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The United States Of Shame - What Is Your State Worst At?
Sometimes being 'exceptional' and #1 is not all it's cracked up to be...
(h/t @Amazing_Maps)
Source: Census.gov and America's Health Rankings
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Ah, the education...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkT0k57tAHo
Title should be Shithole
NM anti social? Ok will adopt that. I would say we lead the nation in lack of high school graduates and heroin use among the youth.
Sunsets are nice though.
I'm not anti-social. Now, leave me the fuck alone. Got that?
In the anti-social mts.
3 New Mexicans read ZH . Got to be a record.
I think you mean "3 New Mexicans read. Got to be a record."
4313484 El Vaquero Thirteen weeks and twenty three hours?
How many people ARE there in New Mexico?
Oh, I forgot. FOUR.
El Va ' What "o"?
Mexican " habenero seed".
El Va- Duche' 4313484 El Vaquero
Nope - NM actually has a few dozen. Its Wyoming that has four. Dick shot the rest of 'em when they were playing golf.
santa-fe NM, used to be one of the nicest city's in the USA ... you telling me it ain't so? What about Jerome?
There are so many little 'aspens' in NM that its mind-boggling, the only down I can see is you have to be rich to live there, as there are no good paying jobs outside of AL-BUTT-KER-KEE ( breaking bad country )
North of Santa-Fe I remember the indians/mexicans up there led the State in Heroin/METH, ... is it worse now?
Santa Fe is a sanctuary city for Illegals.Like most capitals in every state the politics ruin it. Northern NM is run by the locals. You will read about 20 DWI from one guy and still driving. Colder than Alaska in Northern New Mexico.
^This^
Once you get away from the artsy towns like Santa Fe and Taos, you are talking about a whole bunch of families that have lived here since NM was part of Spain. They do things a little different up there. There was even a little tiff back in the '60s where a bunch of people shot up the courthouse in Tierra Amarilla. It's not as bad as it used to be, but some of those towns up there are places that you don't stop unless you know somebody. OTOH, once they accept you, you are treated like family. But that's not just limited to the north. There are some places around Santa Rosa that can be like that and Chilili is weary of outsiders.
Oh, and yes, Santa Fe has been ruined. A lot of rich, snooty yuppish progressive types moved in because it was trendy, drove up property values which ran out some of the old families, and, well, as SandiaMan stated, politics.
Speaking of Santa Fe politics, Fuck you Patti Bushee!
Hmmm?
If thats the worst they can do I will own it.
Wisconsin has an excuse for binge drinking...it is also has the lowest number of fuckable women
The behavioral trait obviates the later statistic.
Hey! I live in Wisco and I would just like to say that... well... you're right.
I've just got to interject here...the worst I ever had, was still pretty fucking good ;-)
Crummy sex is still better than doing it yourself.
Dunno, shame is shame.
i was guessing washington must be that ...
DC? As I remember, very much so.
There is an urban legend that DC has 8 single women for every single man. It was true once, during the second World War. These days it's more of a gays and class nerd kind of place.
San Francisco, ... 8 women for every 'straight' guy.
Been this way forever,
Trouble is the cost of living, and the density, ...
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That said I will take ASIA any day, here its a billion chicks for every white-guy, and they're all fuckable :)
The Nor Cal women versus So Cal are so different. So Cal are all fake Hollywood/porn star wannbes. Nor Cal they usually refuse to dye their hair so they look like witches by the time they hit mid thirties.
You are really bringing back fond memory's, ... you failed to mention the north girls have BUSH that you can get lost in, harry armpits, and most have beards.
Hippy chicks are cuter than shit 12-22 years old, but they get fat, and over 40 let their hair grow white, yep WITCH is a apt term.
But then SO-CAL those fake boobs are not pretty ten years later, I remember a squeeze I had years ago the gal used to get new tits every years I remember when I first me her I thought she had rocks in her chest. She was a beautiful woman, why she fucked with her body in the first place was a mystery.
