What a victory.

The recent election and this forum make me view the victory as representative of Blue America vs Red American and the superiority of the coasts over the best of the midwest.

I would rather have won the election, but it is good to see how dominant west coast atheletes really are.

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Seeing Ashley Simpson getting booed off the stage was better than seeing USC destroy OSU.

I missed that! I clicked off the 1/2 time show when that country dude came out. Was she the one with the big Anarchy sign? S T U P I D.

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I live in one of the heaviest democratic counties (CooK)in America!
Democratic Machine Chicago!
His Honor Da Mayer!
http://www.cgcs.org/urbaneducator/2003/nov_vol_12_no_8_2/Daley.jpg
Notice most Great Lakes states were blue in 2004
http://www.tripias.com/images/state2004.gif
http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/PurpleAmericaPosterAll50.gif
Oh by the way, I'm an idependent. :)

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Penn State in 2006!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a victory.

The recent election and this forum make me view the victory as representative of Blue America vs Red American and the superiority of the coasts over the best of the midwest.

I would rather have won the election, but it is good to see how dominant west coast atheletes really are.

^Do you ever say anything that's not stupid?

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What a victory.

The recent election and this forum make me view the victory as representative of Blue America vs Red American and the superiority of the coasts over the best of the midwest.

I would rather have won the election, but it is good to see how dominant west coast atheletes really are.

When did Oklahoma become a part of the midwest? :weirdo:

And try beating the best the Midwest has to offer in basketball. That's right, Illinois, Number 1 in the nation!

Or do I mean

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fantastic effort by USC!!!!
Clearly the best in the nation for the last 2 years. Completely surprised that Oklahoma just folded like that. A great title for Los Angeles.
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20050105/i/r10377683.jpg

When did Oklahoma become a part of the midwest? :weirdo:

And try beating the best the Midwest has to offer in basketball. That's right, Illinois, Number 1 in the nation!

Or do I mean

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


As far as I'm concerned anything except the SF, LA and NY metros is all Red America culturally. That's how we feel in LA in general. Here it is in the LA TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By Pulitzer prize winning columnist Patt Morrison

Patt Morrison:
California, here we go. Again.

For 25 glorious days in the summer of 1846, the Bear Flag flew over an independent nation, the California Republic. The time has come once more to "dissolve the political bands" that bind, specifically the ones that tether us to the United States like a milk cow to a Conestoga wagon. The time has come to make California a republic again.

Enough people to populate a Gold Rush town have told me that if Nov. 2 results in another four years of tyranny Texas-style, they'll be scouting for somewhere else to live. Fourscore and some years ago, the Hemingway/Fitzgerald crowd fled these shores to be able to drink legally. Now people are convinced they'll have to flee these shores to be able to think legally. Ladies, gentlemen — stop packing. The California Republic is the answer, the way to live abroad with all the comforts of home.

We've given this statehood business a good shot — 154 years. But it just isn't working out. Only this week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill of surrender, restoring the state's primary election to June. We Californians had moved it to March in a desperate attempt to become as big a player in presidential primaries as, oh, South Carolina. Didn't work. Let's cut our losses and cut ourselves loose.

How hard could nationhood be? California has always cut the cloth on its own pattern, which drives the Beltway boys nuts.

The feds, for example, dropped their ban on assault weapons last week; California's is still in place. A California Republic could add to those "got-any-produce-or-plants?" checkpoints the question, "Any AK-47s?"

The Bush administration has bumped millions of workers off the overtime-eligibility rolls; California workers, with their own overtime protection laws, are virtually unaffected. The federal minimum wage is $5.15 an hour, and it hasn't gone up in seven years; California's minimum wage, albeit the lowest on the West Coast, is still $1.60 an hour higher. Schwarzenegger just vetoed an increase, but that's what the California recall is for.

Congress won't order U.S. automakers to make cleaner or more fuel-efficient cars? Schwarzenegger signed a bill green-lighting hybrid cars for carpool lanes, and he's endorsed new, strict California auto emission standards over the whining of Detroit's girlie men.

The White House storms against gay marriage as a dagger to the heart of American values; Schwarzenegger just signed a bill obligating insurance companies to sell homosexual partners the same policies they'd sell to heterosexual spouses.

Nationhood would mean the California Republic, with more cars and trucks than drivers, could sign the Kyoto environmental accord. It could dump NAFTA and negotiate its own trade pacts to match its social policies. We could, for example, thumb our nose — or hold it — at the U.S. Supreme Court ruling and insist that Mexican trucks entering California meet the same pollution and safety standards as domestic trucks.

Other states would be welcome to join; if New York decided to seal itself to California, we'd be like the original Pakistan, two parts of the same country on opposite sides of an even bigger one, the bicoastal nation of Califorñyork.

