Friday, August 31, 2007

Quote of the Day

"In the black community, we'll find 10 different ways to kick you down before we'll take one to lift you up."
-- Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, on why not to vote for her
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7 comments:

ppatin said...

"Most awkward: getting an earful from another guy, who blamed the city's lagging convention business on pasties.

"They covered everything up, the pasties," the man said, gesturing to relevant body parts. "All the big conventions, they went to where they can see a show."

To Mitchell's credit, he didn't appear to know that dancers on The Block take it all off these days. Or if Mitchell knew pasties were things of the past, he knew better than to set the man straight. He just chuckled and moved along."

As much as this city frustrates me sometimes, there are still moments that make me <3 Baltimore.

Fri Aug 31, 08:37:00 AM EDT
Maurice Bradbury said...

heh heh.., when did the strippers stop weraing the pasties, anyway? like 1990 or something!

Fri Aug 31, 08:42:00 AM EDT
ppatin said...

I don't know. I believe that's something that Kurt Schmoke gets credit for, but that could be a myth.

Fri Aug 31, 08:45:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...

I think it was around '98 or so. It had nothing to do with a mayor. Some city judge ruled that pasty and g-string laws were somehow unconstitutional.

God bless him.

Fri Aug 31, 09:19:00 AM EDT
ppatin said...

I guess that's why Maryland is the Free State.

Fri Aug 31, 09:25:00 AM EDT
John Galt said...

The campaign platforms in the Guatemalan elections sound hauntingly familiar.

The homicide rate in Guatemala is 70; Baltimore's rate this year will be about 50.

Fri Aug 31, 09:34:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...

My advice - vote according to your hearts on the eleventh and welcome the pending doom which status quo people will bring to us all.

Fri Aug 31, 03:04:00 PM EDT

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