Crap list of America - Missisissippi - Do I need to explain Louisiana - See Katrina and the state response Alabama - See Mississippi West Virginia - How did a poor state get that far north? North and South Dakota - Does anyone really live there? Montana - Gay cowboys? Nevada - Gambling, UFO's and nothingness Alaska - Beautiful, but closer to Siberia the I would like Tennessee - Bud Adam's team resides there New Jersey - Landfill for New York Arkansas - The Clintons are the cream of the crop from there
Rangel was wrong in his slander of Mississippi. Everybody loves their own nest, as I am sure Mississippians do. Personally, Rangel's district (or New York City in general) to me is the armpit of the nation, although New Orleans (pre- or post-flood) really co-opts that distinction. Oh, wait, it's the other armpit! See how easy it is to throw mud. Come on, we all live where we want for reasons of security (job), scenery, convenience etc.
I heard from two gay British men that they found the ******* of North American in South Beach (Miami).
Please. San Francisco Liberals. Taxachusetts. The Right has been making fun of Dem states for years with absolutely no penalty because it was "just a joke." Funny how your sense of humor leaves you when you lose the House and Senate. And of course Mississippi deserves ridicule. They spout Repub talking points as if it's part of their DNA yet suck up Fed tax dollars at a rate that would make a 2 dollar prostitute in a gold camp dizzy. Screw Mississippi. I wouldn't want to live there... I could maybe tolerate Oxford and that's about it.
Doesn't he live in Houston? Out here in Indiana we have lots of lots of corn, I can see corn field less than 50 yards from my subdivision. But hey, it is much better than in New York, which I lived for a year, what a piece of dump.
I love Mississippi. If Mississippi didn't exist, which state would Texas rank above on social services?? Maybe Alabama. Keep D&D Civil.
Maybe a slightly offensive statement, but he's 100% right. Who the hell WANTS to live in Mississippi?
To each their own, but I'm sure some people are more than pleased to call Mississippi home. Even Nevada, without Vegas and Tahoe, has some cool parts. Great Basin NP is suppossed to be great. Rangel has also struck me as having a screw or two loose. But so does Carrol Dawson, and a lot of bball executives still think he knows what he's doing.
I was referring to the stae of New York, generally. I don't know if Mississippians would care which New Yorker is insulting them. If anything, I'd expect Rangel to be more sensitive to Mississippi's plight.
Considering that Rangel's experience with Mississippi in congress consists of poor downtrodden folks like Trent Lott and Thad Cochran, gorging themselves at the government trough (and NYC tax dollars) while railing about small government and "bootstraps" - I wouldn't expect him to be particularly sensitive.
I live in NYC now, there are people here who are stuck up about their neighborhood, and can't imagine moving out of, say, the Lower East Side. Upstate NY, let along anywhere else, would be a scary 3rd World location for them.
Not sure why people want to defend Rangel insulting Mississippi. I won't make a federal case out of it, but it wasn't a nice thing to say. And, his excuse that he likes New York so much rings hollow. I do take a similar attitude about Texas' superiority to other states, but I don't pick on the downtrodden -- I look down my nose at the likes of New York and California, for whom it wouldn't quite hit a nerve. Maybe Mississippi is a ****hole state, but why pick on them? Because they take a lot of federal aid? They need it. Why begrudge them it?
I don't know, maybe if you represent Washington Heights and you see federal tax dollars flowing out of New York into Mississippi you'd feel differently, a fact that you keep trying to skim over.
