List of Items in Auto
- Coin Jar/Bowl (preferably two: one for U.S., one for Canadian)
- Jumper Cables
- Safety/First Aid Kit
- University of Michigan Rain Poncho (yellow)
- Old Blankets (one white, one yellow)
- AAA Road Maps (e.g. Ohio/Indiana, Southeastern States)
- Backgammon Set
- Ziploc Bag(s) of Plastic Silverware
- Miniature European Union Flag
- Miniature Detroit Red Wings Hockey Stick
- Midnight Run VHS (starring Robert DeNiro and Charles Grodin)
"Total so far: At least $10.2 million*"
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*Doesn’t include growing costs of state’s prosecution of assault charges against mayor.
The amount of money Mayor(?) Kwame Kilpatrick has cost the city of Detroit so far…(via)
A Detroit mayoral scandal version of Guess Who, except the answer is always depressing and in no way silly or fun.
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"I tried to talk to Rudi yesterday, but he was pretty upset, so I let it go. So now it’s that I’m being a thief. I come to found out that the bags weren’t whose I thought they was. It was just an honest mistake, man."
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Bell: ‘I ain’t no thief;’ but Lions’ Johnson doesn’t believe him
Blame the Cincinnati Bengals for your troubles Tatum. Or Matt Millen. Either one will do.
(thank you Todd for bringing this to my attention)
At the end of the deposition, Fink asked Kilpatrick where he lived or whether he recently had moved.
“Manoogian Mansion,” the mayor replied. “Where do you live?”
“It’s a great house,” Fink said, referring to his home on Cass Lake in Oakland County.
“Is it for sale?” Kilpatrick asked.
“We can’t afford it,” Thomas said.
“I can’t afford it,” Kilpatrick added.
The oddest conclusion to an article I have read in quite some time. The article discusses Kwame exercising his Fifth Amendment right 82 times during an 80-minute long Freedom of Information lawsuit questioning. And then there is this dialogue and then the end of the article. (The Manoogian Mansion is where the Mayor of Detroit lives. Kind of like the White House, only in Detroit, and not white.)
"It was better to be under that pile than the other one,” Carroll said. “They got me with some jabs and I said, ‘You guys should’ve used those earlier.’ But they were fun jabs."
Robber shoots a dad who was laid off, takes money from his last paycheck »
Detroit, lift your weary head!
"The MiCAUSE campaign has focused on the ballot language — saying the state Legislature couldn’t regulate a new science they say would lead to human cloning and animal-human chimeras."
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MiCAUSE = Michigan Catholic Conference
This is why religion is outdated; people want human cloning. And I know I am intrigued by animal-human chimeras as well as at least 2,143,100 Michiganders.
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And yes Bill, medicinal pot is cool too!
