Top 3 Liberal Cities In America Revealed

A Yahoo! contributor named Cassandra James recently wrote an article titled Top Three Most Liberal Cities in America to Live In: If You're Left-Wing You'll Love These Towns.  It is an interesting read, only because it reveals so much about the liberal mindset.  Let's cut through the suspense and get right to the cities.  Cassandra picks Berkeley, CA, Ann Arbor, MI, and Lawrence, KS.   That last one was what caught my attention.  You see, I live very close to Lawrence, KS, and I can say that it seems like most stereotypical Midwest college towns.  After all, it is the home of the Kansas Jayhawks.  But more on Lawrence later.  First, let's dive into Ms. James thesis.

As an American who now lives overseas, if I ever returned to live in American (which is highly unlikely), the only cities I would ever consider living in are liberal cities. As a past resident of Texas, living in a right-wing state, it felt like purgatory, and something I would never repeat. Living in one of these three liberal, progressive and left-wing cities though would be a good choice for any liberal like me, looking for a majority of like-minded people, as these liberal cities afford nice places to live with great communities and interesting culture.

Right off the bat there seems to be a kind of hatred for America. The author implies that there isn't a good reason to live in America, because apparently, if someone doesn't think like a liberal, they have no value and are not worth even being around.  The author makes it sound as if 99% of America is not worth living in.  I have traveled all over the USA and I have found good people everywhere.  I found beauty and culture and when you get down to it, there are individuals out there who care.  But for those liberals who are intolerant, don't despair, there is hope.  (Hey Han, isn't 'Intolerant Liberals' redundant? Yes, yes it is.)   You to can live in one of these towns with 'like-minded people' and be smug and self righteous to your hearts content.

What really mad me laugh, however, was WHY Lawrence is a top 3 liberal town.  Of course, C. James reminds us that Douglas County, which Lawrence is a part of, voted for Barry Obama in the 2010 election.  With those bona fides in place, the reason why Lawrence is a good-ole-liberal oasis is:

Lawrence has lots of liberal-style businesses, independent coffee shops and book stores, an incredible organic foods restaurant, theater groups, art galleries, and an amazing college radio station. Lawrence even has a four-day music festival for independent bands and artists that, in just a few years since its inception, now attracts almost 100,000 concertgoers every year.

Hmmm,  Wait a minute!?!?  If I like coffee shops and book stores and eat healthy, I am a liberal?  I think Cassandra has redefined what it means to be a lib.  I guess all it takes is going to concerts and listening to top 40 music on 105.9 KISS-FM. Since when did top 40 make a college radio station amazing?  When I was in college, we hated that pre-packaged, recycled music.  Why, back at Corellian University, real music came from the heart, not this stuff that is designed to rob 15 year old kids of their iTunes dollars.  But I digress.  What Cassandra is really saying can be summed up with her own intolerance:

If you're a liberal looking for a friendly liberal town to live in, populated by mostly left-wing people who vote the way you do and believe everyone has the right to live their lives the way they choose, then Lawrence, Kansas could very well be for you.

Cassandra only thinks you have the right to live your life the way you choose, only if you choose to be a liberal. Isn't this the real meaning of liberalism, Cassandra?  It has nothing to do with coffee, organic food, or 100,000 person hippie jams. It is thinking of yourself as open minded while you are being smug, condescending, and telling others how to live their lives.

 

Don't Buy Anything a Leftist Says -- Ever.

It doesn't have that much to do with this story, I just think it's awesome.

So how many times have we heard leftists decry the automobile? How often do we hear about the global warming, the evil SUV, and so on? Well if everyone just used buses more or even better, biked, how much better the mother earth would be! Anything to stop the evil oil companies.

Well in Chicago they got their wish. More and more people started biking. Mission accomplished right? Wrong cause it cut into their holy sacrament: taxes. Solution? Tax bikes. 

A city councilwoman’s recent proposal to institute a $25 annual cycling tax set off a lively debate that eventually sputtered out after the city responded with a collective “Say what?” A number of gruff voices spoke in favor, feeding off motorists’ antagonism toward what they deride as stop sign-running freeloaders. Bike-friendly bloggers retorted that maybe pedestrians ought to be charged a shoe tax to use the sidewalks. 

“There’d be special bike cops pulling people over? Or cameras? What do you do (to enforce this)?” asked Mike Salvatore, owner of Heritage Bicycles, a new Chicago hangout that neatly blends a lively cafe with a custom bike-building workshop in a 19th-century building.

The idea that this is even something that should be debated or even CONSIDERED in this country sickens me. No matter what activity we choose to do or not do, at some point, the left will decide it's evil and try to tax it. Nothing they do is about mother earth, healthy lifestyles, helping the poor, education, or whatever other reason they say they are passing whatever goddamn laws they are passing. It's always about one thing: control over your life. If everyone shunned cars and started walking, you better believe there would be a shoe tax.