So-CAL gets boring, all COKE-WHORES, ... and my god some bad smells down south. [ or religious nuts ]
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want to ask, what's with NEVADA being rated for CRIME? Did all the 'bad' Calis go to NV?
That is utterly and completely... TRUE.
And, what's worse, the ones that are fuckable go to college in MN.
Q: Why don't Minnesota women date Wisconsin men?
A: Ever see what a Badger does to a Gopher hole?
Honey badger don't care.
+100 LOL
there's a lot of bad stuff left off this
a lot
edit: also is there any particular reason Wash DC is not shown (even though it's not a state, there's a lot wrong there too)?
DC : criminals.
Notice North Dakota's "Ugliest People" right over South Dakota's "Rape." Would it be the ugly people crossing state lines to get some, perhaps?
Ha, Florida. Look, just becasuse the old folks sometimes can't remember who they are doesn't mean their identity was stolen. Sheesh.
Utah sucks. I have no problem with porn usage but I hate Mormons. ;)
Buzz, I don't have a problem with Mormons. I just hate the 50$ sponser fee for a glass of draft beer...
How they run their state is their business but I do wish they would stop trying to evangelize the other 49. Porn watching bicycle riding in black and white clothes wearing funky underwear fake bible carrying do gooders. :shudders: :wink:
Talking About Religion
For real:
Today two Jehovah Joes came to our door speaking of eternal life through Jesus Christ, etc.
OK, that's cool... Carryin' their message, neat, polite, etc.
But, I ask, why do they always dress like one would imagine pedophiles?
It's creepy.
Sitting on the park bench --
eyeing little girls with bad intent.
Snot is running down his nose --
greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Aqualung
Drying in the cold sun --
Watching as the frilly panties run...
I forgot that supposedly "Roman"- "Greek" -"Persian" -"Catholic"- "Budist"- side of things Buzz?
We're both on the same page, by the way...
And in the beginning Man created God in his own image....
... and darkness was upon the face of the earth ... and the Lord created sociopaths, and said "Be fruitful, and multiply, and justify your existence with the myth of the necessity of the state ... and the darkness grew deeper ...
I'm ready to embrace it all...from the "How much sugar can I eat Papa Doc Bloomberg?" to the "Can I buy your health plan Heir Obama?"...and see how many of these SOB's I can take with me in the process.
For the good of man ;-)
hmmm, I haven't seen any Jehovah's Witnesses dressing like Catholic priests lately, but I could be wrong.
What I find amazing is that the atheists on this board condemn the pedophile and the bestial as immoral. But when it concerns a Alpha Male Chimp sodomizing...oh hell...(Why sugarcoat this???)...BUTTFUCKING every other Male Chimp that seems to be okay.
Even in Ancient Greece you lost Social Status if you did NOT BUTTFUCK your Grandson as it was EXPECTED. That tradition is carried on today with NAMBLA, the North American Man Boy Love Association.
If you do not believe in God then what is it with your HYPOCRITICAL MORALIZING? You read as a bunch of Religious Nutcases.
It is just ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, after all. If there is no God, and if Humans are just animals, then why expect anything different than ANIMAL KINGDOM BEHAVIOR?
You ought to abandon all of your Moralistic views as it is just Survival of the Fittest. You need to read Friedrich Nietzsche's, "Beyond Good and Evil" and adopt the principles. It just does not serve your cause to Moralize as IT IS JUST A MATTER OF PREFERENCE.
It is no more immoral than the Wall Street Bankers FINANCIALLY RAPING, yes, BUTTFUCKING YOUR OWN CHILDREN, in which many of you ARE COMPLICIT and ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE.
That is NOT IMMORAL as it is just an expression of the Survival of the Fittest. You need to be CELEBRATING THE RAPE OF YOUR CHILDREN as it is NATURAL.
Nobody reads the Bible. Hell most atheists do NOT read Nietzsche and are clueless as to what atheism is all about...
What a bunch of RELIGIOUS HYPOCRITES. It makes me sick to read your hypocrisy and irrationality. You claim that your PREFERENCES are Moral when they are just preferences.
