What is it that keeps Detroit F-ed?

For instance, why does crap like this keep happening?

...an 86-year-old World War II veteran was assaulted and his car was stolen in broad daylight. After several people passed by him as he crawled, unable to walk because his leg was broken in the attack, the man tried to pay a stranger to drive him home. The good Samaritan man drove him for free, and called an ambulance. Days later, a 21-year-old suspect was arrested. Charges are pending.

Here's a clue.

Detroit Councilman Kwame Kenyatta is drafting an ordinance that would require gas station owners to hire security guards to protect the public.

"And as we watch this man was beaten on camera and crawled into the station, never once did I see the proprietor, as well as the people who were going to that gas station, help that individual. We are saying secure your facility, safeguard us as a community," said Kenyatta.

Pretty much given up on the idea of having the cops do it, I guess. Ok, but that's not normal, really. After the beating people usually go help the old man, right? Why didn't they?  Why did the owner/manager/punk kid employee stay buttoned up inside the store?

Here's a clue.

A man was shot and killed Friday night after an apparent dispute over the price of condoms at a Detroit gas station.

WWJ's Beth Fisher spoke to an employee at the BP gas station on Fenkell and Meyers, where the shooting took place on the city's westside overnight. The employee said the argument was apparently over the price of a box of condoms.

He said the customer bought a box of condoms, but made a comment that he was overcharged and could have bought them somewhere else for a cheaper price. After being told he couldn't get a refund, the customer allegedly began tossing items off the shelves. That's when, according to the employee, the overnight clerk came out with a gun and fired a warning shot, which struck the customer in the shoulder.

Police say the customer was taken to a local hospital where he later died from his injuries.

Why is this a clue as to why nobody wants to "get involved?  This is just toooooo good:

Ron Scott, with the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, said they are working on conflict resolution between gas station owners and Detroiters, something they will be discussing at a meeting on Sunday.

"We can't have this kind of attitude and this kind of disrespect for life. Whether it happens to people who work in the gas station or definitely if it happens to people in the community. From what I'm understanding, the price of a condom should not be somebody's life," said Scott.

Police say the store clerk, whose name has not been released, is in custody. An investigation is ongoing.

Because shooting some violent asshole who's probably armed and obviously dangerous, during a crime wave, when he's wrecking your store and threatening to kick your ass, is just so WRONG.

Bottom line here,  Councilman Kwame Kenyatta  wants to make gas station owners hire security guards to "safeguard us as a community", and Ron Scott is ok with that but wants to make sure they can't actually -do- anything when the "community" gets all up in their face and starts wrecking the joint. 

'Cause its all down to respec'. I couldn't make that up, that's a DIRECT QUOTE baby!

Scott said part of the problem is the general relationship between customers in the communities and gas station owners and employees.

"The problem basically is that you have people who work in the stations who do not have a reasonable relationship with the community, where the respect for the dollars that they spend is accorded to them in the terms of human respect. On the other hand, you do have people in the neighborhood who come in, or people who might engage in negative activity, where the lives of the owners are threatened," said Scott.

What it comes down to, said Scott, is respect.

"I've been in similar situations in some of these stores where I've been disrespected. And now we're talking about young, specifically African-American men. One of the major things in the community that you want is respect… and I think people here don't have skills in terms of de-escalation of violence," said Scott.

Brothers gotta have their props. That's all Ron baby sayin'.  Don't start none, won't be none.  Sing it Aretha! "R-e-s-p-e-c-t, Find out what it means to me..."

And that is what keeps Detroit f-ed. Its run by people like Kwame and Ronnie, two guys who between them have the IQ of a ham sandwich.

Cue Kathy Shaidle in 3, 2, 1... [mushroom cloud, lightning]

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Summer of Love, Iraqi style.

On Drudge today, a report that as many as 90 or 100 Iraqi teenagers have been stoned to death for having "Emo" haircuts.

"The 'Emo phenomenon' or devil worshiping is being followed by the Moral Police who have the approval to eliminate [the phenomenon] as soon as possible since it's detrimentally affecting the society and becoming a danger," the statement read.

"They wear strange, tight clothes that have pictures on them such as skulls and use stationary that are shaped as skulls. They also wear rings on their noses and tongues, and do other strange activities," it continued.

Religious extremists caught onto the interior ministry statement, and have been harassing and killing teenagers with "strange" or "emo" appearances.

Religion of Peace, doing what it does. How would San Francisco have looked in 1969 with some of that going on, eh? Pair of jeans and a skull t-shirt gets you stoned to death. Sure makes all those casualties in Desert Storm seem worthwhile.

Meanwhile, Catholicism remains at the top of President Obama's Biggest Problems list, with Sandra "The Slut" Fluke and the whole DemocRat caucus out there to make sure that dope smokin' Pope don't play no joke on the Sistahs. You payin' for that abortion Ratzinger, oh yas you are.

Come on November!

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Gloria Allred screaming "SHUT UUUUUUP!"

 Gloria Allred has decided, all on her own and uninvited mind you, that calling a woman (who claims she spends $1000.00 a year on contraceptives) a slut is an indictable offense.

In a letter dated March 8, Allred, writing on behalf of the Women's Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund, requested that Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe probe whether the conservative radio personality had violated Section 836.04 of the Florida Statutes by calling Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke the two derogatory words.

