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Offline zeitgeist

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Detroit circling bowl
« on: November 28, 2012, 06:29:57 PM »
The comment section is a better read than the article.

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State Senator Proposes Dissolving City Of Detroit
November 28, 2012 11:08 AM
.LANSING (CBS Detroit) - It would no doubt be controversial, but the idea of dissolving the fiscally struggling city of Detroit and absorbing it into Wayne County is being tossed around in Lansing.

WWJ Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick reports some state Republicans are talking about giving the city the option to vote itself into bankruptcy. And mid-Michigan Senator Rick Jones said all options should be considered — including dissolving the city.
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2012, 06:41:05 PM »
I get this mental visual of Detroit being plopped in a glass of water like an Alka-Seltzer and dissolving in a morass of fizzy bubbles.
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2012, 06:59:01 PM »
Quote from: Undies on November 28, 2012, 06:41:05 PM
I get this mental visual of Detroit being plopped in a glass of water like an Alka-Seltzer and dissolving in a morass of fizzy bubbles.

Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is.  Speedy's commercials were the best. :hi5:

I did notice a bit in the article about unpaid furlough days.
Happy Holidays Detroit Union Workers
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2012, 07:10:46 PM »
How would disolving it into the county work?  Who's going to come up with the short end of that stick?
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2012, 09:14:17 PM »
Quote from: Dori on November 28, 2012, 07:10:46 PM
How would disolving it into the county work?  Who's going to come up with the short end of that stick?

Who do you think?  Wayne county, of course.  :thatsright:
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2012, 10:22:08 PM »
Ummm...  Link?
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2012, 10:31:10 PM »
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2012, 08:06:55 AM »
Nah, let it go into bankruptcy...biggest city ever to file.

A nice start to Part II of the Obamanation.
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2012, 10:23:15 AM »
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2012, 10:44:56 AM »
Buh-bye, once great metropolis.
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2012, 10:48:51 AM »
I saw what I thought was a Detroit Thanksgiving Day parade on TV.....I guess it was more of a "Going Away" parade.
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2012, 10:55:28 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on November 28, 2012, 09:14:17 PM
Who do you think?  Wayne county, of course.  :thatsright:

What I meant was, do they have to absorb it? 



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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2012, 11:37:06 AM »
Quote from: Dori on November 29, 2012, 10:55:28 AM
What I meant was, do they have to absorb it? 





Yup. All those welfare burdens which were once the responsibility of the City of Detroit, will devolve upon the shoulders of Wayne County, Michigan.
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2012, 11:40:52 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on November 29, 2012, 11:37:06 AM
Yup. All those welfare burdens which were once the responsibility of the City of Detroit, will devolve upon the shoulders of Wayne County, Michigan.

Ug...as someone who lives in Los Angeles County, that's a scary thought.

Calif has already had four cities go belly-up recently, more to come I'm sure.
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #14 on: November 29, 2012, 11:41:42 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on November 29, 2012, 11:37:06 AM
Yup. All those welfare burdens which were once the responsibility of the City of Detroit, will devolve upon the shoulders of Wayne County, Michigan.

so the infection will spread outward.
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #15 on: November 29, 2012, 11:50:07 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 29, 2012, 11:41:42 AM
so the infection will spread outward.

Why do you think they call the virus "Progressivism"?
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #16 on: November 29, 2012, 11:58:34 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on November 29, 2012, 11:50:07 AM
Why do you think they call the virus "Progressivism"?

This really is a case that calls for nuking it from high orbit.
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #17 on: November 29, 2012, 12:09:03 PM »
Dissolving the city of Detroit changes nothing.

The burned out wrecks of crack houses still remain.

Corruption, graft and greed still characterize the Detroit political class.

Normal folks still resort to vigilantism since the cops are nowhere to be found.

All this would do is spread the pile of shit that is Detroit into the rest of Wayne County, which is considerably bigger than Detroit itself.
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #18 on: November 29, 2012, 12:09:19 PM »
Detroit: the turd that keeps on circling..................for over 30 years now.
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #19 on: November 29, 2012, 12:13:39 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 29, 2012, 11:58:34 AM
This really is a case that calls for nuking it from high orbit.

Well, the city would recover sooner that way.
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #20 on: November 29, 2012, 01:24:40 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 29, 2012, 11:58:34 AM
This really is a case that calls for nuking it from high orbit.

It is the only way to be sure. :whistling:
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #21 on: November 29, 2012, 01:30:22 PM »
I don't know the demographics, but isn't Detroit mostly Muslim now? 
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #22 on: November 29, 2012, 01:31:13 PM »
Quote from: Dori on November 29, 2012, 01:30:22 PM
I don't know the demographics, but isn't Detroit mostly Muslim now? 

That's Dearbornistan, I think.
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #23 on: November 29, 2012, 01:39:27 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on November 29, 2012, 11:50:07 AM
Why do you think they call the virus "Progressivism"?



I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify you and I realized that you're not actually human. Every human on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you liberals do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Liberals are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
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Re: Detroit circling bowl
« Reply #24 on: November 29, 2012, 01:39:47 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on November 29, 2012, 12:13:39 PM
Well, the city would recover sooner that way.

Hiroshima did.
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