lol. america in decline.

50 yrs of liberal Democrat rule has reduced a once beautiful place to live to the laughing stock of the nation. I firmly believe “Hope and Change” for Detroit and other once dynamic cities is conservative Republican’s in charge.

They are probably union made right there in Detroit.

60 years of Preogressive rule really has made Detroit into a type of Utopia that every other American city should emulate.

Obama said he would create jobs, I bet the crack pipe factory is hiring.

the pipes are sold in flying j”s maverick gas stations, and many other gas stations in arizona. they are disguised as aluminum straws at maverck, small glass tubes with roses inside at flying j, and other various disguises. if you see this, tell the clerk you know what they are, and report them to the local police. it wont help, but do your part.

*Progressive

Yeah… Crack pipes are what bring in the folks…. Never mind the 25% unemployment rate, the dilapidated infrastructure, corrupt politicians, corrupt unions, drug dealing cops… It’s the Dollar Store CRACK pipes that’s causing the problem.
WOW! So, if we just got rid of these pipes, the Detroit drug problem would be solved. Holy Canoly, why didn’t anyone ever figure this out already??????
I bet if we got rid of all the roach clips and bongs, we would eliminate pot smoking!
WAIT!!!!!! If we got rid of $20.00 & $100.00 bills, we would solve the cocaine problem too! UGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!! If only we could have known this before!

Is this the culmination of 40 years of Destroyed — er, Detroit liberalism? Nah, you’ve got even further to slide into the abyss because you still haven’t learned your electoral lessons.

Keep serving as Mexifornia’s role model.

ito the stores mentioned, if you think im wrong, look at your counter. thats where they are at. in chino valley az, the maverick store has the aluminum straws on the counter. the circle k’s have the roses at v arious times. tell the clerk youy KNOW what they really are.

How can this be illegal until there is some residue in it?

welcome to what happens when liberals are in charge! Detroit is a model for what the rest of the country will be like if Democrats have their way. The sad part is that many Americans don’t care as long as they get their entitlements and can get revenge on those who have more, the “evil rich”, those people who work, save, and pay taxes so others don’t have to do so.

They sell them in every city. I live in Boynton Beach Fl and they sell them at the shell station and at the various mini markets adjacent to the “hood”

This kind of thing sells in Miami gas station for 25 years, how is this news?

Crack pipes for kids.
Forty-seven percent illiteracy.
Dead downtown.
And the liberals want to trade Justin Berlander.
Go figure.

Meh, this has been going on for YEARS. Back in the early to mid 90′s when I worked in convenience stores we sold the roses in a glass tube. This is nothing new.

This is old news…the roses in tubes have been for sale around Mississippi for many years. Sometimes, the “plug” in the tube is a piece of steel wool. So, you have all the makings of a crack pipe.

niceeeee

Don’t get all upset over this, it’s just the brothers trying to make a living!!

Nearly half the poeple in Detroit are functionally illiterate. And yet we keep giving millions and millions more to the public school system. What’s wrong with this picture, people?

Flying J’s are a Moron owned company. I’m sure if they new there stores were selling them they would have them remove. Detroit is a failure of both Unions and Demorats. and there plans for a goverment sponsered Utopia

I can’t even remember the last time I actually walked into a c-store. I get the gas & go. There’s nothing in there I need. I certainly don’t ‘need’ to get mugged, & I don’t need a mini rose in a cute glass tube. You would think the authorities would be able to find out who the manufacturer of these things are and shut them down.

we were very shocked to see this stuff on sale in floeida too.

Why don’t they crack down on over the counter liquor sales too? It does more damage than crack.

Well, at least one person is making money in Detroit. I guess that means we’ll be paying for one less lazy Detroit bum on welfare.

It’s the only way Washington can keep their fellow socialists under control is by giving them crack,, in some form or another…

YOU MEAN THE BROTHERHOOD?

Well crack pipes are just part of the drug culture inherited from my generation in the 60s which ought to be called the stoned generation. As for me I like the way the communist Chinese solved their drug problem. It is alleged that they would put a bullet in the back of the head of a user or seller and charge the dead person’s family for the bullet. Inexpensive, generates revenues without raising taxes, a permanent solution with no repeat offenders, and best of all decreases the carbon footprint by one thereby saving the planet from global warming.

When will blacks & black leadership realize that crack is enslaving a sizable portion of the black poplation. Oh, noooo, it’s more important to raise hell
about the number of black quarterbacks in the NFL. Detroit is there kind of city.

This is the biggest non story I have read in a long time. Author of this article, where have you been the last 30 years?

When a population’s unemployment rate reaches any where from 25-33% it sinks into barbarism. Once a great industrial power house, Globalists traitors have sold out Detriot and the ret of America. God help them for the rest of the nation is just a short few steps behind D-Town.

Laws have been made throughout the US that since these items accomodate the usage of illegal drugs (make it easier for folks to use them) these items have been made illegal to sell.

Look, it’s DETROIT! What else would you expect? The pigs are only mad because this is cutting into THEIR sales!

‘Glass roses’ have been sold in New York for a very long time. Slow news day in Motown, or maybe a certain reporter didn’t feel like doing any real investigating?

Another example of something that is not news presented as such.

http://rhymeandreasonable.com

Trying to stop a multi-billion dollar crack epidemic by outlawing glass tubes is like trying to prevent bank robberies by outlawing shoes. Sorry…you aren’t going to stop it. And the worst thing about crack is it doesn’t make the user sterile in the process.

“To avoid police detection and to try to avoid the law, they put a pen insert – (in) a glass tube, and try to evade the law, which talks about paraphernalia and stuff that has a second use,” says Mahalab.

I’ve seriously seen people turn apples into bongs. If this is a legitimate law, then they have just made EVERYTHING illegal.

Must be a bad day for news in Detroit. These things have been sold in gas stations across the country since the 80′s.

No, it’s a whatever-color-the-USER-is thing. Of course it is illegal to sell drug paraphernalia, and those doing so should be prosecuted, but nobody is going out and forcing blacks to use crack.

Incidentally, although they need free housing, food stamps, welfare, Medicaid, and everything else, there always seems to be plenty of money to buy drugs.

Here’s how it works.. They recently cut off funding for the state operated “war on drugs”, i.e. free state run rehab, halfway houses and state paid drug testing costing tax payers untold millions. So these services actually fall back in the hands of the private sector where they actually work and do some good. Then the msm drums up fake scare stories like this (old news btw) so more tax dollars start paying the free ride, govt. run rehab, halfway houses, drug testing etc.. This time the state charges the addict after “treatment” so they end up with a 25k bill after it is all said and done and they can pay it off over the course of decades in effect working for the state. Keep drug testing, drug counseling and rehab in the hands of the mom and pop and out of the hands of the nanny state.

