Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 845 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 11:37 pm: | |
Has anyone seen the Devos billboard by Slows? it is hillarious! I don't have a pic it says Vote for Devil, enough is enough vote for satan |
Mayor_sekou Member Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 191 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 12:57 am: | |
People voted for bush so I dont see what the big deal is. |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 576 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:39 am: | |
There is a pic in the Elections Mega Thread. |
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian
Post Number: 225 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 3:01 pm: | |
I sent that pic to my neo con buddies, they are turning purple with anger right now. Whew! I needed that! |
Gdub Member Username: Gdub
Post Number: 1080 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 3:08 pm: | |
I would have thought the DeVil's goons would have done something about that by now, since it's been like that for about five days. Of course, if they put up a new sign it won't be long before it faces a similar "creative refinishing" via paint. Matty's people responded in less than a day when the MCS was hit with a couple dozen blue sheets of fabric a few months ago. |
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77
Post Number: 137 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 3:25 pm: | |
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Jams Member Username: Jams
Post Number: 3980 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 3:30 pm: | |
quote:I would have thought the DeVil's goons would have done something about that by now, since it's been like that for about five days.
You actually expect them to come into DETROIT? |
Karl Member Username: Karl
Post Number: 4657 Registered: 09-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 3:36 pm: | |
Looks like the desperate actions of losers. |
Toledolaw05 Member Username: Toledolaw05
Post Number: 58 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 3:50 pm: | |
are these the same goons who go around defacing other property in detroit with spray paint - time to throw em in jail |
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian
Post Number: 226 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:03 pm: | |
Those guys that spray paint "Money" on abandoned buildings? That is offensive, like seeing a scad of flies whittling a carcass down. DeVos's sign getting defaced however is more a funny social commentary. |
Eastsidedog Member Username: Eastsidedog
Post Number: 769 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:06 pm: | |
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Gdub Member Username: Gdub
Post Number: 1081 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:07 pm: | |
Actually, Karl, they probably did it for fun, something you don't seem capable of experiencing very often. And it's a laudable action by people who don't want their neighborhood invaded by offensive billboard messages. And, since it's actually been in it's current state for over a week and will probably remain as is for at least the near future (or until election day), I'd say the perpetrators are actually the winners. |
Eastsidedog Member Username: Eastsidedog
Post Number: 770 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:07 pm: | |
"I am the DeVil and I approve this message." |
Supersport Member Username: Supersport
Post Number: 10788 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:12 pm: | |
Typical Liberal vandalism, not surprised at all to be honest. |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 847 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:13 pm: | |
Devil's got a fine daughter. Glad him and Douchard like exploiting their pretty conservative daughters to sucker in those male votes |
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar
Post Number: 255 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:16 pm: | |
Chitaku, I was just going to point that out. But seriously, what idiot thinks that putting his daughter on tv will steal my vote...even if I am a young male that finds her very attractive? |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 848 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:19 pm: | |
there are idiots out there that buy into it. Ohooh hot daughter i;m voting for him! |
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar
Post Number: 257 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:22 pm: | |
If it was anyone else I might consider it, but the thought of him running Michigan just scares me. |
Crawford Member Username: Crawford
Post Number: 10 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:22 pm: | |
Isn't this billboard a little unfair to Satan? Is the devil really that evil? Even he wouldn't pimp out his daughter. |
Solarflare Member Username: Solarflare
Post Number: 563 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:24 pm: | |
