Did you know that Red States lead in something? Guess what....
By John Amato Thursday Jul 02, 2009 3:00pmFrom my pal Lisa Derrick: Family Values? Red States Lead in Divorce, Teen Pregnancy and Online Porn
What is astounding is the New York Times chart which takes politicians out of the mix and breaks it down into the values that the Right espouses: Anti-divorce, anti-porn and anti-teen sex. Well gosh, even with my admittedly and embarrassingly bad math skills, it's clear that eight out of the ten states with highest rates in the categories of divorce, teen pregnancy and online porn usage were states where McCain came out ahead in the 2008 election.
Ahhhh, help...we need more teabaggers to save us...
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That's the best comment I've read in weeks.
the highest rates of hypocrisy??
And we don't need no graph to know that's true.
Please, that's a law of nature. Though it would not surprise me to see them deny that theory too...
Sounds like Astral Projection to me.
on astral projection.
I started to read how to do it and it scared the ever-living BeJesus outta me!
Especially when I got to this part...
"You are now floating out into deep space with the cord attached to your soul. It is the only thing that keeps you attached to your slumbering body back in your bed. **Note: If you should come near any sharp object...such as an asteroid passing by, it will SNAP the cord and you will never return to your body. The next morning your loved ones will see nothing but your body in the bed...lifeless...staring off into space...with an empty, voidless look on your face...forever."
I tossed the book in the trash and never looked back.
the gays' fault.
You damn libruls will NEVER learn!!
It's always Clinton's fault!
Clinton was our fault first!
Ah-HA!! So all this red-state divorce, teen pregnancy, and porn is ultimately .......
YOUR fault!!
(damn libruls....)
It's always either the fault of the Clenis or teh gay. Take your pick.
You know, they are too busy shoveling "personal responsibility" down our throats and telling us to pull ourselves by our own bootstraps (although I never figured out how that figure of speech is even remotely supposed to work... )
It is FDR's and his god damned social security/New Deal's fault!
They're already claiming FDR made the Depression worse.
Never mind that he cut 60% of the unemployment in his first four years
But then he listened to the conservatives concerned about the deficit
So the Depression worsened in 1937.
those things with complete impunity. In fact I have seen exchanges in TeeVee in which the supposedly "liberal" pundit answers to such claim by saying "true but..." True my ass, that is a bold faced lie, why do some of these so called "liberal" pundits have to be "nice" all the time?
When someone says such a bold faced lie, just point at obvious facts that anyone with a high school education should know. And call them a god damned liar... ignoring these lies allows these psychopaths to rewrite history.
FDR's initiatives were so successful that almost every country in the industrialized world had not only adopted them, but became local gospel and even thinking of dismantling them would be political suicide. But not here... even when we are the country that came up with them.
Those demonic-christians(believerS in needing a devil to have a God) also lead the ranks in OBESITY, INCEST,DOMESTIC VIOLENCE(wife beating)and CHILD ABUSE And Animal SODOMY. And there's more if you want to count the drug cartels in Florida and Georgia.
Those Red Staters, I believe, also scored high in educational drop outs and GED's.
There's something true about: "the only good red is the red that is dead". Ohhhh, there's so much more. These "facts" are true. I'd also like to look into alchohalism in the Bible beltway. Facinating facts about the morally elite.
Doctor Spock
Red states also lead in the number of mobile home parks, and consequently, they also lead in the number of guests on Jerry Springer!
Jerry Springer has a certain level of ingrates that they draw the line at. But they are haveing to make exceptions and lower that line so people in the red states can get on the show.
Praise the Lord and Pass the Vaseline!
Praise the Lord and Pass the Crisco!
is that dueling banjos I hear playing in the background? Did I hear someone squealing like a pig........
To be fair, if you lived in a state where a lot of people smelled like poop, and you were polled on whether or not the gov't should mandate daily showers, you might say yes, whereas people from states where people don't smell like poop would vote no. The very prevalence of the "bad" in their homestate may be the reason they are so adamant about the gov't trying to come and force certain values against that.
Also, love the sinner, hate the sin. Or something.
Or, I think that Christian fundamentalism requires so much cognitive dissonance that demonstrating your skills at hypocrisy might actually be a badge of honor in some weird way.
Sounds like in those "family values" red states, they're doing a lot of loving the sin.
