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Someone’s Dumb Enough to Buy Property Downtown

In 2005 Cuyahoga County bought the vacant Ameritrust property at the corner of E. 9th and Euclid for $22 million. The purchase was lauded as a debacle and then, in true Cleveland fashion, the city poured $15 million more into the project before abandoning it. Now the Plain Dealer is reporting that someone else has bid on the property. The K&D group, who already have a number of downtown projects, were the only bidder on the property offering $35,005,000. If K&D are given the property they plan to construct a 10-block project that will include fancy-ass (words used in the official press release) hotel, sweet-ass apartments, and some real serious offices. If you like looking at concept sketches with their perpetually blue skies, glimmering sidewalks and gleaming automobiles, don’t worry, this article has them. Now we just have to hope the city doesn’t turn down the offer because Nike has offered more money to drape another Lebron ad over what’s already there.

George Bush Hates Black People and Little Kids

The Bush administration (you know what comes next has to got to be good) recently turned down Ohio’s plan to offer government health care to thousands of kids who currently have none. Governor Strickland proposed raising the amount of money a family is allowed to bring home and still be eligible to have government provided health care for their children to three times the poverty line, but the boys in Washington are only willing to go up to 2 and a half times the poverty line. Luckily, Ohio seems to have some friends. Democrats from Montana, Michigan, and California sent a letter to the Health and Human Services Secretary lambasting the decision. Get more here.

America Hates Dennis Kucinich

After claiming a massive 1% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary Kucinich is now fighting to be allowed to join in a televised debate in Nevada. Last week, after inviting Kucinich to participate, MSNBC withdrew their invitation to the cheeky Ohio politician. But, if Dennis’s recent bizarre demand for a recount in New Hampshire is an indication, he does not take being hated easily. Instead Kucinich took the decision to a Nevada court where Senior Clark County District Court Judge Charles Thompson (try saying that five times fast) stated that Kucinich could participate and, if not allowed, an injunction to stop the debate would be issued. Well apparently MSNBC is not ready to have UFOs and slave songs be aired on their station and are now appealing the decision with the Nevada Supreme Court. Dennis Kucinich, destined to only be viewed on YouTube.

Maybe We Aren’t the Best Blog in Cleveland

If you are a Cavs fan, a Cavs fan frustrated by Larry Hughes poor performance, or just someone who likes to laugh we’ve got a blog for you. And, if you aren’t any of those, then you are just an asshole and you shouldn’t use the internet. Ahem. So about this blog. Hey Larry Hughes, Please Stop Taking So Many Bad Shots is a game-by-game analysis of Larry Hughes shots and all-around sucking. After each game highlights of Larry’s shots, a diagram of where the shots came from, and some other laugh-inducing comments are posted. There are also some non-game related posts like an attempt to raise $30 in order to buy Larry an instructional basketball video for his birthday, possible words to describe Larry Hughes such as “Salarycapdisasteriffic,” and New Year’s Resolutions from the Cavs that involve slapping Larry Hughes and never passing the ball to him again. Come on! Have a laugh!