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Skip to comments.How the Democrats Destroyed Detroit
Posted on 03/05/2013 5:46:11 AM PST by SJackson
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How the Democrats Destroyed Detroit
Posted By Arnold Ahlert On March 4, 2013 @ 12:39 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 61 Comments
Last Friday, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, announced that the state will proceed with a takeover of Detroit's Democratic city government. The current system has not been working. We have not stopped the decline, said Snyder. This is time for us not to argue or to blame, but to come together as Detroit, Mich., not Detroit vs. Michigan, and bring all of our resources to bear. Snyder may not want to point the finger, but it is obvious that decades of Democratic rule and economic policies have brought this once great city to its knees.
The move, one step short of declaring municipal bankruptcy, means Snyder will be appointing an emergency manager with sweeping powers similar to that of a bankruptcy judge. Such powers include the ability to toss out unaffordable contracts with public employee unions and vendors, put city assets up for sale, consolidate or eliminate government departments, make further service cuts, or recommend municipal bankruptcy–all of which can be implemented with little to no input from local elected officials.
Democratic Mayor Dave Bing has a 10-day window to request a hearing on the decision. If he does the hearing will take place on March 12 in Lansing. If the appeal is denied, Snyder will appoint the manager. As of now that person hasn't been identified, but the Governor says he has someone in mind. After 18 months, the emergency manager would be subject to review by local officials, at which time he could be removed or replaced.
Mayor Bing sounded like he was leaning towards appeal. "The Governor has made his decision, and it was his decision alone to make, said Bing. While I respect it, I have said all along that I do not favor an Emergency Manager for the City of Detroit. I will look at the impact of the Governors decision as well as other options, to determine my next course of action.
Democratic politicians and civil rights organizations in a city where the population is 82.7 percent black were far less sanguine. "For one individual to be able to wipe out the duties of our duly-elected officials, thats more or less a dictatorship, and its against everything that America is supposed to be about, said the Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the local NAACP.
The "dictatorship" meme was echoed by other Democratic officials. State Rep. Brian Banks, who represents parts of northeast Detroit, contended the Governor should not have the largest voice when deciding what's best for Detroit." State Sen. Bert Johnson (D-Highland Park) characterized the appointment of an emergency manager as "a death in the family." Activist minister Malik Shabazz claimed that the "governor and the right wing in Lansing are destroying democracy and moving us into plutocracy." And Rev. D. Alexander Bullock, president of the Detroit Chapter of Rainbow-PUSH, claimed the development "will add to the growing tension in Michigan." We wait to see if austerity will trump democracy and prosperity," he added.
What prosperity? Detroit's downward spiral has been legendary. Once the fourth largest city in the nation, and home to its largest industry, Detroit's population has been cut in half, from 1.5 million in 1970, to less than 700,000 in 2012. Median household income is $27,862 compared to the state median of $48,669. The poverty level is 36.2 percent compared to a statewide level of 15.7. The murder rate is 11 times that of New York City, and the unemployment rate is above 18 percent, more than double the national average. Detroit Public Schools (DPS) have been under emergency management since 2008. In late February, the state review board revealed that the city faces a short-term cash $327 million budget deficit and an estimated $14 billion in long-term debt, primarily driven by unfunded pension and retirement health care obligations.
As a result, the city can't provide basic services. The Detroit Fire Department is so short of critical resources, rotating "brownouts" of fire companies are required. Forty percent of the city's street lights are broken. For the past two years, the Bing administration has slowly adopted a city "triage" system, best described by the Detroit Free Press. "Infrastructure improvements, demolition activity, outdoor maintenance and development incentives will henceforth be concentrated in a relatively small number of neighborhoods that boast the high numbers of owner-occupied homes and little evidence of residential and commercial blight," it reports.
To accord with this plan, the city's 139 square miles have been broken down into four categories by Detroit's Planning and Development Department: "steady," as in little blight and a high number of owner-occupied homes; "transitional," as in a neighborhood on its way up or down; "varied" as in some streets are stable and others are not; and "distressed" as in large amounts of blight, and few amenities, such as grocery stores.
Detroit residents have responded in kind. A staggering 47 percent of the owners of Detroit's 305,000 properties didn't pay their property taxes in 2012. Homeowner Fred Phillips illuminated the frustration many of those residents feel. "Why pay taxes?" he asks. "Why should I send them taxes when they aren't supplying services? It is sickening .Every time I see the tax bill come, I think about the times we called and nobody came."
Yet it's even worse than that. Detroit has some of the highest big city property taxes in the nation, and property assessments remain overly inflated, amounting to as much as ten times the market price of the property, according to recent research compiled by two Michigan professors.
This has led to another phenomenon. Property owners are allowing themselves to be foreclosed upon, and then re-buying the same property at a reduced price, legally eliminating their outstanding debt in the process. Six hundred properties were repurchased in this manner in 2012, triple the number that occurred in 2010.
In short, Detroit is a city on the brink of ruination. At the center of that ruination is 50 years of Democrat rule. The last Republican Mayor the city had was Louis C. Miriani, who lost his reelection bid in 1961 and ended up spending 10 years in prison for tax evasion. Incoming mayor, Democrat Jerome Cavanagh, brought the "Model City" program — fashioned after Soviet Union centralized efforts to transform entire urban areas at once — to a nine-square-mile section of the city. Using a commuter tax and a new income tax as his vehicle, Cavanagh promised residents "the rich" would pay for it all. Yet because people were being told by government how to run their businesses and their lives, in exchange for government goodies, the program ended up failing spectacularly.