That is what you can expect from the atheist...just another fucking PEDERAST who will somehow attempt to justify behavior when there is no need to justify as it is EXPECTED ANIMAL BEHAVIOR. What a contradiction.
Most of you are living proof that abortion needs to be, and remain, legal.
Read Nietzsche. If God is dead then so are morals and they need to be abandoned.
They like to take an amoral posture when it suits their purpose and the moral one depending on the venue.
They're very flexible ;-)
Just because there's no god doesn't mean I want to fuck a stranger in the ass every chance I get.
Tom, I mean Abe Lincoln,
We're talking about fucking dog's, guys in Tacoma-WA fuck pitbulls,
Nobody is talking about you having to quit NAMBLA.
Nobody is saying that corn-holing is out, hell PREZ OBAMA rose to be president, by hanging out in Chicago Bath Houses, and being a bitch.
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Nobody is saying that men fucking men in the ass is bad, its as American as the US prison system.
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But today the ISSUE is PITBULL-FUCKING in TACOMA-WASH,
WHere does NAMBLA stand on pitbull-fucking?
MY guess is that NAMBLA & PETA are same-same on this one?
Fuck Nietzsche. Soooo '70's. Fuck morals, too - even the Inquisition had them. Nobody here has the first clue about anything existing outside of the tiny window that is visible light. Morals? Schmorals. Talk to me about ethics - they actually make a difference in behavior.
Q: How do you get a nun laid?
A: Dress her up like an altar boy.
A catholic priest and a rabbi are walking past a playground, where a little boy is playing in the sandbox.
Priest: Let's go fuck that little boy!
Rabbi: Sounds good, but out of what?
I'm constantly amazed at fathers, who allow their children, to be fucked by Catholic clergy...the same applies to .gov teachers.
In the Protestant faith, the offender dies a horrible death...with the coup de gras administered by the victim.
Must be a yankee thing that allows it.
Mormons are usually terrible people to do business with but some people say that about Texans. Never buy anything online from Utah. It is close to the scam capital of the world for online and telemarketing. It is a Mormon thing and I do not dislike Mormons. Just like having those traveler/gypsy people work on your roof or driveway scam.
If you ever take a Mormon fishing, you'd better take two. Otherwise he'll drink all your beer.
Yeah, something like that.
Q: If you go fishing with a Mormon, how do you keep him from drinking all the beer?
A: Invite another Mormon.
That's the way I heard the joke...
Unless they're both Jacks...
I would think Utah's "weakest Gov influence" should be a plus. Other than that, these labels seem capable of being interchangable.
That is Idaho!! Utah must have a lot of SEC offices.
That was Idaho.
oops! I Got that fucked up.
Bein' frum dah readin n' comprehenshun state, n' all.
Utah, Idaho, WHATEVER...
Are those actually, like, 'states'?
Well, I'm flying in to Boise, Iowa tomorrow. Can you tell me a good place to eat there? (They have that big salty lake, don't they? My wife wants me to take pictures...)
All those crazy rectangular states confuse me too.
I'll nominate the state you grew up in as "Worst at Geography"....
applies to all of 'em
there's no "worst". most Americans are hopelessly lost even with access to google maps
Thats very "continental" of you both ;-)
Out of the 50 best at, the last one I would like to have was TAXES !!! Even AIDS would have been much better. Fuck you Chris Christie !!!
PS what kind of bullshit letting NY off the hook with bad commute !! How about best at cops and firemen on fake disability.
how about most domestic friendly-fire fatalities?
Idaho's #1 is definately something to be proud of.
Having zero influence in D.C. is not exactly a thing to be desired...
Ohio, nerdiest state? Really thats all they can come up with. Lame. How about setting rivers on fire?
I grew up there. Its also the teen pregnacy capital of the country.
Slut capital of the nation?
No...that's DC...nevermind.
Sluts do it for free...it's prostitutues that collect money...
