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Thursday, August 07, 2014
The 10 Friendliest Cities In The US
For the second year in a row, Charleston, South Carolina, has taken the top spot on Conde Nast Travelers' list of the friendliest cities in the U.S.
Each year, the magazine ranks hotels, cruises, beaches, and cities as part of its Readers' Choice Survey. The results aren't scientific (it's an online survey that anyone can take), but thousands of people participate in the survey each year.
In the survey, "friendliness" is generally measured by how welcome people feel in different cities.
Almost every city that made the "friendliest" list was in the South.
The survey also asked people to rate the unfriendliest cities in the U.S. (unsurprisingly, most were in the Northeast). Both lists are below.
The 10 friendliest cities in the U.S.
10. Asheville, North Carolina (score: 79)
Survey respondents say that Asheville has a "small-town feel" and is filled with friendly and artistic people.
Survey respondents say that Asheville has a "small-town feel" and is filled with friendly and artistic people.
9. Nashville, Tennessee (score: 79.6)
This musical city was regarded as highly entertaining and full of "colorful characters."
This musical city was regarded as highly entertaining and full of "colorful characters."
8. Key West, Florida (score: 79.6)
It's "impossible to be stressed out" in this "pleasant" city.
It's "impossible to be stressed out" in this "pleasant" city.
7. Jackson Hole, Wyoming (score: 80)
This casual yet upscale city is commonly referred to as "eclectic" and "funky" with plenty to do outdoors.
This casual yet upscale city is commonly referred to as "eclectic" and "funky" with plenty to do outdoors.
6. Fort Worth, Texas (score: 80.2)
The people here are "welcoming," "warm," and have "beautiful manners."
The people here are "welcoming," "warm," and have "beautiful manners."
5. New Orleans (score: 80.4)
City pride abounds in New Orleans, and there's a ton of great food to boot.
City pride abounds in New Orleans, and there's a ton of great food to boot.
4. Telluride, Colorado (score: 81.3)
This "laid-back" community isn't crowded or snobby, and the people are "down-to-earth."
This "laid-back" community isn't crowded or snobby, and the people are "down-to-earth."
3. San Antonio (score: 82.2)
The "friendliness of the folks who live here" makes San Antonio a must-visit city.
The "friendliness of the folks who live here" makes San Antonio a must-visit city.
2. Savannah, Georgia (score: 82.8)
This charming southern city, the oldest in Georgia, makes people feel like as if "stepped back in time."
This charming southern city, the oldest in Georgia, makes people feel like as if "stepped back in time."
1. Charleston, South Carolina (score: 84.3)
This "quaint" city is bursting with "southern hospitality."
This "quaint" city is bursting with "southern hospitality."
AN ILLEGAL POEM
By Illegal Immigrants
I cross river,
P oor and broke,
Take bus,
See employment folk.
Nice man
Treat me good in there,
Say I need
Go see Welfare.
Welfare say,
'You come no more,
We send cash
Right to your door.'
Welfare checks,
They make you wealthy,
Medicaid
It keep you healthy!
By and by,
Got plenty money,
Thanks to you,
TAXPAYER dummy.
Write to friends
In motherland,
Tell them
'Come, fast as you can'
They come in buses
And Chevy trucks,
I buy big house
With welfare bucks.
They come here,
We live together,
More welfare checks,
It gets better!
Fourteen families,
They moving in,
But neighbor's patience
Wearing thin.
Finally, white guy
Moves away,
I buy his house,
And then I say,
'Find more aliens
For house to rent.'
In my yard
I put a tent.
Send for family
They just trash,
But they, too,
Draw welfare cash!
Everything is
Very good,
Soon we own
Whole neighborhood..
We have hobby
It called breeding,
Welfare pay
For baby feeding.
Kids need dentist?
Wife need pills?
We get free!
We got no bills!
TAXPAYER crazy!
He pay all year,
To keep welfare
Running here.
We think America
Darn good place!
Too darn good
For white man race.
If they no like us,
They can go,
Got lots of room
In Mexico.
How Obama armed the Islamic caliphate
'About 800 weapons wound up in jihadi arms bazaar'
Jihadists in Benghazi are declaring themselves part of an Islamic caliphate just days after tribal warfare forced American diplomatic personnel out of Libya over fears for their safety.
As WND reported Monday, in a repudiation of the premise advanced by President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the “Arab Spring” was a democracy movement, Libya has descended into lawless chaos in which various terrorist militia, including al-Qaida, vie for power.
With most of the world focused on foreign crises like the Israel-Hamas conflict and the Russian influence in Ukraine, the State Department quietly announced the withdrawal of U.S. Embassy staff on July 26.
Barely a week later, the fate of the war-torn country appears even more bleak.
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Jihadists in Benghazi are declaring themselves part of an Islamic caliphate just days after tribal warfare forced American diplomatic personnel out of Libya over fears for their safety.
