Fuck the Tribune
The headline reads:
- Bean Sculpture Vandalized
The URL for the story is as follows:
- http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/02/cops-name-scratched-into-bean-sculpture.html#comments
And then no where in the story or comments is there any mention that any police officer's name is visible in the graffiti.
So some piss-ant cop hater threw that in just to show how much smarter than the police they are. Wow. Color us impressed.
We're sure someone over the the Trib will call the coders to re-title the story soon. We're not going to link to the story in case it's be tied into some ad revenue that miraculously saves the Trib from extinction. But keep canceling your subscriptions and read for free online. The demise of these jagoffs can't come too early for us.
And we don't quite buy the argument that the article is about a police investigation into the vandalism, hence the first word "cops" in the article. The Trib has hundreds of archived articles where "crime" or "investigation" or other such wording is used to categorize articles. The word "police" doesn't even appear in the article until paragraph seven so there's no reason to title the entire piece as something police related.
So some piss-ant cop hater threw that in just to show how much smarter than the police they are. Wow. Color us impressed.
We're sure someone over the the Trib will call the coders to re-title the story soon. We're not going to link to the story in case it's be tied into some ad revenue that miraculously saves the Trib from extinction. But keep canceling your subscriptions and read for free online. The demise of these jagoffs can't come too early for us.
And we don't quite buy the argument that the article is about a police investigation into the vandalism, hence the first word "cops" in the article. The Trib has hundreds of archived articles where "crime" or "investigation" or other such wording is used to categorize articles. The word "police" doesn't even appear in the article until paragraph seven so there's no reason to title the entire piece as something police related.
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posted by SCC at 3:42 PM
83 Comments:
We, as citizens of Chicago, should have all of our names engraved on the BIG SILVER TURD. We overpayed for it.
I think it was meant to be read Cops: name scratched....in other words they are sighting the poice as the source of the info. but there is no doubt in my mind that they wrote it that way so people will do a double take or misunderstand.
Seiser can swallow that bean and etch his name on it as he is shitting it out.
Maybe the name was "worker with biggest penis" and the staff guy knew it had to be a cop.
Hey SCC hate the trib but... you are reading into the URL format which can't include the colon ":"
I don't believe they were calling PO's taggers.
Cops: Name scratched into bean sculpture
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http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/02/cops-name-scratched-into-bean-sculpture.html
example of another story which had a URL that doesn't read nicely:
Cops: Call girl charged $1,000 for 2 hours
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http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/01/cops-call-girl-charged-1000-for-2-hours.html
The archive name follows a common article title format, just think of a colon in there.
Cops: Name Scratched Into Bean Sculpture
It seems to me that that was the intention.
What the hell is going on?? That's bullshit. This city soi such a ghetto. Chicago... the next Detroit.
I read Chicago Breaking news all the time. It is always full of spelling and grammatical errors. If you read the comments on this post, you will see I'm not the only person complaining about them. They either outsource this or have no proofreader. So who is illiterate?
Huh? What am I missing here?
SCC,
Nice catch indeed, agreed FUCK THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE!
Relax...the URL was probably formed using an unused headline such as, "Cops: Name Scratched into Bean" or something like that...Nobody is saying "Cop's" name as in the name of a cop. JEEZ, getting a little jumpy.
time to start writing tickets to all those newspaper trucks violating traffic laws.
As of 5:53 pm, url was still the same.
I don't know, seems like you're over reacting, like, A LOT! Just my opinion.
Fuck the Tribune & Sun-Times. Their days are numbered.
It was merely the Start of a cops name, P E T E R S O N
Someone scared him off before he could finish.
I am surprised it took this long for some numbskull to get to the thing, I figured spray paint or that etching acid shit would get it first.
time to start writing tickets to all those newspaper trucks violating traffic laws.
2/03/2009 05:49:00 PM
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It's not the drivers... most are OK working guys like us. It's the management that sucks.
from: http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/02/daley-secret-service-teen-officer.html
"Daley backs Secret Service probe of fake teen cop
February 3, 2009 6:50 PM | No Comments
Mayor Richard Daley today defended Police Supt. Jody Weis' request that the U.S. Secret Service investigate a recent incident where a 14-year-old boy tricked Chicago police into thinking he was an officer.
