City of Detroit opens a new water park

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City of Detroit opens a new water park… with no water in it. The ancient water main leading to the park burst so they held the grand opening with no water. It’s already the middle of August – when will they get water for the water park? October? More importantly: why is a bankrupt city going into the water park business?

J.P. Travis: Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1976 graduate of University of Michigan, father, grandfather, husband, founder and CEO of Travelyn Publishing (http://www.travelynpublishing.com/), and passionate anti-government believer in individual liberty.

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  • They are so broke they are in bancruptcy, yet someonee brilliantly decided to back this loser? Look around No tourist is going to go to Detroitfor a waterpark.. its inconvenient to carry a weaoon in your suit. Come to schlitterbahn. Bring a picnic or get eats there. One of the best waterparks in the nation, and the good German folk in New Branfels won't steal you blind

    • SCHLITTERBAHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      "It's the hottest, coolest town in TX" :-D

    • I love that place! I went there when it first opened, and from what I hear, they have expanded it quite a bit.

  • I'd bet its fed by the city sewer system. That place stinks so bad, no one will ever know the difference.

  • Why even build it? It makes no sense! I don't know what the solution is for Detroit but they need to stop building things that do not bring in any money.

    • Not only did they build it, they procrastinated until the summer is almost over before getting it done. School starts in a few days. Idiots.

  • It's a Progressive Water Park - the taxpayers take a bath. We're soon going to have the cleanest taxpayers on the planet.

    • Hey, what about the new ice stadium? These liberals are just amazing in their astoundingly stupid ideological ideas, aren't they?

      • Should the city build the Detroit RedWings a new arena, probably not. But I will say this, the RedWings are more or less the only thing in Detroit that has been consistently run well over the past 25 years. Those who attend games actually have money, & pay taxes. I would rather have tax money going toward replacing the old Joe Lewis Arena rather then handing it over to "community groups" or other zero liability voters who contribute nothing but debt. The people who work & pay the taxes to support that communist shithole deserve something for their tax dollars, but this is not a good time for the arena project

        • Let them become the Fort Wayne RedWings. Not one dime of taxpayer money should go to any arena. Just my opinion and I love sports but I don't like corporate welfare.

          Memo to team ownership: float a revenue bond if your team's business model is as good as you think it is.

          • Exctly! Just like the Rays wanting Tampa to build them a new stadium! They have been a contender in the AL East Playoff picture for a few years now, and are drawing good crowds. Why should Tampa have to pay for their new home?

          • Not one penny should ever be taken forcibly from my pocket to promote sports of any kind. Ever.

  • It is called the Shitistan water park.....When they do get water..I would love to airdrop about a dozen unwrapped Baby Ruth Bars into the water to make the libturds feel at home.

  • Maybe charlatan will donate some if O'Rielys money to filling the water park. If the park is just now opening is it not a waste of time and money? Wait a minute, it is Detroit so wasting money isn't a big deal.

    • You really were born stupid, weren't you, crowley......

      You are the model uneducated idiot....liberals will continue to fill up your ebt card cause, you know, they like you that way....

    • Dumbass, read this, you MIGHT learn something...

      http://www.trevorloudon.com/2013/07/coleman-young-the-communist-who-destroyed-detroit/

      Coleman Young: the Communist Who Destroyed Detroit

      If one man could be blamed most for the destruction of Detroit, it would be Coleman Young.

      Mayor from 1974 to 1993, Young set a city already in decline on the pathway to the disaster area it is today.

      Coleman Young had a well-deserved reputation for corruption, but few today understand his communism.

      It is important to know that it was a combination of crony capitalism and communism that destroyed Detroit, because that is exactly the formula being employed by Young’s spiritual heir, Barack Obama, from the White House today.

      Born in 1918, Young found communism as a young man. In the 1930s, he found an apprentice electrician program sponsored by Ford Motor Company. There, he became an underground union organizer and “civil rights” activist until he was drafted into the Army in 1942.

      Young served as a bombardier and navigator with the famous Tuskegee Airmen. Toward the end of the war, Young and about 100 other African-American men were arrested for demanding service at a segregated officers’ club in Indiana. Young managed to get word to the Black press. Within days, he was released and the Army began the process of integrating the club.