I don't think it's a stretch to expect the "I ain't votin' fer no woman" people to cast a hot-daughter vote. |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 850 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:25 pm: | |
man i bet melissa devos is a hot party girl. rebelling against dad. |
Sticks Member Username: Sticks
Post Number: 121 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:25 pm: | |
Hurray for Ad-Jamming! |
Psewick Member Username: Psewick
Post Number: 61 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:29 pm: | |
Oh, it'll be up for awhile. Not far from this billboard, a sign still stands which reads: VOTE HOFFA '98: RESTORE THE PRIDE |
Bussey Member Username: Bussey
Post Number: 281 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:31 pm: | |
where can i get a pic of satans daughter? |
Toledolaw05 Member Username: Toledolaw05
Post Number: 59 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:32 pm: | |
"DeVos's sign getting defaced however is more a funny social commentary." just as funny as ur buddies who go around breaking into buildings to deface them while they take pictures to prove they are cool. they are all a bunch of imature criminals who should be arrested and thrown in jail fo ra few days. i didn't know being a criminal was considered funny. I guess to u it is. |
Wilus1mj Member Username: Wilus1mj
Post Number: 133 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:34 pm: | |
Well as Homer Simpson says...it's funny 'cause it's truuuuuuue. |
Toledolaw05 Member Username: Toledolaw05
Post Number: 60 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:39 pm: | |
no wonder so many buildings in detroit get taged. people like u think it is funny to trash things. u have no respect for other peoples property |
Crawford Member Username: Crawford
Post Number: 11 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:44 pm: | |
Toldeolaw, you're just cranky cause you're a conservative and in law school. Detroit doesn't really have a graffiti problem. Have you been to Madrid, Rome or Berlin? Pretty much every square inch of the older Berlin subway stations are covered with graffiti, yet there's no sense of lawlessness or disorder. I would like to see MORE graffiti in Detroit, provided it's either loosely political or artisitc. |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 707 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:49 pm: | |
Please don't speak phreak on the board. |
Toledolaw05 Member Username: Toledolaw05
Post Number: 61 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:52 pm: | |
Crawford, lets start then by painting some graffiti on the houses ur mom is selling. I am sure that neither she nor the homeowners will care provided its either loosely political or artisitc. It will probablly even sell the house faster and ur mom will thank us for our work of art. |
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77
Post Number: 138 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:56 pm: | |
I'm a democrat and if this was a Jenny billboard I'd be laughing just as hard. I'm sick of political ads whoever it is. |
Crawford Member Username: Crawford
Post Number: 13 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:00 pm: | |
Apples and oranges, T-law. Visible grafitti would be a hinderance in Bham/Bloomfield, but it wouldn't have an effect either way in an urban community. Some of the most expensive urban neighborhoods on the planet are covered with scrawls. Many things that are considered nuisances in a place like Bloomfield (pedestrians, art, vibrancy, diversity) are amenities in an urban setting. |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 708 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:03 pm: | |
Anyway, I bet this defacing even offended some satanists. |
Bussey Member Username: Bussey
Post Number: 282 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:20 pm: | |
I have to concur with those who support this recent defamation. The artistic expression of opinions through the medium of graffiti is a wonderful compliment to otherwise banal and sterile urban architecture. While one may feel that this particular method of conveying ones personal rhetoric is jejune and puerile, not all of us have at our disposal the superfluous amounts of money that some do. Given the dearth of personality that has been exuded by the DeVos campaign so far I find this sign to be neither flip nor glib but actually quite in line with his actual demeanor. I pine for the day when trite public expressions such as these aren't taken so seriously by anal retentive pricks who obviously don't give a fuck about this city or our state since their only concern - in a city that has lost over a million residents and has many , many, many other and more important examples of public degredation and blight - is a political banner supporting a candidate who if elected will not give a damn about the fate of this city and henceforth the rest of the state. GRANHOLM IN 06!! |
Jams Member Username: Jams
Post Number: 3988 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:21 pm: | |
quote:Many things that are considered nuisances in a place like Bloomfield (pedestrians, art, vibrancy, diversity) are amenities in an urban setting.
