Saturday, October 23, 2010

Detroit: your model pinko city

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Arelcao Akleos said...

No worse than the West Side of Chicago. The House That Dems Built is a horror show in all its places.

10/23/2010 1:30 PM
Tecumseh said...

Looks like a house of horrors to me. I don't know about Chicago (maybe it's more like the South Bronx, with Pepean projects gone to seed?), but what's really haunting about Detroit are those symbols of past glory (big corporate headquarters, fancy mansions, etc) turned into dust. Chilling, man, chilling.

10/23/2010 3:16 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

You have that in the West Side, and big chunks of the South Side, in Chicago. Amazing structures, built at the end of the 19th Century or early 20th Century, of granite and a kind of local grandeur [in Porto many of those, in their prime, would have bedazzled the hell out of us]. The kind of places you would find in only the finest marches of European capitals. But at that time you had block after block after block of them in Chicago. Owned by schoolteachers, local businessmen, engineers, doctors, lawyers, even scientists.... But today they are a wilderness of gangs, squatters, more gangs, drug addicts and dealers, Obamaklean political operatives, gangs, Dem Party headquarters, more gangs, a forlorn police station hunkering in a corner, more gangs, and a few collapsing concrete monuments to 50-70s governmental architecture to "house the poor" and "educate for progress" interspersed here and there like the carcasses of beached wales on a stony beach under the gray winter skies of Cabo do Mundo.
If you dared [I'd advise daytime], taking not the El out to O'Hare, so riding above the mess, but taking the local bus lines out to O'Hare, through the mess [from the South-southeast origination] would let you feast on that dust until the chill went right into the bone.
The great cities of this country were built by people very different from the Dems, but their death will be ruled them the Dems.

10/24/2010 9:44 AM

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