UNION MADE!!! so they got to be good!!

What is sad is how dumb the police sound. If they didn’t know crack pipes were being sold in the local stores they are idiots! I don’t do drugs, but I have been in plenty of stores in what one would consider a good neighborhood and have heard people ask for ‘pens’. I figured out what it was when I asked a cousin who is on the Police force here. They all know about it. I can’t believe this is actually a news story!

Mind you LA has a 57% illiteracy rate… Detroit’s doing well in comparison.

Of course there’s no drug problems here.

Let’s see…Emergency Managers vs. Kwame’s Posse.

Yep, that Rick Snyder, he’s just eeeeeevil!!!!!

Ahh yes, liberal land.

this is nothing new i worked at a drive threw convenient store 10 years ago in rural north carolina briefly and There I was introduced to the little rose in a glass vase. these things have been around a long time and are probably being sold near you. Don’t know why this is even news worthy.

That’s true even here in NM.

No one is laughing but the fools.

Ah yes, the change we wee hoping for!

Lots of convenience stores have had those for years and I live in Florida. Are the cops just now catching on to this? not just a Detroit thing.

Let me see… it is now illegal to post drivel on websites. When can I schedule you in for a bullet to the back of the head? I’ll need your relatives address for billing.

I just hope these were “Union Made” and not some inexpensive trash imported from China! Last thing these store owners need are the unions coming down on them!

And we wonder why Japanese auto makers are running circles around Detroit automakers?

Have you seen the email comparing Detroit and Hiroshima? It shows Hiroshima and Detroit after we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. It then fast forwards to Detroit and Hiroshima of today. I’m sure you can figure out the rest.

**NEWSFLASH** This isn’t news. Hey article author, the 1980s called…they want their story on the crack epidemic back.

Maybe they can purchase the pipes with Obama’s “stash”.

Nobody said that getting rid of crack pipes in a convenience store was the solution.

What is your solution?

Endless crack-pipe buying but bans on caffienated alcohol, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our right:
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama and sweep out the Congress.
(Last link of Banned Book):
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526

yes it is OUR money buying drugs. where to you think these bottom feeders get their money? From the Fed gob. Our Man nobamba.

Panic in Detroit…

back in the sixties. We used to use cardoard tubes from a role of toilet paper to make pipes.

The true sometimes hurts, and the fact is Rich is right. I know liberal losers love to claim that these draconian solutions aren’t going to work… but the fact is they will work. 150 years ago if you stole a horse you got hung, the number of horse theft that occurred per capita was much lower than the number of car thefts per capita now… and the horse then is equivalent to a car now. What we need are less liberal losers going boohoo and more hard line solutions that work. Frankly we can just hang the SOBs and reuse the rope.

the libs run the this crazy house we call the White House. and Nbama is in charge.

Just ask that one lady where she got her ‘Obama money’! Then use that to give all the union thugs jobs, thatll solve the problem:) Oh, and more gubment control.

Correction:
Flying J’s are a Moron owned company. I’m sure if they KNEW THEIR stores were selling CRACK PIPES, they would have THE CRACK PIPES REMOVED. Detroit is a failure of both Unions and Demorats. AND THEIR plans for a goverment SPONSORED Utopia.

new – knew
there – there
they, them – crack pipes or Flying J’s
sponser – sponsor

The crack pipe roses have been sold for at least 20 years.

Remember when the black leadership(?) had the penelty for crack use redused because they said that too many blacks were being sent to jail for either using or selling crack? Instead of trying to get the bros to stope using the used to the race card to tet the laws changed. That was so they, the black leadership, could keep these bootom feeders under control. so the bottom feeders would vote the way they were told.

they just keeping it real homes……..

I spent a summer in Alaska smoking chronic out of a sweet potato. You are very correct.

more likely by your globalist china mart friends,,,coke cans are used also,,ban them

this is false. 100% false. As long as drugs aren’t advertised with the product its 100% legal in all 50 states.

in some lib family that never got out except to go to the club or church.

Which City has the highest % of Obama voters, DC or Detroit? hahahahahahaha

Some one needs to make a video of a crachhead trying to get the rose out of that glass.

Sounds like that movie, “Robocop” could be a reality pretty soon.

Considering the illiteracy rate in Detroit is 47%, I’d like to think the taxpayers would be outraged considering what the democrats spent to what they got in return, but the progressives seem to have put them in a position where they probably wouldn’t know the difference.

Beware. Los Angeles isn’t that far behind.

“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” ~ H. L. Mencken —- http://911essentials.com

Its not like crack pipe technology is particularly advanced. These pipes are just TUBES. You can buy something similar at any hardware store. As mentioned, a dedicated crack smoker could just as easily use the barrel of a metallic pen, a broken off section of radio antenna, etc. A rolled up piece of aluminum foil would also accomplish the exact same thing.

II understand the ban against crack cocaine, but enforcing a ban against small tubes is just silly.

Nobody starts smoking crack because these tubes are available at “convenience” stores, nobody maintains smoking crack because the tubes are available, and nobody STOPS smoking crack when they aren’t so readily available.

I like your comment but, you are wrong: they are made in China

These items are sold in every state across the nation! This is far from a new thing. The store owners are fully aware of what’s going on. They sell these items fully in the knowledge of their intended use. The law doesn’t make it illegal. Anyone can make a pipe out of a soda can, an apple, a potato, etc.

I once saw a convenience store owner ring up a purchase of a can of baking soda, brass brillo, and a few other normal items. He looked the customer in the face and said “Party Time?”. After the customer left, he said to me that when he first started the store he was amazed at how much baking soda he was selling, given that it takes so very little when baking. Either there was a heck of a lot of baking going on or something else. When he figured it out, he raised the price two dollars and it didn’t make a difference!

So yea, gas station convenience stores will sell anything legal to turn a profit. But you can’t make all this stuff illegal, it will just shift to other items. Police arrest addicts every day with these items but they are only paraphernalia when actually used to smoke crack cocaine and there is residue in / on them.

Many states still have so called “Head Shops” where you can legally buy drug paraphernalia such as bongs, hashish pipes, etc., etc. Even selling some drugs sold as seeds when in fact they are a known narcotic just not illegal everywhere yet. There are publications such as “High Times” a legal magazine devoted to marijuana growers

Fix the drug problem causing the neighborhood addicts to buy this stuff in the first place. I fear the only way to stop it and bring it under control is to legalize it. Provide measures for drug companies to safely produce the drugs and sell them for less than the illegal street does. Tax them but not too heavily for if the street is cheaper it will not stop the problem. Register the users and offer them assistance in solving their addiction. Use the tax money to pay for it. Nail anyone driving while intoxicated same as alcohol. Make it a very stiff penalty.

