Let's bash Michigan!

[FuriousMNDem]

The home of:

Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, Attorney General Michael Cox, US Energy Secretary Spence Abraham, and Reps. Pete Hoekstra, Vern Ehlers, Dave Camp, Fred Upton, Nick Smith, Mike Rogers, Joe Knollenberg, Candice Miller, and Thaddeus McCotter.

Mibnnesota only has Governor Tim Pawlenty, Lieutenant Governor Carol Molnau, Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer, Auditor Pat Awada, and Reps. Jim Ramstad, John Kline, Gil Gutknecht, and Mark Kennedy.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. But Michigan has the coolest Gov.

Jennifer is awesome and almost makes up for the all other crap.

[Tyler Durden]

2. AND Sen.'s Levin and Stabenow.

FINE liberal Democrats.

[5thGenDemocrat]

3. And you Gophers elected Norm Coleman

While we re-elected Sen Levin to a fourth term. But thanks for playing.
John
Oh, and U of Minnesota running back Terry Jackson? He's from Saginaw. Funny how many people are.
ON EDIT: Or is it Levin's fifth term? I forget.
ON EDITING THE EDIT: Thanks, ih8GOP.

[UrbScotty]

4. Actually, a fifth term.

Michigan's longest-serving US Senator! :-)

[AWD]

5. Michigan

They may have a sweet governor (oh, yes), but they also have multi-sport felons (Marlin Jackson beats 'em, and Chris Webber takes their money)

They also have a National Championship trophy from 1997, but they have to drive to Nebraska to see the other half of it.

[UrbScotty]

9. Like I said, Ohio State is like Bush

They have to cheat to win!

[5thGenDemocrat]

10. Funny you should mention Nebraska

Legendary Cornhusker coach Bob Devaney? Also from (my block in) Saginaw. I can see the house he grew up in from my kitchen window.
John
Anyhow, I could give a sh-t less about the U of Michigan. I went to Central Michigan (Chip-POOOOOOOO-Wah!!!) and am content when we just beat Bowling Green.

[StaggerLee]

11. I'll see your two bad boys and raise you

Tom Izzo
Steve Mariucci

Both from Iron Mountain

[5thGenDemocrat]

12. Funny you should mention Steve Mariucci...

His new hot stuff receiver Charles Rogers? From Saginaw, too.
John
So's Jason Richardson of the NBA Warriors (formerly one of Izzo's charges at MSU).

[StaggerLee]

13. Yes sir John

And we thank you for both of them!

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. Don't thank too soon, Mariucci's got the same record that Fontes had

when he was run out of town...


Go Packers!

[StaggerLee]

17. Thanking for Rogers and Richardson on that last post-

Wayne who??
:-)

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. Oooh, sorry. I am just befuddled as to why so many people are

geeked out about Steve.

Good luck this year, seriously, well sorta as long as you don't get in GB's way.

[StaggerLee]

20. Absolutely!

Love the black and blue division!

(good luck to you too)

[Paragon]

21. I prefer the 89 National Championship

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. I've never dated a girl from Michigan

so that state is okay with me....for now.

:evilgrin:

[Zephyrbird]

7. ::CRINGE:: yeesh!

So many losers coming from my state!

We call "Spence" the "Pillsbury Fat Boy."

[noonwitch]

8. Don't forget John Conyers, John Dingell, Sander Levin, Kwame

and the late, great Coleman A. Young, who loved Detroit and is buried here at Elmwood Cemetary.
You just have to love any politician that addresses the media via closed caption tv from Hawaii, saying "Aloha mother*%#@%!*.
Or who tells the reporter from the "Worker's World" "you can revolution your ass out of here".
Or who, when the Reagan/Bush FBI sent in an undercover operative to take him down, ensures that the one person who ends up in prison (along with the police chief) is that informant.
Or who refers to the ex-governor of California as "Pruneface". When asked after Reagan's election what he would refer to him as now, Coleman answered "President Pruneface".

There are so many great Coleman quotes out there. He made cursing an art form.

[KamaAina]

14. They eat pasties in public!

Not even Matcom would stoop THAT low! :-)

Of course that's only on the UP, and...

...the pasties in question are meat pies. Not unmentionables, meat pies. Get your minds out of the gutter!

[JVS]

19. mmmm pasties

It is really hard to decide which kind is better.

[lpbk2713]

16. Home of the DETROIT TIGERS.........

....... they have the dubious distinction of earning the lowest average in all of Major League Baseball!!!

[5thGenDemocrat]

22. Seen the Tigs four times this year (they lost all four)

But three of the games, including the one Monday night, went into extra innings (like, consideing the state of Detroit baseball, that's a good thing.
Looks like this:
Jun 1 (vs NYY) L 5-4 (17) (Clemens attempted to win #300 and didn't).
Jun (-)(vs ARI) L 7-0
Jul (-) (vs BOS) L 3-2 (11) (Martinez started, no decision).
Aug 18(vs TEX) L 4-2 (16) (ARod hit a Steve Sparks knuckler 450 ft to the opposite field).
I feel like a guy with a cast-iron butt what with all the extra innings. And Mike B and I are probably heading down Friday night vs Anaheim.
John
It's only 100 miles each way. And, lose or lose big, it's still Tiger baseball.

[Paragon]

23. Don't forget the Michigan Militia...

Produced some real geniuses, namely Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.

Terry's brother, John, is the nutcase Michael Moore (also from Michigan) interviewed in BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE:

John Nichols: I use the pen, because the pen is mightier than the sword. But you must always keep a sword handy for when the pen fails.
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Michael Moore: Now wait a minute... The Constitution says you've got the right to bear arms. What do you think 'arms' means?
John Nichols: Well it's not like these...
(waves his arms)
John Nichols: It means we ought to have handguns if we want to.
Michael Moore: What about nuclear weapons? Should you be able to have weapons-grade plutonium?
John Nichols: (pauses) ... Well I think that oughta be restricted.
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Michael Moore: Why not use Gandhi's way? He didn't have guns, and he beat the British Empire.
John Nichols: I'm not... familiar with that.
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John Nichols: There's a lot of wackos out there.