'I don't know why people don't like other people coming in to look at the process you're in,' Daley said. 'There's nothing wrong with that. I salute [Weis] for doing that.'
But Daley made clear that he is still angry about the incident.
'What bothers me is I'd hate to see it at Halloween if everybody walks in - a 12- or 14-year-old walks into a police station on Halloween, they'll be handed a desk. They'll give them a car. They'll give them a badge ... That's a real concern that we have.'"
This fucking prick has no shame, none whatsoever.
Mayor Richard Daley today defended Police Supt. Jody Weis' request that the U.S. Secret Service investigate a recent incident where a 14-year-old boy tricked Chicago police into thinking he was an officer.
"I don't know why people don't like other people coming in to look at the process you're in," Daley said. "There's nothing wrong with that. I salute [Weis] for doing that."
But Daley made clear that he is still angry about the incident.
Daley backs Secret Service probe of fake teen cop
"What bothers me is I'd hate to see it at Halloween if everybody walks in - a 12- or 14-year-old walks into a police station on Halloween, they'll be handed a desk. They'll give them a car. They'll give them a badge ... That's a real concern that we have."
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/02/daley-secret-service-teen-officer.html
The Mayor is trying the old tactic of using idiocy and juvenile humor to avert the seriousness of this fiasco.
You people really are paranoid. Give it up. IM sure its meant to read "Cops: XXXX" Just go and jump to conclusions.
Yea, everybody is out to get the cops. Thats a healthy attitude to keep. Of course, with the number of cops being arrested on federal charges, maybe its true. But, if you arent doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.
Once again, the few (the bad cops) stain the many (good cops).
"That's a very sad comment when you're defacing the Bean," Daley said, using the popular, unofficial name for the artwork. "Who's going to pay for that? We hope to get the person who did it and let that person pay for it. You start defacing pieces of art or churches or places of worship and everything else, and taxpayers have to pay for that? No, it shouldn’t be.
He didn't, did the Mayor just compare that piece of modern art/junk to a church or a place of worship?
I think the bean is now Chicago's "golden calf".
Since when do taxpayers pay defacement at churches and places of worship?
Gee. So someone finally scratched up what is probably the world's biggest target for vandals.
This is the last thing you'd expect in Mayor Cuckoo's shining, perfect city of the future -- a place that has $50,000 French glass bus shelters that can be destroyed by one kid with a rock.
It also made news when the local dogs began peeing on Magdalena Abakanowicz' $3 million monstrosity -- that forest of headless figures made of rusting scrap iron.
http://chicagoist.com/2007/06/19/
dogs_reallowed.php
Ugliest thing you ever saw, but "the 76-year-old artist does not apologize for that. 'I’m not making a decoration,' she said, pulling her damp fleece hat down over brown hair and oversize glasses. 'I’m making a statement...'"
http://archives.chicagotribune.com
/2006/oct/27/news/chi-0610270183
oct27
At least close the door when you're "making a statement." Oi, feh!
OT....what's with the FOP updated...IRPA wants all PO's medical releases...including personal physician....F#$% this!
No one at the Tribune is smart enough to forward an anti-cop agenda by subtly wording headlines. The word "cops" preceding the rest of the headline sites the source of the information, meaning "Cops say Bean was vandalized." Kind of like Don't, stop, don't, stop, can be read either way. Actually, I think the alert should have been in quotes after the colon. (insert joke here) Unfortunately, they have some 2nd year college intern who is barely literate and an even worse speller/keyboardist with little or no supervision knocking these alerts out so the paper can claim they were first with the story. I'm not excusing it, and it's a damn shame, but that's just the way it is over there. I'm not saying all 2nd year college students are barely literate, but have you read a young person's employment application lately? I have and it's quite scary.
relax, why get all worked up and get the blood pressure up over nonsense
>What the hell is going on?? That's bullshit. This city soi such a ghetto. Chicago... the next Detroit.
That's so 1979 of you, LeoMem.
I feel like the 'SHEEP are finaly waking up'????????????????????????
