Free Republic's Anti-California Brain Trust at work...
Posted on 08/07/2002 4:23:30 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March
Ok fellow freepers. The aristocracy had fun deciding which 'hick town' was the armpit of America. Naturally it had to be rural and conservative. A tad redneck.
They were way off the mark. I would have picked New York prior to 9-11. I mean, good grief. Hellery's husband pardoned bomb terrorists to get her elected, the scandal is exposed to every New Yorker and they elected her anyway? She was silent on the issue for at least a week. But well, perhaps NY had been reborn in blood. So, I'm tempted to give them a pass.
Arkansas? Could that be the armpit of America? The home of NationsBank, Tyson Chicken, Walmart, Web Hubbell, and the Big Creep himself?
Then there is the delightful state of New Jersy, which is batting a thousand at elected scandal-swamped senators. Not only the Torch, but also Corzine.
Some might choose South Dakota. Not only do they keep re-electing Timber Tom [also called Rushmore Daschle], but they also go three days without brushing their teeth. So many choices....
What state failed to stop bubba on his rise to the national stage?
What state was labeled by it's very own governor as a "Banana Republic" because of the vote fraud being committed by demonrats?
What state allows the Klinton library to claim "small business" status so that it can feed on the taxpayer dollar via "small business grants", and also claim "park" status so that it can rake in more taxpayer dollars from the budgets for the zoos and parks in the state?
What state is going to be the first state to have a presidential library that looks like a trailer home on stilts?
The answer is Arkansas
There was talk of putting up a wall between Grosse Pointe Farms and East Detroit.
As soon as I saw the title, I knew you guys would be out in droves, picking on this neat little state!
Funny - tho, I have heard of apology after apology, from out-of-state-people ---- after they move here, and really see the state for themselves.
I'm from Massachusetts, and would NEVER go back there. My mother literally cried when she realized that I was going to marry someone from Jersey -- until she visited - and did a complete turn-about.
But all the above is about the state as a whole -- physically.
Now ----- having said all that,---- my husband once said that when God gave the world a physic, (purge -- enema to all you in Rio Linda) it came out in Jersey City. We all know what happened to Jersey City when Bret Schundler took over, so there is hope yet for places like that. I think that Camden, or Irvington would now qualify for the 'worstest' of all.
However, if we are talking about "political armpits", maybe New Jersey can give the rest of the states some lessons. The demonstration that our GOP put on in last year's Governor's election, showed just how high we are up the 'armpit' ladder. I think our problem is having so many urban areas in such a small, highly populated state. It is a politician's delight.
If we are talking about 'armpit cities', then we have a good share of them, and can go to the top of the BO heap.There isn't a state, that I have seen, that is all pearly pure.
I hope that NJ can stun all of you in the next Senatorial election. I only hope I will be stunned as well!
(Go Forrester Go!!)
You ARE tenacious but:
the big dig
the dukasis "surtax"
gridlock traffic 24/7
taxpayer sponsored "fisting seminars"
Clintons vacationland
Smith college and all of Amhearst
Provinctown
Chet and Natalie
presidential hopeful John Kerry
and....rotaries!
I dont blame you.
Free Republic's Anti-California Brain Trust at work...
ditto
Wednesday, August 7, 2002; Page A01
No one complained two years ago when the University of North Carolina required its incoming freshmen to read a book about the lingering effects of the Civil War, nor last year when it assigned a book about a Hmong immigrant's struggle with epilepsy and American medicine.
. . . But a national TV talk show host, Fox News Network's Bill O'Reilly, compared the assignment to teaching "Mein Kampf" in 1941 and questioned the purpose of making freshmen study "our enemy's religion." . . . © 2002 The Washington Post Company
Could it be North Carolina?
I grew up in Orange County myself. Lived near Tu Do Street, or as we used to call it back then, Brookhurst Road. People still spoke English in those days.
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