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Detroit’s self proclaimed hip-hop mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, left office on September 18th, 2008.  “Left office” as loosely defined as being led across the street in hand cuffs to his new office behind bars.  Shortly before this happened, Detroit’s deputy mayor, Anthony Adams, stepped down from his office.  “Stepped down” can similarly be defined as taking the position as director of the Detroit Water Dept. for a $90,000 a year pay increase.  Evidently, no one saw the need to actually fill Mr. Adamas’ former position, leaving the question of, “Erm… exactly who’s in charge around here?” unanswered.

So what’s a city to do?

Detroit has so little money that we’re selling bridges to Canada.  Seriously… that was our bright idea to balance the budget.  No longer able to afford Lincoln Navigators for Kwame’s entire family and employ his contingent of umpteen dozen bodyguards working 80+ hours of overtime every week, Detroit figured it’d be a great idea to just sell our bridge to those kooky Canadian neighbors of ours.  Clearly, this would solve our budget crisis for the foreseeable future.

There was little over a year until Kwame’s pervious term was up and all we needed was someone to hold down the fort until the good citizens of D-Town could elect a new thief to steal their money.  Instead, they decided to hold what amounts to 4 separate elections at approximately $3 million a pop.

First of all, the president of Detroit’s City Council, was promoted to serve as Mayor.  After all, it’s a big city and big cities need mayors.  But instead of just letting him serve out the year, for some reason Detroit needed to have a special election… in May… to elect a mayor for 5 months!  And of course, what’s a special election without a pre-special election to elect the candidates for the special election?

Yeah, let’s hold one of those.

In recent news, Detroiters care so much about the situation that about 10% of the registered voters will actually participate in this pre-special election election.

In another installment of “Things That Make you Say, ‘Duh'”, Bill Clinton denied holding any blame for the worst economic crisis to hit the country since the Great Depression.

“On Monday morning’s Today Show, Ann Curry’s interview with the former president – recorded over the weekend outside a Clinton Global Initiative event in Texas – addressed Clinton’s inclusion on TIME’s list of the “25 People to Blame” for the global economic collapse.”

“Given the sweep and severity of today’s global economic crisis, it would seem there’s plenty of blame to go around. But Bill Clinton doesn’t think any of it should fall on his shoulders.”

Yeah, I totally thought he was going to man up and apologize, too.  Man, I’m so disillusioned now.  :-/

Ok, this has absolutely no effect in the grand scheme of things, since he is now ex-governor Blagojevic, but I still find section 1112 of the stimulus bill absolutely hilarious.

SEC. 1112 – ADDITIONAL ASSURANCE OF APPROPRIATE USE OF FUNDS.

None of the funds provided by this Act may be made available to the State of Illinois, or any agency of the State, unless

(1) the use of such funds by the State is approved in legislation enacted by the State after the date of the enactment of this Act, or

(2) Rod R. Blagojevich no longer holds the office of Governor of the State of Illinois.

Yeah, so… THERE!  Take that Illinois, you… you…fund-waster-type-state-guy!

I wonder if section 1112 was penned by none other than Roland Burris?

PETA, that bastion of redoubtable tactics, is at it again.  See the animal advocates outside the Westminster Dog Show in KKK garb.

Today’s blue ribbon of ill-conceived notions goes to the educators at an elementary school in Mississippi who approved “Cotton Picking Day”  in celebration of Black History month.

Ever since I started checking out the weekly round up of mug shots on The Smoking Gun, I’ve become somewhat obsessed with facial tattoos.  Or rather, more to the point, with the people who choose to get them.  What trials and tribulations in a person’s life leads them to that crossroad where they look left and chuckle to themselves in amusement, look right and think deep in the recesses of their alcohol soaked mind that there could possibly be a day where they might regret being totally unable to hide their tattoo choice, and finally just decide to go straight on ahead with, “You know what?  Today is the rest of my life.  Nothing will ever be so different as to make this a bad idea.”

Consider, if you will, exhibit A:

I mean… come on, really?  Was there truly, absolutely no hope in this man to give him pause that fateful day?

I’m sitting in a meeting right now, typing away on my laptop looking busy.

I have this exact picture on my coffee mug at work, which I make sure to bring to all of my meetings.

Aren’t I so very clever?

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”
— Dave Barry

“First Stop Guns” – 701 Main St, Rapid City, SD‎

I just love Google’s Street View.  It’s like a tiny peek into the soul of the country.