Kimberley:

taxpayer:

This truly shows how low Kwame was willing to stoop. He was a disgrace and a joke but he still manages to work out a deal to shake down businessmen for a quarter million dollars so he will leave. This was not a loan, it was not a gift, it was blackmail and bribery. I saw an ad today on TV which said "When you think cancer, think Karmanos". Very true Mr. Karmanos. When I think Karmanos, I will forever think of the cancer known as Kwame Kilpatrick which Mr. Karmanos supported and aided to the bitter end. Karmanos= cancer. I couldn't have said it better myself.

http://www.freep.com/article/20091103/NEWS01/911030338/1318/Kilpatrick-got-cash-far-ahead-of-loan-signing

I'am so w/ you on this!  How can he do a good thing for people w/ the cancer center then turn around and slap them in the face w/ the salami???

Missy55367:

taxpayer:

Just got done voting. Basically I voted for only two incumbent council members. Kwame Kenyatta and Ken Cockrell. The rest of them Kilpatrick loving idiots can get into the nearest unemployment line. Also voted for anyone running for school board that was NOT an incumbent and voted NO to anything that resembled a millage or tax increase. Cuts have to be made. I am not giving one extra penny to the politicians to waste. I want to keep my money. Voted for council by district. I am hoping that passes. At 7am there was only 20 folks in line so I don't expect a big turnout but we will see. They are predicting a 25% turnout which is really sad. Of the 20 voters in line this morning I saw no one under 40.

 

Tax, it looks like you applied some good logic to your selections.  I wish other Detroiters (and people everywhere, for that matter) voted with the same forethought.

Let's hope Ken Cockrel remains as Council President.  I think it would be horrific if Charles Pugh was voted in at all; he's already decided to let his condo be foreclosed on!  If he can't run his own personal finances, how can he help run the city?

Love it Miamia! 

Did everybody see Tantra commenting on KK?  And Oldsoul (Gene's bro in law)?  Do like to see the oldies pop in.

KK is just in a heap, what goes around. 

Here's an intersting story:

taxpayer:

I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer but I don't think I am wandering too far off the path of logic and common sense by asking the following question. If these "generous" businessmen found it in their hearts to "donate" hard cash to the Kwamster why would they not also be willing to toss a few bucks in the direction of Christine Beatty?? Any way for channel 7 to find answers to this question? After all, here you have a young, recently divorced mother of two girls that loses her high paying job. There is a public record showing that Chrissy was not the best at handling her money even when she had a high paying job. She was in debt. Yet somehow she has managed to continue her mortgage payments and pay her grocery bill etc...without any known source of income. She is certainly not living off her savings. I'm just askin.

Tax, I think that is extremely likely!

Kimberley:

Love it Miamia! 

Did everybody see Tantra commenting on KK?  And Oldsoul (Gene's bro in law)?  Do like to see the oldies pop in.

KK is just in a heap, what goes around. 

Here's an intersting story:

PHOENIX (Nov. 2) - A young Iraqi woman whose father allegedly hit her with his car because she had become too Westernized died from her injuries Monday after laying in a coma for nearly two weeks. from AOL.com

 

He's in America, if these types don't like it get out!  We go to Iraq and help them, they hate us.  They come here to our country, they hate us.  I don't get it.  Ship them back.

Kimberly.....I looked but couldn't find the right article. I guess it is the time of year, or the moon, but there have been ghosts around lately.  Check out the search on the top of the forum page and look at  some oldies profiles, amazing when they last checked the forum. 

Kimberly......type in an old screen name or forum name, hit search and then find an article posted BY them. Under it there will be their name in blue, small, but when you click on it their profile comes up. Then you can see when they last visited the forum.

You will be shocked.

get real:

Kimberley:

Love it Miamia! 

Did everybody see Tantra commenting on KK?  And Oldsoul (Gene's bro in law)?  Do like to see the oldies pop in.

KK is just in a heap, what goes around. 

Here's an intersting story:

PHOENIX (Nov. 2) - A young Iraqi woman whose father allegedly hit her with his car because she had become too Westernized died from her injuries Monday after laying in a coma for nearly two weeks. from AOL.com

 

He's in America, if these types don't like it get out!  We go to Iraq and help them, they hate us.  They come here to our country, they hate us.  I don't get it.  Ship them back.

Kimberly.....I looked but couldn't find the right article. I guess it is the time of year, or the moon, but there have been ghosts around lately.  Check out the search on the top of the forum page and look at  some oldies profiles, amazing when they last checked the forum. 

yep saw the post.  was going to mention it but didn't want to open a can of worms.  Tantra is multiple posters and continues to post here as well.  There is more freedom to really go way off posting on the other sites.  Harder to figure it out who is who over there.

Missy55367:

taxpayer:

Laura Berman

From the Manoogian to the doghouse: Now Carlita Kilpatrick calls the shots

The onetime mayor of Detroit came back to testify Thursday, but the most intriguing person mentioned in the courtroom wasn't there.