Please post your and your Mom's addresses, I'm sure there are more than a few of us that would be happy to add "amenities" to your residencies. We'll even let you pick the color scheme. |
Hysteria Member Username: Hysteria
Post Number: 1538 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:26 pm: | |
Dick DeVos reminds me of Sam Neill as Damien on the Omen III movie poster -
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Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 834 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:27 pm: | |
I admit I thought it was funny but someone needs to point out that defacing political signs can sometimes backfire against the other candidate. I doubt it will in this case though. |
Crawford Member Username: Crawford
Post Number: 14 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:31 pm: | |
Too late, Jams. I live in Bushwick, Brooklyn. My building has tons of exterior graffiti. |
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto
Post Number: 2636 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:40 pm: | |
The conservocrites have blanketed our city with their billboards, kind of like saying "haha, we have money, f-you!" And while the execution may be a little primitive, I don't find the results any more unpleasant visually than the actual message. Here's to guerilla public service! |
Toledolaw05 Member Username: Toledolaw05
Post Number: 62 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:56 pm: | |
all these liberals are saying it is ok to deface property - go back in any old posts on this site (here are a few) and 99% of them bash the people destroying property in detroit. Skateboarder Nuisance? Graffiti Revisited UA Graffiti Artist on WDET Urban exploration destruction yet when it comes to something they agree with politically, it is ok to destroy personal property |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 3064 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 6:08 pm: | |
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Gildas Member Username: Gildas
Post Number: 858 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 6:17 pm: | |
And people whine that Devos, if elected won't help Detroit enough. I'm still trying to figure out what Granholm has done for our city, or why she has not chewed out the "Big Three" for outsourcing thousands of jobs. I guess is shows two things, for her its all about the image and the vote, not results and she has no clue about how business is done today, mush to the dismay of our state. If Devos is elected, I hope he rewards those areas that voted for him (as he should) and then tells Detroit (myself included) to go to hell, because we're obviously happy with things the way they are, because we're idiots. |
Gargoyle Member Username: Gargoyle
Post Number: 31 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 6:18 pm: | |
Toledolaw, are you equating this billboard with defaced buildings in Detroit? Please, come up out of those law books for a breath of air. Your comparison fails to meet the test of logic. |
Bussey Member Username: Bussey
Post Number: 283 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 6:33 pm: | |
amen brother |
Detroitbill Member Username: Detroitbill
Post Number: 56 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 9:30 pm: | |
Hmm the question was what has Granholm done for the city.. well , she continually fights for bills and amendments advocating rights for the poor,(Republicans consistantly fight her on all of these) supports non discrimination rights for all people, encouraged industrial tax abatement zones for developing industries, initiated the "cool city" grant program encouraging development in various urban areas when no one else will loan money. ( which includes Detroit and many other Michigan cities)- this incidentally is something DeVos says he will eliminate immediately. She has consistanly talked up "Detroit" internationally and nationally whether it be on job hunting trips or adressing conferences throughout the country, I cant find one instance where you have seen Dick DeVos go out of his way in his career to help Detroit, he generally has directed his energy to the improvement of his own fortune or the west side of the state or a evangelical agenda. As for "chewing out" the Big Three for outsourcing I dont imagine any governor of this state is in a position to control the mind and management of major world wide corporations. "Chewing them out" in the business world is probably a suicide attempt for any politician in Michigan as the mega corporations will either downscale more or have frosty relationships with the Board of Governors from whom they need to generate jobs... You need to be savy ,,, if you have watched a debate you would see the Governor is far better at speaking than her candidate. She realizes being a governor involves not only business expertise but balancing the social needs of your state. There is no way DeVos will concentrate on Detroits needs, whether it be social or economic, why should he , his base is miles away,,, Look at Granholms behavior, she has consistently done her best given the current situation and is constanly fighting Republican controlled houses for progress for any average Michigander .. The economic turmoil presently is not a issue you can blame on the governor unless she can control the world economic climate, Its actually quite amazing the city of Detroit is prospering downtown which would indicate someone (whether it be political or layperson or a combination of both) is doing something right. If you could point to any government at fault,it would be in the direction of federal decisions. They do have world impact. |
Unclefrank Member Username: Unclefrank
Post Number: 47 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 11:54 pm: | |
I don't think either of them are worth much. Both political parties really have nothing to offer the average working stiff these days. You will find out in a hurry how little things will change once the the Dems take over. All you will get them them is alot of "feel good" talk. |
