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Some souvenir shirts that represent the image!!

And I live between the top two!! These are America's 10 Most Dangerous Cities: 1. Flint, Mich. Population: 109,245 Violent Crime Per 1,000: 22 2010 Murders: 53 Median Income: $27,049 (46.1% below national average) Unemployment Rate: 11.8% (2.8% above national average) The number of violent crimes committed in Flint increased for all categories considered for this list between 2009 and 2010. Perhaps most notably, the number of murders in the city increased from 36 to 53. This moves the city from having the seventh highest rate of homicide to the second highest. The number of aggravated assaults increased from 1,529 to 1,579, a rate of 14.6 assaults per 1,000 residents, placing the city in the No. 1 rank for rate of assaults. Flint police chief Alvern Lock stated late last year that he believed the city's violence stemmed from drugs and gangs. Flint has a relatively small median income of about $27,000 per household. The city also has a poverty rate of 36.2%. 2. Detroit Population: 899,447 Violent Crime Per 1,000: 18.9 2010 Murders: 310 Median Income: $26,098 (48% below national average) Unemployment Rate: 12.7% (3.7% above national average) The city crippled the most in America's post-industrial era is almost certainly Detroit. The Motor City has suffered from high rates of unemployment, homelessness, and crime. The city has one of the ten highest rates for three of the four types of violent crime identified by the FBI. Detroit has the sixth highest murder rate, the fifth highest robbery rate, and the second highest rate of aggravated assault. In 2005, a major reorganization of the city's police department took place after a federal investigation identified inefficiencies within the system. According to an article in The United Press, opponents of Detroit Mayor David Bing called for further intervention by the Justice Department in several shootings that occurred last year. 3. St. Louis Population: 355,151 Violent Crime Per 1,000: 17.5 2010 Murders: 144 Median Income: $34,801 (30.7% below national average) Unemployment Rate: 9.3% (0.3% above national average) Violent crime in St. Louis fell dramatically between 2009 and 2010, and has decreased since 2007. Despite this, crime rates remain extremely high compared with other cities. In 2010, the city's murder rate and rate of aggravated assault were each the third worst in the country. With regards to both violent and nonviolent crime, St. Louis was rated the most dangerous city based on FBI data released six months ago. As of December 2010, the murder rate in St. Louis was 6.3 times that of the state of Missouri. The city's gunshot murder rate for residents between 10 to 19 years old is also the second highest in the country, behind only New Orleans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 4. New Haven, Conn. Population: 124,856 Violent Crime Per 1,000: 15.8 2010 Murders: 22 Median Income: $38,279 (23.8% below national average) Unemployment Rate: 9.6% (0.6% above national average) New Haven has historically had the highest rate of violent crime on the east coast. The impoverished, crime-ridden parts of the city stand in stark contrast to affluent Fairfield county to the West, and elite Yale University, which is located within the city itself. The number of murders in the city doubled last year. New Haven has the eighth highest rate of robbery and the fourth highest rate of assault in the U.S. The New Haven Police Department is considering adding cameras at every intersection in one of the neighborhoods where shootings are the most common. 5. Memphis, Tenn. Population: 673,650 Violent Crime Per 1,000: 15.4 2010 Murders: 89 Median Income: $34,203 (31.8% below national average) Unemployment Rate: 9.9% (0.9% above national average) Memphis has high rates for all the violent crimes considered for 24/7 Wall St.'s rankings. It has the sixth highest rate in the country. Incidents of violent crime in the city dropped slightly less than 15% between 2009 and 2010 though. Memphis Mayor AC Wharton attributes this decrease to Operation Safe Community, a citywide plan developed in 2005. The plan consists of a number of strategies meant to increase crime prevention, through toughening punishments for criminals, and the effectiveness of the city's legal system, through changes such as expanding court programs so that they operate consistently and at full capacity. 6. Oakland, Calif. Population: 409,723 Violent Crime Per 1,000: 15.3 2010 Murders: 90 Median Income: $51,473 (2.4% above national average) Unemployment Rate: 11% (2% above national average) Oakland's violent crime dropped about 5.5% between 2009 and 2010, from about 6,800 to 6,260. The city nevertheless has the tenth-highest rate of rape, the ninth-highest murder rate, and the second highest robbery rate in the country. In 2010, there were 7.12 robberies for every 1,000 Oakland residents. According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Mayor Jean Quan has attempted to combat break-ins and theft by creating programs to keep potential wrongdoers off the streets by starting late-night basketball programs. It it unclear if these policies have worked. 7. Little Rock, Ark. Population: 192,922 Violent Crime Per 1,000: 15.2 2010 Murders: 25 Median Income: $38,992 (22.3% below national average) Unemployment Rate: 6.8% (2.2% below national average) Little Rock has one of the highest rates of aggravated assault and forcible rape in the country. Since 2009, reported assaults has increased while reported forcible rapes have decreased. According to Lt. Terry Hastings of the Little Rock Police Department, quoted by local station FOX16, Little Rock was "down almost 12 percent across the board on crime" in 2010. This may be accurate for many crimes, and especially nonviolent crimes, however, according to FBI data, violent crime increased from 2009 to 2010. 8. Baltimore Population: 639,929 Violent Crime Per 1,000: 14.6 2010 Murders: 223 Median Income: $38,772 (22.7% below national average) Unemployment Rate: 7.4% (1.6% below national average) Baltimore had the eighth-highest rate of violent crime per capita in 2010 among cities with 100,000 or more residents, and the second-highest east of the Mississippi. The number of violent crimes has dropped slightly in the past year -- from 9,600 to 9,300 -- but the Maryland city has some of the worst rates of dangerous offenses in the country. This includes the tenth-worst aggravated assault rate -- and the fourth-worst murder rate in the country. 9. Rockford, Ill. Population: 156,180 Violent Crime Per 1,000: 14.5 2010 Murders: 20 Median Income: $36,990 (26% below national average) Unemployment Rate: 13.3% (4.3% above national average) Rockford has unusually high violent crime rates for a city of its size. Most notably, the city has the fourth highest rate of aggravated assault in the country, with 10.5 cases for every 1,000 citizens in 2010. During the same period, 20 murders occurred, almost double the number in 2000. Quoted by the Rockford Register Star in 2007, Winnebago County Sheriff Dick Meyers said that he believed the city's "location worked against [it,]" as Rockford receives traffic from the drug markets in Madison, Chicago, and Milwaukee, resulting in heightened rates of violence. 10. Stockton, Calif. Population: 292,047 Violent Crime Per 1,000: 13.8 2010 Murders: 49 Median Income: $45,730 (8.9% below national average) Unemployment Rate: 18.4% (9.4% above national average) With a jobless rate of 18.4%, up from 18.1% a year ago, Stockton, California has one of the worst unemployment problems in the country. The huge percentage of unemployed residents may have contributed to horrible crime rates in the city, which is located 40 miles east of Oakland and San Francisco. Stockton was rated one of the most miserable cities to live in the country by Forbes in March, 2010. Violent crime was one of the chief measurements for its ranking. Of the 267 cities with populations over 100,000, Stockton has the 27th highest number of murders per 1,000 people and the 12th most aggravated assaults per 1,000. Last year, recognizing the crime problems in the city, the state temporarily diverted hundreds of California Highway Patrol officers to aid the city's overwhelmed police department.