They could have much more appropriately labeled Ohio as worst at being interesting --- or best at being boring, whichever.
no jobs in OH = lots of time to fool around
I thought that was Deleware.
Thirteen weeks, and one Day?
4314270 El Vaquero I like beaners.
Please, make your point.
How 'bout "most likely to burn Atlanta". Signed Uncle Billy Sherman
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama? Pretty sure those are much higher on teen pregnancies.
Where to send the radiated san franciscans?
No way Massachusetts has worst drivers! Rhode Island has the worst drivers and this map explains why. They drive through Providence like its a GTA 5 challenge.
Rhode Island has drivers who are white trash who've never read a book and think they're living out Grand Theft Auto but Massachusetts has a broad base of complete fvckups behind the wheel.
To start with, you've got fact that the dynasty of the state, the Kennedys, featured two colossal shitshows behind the wheel. You had fat Teddy going off the bridge of a 20 mph road at Chappaquiddick and killing a young campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne with whom he'd snuck off to cheat on his wife, some more. Then just four years later you had Bobby's son Joe flipping a jeep and paralyzing a woman. So, right away, we've got the edge on Rhode Island in horrendously bad driving because our stupidity starts at the top.
But it doesn't end there! We've got it all, here in Massachusetts. You need a blue haired old lady to execute the classic "Honestly, I thought I was pressing on the brake pedal, officer" after driving through the front wall of a 7-11? We've got that in spades.
You need a snob behind the wheel of a prius to take the left lane on the interstate and refuse to get out of it because, "this country uses too much fossil fuel and 65 mph is more than fast enough"? We've got that like no other state in the country.
You need dipshits more concerned with their goddam cell phones than just where their 3 tons of glass and steel is careening at that moment? We've got that like nobody else. Because, along with being the worst drivers, we're the most arrogant state in the union. We're the smartest. Just ask us. We'll tell you. So, *our* texting out "LOL" is like a Shakespeare sonnet to you chumps in the other 49. What mere bridge abutment would dare interrupt such erudition!
You need people who stupidly think that their 4 wheel drive vehicle somehow gives them extra stopping power in the snow? We got 'em by the bushel. Look off the side of the road at the end of every snow storm.
You need a complete lack of understanding of the simple concepts of momentum and acceleration? Massachusetts is your place. Nice try Rhode Island but you're not even close.
+1
Epic rant about Massholes.
Fred, take the bus man.
Fred I can attest to that last paragraph. Here in MD the majority of cars (I'd say 9 out of 10) on the side of the road during any snow storm are SUVs and Pickups driven by those dorks who like to think they're contractors or hunters who actually need or even regularly use their trucks. I laugh at both but more especially at the SUV drivers who more than likely don't even have a shovel to dig themselves out.
Meanwhile us car drivers (and I'll admit to having had to dig myself out a couple times in my life, one especially bad one in NC where the roads just go to instant ice) travel slowly along at a slightly reduced cruising speed because we actually understand our vehicles' limits and are smart enough not to test 'em.
Hey, it's just as bad if not worse in Alaska, where every year the first snowfall of the season brings literally HUNDREDS of road accidents and stranded vehicles to the Anchorage area, and where the majority of drivers seem utterly heedless of incliment conditions, no matter how bad. I literally cannot count the number of times I have gotten onto the highway leading into Anchorage under icy or slippery conditions only to have some idiot fly by me in the left lane at 60 or 70 miles per hour, only to see the same idiot's vehicle stuck in the median or overturned on the side of the road a few miles later. I have NO sympathy for such people, and even if they were to die in their self-induced accident, I would just consider it evolution in action.
Same in Idaho, akak.
I think it is the pre-programmed short attention spans of the people these days.
