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ArlJim78 · 12-15-2009, 09:37 AM

Obama, Durban, Quinn and Daley couldn't deliver the olympics, they've got conventions pulling out of Chicago left and right because of the high costs, even Oprah is shutting down Chicago operations.

never fear though, our new jobs program is based on housing al qaeda prisoners. yeah, now theres some hope.

oh and its supposed to enhance national security too.

__________________________________________________ from ABC

Some Gitmo Detainees Headed to Illinois Prison, Obama Administration to Announce Tuesday

December 14, 2009 11:02 PM

A prison complex 150 miles from Chicago will house Gitmo detainees, the Obama administration will announce Tuesday.

A senior administration official tells ABC News that on Tuesday the administration will announce that President Obama "has directed that the federal government proceed with the acquisition of the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Illinois to house federal inmates and a limited number of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."

Thomson Correctional Center is a maximum security prison that opened in 2001 but has never been fully utilized because of state budget issues

Tom · 12-15-2009, 09:47 AM

Will they run through the state holding torches, too?

illinoisbred · 12-15-2009, 10:05 AM

Is Quinn still holding a series of scheduled public meetings next week to openly discuss this? Or is it a done deal and the meetings just another shitty charade? Gotta love politics Illinois-style and now taken to Washington D C.

ArlJim78 · 12-15-2009, 10:20 AM

Yes, I heard on the radio that the public meetings will be held next week, even though the announcement that its a done deal will happen today. What else would you expect in this state?

DJofSD · 12-15-2009, 10:31 AM

I'm guessing that since most penal institutions have been outsourced the unions will be recepiants of the largess.

illinoisbred · 12-15-2009, 10:33 AM

Labor Unions have made the cost of conventions in Chicago prohibitive. No one working a trade show can plug anything in without calling a Electrical Workers Union representative[not even your cell phone charger]. You can't hammer a nail or screw a screw in without calling a Carpenters Union rep.. So on and so on in regard to almost everything. When the convention/trade show is over these bastards steal anything and everything.

Valuist · 12-15-2009, 10:41 AM

Thanks for sticking it to your home state, Barack. As another Illinois resident, this is an outrage.

How will Illinois resident Mostpost try to spin this?

ArlJim78 · 12-15-2009, 11:06 AM

If this is such a great idea for Illinois, then I say stick them in downtown Chicago. why not the Cook County jail? these guys would be praying to allah to go back to Gitmo after a few nights in that joint.

boxcar · 12-15-2009, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Valuist

Thanks for sticking it to your home state, Barack. As another Illinois resident, this is an outrage.

How will Illinois resident Mostpost try to spin this?

Mosty has always sympathized with the poor, misunderstood people, which the U.S., with its ill-conceived foreign policy , has forced to become terrorists. I suspect Mosty will write to Obama, the IL gov and prison officials begging to have a terrorist or two released to be placed on house arrest -- in his house!

Boxcar

DJofSD · 12-15-2009, 11:28 AM

Maybe he can get that route and deliver their mail. Then he can visit with them and become chums.

Dave Schwartz · 12-15-2009, 11:29 AM

Might as well make it easy for friends and relatives to visit.

Should have been Detroit.

illinoisbred · 12-15-2009, 11:31 AM

Like Newman[from Seinfeld] says-when you deliver mail you control information.

Bochall · 12-15-2009, 11:43 AM

What does Oprah have to do with anything? Thats a sign the economy is bad? NOPE...its just another BULLSHIT move by the BULLSHIT extreme righties on this BULLSHIT site. And all you bullshit eaters are just lapping it up...pathetic.
Under what regime did Seinfeld and Cheers go off the air??? Are all the leaders in office during the cancellation/retirement of a TV icon doing badly?

You fools get FU&*%NG dumber and dumber by the minute. Watch out...Teletubbies may be going off the air...must mean the Pres and economy suck!

illinoisbred · 12-15-2009, 11:47 AM

I guess that would be the Castro regime to you.

johnhannibalsmith · 12-15-2009, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Bochall

What does Oprah have to do with anything?

I've been wondering that for a billion dollars.

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Thats a sign the economy is bad?

To quote a famous track announcer, "huh?"

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NOPE...its just another BULLSHIT move by the BULLSHIT extreme righties on this BULLSHIT site.

One post with one author; extremism can be frustrating, but you needn't be this upset.

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And all you bullshit eaters are just lapping it up...pathetic.

Goodness... talk about feasting.

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Under what regime did Seinfeld and Cheers go off the air??? Are all the leaders in office during the cancellation/retirement of a TV icon doing badly?

Yes. And those in office during the pilot episodes of similarly iconic quality also suck.

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You fools get FU&*%NG dumber and dumber by the minute. Watch out...Teletubbies may be going off the air...must mean the Pres and economy suck!

What was this thread about anyway? I'm not sure that I got point, but once I read this brilliant commentary, it all became secondary to this well-conceived rebuttal.