As WND reported Monday, in a repudiation of the premise advanced by President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the “Arab Spring” was a democracy movement, Libya has descended into lawless chaos in which various terrorist militia, including al-Qaida, vie for power.
With most of the world focused on foreign crises like the Israel-Hamas conflict and the Russian influence in Ukraine, the State Department quietly announced the withdrawal of U.S. Embassy staff on July 26.
Barely a week later, the fate of the war-torn country appears even more bleak.
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12 States Sue Obama Administration for Regulatory ‘Overreach’
Twelve states are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to deter impending restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.
The states filed the lawsuit in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday, accusing the EPA of “overstepping its legal boundaries” under the Clean Air Act.
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How Economies Collapse: Systemic Friction And Debt Are Self-Liquidating
Paying for unproductive friction with borrowed money has generated the illusion that free to me is actually free - it isn't.
We all understand how friction slows our progress: flatten the tires on a bicycle and it becomes much harder to maintain speed. If a brake pad is rubbing against one wheel, it gets even harder.
If we pile on additional sources of friction, eventually forward motion stops. In systemic terms, the system freezes up and collapses.
Here are some examples of systemic friction in the U.S. economy:
1. College degrees that cost four times as much but yield diminishing value in the job market.
We all understand how friction slows our progress: flatten the tires on a bicycle and it becomes much harder to maintain speed. If a brake pad is rubbing against one wheel, it gets even harder.
If we pile on additional sources of friction, eventually forward motion stops. In systemic terms, the system freezes up and collapses.
Here are some examples of systemic friction in the U.S. economy:
1. College degrees that cost four times as much but yield diminishing value in the job market.
Cure For Hepatitis C Comes With A Heavy Price Tag ($84,000)
The good news is there's now a cure for Hepatitis C. The bad news is it literally comes at a very high price.
The medication -- known as Sovaldi, made by Gilead Sciences -- costs $1,000 a pill, and roughly $84,000 for a course of treatment.
"I have concerns about the cost of the regimen," says Dr. Richard Elion, director of clinical research at Whitman-Walker Health in D.C.
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Vulnerable Dems balk at Obama amnesty plans
Argue only Congress has power to change deportation laws
(THE HILL) Democratic senators facing tough reelections want to put the brakes on President Obama’s plan to reform the nation’s immigration enforcement system through executive action.
Two of the Senate’s most vulnerable incumbents, Sens. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), say Obama should not act unilaterally to reduce deportations, arguing it’s Congress’s job to change the law.
While the Democratic-led Senate has passed a bipartisan bill, the Republican-controlled House will not. That poses a dilemma for Obama.
(THE HILL) Democratic senators facing tough reelections want to put the brakes on President Obama’s plan to reform the nation’s immigration enforcement system through executive action.
Two of the Senate’s most vulnerable incumbents, Sens. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), say Obama should not act unilaterally to reduce deportations, arguing it’s Congress’s job to change the law.
While the Democratic-led Senate has passed a bipartisan bill, the Republican-controlled House will not. That poses a dilemma for Obama.
Hoyer: Obama 'Can’t Legalize' Illegals--But He Can Decide How to 'Implement the Laws'
(CNSNews.com) -- House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said that President Obama “can’t legalize” the illegal aliens in the United States, but then added that the president “can implement the laws as he believes they should be implemented."
"Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution states that Congress has the power to make laws governing naturalization. Given this, does President Obama have the unilateral power to legalize illegal aliens?" CNSNews.com asked Hoyer.
“I don’t think he does,” Hoyer responded, “and I don’t think that’s what he’s going to do. You’re right. He can’t legalize them.”
“What the president can in fact do, however, is implement the laws as he believes they should be implemented,” Hoyer added. “And there have been a lot of scholars – and I’m not going to go through the quotes now – who have said the President clearly has broad authority to decide how he’s going to implement the law.”
“But that does not mean he can legalize people. He can’t make them citizens,” he maintained. “Not according to the law.”
Hoyer also said he’s “not going to speculate” on the possible outcome of President Obama's usurpation of congressional authority in his executive actions on immigration.
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"Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution states that Congress has the power to make laws governing naturalization. Given this, does President Obama have the unilateral power to legalize illegal aliens?" CNSNews.com asked Hoyer.
“I don’t think he does,” Hoyer responded, “and I don’t think that’s what he’s going to do. You’re right. He can’t legalize them.”
“What the president can in fact do, however, is implement the laws as he believes they should be implemented,” Hoyer added. “And there have been a lot of scholars – and I’m not going to go through the quotes now – who have said the President clearly has broad authority to decide how he’s going to implement the law.”
“But that does not mean he can legalize people. He can’t make them citizens,” he maintained. “Not according to the law.”
Hoyer also said he’s “not going to speculate” on the possible outcome of President Obama's usurpation of congressional authority in his executive actions on immigration.