'It is summer. It was summer yesterday, and it will be summer tomorrow. Every day is the same. Things are static, they never change. If they do, I am taught that I can handle everything myself, and IF I can't, I am a better driver ANYWAYS, because I was tought 'outcome-based education', where EVERYONE is SUPERIOR. THEY told me that this (insert the motor vehicle name, type, and model here) is the BEST-HANDLING and BEST-AT-EVERYTHING object, and, HELL, I am paying a car payment of $500.00 a month for the next seven years, and the guy that charged me $10,000.00 to jack up my (insert the previous insert) TOLD ME that I could drive like this even when there is ICE out... I watch 'Ice Road Truckers' on A and E, and I am a fucking BETTER DRIVER than these morons...'
Every year, I see people who have a history of accidents in the winter months (some of them are 'serial crashers'), and every spring, they go out and buy new cars and trucks. EVERY YEAR, I drive by people like this, as they are struggling to get out of the ditches (sometimes, I even help them). Mostly, though, when I do interact, it is like they are trying to blame the 'highway department' for their stupid fucking actions. One of them was on the phone to his LAWYER, trying to set up a lawsuit... I turned and walked back to my truck, and drove off... ignorance and arrogance go hand-in-hand!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGGlENF7dto
and then State Farm thinks it's cool to put those retards in their commercials...
Gee, Fred, you sound kind of bitter.
I figured that the first state that passed 'RomneyCare', the so-called 'blueprint' for 'ObamacCare' (wasn't he your Mormon governor?), and the fist state that also passed the 'Gay Marriage Act', would be a better place to live in (and drive in).
You need to be more TOLERANT of the health-care-seeking MOAR SHIT ARMY, along with the queer people of 'all' genders who are out trolling for sex on Saturday Night in their cars (usually driving slowly, all tweaked). I mean, seriously, can't you avoid driving when this army of self-seeking perverted 'ME-FIRSTERS' are out and about?... No, I suppose you can't.
God, it must really SUCK, living there!
What really really sucks is that some of the prettiest places in America are filled with corrupt politcians and the brainwashed idiots who voted them in office or the elections are rigged which is most of America.
Mass - loads of pretty spots by the water and in the countryside but filled with idiots who worship the Kennedys or Red Sox nation or other stupidity.
California - endless pretty spots but the state is filled with lib scum, illegals and much of the corrupt political class are NY, MD, NJ and other NE transplant scum like Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, Waxman.
Oh and loads of these lefty virulent hellholes were where the Revolutionary War was fought. Like Trenton, NJ where key battle was fought against the drunken Pussian mercenaries aka King George's version of the Dept of Homeland Security. Today the scum in Trenton is not worth spitting on let alone dying for.
I'm in central Massachusetts, Worcester county, which is like partly living amongst all the massholes and partly not. A lot of the towns out here routinely vote very differently than the state as a whole. We often feel like all of the state outside of route 128 or route 495 gets financially raped for the benefit of keeping the corruption and patronage game going of the folks mostly inside route 128. I suspect it's very similar to the feelings of folks living in northern New York state or the mountains of California.
They were Hessians, not Prussians (as was the British royal family). If King George had hired Prussians the Revolution wouldn't have gotten off the ground, they were far better troops than Hessians.
I've lived in seven US states, and Massachusetts drivers are definitely the worst of the lot.
I do stipulate that MA drivers are relatively creative in their violations of both law and common sense.
Bestiality? Really. Report must have come from Maine.
The western half is the worst at sunshine
Colorado, cocaine? I bet that's changed to marijana by next year.
Marijane is a gateway drug, the MSM has already started ...
On the other hand most GUBMINT jobs in COLORADO, NSA spy centers, government offices, MIL all over colorado, secret bases,
Which means TOO-MUCH money,
A few years ago COLORADO led the nation in 'pawn shops', so today if they lead in COCAINE purchase, you know the GUBMINT money it rushing in,
Margarine is a gateway drug?
SHIT! All these years cooking with BUTTER!
In Austrailia we cook POT, in a few KG of butter, and it makes this green butter, that we put on everything, and its better than MARMITE.
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Just saying that the FED's soon will be saying "SEE WE TOLD YOU SO",... legalize pot in Colorado, and now every body is snorting coke, ... its called PIG-LOGIC.
