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Title: Roland Burris Memorial
Post by: pmcd9 on January 14, 2009, 01:10:40 am

File this one under totally creepy and weird.  Roland Burris has begun work on his memorial.

Link (http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1356758,w-roland-burris-tombstone.article)

I wonder if he'll have room for "First Black appointed to US Senate by tainted Administration." 

Title: Re: Roland Burris Memorial
Post by: jaydub on January 14, 2009, 01:23:00 am

I assume that's a scale model.  The real one will require 10,000 laborers working for decades to construct from hand-hewn slabs of alabaster and black granite, and will contain the remains of his wives and attendants to ensure a swift journey for his ka.