Should see whoever else is there! Think we're having a BBQ one day, but I think Monday. So let's cap some flags!

That's "Priceless"!!

Yes, long overdue. Welcome to the clan, you IDIOT!!

Happy Birthday you all!! Have some Major Pleasure, Major Pain!!

Talk about a golden shower!!

Is that ruler cm or inches?! Big difference!! I use the cm ruler when measuring my "trout"!! The wife thinks it's in inches!!

So now you smoke more weed, right?? Probably cheaper than cigs, though, eh?? At least no taxes! And better if you can grow your own!!

Its freakin Rigged!! Impossible, unless you have incredible speed. Mine lags like a bitch!! Can't wait for this game to come out though!! The first FPS I really played regularly back in the 90's. Played at lunch at work on our server. Was great then, so can't imagine how it will look now (at least I hope it's as good as it sounds). Probably never finish single player, as I'll be in the titty bars!! Can you get lap dances?!!! LOL

Police interview at 1:00 a.m. An elderly man was stopped by the police around 1 am. He was asked where he was going at that time of night. "I am going to a lecture about alcohol abuse and the effects it has on the human body. "Oh really? Who is giving that lecture at this time of night?" "That would be my wife."

I think I'm taking the next two days off, buying lots of beer and gaming with Idiots until the end (then go back to work Monday!!).

Thanks everyone! For having to work today, it was a good one. At least I can say I made it another year!! Have been blessed with good health so far, so I'm optomistic for many more!! And thanks for all the good times here at XI....in servers and the site! Look forward to many more years here!!

Wow...that's my birthday wish for tomorrow Rugger!! Hehe!!

Thanks everyone! Man, first I had to be 29 for a few years, then 39 for several years and now I guess I'll admit to 49 (again)!! You all help keep me young getting my heart rate up every day (only exercise these days...LOL!) especially in those shotty and pistols maps!! Thanks Pete!!.

OMG!! Thanks for the link! I want to join you, but I'll need to catch a plane!! (I think I'll be late). And the wife goes with you...you lucky guy!! I'm envious!! Enjoy and have one for me (a beer too)

Great to see the renewed interest in CTF. Funny it's you Sue, Bob, Pig wanting to get it going, when I don't hardly recall you guys in COD2, CTF - but glad you want to now. Like Pete said many of us started in CTF, but it started "fizzling out" and we seem to all end up in DM. Occasionally, when there is enough of us old CTF'ers in DM, we'll jump over abd play a couple rounds of CTF. This isn't all of them, but below a the list of regulars who would love to see more action in CTF:

I'm in!! Miss the regular play in the XI CTF server. Seems nobody wants to play it and are always in DM now! Let's do it!!

Couple of local Michigan boys, made it big!! Nice to see Kid Rock moved more mainstream, making much better music than the rap crap - staying with the rock/country rock! And Krackers pretty good, too!!

Puppies!!

That's clever! Love the silly pet videos. Aren't dogs great companions?!! Ours thinks she is human!!

What's that hunter....dead bloated doe?!! LOL

Those are both funny shit!! LOL

Dang it, I got to start over?!!!!! Made it to 4th in COD2, DM and 20th in W@W, DM. That was tough to do!! Oh well, new goal for May!! LOL!!

Oh shit, I only have one million red striped jelly beans!! Wrong currency!! But I think one red striped is worth one million green striped, so give me an adress and I'll send you one red!! LOL. I want my COD2 back!! Whaaaaaaa!!