Of course the PIG's are the biggest consumers of COKE, ... move along.
You no nothing about Australia. Western, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania> ect...
You are correct, I only know about Brisbane, Murwillumbah, and Nimbin :)
I love Surfer's Paradise on the GOLD COAST, while 80 years olds in the USA rock their wheelchair in front of Ophra on TV praising the OREO.
Here on the Gold Coast, you have 80 years old's surfing 24/7/365,
Why is that the Aussies can get old and have fun, and the folks in the States have to go full retard Nazi?
Be a teenager forever? Come to Austrailia.
When have you last visited Qld?
this is just plain silly without the benefit of being funny.
must be a slow news day....
I scanned all the POST topic's today, and this is the only one that appeared to be remotely interesting.
WHat no ron paul, no BTC, no schiff, ... no faber? Tyler on vacation?
I get most bored with china sucks, europe sucks,... these USA sucks are what I come to ZH for,
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If people don't like this graph, its only because its TRUE,
I interpreted Idaho's "weakest government influence" to mean weakest influence in DC and therefore on federal laws, policy and dollars coming back to the state. Not the lack of government all of you are thinking.
But by all means, please move there and find out for yourselves if it's true. I keep waiting and waiting for all of the absolutely no government of kind folks to all move somewhere and show everyone how this utopia can operate in a modern context considering there are no historical precedents in history. I'd love to see how that experiment works out.
I agree with you take on Idaho....
The nirvana that some folks here hope to pass may sort of already exist here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania
The irony of ironies is that is it located within perhaps the most socialist (and happy by most every measure) country in the world.The Danes really frown on sociopaths; likewise they don't buy the "me-first" concept of liberty that pervades New World Libertarian thought.... i.e. they understand the role of the collective in a finite environment...
Let me know where you live, Flak, so I can come and impose on your apparent "You first" philosophy.
I have not infrequently agreed with and uparrowed your posts when most others here have done otherwise, but you can really be a smug, ignorant and infuriating bastard, as you are in the above post. Your shallow and specious attacks on libertarianism paint you as the conformist, intellectually captured statist that you are.
5 Stars; doncha just despise statists....left or right?
I'm not a statist. I've likely read more true anarchistic and libertarian material than most all of the tea party, government hating bitchers and moaners on this board. However, I also have a fair grip on reality, something many modern libertarians I've encountered don't seem to have.
From what I've seen modern libertarians focus so much on economics and ideology that they completely forget about biology, psychology, history, physics (like thermodynamics) and ecology. For example, some folks appear to have a religion gene and therefore a need to believe in a god, a higher power, authoritarianism and the crap that comes with it, including a structured heirachical society. How do they fit into libertopia? Libertarians have one part of an idea and that's ALL they focus on, but they don't see much beyond their bubble.
My understanding so far, is that message board libertarians want essentially the current system, in which they get to keep eveything they have, minus government. Then, everything will just sort itself out from there. I don't see it happening as most people wouldn't know what to do if they were actually free.
The irony is the vast majority of modern libertarians absolutely HATE people who seek true freedom, like homeless or feral people. They prefer their freedom to mean work, money and toys and those with the money can push around everyone else. I don't see much freedom at all in a system where everything is private property. That's more like a slavery. Most haven't delved too deeply into thinking about true freedom, beyond "I can do whatever I want, fuck you." Systems thinking isn't their strong point.
Call it a straw man argument if you want, but it's been my experience with modern conservative libertarians again and again. I'll be happy to point it out in future posts that the great fans of freedom post on here so you can see the examples.
"I'm not a statist."
From what I have read of your posts thus far, you very much ARE a statist.
"My understanding so far, is that message board libertarians want essentially the current system, in which they get to keep eveything they have, minus government. Then, everything will just sort itself out from there. I don't see it happening as most people wouldn't know what to do if they were actually free."
Excuse me? I have no idea who you even are and am far from less than inclined to be so impressed, as to be in awe, of what your understanding of anything is because your assertions are truly vacuous. Who are most people?
