Bonfire of the Absurdities: After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.
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This is sad. I went and read the article, and I saw a reference to "the HONORABLE Coleman Alexander Young. The first thought in my head was "Democrat. Detroit. Honorable? I bet not!" Besides having an illegitimate kid whom he denied for years, here's the wiki entry for "corruption". I guess he's "honorable" because he never got caught? And Carter apparently "Eric Holdered" him. Depressing!
Mayor Young's hand-picked Police Chief, close friend and political advisor William L. Hart, served for 15 years as Chief before being indicted and convicted for stealing $2.6 million from police undercover funds. The Deputy Chief of Police (Kenneth Weiner), also a close associate of Coleman Young, was charged and convicted in a separate case involving investment fraud. The culmination of the many investigations, indictments and convictions of those around Young led many observers to believe he was at the center of widespread corruption in the city government, which included school boards, sanitation, and many other departments, but especially the police department. Since that time, Detroit has been unable to lose its reputation as one of the most corrupt cities in America -- a perception frequently attributed to the period coinciding with Young's long tenure as mayor. However, given close continuing FBI scrutiny extending from his days as a radical left activist, other observers believe that Young was innocent of the many charges of fraud, corruption, kickbacks, and other crimes because Young was extensively investigated by the FBI and other federal agencies for most of his tenure as mayor. Critics of the mayor point to Young's relationship with President Carter and it has been suggested that Carter discouraged the Justice Department from aggressively pursuing any indictments against Young.
The convictions of Weiner and other members of Young's administration were in part based on evidence from wiretaps on Young's home telephone
Ever notice that just about everyone with the title "Honorable" is a total low life, scum sucking, sleazebag.
It's like what Margaret Thatcher said about powerful. "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
The convictions of Weiner and other members of Young’s administration were in part based on evidence from wiretaps on Young’s home telephone
But he's innocent..........RIIIIIIGHT!!
That $100,000 in the freezer? Was just keeping it there until I could get a new mattress, officer.
She must be related , somehow , to the other losers in life like these folks---http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I79wUEqBdQc
Payola the Chicago way. Its gonna be a long 4 years.
I am not sure but I think I heard Oinking in the background during her spew.......This little piggy went to market with an EBT card, this little piggie went to Washington and went wheee whee whee all the way back to detroit.
Yeah, really. Isn't all that bacon that they want like cannibalism or something?
It's just animals eating their young.
It’s too late to bail out Detroit, that boat sunk many years ago.
Is it too late to give it a Viking funeral?
Or at least just burn it to the ground?
I thought they'd already done that.
Don't let the EPA hear you talking that way. Detroit must be dismantled in an environmentally sensitive way. The fumes from burning it would be extremely toxic.
It's too late to bail out Detroit, that boat sunk many years ago.
we people? ha ha oh honeychile do not go dayuh face it, you gots took, now we all in de same boat, sold down de ribeh by de kenyan. ain't dat da shit?
I guess she doesn't comprehend that she (and the mayor and other city council members aka: Detroit's government) are pert of the reason Detroit is in such a mess to begin with. Huh? Bush's fault? Oh...never mind.
This is what our once glorious and honorable country has become? A nation of beggars who trade whatever they have - in this case a vote - for free stuff. And there is no shame about this crass arrangement either. The fact that this woman can say, with no embarrassment, that she expects a payoff for her vote is just plain depressing.
Sadly Karmaa you're exactly right. Too many Americans now cast their vote based on their calculation of how much "free stuff" the winning candidate will provide them. It's the death of democracy and America.
She has been to subjected to a lifetime of training to think this way. Look at the message sent by so called black leaders like Jesse Jackson who have been shaking down people for years. I absolutely don't mean this in a racial way but these people are the lowest common denominator in our society and there are millions of them. I swear the The Walking Dead TV show is rapidly heading toward nonfiction.
Yes, Karmaa...we are Rome...we are Greece
Take a number and move to the back of the line lady. Welcome to Obamaland. Home of the slave; not the brave. Land of walking dead with a free cell phone tapped to their head. You wanted this lady, bend over and take like a good little commie.
