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Troy Neff Show: What do you love about America and Toledo?
By troyneff.com - Posted on July 3rd, 2008
Carty - What The Hell? Your ramblings on race/color and then just plain rambling on and on has NOTHING to do with the question posed. What a dork.
I'd like to know for what mistakes Carty is asking God forgiveness on his knees. I hope it was the mistake of being an ass pretty much everyday, and also for running our city into the ground.
my eyebrows raised when he talked about race. I didn't want to go there so I just let it go. However, Lisa is right, I'm hoping for a positve post and would like to know what you love about America and Toledo.
Where else in America could a gym teacher who's never once earned a nickle that wasnt tax payer funded end up holding the reins of a city of this size and knock down $137K per annum by merely reading trade magazines, and otherwize being a complete moron?
As an egotist he gets himself in the national news on a semi regular basis - no matter the reason, all publicity is good publicity, right?
Got dirt on your ears from when you last pulled your head out of your ass? Not a problem if you're the mayor of toledo - you can just hop into your brand new $10,000 shower and scrub your empty head till it gets all squeeky!
Regular laws and restrictions dont apply to Hizzoner - cant bring a dog into 1 Government Center? No problem!!
Bored Shitless? All he has to do is Steal a buncha tax money and play buildamall for real with Southwyck!! Dont have any anchor stores lined up? Forget about it!! That shit only applies to Brian McMahon!
Farting around with the mall still have you restless? Take a BS trip to spain or england, WTF, you're the mayor, you can do any damn thing you feel like!!
Trouble with spousal abuse?? Not in Toledo, that stuff'll all just get swept under the rug, broken arm (or was it wrist?) or not!
Yep, there's lots to love if you're mayor of Toledo - Enough to make you forget all about the soul you sold all those years ago to the local unions, and when they come to collect their due, they make wonderful ointments to soothe away all the soreness.
I think the idea was for you to share what you loved too...Like as an example, you could say what you love about Toledo is eventually Carty won't be Mayor anymore if that's how you feel.
:-)
We don't remember days only moments...
What I love about America is that after 911, when Arabic shopkeepers were attacked, their attackers were found, tried, convicted and jailed.
Where else but WIOT can you get your hourly fix of Led Zepplin. But now they stream link so perhaps it is time to leave all of this mess behind.
As long as there is Toledo, Ohio, they have less of a chance of being part of any "TOP 10 WORST" lists like these:
Article: The Ten Worst American Cities to Live In
"The first of the Ohio Triplets on our list, Toledo would be the perfect place to re-make The Omega Man. This mostly due to the fact that this Midwestern hole is so bleak, so gray, so devoid of life, that except for rush hour, you wouldn't know that anyone actually lived in Toledo. Forget civic pride, everyone in Toledo knows the city is a hellhole and just stays home to watch TV. Last time we visited, the only after hours joint was located in a hotel for men. Toledo's official city slogan should be "Toledo…We're…well…ah screw it." "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1027916/posts
Top 10 list: Most Traffic Accidents Per Capita in the Nation
"While we said at the outset that this list is presented in no particular order, some might question the fairness of listing Toledo following a city with the potential of radioactive mudslides, but those would be people who have never been to Toledo.
Bleak, dismal and gray, most residents of Toledo venture out only to go to work, or get drunk, otherwise they spend the rest of their time indoors watching TV and hating the fact that they live in Toledo.
An ex-resident that recently had the good sense to move from Toledo had this to say, “… honestly, the people who reside in Toledo are the most intolerant, inconsiderate, ignorant human beings I've ever come across - now bugger off!”'
http://www.worst-city.com/Toledo-Ohio-Most-Traffic-Accidents-Per-Capita-...
Article: Toledo not a good pick for singles
"Bowling Green's neighbor to the north, Toledo, has been ranked the third worst city to find a mate in by Men's Health Magazine.
