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Leland_palmer
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 7:31 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

...and the children are smarter.

Click on the video under related content.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20080429/M ETRO/804290383/1409/METRO
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Alsodave
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 7:35 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Incredible.

It's a new show--"Are you smarter than an 8th grader?" Unfortunately, the answer is no...
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Craggy
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 7:36 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I saw this very early this morning. Not a great way to start my day.
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Karenka
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 7:42 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hats off to those students for holding their own and not backing down in the face of Conyers' attempts to intimidate them.
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Django
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 7:44 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Classic Detroit, CLASSIC. Has it made it to youtube yet?
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Pam
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 8:06 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Wow. Did she think allowing this to be filmed would help her image? I liked the commentator's reference to her "peculiar debating style".
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Single_malt
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 8:07 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Pretty sad when an eight grade student has a better disposition of right and wrong. I had to laugh when the student said..."we are kids". I especially loved when Monica Conyers answered the 8th graders question with a question. Too much...too sad...and too funny. I hate to say it, but I had to find humor in it this, otherwise I just get frustrated...I wonder how her husband feels.
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Leoqueen
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 8:08 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I was very proud of those young ladies. They were not afraid of Conyers. And I'll bet Conyers was just itching to get into their faces and wag her head.
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Viziondetroit
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 8:15 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

:-|
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Baltgar
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 8:56 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I only pray that videos like this make Detroiters become more aware of who they are voting for instead of just checking a box because of a name.
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Danny
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 9:08 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Her election year is getting DOOMED! A uneducated woman like Conyers from a uneducated schools.
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Gingellgirl
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 9:14 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Beautiful! Kierra Bell, you're my hero!
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Django
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 9:21 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

There talking about on wrif right now, That woman is just diggin herself deeper and deeper. Like I said CLASSIC DETROIT.
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Django
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 9:23 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Kierra Bell should get an honorary seat.
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Django
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 9:25 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

If ANYONE deserves a tiara its little girl
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Tetsua
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 10:56 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I just watched this video, and I can't even tell you how disgusted I am. When you get into a fight with everyone you come across Ken Cockrel, Huel Perkins, and now a LITTLE GIRL ... you've gotta start looking at yourself man. How do we get this idiot out of office?
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Gaz
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 11:16 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

what a PIG!
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Iheartthed
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 11:37 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

quote:

Her election year is getting DOOMED! A uneducated woman like Conyers from a uneducated schools.



She has a law degree.
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Chitaku
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 11:51 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"She has a law degree."


they must be passing those out like candy
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Mackinaw
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:21 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Conyers is so stupid. She's defending herself with the most flawed logic...against little kids, no less. And what the hell is she wearing?...around little kids, no less.

Quite the role model.
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Dshen
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:28 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Now that we have high school students speaking out against the mayor, and grade school children showing more intelligence than a city council member, maybe the people will stand up and demand competent and humble city government members.
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Craig
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:32 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Question: if Monica Conyers were on DY and she called Karl "Shrek" would she be banned as well?
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Retroit
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:33 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I was waiting for Monica Conyers to say "Little girl, I'm gonna get my gun, and I have four brothers that will whup your ass if I asked them." She'll probably accuse the school children of having a "lynch mob mentality." That seems to work for the mayor.
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Johnlodge
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:33 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)



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Chuckjav
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:45 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ladies & Gentlemen: Hats-Off if you please, to Monica Conyers....the quintessential retard.
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Detroitmaybe
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:51 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This is amazing...I wish they would play this on the news. I'm wanna e-mail Steve Wilson or somebody. Much respect Miss Kierra Bell..you're a very intelligent young woman!!
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1953
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:55 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

OMG.

I can't stop laughing!

She just got schooled by an 8th grader!

LOL!
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Kid_dynamite
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 1:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Revolting. Frickin' revolting.
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Spacemonkey
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 1:24 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Kid_dynamite, you are becoming one of my least favorite users of this forum. Your perpetual idiotic blurbs contain little more than immature one-liners and feeble attempts at humor. I am not mainly referring to this thread. Cracking a joke hear or there is OK, but that's pretty much all you have to offer. Why don't to try to contribute to one of these conversations with something that others would actually have an interest in reading?
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Kid_dynamite
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 1:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

That was original. Thanks for proving my point from the Quicken thread. Grow up, little boy.

(Message edited by kid dynamite on April 29, 2008)