] New Yorkers yesterday slammed House Speaker Dennis
] Hastert for claiming the Big Apple was guilty of an
] "unseemly scramble" for cash after Sept. 11 %u2014 and
] one city councilman demanded he return his FDNY cap.
]
] "I want to let Hastert know we want our FDNY cap back,"
] fumed Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., referring to the
] baseball cap given to Hastert three years ago when the
] powerful Illinois lawmaker toured Ground Zero shortly
] after the 9/11 attacks.

[ So, lets say New York is a bees nest, and a lot of angry bees live there who are really pissed at, say, wasps. And the wasps are all, "Hey, we have to have a big meeting, lets do it in New York because of that time it got hit with a rock from that fucker Billy from down the road." And then right before the meeting they start poking at the nest. There is gonna be some shit. You don't fuck with a bees nest.

The conspiracy theorists are already on about the (R)'s purposefully pissing off New York *so that* there will be a riot they can point at to discredit the crazy liberals who hate america and who hate new york, the symbol of our collective fear.

My logic and what remains of my basic respect for humanity precludes me from going that far, but I hold firmly to my standpoint that they know exactly what they're getting into, and they picked new york for all the wrong reasons. I hope to god everything goes down peacefully, but they are seriously fanning some flames right now. Or poking the nest, to get back to my original analogy. -k]