I LOVE the North!

[UrbScotty]

We're home to ih8thegop, the Red Sox, Jennifer Granholm, and cool weather.

NORTHERNERS UNITE!!

[JohnKleeb]

1. Youre also home to George W Bush

*sprints*

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. No we aren't

DC isn't the North.

And he doesn't count as a CT idiot. He's a Texas idiot, through and through, even though he's a shitty ignorant fake one.

[JohnKleeb]

4. Born in New Haven Connecticut

What does DC have to do with anything and yes I know DC isnt north.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. He lives in DC. And where one was born is irrelevant.

He is most definitely not a northerner.

[JohnKleeb]

8. hes definely not a southerner either

Do you really think we talk like that? C'mon.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. And that's the problem - no one is willing to claim him!

At least, no one of any intelligence.

:-)

[JohnKleeb]

10. Well do you think the cyborgs will claim him?

I will concede to you, hes no northerner but hes not one of us either.

[jswordy]

18. DC is the North if you live down here!

Believe it. I tell folks here I used to live in Virginia, and they say, "What did y'all do up North?"

It's all relative.

[Book Lover]

3. He adopted the Republic of Texas as his home

So there!

Hey ps - Kleeb: good to see you're up and about.

[JohnKleeb]

5. Well from what I hear about them Texans

They only count you as a real one if youre born there. I am sorta joking in a way, I really dont id as a southerner but i will remind people firmly that Bush isnt one.

[Aristus]

19. I was born there; San Antonio. But I rarely claim that anymore.

Being from, actually FROM, Texas is a pretty shopworn personal trait now. Between B*sh, Enron, the right-wing hell-hole of Dallas, and that open sewer known as Houston, being a native Texan ain't exactly a proud thing no more.

Call me a proud Washingtonian, and we'll shake on it. :-)

[JohnKleeb]

20. Cant we agree that Bush is neither northern or southern

BTW I am not really that stubborn on this.

[UrbScotty]

22. Where's he from? Uranus?

:evilgrin:

[UrbScotty]

14. Two words: GEORGE ALLEN

:evilgrin:

[JohnKleeb]

15. Hes from Irvine boyo

Irvine California.

[UrbScotty]

23. So?

:D

[JohnKleeb]

26. Irvine is in California

and funnily enough his pa is from your state.

[UrbScotty]

27. But then he left

He was too wimpy for our winters!

:P

[JohnKleeb]

28. his father was the Oakland Raiders football coach

and later Redskins Coach.

[trof]

7. And you used to be home to me.

Southern NH, 16 years.
I liked it and Boston.
But I like it better now here.
Warmer.

[CubsFan1982]

11. Illinois checking in!

Proud to be a Yankee! :D

[Worst Username Ever]

12. I LOVE THE NORTH TOO!!!

I can't imagine a better place to live than Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago, San Fran, or NY city. Within my city limits we have a big skyline and also natural waterfalls and forests. The people are great, the attitude is great, the summer and fall are spectacular (I love winter too, but some don't). There is a lake every couple of miles around here. The literacy, and education rates are higher, the divorce, violence, poverty and abuse rates are lower. I LOVE THE NORTH!

(yes, there are exceptions, but over all... NORTH!)

[DelawareValleyDem]

13. We do have some damn fine schools up here.

[jswordy]

16. I love the North too

I live in the South, but I love driving down frosty Midwestern roads in the morning in January, when the ice crystals make ice fog that gleams in the early sun. The crunch of cold snow under my feet.

I love it in the fall, when combines cross seemingly endless fields of corn at night, their lights making them look like alien spaceships on the vast landscape.

The spring, hunting morel mushrooms.

The summer, rushing to get the first ripe tomatoes.

I love boating on the mighty Mississippi, lowering myself off the boat near the bank and working my way down a wing dam to dangle a leg off the edge and feel the power of the current it is turning back into the main channel.

Or rappeling at Giant City State Park in southern Illinois, or seeing the Devil's Kitchen in Shawnee National Forest, formed during the New Madrid earthquake in the 1800s.

I love Bears games at Chicago's Soldiers Field, sitting on the 50 yard line with a friend who gets those tickets every year free cuz his dad used to be a coach for the team. I love driving Lakeshore Drive at 3:30 a.m. on a Sunday after partying on Rush Street in the city all night, and feeling like I own the road because almost no one else is out.

I love St. Louis, and watching the old Cardinals play there. Touring the brewery, and the historic areas.

I love small town bars, where kids play at tables while their parents visit and drink, because it is a family place and not just a place to get blasted or picked up or in a fight.

I love birch forests, and eagle watching, and the Sears Tower.

I love the North.

[Spider Jerusalem]

17. The South has better food.

But that's about it.

[Stop_the_War]

21. I LOVE THE NORTH TOO!

[nytemare]

24. I miss the north

The heat has liquefied my brains and the hurricanes have washed them away.

[NightTrain]

25. I'd never live south of NYC.

We may have winter to deal with, but the freepers and neocons pretty much keep to themselves up here; because they know we progressives outnumber the fuck out of 'em. Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh!