So, you’re saying work the shaft before the balls?
So, you’re saying work the shaft before the balls?
Why am I hearing farm animal noises in the first video?
My favorite MLS name/Wire scene crossover is Omar Cummings and “Yo, Omar comin!” .
“Pardon me?”
A little strong no? The man wasn’t a saint, but he wasn’t evil either. Like most of us he was an imperfect human being.
There’s no way you ate Little Caesar’s in Detroit during the 80s and early 90s and still think that pizza was disgusting. Its modern “hot and ready” incarnation may be food only in the loosest sense of the phrase, but back when your Pizza! Pizza! set came on one long piece of cardboard wrapped in paper, there was…
In the City of Detroit? Yeah, the line of people begging for those deals in the City of Detroit stretched beyond the horizon.
And if it didn’t go to the arena, where would the money have gone? It’s not the Public’s money. It’s not the City’s money. It wasn’t taken from the City. Where do you think it would have gone?
The DDA is a separate municipal corporation, and wasn’t part of the bankruptcy, ya dunce.
This is not to piss on Ilitch’s generosity—he helped pay part of Rosa Parks’ rent late in her life—but rather to point out what many won’t, or at least haven’t. Ilitch was simply a tremendously wealthy pizza mogul with a bad wig who exploited the city council, capitalized on a depressed real estate market, and spent…
DDA funds don’t effect education.
While nobody’s going to deify Illitch, can you imagine what Detroit would look like today without all of the investment Illitch and Olympia have poured in over the last 20 years?
Michigan people absolutely love this man. I’m going to defer to them.
I’ve found more appealing acts in a public restroom.
Well when we have the college lecture about the pros and cons of big business in American cities, I’m sure your treatise will be well regarded. But until then maybe we should let the body cool before we go to town on his legacy?
Is this the movie poster for Rocky IV Loko?
How big of a piece of shit would you have to be to truther this....?