"I'll be happy to point it out in future posts that the great fans of freedom post on here so you can see the examples."
I will be happy if you do not. So in your thought process, systems as you choose to call them, is that "message board libertarians" will somehow be swayed by your message board statism? Your tactical approach to confronting libertarians is very poorly thought out indeed. Perhaps you should go back to all of these libertarians, as it appears they are a dime a dozen where ever you travel, and start talking to them instead of simply "seeing" them.
"From what I have read of your posts thus far, you very much ARE a statist."
Where did I say I love the state? I'm not a statist, but that's beyond you mental capacities. I am not a Christian either, yet there are churches and Christians all over the place trying to shove their beliefs down my throat and trying to use government to do so. I don't have anything to do with them if I can help it. It's pretty much like the state. I don't do much with them, but they are everywhere so I have to accept the fact that they are there. That's the part of reality you guys don't seem to comprehend. The state is here and you live in their system whether you like it or not. I guess I could bitch about it, just like I could bitch about the sky being blue or the weather, but it doesn't do much to alter reality. Much like all the bitching you self-proclaimed non-statists do about everything.
Akak, are you tilting at windmills again?
In dealing with you, why yes I am!
May I borrow your lance, good sir knight?
Adelante contra los monstruos, Sancho!
was there in freetown for a walkthrough during august - the smell of smoked cannabis, the aromas of budding plants along with the presence of artsy/student types, folks that never left the 70s, and some weird stealthy gangbanger types...oh yea, and i forgot all the tourists like myself...NO PHOTOS OR ELSE!!!
they even have a little playground for the children.
i had greater expectations (different vision in my head before seeing the reality), and while i like the free-spiritidness and growing of the cannabis, i wouldn't want to live there. for one reason, it's just very untidy. graffiti is fine, but there's just a lot of trash strewn about the place. the other reason is that there's a high likelihood the place will be flooded in a matter of 50 yrs. ya know, climate change and shit like that ;-)
'But they [the Danes] apparently have a relatively monolithic cultural and ethnic makeup. Would things be any different if their makeup were more like the US?
[Or, is culture (but almost certainly not "skin-color") somewhat more important than many other such things?]
I suppose just about anyone can be happy just about anywhere if they are indoctrinated properly. BTW, I'm of Danish extraction, and hate socialism and statism with a passion. Must be something in the water.....
Funny thing, Americans for generations were born, lived, and died experiencing a decided "lack of government." Simple minded isn't the same as KISS.
And they worked liked sons of bitches ekeing out an existance at the subsistence farm level....
Perhaps, but in a vastly freer nation ... and as opposed to, what, ekeing out a living today as a constantly-surveilled wage slave/drone with a constantly declining standard of living or as a SNAP card recipient, with both now newly enthralled to the medical-insurance-industrial complex?
Translation: "Give me convenience and leisure, or give me death!!"
'And . . . during a time when it apparently experienced its largest economic growth.
Think about it. The US went from being a relatively back-water portion of the world economy to . . . well . . .
All without so much government, apparently:
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1890_2014USp_15s1li01...
'Imagine that!
Yeah it is a funny thing...wonder where they lived? On lands that the government army pacified from Native Americans? Near railroads that were fully subsidized by the government? Oh wait, wait, they lived on homesteads after the army killed the natives and the surveyors staked out their 40 acres, did they get a government mule too? They got to have a government sanctioned stampeding land grab!!! Yee Haw!!!! The government paid bounties on Indiands, wolves, bison, etc...to make it a bit easier for the "settlers."
Let's not forget those southern states also got to use government sanctioned slavery, while the north had their indentured servants. Hoo boy! Life was so easy back in the day!!! If only we could get back to the good ol' days!!! Well, we might with the Tea Party's help!!!
Look, I'm no state loving guy, but you guys live in fantasy land and haven't quite thought through the whole process yet.
You speciously keep trying to equate the flaws and hypocrisies of the past with the fundamental principles of anti-statist philosophy of the present. Does that constitute a red herring argument or a non sequitur, or both?