Leftists are always anti-establishment even when they are the establishment. They want to stop whatever the masses decide they like. Wal-mart is popular? Destroy it. People like driving? Oil and car companies are the devil. Fox News gains popularity? Kill it. People start walking instead of driving? Philistines need to be taxed. So they need to control you but they also shun whatever the hicks and plebes start enjoying. So this is the idiocy we are now faced with, bike taxes. Because people are biking more instead of driving. Which the left wanted. Until they got it and saw how many commoners were now doing it. So tax it.

They are the most schizophrenic political movement ever. There is only one constant with the left: whatever you are doing, they won't leave you in peace to let you do it. They'll tax it, regulate it, or just plain hate on it. Unless it's abortion. They'll always defend that.

When Dave Barry writes, you can finally close out the year

The Year in review!

My favorite quote so far:

And for approximately the 250th time, the Obama administration pivoted back to the economy, which has somehow been recovering for years now without actually getting any better. Unfortunately, before they could get the darned thing fixed, the administration had to pivot back to yet another zombie issue, healthcare, because it turned out that Obamacare, despite all the massive brainpower behind it, had some “glitches,” in the same sense that the universe has some “atoms.”

Post Christmas, let's look at something interesting: History of Christmas Lights

Via GizModo

I knew we used to put candles in Christmas trees and thank you innovation and capitalism for creating something that prevented fires. Also, we were not very bright back then.

E-Cigs being Banned much like Water Pistols being Banned.. Cause they LOOK like the real thing.

Via HotAir. Fuloydo sent this to me. E-cigarettes are a godsend to those who want to quit smoking. You still can pretend to smoke but the vapor is the same thing your breath does on cold days. So of course nanny statists want it bad because of second-hand non-smoke or something.

No, the reason public “vaping” needed to be banned is that it simply looks too much like smoking. It’d inconvenience the cops to make them pause to determine whether you’re puffing a ciggy or an e-ciggy. And in any case, vaping … “re-normalizes” the practice of public smoking. If you let people do something that may be harmless or even good for them, insofar as e-cigarettes are steering smokers away from a carcinogenic alternative, then other people might be inspired to take up a more dangerous variation of the practice. By that logic, I guess, drinking water in public places should be banned too for fear that it might “re-normalize” public boozing. That’s what makes this Bloomy’s greatest triumph: He’s a master of precedent-setting baby-step nannyism, and this sets the precedent that behavior that merely resembles disfavored behavior can and should be aggressively regulated.

Next thing you know, they'll start banning cold days.

Someone Actually Competent Found their way to working on Obamacare WebSite, so of course she was ignored.

Via Hot Air:

Teresa Fryer, the chief information security officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), revealed the findings when she was interviewed Tuesday behind closed doors by House Oversight Committee officials. The security risks were not previously disclosed to members of Congress or the public. Obama administration officials have firmly insisted there’s no reason for any concern regarding the website’s security.

Let's compare the levels of incompetence that we have today vs. the moon shot. Would we have made it? Would the rockets have had "ACME" written on the side? Would Astronauts have been wearing water wings on splashdown?

Maybe the reason it would've been decided to have a "splashdown" is because after 5 or 6 times of planting the capsule into a mountain, they decided they really hated having to hose out the inside of the capsule now full of blood and brains and maybe make a change. This is after Jay Carney would tell us that everything is fine and the astronauts enjoy being smooshed.

The fire on the landing pad seems like incompetence on the surface, (it wasn't) but really it's no comparison compared to the hilariously stupid stuff that happens in Obamacare. Apollo I would've been the entire rocket fell over because the third astronaut entering threw it off balance. That's the kind of dumb shit stuff we got going here.

Now imagine, all of this idiocy is a web site to get your insurance. That's it. That's ALL it really has to do. Imagine when they have to do something hard like heart surgery. Cancer treatment. Does this not frighten the bejezzus out of you?

#Pajamaboy shows a Leftist Wet Dream

I mean look at this guy. Smug expression, little baby pajamas, probably still demanding his parents stop running his life as he continues to not work.

Show of hands, who wants to smack him in the face with a garden shovel? This weiner is the most typically leftist voter I have ever seen.

"Gimme gimme gimme. GIMME!" he demands.

"Get your own!"

"You're greedy. I'm going to go protest in a tent on Wall Street while still not working. Dad I need money for a plane ticket."

And if I was his dad, I'd pay for it. Though I'd make it a one-way ticket.

This image is Obama's America. This is a proud American male, emasculated. Pussified. Immature. Arrested Development.

What happened to pushing images like this?

Or this:

What about #Pajamaboy instills the kind of feeling that these two images do? Or when you contrast these him with the other two, tell the truth now, do you feel revulsion?

If you ARE a pajama boy type, feel shame. Because even though that is a grown-ass man, he is being referred to as a BOY. A child. Adults don't want to be taken care of like children. But that's how Obama and the rest of the left sees us. As children. Spoiled, self involved, arrogant -but ultimately helpless- children.

Take your health insurance and your paternalistic attitude and shove it up your ass Obama. I'd like to think that's what the Duke would say. But he would be more blunt about it.