What's embarrassing about your state?

[undeterred]

I'm from Wisconsin, and in the last two months we've had stories about young men digging up a corpse to have sex and now another one having sex with road kill (deer). Neither is illegal, but you wouldn't think it would need to be...

And along the same lines, Sensenbrenner was re-elected.

[Haole Girl]

1. Uh...I live in Texas...

why don't I just count the things on one hand that I like....basically, the people. ;-)

[kedrys]

13. Texas. Any questions?

The people are by and large very nice, but the politics...jeebus.

[yellowdogintexas]

14. same here. the list is endless. But there are some great things

about this state too.

[Reciprocity]

19. Same here 'nuff said.

[hfojvt]

87. For some reason

I thought you were in Kansas or Missouri. Hmmmm. I wonder why.

There's, of course, absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about in Kansas, and too much to list about Misery.

[Earth_First]

2. Tom Reynolds

The Fast Ferry

hmmm...

There are others.

[NewWaveChick1981]

3. State I live in is NC...

...Jesse Helms (although he's no longer a threat), Elizabeth Dole, Richard Burr, among others.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

5. I was just about to say Jesse Helms.

[crim son]

4. Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe

the highest tax burden in the nation and nothing to show for it but a lot of trees and big-box stores.

[mainegreen]

46. Well those trees aren't going to grow themselves you know!

Imagine what the forest would be like without taxes!
:P

[crim son]

76. I know it!

Something has to give in this state. I just don't know what.

[bertha katzenengel]

6. We elected Haircut Bob (R-Smug Bastard) as governor four years ago.

Fortunately, we just kicked him out.

And you know who my native state just re-elected as governor. :puke:

[sakabatou]

7. Ah-nuld.

[bridgit]

136. yup...

x(

[Catshrink]

8. Vile Kyl, McCain, Sheriff Joe

and his pink underwear edict. Arizona's the dumbest state and near the bottom in education funding. Charter schools are huge here and that takes away from public school funding. And how can a kid who speaks Spanish only be expected to master biology or chemistry or history or literature in an English only system? It sucks.

[Catshrink]

18. I almost forgot: The Arizona Cardinals.

HS football at the professional level.

Not to mention the Diamondbacks new color scheme and logo. :puke:

[UrbScotty]

91. Your state's embarrassment beat my state's embarrassment

See post 90.

[Ediacara]

9. My home state and adopted state elected these clowns

Three times each

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

10. Secaucus. Yeah...please don't judge NJ on it. Or me, since I was born there.

[Gormy Cuss]

11. Arnold is the governor. n/t

[Momgonepostal]

68. That was the first thing to pop in my my too

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Ah-NOLD...........Need I say more?

:eyes:

[Initech]

51. Exactly what I was going to say!

[DODI]

15. LIEberman

[jonnyblitz]

77. you beat me to it. I second yor post.

:D

[Little Wing]

16. Lobstah

[Alexander]

17. Arizona and Connecticut have plenty to be embarassed about.

AZ: Jon Kyl, John McCain, Sheriff Joe, and formerly, JD Hayworthless. Also a lot of gun nuts, cowboys, racists and dumb binge-drinking college kids (at ASU, anyway). The city of Phoenix and suburbs are all terribly planned and feature everything you don't want in a city while having very little that is desirable.

CT: Joe Lieberman, John Rowland (until recently), Ann Coulter, the Bush family, and a bunch of stuck up cliquish blue-bloods who wouldn't know human decency if it bit them in the ass. While Eli Whitney's cotton gin was a notable invention, the result was increased perpetuation of slavery. Yay.

[NewJeffCT]

121. going back a bit further

Benedict Arnold was born in Connecticut, as was Samuel Colt, founder of Colt firearms.

[YankeyMCC]

20. Well we have had Rethug Govs

For the last 16 years but we're better now. :) Or will be come Jan 4th.

[AlCzervik]

21. The gropenfuher Governor and about most of the gop house coalition.

Duncan Hunter, Dana Rorbacher, Darryl Issa.

[XemaSab]

122. Wally Herger. George Radanovich.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. Norm Coleman as Senator, Tim Pawlenty as governor

and most embarrassing as all, fundie bubblehead Michelle Bachmann represeting our sixth Congressional district.

That's Minnesota, in case you haven't guessed.

Oh, and our concelaed carry law, which requires businesses to allow concealed weapons unless they specifically post a sign to the contrary at their entrance and which in its original form didn't allow houses of worship to ban fire arms at all. (So, in other words, if some bozo wanted to enter a Quaker meetinghouse with weapons, they couldn't refuse him.)

