Posted on 11/04/2008 9:07:10 PM PST by Feline_AIDS
Like they are in mine? Columbia, SC.
LOL. Even tho I'm in Obama-votin' Iowa, things are quiet in this university town. Thankfully.
I think Iowans were terribly mislead to vote for Obama, but my experience with them as individuals is that even when they are Dim, they aren't crazy Dim. I don't know what kind of change they wanted or think they will get, but I bet for many of them, it will go well beyond what they are comfortable with. This part of the country is still very American - flags, 'Merry Christmas,' 4-H, etc. They'll be shocked when they government says their kids have to learn about gay sex at 7 and that they can't say 'Merry Christmas' outside of the home anymore.
Quiet as a shroud in my little Central Valley town in CA.
This is always the case. In the film, "The Last King of Scotland" when Idi Amin deposes the previous ruler of Uganda, a character remarks that many of the people cheering Amin and dancing in the streets were some of the same people who cheered when the previous ruler came to power.
Never seen such a disgusting unprofessional and partisan display inside a CVS pharmacy.
I actually did a driving tour of the far South Side once, looking for the former haunts of Richard Speck and the ruins of American industry. I had read that years ago that there were alot of bars and rooming houses that catered to sailors on the Far South Side, particularly near the harbor. That world is apparently all gone, as the only bar I passed had its windows boarded up.
I never got to see Vrodolyack's house, but did see that trailer park in your nabe. I also got to prove to my friend that Chicago did indeed have an East Side.
Vandalism at Wright State in Dayton - Scary
Here in small town Pa, even with all the hunters and gun owners and just a small bad section of town, I’ve heard some horns honking. I had one man driving down my street, yelling “Obama Baby” out of his car, and he is driving like a drunk, already called the cops on it. I have heard several sirens from police cars and one ambulance. Just the start of our downfall.
God bless us because we will need it.
“Wait till they get a real job and have to pay taxes. Good luck silly college kids.”
What jobs? I’m going to have to lay people off in 2009 because of this. Maybe the govt will hire them as part of the national secret police force and drive up our debt even more.
Hegewisch used to be solidly Conservative. What happened?
Yes and it’s getting closer. Idiot college students would be my guess.
Yes in Cambridge, MA.
And no, I don't consider resistance to bussing and Martin Luther King back in the 1960s by inbred parochial labor socialists to make such statists "conservative."
And Ed Vrodolyack was a crook. Just like the Daleys.
Ya, the people of Kenya were gettin' it on, too. Whoopin' and hollerin' and celebrating in the streets. They showed it on one of the alphabet channels right before the concession speech. Nice . . .
Fireworks in my rather upper-middle class, mostly white & hispanic neighborhood.
I think we tend to relate more to Indiana. And I’m always surprised that so many people know of Hegewisch’s existence. Before I moved here, the only way I knew about it was because there used to be a “Carl from Hegewisch” who was a regular caller on WLS. A real character.
I like it. You’re right, a lot of the more colorful aspects of it are gone; but it reminds me more of a small town than a city neighborhood, and I like the gritty, blue-collar character of it.
The trailer park is pretty much gone. The city and a developer got together to plan the construction of $400K houses in a swamp, and the trailers had to go. They were hauling dirt in there all summer, but not much has happened lately.
Vrdolyak’s house is, I believe, around 114th and Ewing. You can’t miss it.
forgot to say Albuquerque, NM
I’m in SF, too. There are helicopters circling in my neighborhood.
In many ways, it beats the strip mall that is the Loop.
Same here 100 miles east of Dallas.
I've been through Alpine on the way to Julian. Had some pancakes in a little diner on the side of the road. It's a lovely little town. I left Cali for Texas three years ago and the weather this month has me reminiscing about Apple Days. Those memories momentarily made me feel better. Thanks.
In some ways, it’s good that people don’t know we are here. In other ways, it would be very good if at least Daley had a recollection of us, because we sure could use some street repairs.
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