We'd have to try for more dignity than the original Bear Flag rebels, Yankee ruffians who had heard the Mexican government might be booting them out of California for being undesirable illegal aliens. (How comical can history be?) They ran a homemade flag up a pole in the town square of Sonoma, a remnant of muslin with a red stripe made from a flannel petticoat. One William Todd drew the flag's bear and the star and the words "California Republic." He left out an "I" and had to ink it in later. The Mexicans muttered that the animal looked more like a pig.

Admit it, nationhood would be fun. We have everything we need: the world's fifth- or sixth-largest economy (it depends on how energetic the French are feeling in a given week), more Nobel laureates than anywhere else in the world, Yosemite, Death Valley, the Pacific, the Mojave, the redwoods and the best wine west of Bordeaux.

We have Hollywood, North America's biggest port complex and the San Joaquin Valley, breadbasket to the world. For my friends considering emigration, the new California Republic could be like the motherland, only an even more perfect union. We could have a Healthy Forests measure that actually protects forests, a Clear Skies measure that actually cleans up the sky and a Patriot Act that is actually about patriotism.

Brian Wilson could write us a national anthem. Willie Brown could be our U.N. representative, and Warren Beatty could be California's ambassador to the United States. Schwarzenegger could get elected California's president without all that silly bother about constitutional amendments, and get that presidential library in L.A. after all, just like in the movie "Demolition Man."

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As far as I'm concerned anything except the SF, LA and NY metros is all Red America culturally. That's how we feel in LA in general. Here it is in the LA TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By Pulitzer prize winning columnist Patt Morrison

Patt Morrison:
California, here we go. Again.

For 25 glorious days in the summer of 1846, the Bear Flag flew over an independent nation, the California Republic. The time has come once more to "dissolve the political bands" that bind, specifically the ones that tether us to the United States like a milk cow to a Conestoga wagon. The time has come to make California a republic again.

Enough people to populate a Gold Rush town have told me that if Nov. 2 results in another four years of tyranny Texas-style, they'll be scouting for somewhere else to live. Fourscore and some years ago, the Hemingway/Fitzgerald crowd fled these shores to be able to drink legally. Now people are convinced they'll have to flee these shores to be able to think legally. Ladies, gentlemen — stop packing. The California Republic is the answer, the way to live abroad with all the comforts of home.

We've given this statehood business a good shot — 154 years. But it just isn't working out. Only this week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill of surrender, restoring the state's primary election to June. We Californians had moved it to March in a desperate attempt to become as big a player in presidential primaries as, oh, South Carolina. Didn't work. Let's cut our losses and cut ourselves loose.

How hard could nationhood be? California has always cut the cloth on its own pattern, which drives the Beltway boys nuts.

The feds, for example, dropped their ban on assault weapons last week; California's is still in place. A California Republic could add to those "got-any-produce-or-plants?" checkpoints the question, "Any AK-47s?"

The Bush administration has bumped millions of workers off the overtime-eligibility rolls; California workers, with their own overtime protection laws, are virtually unaffected. The federal minimum wage is $5.15 an hour, and it hasn't gone up in seven years; California's minimum wage, albeit the lowest on the West Coast, is still $1.60 an hour higher. Schwarzenegger just vetoed an increase, but that's what the California recall is for.

Congress won't order U.S. automakers to make cleaner or more fuel-efficient cars? Schwarzenegger signed a bill green-lighting hybrid cars for carpool lanes, and he's endorsed new, strict California auto emission standards over the whining of Detroit's girlie men.

The White House storms against gay marriage as a dagger to the heart of American values; Schwarzenegger just signed a bill obligating insurance companies to sell homosexual partners the same policies they'd sell to heterosexual spouses.

Nationhood would mean the California Republic, with more cars and trucks than drivers, could sign the Kyoto environmental accord. It could dump NAFTA and negotiate its own trade pacts to match its social policies. We could, for example, thumb our nose — or hold it — at the U.S. Supreme Court ruling and insist that Mexican trucks entering California meet the same pollution and safety standards as domestic trucks.

Other states would be welcome to join; if New York decided to seal itself to California, we'd be like the original Pakistan, two parts of the same country on opposite sides of an even bigger one, the bicoastal nation of Califorñyork.

We'd have to try for more dignity than the original Bear Flag rebels, Yankee ruffians who had heard the Mexican government might be booting them out of California for being undesirable illegal aliens. (How comical can history be?) They ran a homemade flag up a pole in the town square of Sonoma, a remnant of muslin with a red stripe made from a flannel petticoat. One William Todd drew the flag's bear and the star and the words "California Republic." He left out an "I" and had to ink it in later. The Mexicans muttered that the animal looked more like a pig.

Admit it, nationhood would be fun. We have everything we need: the world's fifth- or sixth-largest economy (it depends on how energetic the French are feeling in a given week), more Nobel laureates than anywhere else in the world, Yosemite, Death Valley, the Pacific, the Mojave, the redwoods and the best wine west of Bordeaux.