Then there's the last state legislature, which left many pressing problems unsolved but found time to pass a law permitting the hunting of mourning doves.

[Left Is Write]

23. Bill Sali was elected.

[billyskank]

24. Tony Blair!

:woohoo:

[undeterred]

31. I'll trade ya Bush and a bag of pretzels for Tony Blair.

[billyskank]

32. Seriously, I don't think you appreciate quite what a douchebag Blair really is

;)

[undeterred]

54. You mean he's like scrotalrinse?

:shrug:

[Lyric]

25. Shelley Moore Capito, Lynndie England, The Thundering Herd n/t

[gemdem]

26. The Cleveland Browns

Who lost again today. I'm a life-long fan, but any more I have to wonder why.

[El Fuego]

27. I'm from Florida.... where would I begin?

[Archae]

28. Tommy "Stick It To 'Em!" Thompson.

Now that asswipe may run for president? :crazy:

[BrainRants]

38. I'll see your TT, and raise you a Sensenbrenner.

The adventures of Deficit Man and Kotex Boy.

[auntAgonist]

29. Michigan..Under the Oaks

http://www.jacksonmich.com/markers/mark1.htm

"Under the Oaks"

the First Republican Convention
Jackson, Michigan 1854

On July 6, 1854, a state convention of anti-slavery men was held in Jackson to found a new political party. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had been published two years earlier, causing increased resentment against slavery, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of May, 1854, threatened to make slave states out of previously free territories. Since the convention day was hot and the huge crowd could not be accommodated in the hall, the meeting adjourned to an oak grove on "Morgan's Forty" on the outskirts of town. Here a state-wide slate of candidates was selected and the Republican Party was born. Winning an overwhelming victory in the elections of 1854, the Republican party went on to dominate national parties throughout the nineteenth century."

[Rising Phoenix]

30. Mitt Romney

[cwydro]

33. Oh where do I start?

Grew up in NC and now I live in Florida....B-)

[salin]

34. Dan Quayle, Dan Burton, Mitch Daniels...

just starters...

[Xipe Totec]

35. Mitt Romney

The rest is pretty freaking nice!

[Nite Owl]

36. A supposedly deep blue, liberal state

and we had Pataki for 12 yrs. We gave the country Rudy Ghouliani (sorry bout that).

I still love NY, wouldn't be many other places I'd choose to live.

[trof]

37. Alabama? Where to start...

[libodem]

39. Idaho elected Bill Sali

he's a born-again bible thumper with a closed mind and a flapping jaw. He is sure to embarrass our state going up against some of the well informed Democrats he is likely to encounter in congress. I can't wait to see him proven wrong...again and again.

[Broken_Hero]

40. Ted Stevens, Don Young...Frank Murkowski....nt

[northofdenali]

52. Amen, fellow traveler in the frozen north.

Don Young is an absolute disgrace. And everyone know about Uncle Ted's "power" tie..... :blush:

[northofdenali]

41. Geez, where to start..........

Bridges to Nowhere, anyone? A governor who appoints his daughter to take his place in the US Senate? How about a brand new governor who told one rally that she is "moderately" pro-choice, and another that she would sign a law like the one in South Dakota?

How about aerial wolf hunting, despite the voters going to the polls TWICE to ban it?

I really wouldn't live anywhere else; it's beautiful and the wilderness is close. But I wish the repukes from Outside who came up during pipeline construction would take the bigotry, "christian" hard right views, and racism back where they came from!!

[RevolutionaryActs]

42. I'm from it, I'd say that's pretty embarrassing.

:rofl:

[tinfoil tiaras]

43. Mississippi

...need I say more?

[Shell Beau]

81. Aww, I wish you wouldn't say that!

[tinfoil tiaras]

83. Haha, I really don't like Mississippi though

the negatives cancel out the positives majorly, imho. But I hate it when people geographically stereotype the south. That's my job to do, not theirs. You know, like it's okay for Southerners to make fun of Southerners, but not for Northerners to make fun of Southerners...hahaa

[Shell Beau]

84. I get ya!! It is okay to make fun of your own!

[Nomad559]

44. The City of Fresno

The Birth place of Freak RePUGlic

:puke:

[yy4me]

45. Mittens Romney...and to think he is considering running for Pres.

Yipes. He'll spend all his time combing his hair and having manicures.

[LynneSin]

50. So you're from Utah?

I mean seriously, that guy was from Massachusetts like Rick Santorum was living in Pennsylvania

[mcar]

47. Florida

What isn't embarrassing about my state?

[China_cat]

48. It's South Carolina

What's NOT embarassing?

[LynneSin]

49. When I lived in PA just two words - RICK SANTORUM

Delaware I actually like and have nothing to complain about

[femmocrat]

73. But PA voters finally woke up and voted the bum out!

:applause:

[femmocrat]

74. PA: the highways suck.

Our roads are terrible and yet they are always under construction. Go figure!

[TommyO]

113. Now that Santorum is history

I'll agree with you. The problem is that so many of PA's roads are maintained by PennDot and not local governments.

[Ravenseye]

118. The haircuts

Mullets and bushy mustaches went out of style years ago, and yet the women of PA still manage to have both.

ba doom boom.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

53. Bob Taft

x( And Ken Blackwell. :puke:

[mtnester]

93. Only for another 60 days though, then bye bye Bob and Ken

lots of reasons to be happy to live in Ohio now...OSU wins, Dem victory...

But I will agree with an earlier poster about the Brownies...and the Begals rank right up there now too.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

94. Very true

:D :bounce: Though there's an old family loyalty for the Browns. :)

[WindRavenX]

55. Mitt Romney

Sorry about that, guys.

[leftofthedial]

56. you mean besides me?

[Karenca]

57. Governor Pataki, Pete King, Michael Bloomberg, Ed Koch, Rudy

Guiliani,
The New York Post,
Fox News Headquarters,
CNN News Office,
The 2004 RNC Convention
and
Times Square.

[stanwyck]

58. OK. I win. Or lose, I guess...

I live in the reddest state in the country - Georgia. We have Sonny Perdue as governor and Saxby Chambliss as senator. And that's just the tip of our horrendous Republican iceberg. This state is crawling with rightwing, fundie cockroaches. We'd have Ralph Reed as Lt. Governor now if Jack Abramoff hadn't intervened. I'm in a blue district with Dem. Hank Johnson as my rep, (formerly Cynthia McKinney's district). But our little blue enclaves can;t complete with the red plague devouring our state. And, of course, we have Zell Miller who proclaimed in his ads for Sonny Perdue that "Georgia is the envy of the nation". Really? In what respect? Our substandard test scores? Our high infant mortality rate? Our status as having the highest rate of obesity? Just saying "Zell Miller" should settle the question. (and don't forget the infamous Bob Barr.)

[DrDan]

59. Florida here

how about this for starters

Katherine Harris
Congressman Feeney
Congressman Keller

[undeterred]

60. Let's not forget Congressman Foley and Jeb

[DrDan]

108. uh . . . let's make that

ex-congressman foley

and that is a good thing about Fl

[madrchsod]

61. ronny reagan, denny hastert,john gacy,richard speck

and other assorted crooks and criminals

[NNadir]

62. Nothing at all is embarrassing about New Jersey.

It's a wonderful place to live.

[Elidor]

63. Roadkill is considered legal game

As long as you observe the 3-hour rule.

[undeterred]

66. do people have sex with roadkill?

they do in Wisconsin... http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1116061deer1.html

[ZombieNixon]

64. We elected Peter Roskam to Congress instead of Tammy Duckworth.

Also...Dennis Hastert. Thankfully these are only one district apiece.

My home state of New Mexico has its douchebags (I live amidst many of them), but they're less of a national problem and more of a local infestation. :)

[smitty]

65. Cheesheads

[GoddessOfGuinness]

67. My current state would probably be clearer if I just took my vitamins.

[NV Whino]

69. Arnold Schwarzenegger n/t

[carlydenise]

70. ND......need I say more

5 miles past the end of the earth, this state is a perpetual episode of the Twilight Zone....
Carly

[SmileyBoy]

141. We need more North Dakotans!!

:hi:

[carlydenise]

142. Hi

I am totally unbiased between the 2 major colleges in ND....but seeing that my kid has decided to go to UND next fall, I guess by default I am a Fighting Sioux
Carly

[QMPMom]

71. Dan Quayle, Michael Jackson, John Hostettler, Dan Burton....

and a host of others.

[NC_Nurse]

72. Jesse Helms

Jim and Tammy Baker
Liddy Dole

But mainly Jesse Helms...

[Maestro]

75. Gov. Goodhair aka Rick Perry

Pete Sessions, John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Tom DeLay (but now is Virginia's problem), this freak from San Antonio, the infestation of this company If I think of more, I'll update.

