Anniversary gift warning for dudes

Guys, don't be stupid, talk to her friends if you're clueless.



Don't buy your wife a bankrupt city!!

"I want steak-ums."

"This is the Motor City. And this is what we do."

How can we forget yet another inspiring Super Bowl ad about Detroit:

". . . add hard work, and conviction, and a know-how that runs deep in every last one of us . . .  That's who we are.  That's our story.  No, it's probably not the one you've been reading in the papers...."


I'll say.  From today's Wall Street Journal, we have, as summarized by Joel Pollak at Breitbart, a little different explanation of what Detroit is today:


"I was planning on retiring in October, but now I'm not sure. I have a lot of questions," said Herbert Jenkins, 50, who has spent the last quarter century working for the city and repairing its potholes. It's such a sad day for Detroit."

Emphasis added by me.  

UPDATE:  To kathleen's point below, here is Steven Crowder's most recent take on Detroit: 

Detroit is bankrupt

Well it's about time.

According to the bankruptcy filing, Detroit now has more than $18 billion in unfunded liabilities. The city’s population has dwindled from 1.85 million in 1950 to under 700,000 today, and its tax revenues have shrunk accordingly even as the average tax burden has risen to the highest level of any town in the state. A deficit estimated at $237 million in June was too much for the once-mighty industrial town to handle.

Orr’s goals, laid out in a report issued in June, were simply to keep the lights on and the fire department operating. Currently, according to the report, 40 percent of the Detroit’s streetlights don’t work, and there are 78,000 abandoned and blighted houses in the city, posing a massive fire risk. A recent New York Times feature corroborated Orr’s account of life in Detroit, reporting that most city residents no longer rely on even basic services like police or the fire department.

Yeah. It's halftime in America, and time to bring out the bulldozers to clean the field.

SMDS re: Detroit

Here's a follow-up commentary on my Detroit news from the inimitable Sh*t My Dad Says:

I wanted to see Detroit win. I've been there. It's like God took a sh*t on a parking lot. They deserve some good news.

LOL

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

Yes. That's what I'm talking about.

Pastor Lawrence Adams leads Westside Bible Church. The retired police lieutenant has taken to wearing a gun under his robe.

Recently, Adams responded to a break-in at his church and surprised a burglar carrying out a bag of money. The pastor shot the man in the stomach after the man swung the bag at him. The burglar survived -- and while Adams says he's thankful for that, he points out that he could have been hurt or killed if he had not been armed.

Adams is one of several area clergymen who are carrying weapons. Minister William Revely also carries a gun at church. He says when he's armed, he has peace in more ways than one.

"I feel more comfortable now going out, and I can move with a lot more security," Revely shares. "I don't always have it on me. I have a holster that I use, but I don't always wear that when I'm preaching."

The story ends with the understatement of the year.

Detroit has seen a rise in crime over the past few years.

I recently heard that the median home sale price in Detroit is around $7,500.00. Yes, you read that correctly. But then I checked and found out that that number was from December of 2008. The number from June 2009 is $6,000.00. Makes Cleveland look like an economic boom-town by comparison.

BTW, I just picked me up a Glock 27 and it rocketh mightily.