What is the point of Maryland?

[XemaSab]

It's one of the stupidest states. Like, why? :shrug:

Can't they just get rid of Maryland and give California two more senators? :shrug:

[madinmaryland]

1. We do have two Democratic Senators!

Why not just get rid of the tolls in Delaware.

[LynneSin]

5. When are you going to get rid of your god-damn fucking tolls in MD

Pot, I'd like to introduce you to the kettle - YOU'RE BOTH BLACK!

[madinmaryland]

13. Aww, Geez!

[LynneSin]

15. Oh sure - you can dish it out but you won't take it

LOSER

:hide:

[madinmaryland]

16. $10 in tolls for 10 miles?

:wtf:

No wonder you folks have no taxes on clothes! We're paying them for you!

:grr:

[LynneSin]

18. Where the fuck are you driving?

We have one toll at the DE-MD border for $3 (which is easy to get around) and we have one at the Del Memorial Bridge which if you want, can keep on driving up through PA and take one of THEIR toll bridges.

MD is so smart they not only put a $5 toll in the middle of 95 but they even put a $5 on the back road you could use to get around that toll

[madinmaryland]

19. HAHAHAHA!!1!!

I just avoid that whole stupid area all together. Just as fast to go up to Harrisburg and across to the Tappan Zee!

[LynneSin]

20. Yeah well that would be fine if I wasn't trying to drive back to DELAWARE

:eyes:

[madinmaryland]

21. HAHAHAHA!!

[CC]

24. Hop over to Rt1 and follow it

up to Rt.273. No toll at all there and a beautiful drive. Then you can miss both the MD and DE toll to go to DE.

[TZ]

33. Nary a toll road in central and western Maryland

They all seem to be closer to that Delaware line for some reason.....

[blueraven95]

2. it's mostly dem

:shrug: why would you want to get rid of it?

[ironflange]

3. The point of Maryland is. . .

At the western end.

[Deep13]

4. Convenient location for Baltimore and, therefore, ...

...the nation's first modern teaching hospital, Johns-Hopkins.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

6. Ummm....

Maryland has had one Republican Governor since the 1960s and hasn't had a Republican Senator since the retirement of Senator Charles Mathias in the 1986 mid-term elections

California has had four Republican Governors since the 1960s including the current one. One of the former Governors went on to become a terrible President, another Governor from the last decade was re-elected after promoting a racist and xenophobic anti-immigration platform while the current Governor is in power because the voters of the state elected to recall a Democratic Governor. Meanwhile in California there was a Republican Senator in office as recently as 1992

I love California -it's a beautiful state with wonderful people in it. But politically Maryland is a much better option

[freestyle]

7. To be the bluest state in the South

Also, it is home, so don't mess with it. The point is in Garrett County.

[LynneSin]

9. Sure - that's why they had that Ehrlich guy as their governor

:eyes:

[freestyle]

12. If there was a worse campaign somewhere, tell me.

That election was Townsend's to lose, and she did. I volunteered on that campaign, and I knew we were done after Ehrlich chose a Black running mate and Townsend chose an old White guy who was a republican a month before. I don't think you will see a campaign that bad again.

[madinmaryland]

14. As soon as I moved here the state elected a democratic governor!

[billyskank]

8. mutley lives there

That's good enough for me.

[Midlodemocrat]

11. She should be crowned queen of Maryland.

Mutley rocks. And, unlike underpants, will not allow all of us to die in a hurricane, or a flood, or a tornado, or a heatwave.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

10. i've lived in Maryland ----

I liked it there - I worked in D.C. ----

But now that I'm here, I don't care if you want to annex it or something...

[Beer Snob-50]

17. they have great beer, crabcakes,

and cute women. what more can one ask for. oh and a nice ballpark.

[LynneSin]

22. Wait - we have great crabcakes, Dogfish Head Beer plus

the Bob is a great stadium and so is Dover International Speedway plus some folks think I'm cute!

[Beer Snob-50]

23. Dogfish Head Beer is some of the best around

I have never had a Delaware crabcake, and I am not familar with the Bob. And I have heard a rumor that you are da bomb!

[LynneSin]

27. Delaware Crabcakes are just made from crabs caught in Delaware

The Bob is the name of the Bob Carpenter Stadium - home of the Delaware Blue Hens football team, Division I-AA. Our team is now 4-0 and ranked 11th in NCAA 1-AA division. I have a feeling our team could probably beat University of Michigan.

[madinmaryland]

28. When is the Toll Booth Bowl this year?

Delaware vs. Delaware State?

[Crabby Appleton]

25. To provide a cootie buffer between Delaware and the un-infected

parts of the country.

[av8rdave]

26. The point(s) of Maryland...

The Orioles. Steamed crabs. 'nuff said.

[MrScorpio]

29. The consensus is crabcakes

However, we also have crab cakes here in Eastern Virginia

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

30. We need Maryland

Somebody's got to absorb DC when we get around to re-incorporating them into the U.S. of A. Without Maryland, they might have to join Delaware or something (wherever "Delaware" is)

:hi:

[madinmaryland]

31. No one should absorb DC. Should be a state unto itself!

2 more votes in the Senate and 1 in the house!!

[TZ]

32. NIH, NIST, FDA, Bethesda Naval Hospital.,Johns Hopkins

among other things including being one of the biggest homes of biotechnology and IT technology in the country.
What Maryland doesn't have but California does have- earthquakes, wildfires brushfires, mudslides.
Come on. Outside of the occasional tornadoes and flooding, we don't have many natural disasters (ahem) and btw, my county in Maryland (Montgomery) is as rich as Orange county California with NO REPUBLICANS HOLDING OFFICE. Top that CA! BTW, we don't elect movie stars as politicians either! We got rid of our idiot Repuke governor!
..Chesapeake Bay- is the largest natural estuary in the world. I think folks would miss MD crab cakes/blue crabs, oysters, rockfish et al...I have lived happily in this state for 30+ years...

[Bucky]

34. Maryland keeps giant oysters from attacking Pennsylvania

In a well armed society, no one would fear giant oysters climbing up on shore to take our children.