Making alcohol illegal during prohibition didn’t accomplish anything except make the Kennedy’s their fortune smuggling it from Canada! Or making users blind because of a bad batch of bathtub gin or moonshine.

It is simple economics, if there is a buck to be made, and it’s illegal, the value of profit skyrockets! The drugs on the street are dangerous and deadly and very expensive as the smugglers and dealers risk increases and the supply and demand shifts. The illicit trade is worth hundreds of billions of dollars. The cartels are killing for control of the drug trade over nothing but enormous amounts of money.

If you agree with this nonsense then you should also agree with banning cigars that is also has a second use in blunts, or soda cans that have a second use as a pipe, or a soda straws that have second use for snorting, or plastic sandwich bags that can be used as drug transportation devices. The list can go on and on. Where does it end? It won’t if you continue to let the Dems get their way.

As if the crack is not going to get smoked. So they outlaw glass tubes. A crack addict with a rock in their hand is like McGyver. They will pack it in a rats nose and huff it out its but hole if they need to. Might as well let Apu make a buck.

:”Oh Boy”.47% of them can’t read, but they can smoke crack.I would not be surprise if the pay for the crack with food stamps.

Well Detroit residence may not be able to read, but they know the important things in life. Which store has the best sale on crack pipes.

I did think it odd that they put the tiny flowers in glass tubes, I had no idea they doubled as a crack pipe. But then addicts will use anything as a pipe, a toilet paper tube, ink pen casing, aluminum foil, etc…Why should law enforcement waste time on this alerting convienience stores, when a junkie can go to a smoke shop and just buy a pipe as well? Seems like overreacting to me, they are not advertised as such in the stores. What if someone buys one just cause its cute? Will this warrent a search and seizure?

Atlanta is working on it. We are wasting your tax dollars on a trolley that goes from a park to the MLK house. We had one of those and it lost money. No one used the thing. Now this one will have tracks and everything and the torest will just flock to ride this thing. Sop we are told. We have teachers and addministraters changing grades on school test so they can get fed. money. The state let an illegal stay in college instead of sending her home. The city of Atlanta is run by nepotism. We have boobs runing this place. Atlanta had a mayor that once said “Whites don’t have civil rights”. GM closed two auto plants and Ford closed one plant. ” I wanna go home, I wanna go home. I don’t think so.

I think the main point of this story is to let the “average schmoe” know what crack pipes look like and how they are sold.

For “borntobepolitical”; there is a ban in place on these glass tubes. Per the story, store owners are being penalized for selling them. Obviously, banning glass tubes is about as effective as banning crack cocaine itself. . .ie not at all.

The question isn’t whether or not a ban on pipes is “the solution”. . .obviously it isn’t. The ban doesn’t do anything to reduce the availability, or more important, actual use of crack cocaine.

The question is whether there is any benefit to this ban at all.

My take on this is that since banning pipes pretty clearly isn’t going to stop anyone from smoking crack, its better for local store owners to get some taxable business from the addicts, as well as to keep at least some of their activity public to help keep tabs on it.

More bluntly, enforcing a ban just further hurts local businesses in areas that are already economically depressed, and cuts into the tax base that much more. .

Nah, these people don’t get a DIME of our money for drugs. It only goes to food, housing, medical, etc. I’m sure they keep their money separate so they can PROVE that your money is NOT being spent on drugs. Oh, and Planned Parenthood doesn’t use a DIME of taxpayer money for abortions. They keep it separate. Get it?

No, fool. That’s not what he wrote. Why don’t you read the comment before you prove to everyone what a complete idiot you are.

Maybe you should ask what policies from 50 years ago the original commenter favors rather than jumping to the conclusion that they’re Klansmen in disguise.

Dreamtime said, “Seems like overreacting to me, they are not advertised as such in the stores.” Actually this doesn’t make any difference. The average Detroit resident couldn’t read the advertising anyway.

…and sold and bought in Detroit. That’s the point, isn’t it? I don’t care if they’re made on the moon.

Really they are owned by morons not mormons

It has nothing to do with race. Only idiots use drugs, and idiocy is not associated with any “race”.

Zelda, I believe our President will be 50 years old this year?

Dar what im talkn bout

Its the white man’s fault……

Gansta, Gangsta, dats wut dey yellin!

When I was younger, everyone in southern california used these for marijuana oil extracts. This is probably just the government trying to call it a crack pipe so they can get rid of more marijuana smokers, figures!

Zelda, why did you go there? IN CONTEXT, Ex-Detroiter was referring to how Democrats have ruined the city, has NOTHING to do with race and racism.

Like everyone says old news. Why dont they report in any Arab liquor store you can for a couple bucks buy a brown bag special, a crack pipe, pusher, wire scrubber and a lighter in a brown bag for a couple bucks??

Since when is this news. This kind of product has been sold for 15 years. Ane your just getting this?

I read the other day that Detroit has an official illiteracy rate of 47%.
Don’t laugh. All democrat towns are close to that number.
But chin up! The illiterate slugs DO have an imagination that creates crack pipes!
I think I hear Marion Berry pulling up.

‘Why don’t ya’s leave them poor people in Detroit alone!!!! They’z all ready living in “ROAD WARRIOR “Times!

Every city in this country that has been under the Progressive (liberal) Wing is nothing but a dump, total wasteland. But the fools just keep popping-up when election time comes with their hands out gobbling-up all of the promises year after year decade after decade and the only “change” is it just keeps getting worse. When you rob Peter to pay Paul you will always have Pauls cooperation. Problem is that now there are more Pauls than Peters.

Liberalism destroys the very same people that liberals ‘intend’ to help. Detroit is a perfect microcosm. The proof: 1.) Almost 50% are ILLITERATE 2.) Almost 80% OF BIRTHS are ILLEGITIMATE 3.) Almost 40% UNEMPLOYED or are completely UNEMPLOYABLE! 4.) Drug / Alcohol Abuse and Crime higher than even MEXICO or SOMALIA! And all this despite one of the highest per student spending ratios in the Nation. The ‘BLACK COMMUNITY” due to their reliance on and monolithic voting for LIBTURDS, has destroyed itself from within. The KKK could not have done a better job than the Liberals in destroying the ‘BLACK COMMUNITY”

Wonder if people like yourself have any idea how WRONG Dems have been historically on the race issue.

No one can accuse the Dollar Stores of not knowing their market.

The crimefighting is easy. People in Detroit are largely illiterate. If you find some nigga buying a pen, it ain’t for his english exam.

Last weeks headline… 47% in Detroit don’t know how to READ! But they sure know how to use a crack pipe.

Guess this means I gotta get out of the school supply bidness now.

Those are disguised? Looks to me like they’re just decorated.

Liberals, unions and black community leaders have done way more damage to the black community than the klan ever did. Maybe they are hoping the niggas kill themselves off. Voluntary suicide of sorts.

