DETROIT COUNCILWOMAN JOANN WATSON LIVES ON AN EMPTY LOT?

Detroit City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson paid only $68 in property taxes this year because city records say her well-kept, brick Tudor-style home doesn't exist. Although the home has occupied its west-side plot since 1926, city records have classified the parcel as an empty lot for the past decade.

"I pay the taxes. All I know is I had a big drop when my house got hit hard by a tornado," she said. "We had great damage."

Watson said she could not recall the specific date the tornado hit, saying it might have been 2002, or perhaps 1993 but she said her step-sister LillyAnn “The Enforcer” Tamale

  was able to find a picture of her home just before the tornado hit

 

“Just look at the that picture, my poor home is right in the path of the tornado!!!!”

She acknowledged, however, that she never reported the incident to her insurance company or anyone else. National Weather Service meteorologists said the last tornadoes to hit Detroit occurred in 1996 and 1997 -- before Watson says her taxes were reduced because of what she called "the natural disaster."

“My sister LillyAnn took care of everything” , adding that,

“LillyAnn told me that she informed the City Assessor that the hole in the roof was fixed and that I wanted to pay my fair share of taxes if she knew what was good for herself”

"If it's an amount that's been determined by the people who are in the business of assessing ... and you pay that, then what's the issue?"

She said she did not rejoice in the tax break.

"In fact, I was kind of insulted," she said, adding that she feared the value of her home had plummeted.

However, in 2002, as she prepared to run for City Council, Watson obtained a $60,000 mortgage.

To obtain the loan, Watson acknowledged that her property was appraised. But she said that appraisal did not prompt her to think that her home had regained value and, consequently, would merit an increase in her property tax bill.

She said she assumed the appraisers "used their financial wizard" to help her get the loan on her home.

Watson said that “the tornado photograph speaks for itself, I feel vindicated of any wrong doing”.

“The citizens of Detroit know the truth”

As recently as Tuesday, Watson blasted state officials who she said have cut $130 million from the city's portion of revenue sharing over the years. "They owe us," she said during a City Council meeting, demanding that the state pay the money to help Detroit through its financial crisis. Watson's failure to realize she was paying significantly less than she should is noteworthy because she occasionally admonishes city officials for not being more diligent in collecting outstanding property taxes. She says the city needs that money to reduce its deficit, which recent estimates put at close to $300 million.

Blog comment……Hey…give her the benefit of doubt, after all she is a City of Detroit Council member.

PHANTOM AIR FARCE PICTURE DISCOVERED…

Air Force One" Flyover Incident an Embarrassment

By Kenneth T. Walsh

Posted April 29, 2009

The fallout continues from the "Air Force One incident."

Thousands of New Yorkers fled their offices Monday as word spread that a jumbo jet and an F-16 fighter were buzzing Manhattan at a low altitude. Many feared that it might be a terrorist attack like the one on 9/11.

It turned out to be a public relations gambit in which the Air Force was taking promotional photos of the plane—a 747 designated Air Force One when the president is aboard—over the New York skyline. Government officials particularly wanted images of the plane with the Statue of Liberty in the background. The pictures were to be distributed as souvenirs and post cards. President Obama was not aboard the plane at the time. (“Oh Ya…Where was he then?”)

Yesterdays announcement from the White House,

Washington Post, May, 4, 2009

The $328,835 snapshots of an Air Force One backup plane buzzing lower Manhattan last week will not be shown to the public, the White House said yesterday.

"We have no plans to release them," an aide to President Obama told The Post, refusing to comment further.

The photos have not technically been "classified," a White House aide said, but they are being kept from public view. They are considered “non-transparent” at this time.

Louis Caldera,

  Director of the White House Military Office, who devised the publicity stunt, quickly apologized and said “I promise it would never-ever happen again…cross my fingers and hope to die”.

'Now the questions arise!

Who was the person that the escort fighter was protecting?

When the Prez is aboard, no one ever gets his flight plan (as in this case).

Who was taking the photographs? The jet pilot?

The air craft is only called Air Force One when a President is aboard.

Maybe the photographer was inside Air Force One taking photos with President “Pinocchio” Obama looking out the window at the Statue of Liberty?

Sound ridiculous? Why not then release the photographs. They won’t because there are none that were taken out side of the aircraft.

“Huh….this Blog has uncovered a secretly taken cell phone photograph showing that President “Pinocchio” Obama, was not only aboard the aircraft when it flew over New York, he was flying the damm thing”.

“Okay… Sky King…..You took your friends, campaign contributors, people you owe and made goodie-goodie payback to them…you got caught…time to get back to the ranch before your nose starts to grow….”

BREAKING NEWS; MAY 8th, WHITE HOUSE RELEASES PHOTO OF AIRFORCE ONE FLYOVER.

