I get home from work, settle down for the night and flip on the tube. First thing I see is Kwame's mug. That city, its council, cops (not all), etc. is so full of corruption. It makes the reign of Richard M. Daly (King Richard the 1st) pale, in the corruption sense. At least Daly loved Chicago.

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I am an American. That's the way most of us put it, just matter of factly. They are plain words, those four: you could write them on your thumbnail, or sweep them clear across this bright autumn sky. But remember too, that they are more than just words. They are a way of life. So whenever you speak them; speak them firmly, speak them proudly, speak them gratefully. I am an American. ...a tradition

He's just following Ray Nagin's example. He'll probably be re-elected in a landslide.

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Is our children learning? -George W. Bush

"I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?"—Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006

"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

true dat my brudda...

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No individual can plan his own existence in their view.

So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

The Road to Serfdom
FA Hayek (interpretation)


Mortgage Backed Security survivor

Nagin's got nothing on Marion Barry.

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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

President George W. Bush, 8-5-2004

Carolina Politics Online

THIS IS REAL HOPE AND CHANGE!

He's big pimpin

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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

President George W. Bush, 8-5-2004

Carolina Politics Online

THIS IS REAL HOPE AND CHANGE!

I owe I owe it's off to jail I go........

My Way News - Detroit mayor, soon off to jail, talks of comeback

Please also note that the man is a Democrat,,, Kwame Kilpatrick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just have to love the idea that just the Republicans are the bad ones.

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Fear the Government

lol....he is like the Obama of detroit.......only he got caught.

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I think at this point there needs to be a focus on an immediate increase in spending and I think this is a time when deficit fear has to take a second seat . . . I believe later on there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of the money."
-- Barney Frank, October 20, 2008

Who ever said that all the corrupt politicians were Republicans?
Only about 90% of corrupt politicians are Republicans.

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address

Let's accept for a brief moment the absurdity you state: 90% of corrupt politicians are Republicans.

When you say 90%, of course, I'm assuming that you're talking about 90% of the ones that have been "caught" doing something (proven...not Valerie Plame-esque bullshit). You're not assigning the label of "corrupt" to anybody in a speculative fashion, right? Okay.

Of course it would be well beyond your conditioned reasoning to, just maybe, associate an exaggerated, disproportional percentage of known corrupt politicians who are in the GOP with the fact that the people most involved with exposing, investigating, and communicating such corruption are journalists...a population sample that undeniably falls well to the Left of center. That there are legions of reporters out there that want nothing more or less than to be the next Woodward and Bernstein. Fame, fortune, awards, plus the ability to further your own personal political agenda - what's not to like? When the average undergraduate Journalism major is out to "change the world" rather then "report the facts", that is what you get.

Nah. Couldn't be that. We've never had bias among journalists. We've never had certain true stories spiked and certain other non-stories run above-the-fold for extended periods. Nah. Never happen.

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"Compassionate Conservatism"?!?! That is a stupid phrase. Conservatism is inherently compassionate. It is liberalism that is cruel for the sake of maintaining a constituency.