Topic: The Happiest Place On Earth

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WDIV CBS4 in Detroit's Facebook page from June 9 wherein they ask the question of the day:

"What do you think it will take to save Detroit?"

Manoli Katakis flush the old regime out. Every last one.
June 8 at 5:11pm · Like · 3

Patricia Walker All jokes aside, a mighty move of God.
June 8 at 5:12pm · Like · 4

Ron Lefty Kuebler Nothing - It's too far gone
June 8 at 5:12pm · Like · 4

Eric Priest A nuke.
June 8 at 5:13pm · Like · 6

Shelly Calcat-White Haven't they said this before??
June 8 at 5:14pm · Like · 1

Anne Ehresman A miracle.
June 8 at 5:14pm · Like · 4

Tony The-donmega Pienta Robocop
June 8 at 5:14pm via mobile · Like · 4

Marsha Travis An army of bulldozers and National Guard.
June 8 at 5:15pm via mobile · Like · 5

Patrick McNally Let hem go, they did it themselves, like dealing with an alcoholic, until THEY admit the problem and ask for help, there is nothing the rest of us can do.
June 8 at 5:15pm · Like · 2

Sandy Scott Start with getting rid of all the corruption. Obviously someone else needs to take over. I don't know if there is any help that will straighten them out.
June 8 at 5:15pm · Like · 2

Scott Pike Considering the IQ of it's citizens and the deluded imbeciles they vote into office... Detroit is beyond saving. Even if Gov could save them from themselves with an EM, Detroit is a bombed out 3rd world cesspool
June 8 at 5:15pm · Like

Elizabeth Lynn GOP Mayor and all new council members with conservative as council members.Liberal destroyed Detroit!
June 8 at 5:16pm via mobile · Like · 2

Jeffrey Woodward Let it go broke......If the powers that be screwed up the city since the Young administration, it's only fitting that it ends this way. Time for responsible leadership in this city all the way around
June 8 at 5:16pm · Like · 1

Steven P. Schonfeld Lansing stands idly by while Michigan burns.
June 8 at 5:17pm · Like · 2

Justine Smith Nothing...won't happen. Downtown can't be the only place where money is invested. The neighborhoods have decayed beyond repair. And a zero budget. The neighborhoods will be the complete destruction of Detroit as a whole.
June 8 at 5:17pm via mobile · Like

Tony Kujat Are you saying that in one week from now Detroit city officials are going to write themselves a big fat check?
June 8 at 5:17pm via mobile · Like

Harold Webb Build a huge wall around it topped with lots a razor wire. Turn it into a prison. Yep, I think that would do it.
June 8 at 5:17pm · Like

Anna Gregory A single mother who's wages are less than a man's! We KNOW how to cut corners and save money and get the bills paid! Fire the Mayor and every city council member.
June 8 at 5:17pm via mobile · Like · 4

Marty Jeason Why does channel 4 think it can be saved ? ..What is worth saving ? Send in the dozers and lets build a farm that isn't named after Detroit..
June 8 at 5:19pm · Like

Huy Nguyen A natural disaster that takes out Detroit and forces us to start over!
June 8 at 5:19pm via mobile · Like · 1

Zakkiyyah Amirah Don't ask us...That's why they get paid the big bucks!
June 8 at 5:19pm via mobile · Like · 1

Donald Lambert A new City Government, From Mayor, Council, Police Chief, Judges and city law dept. Get rid of them all.
June 8 at 5:20pm · Like · 4

Anna Gregory ?@Steven S ~ that's what Snyder is banking on! He has already snuck in a 300 acre sale to China, he probably wants to sell Detroit to his beloved China!
June 8 at 5:20pm via mobile · Like

Ryan Flanary hmm nothing can be done to reverse decades of neglect and coruption.
June 8 at 5:22pm via mobile · Like · 1

Erik Biggs charge to drive on any freeway in detroit ! haha
June 8 at 5:22pm via mobile · Like

