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Not to be an alarmist, but a ABC7Chicago.com released a story detailing the millions of people who have been displaced over the last several decades. Why? Because the Olympics came to their town.

Kudos to reporter Ben Bradley for bringing this story to light. He doesn’t pull any punches, either. He begins:

“As Chicago looks to host the 2016 Olympic Games, a new study finds that over the last 20 years more than 2 million people have been displaced as a direct result of the Olympics. Many were low-income renters who were forced out when rents soared soon after a city was awarded the Olympics.

If Chicago’s [sic] bid for the 2016 Summer Games is successful, the Olympic stadium and village would be built on the city’s South Side, where some residents wonder how the games would affect their property values and the quality of life.”

Bradley reports that in its preparations for hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing has displaced 1.2 million of its residents. (China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, denies this.) Seoul evicted over 720,000 people to make room for the 1988 Summer Olympics.

“Chicago 2016 will take a balanced approach — working with the community and city and ensuring anywhere the Olympics touch, it will benefit that community,” said Patrick Sandusky, Chicago 2016 spokesman.

We’ll see if the Olympics are coming here in 2009. Until then, we can only wait.

(Originally posted on DanielHonigman.com)

I was just checking out some of the sites that have been sending some traffic my way when I saw an interesting addition: The Wall Street Journal.

Listed in my new Google Analytics, I saw that a piece on my site from last week, “IOC says logo fiasco won’t hurt Chicago 2016 bid,” was referenced in the “Related Articles” section after the story. The widget was powered by Sphere, a news blog aggregator.

This helps solidify DanielHonigman.com as the Google #1-ranked blog about the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid and the #4 site overall.

Thanks a lot, Wall Street Journal!

(Originally posted on DanielHonigman.com)

Ah, I just got a funny image in my head after reading this story, which originally appeared in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

The inclusion of bowling in the 2016 Olympics could actually happen, according to the story. Thing is, the World Tenpin Bowling Association has an amateurs-only rule for bowling on the international stage, unlike, say, basketball.

Just think of this, though: beer-guzzling, brat-chomping Chicagoans cheering for American bowlers at Lucky Strike Lanes, or wherever the events would be held. Very Happy Gilmore-esque, no?

This is Chicago 2016. This is the true spirit of the Olympics, not that dainty pairs figure skating stuff.

(Originally posted on DanielHonigman.com)

I checked my Technorati Rank today and discovered that I'm # 8,940.

Woo-hoo! I cracked the top 10K.  Please checking out this site and my other site, DanielHonigman.com, which just cracked the top 700,000.  (Not quite the same, huh?)

I found myself scratching my head yet again at another series of Al Gore quotes.

On tonight’s “Nightline” (and in a story on ABC.com), Gore was quoted as saying that while he’s “not a candidate,” he may still run in 2008.

“Look, we’re a year and half away from this election,” he said, “[I] see no need to say, ‘Okay. I’m not ever going to even think about that in the future.’”

Yet another hazy statement.

The interview seems to be a profile of Gore before the release of his new book, “The Assault on Reason.” In the book, Gore evidently lashes out at President George W. Bush, but tries to dismiss claims that it’s partisan politics. “When our country made a decision to invade Iraq, it’s too partisan to simply blame that on the current president,” Gore said in the interview.

Well, I’ll be taking a look at this interview tonight. (Hopefully it’ll be up on YouTube tomorrow.)

But what do you folks think; Will he run? If he does, would you vote for him?

(Post originally on DanielHonigman.com)

How about this nugget? According to a story in today’s San Jose Mercury News, YouTube will co-sponsor the first of six Democratic Party-sanctioned debates.

Presumably, this will be somehow tied into YouTube’s YouChoose campaign, in which presidential candidates post videos and speak directly to viewers. (Well, maybe an intern or something.)

Word is, says Pete Cashmore in a blog on Mashable.com, that YouTube will also look to sponsor a Republican-sanctioned debate, to keep balance.

If anything, it’ll be interesting to see the community boards on YouTube light up after this debate.

(originally posted on DanielHonigman.com)

This is a huge pet peeve of mine. It makes the bus driver have to wait longer before moving, and more importantly, it pisses me off. That’s why it’s my latest CTA Pet Peeve.

Why is it that every Tom, Dick and Harry feels that the only way off the bus is through the front door? I mean, I understand if the Tom, Dick or Harry is a little old lady sitting near the front of the bus. But we’re talking about young, healthy individuals.

Are these people actually afraid of exiting the rear door? Does it take some ungodly amount of athleticism to step down to the street?

Maybe if people moved towards the rear of the bus in the first place, they’d feel more inclined to get off in the back.

Could ticketing be another way to fund CTA upgrades for a Chicago 2016 Olympics Games…?

According to Google, I’m the top-rated blogger for any news about the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid.

I’ve also finally cracked the top million Technorati sites. Currently, my site is the 791,306th most visited in the world.

This is good news, especially as DanielHonigman.com has only been live for a little over a month.

Thanks to Tim Spangler for helping me get this thing off the ground. I definitely recommend him for any search engine optimization work you all may need for your sites.