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto
Post Number: 2641 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 12:39 am: | |
feel good talk, uncle? do you mean like "mission accomplished"? or do you mean "The insurgency is in its' final throes"? or do you mean "We're an empire now and we create our own reality"? Even if we ignore the shady background and criminal convictions of the Amway family, The DeVos/Amway team does not even know what our skyline looks like, as evidenced by their printing of brochures with flopped Detroit photos! (Or has Rencen moved over to the west side of downtown since I last was there?) For any Detroiter to expect anything of these people is profoundly naive... As for the outrage over tagged billboards, well, what are billboards but a legalized form of tagging anyway? Much graffitti "art" is simply the personal branding ("tag") of the "artist", painted over and over again. i.e. Turdle. Many find it, at the very least, annoying. Most of what appears on billboards is simply the "tagging" of products (i.e. Preparation H, Martell Brandy, The party of war criminals, hypocrites and corporate fraudsters. The tagger does not reimburse the property owner for his/her branding, and is therefore a "criminal" even when his/her art is pleasing to some in the community. The "advertiser" or "legal tagger" reimburses a media giant, who reimburses the property owner, but corporate tagging is seldom pleasing, and often is actually offensive to the community. Which is worse? |
Mayor_sekou Member Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 197 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 2:10 am: | |
Where is that "VOTE HOFFA '98: RESTORE THE PRIDE" ad at? I havent seen it in a while I am really suprised it still stands. If I were an uninformed voter I wouldnt vote for Devos on priciple because his first name is Dick. Who the hell has dick as thier first name honestly?? (Except for another man who is in politics currently who just might infact be Satan.) GO TIGERS!!! |
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 1096 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 5:37 am: | |
"hot daughter" Ummm....Look closer, its like a woman with Dicks face ! Eeeeeeeeeeeeew. Hey well..whatever youre into, thats cool. I guess. |
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77
Post Number: 142 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 8:17 am: | |
This billboard may determine the outcome of the election! Quote* "Where is that "VOTE HOFFA '98: RESTORE THE PRIDE" ad at?" There is one located on Rosa Parks just north of 75 on the corner lot of an abandoned gas station. |
Supersport Member Username: Supersport
Post Number: 10789 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 8:46 am: | |
quote:This billboard may determine the outcome of the election!
Yeah right. Detroit isn't even a blip on the radar map during this election, which is sad, considering affirmative action is at stake. Without Puff Daddy telling today's youth to go out and "Rock the Vote," they could really care less. ...tellin' it like it 'tis. |
Gannon
Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 6937 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 9:14 am: | |
That's one too many its, or ts, or apostrophes. |
Supersport Member Username: Supersport
Post Number: 10792 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 9:37 am: | |
It's Supersport-bonics, the rules are flexible. |
Gannon
Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 6939 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 10:31 am: | |
<<< wishin' those ol' St. Al's nuns used flexible rules back in the day. If ONLY I had documented Sister Barbara Ann's personality change between 3rd and 5th grades better... |
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 1363 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 10:57 am: | |
quote:are saying it is ok to deface property
Toledo, I think the major thing your missing here is that a billboard advertisement is temporary, almost by definition. You think any of them, for any canidate are going be around long after november 7th? That's a far cry from tagging/altering/vandalising a century old structure. |
Gildas Member Username: Gildas
Post Number: 860 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 11:18 am: | |
I think I get it, the duration of a sign or building indicates its degree of protection under the law. Thats good to know, because I always wanted to destroy the tents they put up for the various festivals in the city and you know, tents for a festival are temporary, almost by defination. I don't think the tents are up after the festival, say Winter Blast for instance. |
Rjk Member Username: Rjk
Post Number: 541 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 11:23 am: | |
So is it wrong to key someones car, but alright to run your key over their bycycle? Is it alright for someone to tare down my Christmas display because they don't like it and it's only temporary anyways? Why does it matter how much something is worth or how old it is? The Devos campaign paid for that billboard and it was defaced by someone who if they were caught in the act would be arrested. Would it be alright for someone to go through neighborhoods at night and steal signs that people choose to place on their front lawn supporting Devos or Granholm for that matter? Some of the responses on this thread remind me of how a lot of people are all for free speech as long as it's something they agree with. Don't spray paint something in a building that been abandoned for years or decades (That I agree with), but if you want to deface a billboard that someone paid for, have at it? I think the term is moral relativism. |
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 1364 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 11:47 am: | |
