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Kwame’s Rant
King Kwame is back at it again, ruining last night’s “State of the City Address” with an unscripted tirade, complete with the “n-word.”
In reference to the ongoing train-wreck that is Kwame’s mayoral résumé, (e.g., the recent sex-with-his-top-aide-scandal, the misappropriation of public funds, new developments in the dead-stripper allegations…) he says,
This unethical, illegal lynch mob mentality has to stop.
And it’s seriously time. We’ve never been here before. And I don’t care if they cut the TV off.
We’ve never been in a situation like this before. Where you can say anything, do anything, have no facts, no research, no nothing and you can launch a hate-driven bigoted assault on a family.
I humbly ask members of council, I humbly ask the business community, I humbly ask the religious community, I humbly ask the brothers and sisters of the city of Detroit – I humbly ask that we say ‘no more’ together.
It’s a “hate-driven bigoted assault on a family” when people are calling for the mayor’s resignation after years of nothing but incompetence? After the same mayor cost the city millions in settlement fees in a failed attempt to keep secret his extramarital affair with one of his aides? After the same mayor and his cabal of thugs presided over the wrongful termination of several police officers, which according to some accounts may (or may not) be related to a “dancing girl” who allegedly performed for Kwame and his entourage, and was allegedly assaulted by Kilpatrick’s wife, and who eventually died by drive-by-shooting.
Is it a “hate-driven bigoted assault on a family” to ask for the resignation of the one person who is directly responsible for wasting (at the very least) nine million dollars?
There’s no hate, no bigotry. Some people just think, perhaps they should be entitled to a shred of fucking accountability.
But politicians play by a different set of rules.
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Also, for those of you who don’t know, or don’t remember, during his re-election campaign Kwame’s mother and congresswoman Carolyn C. Kilpatrick went off on her own “Dont’ let nobody talk about y’all’s boy! Too many people died for us!” embarrassing tirade. Apparently this sort of tirade runs in the family.
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The SOC address is available in full text. Kilpatrick’s closing arguments are available in audio or text.
Ihren Papieren, Bitte!
I came across a couple interesting quotes in recent articles about the REAL ID Act, so let me jump on the bandwagon make some predictions. The REAL ID Act is bound to make the line at your friendly, neighborhood Department of Motor Vehicles (or Secretary of State) even longer. This is due to the fact that applicants will have to be checked and cross-checked and re-checked through various federal databases. Until the transition is complete, expect longer lines at airports where overworked NSA staffers with contribute to the problem of making everyone else’s life hell by monitoring the holes in our socks and confiscating our bottled water, while simultaneously neglecting to notice the lighter or knife that I’ve inadvertently taken on more than one cross-country flight. The inconvenience is only the beginning — the REAL ID really may be the thin end of the wedge, opening the door for even further government control and scrutiny.
Without a REAL ID, airline passengers will have to use a passport or other federal ID, otherwise they’ll face a “vigorous, secondary screening process.” Secretary of the DHS, Michael Chertoff is either delusional, or drunk with power:
The last thing I want to do is punish citizens of a state who would love to have a REAL ID license but can’t get one. But in the end, the rule is the rule as passed by Congress.
Sure! Everyone would “love” to have a shiny new Federal ID card. That is awfully presumptuous. Apparently Chertoff has no qualms about punishing people who don’t want one.
Unfortunately, many of the States which have opposed the REAL ID Act have argued that it’s simply to expensive.
“No problem!” said the Feds, who proceeded to reduce the expected compliance costs by 73% — as if $4 Billion isn’t still an awful lot of money.
“It costs too much” isn’t a very strong objection, which tells me that there’s not very much disagreement between the State and Federal lawmakers, despite rhetoric to the contrary.