In 1967, after police broke up a celebration at an after hours club, an enraged neighborhood began to riot, igniting the worst race riot of the decade. Black-owned business were looted and burned to the ground. Forty people were killed and 5,000 were left homeless, and the "white flight" out of the city center, totaling 140,000 people over an eighteen month period, ensued. The city was never the same.
An unbroken series of Democratic mayors followed, all of whom had a hand in implementing the full panoply of progressive policies, highlighted by the giveaways to public service employees. Their outlandish salaries and benefit packages, coupled with highly inefficient work rules, killed the golden goose: the auto industry, and its attendant industrial community headed South, where lower taxes and right-to-work rules kept their businesses afloat.
The same swath of progressive policies destroyed the public school system as well. Perhaps nothing illustrates the corrupting influence of those policies better than the Detroit Federation of Teachers' success in scuttling a $200 million offer by businessman and philanthropist Robert Thompson to build 15 charter schools in the city in 2003. Ten years later, the Detroit Public School (DPS) system remains a cesspool of failure, corruption and bankruptcy, all of which is chronicled here.
Considering some of the men who have run this city, Detroit's descent into socialistic ruination should surprise no one. From 1974 to 1993, Coleman Young, who was subsequently revealed to be a member of the Communist Party, was mayor of the city. He failed to stem Detroit's descent into chaos, and in 1992 his police chief was convicted of stealing $2.6 million from city taxpayers, even as Young defended him. Michigan's hard-left U.S. Senator Carl Levin was Youngs chief supporter, serving as Detroit City Council president.
Kwame Kilpatrick, who served as Mayor from 2002 to 2008, represents the epitome of corruption. In 2008, he pleaded guilty to two felonies and no contest to a third one, receiving a sentence of 120 days. In 2010, he received a five year sentence for probation violations stemming from his obstruction of justice conviction. Currently Kilpatrick, along with his father, Bernard Kilpatrick, and his longtime contractor friend Bobby Ferguson, who got millions of dollars in city work, are awaiting a jury verdict on racketeering, bribery and tax charges that could send them all to jail for 20 years.
All of these polices and politicians have had their effect. In 2012, Forbes Magazine rated Detroit the most dangerous city in America. A Detroit News poll revealed that "Detroit's crime crisis" has gotten so bad, a staggering 40 percent of its residents intend to leave the city within five years. Another two-thirds say the city is on the wrong track. The poll also found that all of Detroit's public officials were held in low esteem, except for Police Chief Ralph Godbee–who retired due to a sex scandal after the poll was taken.
Now one might think that those living in the epicenter of Democrat-inflicted misery for fifty years might consider changing course. One would be completely wrong. On Nov. 6, Barack Obama received 98 percent of the vote. On the same night Detroit voters elected a convicted felon, Brian Banks, to serve in the state legislature. Other election results show overwhelming margins of victories for Detroit Democrats as well.
Thus, the self-inflicted misery continues, even as it is almost certain that Detroit's Democratically-dominated city government will resist the efforts of Gov. Synder, and the Republicans who run the state legislature, to keep the city from going under. It is also likely that much of that resistance will be framed in racial terms, a theme that has already been stoked by U.S. Rep John Conyers (D-MI), who has represented Detroit for 47 years. How come all of the jurisdictions put under emergency management are majority African American? Has anybody noticed that? he wondered. Here's what some people have "noticed," Mr. Conyers: the top ten most dangerous cities in the nation are each led by a Democrat mayor.
Gov. Snyder frames the issue correctly. "There's probably no city that's more financially challenged in the entire United States," he said. "We need to start moving upward with the city of Detroit." Eric Lupher, director of local affairs for the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, put it even more bluntly. "The city could stop doing all of its current operations today–no more police and fire, no more garbage collection, no more street lights–and the city would still have billions of dollars of debt and promises made for future payments that it would have to pay."
Detroit residents have had fifty years to fix their own problems. They've elected Democrat after Democrat, bringing the city to the brink of bankruptcy. It is hard to imagine an emergency manager could do worse.
Surely, the Democrats destroyed Detroit, but the people of Detroit will never figure this out. And the people of MI as a whole merely encouraged the whole destruction.
If the people keep voting in the democrats, the state should just leave Detroit alone and let it crumble. Why should the rest of the state waste valuable tax dollars trying to fix the unfixable. Stupidity on parade.
The Democrats did to Detroit what Hitler couldn't.
I have worked with people who have had relatives work for the City of Detroit. They are PROUD to describe how you got to 'work the system' and get a LOT of money - "under da table"...
They admit, it's been that way for years, ever since Coleman Young got in and 'Turned things around'. Much like what obama is doing to us nationally. He's opened the doors for those who feel it's "Their Turn Now" to "Get theirs while the gettin's good".
I am only repeating what has been told to me by co-workers. But the truth of it is astounding.
wow... I had no idea that Detroit was 83% black. How in the heck did that happen??
The white people who built Detroit have left.
Detroit is a huge success for the Democrat Party. It votes about 99% Democrat. It is the reason Michigan has Democrat Senators and votes Democrat in presidential elections.
The problem with socialism is that you run out of other peoples money. That is what happened in Detroit. They ran out of other peoples money. That is what is happening in the U.S. as a whole.
The only difference between Detroit and America is time.
Zimbabwe West.