      Another black Communist Party supporter also served in the unit, Percy Sutton, a future Manhattan borough president. He would later go on to mentor and employ a young radical named Eric Holder, and write a letter of recommendation to get a young Barack Obama into Harvard.

      After the war, Young returned to Detroit, where he became a union organizer. But he lost his job when the head of the United Auto Workers Union “took a dislike to the commotion created by Young and other Black dissidents.” There may have been more to this, as during that period the UAW was being run by socialists, who were trying to oust their rival communists from the union.

      Young took his first political job working for Progressive Party 1948 presidential candidate, Henry A. Wallace. The Progressive party was controlled, lock, stock and barrel, by the Communist Party.

      In 1949, Young worked with fellow Progressive Party leader, Stanley Nowak, in supporting Ford factory strikers, as this clipping from the Communist Party’s Peoples world proves.

      In 1966, Novak turned up as a sponsor of the Herbert Aptheker Testimonial Dinner. The dinner was held on the occasion of Communist Party theoretician Herbert Aptheker‘s 50th birthday.

      The National Negro Labor Council (1950-56), was a Communist Party front for black workers and labor officials.

      Key leaders of the Council included Coleman Young (national executive secretary), Charles Hayes (Chicago leader, identified communist and later a Democratic Congressman), Cleveland Robinson, George Crockett and Erma Henderson from Detroit.

      Cleveland Robinson would later become a member of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and a founder, with Charles Hayes, of the Communist Party created Coalition of Black Trade Unionists – an organization greatly loved by many modern Black leaders including Mississippi’s communist connected Congressman Bennie Thompson and Barack Obama.

      Crockett was a close sympathizer and almost certainly a secret Communist Party member, who went on to become a Democratic Congressman from Michigan.

      Erma Henderson would later serve on the Detroit City Council under Coleman Young.

      In 1946, Erma Henderson was a Michigan representative to the National Council of American Youth for Democracy – the youth wing of the Communist Party USA. Serving alongside Henderson was a young Chicago journalist named Vernon Jarrett. He in turn, was a close colleague of a Chicago Communist party writer named Frank Marshall Davis – later the Hawaii mentor of a teenage Barack Obama.

      Vernon Jarrett’s son would later marry the daughter of a Chicago radical educationalist named Barbara Bowman. The brief marriage turned Valerie Bowman into Valerie Jarrett – now Obama’s closest friend and most trusted White House adviser.

      By 1952, Young’s work brought him to the attention of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was investigating the Communist Party in Michigan. Coleman Young completely refused to answer the committee’s questions.

      There is no doubt however that Young was a secret Party member.

      In 1988, Howard Johnson — who had been one of the leading communists in Harlem during the Great Depression — told interviewer Kay Takora about his return home from World War II: “I came back into activity in the Communist Party… I at first became county educational director. New York county was the biggest county organization. From ’46 to ’49. And during that same period, I was assigned to help build a national Negro veterans organization which was called the United Negro and Allied Veterans of America. And that had the backing of the party and I was assigned by the party to work in that along with my duties as educational director of the county organization.”

      Howard Johnson continued, eventually bringing the conversation to Detroit and to Detroit’s mayor, Coleman Young: “When UNAVA was formed, I was elected national vice-commander in charge of education, which fit my training, and the other national vice-commander was Coleman Young, who was national vice-commander in charge of labor.

      “Because at that time he was a steward in the auto workers union and [a] very prominent trade unionist in Detroit. Coleman and I were very good friends…. I never anticipated he would be a bourgeois mayor of Detroit. But Coleman’s a great guy, nevertheless. But I think that it was his party training that (helped) him to move forward as he did”.

      In the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, the Communist Party’s liaison man with Moscow was a secret FBI informant, Morris Childs. On one trip to Moscow, Morris Childs’ fellow-delegate, the black communist James Jackson, asked that Coleman Young, a future mayor of Detroit and a secret Party member, be invited to Moscow to study Marxism-Leninism; the Soviets vetoed him as too old.

