Posted on 08/20/2009 1:18:21 PM PDT by swarthyguy
I bet you’re the president of a home owners association too.
if not you certainly are qualified.
Detroit likely ran the big stores out. Like they did anyone able to afford anything larger than a shack. I doubt their using many lots to grow food without armed guards.
There was another article today that said the average house in Detroit sells for around $11,500.
I think I might be able to convince my HO to allow refrigerator inspections of houses where fat kids and people live. Spot inspections at midnight, for instance.
If I hook up their cars GPS’s to the web, I’ll even be able to monitor when they hit fast food joints and fine them for violating HO laws.
Thanks.
That average includes the thousands and thousands of abandoned homes. A part of Detroit the size of San Francisco is pretty much a ghost town governed by gangs and addicts.
There was a website with photo’s of a bunch of them, called 100abandonedhouses.com? I dunno
“houses where fat kids and people live.”
You could put them in squirrel cages and generate electricity while reducing their waistline. two birds with one stone./s
If your over 65 or 70 and there is no cure for what ails you, they will pay for hospace or the suicide pills. Just remember to stop by FR anbd say bye.
/sarc (I hope to Obama’s partner its sarc)
For the last 5 to 10 years Toledo's nickname has been "Little Detroit". It used to be a nice city but it's been run by Dems too.
The treadmills of America are a wasted resource.
See, I knew American ingenuity would solve our “crisis” du jour.
After your EarthFriendlyPowerQuota is exhausted for the day, and you wanna see the end of the movie, start treading.
you might have to start feeding Tink some< cough> acorns
I confess, I laughed out loud!
I haven’t seen any in this neck of the woods...besides, there are things even Tink won’t eat. :-D
And I DO mean “Things.”
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090402/METRO08/904020395/To+urban+hunter++next+meal+is+scampering+by
lol, mystery meat, SPAM
I rescued and performed intervention on a poor Yorkshire Terrier whose mom had decided to make the poor thing subsist on a veggie diet.
You should be reported to the ASPCA, I said, and proceeded to enter her abode with wine for her and ribs and such for the pup.
Soon, he was barking again and his diarrhea and associated weakness and lethargy were gone, poor guy had been surviving on broccoli and tofu pieces.
What dreadful person would feed a dog anything but meat? Nevertheless, a mastiff will eat darn near anything. Broccoli gives them (gag) very bad gas. I have no idea what tofu would do, as there has never been any in my house.
But he will likely not an “acorn.” Might play with it, mess it up some...;-D
Our dog loves carrots. I can see number of ways in which these are good for him and since a vet concurs, I don't think we are dreadful people.
Mastiffs will truly eat nearly anything. I keep him away from most fruit, as grapes (and raisins) are poisonous to dogs. He eats a bite or two of grass in the yard.
But when he is fed, twice a day, it's meat.
When they are puppies, they will eat gravel/small rocks, so you have to watch out for that.
Honestly, this was a joke, at least it started out that way. When did we get so serious about the diet of dogs? As I said, he likes cheap burgers. Once a month or so, he gets them for treats.
Honestly, look what trouble your joke has got me into! Some days, you’re the dog, some days you’re the hydrant. I guess this is a hydrant day for me. *sigh*
Smokers pay less than non-smokers cradle to grave; alcoholics also are questionable in their net burden as many have to be dragged into a doctor’s office or rehab; gamblers rarely have effects on society generally except for those who build rackets based on the activity; the obese are simply those who eat too much for whatever reason and can’t be fitted into a niche among the pantheon beyond cultural traditions related to traditional celebrations or family influences.
In short, taxes are a poor form of behavior modification and motives of the modifiers are made highly suspect by this ongoing rearranging of targets.
What makes schemes such as this attractive is the notion that good ideas deserve funding and every tyrant knows that to make it work it must be mandatory; since no one has to smoke or drink booze or gamble but everyone has to eat, a tax on food will guarantee funding regardless of the outcomes.
Now comes the hard part and that is selling the idea that such a tax on a need is really only a tax on excess so look for exemptions for certain foods in the beginning with escalating taxes and broader coverage for those items taxed as the movement gathers steam.
You’d think that after being shafted so many times that more people would quit bending over to pick up the pieces.
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