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03-14-2010 05:25 PMDouble R Performance
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03-14-2010 05:35 PMI can't decide which one is better for attracting tourists. The one should get a lot of tourists from Detroit......
Getting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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03-14-2010 05:52 PM
Holy Chit! That was hilarious.
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03-14-2010 06:00 PMLMFAO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sick bastage
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03-14-2010 06:24 PMBoth of those videos sugar-coated the hell out of it.
The "our economy depends on LeBron" isn't far off.
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03-14-2010 06:56 PMThe first thing Clevelanders always jump at is the old "river on fire" thing. That was decades ago. There's no industry anymore along the Cuyahoga to dump anything into it. But if they tell you it's clean, they're full of S... The city just south uses the river for their sewage system overflow. They've been dumping raw sewage into the river for many years. A year or so ago, a couple hikers were wading in the water. One slipped and cut his foot. He died from the infection. The river runs through the center of a national park. There are signs posted all along it warning visitors.
Welcome to the rust belt.
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03-14-2010 07:54 PM
The funny thing for me is that I used to go to Cleveland semi-regularly as a tourist. I'd go to the Rock Hall and walk around downtown (in the daylight) and carry on to Cedar Point later in the weekend. They did a nice job cleaning it up down there. I always had a great time. I did decide to follow the map (before GPS) out of town a different way when heading back to Toronto once. I had followed 2 along the lake every other time. But the map showed another highway (6) or (20) that went east through town. So I followed it. Turned out to be a street, not a highway. And all of a sudden I was in a WARZONE. Windows boarded up in all the storefronts, people selling drugs on the street, guys with really baggy jeans all over the place. I pulled up to a stoplight and a guy was slapping a girl around on the corner and a cop is standing across the road just watching! I am sitting in this van with Canadian tags and a pretty young lady with me. I didn't stop for another stoplight for another mile or two, green or red! The "don't slow down in East Cleveland or you'll die" part has some truth.
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03-14-2010 08:06 PM
And now you don't even have Brady Quinn!!!
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03-14-2010 09:22 PM
those gotta leave a mark somewhere, even if it's skidmarks in your shorts!!!
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03-14-2010 09:26 PM
I spend 95 percent of my time in Ontario or Florida. As far as the Detroit part goes, watching the following video, I have a hard time believing that the footage is shot on the same continent that I live on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JbGx...eature=related
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03-14-2010 10:38 PMThere's an initiative in Detroit right now to demolish approximately 50% of the city and turn it into agricultural land.
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03-15-2010 09:32 AMSome of those buildings have been empty for 20-25 years. The Republicans had their convention in Detroit in 1980 and the city put window dressing on a bunch of those empty buildings to make them appear occupied. It's a gritty town but you still can have a fun time there, just need to know where you're going.
Cleveland and Detroit both have great medical centers.
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