Jesse Jackson's SUV stripped while in Detroit..

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Zebo

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Actually it is armored. Saw some kind of article on who uses armored vehicles and his name was there.
Seems he gets lots of death threats, and a couple of people were arrested planning his assassination about 10-12 years ago.

I figured as much. With some of his buddies getting killed and MLK, and his high profile.

From what I heard, depending how it's done you can almost double mass of vehicle because every piece of armor needs beefier suspension, motor, drive train, tyranny etc. Making 12MPG 7-8 MPG with a gas motor. Diesel would be way to go but that is too country for JJ.
 

lupi

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yup. It's a rather logical and reasonable argument, but it pisses a lot of people off.

You can understand the anger, though--it would essentially force some people to leave their homes if they want to remain within Detroit, or give up their homes to development for the re-structuring.


Present-day Detroit is basically like you starting a game of Sim City with $200k and over-expanding the city by 50-60%. Nothing ever develops b/c the population is spread out, far too much development for far too many people, resources spread way too thin (police, fire, education) little to no connection between neighborhoods. etc. and when you do that in Sim City, the residentials tend to develop into ghetto tiles.
:hmm:

I'm going to guess that if they actually went through and demo'ed all the houses that would be considered condemned once inspected, those people left with a house or so every couple of blocks wouldn't then feel as bad about moving.
 

ShawnD1

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Easy way to fix detroit: death penalty.

Once all the bad people are killed, the people who aren't bad will invite industry to setup shop in their low crime low budget wasteland :D


Awesome idea for a game. Fallout 3 - Detroit.
 

Nik

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You know I wonder if your daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren actually know what kind of face you show on the board here?

I'm sure they do. You, on the other hand, have nearly a decade's worth of pronounced racism and bigotry.

Who you tryin' ta fool, sucka?
 

classy

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I'm sure they do. You, on the other hand, have nearly a decade's worth of pronounced racism and bigotry.

Who you tryin' ta fool, sucka?

WEll you are right about one thing, the decade. I have watched a board be over run by threads so racist that many of you would make the stormfront happy. I don't mind spitting right back in your face the garbage I have read here over the 10 years. Find one thread I have started that had to deal with race ranting. Find one? I have had only one name ever since being here too. So do the search. I believe the only thread I have started that ever surrounded anything race related was when the KKK wanted to do road cleanup. See, you can't go in a pig pen to clean it up without coming out smelling like a pig yourself. The good thing is my stink is from the cleanup, whats yours?
 

Nik

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blah blah blah I'm a huge flaming racist asshag and all I can do to defend myself is rant and rave without anything to back up what I'm saying, unless you count all the shit taken out of context and other stuff I twist and bend to make it look like it means what I want it to mean instead of what the original author intended.

Link us to these wildly racist threads, please? You are, single handedly, the biggest race-related troll on these forums bar none.
 

jlee

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WEll you are right about one thing, the decade. I have watched a board be over run by threads so racist that many of you would make the stormfront happy. I don't mind spitting right back in your face the garbage I have read here over the 10 years. Find one thread I have started that had to deal with race ranting. Find one? I have had only one name ever since being here too. So do the search. I believe the only thread I have started that ever surrounded anything race related was when the KKK wanted to do road cleanup. See, you can't go in a pig pen to clean it up without coming out smelling like a pig yourself. The good thing is my stink is from the cleanup, whats yours?

Do you have a parachute for when you fall off that horse?
 

classy

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Link us to these wildly racist threads, please? You are, single handedly, the biggest race-related troll on these forums bar none.

No sir, let me correct you. I am one of the handful of black members who refuse to read your racist bullshit and keep silent. Its amazing I post no race related threads, but yet I am the racist. So no motherfrackers like you are the real race-related trolls. I am just the thorn in your side.
 

Nik

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No sir, let me correct you. I am one of the handful of black members who refuse to read your racist bullshit and keep silent. Its amazing I post no race related threads, but yet I am the racist. So no motherfrackers like you are the real race-related trolls. I am just the thorn in your side.

My racist bullshit?

You didn't link me any threads showing wonton (mmm I'm hungry) racism. Do the threads you describe actually exist? Of course not, but I'd love to see what threads you link (but I know you won't because you're full of shit, you know it, I know it, and the entire forum has known it for 10 years).

