Whatever. Serving in Congress just bores him.

Rock on Thad!

As things stand now U.S. Representative Thaddeus McCotter (MI-11) isn't going to be on the August Republican  primary ballot and which is necessary if he wants run for re-election. The Redford Township-based Republican's organization failed to gather and file enough valid signatures to get on the ballot and so the only thing he can do now is wage a write-in primary campaign and hope for the best or grin and bear it and retire. The effort and money needed for a sucessful write-in campaign will be tough going and the utter incompetence shown by McCotter's staff  sure doesn't recommend him very highly for re-election either. So there's that.

But I'll shed no tears for Thad. Numerous new career opportunities are now available to him. Fox News Channel might want to hire him as an expert commentator or he could find a decent gig as a lobbyist or maybe go on tour with his rock band. It's been obvious for a while now that serving in Congress just bores him.

"Death by a gunshot in Detroit is as natural as it get's."

 310 murders last year (2010)

Sadly, this is quite true in Detroit. They don't call us the  Motor Murder City for nothing.

[Headline: "Mortician discovers gunshot wound in body after man's death ruled natural" - Detroit Free Press]

Why can't Consumer's Energy and DTE keep the power on?

Every time the wind blows hard enough to blow the leaves around vast swaths of Michigan lose their electricity. More than any place I've ever been other than turd third world countries. Don't we pay them enough for a stable supply? Years ago I purchased a portable fuel powered generator and so this stuff doesn't affect me in a major way any more. But with that said it's still inexcusable for this to happen so often. Fuel prices go up, down, and sideways and all,  but the basic structural necessities to keep the grid up and running reliably seem to me to be pretty well-established and predictable and to be well within DTE and Consumer's Energy's  engineering capabilities as well. So what gives?