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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    Image of ArmCandy ArmCandy
    06/01/09

    In reply to Chicago's Bloody Weekend: Shooting Violence Off The Charts
    And if anyone (Foster) is still paying attention, as of about 12:30 today, the trend includes a 27-year-old police officer who was shot in the head but is still alive (in very critical condition).


    In the West Englewood neighborhood, about 10 miles from Oprah but not far from where Jennifer Hudson's family lived.

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    06/01/09

    @ArmCandy: Jesus, fuck. This is insane. How does this not hit the national press cycle? Why isn't the Obama administration using this during their daily briefings? Has gun control totally fallen off of the Democratic agenda? Sorry, but this kind of violence deserves to be politicized. Less guns = lower odds for gun violence.
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    06/01/09

    @Foster Kamer: i dont know why this shit never makes national news. i live in new orleans, and we routinely have "bad weekends" where five or six people get shot and killed. not to mention the mere "assault with a deadly weapon" shootings that happen on a regular basis. the other night in my neighborhood i heard an entire clip go off, and there was no mention of what the fuck that was all about even in the local news the next day. shit is ridiculous here. recently, a college couple was abducted and murdered, and it came out that the female called 911 twice while in captivity and no one even answered the phone. but no one seems to care...


    and im sure it has NOTHING to do with the race/class of the victims.

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    06/01/09

    In reply to Chicago's Bloody Weekend: Shooting Violence Off The Charts
    This is what we get for unleashing Kanye on the world.
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    Image of SpacePope SpacePope
    06/01/09

    In reply to Chicago's Bloody Weekend: Shooting Violence Off The Charts
    Damn, I'm moving there.


    How much of this is in the south side?


    Also, can't be worse than the city I was raised in going from 0 murders to 24 in a year.

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    06/01/09

    @SpacePope: You can easily find out how much of this is on the Southside by reading the words that accompany the headline of this article. There are even links for your convienience. Amazing, no?
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    05/31/09

    In reply to Chicago's Bloody Weekend: Shooting Violence Off The Charts
    So Chicago is like New Orleans, but without the flooding problem.
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    06/01/09

    @unfuckwithable: it's like new orleans, except with 5 times the population.


    as far as per capita events go, new orleans is number one. go us.

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    05/31/09

    In reply to Chicago's Bloody Weekend: Shooting Violence Off The Charts
    Gang initiation? That's my guess if they are related. Disgusting and terrible.
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    05/31/09

    In reply to Chicago's Bloody Weekend: Shooting Violence Off The Charts
    I'm always a little annoyed by national/new york coverage of any news related to Chicago since no one is ever compelled to give specific information. "West Side of Chicago" is about as generic of a descriptor as "west of the Hudson. If there's any commentary to be made about the Olympics in regards to the string of violence--kind of far reaching since most of these incidents would be occurring far outside the zone of athletic housing and events.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    05/31/09

    @EaterLover: Listen, I'd love to get into the neighborhood-by-neighborhood breakdown of Chicago, but I'M NOT FROM THERE. I made the geographical distinctions to show how wide apart they were from each other (or how close together, given certain instances). And of course the Olympics won't be in Chicago's grittier neighborhoods; that doesn't mean there isn't any spillover. To put it New York speak: ten murders in one weekend in Bushwick are still going to affect perception of crime in New York if the Olympics were held, say, on the West Side Highway around 57th Street, though native New Yorkers might know better.
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    05/31/09

    @Foster Kamer: Also, I'm just going to put a [sic] after everything I write. Goddamn keyboard. I'm off the clock.
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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    06/01/09

    @Foster Kamer: Figuring out where these neighborhoods are is fairly easy. Ten minutes of research online would take care of it. Really.


    Also, if Chicago does get the Olympics, its more run down neighborhoods will indeed host most of the events, housing, etc. Another fairly easy fact to research.

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    Image of Krashstar Krashstar
    05/31/09

    In reply to Chicago's Bloody Weekend: Shooting Violence Off The Charts
    In other news, the good legislators in Springfield completely gutted a series of post-Blago anti-corruption measures last week.


    Item #1 on the list were improved disclosure requirements for campaign "contributions".


    It's getting to be like the Mississippi of the North up there. So, um, good luck with the Olympic bid. Of course, China pulled it off by making a bunch of empty promises about press freedom.


    So actually, nevermind. You'll be fine.

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    Image of Hockeymom Hockeymom
    05/31/09

    In reply to Chicago's Bloody Weekend: Shooting Violence Off The Charts
    You buried the lead.
    "A petting zoo burned down."


    Dead animals ALWAYS rank over dead people.
    Duh.

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