We have Hollywood, North America's biggest port complex and the San Joaquin Valley, breadbasket to the world. For my friends considering emigration, the new California Republic could be like the motherland, only an even more perfect union. We could have a Healthy Forests measure that actually protects forests, a Clear Skies measure that actually cleans up the sky and a Patriot Act that is actually about patriotism.

Brian Wilson could write us a national anthem. Willie Brown could be our U.N. representative, and Warren Beatty could be California's ambassador to the United States. Schwarzenegger could get elected California's president without all that silly bother about constitutional amendments, and get that presidential library in L.A. after all, just like in the movie "Demolition Man."

Chicago was overwhelmingly blue. :sleepy:

Oh for fucks sake. Chill out.

Oh for fucks sake. Chill out.

Exactly. There is no need to be so sensitive about how Chicago votes.

We're not sensitive.

Although we thoroughly enjoy owning your companies :lol:

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How did this thread mutate from USC winning the title into a political drama?

And I thought us homos had more drama.

Men...

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Good Job, USC.

Please ignore Silverlake, He make all misunderstood over Los Angeles and Chicago Forum, He need make correct with Blue America and Red America.

We're not trying be rude in Chicago Forum but Silverlake did started last month ago.

Chicago (Cook)/Los Angeles, CA/IL are Blue America!!!

Oklahoma is not part of Midwest so just part of Southwest. Silverlake must understand about everything.

Good Job, USC.

Please ignore Silverlake, He make all misunderstood over Los Angeles and Chicago Forum, He need make correct with Blue America and Red America.

We're not trying be rude in Chicago Forum but Silverlake did started last month ago.

Chicago (Cook)/Los Angeles, CA/IL are Blue America!!!

Oklahoma is not part of Midwest so just part of Southwest. Silverlake must understand about everything.


Hey Blink,

Why do you always PM me asking for me to help you out in threads when people talk bad about LA, and then are also talking trash about me. THIS CHICAGO GANG HAS BEEN TALKING TRASH ABOUT LA FOREVER. ALWAYS SAYING WE ARE A BIG SUBURB AND NOT DENSE. LA IS A REAL CITY, AMERICA"S SECOND CITY.

I'm glad you love LA like me though :) :) :) :) :) :) :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Hey Blink,

Why do you always PM me asking for me to help you out in threads when people talk bad about LA, and then are also talking trash about me. THIS CHICAGO GANG HAS BEEN TALKING TRASH ABOUT LA FOREVER. ALWAYS SAYING WE ARE A BIG SUBURB AND NOT DENSE. LA IS A REAL CITY, AMERICA"S SECOND CITY.

I'm glad you love LA like me though :) :) :) :) :) :) :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

I know, I feel like 100% tired of all Chicagoian bumped our forum. I refused to live in Chicago though. Chicagoian insulted to Miami about Miami is poorest city in US, that hurts my feeling because I'm born in Miami.

Get all fucking Chicagoian off from our forum, only Chicagoian who support LA then welcome to post here.

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I know, I feel like 100% tired of all Chicagoian bumped our forum. I refused to live in Chicago though. Chicagoian insulted to Miami about Miami is poorest city in US, that hurts my feeling because I'm born in Miami.

Get all ####### Chicagoian off from our forum, only Chicagoian who support LA then welcome to post here.

No one said Miami is the poorest city in America, they were responding to your comment about Miami having a larger economy than Chicago, which is absolutely 100% false.

USC is expected to be even better next year. Starting lineup are mostly juniors. Leinart who won the Heisman this year may possibly opt out to go to the NFL, but John David Booty supposedly is an equally good quarterback.

No one said Miami is the poorest city in America, they were responding to your comment about Miami having a larger economy than Chicago, which is absolutely 100% false.

No, It's all not false. I supposed in Miami have more skyscraper next 10 years so you will watch it. It earned billion of $$$ but Chicago do nothing with economy.

Don't insult to Miami, Miami is just smaller than Chicago that why.

No, It's all not false. I supposed in Miami have more skyscraper next 10 years so you will watch it. It earned billion of $$$ but Chicago do nothing with economy.

Don't insult to Miami, Miami is just smaller than Chicago that why.

Miami is going to have more skyscrapers than Chicago, in the next 10 years!?

:rofl:

And how exactly do we do nothing with our economy? We built Millenium Park from our economy. :weirdo:

Seeing Ashley Simpson getting booed off the stage was better than seeing USC destroy OSU.
Ashlee Simpson is Gollum from LOTR's long lost sister. Just wanted to let you know that.

Well, obviously there is a huge disparity between feelings and facts there eh? But then again from what I've gathered of your posts, you are none to fond of facts.

City of Chicago election results

Total votes 1032878

Kerry
839496
81.28%

Bush
188056
18.21%

Yeah, real rabid red-staters here. :bash:

Wow ! I didn't know Bush did that well in Chicago. He increased his share of the popular vote damn near everywhere.

Still would have liked to see USC square off against Auburn though. Not saying that Auburn would have won, but I'm confident the game would have been competitive.