Sunburn?
How many on the right are closet homosexuals or have had a gay...shall we say, experience? Or drug use? The reason they're against these things is because of guilt. They all do it but their bible says it's wrong so their guilt forces them to come out and condemn it to cover their own "sins".
Or they think the Bible says its wrong, without taking the time to seriously read the damn thing.
Give them a little slack...the bible is a big book with not that many pictures. I think not many of them actually read the thing and just use some preacher asking for money to explain it to them.
Give them a Dick and Jane book and I bet the went through the entire thing. Probably a little disappointed at the ending because there really was no "dick" in it.
Their loss. It actually makes for a good war novel, and some pretty raunchy stuff begins to happen about halfway through...
that's assuming they can actually read in the first place.
The Endangered Specious Act.
This is one of the basic themes of country music. They always claim "southern" or "country" people are so morally superior. The idea runs through all of America that some how Republicans, bible thumpers, and blocks of anti intellectual states are the true moral back bone of this country. Very little makes me cuss louder than to hear this crap repeated over and over. It is also one the reasons I do not like the movie Forest Gump.
The Red States also achieve EXCELLENCE at obesity. According to a reposrt released yesterday by the Trust for America's Health:
"Americans are getting fatter, portending massive costs for the health-care system in general and Medicare in particular. Adult obesity rates increased in 23 U.S. states last year and did not fall in a single state, an annual survey released on July 1 found. Adult obesity rates now exceed 25% in 31 states, up from 28 states last year and 19 the year before that.
The problem appears destined to continue worsening, too, the report indicates. Among children 10-17, about 30% are overweight or obese in 30 states, says the survey, which also examined youth this time around. Study after study has found that overweight children are more likely to become obese as adults, and obese children are almost certain to remain that way. "There is a huge wave of obese adults coming that will bankrupt us as a nation unless we get this under control now," said Dr. James S. Marks, senior vice-president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation."
Here are the ten most-obese states. NINE OUT OF TEN are...RED STATES:
1. Mississippi (32.5%)
2. Alabama (31.2%)
3. West Virginia (31.1%)
4. Tennessee (30.2%)
5. South Carolina (29.7%)
6. Oklahoma (29.5%)
7. Kentucky (29.0%)
8. Louisiana (28.9%)
9. Michigan (28.8%)
10. Arkansas (28.6%)
Let's honor their achievement...eat a bucket or two of KFC tonight!!!
Is something that's done to make demons go away.
Opening the fridge door and shoveling ungodly amounts of deep fried food is exercise, you know...
We know these southerners love their drugs. Now if Pabst Blue Ribbon came in a more natural form such as a plant/weed we'd have to outlaw it.
I always wanted to see a new Exorcist movie starring Richard Simmons.
Go on a diet, eat poontang!
that ain't allowed. If it ain't in the Bible it just ain't allowed.....or ya'll burn in hell with teh gays!
if you have nothing but fear and loathing of the body, make yourself obese so you can justify your feelings!
the better my odds with the thin ladies!
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090701/twl-us...
I am shocked, SHOCKED!
I live in California, and some buffoon in Texas looks at more porn than me?
Oops...my bad...
when I was at a conference in Austin!
john, you left out one of the biggest things the red states lead;
welfare
red states recieve more from the fed then they contribute
and they are against "entitlement programs", welfare and pork
go figure
We're kosher?
Mazeltov (מזל טוב)?
Isn't that a pop bottle filled with gasoline and stuff with a rag?
You get quite a pop then.
hard alcohol never gave the same bang for the buck when making cocktails, alas that is all the had to work with at Jewish weddings...
What about when the bride's mama finds out the caterer forgot to bring any gefilte fish?
And the matzoh balls are donut holes.
If those gays would quit getting married in Massachusetts this wouldn't be happening in the south!
Watch what you say about Massachusetts!
I'm livin' here in The Berkshires and we take them thar kinda' thangs personal like....
Um-kay?
Now let's be fair, here--obviously the right wing is worked up about divorce and teen pregnancy because it's an issue for THEM. I mean, there's mathematical proof that they obviously are having problems with both. It's just that their fix--being even farther right--doesn't seem to be helping nearly as much as being a DFH.