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Marion Barry's Response to Reporter Confronting Him Over Unpaid Tickets May Just Show Everything Wrong With Washington
“In this town, we decide what’s important and not important at the station and in the community. And with all the stuff going on with the City Council up here, this going on over here [motioning], going on over here, you know. You’re talking about parking tickets? Thats’ ridiculous!”
So went the response of controversial former D.C. mayor and current city councilman Marion Barry. And it may just sum up everything that’s wrong with Washington and the attitude of lawmakers in the nation’s capitol.
The remarks were directed toward local WTTG-TV investigative reporter Emily Miller, who wastrying to find out why the politician (and “Mayor for life“) hadn’t paid over $600 in outstanding parking tickets for a car with “Ward Eight” plates. The tickets were from 2013-2014. And as the news outlet would come to find out, he actually owed much more — about four times more.
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Politico's Mike Allen: 2014 Environment 'Bleak' for Democrats, 'A Bad Place to Be'
Sunday on CNN's CNN "Inside Politics," Politico's Mike Allen said Democrats are facing a "bleak" reality in the upcoming midterm elections.
Allen said, "Here is an amazing sign of how bleak the environment is for Democrats. A Democratic strategist who had access to all the polls, focus groups said 'we're writing off voters who are angry, our target voters now are people who are worried, disappointed, concerned.' Those are the voters that they want. That's a bad place to be."
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Allen said, "Here is an amazing sign of how bleak the environment is for Democrats. A Democratic strategist who had access to all the polls, focus groups said 'we're writing off voters who are angry, our target voters now are people who are worried, disappointed, concerned.' Those are the voters that they want. That's a bad place to be."
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Remains of Jonestown Bodies Found at Funeral Home In Delaware
The cremated remains of nine victims of a 1978 mass cult suicide-murder in Jonestown, Guyana, have turned up in a former funeral home in Delaware, officials said Thursday.
The state Division of Forensic Science has taken possession of the remains, discovered at the former Minus Funeral Home in Dover, and is working to make identifications and notify relatives, the agency and Dover police said in a statement.
On Nov. 18, 1978, gunmen from the Peoples Temple cult ambushed and killed U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan of California, three newsmen and a defector from the group at a remote jungle airstrip as they visited on a fact-finding mission to investigate reports of abuses of members.
Cult leader Jim Jones then orchestrated a ritual of mass murder and suicide at the temple's nearby agricultural commune, ordering followers to drink cyanide-laced grape punch. Most of them complied, although survivors described some people being shot, injected with poison, or forced to drink the deadly beverage when they tried to resist.
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The state Division of Forensic Science has taken possession of the remains, discovered at the former Minus Funeral Home in Dover, and is working to make identifications and notify relatives, the agency and Dover police said in a statement.
On Nov. 18, 1978, gunmen from the Peoples Temple cult ambushed and killed U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan of California, three newsmen and a defector from the group at a remote jungle airstrip as they visited on a fact-finding mission to investigate reports of abuses of members.
Cult leader Jim Jones then orchestrated a ritual of mass murder and suicide at the temple's nearby agricultural commune, ordering followers to drink cyanide-laced grape punch. Most of them complied, although survivors described some people being shot, injected with poison, or forced to drink the deadly beverage when they tried to resist.
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Buchanan: Obama Planning to 'Transform' America with Amnesty for 'Undocumented Democrats'
Monday on Newsmax TV's "The Steve Malzberg Show," conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan said President Barack Obama is planning to use his executive action granting amnesty to potentially 5 million illegal immigrants at the end of this summer in an attempt to "transform" America by flooding it with "natural-born Democratic voters."
Buchanan, author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority,” said, "There is no doubt about it, folks from third-world countries -- Asia, Africa Latin America, they tend to vote somewhere between 70 to 90 percent Democratic when they come into the country. One reason being many are poor, many don't have high levels of education, they are highly dependent on the social welfare benefits of the state and local governments so therefore they are pro government. So I think that Obama sees this as part of his transformation of America into a different country entirely."
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Buchanan, author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority,” said, "There is no doubt about it, folks from third-world countries -- Asia, Africa Latin America, they tend to vote somewhere between 70 to 90 percent Democratic when they come into the country. One reason being many are poor, many don't have high levels of education, they are highly dependent on the social welfare benefits of the state and local governments so therefore they are pro government. So I think that Obama sees this as part of his transformation of America into a different country entirely."
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Man: I Bought Every Pie At Burger King To Spite Noisy Child
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The man posted his confession on Reddit and the story has gone viral online.
The man said he stopped by a Burger King to get lunch and had a headache before he walked in. The next people who got in line were a mother and child, who was noisy and crying and repeatedly screamed, “I want a f---ing pie!”
The man said he had to wait in line longer than usual for fast food due to staff being trained during the lunch hour. The long wait allowed for his headache to turn into a migraine with the screaming child behind him.
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