Charlie Rangel: "Who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?" (..Said the Man From Harlem!!)

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006337.htm ^

[WBL 1952]

Charlie Rangel opens his mouth...and mocks the South: (hat tip: reader CRB)

“It’s not just committees — our influence within the House Democratic caucus will grow enormously,” Mr. Rangel said in an interview.

To that end, he sketched out an expansive federal agenda: Teaming up with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on gun control, passing new tax incentives for urban job programs, and redirecting federal money to New York in return for the outsize tax collections that the federal government makes here.

“Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?” Mr. Rangel said.

[SuziQ]

You won't ever find Italian Food in MS like NYC....

Oh, there are pockets of it here and there throughout the state, wherever Italian immigrants settled after arriving in Louisiana and moving on.

I don't think, however, that NYC can compare in the availability of the delicacy that is Gulf Shrimp, or in those dishes in which they are used.

[GrandEagle]

LOL! Absolutely no offense taken at all!
There are some excellent places to eat in NY for sure!
I've spent some time in Buffalo and Waterford (just outside of Albany). Some of the finest were the Mom and Pop places. I've been to some that were casual, and some that were very high class. All with fine food.
We have some good places too here in Mobile with a fair variety of international flavors, but nothing like New York.

Shopping... well too many folks in one place for me - like you said, whatever floats you boat. That's why there's 50 of them huh? Something for everyone.

Cordially,
GE

[TaraP]

LOL..You can wear the grease when you enter a Waffle house...Hopefully they built a Coco's or Marie Calendar's for a little variety for breakfast....

[radioactivereb]

Yes unfortunately I've never been able to attend! It looks like fun in the articles I've read about it. LOL One definite hallmark of a big enough group of Mississippians is the tendency for a few eccentric( albeit in a pleasant way) folks to be there. Maybe that breeds the storytelling muse we seem to have our share of. One of my partners in the medical group here is from Manhattan- he has hilarious stories of his and our adaptation to each other's 'pace'- or as he would say at first our lack of pace-lol. Thanks for the info! Radioactive

[durasell]

Partial listings of cajun in NYC...

http://www.menupages.com/restaurants.asp?cuisineid=15&home=Y

[GrandEagle]

Gulfport is will be again soon a beautiful place

Katrina clobbered Gulfport/Biloxi.

[SuziQ]

NYC is a fun city, to be sure, and I've been there several times, but I don't think I'd ever want to live there. Same with Boston, Tokyo, Chicago, which I've visited. They're just too close in for me. I like wider open spaces.

[durasell]

One time I attended the picnic I watched Bob Pittman -- the guy who invented MTV -- arguing about catfish recipes with a bus driver from Queens. A little surreal.

[TaraP]

LOL..I will say I have had some of the best Crawfish, Gator Tail and Shrimp down in your neck of the woods!

But for ethnic foods, you can't beat NYC or Chicago...

Lots of deal's going on in New York for shopping, you just have to beware of they guy that walks up to you opens his coat and say's *You wanna buy a watch* :)

[GVnana]

Who would've thought Charlie Rangel would be a limosine liberal? /sarcasm>

[nanetteclaret]

Well, I would love to live in Mississippi, except I'm already here in Texas. :) My great-great grandmother was from Mississippi, does that count? She brought her children to Texas after my gg grandfather was killed in the Late Unpleasantness.

[GrandEagle]

*You wanna buy a watch*
LOL!! This ACTUALLY happened to me back around 1978 or so at the bus station in Lubbock, TX of all places. I was going home on leave, waiting for a taxi to take me to the airport and there he was! Mr. "*You wanna buy a watch* "!!

[durasell]

In NYC the African guys have taken the watch thing to a whole new level.

[dinasour]

> It will likely come as no surprise that I left the company 6 months later.

Where I work, my boss and two others are pure moonbats, but the rest of us, about 10, are right of center to far right.

We have come to an accommodation to not argue politics.

[GrandEagle]

Southern Miss 1974 grad.
1984 myself... USM - Golden Eagles!

[GoBucks2002]

Of course, the MSM will be all over this.

Ahem. We can't even count on FoxNews anymore. Watched it all day. They were tossing softballs and letting the Dems talk all over the Rs. I kept having to get up to make sure that Time Warner didn't switch channels with CNN.

[TaraP]

LOL! Guess he was making the rounds! Hopefully you didn't buy one!

[GrandEagle]

Same with Boston
I've been there twice. The only place in the nation I've been that I don't care to return to.

[Nebr FAL owner]

Yes Jorge Bush will sell us down the river to the Mexicans in a heart beat as for him defending the second amendment he will sell us down the river so fast it will break the sound barrier.

[SuziQ]

Gulfport is a beautiful place I could live there if I could build a Trader Joe's Market next store...

I've been wishing I had the money to invest in opening a Trader Joe's franchise on the coast! We just LOVE the store! And, there ARE a couple of sushi places on the coast. One is in Gulfport, and one in Ocean Springs. Haven't been to them yet, but when we move down there, I'll have to check them out. I'll have to wait until our older two sons come to visit us, though, cause SirKit just won't do sushi!

One of my favorite memories of the trip our daughter and I took to Tokyo was of a conveyor belt sushi place in Kichi Joji. It was fairly inexpensive; 160 yen for a plate of either two sushi logs or four nori wrapped slices. After sharing several plates of sushi with my friend, and having a beer each and a slice of melon for me, our lunch total was less than 1800 yen, or less than $18!!