Also, please link all the "racist bullshit" you're accusing me of.

You don't have to start race-related threads to be a racist, Classy. I distinctly remember you saying that it's impossible for black people to be racist. I won't go searching because that was about 8 years ago, but still.

Please support your wild accusations or shut the fuck up already you racist troll. You're one of those worthless assholes who plays the race card every chance you get when you don't get your way.
 

classy

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My racist bullshit?

You didn't link me any threads showing wonton (mmm I'm hungry) racism. Do the threads you describe actually exist? Of course not, but I'd love to see what threads you link (but I know you won't because you're full of shit, you know it, I know it, and the entire forum has known it for 10 years).

Also, please link all the "racist bullshit" you're accusing me of.

You don't have to start race-related threads to be a racist, Classy. I distinctly remember you saying that it's impossible for black people to be racist. I won't go searching because that was about 8 years ago, but still.

Please support your wild accusations or shut the fuck up already you racist troll. You're one of those worthless assholes who plays the race card every chance you get when you don't get your way.

I have never ever said anything remotely that black people can't be racist. Dude my wife who I have been with now almost 17 years, still has not met face to face with certain members of my family because I know they are racist. You are just pulling stuff out your ass. As usual making stuff up. I never accused you of anything you dumb motherfracker. You started this exchange remeber. I directed my comment and justly so to BoomerD. Don't recall saying anything to your punk ass.

Not this time anyway.................. But hey you don't like me and I damn sure don't care about you. So post your opinion on the subject at hand and I'll post mine. And as long as pos racist pigs like you are here I'll have plenty of opportunity to play the race card. It ain't like you are ever going to leave the race baiting table.
 

Nik

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blah blah blah, still waiting on you to post links to back up your lies, Unclassy.

You JUST ACCUSED ME of being racist. Wow, you're trying to lie about something that's not more than a few posts up? Goddamn, boy, you got balls. You fail miserably, but you got balls.
 

Zebo

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Add Jesse Jackson’s ride to prominent vehicles being stripped in Detroit.
Following the embarrassing news that Mayor Dave Bing’s GMC Yukon was hijacked by criminals this week, Detroit’s Channel 7 reports that the Reverend’s Caddy Escalade SUV was stolen and stripped of its wheels while he was in town last weekend with the UAW’s militant President Bob King leading the “Jobs, Justice, and Peace” march promoting government-funded green jobs.
Read that again: Jackson’s Caddy SUV was stripped while he was in town promoting green jobs.
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Add Jesse to the Al Gore-Tom Friedman-Barack Obama School of Environmental Hypocrisy. While preaching to Americans that they need to cram their families into hybrid Priuses to go shopping for compact fluorescent light bulbs to save the planet, they themselves continue to live large.
“We need an economy that creates employment that can't be shipped overseas,” the Green Rev wrote for CNN about the march. “Home-grown American labor will be installing windmills and solar panels. A green economy is not an abstract concept.”
Well, its certainly abstract to Jesse, but I digress.
“Even now, the only sector of the economy that has seen job growth during the recession is the green job sector. Time is of the essence.”
Actually, time long ago passed Detroit by because Jesse’ favored government mpg mandates and UAW wages stripped the Big Three’s ability to compete against non-union transplants. These jobs were real – unlike the artificial, government subsidized green jobs he shakes down the feds for today.
Real jobs produced big, profitable SUVs like the one Jesse prefers to ride in. His SUV has been stripped by thugs – a fitting metaphor for what Jesse and his pals have done to the auto industry for the last 35 years.



http://www.detnews.com/article/2010...ne--The-irony-of-Jesse-Jackson-s-stripped-SUV

I just realized JJ is like 69. Looking good, must be a runner. I sat next to him on a plane once back when I was a teenager and he's a big mofo too. Thick chested about 6'4"...and big men usually don't do so good...hard on heart.
 

classy

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blah blah blah, still waiting on you to post links to back up your lies, Unclassy.

You JUST ACCUSED ME of being racist. Wow, you're trying to lie about something that's not more than a few posts up? Goddamn, boy, you got balls. You fail miserably, but you got balls.

Dude you are one of the same klan of pos racist who post here. I can name most of you by name. Blow me.................
 
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