[VeggieTart]

78. Well, I grew up in Florida -- nuff said.

Now, i live in DC, which really isn't a state, and the most embarrassing thing is when the police arrested all these people in Pershing Park in 2002, including some nurses who were attending a convention. Hopefully our new mayor, Adrian Fenty, will ax Charles Ramsey.

[Downtown Hound]

79. Ah-nuld, the Three Strikes Law, and

the very high cost of living. Other than that, I love it here!

[Shell Beau]

80. digging up a corpse isn't illegal?

Having sex with a corpse isn't illegal?

[undeterred]

82. I think its illegal to desecrate a corpse

but not specifically to have sex with it- fortunately there was a cement slab between the young men and the object of their desire. Our state legislature will probably make a law regarding this just because we have so many people lacking good sense.

[Shell Beau]

85. I guess desecrate is up for interpretation!

Sad!! I did know of some people who dug up "rich" bodies and stole the jewelry from them! REally sick!

[undeterred]

86. This was a very attractive 20 yr old female who died in an accident

dug up by 3 horny guys her own age, who brought along condoms. Same town, but they didn't know her.

[zanne]

88. New Hampshire--hats with ear flaps. nt

[Jean Louise Finch]

100. And Pat Buchanan won the Republican primary in 1996

I mean, any republican is embarassing, but Buchanan? Eeeks.

[Blue_In_AK]

89. Ted Stevens and Don Young. n/t

[UrbScotty]

90. Tim Walberg, Pete Hoekstra, Dave Camp, Thaddeus McCotter, Mike Rogers, the Lions

On the other hand, we do have Dingell and Conyers.

[Catshrink]

96. That's why I still love my Bears

once one has lived in Chicago, how could another team come close?

[rustydog]

92. Soon to be Ex-chair of Ethics committee comes from Central Washington

[Shine]

95. I'm coming late to this thread, so I'm sure other Californians have mentioned Ahnold by now.

he just about sums it up...but there's lots of other stuff, too, of course. We could be here all night....

:D

[Magrittes Pipe]

97. Not to mention the fact that bigotry is now written into our constitution.

:eyes:

[bigwillq]

98. They re-elected Lieberman

:mad:

[LaraMN]

99. Embarrass.

[Redstone]

101. Stage govermnent even MORE corrupt than next-door Rhode Island.

Yes, even with Rowland gone.

Redstone

[swag]

102. I live in Oregon, the "Beaver State."

We are not allowed to pump our own gas.

Education and public services are terribly underfunded.

[meow2u3]

103. I live in Pennsylvania

The embarrassing thing about PA is that liquor sales are totally run by the government, yet the car registration tags are privatized. I think it should be the other way around.

[yellowcanine]

117. That doesn't even come close to the fact that Santorum got elected TWICE.

[SammyWinstonJack]

104. People who still have bush/cheney'04 bumper stickers on their vehicles and those who

voted for the repukes here who could not care less about them.

[haf216]

105. I live in Louisiana,

need I say more. I mean cock fighting is still legal here!!!

[mduffy31]

106. That fucker with the deer is from my hometown of Superior

There was a few of us who knew about him and did our best to have him taken care off. That whole family is crazy and needs to be sterlized, that gene swamp needs to end there.

[hickman]

107. Michigan? Don't get me started.

Aileen Wuornos, Tim McVeigh, John Norman Collins, and those pig farmers that murdered the two hunters awhile ago. To name a few.

[SharonRB]

124. On the other side of the equation, though, we have

Carl Levin, Jennifer Granholm, John Conyers, Helen Thomas and Kerry and Gore both won the state. We're not really so bad overall.

(Of course, the Unabomber also went to Michigan, but I don't know if he's actually from here.)

[ScreamingMeemie]

109. Michigan... streets full of potholes that always seem to be under

construction... Knollenberg, DeVos (Thank goodness people were smart enough not to elect him), the sad state of our CPS department, bandwagon fans, ... I could go on. :hi:

[SharonRB]

125. Hi, Mrs. G!

See my post just above for the other side of the equation.

Yes, thank goodness we had the sense not to elect DeVos, but the people of the 9th didn't have the sense not to re-elect Knollenberg. At least we have Sandy Levin!

[RebelOne]

110. Georgia. Need I say any more? n/t

[lildreamer316]

111. Oh Jesus.

I don't know where to start.
I'd be a shorter list to say what ISN'T embarrassing

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

112. good morning...

