Detroit Adult Entertainment: Broken promises and the necessary sins
September 29, 2009 at 9:37 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsThe problem is that train of thought can’t just end there. Because our state is in such dire need of tax revenues, this increase on cigarettes has two faces. The first is a moral admonishment of smokers, or bad people who should pay for filling the air with their dirty poisons; the second is the underlying premise that more people should start smoking.
This is why sin taxes are a bad, shortsighted idea, and the logical underpinnings come undone. With the introduction of sin taxes, the government, for the first time, now has an actual incentive for people to continue this behavior. Public coughers now fund the public coffers.
If people claim this penalty will be used as a deterrent to smoking, why doesn’t the government tax all things it finds sinful, such as prostitution or drugs? Well, the short answer is if they did so, within five years there would be prostitution lobbyists in Washington, D.C.
Detroit Escorts: ECORSE: Secret informants, undercover surveillance used to bust …
September 29, 2009 at 5:37 pm | In Detroit escorts | No Comments… It wouldn’t surprise me if people still voted for Herb,” Lesner said. “People have been hearing these stories for a long time, but he’s still in office. You either like him or you don’t. I would hope it would change people’s minds, but you never know these days.”
A criminal past
Neither Divers nor Tarockoff has been charged in connection with the alleged bribery scheme.
However, authorities did seize a 2002 Porsche 911 Cabriolet from Divers’ Romulus residence in January. The $42,000 sports car had been purchased with money obtained from the city of Ecorse, according to court records.
Divers has a lengthy criminal record, including felony drug charges, and has been arrested Downriver several times.
The latest incident was Sept. 22 when he was arrested in Ecorse for driving with a suspended license — an infraction he’d been cited for previously. At the time, he also was wanted for felony cocaine possession, for smoking on an aircraft and for soliciting a prostitute.
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Kmart’s new recession play: Discounts for the unemployed
September 29, 2009 at 2:13 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsAfter a back-to-school season when parents had to put pencils and notebooks on layaway to make ends meet, the fear that a “jobless recovery” will gum up the works is very real. It’s coloring even the rosier holiday sales forecasts.
Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD), parent of the Kmart and Sears chains, has been zeroing in on customers who are tight for cash, in an effort to turn around its slipping fortunes. It has been pushing layaway for the last two holiday seasons at both chains and introduced a Christmas Club savings program to boost holiday sales.
While Kmart is probably the largest and most high-profile business to market to the unemployed, it’s a tactic that small businesses have been using for a while. Throughout the recession, reports have trickled in about local merchants in hard-hit areas offering discounts to laid-off workers. One German brothel has reportedly offered 20 percent discounts to customers who can show they’re on the dole.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Sparks Fly and Blood Spews as Kiss Alive 35 Tour Hits Cleveland
September 29, 2009 at 1:25 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsFor this tour, reports of new costumes are hype. Kiss wore the standard ’70s-era makeup. Gene Simmons added some plate mail to his torso, and Stanley took the stage in black-and-silver glam suspenders, furry chest exposed.
With under-arm wings and a wagging tongue you can see from the cheap seats, Gene Simmons is still a convincing, deep-voiced demon. He spat blood and flew (on cables) to the top of the lighting rig, where he sang “I Love It Loud.” As the band launched into “Love Gun,” Stanley the Starchild zipped on a wire from the stage to a platform in the back of the arena. Over the set, he ran through his repertoire of reliable moves — disco strut, head-scratch, butt-shake, and stripper-style hip-wiggle. His voice hit and missed, but he made most high notes and wasn’t scratchy until end — his pipes, after all, were strong enough to score him a starring role in a production of Phantom of the Opera.
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