Eddie Kulczyk The residents to take care of what they have, stop destroying things. Work hard together as a team and care a little. Maybe require welfare reciepients and prisoners to do some type of community service. That city would be spotless. Lol
June 8 at 5:22pm · Like · 3

Carla Dicicco Badyna fire everyone and start over. the same thing the Federal Government should do....
June 8 at 5:22pm · Like · 1

Michael E. Susanka Let it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 8 at 5:23pm · Like

Yvonne Dipaola If its gonna go broke,does that mean the lousy politicians, and local govement that caused this aren't gonna get paid? I am pretty sure they will find the money to pay themselves.Where are the people marching downtown,and picketing, and making national headlines,and standing in unity with one another,instead of fighting one another? Refuse to leave until something is done.Make your voices heard!!!
June 8 at 5:25pm · Like · 3

Brian Morency Put up a wall around it, emancipate them, let them become their own country and fend for themselves. But get the water supply away from them first.
June 8 at 5:27pm · Like · 1

Jerry Ruelle Let the bankruptcy begin.... Woo Hoo !!!!
June 8 at 5:29pm · Like

Bigdaddy Hunter Zombie council.
June 8 at 5:31pm · Like

Kevin Wachowiak A miracle!!!
June 8 at 5:36pm · Like · 1

Corey McIsaac Chapter 9 reorganization. Sorry...
June 8 at 5:38pm via mobile · Like

Karen Doud Fox Fire the crooks that are wasting your money and hire people with integrity.
June 8 at 5:42pm via mobile · Like · 4

Michelle Ouellette Schuppe A republican?
June 8 at 5:44pm via mobile · Like · 1

Sherry DiCiacca Kurek A City run by the citizens who live in the neighborhoods, not people that just want the status and the perks. I live in a neighborhood that has burned and abandoned houses. I know what my choices would be to improve the City.
June 8 at 5:47pm via mobile · Like · 2

Tanika Nicole Mike Duggan
June 8 at 5:47pm via mobile · Like

Gina Ashford A miracle
June 8 at 5:54pm via mobile · Like

Patricia Fleming an act of God!
June 8 at 5:55pm via mobile · Like

William Neil Hunter Hey bulldozer new soil new start
June 8 at 5:59pm via mobile · Like

Geri Gillespie A bulldozier
June 8 at 6:06pm via mobile · Like · 2

Jason Fox The Power Ball lottery is $220 million tomorrow. Can the city afford $2 to play?
June 8 at 6:13pm via mobile · Like · 1

Koriaundr Nichole Morgan A mighty uprising of God's people....COMING SOON to a city near you.
June 8 at 6:14pm via mobile · Like · 1

Pennie Lee money tree.....
June 8 at 6:15pm via mobile · Like

John E. Levis Detroit is a cess pool; entire neighborhoods burned out, sky high unemployment, crime ridden, no services. Let it go bankrupt. The rest of Michigan won't notice.
June 8 at 6:17pm · Like · 1

Jill Scott-Hopkins Both sides of the table getting together so everybody can be adults and talk this ish out. Everybody is pouting because things aren't going their way. Time to grow up guys!!
June 8 at 6:21pm · Like

Dave Thompson brains.. unless someone eats yours. then we'll all be in trouble
June 8 at 6:21pm · Like

Felecia Clark Intelligence, dilligence, significant donors, accountability, and removal of anyone that is not constructive, oh and some dedication on the part of residents in and out of the city. Non-Detroiters come in and spend money at games, bakeries, operas and such and many Detroiters do the same, now we just need both (especially residents) to dedicate time and effort to cleaning and rebuilding, and supporting strong leadership. I think the thinkers and doers get lost in the shuffle....But hey like Sherry said above, a city run by the citizens is a start. A bit Utopian but a definite start.
June 8 at 6:21pm · Like · 2

Denise Gamez- Goudy Shame on Detroit! Were have 3 casinos and they cry broke! Thats a line of garbage!
June 8 at 6:23pm via mobile · Like · 1