The people in Michigan outside of Detroit have made great efforts to try to prevent the destruction of Detroit. Billions in tax dollars has been taken from people in Michigan and wasted by Detroiters. Ford, Gm and other companies have invested billions in Detroit. They built the Renaissance Center and other developments in Detroit. There have been numerous government programs financed by non-Detroiters who attempted to improve the situation in Detroit.
The simple fact is the majority of Detroiters are parasites and thieves. They destroy everything they touch.
... all federal and state regs are waived,
... all agreements with public unions are canceled,
...and all upper managers are let go.
...otherwise, de- certify it as a municipality & sell it to the highest bidder.
The only difference between Detroit and America is time.
Anyone Gov. Snyder appoints to "fix" the problem will fail because his or her efforts will be derided and attacked as being "racist".
There is no solution to the problem. The blacks have produced a concentration that will never be diluted because there is no economic incentive to do so. The toxic black political corruption must be eliminated.
The Governor must be governor to all his constituents, even those in Deeetroit, and forcing and end to the destructive practices must occur. There is no way out except a continuation of the withering on the vine. The controlled withering is the only way forward.
One more thought....... Deeetroit is Rhodesia
I can't think of a city that the Demnocrats haven't destroyed...
"Anyone who Gov. Rick Snyder appoints to "fix" Detroit will fail"
Well, it will have to be someone with huge stones for sure. And, it would help expedite the process if this person should be black, if such a person could be found - that is.
Quite a change from 1962 when I went into the Navy. Back then the nineteen year old recruits from Detroit would look down their nose at anyone from the South and proudly proclaim that they were from "Detroit, Michigan". They had the attitude you might have expected from someone saying, "My family is royalty".
This Son of the Motor City is heartbroken. It hurts when I see the city of my birth and first 17 years ground into the dirt. It was a great place to grow up in the 40s and 50s. Not one of my old high school classmates lives in the city; most have moved to Livonia or downriver. Even my cousin and his wife, who had once been members of the "Save Detroit Coalition" have pulled up stakes and moved to Grosse Pointe, even though they both still work downtown. RIP, Motown.
There are plenty of cities like Pittsburgh, Austin, and Seattle that are Democrat and pro-Unioin but not Third world hell pits like Detroit. There must be some other factor involved. Now what could be the underlying difference between Pittsburgh and Detroit?
Actually this would appear to be the perfect job for Mitt Romney. Can't imagine in a million years though why he would want it.
Tikrit West...
Move out of any DIMocRAT-run cities, if you can. It is worth the effort. Starve the beast. Let them wallow in their ignorance and corruption.
Now what could be the underlying difference between Pittsburgh and Detroit?................................... Coal, Oil, Iron???
Why haven't Democrats destroyed Burlington VT, Portland OR, or Portland, ME? Why haven't SOCIALISTS destroyed Windsor, ON, right across the river from Detroit?
What's so special about Detroit that Democrats have had the magic power to destroy it?
Hell, they should dis-incorporate Detroit, break it up into small towns then bulldoze the empty spaces between them and sow 'em with grass seed.
>Black-owned business were looted and burned to the ground
And yet they still blame Whitey for their own self-destruction and suicide while the democrats sing the same tune.
General William Hull had the right idea.
"Now what could be the underlying difference between Pittsburgh and Detroit?"
The Democrats and liberals aren't as far along in destroying Pittsburgh as they are in destroying Detroit. The Democrat goals are the same everywhere. Sometimes it just takes them longer.
Detroit needs to go to bankruptcy liquidation.
>majority of Detroiters are parasites and thieves
That's about right. Now that the people who are willing to work and pay taxes have left they have their own Somalia.
It's likely these boiling pots are why the DHS is arming up with lots of armor and bullets. Something is going to blow out soon.
In Pittsburgh the dirty little secret is that our black population is MUCH, MUCH SMALLER than the other cities commonly mentioned as hellholes. Even today 25% seems to be a fairly generous estimate. The iron grip that the unions had over employment in the steel industry just made it much more attractive to head to Chicago or Detroit if you were fleeing Jim Crow. Much more of the gainfully employed, socially stable white population has stayed within city limits as a result. Even though the city is Democrat our percentage of socially conservative practicing Catholics remains high.
However I see a distressingly fast growth in our "white trash" population that is suffering from all the same breakdowns that began afflicting the African-American community 4 or 5 decades ago.
Liberals have managed to wreck the city school system, which has accelerated white flight in recent years.
These cities only became controlled by liberal Democrats recently. They don't have the long history of socialist programs and violence that Detroit has. The Democrat goals are the same as for Detroit. They just need more time.
Those who could get out, did. It was going downhill since Cavanagh in the 60's. Detroit in 1950 was the 5th largest city in the country.
Population 1950 - 1,849,568
Population 2010 - 706,585
Hey Rick Snyder: Alan West for Detroit Emergency Manager.
It was not the Democrats that destroyed Detroit. Democracy is merely the form through which destruction took. Merely look, you have eyes to see.
Duh! Because whites are racist. Everyone knows that. (/libtard)
it has to be said...
to be fair, we have an exploding white trash population in this country as well....so far, they are in the smaller cities and the countryside...not the rotting cities...
its culture,people...weak culture and the drugs....those mighty drugs ....
it has to be said...
to be fair, we have an exploding white trash population in this country as well....so far, they are in the smaller cities and the countryside...not the rotting cities...
its culture,people...weak culture and the drugs....those mighty drugs ....
BTW..something you all might enjoy. The Detroit Free Press' URL is:
I hope this makes Tony Snow smile...
It is serious time to flatten Detroit and turn it back into farm fields. I hear that beets grow well in the soil and climate.