“Huh….looks like the same Statue of Liberty that Sky King Obama is looking at in the super-duper secret photo that I posted May 6th (above)…Could this be true????? Nah..just a coincident??” (btw_ how cum only one photo released???)

Blog comment; I'm poking a lot of fun as usual…but it makes you think…don’t it????

Fiat is out to create a green powerhouse

By COLLEEN BARRY and TOM KRISHER, Associated Press, May 4

MILAN (AP) — Fiat is trying to build a global green powerhouse car out of parts scavenged from broken-down General Motors and Chrysler.

The Italian automaker struck a deal last week that could eventually give it a controlling interest in Chrysler.

Fiat gave a sneak preview of their new car called the “The Mean Green Weenie” which is expected to change the automotive landscape forever. The new technology will not only give owners 750 miles per one pint of virgin Italian olive oil but they will be able to fold it up and carry it around in a backpack therefore putting those middle Eastern parking lot owners out of business… “bastone al terroristici arabi”

Fiat Group CEO Sergio Marchionne,

says his grand plan is for Fiat to spin off the resulting auto by using “Elf Technology”, which he said would be big enough to compete with the mightiest of car companies, with capacity to turn out some 5.5 million vehicles a year.

Fiat's aim eventually is to become the world's No. 2 automaker, behind Japan's Toyota, according to Germany's economics minister, who met with Marchionne on Monday in Berlin.

But there are lots of questions about whether Marchionne can pull it off.

The plan is audacious, not the least because Marchionne is hoping to execute it without putting down a cent. "We're in the middle of an automotive yard sale," Marchionne said. Not only is the stuff cheap, the labor costs will be low because we plan on using elves to produce the car.

Fiat's deal to take a big piece of Chrysler could not only save Chrysler, it would give Fiat access to the huge North American green market.

Blog comment; See… all you soothsayers out there thinking green power killed the auto industry. Yahoo!! Happy days are here again!

ANOTHER DEDICATED POLITITIAN….

Old Republican Senator Arlen Specter

Last week U.S. Senator Arlen “the mole” Specter changed parties. He left the Republican Party and joined up with the Democrats.

New Democratic Senator Arlen Specter

Hey..that’s Okay….this is America and he doesn’t have to explain his reasons to anyone other than the people who elected him in PA. I just figured he had the interests of the people he represents at heart and this was his choice. The guy really cares about his people, right?…Wrong!…..

Here are a few tid-bits that I have read that burst my bubble of thinking that some of our Congress people are decent caring reps…This turkey only cares about himself…

Here is the reason “The Mole” sayeth ….

"I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans,"

Specter faced an extraordinarily difficult re-election challenge in his home state in 2010, having first to confront a challenge from his right in the Republican primary before pivoting to a general election campaign against a Democrat.
"I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate," he said in the statement.

Specter had publicly acknowledged that to win in 2010, he would need thousands of Pennsylvania voters who switched from Republican to Democrat last year to vote for Obama to flip back to the GOP to cast ballots for him. Arlen Specter knew he was going to lose the Republican primary to Pat Toomey. He said as much. In trying to sell this defection as a matter of principle.

President Barrack “Ma Bell” Obama was delighted….

He reached “The Mole” by phone, after he figured out how to use it, and told him "you have my full support" and that the Democratic Party is "thrilled to have you."

Blog advice to the Prez…. Make no mistake about it, Specter and 99 others Senators would join the Gay Pedophile Swine Flu party if they thought it would keep them in office a day longer. The same goes for the House. We are governed by men and women of no-principle and the Specter example screams the necessity for term limits!

And if this is not bad enough, “The Mole” took a shot at the G.O.P. today and blamed the Death of Jack Kemp on them. (Maybe he is trying to get the votes of poor cancer victims?). Check this news item out…..

Specter hints Kemp died of GOP agenda

By Tom LoBianco Monday, May 4, 2009

Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Democrat, said part of the reason that he left the Republican Party last week was disillusionment with its health-care priorities, and suggested that had the Republicans taken a more moderate track, Jack Kemp may have won his battle with cancer. Mr. Specter, responding to a question from CBS' Bob Schieffer over whether he had let down Pennsylvanians who wanted a Republican to represent them, said he thought his priorities were more in line with those of the Democrats.

"Well, I was sorry to disappoint many people. Frankly, I was disappointed that the Republican Party didn't want me as their candidate," Mr. Specter said on "Face the Nation." "But as a matter of principle, I'm becoming much more comfortable with the Democrats' approach. And one of the items that I'm working on, Bob, is funding for medical research."

Mr. Specter continued: "If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine."

Mr. Kemp died Saturday of cancer. He had been the running mate of 1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole.

Blog comment; Am I wrong ...but isn't "The Mole" pandering for votes making a comment like this...Makes one sick to his stomach....