Mark Levis But Obama said he saved Detroit already.
June 8 at 6:24pm via mobile · Like · 2

Laura Stout Halama All the corruption and stealing they need to be taken over and get new blood running the city.
June 8 at 6:27pm · Like

Mark Levis Hey Anna. What about the 8 years of Granholm. Why no concern that she did nothing because she did not want to upset her voter base. Let it get worse up to the point action must occur. Yeah let's forget about that. She should of acted on their defecits and not let it continue.
June 8 at 6:29pm via mobile · Like · 2

Christopher Ottolini Tactical low yeild atomic bomb then rebuild....
June 8 at 6:33pm via mobile · Like

Spiderz Web-Design PCatphotography stop making stuff in china and Japan and bring it back to Michigan ....
June 8 at 6:35pm via mobile · Like

Gregory Kelly State takeover and a MIRACLE!
June 8 at 6:40pm via mobile · Like · 1

Pamela Brzezinski Detroit is getting exactly what it deserves. You put criminals in power positions to use funds as their personal bank account to live like kings. The city is a joke and deserves what is happening to it.
June 8 at 6:51pm · Like · 2

Kwame Chan black flight and gentrifiation. the reverse of what jacked it up.
June 8 at 6:57pm · Like · 1

Anthony Noluvleft F'emSanderson The 18th most populated city who's median income per family is $31,000 and 32% of city resident's are living below the poverty line. We have to be more compassionate to the less fortunate...We must organize our life and affiliate ourselves with common minds, form our own interest groups through social networking and media... Then talk to our representatives. We got to save our schools and educate our selves. Be frugal. # SAVE DETROIT SAVE THE NATION ## WISH YOU ALL A LOT OF BLESSINGS
June 8 at 7:01pm via mobile · Like · 2

John Jeffrey
June 8 at 7:11pm via mobile · Like

Anthony Noluvleft F'emSanderson Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin: We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes)
June 8 at 7:47pm via mobile · Like

Anna Gregory Hey Mark, why not go back to Engler? Governor Granholm had to attempt to fix 12 years of his B.S. By the time she left office, she had things in the works. And for what? NOTHING! Because stupid people in Michigan did no research and voted for the nerd that got fired from EVERY job he ever had and sold Gateway out to his beloved China!
June 8 at 7:51pm via mobile · Like

Laura Erpelding White people. Most blacks are out of control and totally immoral. Corruption is a way of life. What city or seat of government in the US run by blacks is successful and prospering? The truth needs to be told or the problems will never be fixed. My granddaughter can read almost anything in second grade. Your telling me you can' teach a black child to read in 12 years?
June 8 at 8:36pm · Like · 2

Ardith Williams less crime..so simple and so impossible...noone is safe in Detroit...
June 8 at 8:37pm · Like

Pete Kazelas ?"we shall overcome!" it's that mentality that got them where they are
June 8 at 8:51pm via mobile · Like · 1

Tammy Sandeen I think that having read through the comments on the website, I have a much better understanding of what is really wrong with the city, the state and the nation. How hateful people are. Just... wow... Now to read the comments on here and hope for better.
June 8 at 9:33pm · Like · 2

Mike Soto Liberals and democrats destroyed Detroit and now the scrawny white nerd Rick Snyder will step in appoint an EM and fix Detroit and about ($&#) time
June 8 at 9:35pm · Like · 2

Tara Williams kill snyder lol....
June 8 at 9:36pm via mobile · Like · 1

Tammy Sandeen Wow, not much better here... a few rays of compassion. So sad.
June 8 at 9:37pm · Like · 1

Debbi Poole A bulldozer.
June 8 at 9:44pm via mobile · Like · 1

Paul Levendoski a big fire....oops forgot they already tried that
June 8 at 9:51pm via mobile · Like

Dan Lewis The only way to save detroit is to take out all the human garbage who have destroyed it.
June 8 at 10:06pm via mobile · Like · 1

