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"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear." - Norman Vincent Peale

The average price of homes sold in Detroit in 2012 was $7,500; as of January 2013 47 houses in Detroit were listed for $500 or less, with five properties listed for $1.[42] Despite the extremely low price of Detroit properties, most of the properties have been on the market for more than a year as buyers balk at the boarded up, abandoned houses of Detroit.[42] The Detroit News reported that more than half of Detroit property owners did not pay taxes in 2012, at a loss to the city of $131 million (equal to 12% of the city's general fund budget).[45]

I realize I'm not the brightest color in the crayon box so please explain what Detroit's problems have to do with herding all the Native Americans there and fencing them in?

The average price of homes sold in Detroit in 2012 was $7,500; as of January 2013 47 houses in Detroit were listed for $500 or less, with five properties listed for $1.[42] Despite the extremely low price of Detroit properties, most of the properties have been on the market for more than a year as buyers balk at the boarded up, abandoned houses of Detroit.[42] The Detroit News reported that more than half of Detroit property owners did not pay taxes in 2012, at a loss to the city of $131 million (equal to 12% of the city's general fund budget).[45]

I guess it's a good time to buy.

don't think detroit will be a good buy anytime soon...good by, yes. detroit is dc without the federal money, detroit is vegas without the casinos, detroit is the new cleveland

Just one more big tax cut for top earners and then Detroit will see a flood of that Republican promised trickle down and job creation. You betcha!

what happened to Detroit was a long time coming, lousy cars,bad management,adversarial labor unions...when tarp money came there were no strings attached to invest in Detroit proper. $13.4 billion for General Motors.
$6 billion for GMAC.
$4 billion for Chrysler ...now Detroit is getting 50-100 million in TARP funds to raze buildings.

"A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit." - Samuel Johnson

"If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. Let's take that discussion all across America."

Mike Huckabee, another in the long list of Republicans who just don't get it.

“The problem isn’t what Mike Huckabee says – it’s what he and too many other politicians believe. These politicians need a basic anatomy and sex ed course. Birth control is basic, preventive health care for women. It helps women plan their pregnancies and manage their lives, and many women use it for a variety of other medical reasons, including treatment of endometriosis that can lead to infertility. The fact that Mike Huckabee doesn’t understand what birth control does is a perfect illustration of why decisions about birth control should be left to a woman and her doctor, without interference from politicians."

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund, continuing the battle to educate ignorant Conservative males.

"A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit." - Samuel Johnson

Why the shotgun was invented, much more effective.

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

Brilliant. One of my favorites..

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde

"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." - Jean de la Fontaine

"A room without books is like a body without a soul.� - Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you have a roomful of books, you will always have something to burn when the heating strips fail.

suddenly those electric blankets sold at WalMart don't seem so stupid as a backup

Recommend Refdesk "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." - Elbert Hubbard

"They're singing 'America the Beautiful' while drinking Coca-Cola! How much more American assimilation can they have? Maybe if they were open-carrying a gun shaped like Jesus, while using a bald eagle strap-on to **** an apple pie.

Jon Stewart

"They're singing 'America the Beautiful' while drinking Coca-Cola! How much more American assimilation can they have? Maybe if they were open-carrying a gun shaped like Jesus, while using a bald eagle strap-on to **** an apple pie.

Jon Stewart

most white folks would agree that massive immigration equals assimilation issues...the coke ad is, in effect, asking for it in an unintentional way.

most white folks would agree that massive immigration equals assimilation issues...the coke ad is, in effect, asking for it in an unintentional way.

We've regressed as a nation since 1971. It's not as if coke hasn't gone a similar route before. They had the "I'd like to teach the world to sing" theme. Today's panic stricken right wing would be freaking out over it. Maybe in some parts of the country they freaked over it in 1971. I certainly never met anyone who had a problem with it. Coke has every reason to beef up their appeal internationally. The U.S. only makes up about 40% of their total market, and the biggest opportunities for growth lie outside of this country in places they have not yet cracked. I don't think they care that a few Bubbas are going to start drinking Pepsi. i'm going to call Bubba's bluff on that. Without his Coke, where will he put his peanuts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q Everyone was singing in English....

One of my daughters boyfriend recently spent a week in Guatemala working for Habitat for Humanity. The work was gratifying for him and his volunteer crew, but the food and living conditions were challenging by American standards. Yesterday, upon arrival at the Miami airport, the boyfriend made a beeline to the in-terminal Wendys, as he was in fast food deficit. He told me it was funny to be served by a Wendy's employee who could not speak English after working on crews that needed local interpreters. He was expecting English upon returning to the U.S. The same dynamic is true here in Orlando. Many thousands of Puerto Ricans escaping the island for the dream of America and they can't speak the language. In time I'm sure most will. The largest ethnic group in this country is German American, and they went through the same issues.

No really, it's just a bunch of dumb asses *****ing over the fact that they had to hear (as they erroneously point out) our "national anthem" in a foreign tongue. A lot of people are pissed at what they see as multiculturalism creeping into our society. The 1971 video enrages people for the same reason. Read some of the comments.

If you're going to live in Miami, it migh be in your best interest to learn Spanish. The forces compelling you to do so are much stronger than any possible government intrusion that would attempt to make English the official language. That's just cold hard reality for better or worse. There are plenty of bilingual citizens who will alternate between Spanish and English on a whim, depending on which way the wind is blowing. Fifty years from now, those who steadfastly cling to English only may be screwing themselves, and on top of that they are going to be very angry and miserable.