:hi: I live in Delaware. That's right, the good ol' First State. "The Small Wonder" State. Our state is so small that people who didn't pay attention in Social Studies think that we are part of Philadelphia!!! How can a state be in a city??? I'm still trying to figure that one out.
The other things that are embarrassing about the State of Delaware:
1. Thomas Capano: You can guess why!!!
2. Amy Grossberg & Brian Peterson: It has been 10 years since they threw away their son!!!
These are what is embarrassing about The State of Delaware, the first state. :hide:

[Mad_Dem_X]

134. Ah yes, good ol' Tom Capano

...played by Mark Harmon in the TV movie. Mark Harmon also played Ted Bundy in a TV movie.

[sinkingfeeling]

114. Arkansas. Something like 75% Southern Baptist with some of the highest

numbers of divorces, domestic violence, and child molestation stats in the country.

[yellowcanine]

115. Maryland. Bob "goodhair" Ehrlich is still guv for 2 more months.

Republican Ehrlich's latest claim to fame is hiring homeless men from Philadelphia to distribute flyers at the polls in Prince Georges County on election day claiming that he is actually a Democrat and was being supported by prominent Democrats in Prince Georges County, which just happens to be majority black. No racism there, no siree! Nice to see a politician that respects the intelligence of the voters. Fortunately it didn't work - he still lost, but you can still blame him for trying.

[RetroLounge]

116. Waukesha County, Wisconsin

'nuff said

RL

[undeterred]

119. And lets throw in Washington and Ozaukee for good measure

Since these folks are so red they aren't the least bit moved by national trends.

[NewJeffCT]

120. Connecticut - birthplace of George W. Bush

Also, I believe Ann Coulter & Laura Ingraham are from CT.

[melissinha]

123. IA: Herbert Hoover, I'm inTX now... people voted BUSH just cause he was GOV

I don't know how many people voted for Kerry in 2004 but voted for Bush in 2000 just cause he was Governor, and then there's the reelection of Gov GoodHair and Grandma Fournames' and Kinky Friedman's candidacy... what a joke!

[ronnykmarshall]

126. Our Governor.

:puke:

[av8rdave]

127. I'm in Texas

Our biggest embarrassment should be obvious.

[Saphire]

128. Agreed!

[madinmaryland]

129. Maryland - Alan Keyes and William Donald Schaffer

Alan Keyes is obvious, and WDS for the sexist comments he has made.

[Dukkha]

130. Tom Noe

Despite all our issues, particularly the Diebold election fraud, our only conviction is for a coin collecting nerd. Way to go O-HI-O.

[Burma Jones]

131. Maryland - The Redskins Play here

but on the other hand, so do the Ravens.......

We have an active Klan Klaven, or Klub or whatever they call them, in Frederick County. We had Spiro Agnew, but that's so long ago.....

[6000eliot]

132. Um, it's New Jersey.

[Mad_Dem_X]

137. I feel your pain

Former Jersey Girl here - I managed to escape 16 years ago. LOL Seriously, southern Jersey isn't too bad.

[KamaAina]

133. Still legal to ride in the back of a pickup truck

we lose more teenagers that way...

[CottonBear]

135. US Senators Zell Miller and Saxby Chambliss and Governor Sonny Perdue.

:( What a bunch of goobers. :(

On the other hand, Jimmy Carter, Sam Nunn, John Lewis and Max Cleland (among many others) make me proud to be a Georgian! :)

[ceile]

138. hmmm......TX

Gosh, I don't even know where to start. But we have some beautiful scenery and wonderful people.

[chemenger]

139. Ah ... we took care of our embarassment on November 7th

I'm from Pennsylvania. 'nuff said.

[Hubert H. Hubert]

140. Same here

VA now has one less goofball racist representing us. I guess I'll have to think of something new to be embarrassed about.

[plcdude]

143. Inhofe

need I say more?

[Writer]

144. Colorado: Marilyn F'ing Musgrave

This sister's peroxided hair has that "Jesus tint." But that woman does not have a soul.

[youthere]

145. Iowa: We have:

1. More hogs than people
2. More subscriptions to Playboy than any other state
AND
3. The highest consumption of Jell-O in the nation...

Hogs, Playboy and Jell-o.....Let your imagination run wild.

[philosophie_en_rose]

146. Washington: Tim Eyman, Dino Rossi, Guy that Died from Sex with Male Horse

:shrug:

[Rob H.]

147. TN: Voters approved an amendment to the state constitution...

to ban gay marriage here, where it's been illegal since 1996.

Bob Corker got elected, too.

At least Gore is from these parts--that's one thing we can be proud of.