take em all! all the signs, billboards, banners, lawn signs, electronic tickers....man that would be the greatest thing ever, no advertisements as far as the eye could see! what's the next best thing than no advertisements? advertisements that work against the thing being advertised. (Message edited by gravitymachine on October 25, 2006) |
Bussey Member Username: Bussey
Post Number: 284 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 12:34 pm: | |
If anything this sign indicates just how bad the state of Detroit has gotten since a person is able to climb a 30ft tall billboard, that is lighted, and vandalize it at will. This and the combination of the "hoffa in 98" billboard are very indicative of how little attention is paid to, spend on, or conducted in Detroit. Regardless of who is Governor. |
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77
Post Number: 143 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 12:41 pm: | |
Supersport: I was just being sarcastic about the billboard determining the outcome of the election. |
Nainrouge Member Username: Nainrouge
Post Number: 85 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 1:42 pm: | |
Here is a link to the commercial with DeVos' daughter. http://www.devosforgovernor.co m/Multimedia/MMPlayer_Video.as px?ID=97&TypeID=1 (Message edited by nainrouge on October 25, 2006) |
Quinn Member Username: Quinn
Post Number: 1004 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 1:53 pm: | |
What's with the copy on that commercial? "Nobody pulls his chain?" Geesh. Then they show her with her arms around him, then she says, "Well almost nobody..." The mental images that conjurs are so disturbing. It makes me want to say, "wait until he's in that alterra nursing home girl...I hear that molestation of senior citizens is common." |
Supersport Member Username: Supersport
Post Number: 10794 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 2:14 pm: | |
Do you realize how fuckin' stupid you sound Quinn? Almost as stupid as our governor trying to use the debate to tie DeVos to the molestation of senior citizens...almost as stupid, but not quite. Our governor is an idiot pulling out all the stops, more dirty politics than I've ever seen in a compaign, and all from her camp. |
Quinn Member Username: Quinn
Post Number: 1006 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 3:11 pm: | |
Christ...take a breath douche bag. If you'd take a second and re-read my post, it's funny. Why would you say "Nobody pulls his chain?" Why the F would you use that language? There are a thousand ways to say that your candidate is a strong, independent thinker who makes his own mind up without using that corny, 70's slang. You are such a dipshit...and so hurt at even the slightest slam on your beloved candidates. The sooner you realize that your candidate is going to loose the better...maybe you won't be in such agony this election (like you were when Freeloader lost.) Loser. |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 851 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 3:48 pm: | |
She could pull my chain,and hopefully I could weasel into daddy Devos' fortune!!!! Cookoo Devos, Cookoo Granholm, Were all fucked! |
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian
Post Number: 227 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 3:55 pm: | |
I gotta agree, I don't see a connection with vandalizing buildings to altering a campaign Billboard. If they had vandalized Jenny's billboard, I would have found it just as funny. Yes, I am a liberal, yes I am voting for Jenny, albeit reluctantly, I guess I am more or less not really voting for her, but voting against the DeVil. She sold me at the third debate when she called him out for being part of the reason are job market sucks so bad in the first place. Then he has the nerve to run his campaign strictly on buzzwords and catch phrases that are all about how bad off our job market is. If the Republican Party had given me someone to vote for like John McCane, that would be different story. Bush lost Michigan in the 04 election; do they honestly think we would vote a clone of him in to the Governor's office? |
Spitty Member Username: Spitty
Post Number: 488 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 4:32 pm: | |
At least she didn't say, "nobody yanks his crank. well, almost nobody" |
Mtm Member Username: Mtm
Post Number: 128 Registered: 06-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 5:24 pm: | |
What I found interesting about the third debate, and we didn't watch all of it (chores, don't ya know?) was that, when asked a question - health care, education, jobs, Jen had a REAL answer like seeking federal grants to reduce health care costs. All DICK DeVil could say was "...they've had four years to work on it..." Do folks realize how long it takes to get cooperation particularly at the federal level and with an acrimonious administration and state house/senate? On a side note since we're talking about billboards/ads, I worked Granholm's campaign last election (just haven't had time this run) and I was AMAZED that we couldn't get lawn signs until just a few weeks before the election. They simply didn't want to contribute to "sign pollution". That's something I really notice and appreciate with every street corner covered to obscurity with signs and each moment of evening comercial time (other than the pharmaceuticals, of course)for opposing campaigns. |
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 1101 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 6:10 pm: | |
