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Former Detroit City Councilman Alonzo (Lonnie) bates said " I'm not doing anything the others aren't" I love Detroit, but it seems this is sad but true

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Here your bunch of lies will be exposed without editing............. What is the difference between... Jul 29, 2008 | 1:48 PM
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What is the difference between a Democrat and a Communist?


Answer: The spelling.




If you like paying high taxes… thank a Commu…err Democrat.


If you like paying MORE for inferior foreign in products… thank a Commu…err Democrat.


If you like seeing more jobs sent overseas because (democrat backed) labor unions have demanded way more than their EMPLOYEES (not owners) are entitled to… thank a Commu…err Democrat.


If you like paying $4 for a gallon of gas… thank a Commu…err Democrat.


If you like paying too much child support and not getting enough time to make a substantial positive impact in your child’s life… thank a Commu…err Democrat.


If you like being discriminated against, by ANY group, because you do not fit their narrowly defined description as being worthy or qualified (because simply being an American is not enough, regardless of race, color, creed or religion)… thank a Commu…err Democrat.


If you like watching innocent people being harmed by low-life thugs and criminals because police funding has been cut and police are afraid of getting sued for justifiably shooting the deserving thug… thank a Commu…err Democrat.


If you like having to take your shoes off at the airport and not allowed to carry nail clippers with you because Bill Clinton (the most disgraceful, embarrassing and worst president in this country's history, which could have only been topped if Al Gore had actually been elected) chose NOT to act the first time the World Trade Center was bombed… thank a Commu…err Democrat.


If you believe global warming is caused by our use of fossil fuels, and not by the natural solar radiation cycles, and have to spend more to modify your life-style (the founder of The Weather Channel, a university educated meteorologist, has proved that this is true)… thank a Commu…err Democrat.


This is just a short list of the MANY, MANY ways Commu…err Democrats have ruined and defiled this once GREAT and FREE land.


If you want to see this country completely turned into a police state and everyone living under an oppressive government thumb, keep voting these Commu…err Democrats into office.


Get off your lazy butts and get a job!

Now you asked me if I supported Longshot editing her comments, and I stood with you. Now will you do the same with Zoot_Suit?   When I went off last evening there were 27 comments , and only 21 showing. I was checking because I answered his lies. This morning there is still 27 comments and now there is 22 showing. I don't edit comments in fact I welcome them good or bad. It's the American way and has worked well on these blog's. Those who edit are liars or incapable of defending there position. I would like Zoot to tell us all here, why he doesn't  just let the comments go right up?

Source: National Geographic Magazine

An archeological team, digging in Washington DC , has uncovered 10,000 year old bones and fossil remains of what is believed to be the first Politician. He was named Republcanos

Do you think the racial makeup of the jury will affect the final outcome of the mayor's perjury trial?

Abraham to stand trial on drug charges Jennifer Chambers / The Detroit News

PONTIAC -- Nathaniel Abraham, one of Michigan's youngest convicted killers, was ordered to stand trial Wednesday on felony drug charges in Oakland Circuit Court.

Abraham was arrested May 30 in Pontiac for allegedly possessing 254 pills of the street drug Ecstasy outside a Pontiac gas station.

On Wednesday, 50th District Court Judge Michael Martinez heard testimony from police officers who said Abraham threw a purple Crown Royal bag into the trunk of his car as they approached him. Officers testified they examined that bag and found the pills, which later tested positive for Ecstasy.

Abraham's attorney, Byron Pitts, told the judge all the officers actually witnessed was a handshake between Abraham and another man moments earlier, and that police had no probable cause to open the bag or search Abraham's red Cadillac.

Martinez denied Pitts' request to dismiss the case, which is now headed to circuit court for arraignment. No date has been set.

Abraham remains free on bond but is required to wear a GPS tether and is confined to his mother's home other than going to church on Sundays.

Pitts said Wednesday he does not expect his client to go to prison.

 

I think Pitts is out of his ever loving mind.

Captain Kirk for President

Medal of Honor
Mike  Monsoor,a Navy  EOD Technician, was awarded the  Congressional Medal  of Honor posthumously for jumping on a  grenade in Iraq, giving his life to save his fellow  Seals.

During Mike Monsoor's funeral  in San Diego, as his coffin was being moved from the hearse to the grave  site at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, SEALs were lined up on both sides  of the pallbearers route forming a column of two's, with the coffin moving  up the center. As Mike's coffin passed, each SEAL, having removed his gold  Trident from his uniform, slapped it down embedding the Trident in the  wooden coffin.


The slaps were audible from across the  cemetery; by the time the coffin arrived grave side, it looked as though  it had a gold inlay from all the Tridents pinned to it. This was a fitting  send-off for a warrior hero.

Since the media wont make this news, I choose to make it news by forwarding it onto you guys. I am damn  proud of our military. If you are proud too, please pass this on. If not  then rest assured that these fine men andwomen of our military will  continue to serve and protect.

Now we don't have the right to tell the Station who should replace Fanchon Stinger, but if we did who would you want to replace her and why?

Windsor holding off on Detroit tunnel deal, citing scandals

Santiago Esparza and Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- Windsor is putting negotiations to sell its share of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel on ice amid separate criminal investigations of Detroit officials, a lawyer for the Ontario city said Friday.