Yes it was. Have you ever heard of Coleman Young, Kwame Kilpatrick and the others? Detroit has been a one party Democrat city since 1960.
The blaming of the Democrats is a red herring designed to avoid having to face horrible, unpleasant truths about those individuals allowed to hold positions of trust and authority. There are such truths.
Question: What will eventually happen to all the people who live there? Will a wall be built around it and food airlifted in? Escape from New York? I'm serious.
"horrible, unpleasant truths about those individuals allowed to hold positions of trust and authority"
Those "individuals allowed to hold positions of trust and authority" were all Democrats. I hold the individuals responsible. I also hold responsible the people who helped them obtain power and supported them.
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GDB22: Another Matinee
November 28 2008 10:37PM
What could be more exciting than a matinee game against the St. Louis Blues? How about an Oilers team that could very well lose the game?
We don't know what to make of this squadron. What happened to the team that was going to come in first in the Northwest? What happened to the team MacT basically told "don't be too confident lads. Take 'er as she comes" a few short months ago? The Oil got 99 problems and over confidence ain't one.
What happened to the team that made us buy Oilers Pyjamas and A Dustin Penner Snuggle Bug Teddy Bear? (trademark pending)
The only thing more exciting this game is, well pretty much everything. So of course we will be watching.
Damn you Oilers. You had better win.
November 30 2008, 05:07PM
Wanye will come on here:
"WTF, another matinee, I forgot..."
Dallas must be a really strong market. What's tonight's attendance, 15?
November 30 2008, 05:09PM
More like
"WTF, I run a website still? I forgot.."
November 30 2008, 05:11PM
Do you think Wayne can blame this on the developers?
November 30 2008, 05:11PM
Gagner loves passing to the other team. I am convinced he is color blind and not only cute as a button.
November 30 2008, 05:11PM
You're a freaking hockey card
November 30 2008, 05:12PM
RLH, there's football on tonight. DOYYY
November 30 2008, 05:13PM
"Sean Avery is eccentric."
That was the best dance I've ever seen.
November 30 2008, 05:15PM
I would love to hear "Sean Avery is a tool & is the worst signing our joke of a GM made"
November 30 2008, 05:15PM
Mact: Gags, you're just not producing enough points out there. You have to bear down, work harder, go the tough spots and play to your potential.
Gagner: Thanks for the list of cliches coach, but check the stats, I have like 50 assists and have apples on two game winners.
Mact: THATS THE OTHER TEAM YOU MORON, you're reading the giveaway stat... not a good stat.
Gagner: What colour are our jerseys, nevermind, I gotta run Gibby has guitar hero all set up for me. Then we are going to tag a Joeys waitress... Hey Gibby! Shot gun asshole
November 30 2008, 05:16PM
Is Lubo playing?
November 30 2008, 05:16PM
RLH, there's football on tonight. DOYYY
I didn't realize ppl in Dallas card about Chicago & Minne
November 30 2008, 05:17PM
He was just on the ice kind sir. Eff head trauma, he's a man. A steak eating, bear fighting man.
November 30 2008, 05:18PM
Sweet, you are my eyes. I have no feed at work so it's just the nation.
November 30 2008, 05:20PM
November 30 2008, 05:21PM
Albino draws a penalty
Yup, was Thanksgiving in the US this week. Cowboys played on Thursday. There's no excuse for you antihockey Texans.
November 30 2008, 05:22PM
HEMMER - Classic Horcoof goal
November 30 2008, 05:23PM
Roof Daddy!
November 30 2008, 05:23PM
Haha I know the Cowboys played Thursday, I just couldn't think of any other reason why there's 318 people in the crowd.
November 30 2008, 05:23PM
Usually Horcoff is on the end of that play
November 30 2008, 05:24PM
November 30 2008, 05:28PM
If Jagr was still making strudwick's stick he wouldn't be in the sin bin
Nice JDD.
Damned hockeyfights.com doesn't have the fight yet. I want to see Stortini actually throw punches again and again.
November 30 2008, 05:33PM
Didn't the SCF Oilers have a pretty good road record as well?
November 30 2008, 05:34PM
This is the fastest game ever it feels like
November 30 2008, 05:34PM
Evanka right now
Keep that back and forth stuff going in the third.
November 30 2008, 05:42PM
Who is Zach Stortini?
He is the dude who just boned your mom with her army boots on.
November 30 2008, 05:43PM
Army Boots
November 30 2008, 05:44PM
I was wondering if I was the only person who just watched that Steve Ott feature
November 30 2008, 05:47PM
I love the features about players on the other team. Works well.
November 30 2008, 05:47PM
I was mesmerized knowing that he is a boat racer.
It explains everything now
November 30 2008, 05:48PM
this is a solid chat today - almost more ppl in this conversation than at the rink
November 30 2008, 05:49PM
Seeing him toppless was a nice treat though
November 30 2008, 05:50PM
I'm thinking Sportsnet should go topless. Naked Jason Portuondo is something that would really rev my engine.
November 30 2008, 05:51PM
What about Gene kickin' it oh nataural...
November 30 2008, 05:52PM
Oh yeah and not mention Evanka
November 30 2008, 05:52PM
Err did I say Jason Portuondo? I mean Evanka Osmak... Mmmm Jason Portuon... uhhh Osmak Osmak. AHHHH
*smoke bomb*
November 30 2008, 05:55PM
Bucky seen applying for the new head coaching job.
Bench Nilsson.