The list compiled 101 cities ranking them by the criteria of the ratio of women to men, divorce rates, fitness levels, philanthropy, education rate, romantic chemistry and what attractions the city has for good dates.
Toledo was in the bottom three with Charleston, W.Va and Buffalo, N.Y."
http://media.www.bgnews.com/media/storage/paper883/news/2007/04/19/Campu...
Song lyrics: 'Toledo' by Elvis Costello
"But do people livin' in toledo
Know that their name hasn't traveled very well?
And does anybody in Ohio
Dream of that Spanish citatdel?
http://www.metrolyrics.com/toledo-lyrics-elvis-costello.html
13ABC news report: Toledo ranked worst city for women's health
"The American Heart Association ranked Toledo the worst city in Ohio when it comes to women's heart health. In fact, Toledo ranked in the top five least heart-friendly mid-sized cities in the nation for women"
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=news/health&id=6168237
CNN Article: Which cities are worst for asthma sufferers?
According to a new survey, these were the worst places for people with asthma:
7. Toledo, Ohio
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/03/16/asthma.capitals/
If ''CON' is the opposite of 'PRO', does that mean Congress is the opposite of Progress?
LCBM, you should read your links more carefully. The entry for Cleveland in your first link is more revealing about Toledo's problems:
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1. Cleveland
The obvious choice for worst city to live in is Cleveland. Not so much because of the lack of culture. Nor is it the lack of a thriving night life. And it is not the constant economic pall that looms over the city. What really makes Cleveland the worst city in all of America is the fact that it shares many of these qualities with other cities - such as its Ohio Twin, Toledo - and refuses to acknowledge it. As a recent article in the Washington Post pointed out, Cleveland peaked in the 1930s and has been on the downslide ever since. To make matters worse, the Plain Dealer - the local city newspaper - found that the higher a young person's education degree, the more likely said person was to move out of Cleveland. In fact it was one of the only three major metropolitan areas in the 1990s to experience such a mass exodus of intelligence. In essence, smart people leave Cleveland while the dumb stay to crank out children and watch the Indians games. Now if you said this to the average Clevelandite, they would call you an a-hole, pound their fist on the table, and insist that Cleveland has just as much to offer as New York City or Chicago. It's almost as if the citizens have become desensitized to the obvious. At least the Toledoans have a clue, but Clevelandites like their city just the way it is and they're damn proud of it…with the closed steel mills, and bad wing joints, and those horrible blues bands that all play a terrible rendition of "Mustang Sally."
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DENIAL is the #1 problem in Toledo by a distance over the #2 problem (no sustainable economy for the middle class). We DENY that we need a middle-class-oriented economy. We DENY that we need enough of a tax base to afford the things we want. We DENY that we are becoming the next Detroit. We DENY that we aren't socially conscious and fiscally responsible. We DENY that unionization is a problem for the workforce.
And all that denial makes this a fairly bad place to live and work.
And that "not good for singles" thing? Yeah, don't I know it. We need to introduce women around here to the concept of E-X-E-R-C-I-S-E. I've never dated in Toledo, and at this rate, never will.
How John Blockie of you!
... as I see 'em. And I see fat people. However, I don't keep a harem, or set of women arranged by city and day, or whatever is done with the ladies so lead on by some powerful guy. Treatment of women around here is equally piss-poor. There are too many two-income households in Toledo, which hid the true nature of our economic collapse, by transforming it into a family collapse. I think couples end up married largely since they need to merge their incomes in order to afford all the crap that the media tells them they need. It only stands to reason people end up with mates that they don't like very much, in real terms.
Remember: I warned ya.
Well at least you modified it this time to say "fat people" instead of just "fat women" lol. There's plenty of overweight individuals in both genders to go around.
(For the record, I am not one of them. But I'm also not one of the people in the dating pool either.)
... since I'm hardly going to be dating the MEN. The ill-health and repellent condition of the women are what concern me.
I hope you don't subscribe to the idea that one gender feels entitled to "let themselves go" (my words) since the other gender has.