The statute stipulates that anyone who "speaks of and concerning any woman, married or unmarried, falsely and maliciously imputing to her a want of chastity" is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Allred explained that the statute recently came to her attention as having never been repealed, and that it could very well apply to Limbaugh's remarks as his show is broadcast from West Palm Beach.

I'm not a lawyer, but off hand I'd say a bill for contraceptives in excess of a thousand bucks a year puts paid to the idea that any imputation of "a want of chastity" would be either false or malicious. More like a bald statement of recorded fact. Call me crazy, but that's my take.

However I must say that its real nice of ol' Gloria there to come out and give this piece of free legal help to poor little Sandra Fluke, unasked for.

Allred, whose most recent high-profile clients have included Sharon Bialek, who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment, and porn star Ginger Lee, who exchanged explicit emails with former Rep. Anthony Weiner, said Friday that she has not yet been in touch with Fluke.

"I don't reach out to women, they reach out to me," she said. "If she did reach out to me, obviously I would respond."

Since she's such a nice helpful lady, and so concerned with unpleasant innuendo against prominent women in the media, I'll be very interested to see what Gloria does about Bill Maher calling Sarah Palin a four letter word which starts with "c" on the air. Not to mention the legions of Lefty commentators who have had seriously frigged up things to say about Anne Coulter, including wanting to hate f- her and stuff like that.  Maybe Michelle Malkin should try "reaching out" to Gloria. With a broom handle perhaps, Gloria looks like she bites as well as barks.

While on the subject, I think Limbaugh was right the first time about Ms. Fluke. A thousand bucks worth of contraception adds up to three times a day, three sixty five days a year, or some serious weekends, and no one guy is going to measure up to that kind of load, long term. Which kind of -defines- the term "slut". Unless she was LYING about the $1k per year for safes, in which case he was merely misled.  In which case, isn't there some law against lying to the Senate? Just sayin'.

Either way he's wrong for apologizing to this objectionable apparatchik Fluke, and all the pussy advertisers who jumped ship from his show are going to see their reward for cowardice in next quarter's sales figures.

Increasingly these days being a Conservative in public discourse means high sticking and throwing your gloves on the ice, not chasing the puck. Never mind the game, just pound on the sons of b!tches and leave 'em leaking.

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"SHUT UP!!!!" they explained.

And now, from Japan, the Shutupatron, a device that shuts you up.  For real.

Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University, developed a portable "SpeechJammer" gun that can silence people more than 30 meters away.

The device works by recording its target's speech then firing their words back at them with a 0.2-second delay, which affects the brain's cognitive processes and causes speakers to stutter before silencing them completely.

Describing the device in their research paper, Kurihara and Tsukada wrote, "In general, human speech is jammed by giving back to the speakers their own utterances at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds. This effect can disturb people without any physical discomfort, and disappears immediately by stopping speaking."

Is it just me, or are there a lot of guys spending 'way too much time trying to find new ways to shut people up?

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The tolerant Left ramping up that toleration.

Occupy Oakland wankers arrested for beating up and robbing some random lady. But this here is the toleration part:

"She was surrounded by three protestors and battered as they yelled vulgar epithets regarding their perception of her sexual orientation," Oakland Police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said.

So all you wacky kids out there who bat for the other team, just remember the founding principle of the Left is not honor. Personal integrity is so... bourgeois y'know.

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This is freakin' cool.

Joint implant that grows its way into a new joint. Awesome!

The implant has been in development since the mid 90s, and is intended for use in the small finger and toe joints of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis patients. It is made from a polylactide copolymer, and is inserted within the joint capsule of the affected digit.

Once in place, it reduces pain by acting as a cushioning spacer between the exposed bone ends, while also also restoring a reasonable range of movement, and keeping the already-compromised cartilage from being damaged further. Additionally, however, it triggers the body to produce new fibrous tissue, which proceeds to gradually replace the implant. According to the university, all that's left eventually is a fully-functioning "neojoint," made from the body's own cells.

Come on, that's soooo cool! :)

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Passing: Andrew Breitbart and Davy Jones.

First, Davy Jones of The Monkeys, part of the soundtrack to my boyhood. "What do you mean, Davy Jones is dead?! How can that guy be dead!" was my reaction.

Davy Jones, the lead singer of The Monkees, died this morning after suffering a heart attack in Indiantown, Fla., his representative confirmed to ABC News. He was 66.

"He passed next to his passions, his horses, and was one hour away from his wife, Jessica Pacheco-Jones," his rep said in a statement.

One of those people who were just good, that you never think of except with fond memories of what you were doing when they were on the radio.

Second, Andrew Breitbart, the Happy Warrior.

Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles.

We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior.

Andrew lived boldly, so that we more timid souls would dare to live freely and fully, and fight for the fragile liberty he showed us how to love.

Andrew recently wrote a new conclusion to his book, Righteous Indignation:

I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and—famously—I enjoy making enemies.

Three years ago, I was mostly a behind-the-scenes guy who linked to stuff on a very popular website. I always wondered what it would be like to enter the public realm to fight for what I believe in. I've lost friends, perhaps dozens. But I've gained hundreds, thousands—who knows?—of allies. At the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror, and I sleep very well at night.

Andrew is at rest, yet the happy warrior lives on, in each of us.

Word. We will miss you in the trenches Mr. Breitbart.

Life is fleeting. Live it, my friends.

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