Biden’s Gaffe is a Bad Rap…..

 

“PLEASE DON’T PLAY IT AGAIN JOE”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Joe “The Brain” Biden said on Thursday he would tell his family to stay out of airplanes or subways to avoid contracting swine flu, prompting his office to issue a clarification.

Asked on NBC's "Today" show what he would tell members of his family if they asked him whether they should get on a commercial airliner to Mexico in the next week, Biden said:

"I would tell members of my family -- and I have -- I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now."

He said the problem is that "when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft."

"If you're out in the middle of a field and someone like the scarecrow sneezes, that's one thing. If you're in a closed aircraft or a closed container, a closed car, a closed classroom, a closed jar, a closed call it's a different thing," he added.

Biden's spokesperson, FooFoo Fortunecookie

  sought to clarify Biden's remarks by looking into her crystal ball and issuing a statement shortly after his television interview. She said Biden meant to say……..

"IF THEY ARE SICK, they should avoid airplanes and other confined public spaces, such as subways. This is the advice the vice president has given family members who are traveling by commercial airline this week," FooFoo said.

Ya know maybe he is getting a bad rap?… Heck, he is just telling the truth… He is being “Obominal transparant” I tell my family to avoid crowded places because I don’t want them to catch the flu. If they were sick I would tell them to stay home. But……Biden is in a different situation…What he says on TV to thousands of people is considered the real thing. Unfortunately that ain’t the way it goes in Washington. White House spokespeople say that Joey meant that “if you are sick…stay out of confined places, blah…blah….blah”. Biden’s comments didn't bother me but Biden’s spokesperson sure did. “How dumb do they tink us commoners is?”

So Vice President Joe “The Brain” Biden, just to make amends to the White House spin machine and to stop the sharp decline in airline stocks, took the train home yesterday.

  “The Brain” boarding train to go home….

Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced,   that as a precautionary move, Vice President Biden would be added to the “PRESIDENT’S OFFICIAL DO NOT LISTEN TO LIST”.

The list numbers three now and is expected to rise…..The three listed so far are;

1) Do not listen to Rush “Fatso” Limbaugh

…for he hates Liberals and clean air……

2) Do not listen to “Tea-baggers”

…for they don’t want to pay their fair share…

3) Do not listen to Vice-President Joe Biden 

…for he left his brain in San Francisco….

Blog comment; After researching Biden’s history of witty, off-the- cuff comments, I am convinced he will replace Yogi Berra as the king of pithy comments and witticisms. Yogiisms will be replaced by Bidenisms…..

The First Lady Wears Duck Tape…..

Apr 30th 2009 at 2:00PM by Phebe Hunnicutt

The First Lady spent April 29th volunteering: She donated time filling bags with non-perishable food to be distributed at the Capitol Area Food Bank for Feeding America. An extremely worthy and commendable activity, and yet the photo has spurred a mini controversy. Why you may ask? Her fashion choices over a pair of lousey tennis shoes…

At first glance, there is nothing exceptional about her casual capri-and-sneaker combo, but upon closer inspection, it's obvious that these are no average kicks. First Lady “Michelle, My Belle” rocked a pair of $540 Lanvin sneakers to the food bank.

Darn it!, Its about time we stop picking on “Michelle, My Belle”. You have this all wrong. “Michelle, My Belle” was not wearing these pricey kicks to impress anyone, she was just trying to fit in at the food bank. She was told that many of the poor at the food bank wore sneakers that were held together with duck tape. “Michelle, My Belle” in all her compassion wanted to be the same,

So…… her Deputy Chief Dressy-up Advisor, Greta Twoballs, picked out a pair of Lanvin kicks that look like they were made out of duck tape?

First Lady “Michelle, My Belle” not only helped pass out food to the needy she also donated 240lbs of day old cake so that the poor could eat cake too and not just non-perishable food.

Later in an interview, “Michelle, My Belle” said she was going to wear her “everyday” sneakers but found out that President “Obama-lama-ding-dong” gave them along with two dozen pizza pies to his needy half-brother in Kenya.

“Michelle, My Belle” also said that in a gesture to give everyone a chance at the American dream, she gave her Lanvin shoes to a shoe-less, tooth-less bag lady who was waiting in line for cake. Hedda Hopperstein, the shoe-less, tooth-less bag lady cried, “maybe I can become rich and famous now!!!”…

First Lady Michelle, My Belle humbly added, “if it weren't for shoes, where would Cinderella be now…huh?…scrubbing floors on the East side of Chicago”….

Blog Comment; Quit complaining, millions of Americans can afford these tennis shoes. Ya all income earners just got a tax break for the year that is about equal to the price of the shoes...Ya want to eat cake too?.... Go to Washington....