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2025-10-15 Government Corruption

Obama's Presidential Library project in Chicago is facing massive backlash over design flaws and skyrocketing costs

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Posted by Fred 2025-10-15 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1790 views ] Top

1 ...Saw the building referred to elsewhere as the Harkonnen Archive.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-10-15 06:18|| 2025-10-15 06:18|| Front Page Top

2 Obama endorses Newsom California redistricting Prop 50

Posted by Skidmark 2025-10-15 07:53|| 2025-10-15 07:53|| Front Page Top

3 Insty called it with his flak tower pic

Posted by Mercutio 2025-10-15 09:38|| 2025-10-15 09:38|| Front Page Top

4 It has all the charm and architectural grandeur of a 1950's era Soviet apartment block.

Posted by Warthog 2025-10-15 10:32|| 2025-10-15 10:32|| Front Page Top

5 Or Lenin's tomb.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-10-15 11:16|| 2025-10-15 11:16|| Front Page Top

6 What's with the rest of the property, mini golf course?

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-10-15 13:22|| 2025-10-15 13:22|| Front Page Top

7 Hello, it's a mosque.

Posted by Woodrow 2025-10-15 19:28|| 2025-10-15 19:28|| Front Page Top

8 Media: OMG Obama shot a 45 game!

Duffers: It's a par 3, 9 hole course.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-10-15 21:05|| 2025-10-15 21:05|| Front Page Top

9 Students of The Humanities:

I think this building should be condemned. There's serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, it's completely inadequate for our power needs, and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone.

Obama:

This place is great! You gotta to try this pole!

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-10-15 21:10|| 2025-10-15 21:10|| Front Page Top

10 Temu Lego 'Tower of Barad-Dur'.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-10-15 21:14|| 2025-10-15 21:14|| Front Page Top

11 Hard to miss that embedded Kaaba. And the flak tower trope's been on Rantburg forever. Years, even.

Posted by Gomez Unolutch2721 2025-10-15 21:24|| 2025-10-15 21:24|| Front Page Top

12 I understand the neighbors are upset because there will be a ring of high profile hotels ringing this tower.

Like Isengard.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-10-15 21:25|| 2025-10-15 21:25|| Front Page Top

13 Say what you will about Flak Towers, they had some real engineering elements involved.

This looks like a novice's rejected design of an extra building in Chronicles of Riddick.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-10-15 21:30|| 2025-10-15 21:30|| Front Page Top

14 Book Fair Minecraft.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-10-15 21:38|| 2025-10-15 21:38|| Front Page Top

15 When the 10 year old gets ahold of the googly eyes.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-10-15 21:40|| 2025-10-15 21:40|| Front Page Top

16 Heh. Other "obvious enough that they're almost certainly conscious" allusions: the smaller, simpler Sahelian mud stuff, and backyard blast furnaces of the Great Leap Forward. And of course -- speak8ng of Hood shit and the Soutb End -- Boston's famous milk bottle. Kidding about that last one... I think.

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