First, these are sold in every major city in the US. Second, every street cop know about these – but what are they supposed to do

are they going to ban stores from selling borax and steel wool too?

Over 3 Trillion dollars in welfare dollars has been given to the city of Detroit since Johnson enacted the Equal Oppuniety Act in 1964 and the Fair Housing act of 1965 .
Simply meaning you can’t buy Morals , ethics , principles, educations . personal responsibility ,sobriety , family values , hard workers or happiness .
Those living in Detroit where paid to misbehave and boy did they ever now going on a 6 Th. Generation .

Yes

Is anyone surprised ?
Last week it was announced that 47.4 % that live in Detroit can’t read or write .
While $ 17.700.00 the third highest spent in the Nation is to educate kids there .
Over 51 % don’t grad HS . And those that do can’t pass the 8 th. grade test.

Are you kidding me? These things have BEEN being sold for years all over the country. Nothing new, move along.

why is this a story…these have been sold here in illinois for at least 15 years……

Soros is laughing.

I’m sorry to disappoint, but it saddens me to see how people will look for any reason to trash one another. For those of you who don’t know, these crack pipes have been sold in convenience stores throughout the country for over a decade in both red and blue states.

And it’s not just for crack…

Ah yes, Detroit, the Alll-American City.

Where Obama hands out $3,000 stimulus checks and the destitue residents line up for blocks dressed in their best 24k Gold Chains, Gold Teeth, and $200 Nikes. Where there are countless homeless, but the city bulldose houses down by the thousands. Where 47% of the population can not read. Where Crack Pipes are sold at every Quickie Mart and 7/11.

Yes, blacks marrying whites just produces off spring that proves evolution works in reverse.

yes that would be ok……. and muslims would be shipped back to the place of origin

Not being able to sell crack pipes might hurt Detroit’s tax base? That was some kind of joke, right?

So anything goes if we can get “taxable business from the addicts”?

Do you seriously believe what you just wrote?

Idiot.

Zelda,
Your comment is pathetic. Conservatism empowers the individual, no matter their race! Liberal policies create dependence and destroy the self-respect of individuals.

Detroit. We don’t have to look hard for obama’s vision of america… decades of demo rule brings you detroit. Only thing I miss are the coney island hot dogs.

They are found all over Michigan , even the little towns like Jackson, mostly sold in middle eastern owned stores. They need to be stopped.

How can you really blame unions for the decimation of Detroit? All the small businesses were supported by wages earned by industrial workers. Sure, in its heyday workers earned $40/hr, and were able to buy the product they made with savings in less than a year. Was GM hurting from unions? At the time of the decision to move operations to Mexico they were earning record profits.
The decision to move operations and close plants was based merely on greed.
Competing with the Global market? Perhaps the only thing I can give Reagan credit for in his economic policy was restricting foreign imports of Automotive parts/vehicles. When the Japanese say they make their cars here, they mean it, they have to, and so should GM.

Isn’t Liberal America great?

Your beloved democrat/marxist party fought civil rights tooth and nail

When are we finally going to admit what the real problem with this country is?

You know what it is. I know what it is. We just can’t openly say what it is.

Ha! Excellent.

Yes, Zelda!

The use of crack is so much a part oif urban dwellers everyday life they do not even realize that crack and dope paraphernalia are illegal. A vote for a Democrat is a vote for crack.

In the early seventies we would take a strip of aluminum foil, wrap it around a pen, slide it off and bend the end for a bowl and when done with it throw it away. Of course all we smoked in those days was pot. I saw a lot of my friends become destroyed from smoking crack in the 90s. Its bad news, stay away. My point is people are inventive and where there’s a will there’s a way. I’m with Ron Paul, take the crime out of it and you will take the money and glamor out of it. Did we not learn anything from prohibition?

HOPE EVERY ONE READS AND RE-READS THIS AND SENDS IT ON AND ON

(Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist, writer, environmentalist, traveler)

By Frosty Wooldridge

For 15 years, from the mid 1970′s to 1990, I worked in Detroit , Michigan . I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs, and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses, and school yards. Trash everywhere!

Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps!

With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.

A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ flourish in Detroit . If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing.

Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America , outside of Richard Daley in Chicago , rode Detroit down to its knees… He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he said, “I am the MFIC.” The IC meant “in charge”.

You can figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans.

As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.

Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan , but most work in Detroit . As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.

As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife!

Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total separation from America .

Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan , paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC’s Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America . English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.

Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city. In Time Magazine’s October 4, 2009, “The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell, and how it can rise again,” I choked on the writer’s description of what happened. “If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane, and submerged by a ravenous flood, we’d know a lot more about it,” said Daniel Okrent. “If drought, and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we’d see it on the evening news every night.”

Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice.

But Detroit , once our fourth largest city, now 11th, and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country.

Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought m ore attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision making.”

As Coleman Young’s corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kick backs, and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city’s death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit .

“By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit ‘s treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services,” Okrent said. “The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers’ union to reject a philanthropist’s offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans , unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit , the unemployment rate is 28.9%.

That’s worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent.” At the end of Okrent’s report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he said, “That’s because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city’s collapse, it’s also about the erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century. If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can’t find a way to get up, what does that say about our future?”

As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner’s book, “$20 Per Gallon”, the auto industry won’t come back. Immigration will keep pouring more, and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit , thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America . If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit . Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs.

You have already seen it in Madrid , Spain ; London , England and Paris , France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers, and brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture, country, and way of life.

I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON’T STAND UP, AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON , AND OUR STATE, CITY, AND LOCAL LEADERS THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA . IF YOU FOLLOW THE NEWS AT ALL YOU KNOW THIS HAS HAPPENED IN ENGLAND , AND FRANCE AND SPAIN ..

IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I’M SORRY, I DON’T KNOW WHAT IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO STAND AND FIGHT.

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” — Benjamin Franklin

Equal Opportunity ands Fair Housing Acts have nothing to do with welfare. Of course the black slums accross the country date back to the migration of black to the cities beginning after WWI, because they were too poor to live anywhere else. Of course, they were a generation or two out of slavery and closer to the proto-slavery of sharecropping. EEO and Fair Housing made it unlawful to discriminate, and alleviated many blighted neighborhoods – I’m talking no trash, sewer, or water service. So whites just moved out of places like Detroit and the tax base plummeted. So true, you can’t legislate morals and decency, as many will evade social responsiblility nonetheless.

Not that any of this has anything to do with these silly ass things being sold in stores. As others have pointed out, this is old news. These things have been sold around the country for 20 years, probably longer. I don’t see any sense in any comments tying the fact that these little tubes are sold on convenience stores to politics.

Those things have been sold in E. Texas for 20 years. This is not news!!

