“It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It’s not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber. I don’t know that I would’ve said that out loud pre-my announcement that I was going to be leaving. [Laughter] But I think that’s true. I mean everything has changed. The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don’t know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game,” – Gary Ackerman a retiring 30 year veteran of Congress, responding to the question “Can you define comity as it existed when you arrived versus how it exists now?”
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Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Tower to claim world’s tallest building title
Chicago-based firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill AS+GG has officially been announced as the design architects for the Kingdom Tower that is to be built in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Initially planned to stand one mile 1.6 km high and be called the Mile-High Tower, the building was scaled down after soil testing in the area in 2008 cast doubt over whether the location could support a building of that height. Now the building will stand over 0.62 miles one kilometer tall, which will still allow it to overshadow the 2,717 ft. 828 m Burj Khalifa to claim the title of the world’s tallest building.
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