I agree,take it anyway you want,but fuck the trib anyway.While we're at it FUCK that stupid fucking Bean an over priced piece of shit.I know a couple of Mexican scrappers who would know what to do with that Bean.At least then they could put the money to good use.While I'm at it Fuck Neil Steinberg ,too.
Blago did it.
I am sure it was meant to read "Cops - Name scratched into the Bean" Not like A Cops name scratched into the bean..
Mean that the cops are saying that they found it.. yanno.. I don't see it as a way they are trying to blast anyone..
sometimes, SCC, I think you have WAAYYYY too much time on your hands... This one is a stretch... It's not quite a JFK conspiracy, but it is a pretty far reaching stretch! But dont worry, I cancelled my subscription a year ago at your request!
The Forest Preserve Police Department has extra new cars! WTF? They are sitting under 2ft of snow and haven't moved in 2 years. Our tax dollars at work!
But Daley made clear that he is still angry about the incident.
'What bothers me is I'd hate to see it at Halloween if everybody walks in - a 12- or 14-year-old walks into a police station on Halloween, they'll be handed a desk. They'll give them a car. They'll give them a badge ... That's a real concern that we have.'"
The biggest red flag should be when the 14 year old officer tells a suspectthat,I should bring you in , but it is past my bedtime. stay here and ,I will pick you up tomorrow before i catch my bus.
It's not the drivers... most are OK working guys like us. It's the management that sucks.
2/03/2009 07:05:00 PM
Maybe, but not true for the TV networks... The drivers are usually the camera men and they are NOT freelance... THEY ARE DIRECT EMPLOYEES OF THE STATION... and they are usually the typical liberal college pussy that hates the police and thinks michael phelps is a "typical 23 year old kid"... I know a reporter and he told me that when a driver gets a ticket, due to the fact it is usually a police response to what they reported, everyone in the news room splits the fine... And they know when they have pissed us off because the ticket fee skyrockets!!! And everyone gets in on this pass the cup type of charity he says, from the producer to the mail room guy... He said this is a common practice and is a tradition that has gone on for years! So if you really are sick and tired of whoever in the news, hammer the vans, THEY ALL PAY!!!
Ohhhhh ? - Nevermind !
Two years from now the Tribune will be nothing more than a vacant building and a bad memory anyway.
Take a chill pill SCC!
Anonymous said...
sometimes, SCC, I think you have WAAYYYY too much time on your hands... This one is a stretch... It's not quite a JFK conspiracy, but it is a pretty far reaching stretch! But dont worry, I cancelled my subscription a year ago at your request!
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Good now you have money to take a spelling and grammar class.
Too Bad about the TIN TURD...Why don't we just sell it for scrap metal. It's stupid and ugly anyway.
Tribune is going to have a big headline about JPUD's new violence initative and how its having dramatic results in certain district!!! Yeah, how about calling it Mother Nature's Violence Initative considering that it has been one of the coldests winters in a while and most gangbangers get tired of hanging out in the cold. You haven't done shit JPUD, you just got a lucky break but don't worry it will catch up with you in July.
Daley plans trip to Dubai next week. Another scandal about to surface?2/03/2009 10:51:00 AM
+--+
Is he comming back?
Posted: Tuesday, 03 February 2009 1:37PM
Tribune Moves To Adopt New Severance Plan
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - A Delaware bankruptcy judge is expected to approve Tribune Co.'s request to implement a new severance plan for nonunion employees.
An attorney for Chicago-based Tribune refused to say how many layoffs the company is planning, or how much money the severance program might involve.
An attorney representing several retirees of Times Mirror, initially objected to the new severance program. Times Mirror was acquired by Tribune in 2000, and the attorney said his clients would suffer as a result of the program. On Tuesday, however, he said Tribune has addressed his concerns.
Tribune owns the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, The (Baltimore) Sun, The Hartford Courant and other dailies, as well as 23 TV stations and the Chicago Cubs.
The company sought bankruptcy protection in December because of dwindling advertising revenues and a debt load of $13 billion.
WBBM
No no you guys got it all wrong. The Trib said "bean" but were really referring to J-Fraud's forehead.