Does this really surprise anyone? I mean..cmon..it’s Detroit…

41% can’t read, crackpipes being sold in gast stations, people leaving if they can, high taxes low service. Yep, this town is the liberal utopia in action. REJOICE!

Whatever happened to personal freedoms? Some of you need to mind your own business, I am sure if this was an article about banning Ice Cream or Whoppers from burger king because they made you fat, you would be harping about that as well.

lock up the drug users…forever…and the dealers…and the mules….so on and so on….stop giving them light sentances.

Yes

These things have been sold in my town for 15 years. I’m in California and I can go get one right now if I want. Sad.

Yeeah, bo-yeeee!

I live in Austin, TX which is one of the more liberal cities in the country and our economy is doing great! Crime is also very low. This has nothing to do with liberals lol.

wow! that is insanity!

If they were union made, they would be too expensive for anyone to buy.

You people should be ashamed of yourselves for wanting to use armed government agents to steal from people trying to do business in a depressed city. Detroit’s problem isn’t crack pipes; it is the big government that you support when you support prohibition.

Did you bake the potato atthe end of summer? Could have ended the season on a really high note.

[...] Dollar Store Crack Pipes [...]

So what?

You can buy them from Ebay.

ooooohnoooooz the scary Detroit!!!!!

And this is what comes with what liberals tout as “progress”.
Show me a city ruled entirely by so called “progressives” and I’ll show you a city spiraling out of control with crime, ignorance and general social decay.

Austin is a liberal city that benefits from a conservative state and policies.

Yes indeed. Those were better days. Now look what we have. A lot of lonely fat black women without a man.. It`s just not right.

Sic transit America. Everyone wants money at any cost, even to the detriment of his country and community.
http://www.tracesofevil.com

Flying J was sold to the Pilot corp several years ago because it went bankrupt. They knew what they were selling. They were trying to make every last buck they could.

And your going to pay for that right?

Dennis I left and when you leave please take the last American flag flying if you can find one—remember i’s a RACIST symbol there.

Atlanta is a perfect example those people are incapapble of self governing—look to MUGABE to see another example

“Detroit’s doing well in comparison”

Is that using the same math that says GM paid back their government “loan”?

he did make jobs– BURGER FLIPPING JOBS the dems despised

crack pipe factory IS in China but it’s the sellers in the convenience stores cleaning up the PROFITS!!!

but THEY claim REAGAN forced them all to do CRACK!!!

You can thank the conservative policies of Texas……in Detroit, the state govt Michigan is just as left wing. Liberal = run down hell hole.

I see Obama finally got the economy moving.

These have been sold at gas stations for over 20 years…this isnt new news. Just news to scare the simpletons that dont realize what they read is just trying to get a rise out of them. People, news flash….the world isnt ending, our economy just sucks.

You bet. Sounds good.

Thanks…its sad 99% of people will read a story and jump to conclusions before picking apart what they read.

They have been doing this in and around East St Louis for years. At least it may stop the crack heads from breaking off the antenna on your car, Not as many of those rod type antenna these days. but they ought to use the sale of those items to help monitoring.

What about the HOPE ? Hope you don’t get busted ? LMAO

Crack’ooga booga can’t you hear me talkin’ to ya – - it’s a ball of confusion!

THAT’S WHAT THE WORLD IS TODAY… YEAH!

Recorded what? Back in the 60′s ????

Hey Liberals, you have a DECADES long track record!

These “novelty” items have been around since the 1980s. I’m anxiously awaiting CBS’s breaking news story on Americans landing on the moon…

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Is that where Barry Obama buys his crack pipe? No wonder the flies there occassionaly.

Even though 90% of crack users are black, we should draw no conclusions.

They’ve been doing this since the early 90s down here in Louisiana. My Dad thought he was buying my mom a silly novelty item (rose in glass), but years later we realized people used them as crack pipes! lol

Ahhhh yes, another comment from the left using their old standby – race. To these folks, everything is about race, especially when you have no logic on which to base an argument or opinion. 50 years ago there was a negative stigma attached to being on welfare; to having children out of wedlock; to dropping out of school; to having to live off of others etc. etc. etc.

It’s Detroit, what do you expect? These places are probably making a nice profit selling these items.

Keep politics out of it… NAFTA and CAFTA essentially murdered the middle class in America, and that’s corporate Republican policies in place – all the way back to Reagan. I don’t think any of the two sides really care about you or I, but you shouldn’t label it against one side.

The government should’ve protected the interests of the people. We can build all the missiles, jets and bombs locally, but we can’t build anything else?

They sell those everywhere. Not that big a deal

[...] [CBS Detroit] [...]

Worthless black crack heads..exterminate them all ! Hoorah!

I live in San Antoio just down the road from “Sodom on the Colorado”(Austin) and you can thank the conservative state legislature mainly from outside Austin for providing you with low taxes, low regulation and economic viatlity. If it were up to you progressives, your lovely little liberal enclave would more resemble Detroit on a bad day and South East Austin everyday!

[...] utopia of Detroit, crack pipes are being sold in Dollar Stores, gas stations and liqueur stores. DETROIT (WWJ) – Be careful of what’s being sold under the counter. …… That’s according to  [...]

[...] the drug. That’s what made it so weird when my favorite fear mongers at Tao of Fear linked to this news story from the Detroit CBS affiliate. The news wizards there have the biggest scoop of the day. [...]

And yet Marijuana is still Illegal.

A lib family going to church???? Not likely since their theology is comprised of AGW, big government and accommodation to radical Islamists!

Real employment is 23% – People exhausted there unemployment, and feel they lost everything. while the government is bailing out the banks and their wall street buddies, we get it in the you know what.

Probably a coincidence that this city has a 50% literacy rate.

Frome the home of Obimbo and Moochelle, shocke…..shocked I tells ya.
Sounds like some community organisms are on the loose here.

It is black crack town. Their main job is crack and welfare.

Yeah its obama’s fault….

[...] http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/05/10/crack-pipes-often-disguised-as-novelty-items-at-stores/ Print Share 0 [...]

I have been a police officer in a southern state for 15 years. We started seeing crack pipes made from the glass tubes containing “novelty items” sold in gas stations about 10 years ago. Ace reporting, CBS Detroit.

These have been around for YEARS. The only change is someone in law enforcement seems to have finally picked up on it.

These are and have been sold all over the country for years. Not much news here, just a restatement of a sad fact. I’ve seen them in urban, suburban and even riral areas. I guess most people don’t realize what they really are.

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Pure racism on this board. “Wait, what’s that?” “The article is on DrudgeReport?” “Ah yes, that explains it all.”

Big deal.

They’ve been selling these and marijuana pipes in gas stations and stores since the 1970s. Before crack, it was a hash pipe.

Tell us something new.

