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The editors feel that no amount of editorializing can capture the drama and foreboding in today's links. We wonder, "Is it time to hit the Panic Button as we hunker down in our cement bunker whilst supping on this hellbroth, witches' brew of economic chaos and uncertainty? Is this the next Black Plague?"
Updated: Tuesday, January 29, 2008: Avoid Detroit and its Housing Market!Updated: Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Detroit, Michigan - The Most Dangerous City in the USA...Photo: detroitderek"Hello, Detroit Tourism Board...how much will you pay me to visit your city?"That's right, we found this posted on MSNBC.com: Detroit named nation’s most dangerous city today. Welcome to my home town. I'm sure the local politicos and local news media are having s***s and fits over this one. The denial machine is operating in overdrive. Daring to still call itself the Motor City, this is one tag that it can't live down. Download Google Earth if you want to see it without experiencing the sense of danger, the sense of dread. If you do come here, don't go east of the famed Fox Theater. You may not come back - ever.Oh yeah, the police and other local officials will tell you this - stay out of Detroit. It really is too dangerous. It's just like a cross between the Wild West and Iraq. And, the local news media recently reported that if you visit the Detroit casinos, you are being watched. And probably not by friendly eyes. Some folks are known to carry concealed weapons. And not always with the proper permits. A local judge (a she) recently got busted at Metro Airport for bringing a loaded gun inside...Yeah, this is my home town - but not by choice. If you're not careful, and leave your car door unlocked while traveling around downtown, the hookers will hop in - uninvited. That's a fact. I'll swear it on the Bible, the Talmud and the Koran. I'm sure they do it out of desperation. It's everyone for themselves, and survival is the basic law. Survival in this town has become the natural law. Just hired in at Chrysler? Well, you'll probably be drawing unemployment. Take a buyout from Ford? Well you'll be lucky if you make 9 bucks an hour as a baggage handler for NWA (that's what a friend of ours did). Working for GM? My friends at the Ypsilanti plant have been out for two months and have been told they won't be back to work for another week (maybe even longer...).Your author just picked up a second part time job, cause his current employer shrunk his part time hours to just 22 hours a week - and its the holidays - their busiest season of the year. Oh yeah, and we were robbed at gunpoint (our location - and several others) on February 4th, the predawn hours of Superbowl Sunday. Health insurance - what's that? (With the new second job, we should be able to consider that). Just got paid the other day, and we're starving today. That's right - we have nothing to eat for Thanksgiving. Hard to be thankful, when you have to walk several hours to a local soup kitchen - and find out that it's out of food. We'll be renaming the holiday Thankstarving. That's OK - we've gone hungry before, and will again. As a matter of fact, we think we prefer starvation - it's better than getting shot to death.Shot to death. Yeah, we've had to look down the wrong end of a gun barrel many times - and it was always in Detroit. Two local punks will be charged for murder and decapitation (desecration of a corpse) - they said it was a thrill killing. At least they got busted. More news to come on that one. They waylaid some poor guy from River Rouge.I remember growing up in Detroit (West Side - near Lessenger Middle School and Kosciusko Elementary) when they found the severed head of a red-headed women in local Rouge Park. That's right near where I grew up - 20500 Tireman. My long deceased girl friend - Sue - had a couple of neighbors that were beheading their business associates nearby to her, a long time ago. Not to mention some other atrocities that were done to the corpses. Forgot to mention my late cousin "Denise" who was shot to death some many years ago by some Detroit-ghetto junkie when she was working a Good Humor route to earn her way through college. The guy who did it got a bench trial and told the judge he didn't know the gun was loaded in the robbery. The judge let him go.Some years later on, I read an article in the local News about the same junkie. Seemed that he went to work for two major drug dealers - at the same time. The one who took a baseball bat was called "Big" Frank "Nitti" Usher (if I recall correctly) and gave the murderous dopehead a lethal lesson in loyalty. Eventually, "Mr. Usher" was brought to justice, and, as far as I know, is still in the Big House. Which one? Not sure. That is real street justice. Violence - the murderous kind - also happened amongst some of my former co-workers. One of them ("Dotty") was killed in a home invasion by a red-headed man (there we go, red hair again). She suffered. I don't know if her killer was ever brought to justice. She was a real nice lady, and a classic "Detroit" person - if you know the type. She did not deserve to go that way. Neither did "Denise".That's the real dope on Detroit...the Murder City. Welcome seeker!
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