Brian A. Brown I said it before and I'll say it again. Detroit will NEVER get better with Robert Ficano, Rick Snyder, David Bing, and the city Council still in office. They need to be taken out of office by force because the longer they stay in there, the more in debt we become and the more we run out of money (that they claim we don't have...). http://authorbrianbrown.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/detroit-is-a-cesspool-of-lies-deceit-and-corruption/
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June 8 at 10:28pm · Like · 3

Deb Laroche People in charge of the city who quit stealing from it and start really caring about the city instead of themselves!
June 9 at 7:26am · Like

Ron Gurta it would take bulldozers to flatten the whole city and start over again
June 9 at 10:04am · Like

Sterling Russell I say you replace the mayor and the city council with that group of young brothas mentioned in the FreePress' Rochelle Riley's column yesterday. Give them a sane mentor and some corporate backing and let them have at it. Out of the mouth of babes...
June 9 at 10:56am · Like

Michael Sayig Just let it go
June 9 at 1:33pm via mobile · Like

Karen E Ess nothing that a gallon of kerosene and a match can't handle!
June 9 at 2:29pm via mobile · Like

And if you think that those comments are uplifting and full of good cheer just wait until you read the comments that follow the story which that Facebook post links to...

A taste:

Give a Detroiter a fish and he'll sell it for crack.

Teach a Detroiter to fish and he'll kill you and sell your boat for scrap to buy more crack.

The moral here is it's a no-win.

Or perhaps this...

Us normal folk call them n1ggers.

We live as far away from them as we can.

We call the police when we spot them in our neighborhoods.

They are monstrously ugly, stupid, and genetically predisposed to committing crimes.

Another...

If we're so ugly, why are you people burning up in the sun, blowing up you lips, surgically enhancing yourselves to look like us, huh? Not even nature (sun) like you. Your are the genetically inferior ones. People of color are the majority on the planet. White is genetically recessive and a mutation. You people are mutants and minorities on the planet. And you are disappearing on the planet like dinasours. Your numbers are diminishing (thank God). You are the most violent, thieving, wicked beings on the planet. Every where you go you DESTROY EVERYTHING ABOVE, BELOW AND AROUND YOU! (people, cultures, earth, air, water, insects, animal species, peace, etc). This is a FACT.

Sure am glad that O'Bongo got elected so that all this racism could go away.

I saw a documentary a couple weeks back called 'Deforce' which consisted of a whole bunch of Detroiters blaming all of their problems on White people. It was a lot like this site but without the benefit of being able to ridicule them into a negrocious rage.

I really hope they stand their ground so we can sit and watch them kill each other over bounced paychecks. It will be a nice change of pace from watching them kill each other over sunglasses.

And sure, I know that there are plenty of muslim hellholes located outside of our borders...Damascus is a happenin' place right now...but Detroit has that covered, too, because it's also the home to Dearborn which is chock full of sharia lovin' folks...gotta love all that liberal paradise multi culti wonderland stuff.

Here's a blast from the not too distant past:

Detroit in RUINS! (Crowder goes Ghetto)

[Libertas]

Whoa!  Some pretty incendiary comments...and much accuracy in them as well.  All in all I'd say the nuke option has great appeal, but the prison idea seems so much easier since they are more than half way there already...

[warpmine]

Whoa!  Some pretty incendiary comments...and much accuracy in them as well.  All in all I'd say the nuke option has great appeal, but the prison idea seems so much easier since they are more than half way there already...

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Whoa!  Some pretty incendiary comments...and much accuracy in them as well.  All in all I'd say the nuke option has great appeal, but the prison idea seems so much easier since they are more than half way there already...

You have to click through to see the really nasty stuff. These comments are mostly from people who live in and around Detroit. The racial hatred is palpable coming from just about every group to every other group. These people hate each other. They hate Detroit. They hate living in Detroit. They hate the people who live in Detroit with them. They are about as miserable a pack of people as you would ever care to meet.