Carlita Kilpatrick, Detroit's enigmatic good wife, endured the humiliations of all those messages on the "2 Way," that infernal Sky-Tel message system, but she never had it easy.

From the party at the Manoogian -- the one that never happened -- to the fuss over her Navigator, Mrs. K's ride as first spouse kept getting bumpier. Then, as her husband explained, to media gathered outside the courthouse: "I put my family, my wife and my children, through an incredible year of tremendous pain."

Really, was it only a year?

Like Julianne Margulies who plays "the good wife" in the new CBS series, Carlita Kilpatrick's displeasure with her husband has been obscured by the conventions of her role. Every political wife's list of concerns now includes the question of when her spouse is going hiking on the Appalachian Trail.

Like TV's new heroine, who remakes herself while her husband pads in jail, Carlita's calling the shots now, living in a suburban mansion while her husband tries to crawl out of the doghouse. Yes, they physically share the space, but if you believe the mayor's testimony, she wields the power now, from managing the tax records and bank accounts to controlling the future of their relationship.

The transplanted Texan and former mayor used to hide his comings and goings from the woman referred to in text messages as CEK (Carlita Ebony Kilpatrick). Now, he confessed he's "in a period where there are some things, as we work out these issues, that I don't know."

Like what, you ask?

For starters, there's the first $150,000 -- doled out in five checks of $30,000 each -- from four Detroit businessmen that Kilpatrick signed over to his wife. And assumes she cashed. Over a year, $1.2 million moved through their five checking and savings accounts, but if you want to know what happened, you'll have to ask his wife.

By KK's account, every financial decision is hers to make, the tax returns hers to oversee. And his friends -- including international bridge financier Manuel Moroun -- are hers now, too. Even though she doesn't know Moroun, he sent her and the children $50,000 to tide them over while Kilpatrick served his jail term.

Yes, they live in the same house, but Kilpatrick says he's clueless about her occupation. Homemaker or careerist?

"I don't know," Kilpatrick told Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Athina Siringas when asked if his wife works.

(His lawyer, Michael Alan Schwartz, said he'd have to deliver "a four-hour seminar on constitutional law to explain why he said that.").

Once the most powerful man in Detroit, the former mayor hinted that he's still trying to win back his wife but is uncertain where his future lies.

In her last vivid scene in Detroit, Mrs. K. played the public loyalist, staring lovingly as her husband promised a comeback.

Now it's her turn to rule.

Lots of people want to be paid, and Kilpatrick said they would be, because he earnestly wants to do what's right.

But if you listened closely, he suggested that of all his creditors -- the businessmen who lent him money, the city of Detroit, the expensive lawyers -- count. But one powerful person loomed largest in his comments.

"I want to make my wife happy," he said, moving her to the front of the creditor line. "I owe a great deal of restitution to my wife."

 

A bunch of people commented on this story on the Detroit News website, where the article originated. 

While a few thought it was satire, most people responded that they couldn't believe Ms. Berman's apparently gullibiliity in believing this story.

I am not that familiar with Laura Berman and her writing.  Could it be satire, or is she really that dense? 

Carlita has been calling the shots for a long time!  She is not a victim.  She isn't giving up the lifestyle she is accustomed to.  She will continue to stand by her man.  I think she is much brighter than her husband and is equally a manipulator.  Just my thoughts.

This is an article about stimulus money going to a factory. It will help enable the factory to produce more green powered trucks! Sounds good right? Is it in Detroit?...no....Elkhart, Indiana?...not quite.........it's going to a downtrodden city in Britain! Yay!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33495737/ns/us_news-the_elkhart_project/

Did they say stimulus bill or stimulus bull?

Here are a couple good Op-ed pieces from the Washington Examiner. One talks about Detroit schools and the other talks about Detroit FOOLS,  Congressman Conyers and Kilpatrick.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/More-money-will-not-fix-Detroit_s-failing-schools-8237811-59176197.html

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Time-for-Conyers_-Kilpatrick-to-go-8319599.html

Missy55367:

taxpayer:

This truly shows how low Kwame was willing to stoop. He was a disgrace and a joke but he still manages to work out a deal to shake down businessmen for a quarter million dollars so he will leave. This was not a loan, it was not a gift, it was blackmail and bribery. I saw an ad today on TV which said "When you think cancer, think Karmanos". Very true Mr. Karmanos. When I think Karmanos, I will forever think of the cancer known as Kwame Kilpatrick which Mr. Karmanos supported and aided to the bitter end. Karmanos= cancer. I couldn't have said it better myself.

http://www.freep.com/article/20091103/NEWS01/911030338/1318/Kilpatrick-got-cash-far-ahead-of-loan-signing

I am still in shock over this!  Not because of the extortion, of course, but that it was only for $240K!  I would have thought the Kwamster would have shaken them down for millions!

Looks like he needs to get with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to learn how to REALLY do a corporate shakedown!

Thanks Tax, I think I like Gregory cane, wish some of those editorials made it to the Det Papers.

Thanks Tax, I think I like Gregory Kane, wish some of those editorials made it to the Det Papers.