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2021-09-28 Home Front: Politix
Barack Obama dismisses claims his controversial $500m 'Presidential Center' will destroy historic Chicago park and trigger gentrification that could price black locals out of the area as construction work begins
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Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-28 06:12|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Obama: Stop Pretending It’s ‘Hardship’ for Wealthiest to Pay More Taxes to Make Economy Fair
Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-28 06:58||   2021-09-28 06:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Link to Center advert.There are certain geometric similarities. Will there be a burial chamber, a viewing room ?
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-28 07:42||   2021-09-28 07:42|| Front Page Top

#3 "Leave your shoes at the door"
"Rug distribution at the two separate entrances"
"Basement bunker tours upon request"
Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-28 08:23||   2021-09-28 08:23|| Front Page Top

#4 This ought to do.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-09-28 12:14||   2021-09-28 12:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Speaking as a former architect it's damned ugly.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2021-09-28 12:42||   2021-09-28 12:42|| Front Page Top

#6 ^-- you just need the basement of that Abu....
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-09-28 12:42||   2021-09-28 12:42|| Front Page Top

#7 At a glance it looks like those drop-ships in X-Men:Days of Future Past...but the lattice work is actually one of his speeches. Maybe the part in his book about eating dog. Don't Know. But its done in all Caps. Last I heard, capital letters are racist.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-09-28 12:51||   2021-09-28 12:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Speaking as a former architect it's damned ugly.

I'm sure some East German architects dig it.
Posted by Raj 2021-09-28 13:12||   2021-09-28 13:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Take out the lattice, paint it red, and have it across the perimeter of the roof, fill the blank with concrete and yeah, that's it.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-09-28 14:40||   2021-09-28 14:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Probably a place for a glass-topped coffin at some point, too.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-09-28 15:34||   2021-09-28 15:34|| Front Page Top

#11 ahhh, no. Upon the light-bringer's death he will be bodily called to Heaven so God can sit at his right hand. It is foretold. Vero Possimus or some shit
Posted by Frank G 2021-09-28 16:23||   2021-09-28 16:23|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ LOL
Posted by Matt 2021-09-28 17:08||   2021-09-28 17:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Alternative (or additional) monument requiring no real estate whatever...

"In Lake Michigan, just off the Loop,
Let's erect a prodigious, um, hoop,
That the sun might shine through
Every morn, like it do
For a certain benighted, um, group!"
Posted by Lampedusa Sinatra8304 2021-09-28 17:21||   2021-09-28 17:21|| Front Page Top

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