I would cut all federal assistance immediately. Let them attempt to live in their little wonderland on their own and see how it goes. They might kill each other. On the other hand, they might figure out how to make things work, too.

But it will never happen. The poor will continue to be subsidized and will, of course, stay poor forever. The Democrat Plantation has to have its slaves.

[Glock32]

I'm always amused when they gloat about White people's seeming descent into extinction. Who do they think is going to take care of their worthless, savage asses when and if that happens?  Someone please tell me any place on planet Earth where a population of Africans has produced anything more complex than a neolithic society of tribal warfare, disease, and where 18 is considered middle age.

[Weisshaupt]

I'm always amused when they gloat about White people's seeming descent into extinction. Who do they think is going to take care of their worthless, savage asses when and if that happens?  Someone please tell me any place on planet Earth where a population of Africans has produced anything more complex than a neolithic society of tribal warfare, disease, and where 18 is considered middle age.

Ghana?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gh.html

Jamaica?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/jm.html

Of course, the success of such places seems to be related to how much the native follow the Western values of freedom, rule of law, and free markets, or profit from a tourism industry that caters to people who live in nations that do.

Thomas Sowell's book on affirmative action, as well as his trilogy on culture,  detail with example after example that its culture (values, ethics) , and not skin color, that determines a nation's success or fall. However, since culture is often strongly correlated with race, one is often used as an economization of knowledge for the other.  Here in America, a savage culture has taken hold and been promoted by liberals to keep black people down, and it works wonders for their plantation of rent-seekers and vote-buyers.

[Libertas]

Whoa!  Some pretty incendiary comments...and much accuracy in them as well.  All in all I'd say the nuke option has great appeal, but the prison idea seems so much easier since they are more than half way there already...

You have to click through to see the really nasty stuff. These comments are mostly from people who live in and around Detroit. The racial hatred is palpable coming from just about every group to every other group. These people hate each other. They hate Detroit. They hate living in Detroit. They hate the people who live in Detroit with them. They are about as miserable a pack of people as you would ever care to meet.

I would cut all federal assistance immediately. Let them attempt to live in their little wonderland on their own and see how it goes. They might kill each other. On the other hand, they might figure out how to make things work, too.

But it will never happen. The poor will continue to be subsidized and will, of course, stay poor forever. The Democrat Plantation has to have its slaves.

Yup.  God helps those who help themselves.  These people have no interest in pulling themselves up, they just want their handouts and continue to live in a zoo by their own choice and beg for scraps and blame everyone else for thier misfortune.  Why would I care to enable or condone that behavior?  The latter they see as racist because that is what they are told by their masters.  They view the productive class as being lucky and demand the state take from the producers by force what they are not willing to provide by choice, because the have's are selfish.  Yet the underclass on the Democrat Plantation have a selfishness that dwarfs anything harbored by the productive class, and the selfishness of these serf's by choice is exceeded only by their own envy and sloth.

[LadyVirginia]

The poor will continue to be subsidized and will, of course, stay poor forever.

social justice at its finest

[warpmine]

The poor will continue to be subsidized and will, of course, stay poor forever.

social justice at its finest

Me thinks Glock nailed this one and I'd love to hear them debate that issue(Who you gonna leach onto if and when the host dies?)

[Pandora]

The host isn't going to die, in the main.  We're going to shake them off like the leeches they are.

[charlesoakwood]

 

[Libertas]

Need lots of salt, or whatever the equivalent is for two-legged parasites.   

[Glock32]

Need lots of salt, or whatever the equivalent is for two-legged parasites.   

An offer of employment.

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DETROIT –  From the street, the two decomposing bodies were nearly invisible, concealed in an overgrown lot alongside worn-out car tires and a moldy sofa. The teenagers had been shot, stripped to their underwear and left on a deserted block.

They were just the latest victims of foul play whose remains went undiscovered for days after being hidden deep inside Detroit's vast urban wilderness -- a crumbling wasteland rarely visited by outsiders and infrequently patrolled by police.