It constitutes reality, I was just told that people in the past lived without a state and that is not true. The present is build upon that reality, not the myths and legends that appear to build the foundations of the present thinking in most anti-statists I encounter..
On behalf of the people of IL, I'd just like to say we are not the "worst at" robbery.
We're the best at it.
Air pollution in Los Angeles is barely an issue anymore, which means it's hardly an issue in the state anymore. Huge change from even 20 years ago, but there it is. Traffic OTOH, maybe.
Really? tell that to a resident of San Bernardino on an inversion day
That's the point.
Sure 'LA' is much better, cuz its on the ocean
But go inland, to san-fernando-valley(porn industry), or riverside, or HEMET, or san-bernnandino, and you have pea soup brown shit that will have you coughing blood in 10minutes should you 'go for a run'.
Sure 'LA' is much better, cuz its on the ocean
DAMN.
I was hoping it was IN the ocean by now...
You're a pretentious PRICK satoshi101
I've lived in the IE most of my life and the air quality really is much better than it used to be. Either that, or I am outside exercising far less now than when I was a kid and it only seems better.
You'd think California would have more arduous commutes, but somehow NY took that.
My commute in NYC area was 4 hours per day. My wife had a 2 hour per day commute. Here in Ohio, home of the nerds err whatever the fuck that means, our commute is 24 minutes round trip for me and 40 for her. Who the fuck wants to spend their lives traveling back and forth from their shit eating job? Hey! It's Nu Yawk! It's fuckin great der! PLEASE BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY THAT IT IS GREAT. YOU MUST BELIEVE ME.
Anyone driving through Gary will concur with Indiana's claim to fame....
And based on experience, NJ has my vote for the most inconsiderate drivers...
I have a hard time believing North Dakota has the ugliest residents. They're mostly of German and Scandanavian descent. Unless the person that wrote this is of a darker tint persuasion. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Remember, Minot gave the world Josh Duhamel.
One could argue the worst dressed, because a lot of them, sans Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Forks are rich farmers who probably don't read the "men's interests" magazines.
I found ND to be one of the better states I've been to. Only 643,000 residents means that there are wide open spaces. Lots of farms, for sure. And you're right about the people's appearance, being of German and Norwegian stock, quite the opposite of ugly. I also felt way safer up there.
Consistently the very WORST weather in the nation, though --- miserably hot and stagnant in the summer, blastingly cold (very often worst than most of Alaska) in the winter, with bitter and incessant winds to match the low temps. No thanks.
PS: I don't know how anyone can live in the broken sauna that goes by the name of Houston, either.
Now you can understand why the Germans and Norweigians went there. They were the only ones who willing to live there because they were like, "eh... the weather is just like from where I came".
Squareheads are such stoic bastards!
Correction: The wind never stops in NoDak.
Yes, whoever decided to found a city where Houston is founded needs to be dug up from the grave, shot in the back of the head, then kicked into a ditch.
Another bad area in Texas is just east of Ft. Stockton. It's so flat that it makes me sick to my stomach. There's nothing there. It's just flat shitty desert as as far as the eye can see. Not a single hill.
quick build some windfarms
Great waterfowl hunting, super friendly citizens. Fresh air and peace and quiet.
W. Va's shame is heart attacks? I guess inbreeding is now a virtue.
I'm surprized Washington took over their real claim to fame.
Mooooooo. Baaaaah. Oink Oink.
WASH-STate only made news in dog-fucking cuz they made it a felony a few years ago, ... and are now enforcing
West-VA its all good, ... I think in most states PETA has made made it 'animal cruelty', but not a felony, ...
What about 'consensual sex' with your pooch? PETA doesn't feel that any pet should be violated, ... but thats really subjective.
Remember last year in the middle east a guy got caught screwing his sheep, and they made him marry her?
Now that's what they should be doing in WASH-ST, you screw your pit-ball,you marry her,
If you like your fucked up state, you can keep your fucked up state.