November 30 2008, 05:59PM
Carbon copy of yesterday
Are we sure that this isn't yesterday? I mean, early 2 goal deficit, early third 2-2 tie...
November 30 2008, 06:01PM
It is yesterdays thread...
November 30 2008, 06:01PM
The top says this is only the 22nd game. I feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.
November 30 2008, 06:02PM
I smell victory.
November 30 2008, 06:02PM
Wayne still sucks
November 30 2008, 06:06PM
And where is my sunday righteous sack beating?
November 30 2008, 06:07PM
Brutal call.

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Skip to comments.Jesus gets 'gay' just days before Passover, Easter
Posted on 03/25/2010 12:18:51 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
Just days before Christians worldwide commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus, a college student's production of a play depicting a Christ-like character as a homosexual is infuriating local residents who plan to protest this weekend's event.
"Corpus Christi," written by Terrence McNally, is the Tarleton State University project for student director John Jordan Otte, a 26-year-old homosexual who also says he's Christian.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Has Homosexuality Always Been Incompatible With Military Service?
We know Jesus was not gay.....stupid and a waste of time!
Don't worry. He will get his!
What would happen if he did this about Mohammad???
Yeah. If Jesus had been gay, there wouldn't have been a line of French Merovingian kings, or the Priory of Scion, or the Templars or the Masons.
Least surprising information in the article:
"Steven Shriner, who portrayed both Mary and Peter, was convicted of attempted sexual assault, attempted luring/enticing of a child, and attempted criminal sexual contact."
"Whether they like it or not"... to quote a San Francisco mayor.
I have seen some vile plays at university drama departments.. they think its.very low bar for any students
What courageous non-conformists they must be...
Texas.. God may be in control but I totally disagree with your position. It is NOT a waste of time to speak out loudly against this kind of perversion. Many, many young people do not have parents guiding their spiritual and moral lives so they are at the mercy of the barrage of what they get in the media and from others they associate with.
Our silence on these types of blasphemies are taken as acceptance by many unsuspecting ignorant people.
Never should we use violence to push our point, but standing by and silently allowing the continued persecution of Christ and Christian beliefs is IMHO a sin.
Seems every year I read about one of these "plays" with the gay Jesus theme. These leftist malcontents have no originality.
He like all other secular humanists, atheists, and Marxists will get what they deserve.
I wonder why WND would elect to publicize this play?
If his play had been about Muhammad...it never would have been a play...no school would dare allow such "bigotry" or insults toward the religion of peace.
What would happen if the media even reported someone considered writing such a work like this about Mohammed?
Tax dollars at work. Do you support this use of funds?
"is the Tarleton State University project "
I can't go. I'm going to the alternative play that depicts Mohammad as a pedophile. I hear its really edgy.
Very good!
And when you're a queer...it has to define who you are and everyone has to know..
I think i will go take a bathroom break in honor of Mohammad now!
Religion must be destroyed and replaced with Adoration of State and Obama.
What do you mean? Could you expand on that?
Who's the hammer?
At least that would be a play based on historical fact.
this coward knows that if he did this to Mohammad, he would be on their fatwa list. so he trashes 'the religion of turning the other cheek'.
What a pussy.
I don't like it, but I am opposed to censorship.
If he said the sky was green, would that make it so?
What's the Biblical expression? God will not be mocked ... I do not want to be in those peoples position when they confront God after they die ...
Jesus should go Muslim on Terrence McNally
I can hear the screams of dismay from the perps already - a beautiful rhapsody
The gays love to try to pervert Christian religion for their own ends. Other recent gay attacks on Christianity:
"After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself." 1 Samuel 18:1 = "David was gay." Wrong! The word "loved" is one of brotherly love, and in no way sexual. (But for gays, all "love" means a perverted sexual act.)
Sometimes gays like to insinuate that the Apostle Paul was gay by his letter in 2 Corinthians 12:7 alleging Paul's "thorn in his flesh" was that he was gay. But that doesn't get much play because the full passage states: "To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me." Hard to promote being gay and admit that homosexuality comes from the devil.
Another perversion of The Word was put up on billboards around here a few years ago; it was done by a group trying to start a "gay church." I really don't want to know what ritual or sacraments such a church would have, but the billboards declared: "Would Jesus discriminate?" In other words, Jesus would not declare homosexuals sinners because he would not discriminate against them. However, this clearly misinterpreted "discrimination." Jesus would not discriminate against a person on the basis of sex or race because none of those things are deliberate choices and none of them are sins. Sin is a deliberate choice, and homosexuality IS a sin. There is no question Jesus would condemn it for the sin that it is. Nice try, but no true Christian bought into it.
Imagine a homosexual Mo-Ham-Mad just before Ramadam.
Why don't we turn a blind eye to stuff like this? It's just a pathetic stunt to see who would be outraged. Our nation needs prayer, not lashing out at the other side who clearly don't know what they are doing.
roflol..that's not a bad idea.
The ACLU would come down in a minute if they were doing an authentic passion play on Jesus this Easter.
No. Your analogy is way too simplistic....otherwise Obama wouldn't be President.
Saying that you're a Christian is not the same thing as Being a Christian, which requires more than talk. This guy is not a Christian.
A queer in Stephenville? I'm surprised he has not gotten the crap beaten out of him several times.
I don't doubt that, and I would oppose the ACLU's attempt to stop a play based on its religious content as I oppose attempts to stop this particular play.
Ignoring the problem won't make it go away..that's what many liberals have advised...the "avert your eyes and ears" policy, although in a culture this toxic...that's impossible. You either reclaim the culture...or condemn yourself to live in the swamp.
