spellcheckman's Blog

Mayor, Football, Economy, Crime rate, and weather it's worth taking a look at.

The mayorial situation is close but KC has to win out.  Funky's a funny guy full of drama, and  national laughing stock but Kwame Kilpatrick clearly has him beat.  The K man is going to prison for attempting to fire a couple of police officers assigned to his protection who blew the lid on his affair with an aide.  The cops their job back and a nice settlement to boot, Kwame's text messages were public fodder for a while and he's headed off to prison for a minimum stay of several years. 

Football.  At 0-14, the Lions are perfect.   The Chiefs could easily be perfect had Denver with it's 3-0 record when it showed been worthy of it.  And the other win against Oakland was more of an Oakland give-away.  Faking a field goal that would have tied it?  The Chiefs rally last Sunday to lose against the Bolt's was classic.  Miami has too much to play for today to let the cold weather influence them, and the Lions will put up a Herculean effort today to thwart a perfect season.  In spite of the records, I give this one a tie.

Economy, Detroit's namesake, the Motor City, is tanking, the billions will only delay the inevitable.  90 days of throwing billions into the money pit won't erase 40 years of  "they'll buy what we build."   The tax base is shot, the middle class of all races has fled.  KC has a diverse economy, rail, tech, trade, financial, law, and engineering.  Hands down KC

Crime, a tough one until I read (yahoo news 12/20) that the criminals in Detroit  actually WANT to return to prison because its heated, health care, a bed, and food is all provided free.  What a reverse rehabilitation concept they have up there in Detroit:,  criminals committing crimes because it's sooo bad in the community that they get a better deal in prison!    KC has its catch and release program for EVERYONE,  and the prosecutors office, with the results they've been producing, would seem that it is run by buffoons, and the murder rate really jumped, but it's got to be worse in Detroit.

Weather, no way, how do all those economically challenged folks pay for heating in a winter like they're having?  Pot  holes, rusted out new cars, infrastructure collapse. KC again.

KC vs Detroit, it has got to be the reason people on both lanes of the highway look at a bad traffic accident:  Man, I'm glad it that's not me.