Ok, here is something new.

You’re all tax slaves, and you are too stupid to search your own tax law for
“excluded income”.
ECFR dot GPOACCESS dot GOV
(TITLE 26)

Or, just Google excluded income.

legalize the drugs and the pipes. In fact, they should be subsidized. Anyone stupid enough to use them willl not stop until they are dead. Then new people can move in and rehab the whole city. You have the right to commit suicide. The governments purpose is to secure your rights.

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I am a young pretty college girl. I simply dont understand the racist attitudes here.
My boyfriend says i am stupid and naive. But blacks are people too, right? I feel so sorry for the racism that drives them to the crack pipe. Sometimes i want to resist them when they rape me, but then i feel the white guilt.So just stop the hate people!

You can use a soda can. you can use a tampon tube and foil. All things from the fruitful 60s & 70s:-)

Isn’t it amazing that it is cheaper to make a plastic tube in China and ship it 1000′s of miles to Detroit and sale it for a profit than it is to make the tube in Detroit (or anywhere in the US for that matter), where unemployment is rampant, and sell then sell it.

Doesn’t bide well for the future of our country.

lol – do these cops not realize how many things in gas stations/convenience stores can also be used as crack pipes. Anything from a soda can to an automotive lightbulb and back. This is your detroit tax dollars at work.

OH get over it people. So what, I mean seriously what is the big deal?
http://www.anon-web.es.tc

@ EX-Detroiter, AMEN TO THAT!! All of Detroits problems have been at the hands of the Democrat Rule, there is No question about that. They have ruined that city beyond recognition, and it’s probably never ever going to be Great again..Until the voters there wake up and see how it’s been destroyed, it will keep deteriorating before our eyes. sadly the majority of voters there are the ones who live off Govt hand outs and see no problem with that)

It’s not the tube, it’s how people use it. Should we make baseball bats illegal because you can kill someone with it?

made in china should be a real concern for those Crack addicts, arent they afraid of some unknown deadly chemical from China being in those pipes? LOL

Some people think that money can fix stupid.

Amen. And it’s not all just one political party either.

thank you for your support of the actions of the African American community. Brainless and liberal White girls have always been good to black folks. where do you live at if i drops in?

dee dee > I hope those tubes made in China have some special substance, so we can rid of the crackheads and do not have to use taxpayers money for their rehab.

Who cares? Crack is killing all the right people.

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Remember it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA and he also was China’s most powerful lobbyist with the WTA!

First it is revealed that Detroit has a 47% illiteracy rate. Than we find out crack and pipes are everywhere. HMMM wonder if they are linked.

Crack pipes are a clear and present danger to your local communities.
Crack use and crack pipes bring crime into your neighborhood, so stopping the sale of crack pipes / chore boy, is a small step to stopping B&Es, robberies, rapes and shootings in your area.

They are sold without any fear of enforcement – encourage your police department to enforce the ordianaces and stop gas stations, party / liquor stores / dollar stores from selling these items

I have seen them in Allen Park, Dearborn Heights and Garden City and if i did enforcement, like I did in Detroit – I would find them in a store near you.

Why did they not have the proverbial “wheel” yet in Africa circa 1880.

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That is because you’re liberal parasites sucking the blood from the rest of the conservative Texans. Perhaps they should correct that error.

Why is this a big deal? Go to any Smoke/Cig Shop (note I didn’t say ‘Head Shop’ they usually don’t like the added heat) in southern or central California and ask for an “Oil Burner”. What you’ll get is a ready to use crystal meth pipe. I have no idea what an “oil burner” actually is or how it could possibly be used for a legitimate purpose, but that’s what they’re called.

–3 year clean tweaker.

THE CARDBOARD TUBE FROM A METAL COAT HANGER…….PERFECT AND IT IS FREE

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“We are Detroit and this is what we do”

End The War on Drugs, The CIA ships it in! They’ve been doing it for decades!

Marines grow opium for their masters.

it’s Detroit who gives a flyin flock …

45 % of the pop. in Detroit cant even read … flocking scourge of humanity …

I know exactly what you’re talking about, and I agree.

Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetroit, home of bulldozed neighborhoods, abandoned factories and schools with tumbleweeds blowing down the hallways. All controlled by…DEMOCRATS at every level, for the last 40 years.

My advice to anyone stuck there: move. It is a sewer and those living in it think the smell is normal. They can’t wait to vote for Old Barry again and then get some more money from his stash though….

%100 correct my friend

Two forces combined to destroy Detroit… Democrats and Unions…

Funny how when Bush was in office, we had 8 years of republican rule and things when downhill faster than water off a duck’s back. Forget those years did you? Also must have forgotten we had a budget SURPLUS with Clinton AND lower unemployment rates PLUS lower gas prices. But lets no worry about facts, keep the republican rant going on the dumb track.

Usually Muslim terrorist fronts most of them getting rich off the ghettoman’s government given handouts from the pockets of the working people as they use our own tech and PC as a deadly weapon against us quite effectively!!

Dang this site is FUNNY! What a peanut show here. I just love to see all the “conservative” idiots here griping about liberals and how they are destroying everything. yet, what is the icing is NONE of you have any REAL clue what you are blaming liberals for. I also noticed none of you let FACTS get in the way of your rants. Facts such as Clinton had a budget SURPLUS. Clinton had LOWER gas prices. I remember paying $1.00 a gallon. Bush had EIGHT years of republican rule and drove this country into the dirt. Guess maybe there is too much crack smoke in your air and your memories just are not working correctly. Keep it up, I enjoy the laughs I am having!

So white people never need food stamps or use crack? You really THAT stupid?

Yet welfare was around LONG before obama.

Rampant unemployment and abject poverty; bulldozing neighborhoods and deteriorating ghettos; half of the population can’t read; and now crack pipes in convenience stores.

Ah the fruits of liberalism, progressivism, socialism, and labor unions. Yes, a true socialist utopia is at hand. Soon to come to a city near you. All thanks to 100 years of progressivism and socialist-liberalism, and great political leaders like Wilson, FDR, Johnson, Carter, and yours truly Obama bin lyin’.

old news. they have been selling pipes, screens, butane lighters, etc for decades at every corner store in SF for decades. and now you can legally buy weed and needles at stores and pharmacies too. people are going to do what they want to do.

Detroit…sounds like a great place for a nuclear bomb test.

Sold by devout followers of the Prophet, no doubt.

nothing new ANYWHERE. grow up.

You can ask Charlie Sheen but from what I know about crack if a person earning 30 million dollars a year found themselves addicted to rock, they would be driving around town in a $500 dollar car they owed money on with .75 cents worth of gas in the tank.

This has been happening for at least 10 years. Way to be on the ball CBS. Next at 7, Newsflash: Convenience stores also sell ALCOHOL!