Now, as for online porn, I'd put that in a different category, and I feel disappointed in my blue-state Californian brethren that we're so low on the list (though it could just be because we're cheapskates and don't PAY for our online porn). I'm going to have to do my part to make sure we're back on top where we belong.
Also, it's not exactly a surprise seeing "blue" Nevada on top of divorce rates, but what's up with the Sin State being middle of the road in porn pay? Is it because nobody actually lives there, or because if you do you're so oversaturated already?
Long live the California Porn Underground!
Californians log the lowest hours watching p0rn because half the state is employed making it!
"Not tonight dear, you know I hate to bring my work home."
Red states are the low rent districts of the country. It's also where so many of the morons live who vote against their own economic best interest, and want to bring the rest of the country down to their level. You couldn't pay me to live any further south than Virginia.
No further south than Virginia??
What about Venice Beach, Cali?
That's south of Virginia and the Bohemian Underground ta-boot!
Don't knock Venice 'til you try it!
...in "fat Southern Sheriff." New data just out from the CDC:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has long said that nearly a third of Americans are obese. The Trust report uses somewhat more conservative CDC surveys for a closer state-by-state look. Among the findings:
_Mississippi had the highest rate of adult obesity, 32.5 percent, for the fifth year in a row.
_Three additional states now have adult obesity rates above 30 percent, including Alabama, 31.2 percent; West Virginia, 31.1 percent; and Tennessee, 30.2 percent.
_In 1991, no state had more than a 20 percent obesity rate. Today, the only state that doesn't is Colorado, at 18.9 percent.
_The South is the fattest region. The Northeast and West are slightly slimmer than the rest of the country.
As Dean Wermer said in Animal House, "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
MASSACHUSETTS!!!!!
but, I don't think there is necessarily a correlation between Republicans or Conservatives and all this bad behavior. I'd be interested in seeing the demographics before I condemned any particular group.
ps. before you attack me as some sort of GOP troll, I am a card carrying Socialist(and I vote)
Not me, I'll go straight to condemning the Red States and skip the nicities.
After all, these are the same imbeciles who gave us all those wonderful republican senators, who are going to make sure "come hell or high water," that they stop anybody trying to change the status quo of the Bush fascism era.
Freakin' idiots!
Family Values? Red States Lead in Divorce, Teen Pregnancy and On line Porn . I would add that they also lead in lard and in breeding .
map those values to moocher states and donor states, see whose federal taxes all come back to their own state, and whose federal tax dollars go to states that don't pay their own way.
And this isn't new news, we had this discussion after the 2004 and 2006 elections
Oh by the way, isn't Alaska the #1 moocher state in the nation?
With all that abstinence bull crap, teens don't know about contraception, then they knocked up, which results in shotgun marriages, which never work and lead to divorce.
gun fetishes and crystal meth addiction.
but still...HA!
A couple years ago Massachussettes had the lowest divorce rate in the country.
Typical liberals, staying married. How sick!
I'm shocked that the fake bible thumpers are actually porn and sexual perverts.
They don't want their kids having contraceptives so they can get the daughter a-married with a shotgun and off the family budget, b-on Medicaid so at least one person in the family will have insurance, c-on food stamps and WIC so the family can sell the food card balance at half price and make extra money.And, oh yeah, the AliBible's against birth control.
The preferred method of conflict resolution is to yell at the top of your lungs. This replaces logic, reason, and negotiation and the volume is said to convince or silence opposition. Divorces are an accepted means of regaining peace and quiet, albeit an expensive one.
Porn is used to scapegoat the woman who doesn't look like a porn actress, and to find new on-demand activities to require of the spouse. Such activities do not include sensuality or mutual satisfaction. And, of course, in red-state Alabama, sex toys are illegal, so the poor ol' Dixie gal can't even sneak in a fast orgasm in the shower after the Marital Duty is done.
Lisa forgot meth. Outside of San Diego and Oregon, red states own the crank business. It's the only culinary activity in the South where the consumer, and not the product, is deep-fried.
And obesity? On our low wages, the only luxuries we can afford are cheap ones. Anyone who isn't doing drugs to forget the recession, the bills, and the next damned layoff is doing CARBS and SUGAR, in quantity, for unofficial tranquilizers. The pitiful thing about it is that junk food is so much cheaper than real food. Not obese yet, but definitely need to take some off. Cuss me out, folks, and get on my big butt about it.
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