Abandoned and neglected parts of the city are quickly becoming dumping grounds for the dead -- at least a dozen bodies in 12 months' time. And authorities acknowledge there's little they can do.

"You can shoot a person, dump a body and it may just go unsolved" because of the time it may take for the corpse to be found, officer John Garner said.


LINK

Ah, Democrat wonderlands.

On Tuesday, a patrol car slowly rolled by. Officers are more visible after the teens' bodies were found, Dunn added.

A larger police presence is needed across the city, but Detroit can't afford to hire more. The city recently cut police pay by 10 percent.

When he joined the department 13 years ago, Garner patrolled a 3.6-square-mile area in the tough 3rd Precinct, bumping into another officer every 20 minutes. Now he covers 22 square miles and crosses paths with other officers "maybe once every two hours."

"If we know this, the criminals know this," Garner said.

Sparse patrols and slow response times make it less likely that someone will be seen dumping a body.

I'm thinking that Detroit could make a great setting for a television crime drama. "Democrat Justice" has a nice ring to it.

[Glock32]

I think you can say that Detroit is quite literally even worse than its depiction in Robocop.

[Libertas]

De Toilet

[Sectionhand]

Detroit is about as close to being a Dead Zone as any place I can think of . It's America's Chernobyl ... except Chernobyl is peaceful .

[EW1(SG)]

Detroit is about as close to being a Dead Zone as any place I can think of . It's America's Chernobyl ... except Chernobyl is peaceful .

Detroit had "at least" 346 homicides in 2011, more than double the number of all fatalities attributed to Chernobyl between 1986 and 2008.  (Reference:  UN Special Committee on Chernobyl's Annual Report, 2008).

/The report attributes 168 deaths from all radiation derived causes to primary and secondary exposures at Chernobyl.

[LadyVirginia]

Detroit is about as close to being a Dead Zone as any place I can think of . It's America's Chernobyl ... except Chernobyl is peaceful .

Detroit had "at least" 346 homicides in 2011, more than double the number of all fatalities attributed to Chernobyl between 1986 and 2008.  (Reference:  UN Special Committee on Chernobyl's Annual Report, 2008).

/The report attributes 168 deaths from all radiation derived causes to primary and secondary exposures at Chernobyl.

ah, that's nothing. As Chicago likes to brag they're second city to no one...

Over the Memorial Day weekend, in a 72-hour period, we had 12 people killed and another 45 people shot. Thirteen people were shot in one 90-minute stretch, and so that's really focusing public attention on this issue right now.
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you know, if we're on par - on track to hit about 500 murders this year, that's actually, you know, quite low compared to, say, 1992, when there were more than 900 murders. But murder has come down consistently over the last 20 years and, in the last five, six years, there have been about 450 murders per year on average. And so, now that we're seeing that slight bump up, people are saying, you know, what's going on? But, again, I don't think that's a bad thing that the public attention is on this.

A lot of people right now are thinking it has something to do with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, when he first walked into office.


Homicides in Chicago soared by 60 percent in the first three months of 2012, continuing a troublesome trend that began late last year. Nonfatal shootings also rose sharply in the first quarter, Police Department statistics show.

 The worsening violence comes as the Emanuel administration touts its efforts to combat gang crime and add officers and resources to some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods.


But Chicago's mayor is doing okay...

The poll found 52 percent of Chicago voters saying they approved of Emanuel's job performance, compared with 29 percent who disapproved and an additional 20 percent who had no opinion. The survey of 700 Chicago voters was conducted May 2-10 and has an error margin of 3.7 percentage points, more for subgroups.

 Whites, wealthier voters and men gave Emanuel the highest marks.

 More than 6 out of 10 white voters approve of the mayor's job performance, compared with only 1 in 5 who disapprove.


I guess some just prefer to be stupid.

[Libertas]

As long as the stupid only cancel each other out...