Big Whoop De Dool

[...] *  I’d be suspicious, too.  What use do people in a city whose functional illiteracy rate is almost half have for ink pens? [...]

First of all, NO, there was never, not EVER a surplus during the Clinton years. That myth is so ridiculously easy to debunk that it no longer even belongs in any kind of debate, among anyone. YOU have also conveniently forgotten about irrational exuberance and the value bubble of equity assets that entirely imploded, as planned, directly after Clinton. Not that Bill was a bad president, as far as I’m concerned. I voted twice for him, but you rabid anti-Bush morons just make it harder to argue actual facts anywhere without being dismissed out of hand as left wing kooks. Please do try to educate yourself before vomiting out your inane nonsense in public.

I read recently where Dearborn was the US Muslim capital – more muslims and mosques per captia than anywhere else. If that’s the case, I’m surprised this is so prevelant in Dearborn (at least according to the cop in the story). I thought they were supposed to be better than the resut of us…

I read once that apples can be hollowed out and used to smoke marijuana. Yet apples are still legal. Ban apples now, or your children will have access to smoking parephenalia!!!

[...] When I thought I’ve seen everything, I come across a story like the one below from Detroit’s local CBS station: [...]

You NEED crack if you live in democrat party controlled Detroit.

In fact, the democrat party posters on this thread are obviously all on crack as we speak.

[...] Crack Pipes Often Disguised As Novelty Items At Stores DETROIT (WWJ) – Be careful of what’s being sold under the counter. Crack pipes are being sold at neighborhood stores [...] [...]

there is no recession just capitalistic slavery run by conservative generation money. That why the GOP want to balance the budget of America because they have made enough money off the poor and down trodden and do not want them to get on there feet. the banks , insurance co. law enforcement all in cohoots with each other . I want my five acres and a mule before yall try and balance the budget

so evident that this country is near its collapse, certainly near its end of greatness. We deserve what we get as we’ve all let the next generation down. What about the people who have fought and died in defense of this nation… what a disgrace to their sacrifice. Were are our politicians? How have we allowed things to get this bad? We reap what we sow… so disenfranchised with our leaders, all of them…

This has nothing to do with Obama. Idiots!
These crack pipes have been around since I was in high school in the late 90′s.

Corporate republicans, sheesh are you going to go into a workers of the world unite rant! The interests of the people were lost a long time ago because of proggressives.. Just listen to former speaker of the house laugh when asked how obamacare can possibly be legal under the constitution. Her answer was to laugh. Damn her and her party!

In tucson you can go into a store and ask for a “kit”. That’s a “rose” and a piece of Char, ( copper scrub like brillo). All legal until used. No news here, move along…….

Rich is absolutely right. You got my vote

Democrats took control of both houses of Congress in January 2007. The economy has been down hill ever since. Republicans can not do anything without sign off by the Senate and the White House, both of which are controlled by Democrats.

If I lived in Detroit, ruined city of run away liberalism, I would be smoking crack too. But I wouldnt live in Detroit….

Race is everything, there is no truth–Benjamin Disraeli
Culture is destiny–Lee Kuan Yew

And the news report yesterday said only 49% of the pride of Detroit can read and understand what they read.. Does the crack pipe help??

I used to take tin foil , roll it to use as a hash pipe, hell we
used toilet paper tubes as hash pipes so should we ban
tin foil & paper tubes

as a EX-DEtroiter myself, that city will never come back…
Only a 1/4 of the people can read!!!!!! plus everyone that can is leaving the area.
Have a family home in Westside of Detroit 8mi/Southfield can’t sell for $10,000
All brick home. The city doesn’t want it either. Just bulldozes the city down!!!!

God Bless “Colman Young” long time DEM Mayor……

There is NO chance for Detroit to rise “again.” LBJ’s “Great Society” and the collapse of morality and the work ethic among all strata of society have killed it. The city of Detroit is a 139-sq.-mi., open-air latrine and thus it will ever be. As a native Detroiter, I take NO joy in saying that. I’ve watched it go down for over 60 years. However, the sooner that the death of Detroit and places like it is recognized, the sooner we can move on and give our best efforts to more worthwhile “projects.”

I was just watching a show on TV called Hardcore Pawn. Its a reality show based out of Detroit. After watching that, I’m not surprised that these crack pipes are sold virtually anywhere in the ciy.

Welcome to your http://www.NewNation.com

And remember, it’s for the children.

This is a great example of how the “war” on drugs is a joke. This is such OLD news that every crackhead in the nation could possibly laugh themselves into a full recover upon hearing about this. These crackpipe products have been in corner stores for over 10 freaking years!!!!!

This is News? Only for the absolutely ignorant. Journalism…pfff!

Detroit: Just have one big Devil’s Night and be done with it.

This stuff has been going on in Uniontown, PA for a while. Just go to the A-Plus at
55 Connellsville St. They sell the glass tubes and Chore Boy from behind the counter on a regular basis, and this is a known “crack” area.

Heck, I saw these things at party stores fifteen years ago. Back when my old neighborhood was still livable. Four homes with families our of twenty four houses. Houses for sale for ten grand or less. And just ten years ago people were paying premium prices. Kwame Kilpatrick should hang by his thumbs on a daily basis.

John Wilkes Booth was right!

So you’re saying I should do my shopping in Detroit. Thanks for the tip.

this is news? they’ve been doing this since the ’80s

Forget about those years? No, we remember them ACCURATELY, while you’re simply trying to put the usual moronic Lib spin to it to suit your needs. Bush suffered from Clinton’s presidency as we all did, especially 3000 Americans on 9/11. That was ALL Billy’s fault. Meanwhile Obama’s ONLY successes have come from continuing Bush policies.

You’re a nutball, go back to school or the muslim country you came from.

Plastic is now illegal if it is not in a government approved shape… WOW!

Not only are you so stupid you ignored this article was about crack pipes in Detroit, your government check made you forget Reagan lowered taxes and doubled government revenue. President Pervert rode that train into re-election.

So nice try at re-writing history; just like a Lib.

You gotta be on crack to want to live in Detroit.

Welcome to twenty years ago. How is this even news?

[...] CBS Detroit posted an article about local corner stores selling crack pipes disguised as novelty items. The crack pipes can be in the form of a clear glass pen, or a glass tube with a tiny rose in it. These items may look harmless to a non-drug user. For any crackhead, those novelty items are utensils for their fix. Mostly every corner store is guilty of selling these items. Detroit police believe this is what is driving crime to suburban areas. [...]

Just put a shelf of books by the items and no blks will go near them.

Why is it your business to intrude on other people’s private lives? You want a government that tells us what we can put in our own bodies? I guess we need Big Brother to tell us what we can eat and what we can smoke and if it’s not on the approved list then we have to go to prison or maybe a good old fashioned execution if we disobey.

