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Ramping up for Olympic bid, Chicago shows off Senseless Killing Team
2009-09-29
Chicago has a great fencing team too -- they can fence cameras, computers, gold chains ...
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#15  The Rwandan delegation should feel right at home.

/ OK. I've earned my hell points for the week.
Posted by: ed   2009-09-29 17:02  

#14  Mmmm...it was just a year or so ago that the L.A.Times was assuring us black-on-black crime organizing was not a problem in this country.
Posted by: Woozle Uneter9007   2009-09-29 16:42  

#13  Steve,

True dat.

Still I felt safer driving around Baghdad and Basrah than on the back streets of the Windy City.
Posted by: Dreadnought   2009-09-29 15:42  

#12  Stony Island Drive isn't nearly as bad today as it was 15 years ago ...
Posted by: Steve White   2009-09-29 14:54  

#11  Borg,

I feel ya, man. Sometimes I drive down Stony Island south of the Science & Industry, and I wonder the same thing.
Posted by: Dreadnought   2009-09-29 14:19  

#10  I always had a small fear in the back of my mind that this (the picture in question) would happen to me if my car broke down on the Dan Ryan Expressway on the southside...
Posted by: borgboy   2009-09-29 13:52  

#9  This story can't be true - guns are illegal in Chicago so there can't be a shooting to touch off the violence. SARC=OFF
Posted by: Hellfish   2009-09-29 12:29  

#8  Animals don't, usually, turn on their own; but then humanity is supposed to be above that level.
Posted by: WolfDog   2009-09-29 11:00  

#7  Nah, Brer. You forgot to deduct "administration" costs. That brings it down to a more reasonable amount. Say, $2.39 per kid.
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2009-09-29 10:18  

#6  This month, the city announced a $30 million project that targets 1,200 high school pupils identified as most at risk to become victims of gun violence, giving them full-time mentors and part-time jobs to keep them off the streets.

That's $25,000 per pupil. WTF?
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2009-09-29 10:03  

#5  Find me a thug in that group who has a W-2 from any place other than ACORN or Volunteers for America and I'll eat my their dude rag.
Posted by: HammerHead   2009-09-29 09:40  

#4  Ah, modern liberalism. Is there anything it can't fuck up?
Posted by: DarthVader   2009-09-29 09:17  

#3  It' go that home town beat.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2009-09-29 08:38  

#2  Behold, city of the messiah 'Hope - Change.'
Posted by: Besoeker in Duitsland   2009-09-29 07:01  

#1  What those youts need is a good dose of Community Organising upside their head.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2009-09-29 06:18  

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