> Bawlmer has absolutely nothing going for it. It's an urban shithole
> with exorbitant property taxes.  Its school system features illiterate
> teachers; overpaid worthless administrators some of whose chauffeurs
> are paid $100K a year; and students who are dumb, disruptive,
> disinterested, and dangerous.  The pols are socialist crooks who have
> a tax for almost every letter of the alphabet.  Bawlmer always leads
> the nation in STDs and fatal drug ODs.  15%% of the denizens are
> regular drug users.

> And violent crime -- oh Gawd -- don't get me started on crime.
> Consider this.  Bawlmer city with 600,000 people features 300
> murders a year, 99%% of which are committed by black people
> who comprise 2/3 of the city's population.  

> In 1960, the city was much more crowded with 940,000 of whom
> 35%% were black.  Don't know how many murders were committed
> in the city that year, but in the entire State (3.2 million) there were
> 168.  Yep, in 1960 a local brewery dubbed this area "The Land Of
> Pleasant Living" and that was a pretty accurate description.

> Yet we have an idiot in this newsgroup who keeps praising the current
> city with irrelevant horseshit about a new tree being planted, or a
> craft show coming to the Inner Harbor, or a free health screening for
> the obese welfare mammies.  This fool has got to be a paid pimp for
> Mayor Sheila Dixon, the way he carries on about the worthless
> shithole.