"What would happen if he did this about Mohammad???"
They won't because they (the left) fear MAN. Islam is the religion of man and through fanatiscm, man's wrath is kindled against anyone who criticizes it.
Christianty is not centered on man but rather Jesus Christ. Through faith is how we see and experience Jesus. No one can see the power and judgement from God (yet). If it were so, then NO ONE would be mocking Him and Christ.
While the retribution from Islam (man) is immediate, it is finite and small. The retribution from God is not only after this life, but incomprehesible. These secural leftists have not idea of the unquenchible fire they are playing with.
As for this "christian" who is gay and is putting on the play, all I can say is that this is proof that the apostacy of the church is alive and well and we are most definitely living in the last days.
Well the point being that Christianity is continually mocked and not defended against this sort of thing - Islam just goes out and whacks people like the mob ....
The culture of the middle east is VERY conservative. Unfortunately, America - as viewed through middle eastern eyes - is a country of people who live unbridled lives of adultery, accept overt sexual promiscuity in their media and accept extreme immoral behavior such as homosexuality. Can you imagine homosexual weddings in ANY middle eastern country? Hell no!
This is why they hate us. They see us as a threat to their own culture. They see us exporting our immoral lifestyles and influencing their younger generations. They recognize it for the poison that it is.
Unfortunately, our Republican and Conservative leaders have failed miserably at explaining how liberal ideologies have caused and even invited the hatred of America by those in the middle east and that liberal thought and behavior endanger our very existence!
Republicans and Conservatives could gain support from millions of Muslims in this country by joining forces to combat the promotion of immorality, which is fostered in our nation's schools and taught in all too many liberal universities. Combating liberals could literally save our country from Islamic radicals who want to destroy us because of the ideologies promoted by liberal democrats.
The punk would be attacked and they woud find his severed head in a toilet.
Now all you have to do is explain why they like to kill each other, too. Sunnis vs. Shiites and so forth. I'm pretty sure gay marriage isn't a factor.
You're not wrong to the extent that our culture gives them a lot of things to point at, but if they all went away tomorrow, they'd still want to convert or kill us.
I have a natural attraction for food. I'm waiting for someone to write the "Jesus was Fat" play.
Just in time for Easter, as usual....
In direct contradiction of their claim that what goes on in the privacy of their own bedrooms is nobody else's business.
If it's nobody else's business, then stop making it everybody else's business. <> They're such hypocrites.
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Julie Keim's passion for education grew out an almost-missed diagnosis of her oldest child. Teachers in another school district initially suspected the shy, socially awkward boy suffered from an autism spectrum condition. Keim and her husband rejected that idea, and teachers later realized their son was gifted and talented. Last spring, he graduated a year early from Castle View High School.
That experience showed Keim the power of the parent voice in education. Now she wants to take her years of involvement a step further, serving on the Douglas County School Board.
Keim is the third candidate running for the District D seat, now occupied by Carrie Mendoza. Kevin Leung and Stephen Boyd also seek the post; Mendoza has not yet indicated if she will seek re-election.
A parent of three, Keim served on Larkspur Elementary's Parent Teacher Organization board after the family moved there in 2004. More recently, she helped launch parent involvement organizations at Castle Rock Middle and Castle View High schools.
During the last two years of her work in schools, Keim noticed a shift in teachers' attitudes.
"Ours teachers and administrators were really struggling with how to absorb one budget cut after another," she said. "The failure of the mill levy and bond issues was very demoralizing for our educators."
A certified professional accountant by trade with experience auditing school districts, Keim also recently started looking into the district's financials. She doesn't like what she found there.
"I am concerned that the district does not have a sufficient grasp on its financial position and the impact that has on our students," Keim said.
Her concerns include a fund balance she believes is unnecessarily high and the accuracy of some financial statements, upon which she publicly commented in a July 2013 Denver Post guest column.
DCSD leaders say their conservative budgeting approach is a safeguard against financial pitfalls endured by other districts and organizations.
Keim also doesn't support the district's current style of site-based budgeting that allows principals to decide how to spend money designated to their schools. Instead, she suggests a collaborative process that includes district leaders well-versed in finance.
"They're trying to create choice and innovation in our schools, and we're asking them to also run a business," Keim said. "Yet most of them don't have any experience in business. If I were the CFO, I'd have budget staff sit down with those principals and ask, 'How can we fund you so you can be the most successful school?'"
Keim also believes the change to last year's high school schedules could have been prevented.
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Investors digested a report from the Labor Department showing claims for jobless aid fell 41,000 to a seasonally adjusted 410,000 last week. But Superstorm Sandy continues to distort the figures and likely will do so for another week or so.
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• Beating expectations, the Conference Board said Wednesday that its leading economic indicators index rose 0.2% in October after a downwardly revised 0.5% gain in September. It suggests the economy will continue to grow modestly into early 2013.
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Four indicators fell, with the biggest decline in building permits. Two indicators were unchanged. But the coincident indicators, which measure what's going on now, might be more important. The coincident index rose 0.1% in October, after a 0.2% in September and a 0.4% decline in August.
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• The Institute for Supply Management's new orders index, up 1.9% in October.
• Building permits, new private housing units. Permits were authorized at an 866,000 annualized rate in October, down from September, but far above the record low of 513,000 in 2009.
The leading indicators give an idea of the future. But markets are focused on the economy now, which makes the Index of coincident Indicators so important.
