Snyder's obsequious consent with Detoilet can only be viewed in a positive light by the Go Team mentality that is the feckless MI-GOP.

AND, let's talk "jewels"...

Gov. Rick Snyder announced Saturday the launch of the $12.8 million project to transform the abandoned Globe Trading Co. Building near the east Detroit riverfront into the Outdoor Adventure and Discovery Center.

"I want everyone to remember what that looks like today," said Snyder during a press conference at Milliken State Park, gesturing across the street to the abandoned warehouse. "So when we come back and see what it looks like, we can see what the power of working together can do and the opportunity to reinvent Michigan and the opportunity to reinvent Detroit."

The project, which is scheduled to begin later this year and continue through late 2013, will be a state-funded effort through the Department of Natural Resources. Most of the money to fund the project will come from the Natural Resources Trust Fund, according to the DNR.

The goal is to "open up the outdoors in downtown Detroit," said Ron Olson, chief of the DNR's parks and recreation department. Plans for the center include ziplines, archery, rock climbing and other activities.

Yet another Diamond on a Goat's Ass that we get to pay for.  Alas, we now learn what Affirmative Action Rodney will be staring at till next winter.  Only a dumb bastard that graduated from the same university that John Dewey infested with Trotskyism would be Progressive enough to find merit in such a waste of our coerced money.

The more I see of this governor, the more I despise his milquetoast presence.  Jenny Granholm used to say, "we're ALL in this together".  JenniRick Snydholm says, "Reinvent".

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So here it is, rebroadcast in HD: I haven't changed from my original position SUPPORTING Prop 1 (and 5 & 6) and OPPOSING Prop 2 (and 3 & 4).

This wasn't a back-door dig at Prop 2, but rather the fact that priorities are being ignored.

Public Safety is a core function of any level of state government.

I haven't even touched the problems faced by the DFD or the hilariously pathetic joke their EMS system is...more specifically, the equipment they send into the field.

This has to do specifically with the DPD.

Yes, this is part of a labor dispute. I'm not going to make any attempt to hide it. But in this case, they do make some valid arguments.

Their job is tough enough as it is.

The political correctness in the department overall and inability of the Command Staff to keep their pants zipped up (that alone will make one hell of a post just by itself), the boots on the ground, so to speak, the officers that you see patrolling the streets and investigating the reported cases, is a difficult and dangerous job as it is.

I'll most likely get some flak on this, but you do have people trying to do they best job that they can do, in an impossible situation getting made harder every day by people who cannot organize a thought, much less run a city government.

With the environment they work in and the type of people they interact with, the schedule that city hall is forcing them to work will burn everyone out over time. And in their line of work, I'm not exaggerating by saying that someone is going to get killed.

Instead of prioritizing its spending (i.e. public safety gets first dibs on everything, then the rest of city government) this is quickly evolving into a very dangerous situation that should never have occurred in the first place had the necessary actions been taken at the beginning.

But they weren't.