If only they could sell brains!

You are kidding, right!

Jon
So white people never need food stamps or use crack? You really THAT stupid?
……………………………………………………………………

No, Jon, we are not that stupid, but we realize that the ratio is about 1w to 1,000b’s! Blacks thrive on welfare. Don’t ask me for reparations, you fools have been getting them since Kennedy, Johnson and Carter. Wonderful Dem’s all!

Rob Crawford
It has nothing to do with race. Only idiots use drugs, and idiocy is not associated with any “race”.
……………………………………………………………………………….
If you are not kidding, you must be brain dead!

Sounds like such a wonderful place to raise a family!!
Blame Mayor Colman Young (D)

Shows how much I knew. I thought you meant cracked as in faulty. Shows you can learn something every day

You conservative republicans are exactly as stupid as the liberal democrats. Ever try thinking outside your spoon-fed conveniently-labeled box?

Report them to the police? Really? I s what we want to come to – acting like we’re members of the KGB?

You’re right… and MOSTLY because Jagg-offs like yourself wasting a whole lifetime sitting on your fat ass browsing the internet coming up with inventive ways to say n*gger without getting caught… Obummer… really
Why don’t you instead tell us what we can do to “restore america to it’s glory” without having to arrest deport, or otherwise punish everyone but you and f&^king Glenn Beck

RE: Bush
He was in 8 years and HE DIDN’T GET OSAMA
Oh, and he outsourced 8% of American Middle tech jobs

“Will this warrent a search and seizure?”

You’re f*(king kidding us right? Thanks to all the morons you’ll see echoed quite well in this thread, MAKING EYE CONTACT with your local ‘first responder’ will warrant a search

Why are you even talking dude …. YOU’RE DEAD

You want the Art Bell Website

Good, the only good Demarxist is a dead one. Keep smoking crack. Your MESSaih Obama aka Sotero wants you to kill whitey and smoke krak.

RE; Charlie Sheen whatever… Barry only managed to catch OBL because of the policies Bush put into place. Maybe if the liberal answer to everything WASN’T to raise taxes our corporate tax rate wouldn’t be about the highest in the world. Companies are in business to make money for their investors, not to get taxed to death. Who can blame them for moving out?

Thus Far..ALL COMMENTS have MISSED THE POINT:

“REVENUE RECOVERY”.

This is the “NEW TAXATION”.

Taxation in the form of “TICKETS” or “FINES”..this is called:

“Sheriff Of Nottingham Syndrome”.

It is in the BEST INTEREST of the “Police” to literally..’FIND WAYS” to “Fine People/Stores/Organizations” etc…in order to literally..’Maintain Their Jobs’.

THIS is whats really going on when you see “Police” actually going from Store to Store..Mostly owned by IMMIGRANTS just trying to make ends meet..and selling cheap junk that is actually trendy amongst not only “Immigrant Aesthetic” but is also “Kitzche” (Sic?) aka..”NOVELTY”.

This is the “Police”..Literally..”LOOKING FOR A REASON” and Justifying their own existence and PROFIT at the same time.

It is PREDATION.

It is INSANITY.

It is UNSUSTAINABLE!

Look..you CANNOT..”Win”..a “Debate” with the “Right” because for those people..its NOT..about..”Debate”.

Its about Cognitive Dissonance..Pathological Misoneism..etc..

The Bottom Line as regards the “Right” in America today..is an HYPOCRISY so..Massive..so…all consuming..that they literally..”Cannot Acknowledge It” themselves.

Look..these are people who ACTUALLY State the following..and BELIEVE..that they “Stand For”; “LESS INTRUSIVE GOVERNMENT”.

While SIMULTANEOUSLY..Ordering..Nay..scratch that..Demanding..INSISTING with RABID HYSTERIA that EVERY Woman be FORCED to “Obey” their “Beliefs” regarding REPRODUCTION.

They Actually call themselves “Less Intrusive” (And “Smaller”) Government while DEMANDING that the “Government” In fact FORCE its way into NOT ONLY “Reproduction” but:

MARRIAGE and ADOPTION as well.

Between Reproduction..Marriage..and Adoption..they are DEMANDING..that the “Government” in fact INTRUDE..and..by its very DEFINITION..demand INTRUSION into what are again..By DEFINITION..”The Most INTIMATE areas of Our Lives”.

This is the “Right Wing”.

Their Hypocrisy has crossed the line into a literal..”Psychosis”..a straight-up “Separation From Reality”.

And of course..it Doth Not Stop There;

We have Palin Conducting “Bureaucratic Book Burning”..attempting to “Censor” the local Library of 100 titles..

I could go on..but..see..there’s the rub..”Why Bother”.

America is frankly..in a NEW COLD WAR..but this time..its a Cold CIVIL..War..between those who are aware of..and DO NOT FEAR>>”Change”..and those who..are literally..ONLY LOOKING for EXCUSES and “Deniability”.

The Fact is this: With ANY “Republican” or especially “Conservative”..what you have is the Constant Attempt to “WIN SMALL CONTESTS OF WILL BY IGNORING ALL EVIDENCE”.

If one simply Ignores All Evidence..well..look at what that “provides”..a Very real Kind of.”POWER”. Because Intelligent People..will have NO CHOICE but to…GIVE UP..this is then viewed as..”Victory” as opposed to..”Debate” or..”Discussion” or..ANYTHING else by the individual who is CONSUMED with..”Winning” as opposed to say..”Solving The Problem”. Or..as is the case with BOTH left and Right at this juncture.”SURVIVAL”.

Yup..The Left is becoming sadly..equally hypocritical..and Hysterical.

Obama is A NIGHTMARE. A Corporate Fascist of the first order.

The Really grim aspect of the “Left” these day’s…is there tragic attempt to EQUAL the “Right” in “TOTAL ABANDONMENT OF ALL INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY”.

These are the “Liberals” we see wringing their hands at War Crimes while..SIMULTANEOUSLY Never.Ever..Ever..Das Ist Verboten..Even ACKNOWLEDGING the Reality that:

THEY are Paying for EVERY bullet dug from the corpse of innocent women and children. You PAY..you PLAY!

PERIOD!

Frankly..where we are now..the reality is this:

WE’RE NOT GONNA MAKE IT!

Sorry..you can Deny it..you can Rationalize it..but this can no longer be..”REBUTTED”.

Humans are a CANCER on the Earth. We are Literally..Still DEDICATED..our Entire “Enterprise”..is Devoted to..all our time..energy and Resources..DEVOTED..to “Killing One Another And Poisoning The Place In Which We Live”.

That level of “Severity” as regards our PRIMITIVENESS..is truly..IRREFUTABLE!

We..Are..Not..Gonna..Make..It!!

Cryin Shame too..

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