      Democratic Socialists of America member and socialist historian Paul Buhle, wrote in a 1992 article for the Encyclopedia of the American Left:

      Communists also gained from long-standing political contacts in the black community. Victories of black mayoral and congressional candidates with decades — old ties to the CP — a short list would include Coleman Young and George Crocket in Detroit, Gus Newport in Berkeley, and somewhat more ambiguously, Harold Washington in Chicago.”

      It was the 1983 victory of long time Communist Party affiliate Harold Washington that inspired a young Barack Obama to move to the Windy City two years later.

      Washington stacked Chicago City Hall full of communists and socialists. Coleman Young did the same in Detroit. He even appointed Communist Party supporter Dave Moore, Director of the city’s Senior Citizens Department.

      So, it’s no surprise to see Barack Obama doing the same thing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

      Like Obama though, Coleman Young didn’t destroy Detroit alone. He had a whole raft of communist and socialist affiliated Councillors on his team, including Erma Henderson, Ken Cockrel, Sr., Clyde Cleveland and Maryann Mahaffey.

      Coleman Young, crony capitalism and communism destroyed Detroit.

      Barack Obama is using the same formula to destroy America.

      Will you let him?

      ...you should also read this...

      http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/07/how-coleman-young-ruined-detroit.php

      ...what you'll discover crowley, is that there was indeed large scale theft going on, but just like the referee in a professional wrestling match, you were distracted into looking in the wrong direction when the key moment happened. Detroit is the end result of the Obama economic model, & if you don't understand that, then you really are that damn stupid. Large union contracts w/ huge pension liabilities, corrupt politicians, & a giant welfare state have destroyed the city that at the time of JFK being elected, had the highest per capita income in America. They had Republican mayor then...

      http://www.toledoblade.com/news/2013/07/28/Detroit-mayors-all-Democrats-since-1962.html

      ...& since 1962(JFK was still alive)it's been strictly Democrat/Progressive/Communist trying to bribe everyone in their coalition. The end result was what Maggie Thatcher said, they ran out of other people's money. But you go on about Ron Paul, censorship, & stolen gold, you keep playing the same 3 notes. You know you come loaded with nothing except the ability to annoy. You are an example of why I now believe this nation is over, & now I'm just waiting for the hour when it is brought down.

        • Telling a liberal the facts is like teaching a pig to sing, it only wastes your time ,and it annoys the pig.

      • Thing is we wouldn't be able to nor need to give such huge pensions and welfare programs if we were still under a gold-backed currency. As people's money would actually hold its own value. Value that was stolen by Corporate Greed's Federal Reserve.

        • I know you're never going to stop your worship of gold, but maybe this little sentence can put you on pause for a while:

          The price of gold can be manipulated - just like everything else.

          • Not when gold IS money. If we mint a 1 ounce coin in gold with a $20 face value that sets gold at $20 per ounce.

            Paper notes have to go.

          • You have no idea what you're talking about. What you said is basically a series of non sequiturs.

          • Uhm Kick, help me out here. If that were true, why were people melting down pennies for the copper used to mint them because it was worth more than the face value of .01¢ to somebody at that time? Or maybe I'm just stupid and he's got this whole thing figured out.

          • Nope, HE'S the stupid one.
            It's the same reason they put the ridges on silver coins, because silver was worth more than the coin itself, and people were shaving the edges of the coins to sell the silver, and still have the face value assigned to the coin. Then, they had to make silver coins out of a layer of silver over copper, because the coins were worth more than their face value. Also, pennies are now made out of copper plated zinc, because the copper is worth much more than the penny.

          • The silver doesn't have to be more valuable than the coin for shaving to be profitable. You just steal a little silver off of each silver coin you can get your hands on, soon you have a stash of silver without ever having paid for it.

            Lest I forget, yes. Crowley is an idiot.

          • Good thing your not a prostitute Crowley, You would only have one trick and only be able to charge 5 bucks...hard to keep you in cheetos and beer and internet when you make so little.

          • And we wouldn't have the problem of the silver being worth more then the coin's face value if the private Federal Reserve didn't devalue the face value for their own greed.

          • True about the silver, but it is still worth way more than the face value of the coin, which is also why they stopped making gold coins for circulation way before they took us off the gold standard.

    • I think we should all call Saudi Arabia and leave twenty minute voicemails on the same day. Maybe we can overheat the NSA's new data center and cause it to melt.

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