A Mayor Daley Press Conference quote:
"What bothers me is I’d hate to see it at Halloween if everybody walks in – a 12- or 14-year-old walks into a police station on Halloween, they'll be handed a desk. They'll give them a car. They'll give them a badge … That's a real concern that we have."
hello from ROME ITALY. it's almost 6am here and I'm waiting for the vatican to open.
I was just reading a copy of the trib from the hotel computer, and knew that SCC would have something on this.
Anonymous said...
Seiser can swallow that bean and etch his name on it as he is shitting it out.
2/03/2009 04:12:00 PM
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It's actually one of Seiser's kidney stones. Scientists have found the "bean" has its own magnetic field and is the true source of global warming.
Maybe someone should check those Forest Preserve Police cars to make sure some poor FPP copper did not fall asleep in there and pass away quietly.
They probably would never know if he was dead or not, but someone would be cashing the checks.
That bean should be allowed to rust a horrible death.
Cops: Name Scratched Into Bean Sculpture
It seems to me that that was the intention.
2/03/2009 04:38:00 PM
That stunt sold a few more papers.
To 7:31pm
Yes he did!!
LMFAO
Anonymous said...
time to start writing tickets to all those newspaper trucks violating traffic laws.
2/03/2009 05:49:00 PM
I have already started. Especially when they drive onto the opposit side of the road.
Letterman really let Blago have it! I ALMOST felt sorry for the asshole.
Letterman played one of the tapes regarding the horse track shakedown and asked Blago to "set it up" for us before he played it.
That wasn't even the worst of it!
This is the last thing you'd expect in Mayor Cuckoo's shining, perfect city of the future -- a place that has $50,000 French glass bus shelters that can be destroyed by one kid with a rock.
Renewable revenue. The contractors make money at every turn. Similar to the use of black-top asphalt.
If it was made to last; no one would make extra money.
It's just like cancer treatments;
alot of money is made from treating cancer. Cure it; and they are done!
Hopefully the cop was on duty and those GPS units will provide a bullet proof alibi. Ha!
If he was going to deface the bean, I'd suspect seeing "Plant Jfed or s-cru Shortshanks" on the bean.
No cop is so dumb to put their name on the bean.....
Anonymous said...
The Forest Preserve Police Department has extra new cars! WTF? They are sitting under 2ft of snow and haven't moved in 2 years. Our tax dollars at work!
2/03/2009 09:23:00 PM
Blame Eddie McCann
Daley plans trip to Dubai next week. Another scandal about to surface?2/03/2009 10:51:00 AM
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Is he comming back?
2/03/2009 10:30:00 PM
What new crazy scandal is about to breakout?
Hello Rome,
I am in New Dehli and I see we are all getting around the globe. How wonderful. I almost cried when I heard about the bean, but then I thought of our corrupt mayor and how he adored it so. It brought me great pleasure.
By the way if you ever go to Ireland don't kiss the Blarneystone...they piss on it. Sounds like a great idea to start with the bean.
Daley plans trip to Dubai next week. Another scandal about to surface?2/03/2009 10:51:00 AM
i take it is on are dime ?
"...have you read a young person's employment application lately? I have and it's quite scary."
--2/03/2009 08:14:00 PM
You should see what happens once they're hired. I know a supermarket that has a hand-printed notice by the time clock, near the employee entrance.
"No cell phones while working. No pajamas, bathrobes, or slippers. No long fingernails." Plus some other similar stuff.
I can vouch for the fingernails; when I run into that, I just point at a convenient spot and tell the clerk "Put my change down right there. I don't want you scratching me with those nails."
They act offended...
It's obvious that they've had kids come to work in pajamas with their hair hanging in their eyes...
They get older, too -- but not smarter.
Guy comes over to put a new roof on. He knocks on the door. I open it. He's standing there not looking at me, head inclined, talking on a cell phone.
I watch him for a while. Finally, I just shut the door again.
He knocks again. I open the door again. I ask, "Are you finished with your conversation yet?"
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They really don't get it.
"...$50,000 French glass bus shelters that can be destroyed by one kid with a rock."
--2/03/2009 07:35:00 PM
"Renewable revenue. The contractors make money at every turn. Similar to the use of black-top asphalt.
"If it was made to last; no one would make extra money.
"It's just like cancer treatments;
a lot of money is made from treating cancer. Cure it; and they are done!"