Screw Devil AND Judas Granholm. Aint no one gonna fix the mess we're in, especially since no ones willing to face facts about how we got here. Jack says it best: The big three killed my baby no money in my hand again the big three killed my baby nobody's coming home again Their ideas made me want to spit a hundred dollars goes down the pit 30,000 wheels are rollin' and my stick shift hands are swollen everything involved is shady the big three killed my baby Why dont you take the day off and try to repair a billion others dont seem to care better ideas are stuck in the mud the motors runnin' on Tuckers blood dont let them tell you the future's electric cause gasolines not measured in metric 30,000 wheels are spinnin' and oil company faces are grinnin' now my hands are turnin' red and i found out my baby is dead Well i've said it now, nothings changed people are burnin for pocket change and creative minds are lazy and the big three killed my baby And my baby's my common sense so dont feed me planned obsolescence im about to have another blowout.. |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 853 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 6:13 pm: | |
damn he was right and that song was written in 97, |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 854 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 9:03 pm: | |
anyone see the english d on www.devosforgovernor.com |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 1048 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 10:27 pm: | |
I met Devos this week. He seemed like a nice, personable guy, with a genuine interest in urban renewal. He promised to host his first state of the state address from Detroit, if elected, to demonstrate his committment to this city. While I don't support some of his far right social views on items such as abortion, I also don't support people defacing his campaign billboards. Its immature and illegal. I hope the vandals are caught, tried, convited, and sentenced to the greatest penalty under the law. |
Bussey Member Username: Bussey
Post Number: 286 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 10:43 pm: | |
kind of like the kids who tore down the student council posters and got detention. Why are we even debating this childish act? Its a political statement. The billboard was paid for by a private interest not a profit seeking corporation. If people in this area don't agree with DeVos's agenda they should be able to express their attitude on his ephemeral message. After all, it is their city. Just because he has the endless cash reserves to post his name all over town doesnt mean that the people who live here have to put up with it lying down. Were the German partisians wrong for defaming Nazi posters?.....not to say Devos is a Nazi but a more general analogy eludes me right now |
Warriorfan Member Username: Warriorfan
Post Number: 551 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 11:11 pm: | |
quote:What's with the copy on that commercial? "Nobody pulls his chain?" Geesh. Then they show her with her arms around him, then she says, "Well almost nobody..." The mental images that conjurs are so disturbing. It makes me want to say, "wait until he's in that alterra nursing home girl...I hear that molestation of senior citizens is common."
You should have heard the first draft, she said "nobody yanks his crank...well almost nobody." Well, I guess she is hot. She could use a nose job, somebody call Greg Roche and put her on the books, we all know Daddy can afford it. If that God-fearing Christian Joe Simpson can buy his teenage daughter breast implants, certainly Daddy DeVos can pay for Princess' nose job. |
Bpjeff Member Username: Bpjeff
Post Number: 13 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 10:30 am: | |
Worse than defacing the Devos sign, last night my neighborhood was littered with Granholm lawnsigns. At least 100 of these are now lining Woodward between Hockeytown and Mack. If you want to express your political views - put a lawn sign (or 100) on you own lawn. This does not help in out attempt to keep Brush Park clean. |
Rossco Member Username: Rossco
Post Number: 64 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 10:39 am: | |
Mauser765's got it 100 percent right. |
Thnk2mch Member Username: Thnk2mch
Post Number: 466 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 11:11 am: | |
If it's not yours, don't touch it. If you don't like Devos. don't vote for him. |
Quinn Member Username: Quinn
Post Number: 1011 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 11:50 am: | |
This has got to be trademark infringement. Somebody call the cops quick. Still...I have to think that if there was a "d" in Granholm's name she would do the same. Hmmm...quick check on her site www.granholmforgovernor.com comes up empty of any reference to the tigers. Maybe she wants to talk issues and not resort to petty, short, inane statements and tricks (like this Trademarked D). Where was this a-hole when the Tiger's were losing. The more I think about this the more mad I get...alright gotta calm down. Wait...he's got how many millions but now he's stealing a trademark to somehow tie himself to a successfull team to somehow soak up their success or something? Somebody stop this man please! |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 862 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 12:42 pm: | |
well hey, if he's a tiger fan he's got my vote! puke |
Gennifer Member Username: Gennifer
Post Number: 3 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 10:18 pm: | |
someone needs to remind mr. devos what the english "d" logo represents -- DETROIT tigers. although it doesn't matter much because i'm sure it's in his plan to move them to grand rapids. Grand Rapids Tigers here we come!!!!!! |
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox
Post Number: 58 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 10:46 pm: | |
Grand Rapids Tigers? Nah. The Ada Township Tigers is more like it... |
Warriorfan Member Username: Warriorfan
Post Number: 553 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 11:24 pm: | |
Remember when DeVos was asked who is favorite Tiger was, and he couldn't name one? He couldn't even name a single player on the team, but I'm sure he is a real "fan." Even Jenny-from-the-block could rattle off a few players' names. |