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This is sad. I went and read the article, and I saw a reference to "the HONORABLE Coleman Alexander Young. The first thought in my head was "Democrat. Detroit. Honorable? I bet not!" Besides having an illegitimate kid whom he denied for years, here's the wiki entry for "corruption". I guess he's "honorable" because he never got caught? And Carter apparently "Eric Holdered" him. Depressing!
Mayor Young's hand-picked Police Chief, close friend and political advisor William L. Hart, served for 15 years as Chief before being indicted and convicted for stealing $2.6 million from police undercover funds. The Deputy Chief of Police (Kenneth Weiner), also a close associate of Coleman Young, was charged and convicted in a separate case involving investment fraud. The culmination of the many investigations, indictments and convictions of those around Young led many observers to believe he was at the center of widespread corruption in the city government, which included school boards, sanitation, and many other departments, but especially the police department. Since that time, Detroit has been unable to lose its reputation as one of the most corrupt cities in America -- a perception frequently attributed to the period coinciding with Young's long tenure as mayor. However, given close continuing FBI scrutiny extending from his days as a radical left activist, other observers believe that Young was innocent of the many charges of fraud, corruption, kickbacks, and other crimes because Young was extensively investigated by the FBI and other federal agencies for most of his tenure as mayor. Critics of the mayor point to Young's relationship with President Carter and it has been suggested that Carter discouraged the Justice Department from aggressively pursuing any indictments against Young.
The convictions of Weiner and other members of Young's administration were in part based on evidence from wiretaps on Young's home telephone
Ever notice that just about everyone with the title "Honorable" is a total low life, scum sucking, sleazebag.
It's like what Margaret Thatcher said about powerful. "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
The convictions of Weiner and other members of Young’s administration were in part based on evidence from wiretaps on Young’s home telephone
But he's innocent..........RIIIIIIGHT!!
That $100,000 in the freezer? Was just keeping it there until I could get a new mattress, officer.
She must be related , somehow , to the other losers in life like these folks---http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I79wUEqBdQc
Payola the Chicago way. Its gonna be a long 4 years.
I am not sure but I think I heard Oinking in the background during her spew.......This little piggy went to market with an EBT card, this little piggie went to Washington and went wheee whee whee all the way back to detroit.
Yeah, really. Isn't all that bacon that they want like cannibalism or something?
It's just animals eating their young.
It’s too late to bail out Detroit, that boat sunk many years ago.
Is it too late to give it a Viking funeral?
Or at least just burn it to the ground?
I thought they'd already done that.
Don't let the EPA hear you talking that way. Detroit must be dismantled in an environmentally sensitive way. The fumes from burning it would be extremely toxic.
It's too late to bail out Detroit, that boat sunk many years ago.
we people? ha ha oh honeychile do not go dayuh face it, you gots took, now we all in de same boat, sold down de ribeh by de kenyan. ain't dat da shit?
I guess she doesn't comprehend that she (and the mayor and other city council members aka: Detroit's government) are pert of the reason Detroit is in such a mess to begin with. Huh? Bush's fault? Oh...never mind.
This is what our once glorious and honorable country has become? A nation of beggars who trade whatever they have - in this case a vote - for free stuff. And there is no shame about this crass arrangement either. The fact that this woman can say, with no embarrassment, that she expects a payoff for her vote is just plain depressing.
Sadly Karmaa you're exactly right. Too many Americans now cast their vote based on their calculation of how much "free stuff" the winning candidate will provide them. It's the death of democracy and America.
She has been to subjected to a lifetime of training to think this way. Look at the message sent by so called black leaders like Jesse Jackson who have been shaking down people for years. I absolutely don't mean this in a racial way but these people are the lowest common denominator in our society and there are millions of them. I swear the The Walking Dead TV show is rapidly heading toward nonfiction.
Yes, Karmaa...we are Rome...we are Greece
Take a number and move to the back of the line lady. Welcome to Obamaland. Home of the slave; not the brave. Land of walking dead with a free cell phone tapped to their head. You wanted this lady, bend over and take like a good little commie.