--2/03/2009 11:26:00 PM
Imagine how many people would be out of lucrative employment if they ever won the War On Poverty...the phrase "negative incentive" comes to mind...
"Maybe someone should check those Forest Preserve Police cars to make sure some poor FPP copper did not fall asleep in there and pass away quietly.
"They probably would never know if he was dead or not, but someone would be cashing the checks."
--2/03/2009 11:00:00 PM
Go rattle the doors on those "caretaker's houses" they boarded up years ago after it got out that employees were living there for $200 a month or something...maybe still a crap game going on in there...
It's like the news on TV when they flash a Chicago Police Star in the background with crime scene tape accross it and the story has to do with some copper from the burbs or down state. Soley to grab ones attention.
You people really are paranoid. Give it up. IM sure its meant to read "Cops: XXXX" Just go and jump to conclusions.
Yea, everybody is out to get the cops. Thats a healthy attitude to keep. Of course, with the number of cops being arrested on federal charges, maybe its true. But, if you arent doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.
Once again, the few (the bad cops) stain the many (good cops).
2/03/2009 07:31:00 PM
keep your mouth shut if you don't know any better...best advice I had ever heard from my parents who both grew up in Chicago, I am still here raising a family, and you, keep your f-in mouth shut from A "COP" ( the Police) in your nice, habitible life in your trailer park in West Chicago...must be nice up there...
I am a retired Police Officer and the other morning I was almost struck by another paper truck blowing a red light. If you midnight guys need good movers just watch those trucks. After all you can now read these rags online. Thank You I/F
The trib also did this a few weeks ago, the breakng news was something like:
Cops accident injures 7
Reading the article, I realized it wasn't a squad involved, but the source of the article.
I think they are doing it deliberately, their web programmers have to know how to get a colon into copy.
civilian
Anonymous said...
Daley plans trip to Dubai next week. Another scandal about to surface?2/03/2009 10:51:00 AM
i take it is on are dime ?
2/04/2009 12:49:00 AM
Is that not a mildly terroist haven? Maybe daley will be welcomed there and forced to stay would really benefit Chicago in a big way!
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
The Forest Preserve Police Department has extra new cars! WTF? They are sitting under 2ft of snow and haven't moved in 2 years. Our tax dollars at work!
2/03/2009 09:23:00 PM
Blame Eddie McCann
2/03/2009 11:33:00 PM
Plus a lot of the coppers have free homes to live in with everything free on forest preserve land can you say major CLOUT? Why not disband this useless unit?
The debate about anti-police bias will, and maybe should, go on and on and one, but not on this topic. The computer system takes the headline assigned the story and uses it as the URL. I think SSC is getting a little defensive on this one.
hey guys, the paper drivers don't write the crap. they just deliver it. it's the ahole newspaper columnists. most of the drvers i know are on our side. they are just tryng to make a living. they see the writing on the wall and know they might be out of work in the future. if they drive like sh#t then write em, but don't go after the because of the writers.
be safe and watch out for each other
What's with Weis's request for USSS intervention? The Obama-Chicago connection?
Big O is looking tired these days, only three weeks after his inauguration. Hasn't he "removed" himself from Chicago?
Guys ( those of you who are good coppers, like SCC), PLEASE remain on the JOB--I am a cop's kid, I know how tough the job can get.
Do not abandon us, the law-abiding residents of Chicago. Yes, you have a DOLT as Supe, and an even worse DOLT as Mayor...but, please, continue on?
"....I am in New Dehli...."
I am at a new deli also. It's right in the middle of BoysTown. Great pastrami.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
I hear the name was COOTER..
I am a retired Police Officer and the other morning I was almost struck by another paper truck blowing a red light. If you midnight guys need good movers just watch those trucks. After all you can now read these rags online. Thank You I/F
2/04/2009 04:32:00 AM
Well if you would have done your "Job" when you were employed and not sleeping in the "hole" or working inside we wouldn't have this problem.
Perhaps they had other intentions:They know daley stashes his ill gotten gains in the under belly of the bean and they attempted to imput the secret code into the sliding panel while in the darkness but was unable to locate the secret panel hence the scratches.
