{"id":63606,"date":"2025-07-14T01:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63606\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T01:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:05:09","slug":"maine-may-not-be-new-york-but-at-least-it-has-patriotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63606\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine may not be New York \u2014 but at least it has patriotism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, Maine is\u00a0great, but .\u200a.\u200a.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the opinions of our editors, I have returned. I am back.<\/p>\n

Listen, I needed a holiday. Even my computer was tired of me. Being patriotic, it being July 4, I went to re-live where our beloved country began. I schlepped to Maine.<\/a><\/p>\n

Vacationland<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why Maine? Because my forever friends whose ancestors \u2014 its earliest settlers \u2014 are honored in the state\u2019s museum and in whose original farmhouse I have stayed<\/a> are there. What it was like when great great great grandma Ballard practiced midwifery there in the 1600s and 1700s, who knows. What it\u2019s like now, I know.<\/p>\n

Nobody in that state blows their Social Security on wardrobe. A potpourri of pensioners, the average age is deceased. Gents need a divining rod to locate their private parts since most stomachs reached to Iowa. And if ever I see another lobster I\u2019ll crack it over the head of\u00a0Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

Maine has air. Sky. Birds. Marshes. Miles of white sand beaches. Bright blue sky. Puffy fluffy white clouds. Celebs from that state include our VP in 1861 Hannibal Hamlin. Also Althea Quimby who ran a temperance operation. Also\u00a0Anna Kendrick\u00a0and soccer player\u00a0Colby Qui\u00f1ones. Plus others who are less well known.<\/p>\n

Plus for instance, it\u2019s not Arizona. The northeasternest state\u2019s bird is the black capped chickadee. There\u2019s lighthouses in wherever\u2019s West Quoddy Head, rocky coastline, maritime history, the end of the Appalachian Trail, and something called the white Pine Cone flower which absolutely nobody sends anybody for somebody\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n

Sun & scoops<\/strong><\/p>\n

A popular city is Bangor, 31,000 population. One doctor\u2019s waiting room in NYC has more. Outdoor ice cream stands where people gather at night for scoops. I looked for scoops, but mine were for print.<\/p>\n

Songs exist extolling this state\u2019s glories. Like one we all know and hum \u2014 \u201cThe Reach\u201d written by Dan Fogelberg. Forget trying to hear this at the Met. BUT \u2014 it has patriotism. One famous tourist area is Old Orchard Beach. Go along its main drag. Every home, each one fronting the roadway with its back facing the ocean, flew the American flag. It\u2019s a city ordinance.<\/p>\n

The area began before big-time electricity. Thus, fronting each house is a telephone pole. Every one flew an American flag.<\/p>\n

New York will always be best<\/strong><\/p>\n

So: Let that big mouth jig elsewhere \u2014 not New York where he\u2019s hustling to be mayor<\/a>, not in the greatest country that God created \u2014 let this nothing friggin\u2019 nobody dance in Russia, Syria, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela. Let him team up with that female bartender, allow\u00a0Bernie Sanders\u00a0to spit into the camera, have\u00a0Donald\u00a0stuff him into the 19th hole.<\/p>\n

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Let this zero whom nobody heard of before tell us how to clean the streets, free up the roadways, reinforce bridges and highways, collect garbage, clear snow, lower taxes, show how to save the city, remove bodies sleeping on sidewalks, reopen shops, clean the subways, fight hate, stop with casinos and cheap semi-legal shops, help cops, jail what DA\u00a0Bragg\u00a0frees.<\/p>\n

And if looking for youth, no problem the\u00a0Menendez\u00a0brothers may soon be available. Or, fresh from kindergarten, grab\u00a0Buttigieg\u00a0whose last job was mayor of a town so small that more people are in my bathroom. He wants to be president. His husband \u2014 met via a dating app \u2014 told me: \u201cIn the White House we\u2019ll play loud music every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

BUT \u2014 and here\u2019s the big but \u2014 Maine has patriotism.<\/p>\n

So would I leave NYC and move there? What\u2019re you \u2014 nuts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, Maine is\u00a0great, but .\u200a.\u200a. Despite the opinions of our editors, I have returned. I am back. Listen,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2741,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,33348,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-63606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-maine","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-opinion","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-vacations","24":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114848913615490533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}