LeBron James' Handy Miami Primer

• It's journalistically irresponsible to compare Lebron to Fidel Castro. The writer of this article is a complete and utter moron. An athletes actions should never be compared with the tyrany of a communist regium. It's just dumb. Are we to also compare what Tiger did to the tyrany of Hitler? Just be smarter than you appear to be. Maybe not much hope for you...

• leave the msn alone yhis is his life to live the only person he has toanswer to to is jesus

• Iceality of Recycling LeBron's Favorite Rustbucket The Cav's lost Lebron so even he can't save Cleveland's image now. Maybe if the Cav's go bankrupt without him LeBron can buy back the team soon. There is no time for Casino's too. So as the 2010 vacation season starts, Cleveland is not going to rate anywhere as a tourist Mecca. While do have some first class attractions, nobody living here can afford to see them and only the Cleveland Orchestra, subsidized with our tax dollars, can leave here to travel to Miami where they can be heard; which is part of the reason nobody living here can afford to visit the other attractions here. City Leaders could affordably change the name of one of the free beaches to some thing more appealing to visitors, perhaps the "Sacred Beach of the Holey Vagigi" in honor of Oprah or Renate might work. So tourism here remains a joke; and, sadly, the irony is because many finicky travelers are influenced by the loads of national jokes about Cleveland. It is a vicious circle and Cleveland ends up on the bottom of all the National polls but it is still the hometown to dozens of decent people. Nevertheless, here is a bold, five-tiered approach to solving Cleveland�s problems: Step 1: Develop a serious business into tourism. Tourist visiting Cleveland only have to worry about two things: the weather and mortal danger, boredom doen't count. So Build a serious ad campaign expressly designed to attract tourists from such �problem areas� as Detroit, Newark, Afghanistan, Mexico, Israel, etc. The thinking is: Compared to the trouble and adversity the people of these countries experience daily, a week or two in Cleveland will seem positively tranquil and idyllic. I would venture to say that if a hardy group of, oh, vacationing pirates from Somalia were walking on Public Square and one of its members was hit by a drive-by shooter, their thinking could be: �Oh dear, we have lost Ms. Haboon, but that�s no reason we cannot still take the Playhouse matinee and the S.S. GOODTIME II this afternoon as originally planned.� Let�s face it, this is the Crocodile Dundee type of tourist Cleveland needs to attract: daring, courageous individuals, not easily upset about harsh living conditions or random small-arms fire. People who won�t stay holed up in their hotel rooms sniveling and complaining each and every time someone in their party is mugged, but who will be out in the bars, restaurants and theaters spending money. As another example, if a tour group of Red Shirts were set upon by pistol-packing thugs inside The Q Stadium, the delegation would no doubt pull out their own weapons, squeeze off a few rounds and go back to enjoying the ballgame. Saving the city money and giving our police a break. Step 2: A boy saved is a citizen earned. Recently our hometown U.S. Marines about to be deployed in the Middle East left for California for training. Until they joined the service, most of these guys have never left our rust bucket area and here we are sending them away to see Sunfunland USA. Sunshine, bikini girls, Swimming pools, movie starlets in a word....�giggity�. Hurry back Boys! | The solution is instead of moving them away to California we should keep them here in Cleveland to train. Wouldn't the presence of 10,000 or so troops in Cleveland boost the economy while also providing our soldiers a more ideal training ground for the bitter house-to-house fighting in Afghanistan? Let all the armies of the world know that Cleveland could serve as an excellent all around training site for urban guerrilla warfare. The torching of an old church or temple downtown now and then adds a nice touch of realism too. But don�t stop there. Invite combat doctors and nurses to come here to our famous Hospitals and study the injury�s caused by modern conflicts. See, then we would have a real supply-and-demand reason to build a MED MART here. Lets see if the Nashville Med Mart people can try to beat that! Step 3: Them Bad Apples, don�t throw them away in this economy. Advertise to attract the �alternative� conventions nobody else wants. The mercenary crowd, outlaw biker clubs, professional wrestlers, military unit reunions, etc. With all these dynamic people coming to town, Cleveland would be able to afford to re-open some venerable downtown cultural institutions like the ROXY and attract exotic headliners like Rima Fakih to perform. You know, the fun places that genuine rock stars really do want to visit. These places could also provide extra work for the local co-eds like they do in other tourists areas. Soon, Cleveland would be a truly exhilarating global village again, teeming with thousands of young cheerful, free-spending soldiers and sailors, rappers, politicians, international policemen and all their many diversified entourages. OK, maybe then, we can even talk about hosting a Rock Hall Induction Ceremony or opening a Casino or two. Step 4: Believe in turning negatives into positives whenever possible. Instead of bemoaning the economy and job loss over our fair city, why not put it to good use? Another future example, when Continental and United eventually close their hubs at Cleveland Hopkins Airport, people, don�t complain but celebrate the news! Why not put it to good use? We can turn the empty spaces they left into a hub for the Strategic Air Command (SAC). This addition would allow the Labor Day Air Show to expand its hours 24/7. Visitors viewing all this High-Tec military hardware on display would be asking themselves where can you get this stuff cheap? China and Russia obviously, but fortunately, Cleveland already has an abundance of empty steel plants and auto factory�s (not to mention the old WW II Cadillac Tank Plant) ready to go into production - all they would need is to immigrate enough skilled people to hire. Step 5: Getting back to our Future. Focusing on North East Ohio�s natural beauty, aquatic charm and ICEAlity may have worked once. But in today's competitive market you have to be bold. A future bold example; by simply expanding Hopkins Airports� main runway in a shape of a pyramid from Brookpark Rd north through the foreclosed homes area to say about......Edgewater. Dayum!, this would give NASA�s Glenn Space Center here a inter-galactic welcome mat, SAC an emergency runway and NASCAR a new raceway while giving our resident poor developers needed work. Look at the PR possibilities, instead of a bunch of small races around the nation, NASCAR could cut their travel and promotional costs by holding only one single top-notch 50,000 mile race here....and if the drivers car pool...save even more. NASA could promote on the runway to extraterrestrials and UFO's on Google Earth a daily welcome message complete with local room rates and restaurant specials and weather report in different languages like Russian, Vulcanese, Ferengi, and Klingon, and especially Borg. This may sound like on far-out proposals but sometime into the future, Cleveland would be back because there only is one way for it to go. by Dracha Arendee Cleveland, Ohio

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