The archive name follows a common article title format, just think of a colon in there.
A colon in the Trib newsroom? I'm sure there is.
Just Saw the Top off of the Fuckin BEAN and make it into a giant SPITTOON and garbage dumpster. I'ts useless the way it is anyway..
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
The Forest Preserve Police Department has extra new cars! WTF? They are sitting under 2ft of snow and haven't moved in 2 years. Our tax dollars at work!
2/03/2009 09:23:00 PM
Blame Eddie McCann
2/03/2009 11:33:00 PM
Plus a lot of the coppers have free homes to live in with everything free on forest preserve land can you say major CLOUT? Why not disband this useless unit?
2/04/2009 07:45:00 AM
Wasn't Eddie Burke's kid living in one of those homes when he got killed in a snowmobile accident when he was drunk?
I read Chicago Breaking news all the time. It is always full of spelling and grammatical errors. If you read the comments on this post, you will see I'm not the only person complaining about them. They either outsource this or have no proofreader. So who is illiterate?
2/03/2009 05:01:00 PM
Ever watch the scrolls on tv in the morning? Spelling and grammar is deplorable. And this from a news agency? Can't they afford an English major?
Ohhhhh ? - Nevermind !
2/03/2009 09:38:00 PM
That was Emily Littella, not Roseanne Roseannadanna.
I'm just sayin'
"We, as citizens of Chicago, should have all of our names engraved on the BIG SILVER TURD. We overpayed for it.
2/03/2009 04:03:00 PM"
Unless you were one of the PRIVATE DONORS who paid 100% of Cloud Gate's costs- then no, you didn't. I'm assuming we do end up getting stiffed for some upkeep- but Chicago's has a rich heritage of public sculpture (Kapoor as noted, Picasso, Miro, Oldenberg, Noguchi, Moore, etc...), and people come here specifically for that reason. Chicago, despite the "machine," is a world class city and part of that distinction rests in its commitment to the arts. For the record, yes I am a copper. I agree that our taxes are too high, but thats because of supporting Daley's friends through corrupt contracts, and the great unwashed through various poorly managed social programs, not because of our public sculpture. So quit your griping, you slack-jawed troglodyte...
"....you slack-jawed troglodyte...."
Wow--I've been outflamed. Would you like to join me for a nice white wine spritzer?
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
"....just think of a colon in there...."
I think of colons everywhere.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Anonymous said...
Unless you were one of the PRIVATE DONORS who paid 100% of Cloud Gate's costs- then no, you didn't. I'm assuming we do end up getting stiffed for some upkeep- but Chicago's has a rich heritage of public sculpture (Kapoor as noted, Picasso, Miro, Oldenberg, Noguchi, Moore, etc...), and people come here specifically for that reason. Chicago, despite the "machine," is a world class city and part of that distinction rests in its commitment to the arts. For the record, yes I am a copper. I agree that our taxes are too high, but thats because of supporting Daley's friends through corrupt contracts, and the great unwashed through various poorly managed social programs, not because of our public sculpture. So quit your griping, you slack-jawed troglodyte...
2/05/2009 12:43:00 AM
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Listen up professor and stop drinking the koolaid.
The taxpayers did pay for some of the bean, so yes, I should be able to take a shit on top of it.
Secondly, like so many other failures in this city, the taxpayers WILL pay for the bean's upkeep so it doesn't really matter how it got there, it only matters that we have to pay for it now.
Lastly, who gives a flying fuck if we have art in the city when we have more pressing issues? Personally I wouldn't care if the city spends money on art if everything else was taken care of. It's called priorities, and every tax payer has the right to question what our city does, especially given our current state of affairs: police shortage, no contracts, layoffs, cuts in city services, pot holes, worst schools in the country, highest taxes in the country, highest murder rate in the country, etc. For what? a giant bean in the park so the bums have yet another place to sleep? Whoop-deee-fuckin-doo! I'll remember that the next time a tire gets ripped off my car or I have to push my daughter's stroller around some piece of human garbage passed out in Grant Park... oh wait... I don't take my family there just for that reason.
A world class city? For who, all the liberal puss-head yuppies living in dream-land, or the productive citizens and city workers that are getting screwed?
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