Cliff Sutts, the lead negotiator for Windsor, said the deal to purchase the Detroit half of the tunnel for $75 million is uncertain because of worries about Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's ongoing felony case and an FBI bribery probe of City Council members and other city officials.

"I am sure it is (a distraction)," Sutts said Friday of the investigations.  

It is perhaps the first -- and most certainly, the highest-profile -- project to be jeopardized because of the series of scandals involving City Hall. Both Kilpatrick and Council President Kenneth V. Cockrel have promised "business as usual."

And if it falls through, the implications could be big: Kilpatrick is warning of mass layoffs if both cities can't reach an accord.

Sutts said Windsor officials are still eager to pull off the deal that would sell both cities' share of the span to an authority appointed by members from each municipality.

But he cautioned that Windsor council members are worried that Kilpatrick and the Detroit council appear to be at odds.

Kilpatrick has urged its sale for months, but a majority of council members have been reluctant to follow his lead. After twice voting down the creation of an authority to allow the plan to proceed, council members switched course over 24 hours last week and gave it the go-ahead.

But at least one member who switched her vote -- Barbara-Rose Collins -- said she still is dubious about the sale and believes a majority of members on the panel are as well.

"We are saying get on the same page and we will start dealing," Sutts said. "Windsor wants to make a deal."

Detroit's deputy mayor, Anthony Adams, told council members Friday the city has received no official word from Windsor. Adams said Kilpatrick and Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis spoke just last week, and Francis was "excited" about the Detroit council's vote.

"Mayor Francis said the deal was a go," Adams said of that conversation.

But Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel is skeptical, saying she wants to see Francis' commitment in writing.

"There is ... more uncertainty thrown into the situation, which is tenuous at best," Cockrel said.

Sutts said a proposal is in Detroit's hands and Windsor officials are waiting for the council to move on it. He added that Windsor isn't "married" to any proposal and is willing to negotiate a deal that would be approved by the Detroit council.

"It most certainly is on the table," he said. "It is in Detroit's hands. ... We are acting in good faith."

The deal is a crucial to Kilpatrick's plan to balance the city's $3.1 billion budget. The council wants to borrow money to plug holes, but Kilpatrick has warned that would hurt the city's ability to borrow money.

Adams reiterated Friday that the mayor's office is planning for possible layoffs if the deal collapses. Officials are talking to union leaders and researching when the city would send notices of job reductions, Adams said.

He declined to cite a number, but told council members that 1,200 layoffs "would be impossible to achieve."

Earlier, he had threatened 1,300 workers.

The city has about 13,000 total.

 

Since Windsor and Detroit are selling I really am concerned who's getting the sweetheart deal here?

Fanchon Stinger Has been a lot more involved than by innocents as I had hoped. I now feel differently, but here's an interesting thing to see. We have all been on Kwame Kilpatrick for being guilty and wanting him removed, even before his day in court. Will Fox 2 dismiss Fanchon before
possibly hers?

Appeals Court rejects bid to remove judges from Kilpatrick case Doug Guthrie / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- The Michigan Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy's effort to remove every judge in the city's 36th District Court from overseeing preliminary proceedings in the criminal case against Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty.

A three-judge panel declared in an opinion delivered today that the prosecutor's argument -- that there is at least an appearance of impropriety for the entire bench which is deeply entwined in the Kilpatrick dominated politics of the city -- was insufficient to order a visiting judge from outside the community to handle the charges of perjury, misconduct in office and obstruction of justice.

Several of the judges on 30-member bench previously worked in Kilpatrick's city administration. Two judges may be called as witnesses in a preliminary examination on Sept. 22 where Judge Ronald Giles will decide if there is enough evidence to bind Kilpatrick and Beatty over for trial. Giles gave money to Kilpatrick's election campaign and had the mayor as a house guest at his daughter's high school graduation party

"That the judges of the 36th District Court may have relationships with witnesses beyond those prescribed in the court rule does not warrant recusal, in absence of showing bias (and none is alleged), because the role of the judge in a preliminary exam is not to gauge guilt or innocence, and generally does not require making credibility determinations," said the opinion authored by Kirsten Frank Kelly, presiding judge of the panel, which consisted also of Judges Kurtis T. Wilder and Christopher M. Murray.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said the Appeals Court ruling uncovers a problem in the state's justice system and she is uncertain whether she will continue her fight to the Michigan Supreme Court.

"We respect the Court of Appeals and while this is not surprising it is extremely disappointing. If you cannot recuse a judge on these facts, then you cannot ever recuse a judge," Worthy said in a statement released by her office. "This should be of extreme concern to the entire legal community in the State of Michigan, both prosecution and defense. Clearly a rule change is needed. We will have to evaluate whether we will take this to the Supreme Court."

The mayor's lawyers took swipes at Worthy in statements released this afternoon by a public relations firm working with the defense team.

"After hiring former Supreme Court Justice Patricia Boyle, one would have to assume the prosecutor planned on taking this mater to the Supreme Court from the beginning and hypocritically capitalizing on influence herself," said James Parkman.

James Thomas said, "Four different judges have upheld the character and integrity of the 36th District Court so one would think the prosecutor will abandon these reckless attempts to judge-shop."