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[bluetick]

BREAKING NEWS: GOP WILL HOLD 2016 NATIONAL CONVENTION IN CLEVELAND

wheeee!

[AlabamAlum]

I actually like Cleveland.

[hedge]

Cleveland steamer?

[AlabamAlum]

“Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers,
/ With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?”
-- Rudyard Kipling

[hedge]

I don't know much about about the Kipper, except that he's regarded by some as a racist...

[Dr. Strangelove]

Fuck you, Dallas! Suck it!!!!

Apparently the GOP wanted to hold the convo in June no matter what. Dallas couldn't promise the Mavs arena would be available due to NBA Playoffs; Cleveland said: IT WON'T BE A PROBLEM, SIRS! WHOOOO!

[Professor Tiger]

Maybe Labron James will lead the pledge of allegiance at the GOP convo.

[10ac]

Loser party looking for a loser town.

[Professor Tiger]

I don't know much about about the Kipper, except that he's regarded by some as a racist...

One of my favorite lines from Kipling, that I often quoted to myself when I was in Afghanistan:

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains
and the women come out to cut up what remains
just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
and go to your God like a soldier!"

Thankfully, in my case, it never came to that..

[Professor Tiger]

Loser party looking for a loser town.

Could be worse. They could have picked Detroit.

[Jungle Rat]

Obviously, no white hispanics or teabaggers involved or it would have alllllll over the morning shows and the 6 o'clock news. Gang on gang/black on black deaths not important in Brock's hometown.


It started when someone shot and wounded a couple, then two people fired at the shooter, then there was a chase and shots exchanged and a man sitting on a porch was hit. Responding officers kept cutting each other off on their radios as they reported other gunfire in the area late Sunday night and early Monday morning.

Then the heavy equipment rolled in: A helicopter and SUVs packed with lockers of rifles. SWAT teams in green coveralls patrolled the streets with uniformed officers.


It was just one of dozens of shooting scenes across Chicago over the long Fourth of July weekend. In all, at least 82 people were shot, 14 of them fatally, since Thursday afternoon when two woman were shot as they sat outside a two-flat within a block of Garfield Park.

Five of the people were shot by police over 36 hours on Friday and Saturday, including two boys 14 and 16 who were killed when they allegedly refused to drop their guns.

Many of the long weekend's shootings were on the South Side, clustered in the Englewood, Roseland, Gresham and West Pullman neighborhoods that rank among the most violent in the city.

The victims ranged from the 14-year-boy shot by police in the Old Irving Park neighborhood to a 66-year-old woman grazed in the head as she walked up the steps of her porch on the Far South .

I miss water balloon fights.

[Johnette's Daddy]

I actually like Cleveland.

Spent the first 15 years of my life there. Fond memories, but Cleveland is dead.

[hedge]

I wish Toe had posted that...

[Jungle Rat]

I actually like Cleveland.

Spent the first 15 years of my life there. Fond memories, but Cleveland is dead.

That explains a bunch.

[Professor Tiger]

I remember when Cleveland's river caught fire.

[Dr. Strangelove]

I remember when Cleveland's river caught fire.

Then you're fucking old

Actually, the river fire that everybody knows about (1969) wasn't even the worst one Cleveland ever had. And it was barely reported at the time. It was only when Time Magazine put a photo on its front cover a few months later (for a story about pollution) that it became well-publicized. And the photo they ran on the cover was from the much bigger 1952 river fire. Not the 1969 one.

Here's an article that puts it into perspective from a non-Cleveland source

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volo ... ars-later/

[AlabamAlum]

I've been once for a conference a couple of years back. Some great pubs: Flannery's(sp?), Winking Lizard, and a couple of others. Rock Bottom? Had great meal's at Fahrenheit, and Don's Pomeroy. It was a good time. The conference did a party barge, which was cheesy, but fun.

[AlabamAlum]

This was the party barge. If you go, do not arm wrestle Capt. Bruce for any kinda money.

http://goodtimeiii.com/site/

[10ac]

They finally did something about the worst big-city airport in the country but the rental cars location is still a bad joke.

[AlabamAlum]

The worst airport in the US (that I've flown into) is LaGuardia. It's like a slum, except worse.