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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [QB] Here in Baltimore, we're Americans. If someone is stupid enough to wear New York Yankees stuff around here, they'll get a serious ass-kicking. Hell, they'll be lucky to survive. I'm sorry if wherever you're from, you and your neighbors don't have a good old fashioned does of "hometown pride." Sure, we've got a pretty high homicide rate -- anyone remember [i]Homicide: Life on the Street[/i]? Based on the book [i]Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets[/i] written by a journalist who spent a year with Baltimore's homicide detectives. The show is inspired by real-life shit that happened in this city ... Baltimore hardly ranks with Boston or New York or Philidelphia as East Coast cities that are "happening" ... ...but we've got the Ravens, and the Orioles ... and the National Aquarium, and Johns Hopkins University, as well as Towson University, Loyola University, Women's College of Notre Dame, Morgan State, UMBC, and the USS [i]Constellation[/i]. We've also got the best crabs (as in, you know, the food) in the nation. We're rated #1 in the U.S. for meeting singles -- although we probably owe that a lot to our proximity to Washington, D.C. (half an hour away). We're the birthplace of Babe Ruth, and in 1939, it was here that the Jewish community protested the shore leave of a German warship. We've been seen in The X-Files, featured proudly in Homicide, and immortalized in films like "Diner." We're famous as the place where people say "hon." Tom Clancy has not only set scenes of books in Baltimore, but even in my own neighborhood. I don't know what you're talking about, Americans not having pride. Sure, I mock other Americans -- especially anyone from Texas, sorry, Siggy -- as much as anyone, but when it comes down to it, you make fun of Baltimore, and you better watch your back if you're ever in town ... You're confusing being "PC" with good judgement. Since the Muslem religion tells them only God can make war, how are they going to feel when Bush labels his anti-terrorist campaign "God's Vengeance" (what was it named?) They're certainly not going to think, "oh, gee, it's not an attack on Islamic faith, no..." Since one of the goals of any retaliation is to make certain people know we're not going after Islam, we've got to be particularly sensative to their religion. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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