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Recently (about an hour ago . . . a bit more than "recent," huh?) I switched over to Azureus as my torrent downloader thing. (I don't know what it's all called, at least not when I'm as tired as I am.) I tried to start downloading Zeta Gundam at a massive 16+GB, and my old torrent thing wasn't doing well. I was lucky to get 2 kb per second. Azureus is a lot faster, and I'm glad I made the switch. I just don't know much of anything about Azureus. Here's where this topic comes into play . . .
I'm always downloaded and deleting stuff off my computer, getting anime and then making room for more anime. Until today, I had about 10 GB free, and I was trying to get to the 16 GB needed to get Zeta Gundam. Well, I came across this folder of weird crap that a virus had apparently stuck on my computer. I got rid of it and jumped over to almost 30 GB. I checked the space on the hard drive a couple of different times to make sure that the space was really there.
I started the torrent (after getting Azureus), and things were going smoothly. I was still paranoid, so I checked the disk space again. This time it said I had about 11 GB. I freaked! I ran a piechart thing I have that shows what takes up how much space and where. I saw an Azureus downloads folder that took up 16 GB, and in it was a folder for Zeta Gundam.
I did some math, and if I take the almost 30 GB I had and subtract the 16 GB for Zeta, then I end up with about the amount of free space I have now.
To say it simply, when you download something with Azureus, does it take up the space for the thing before it's even downloaded?
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Skip to comments.Broadcaster silent as Judgment Day hours tick by (where is Harold Camping ?)
Posted on 05/21/2011 12:56:12 PM PDT by traumer
(Reuters) - With no sign his forecast of Judgment Day arriving on Saturday has come true, the 89-year-old California evangelical broadcaster and former civil engineer behind the pronouncement seemed to have gone silent.
Family Radio, the Christian stations network headed by Harold Camping which had spread his message of an approaching doomsday, was on Saturday playing recorded church music and devotional messages unrelated to the apocalypse.
Camping previously made a failed prediction Jesus Christ would return to Earth in 1994.
In his latest pronouncement, he had said doomsday would begin in Asia, but with midnight local time come and gone in Tokyo and Beijing and those cities already in the early hours of May 22, there was no sign of the apocalypse.
The Oakland, California, headquarters of the network of 66 U.S. stations, which has international affiliates and had posted billboards around the country warning of a May 21 Judgment Day, were shuttered with a sign in the door that read "This Office is Closed. Sorry we missed you!"
The headquarters, which appears to be normally closed on Saturday, was also shuttered on Friday.
Camping, whose deep sonorous voice is frequently heard on his radio network expounding the Bible, could not be reached immediately for comment on Saturday.
On Friday, the shades were drawn and no one answered the door at his house in Alameda, California.
Atheists in different parts of the country were planning celebrations and get-togethers to mark the failure of Camping's May 21 prediction to come true.
In Oakland, the same city where Camping's network is based, over 200 people gathered at an atheist convention where speakers jokingly took note of the Judgment Day pronouncement.
In New York, at least one of Camping's followers continued to hold out hope that Judgment Day would come.
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Try Tahiti...hahaha
... a man who is now $80 million dollars richer, thanks to his apocalypse message
Wow! Those houses look stunning!
Hint: Is his tent missing?
Hmmm. Maybe the Rapture did occur and he just got the earthquake part wrong. No where does that leave us?
A return to the stoning of false prophets would tend to reduce this kind of nonsense from even starting.
I heard he now works for the Federal Government doing major hurricane predictions and economic forecasting.
And we're still stuck with Obama.
Damn, I'm slow..........ya beat me to it.........LOL!
Quite possibly.
Matthew 24:36-39 "But of that day and hour no one know, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone..."
Maybe he needs to debate this with someone other than those likely to give him donations.
I was hoping to get it right on the first try. This just means we'll have to do it all over again on 12-21-2012......:)
Nothing worse than predicting the Rapture and then getting left behind when it happens!
Cheer up folks, we still have the 2012 Mayan prediction.
Don't these shmucks who predict the date of Apocalypse read the Bible? Jesus said no man knows the date or the hour of His return and the end. Ignorant morons—or out to make a buck somehow? Yikes.... see ya tomorrow y'all.
A comforting consolation, the Mayan prediction.
It would be the perfect end to a really good scam. He could then live out the rest of his life retiring in wealth and luxury, while stimulating his base to worship him and give more money. Not something I would ever do, but it is pretty cool.
'...deep sonorous voice...'
That's funny. I've heard him on shortwave a few times and always thought he sounded like Homer Simpson.
"Ive heard him on shortwave a few times and always thought he sounded like Homer Simpson."
When reached for comment, Mr. Camping merely said, "D'oh!"
Mr. Camping seems to have confused the Rapture with Armageddon. These are two separate events.
Where is he? Well he's out practicing kicking a football with Lucy of course! "This time I'm gonna kick it to the moon!"
The Feds get involved when a public corporation reports false profits. Remember Enron?
It would be nice if they had to be called into account for all the people they swindled into selling all they had to buy stupid billboards and had their pets put to sleep.
Well, there is the millstone punishment for leading people astray (or causing them to sin, can't remember which).
That's the spirit!
How is he $80 million richer?
WTF, people had their pets put down? My vet wouldn't put down a pet that wasn't croaking. He'd smack me upside the head for such a suggestion.
It's like that Ray Bradbury story where the people poisoned all their children so they wouldn't suffer through the "end of the World", and then the end of the world didn't happen.
One thing is for certain, it will happen someday and when it does it won't be a joking matter...
