Pilgrim’s picture shows another reason Rio will have problems with the games, though–it is mostly hemmed in by the ocean and the mountains. Not high mountains, but inconvenient ones when it comes to building more stadia.

I understand they fell through on their promises to build more hotels for the Pan American Games, too. Don’t know when that was.

But here are the real considerations. First, Rio wasn’t chosen instead of Chicago. Chicago was eliminated for whatever reasons, and Rio was later picked to host the games.

Second, most of what would be built to accommodate the games in Chicago would be a waste of money. The buildings, etc., would not be cost effective relative to future needs. How can I say that? Because if they were, they’d be built without the Olympics. In other words, we would be diverting money from whatever else it would be used for to build Olympic structures that would serve no preferred future purpose.

Third, we don’t have any money to waste on bread and circuses. Every dollar we would spend on the Olympics would be borrowed from the future earnings of our children and grandchildren and their grandchildren. In effect, we’d be taking money that should be used for their benefit (it’s their money, after all), and spending it on a movie and popcorn. Not my idea of responsible government, or responsible parenting.

2069 murders to Chicago’s 510. Now please tell me how Rio is safer, especially considering 1 out of those 5 murders is committed by the extremely corrupt police department.

So, Prez Obeyme, your recent snub of Poland on the 70th Anniversary of the Russian invasion has now come back to haunt you. Let’s see, how did your former “pastor” put it, “The chickens have come home to roost.”

Karma does indeed suck…

I’m not cheering so much for the USA losing an Olmpic bid, I’m cheering for President Arrogance getting his hat handed to him for once.

Karma sucks, don’t it Mr. Pesident?

In any event, no doubt most of the money generated would have gone to Chi Town mobsters, er, politicians, for furthering the careers of NAMBLA sycophants like Kevin Jennings or neo-communists like Van Jones. No thanks.

And this,
“The [sic] would bring in well needed jobs, ya know. Since this country is in a recession and all.”

You know genius, if you and Prez Obeyme were really interested in jobs, you would end the capital gains tax, end the death tax, cut marginal tax rates, cut 50% of the non-sensical red tape on small businesses, repeal Davis-Bacon, cut special treatment for unions out of ALL govt contracts, restore the pre-JFK ban on public employee unions (especially the NEA and AFT), return to the dream of Martin Luther King by eliminating minority based set-asides and quotas, reform all labor tort laws of the last fifty years, etc, etc, etc, or any ONE of the above.

But you aren’t really interested in jobs, are you? Just self-aggrandizment and self-righteous proclamations about “justice”. What a bunch of creeps…

Republicans gets big bump of donors; Outraise Dems

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-09-24-party-money_N.htm

Generic House Polling Suggests the Republicans Could Regain the House in 2010

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/generic-house-polling-suggests.html

Democrats running away from Obama

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574431080139159704.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

Democrats Are Jarred by Drop In Fundraising

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092404906.html?wprss=rss_politics

NYT/CBS poll shows Obama losing ground on health care, Afghanistan

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/25/nytcbs-poll-shows-obama-losing-ground-on-health-care-afghanistan/

How does that make you feel, Paul?

http://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=63544

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqsT4xnKZPg