratch. The Chicago 2016 plan isn't even close to a piece of visionary urban planning. Maybe that was part of the problem.
But at least now the city can focus on what's really important: Bread, not circuses.
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Steve Rhodes is the proprietor of The Beachwood Reporter, a Chicago-centric news and culture review.
can’t listen- cubicle bound!
Listen to RUSH! He’s on a roll ... LOL ..
http://970wfla.com/cc-common/ondemand/player.html?world=st
Rush, you’re forgetting what Glenn Beck
showed about Chicago corruption. A little
humility .. please ?
Axelrod already out trying to spin on Fox News right now. ROTFLOL!!
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