He's probably been raptured already....
It was calculated Camping drew in $80million in donations between 2005 and 2009.
He got a lot of people to sell all they had to finance his little scam. The end of the world is big business. He is probably enjoying some beach in Mexico right now.
Nah, old guy like him won't want to leave his perch. He wouldn't know what to do anywhere else. Camping is probably putting the finishing touches on his speech explaining why he wasn't really wrong. He will probably say the whole thing got delayed for some reason, or he slightly miscalculated by failing to count all the animals on the arc correctly. Either way, unfortunately, I doubt he is going anywhere. And people will still follow him too. You'd think something like this would be a ministry ender, but it won't be.
"As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly."
Proverbs 26:11
He left a note saying "So long and thanks for all the fish"
You probably could count on two hands how many people get that one. :->
People I know are remembering not to forget their towel
Don't panic!
Give him time. I'm sure he'll eventually come up with an absolutely fascinating explanation as to why, er, nothing happened.
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What is trona? Trona is a relatively rare sodium-rich mineral found in the United States, Africa, China, Turkey, and Mexico. Sweetwater County, Wyoming is a major contributor to the total world production of trona, which is mined and then processed into soda ash. Soda ash is a significant economic commodity because of its applications in manufacturing glass, chemicals, paper, detergents , textiles, paper, food and conditioning water. It is an ingredient in both sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and sodium phosphate (detergents). Soda ash has been used since ancient times. The Egyptians made glass containers from it, and the early Romans used it as an ingredient in medicines and bread.
How did it form? About fifty to sixty million years ago, a shallow, expansive body of water called Lake Gosiute covered the Green River Basin in southwestern Wyoming. The area climate would cycle from wet to dry: wet periods would deposit mud on the lake bottom, while dry periods would precipitate trona and other saline minerals. Over a period of many years, these cycles left behind approximately 100 billion tons of nearly pure trona layered between beds of sandstone, marlstone and shale. The trona beds have a nearly horizontal orientation, similar to when they were originally deposited, at depths ranging from about 800 feet to 3500 feet below the surface.
How was it discovered? Trona was discovered in Sweetwater County in 1938 during oil and gas exploration. The first mine shaft was sunk in 1946, and commercial soda ash production began in 1948. Up until that time, all soda ash in the United States was produced synthetically.
How is trona extracted? Mining occurs at depths ranging from 800 feet to 1600 feet below the surface in trona beds that are 8 to 14 feet thick. The trona ore is recovered utilizing dry or wet methods. Dry mining is similar to underground coal mining; the mine workings are developed using room-and-pillar and longwall mining techniques. The mining cycle includes shearing the trona from the face with either a longwall shearer or continuous miners and then loading it onto conveyor belts. The conveyor belts move the trona to ore skips that carry it to the surface through vertical shafts. The recovered trona ore is stockpiled on the surface to be used as feed for the processing plant.
Wet mining (solution mining) is done by injecting a solution from the surface into the trona deposit using a series of bore holes as injection wells. This is done in either previously unmined ground or in the mined-out areas of active operations. In both cases, the injected solution dissolves the trona ore which saturates and enriches it. Subsequently, the saturated solution is pumped to the surface through recovery wells for further processing into soda ash. Some mine operators use dry recovery methods for primary ore extraction and then wet mining methods for secondary recovery. This technique results in maximum recovery of the trona reserve, some of which was previously considered unminable.
Statistics: BLM's Rock Springs Office administers approximately 76,000 acres leased for sodium to four major operators in the Green River Basin. The annual combined output for 2004 neared 17.3 million tons of trona, which was processed into almost 10.7 million tons of soda ash. This accounts for approximately 30% of total global production and 90% of total domestic soda ash production. During 2004, the industry provided an employment base of 2,115 people for Sweetwater and Uinta Counties in Wyoming.


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Festival of Service
The Community Volunteer Center is hosting the second annual Festival of Service at the Castle Dale Senior Center on Jan. 20 from 6-9 p.m. The Smoke Pit Barbecue will be selling food with profits benefiting the local food bank. There will be a local country band providing music. They will also be highlighting several nonprofit agencies like BACA, United Way, Early Intervention, Community Nursing Services, Citizen Emergency Response Team (CERT), American Cancer Society, Desert Edge Soup Kitchen, Emery Care and Rehab, the local Food Bank and others. They are asking folks to bring canned or non perishables to help the local food bank. Funds raised will go to both the local volunteer center and food bank.
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The Emery High Wrestling Team is selling Idaho potatoes to raise funds. They come in 40-50 lb. boxes and are being sold for $15/box. Idaho's growing season of warm days and cool nights, ample mountain-fed irrigation and rich volcanic soil, give Idaho Potatoes their unique texture, taste and dependable performance. If you would like a box, please call Doug Mecham at the High School, 435-381-2689, to arrange delivery.
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Jaydon Mead announce there will be a meeting to discuss recreation issues, on Jan. 11 at 6 p.m. It will be held at the Old Court House in Castle Dale, (95 E. Main St.) upstairs in the Canyon Room. They invite everyone who is interested in recreation to attend. It will be a great opportunity to learn what is going on now, and in the future, as well. It's an opportunity to give your input on future planning.
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Huntington Elem. PTA will host its annual Valentines Carnival on Feb. 10 from 5-7:30 p.m. at the Huntington Elementary gym. There will be games, food and fun. Games include the cake walk, fish pond, fortune teller, basketball toss, bowling, football throw, bean bag toss, pop toss and many more.