19 Reasons Not To Visit The Miami Area

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1. The sunsets look like this everywhere, right? Boring.

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Sunset over the Miami skyline.

2. The only thing to do there is go to cheesy nightclubs. Everyone knows this.

The Hanging Gardens at PAMM

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MOCA

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The Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium

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“Hanging garden” at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), North Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and “touching the orb” at the Patricia and Philip Frost Museum of Science.

3. If you’re not a beach person, you’re out of luck, because there’s NOTHING else to do there.

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The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts consists of the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House, the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall, and the Carnival Studio Theater.

4. No one there even reads.

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A look at the annual Miami Book Fair International.

5. The people are shallow. They only care about clubbing and shopping and getting a tan.

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2006 immigration rally.

6. And it’s just all… the same. You’ve seen one palm tree, you’ve seen ‘em all. Zzzzzzzzzz!

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Multi-colored bougainvillea at Fairchild Tropical Garden.

7. People there basically subsist on overpriced cocktails.

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A beautiful little jolt of Cuban coffee.

8. It’s positively swarming with gators!

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Watch out! It’s the dreaded(edly adorable) Florida manatee.

9. The official bird of South Florida is the mosquito, or so I’ve gathered from many a Facebook joke.

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Peacocks roam streets and rooftops alike across Miami.

10. Not to mention all the corny “tourist traps.”

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A nighttime view of the Vizcaya mansion.

11. Rumor has it that the only songs that play there are by Will Smith or LMFAO.

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A music-themed mural in Little Havana.

12. Yup, just “Welcome to Miami,” blaring from every corner.

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Boukman Eksperyans perform at Big Night in Little Haiti.

13. It’s an ugly, plastic area.

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Vine-covered oak branches reach out to one another across Coral Way.

14. It’s just so… tacky.

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Miami’s iconic Freedom Tower, the “Ellis Island of the South.”

15. The art scene there is just an excuse for pretentious people to throw parties.

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Eduardo Kobra mural is just one example of Miami’s accessible art scene.

16. The food there is gross and boring and I want to vom just thinking about it. YUCK.

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A Cuban frita from El Rey de las Fritas, Colombian patacón and empanada at Bolivar, and a Trinidadian-spiced curry roti roll from Christine’s Roti Kitchen.

17. The Miami area simply lacks any sense of history.

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Miami Beach’s Holocaust Memorial.

18. It’s aggressively basic, with no sense of originality or weirdness.

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The mysterious Coral Castle was built with over 1,100 tons of coral rock quarried, carved, and assembled through unknown means by one man, Edward Leedskalnin, as a monument to his lost love. Or it was built by aliens. One can never be too sure.

19. Everything has to be loud and showy! There’s no place for quiet moments.

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The view from the Deering Estate at sunset.

UGH. Don’t ever visit. You’ll hate every delicious, musical, inspiring, sun-drenched, ocean breeze-kissed moment.

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The sun rises over the Miami skyline, as seen from Matheson Hammock.

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You won’t believe who ‘Meet the Press’ chose for Obamacare ‘reality check’

Granted, that is always the right move. But what caused National Review’s Jonah Goldberg to do that today? Well, this happened:

Yes, really.

https://twitter.com/JonahNRO/status/407151284978860033

Unbelievable. Yet, of course, totally believable. Ezekiel Emanuel, an architect of Obamacare whom actor Adam Baldwin called a “lying freak.” And the always absurd and hack-tastic Ezra Klein. Balance? Well, if you want to balance lying hack with hackier lying hack.

Snort!

Other viewers also called out “Meet the Press” for the epic fail.

And an excellent exit point:

Truth. What else can you expect from lapdogs?

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Ezekiel Emanuel tells Megyn Kelly O-care debacle blame lies with Fox News; Citizens shred 

O-Scare! Adam Baldwin nutshells ‘lying freak’ O-care architect Dr. Emanuel in one pic

Full Twitchy coverage of Ezra Klein

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/12/01/delusional-you-wont-believe-who-meet-the-press-chose-for-obamacare-reality-check/

Good news, guys: Bar Refaeli says it’s a lie that she wants a ‘famous’ guy

On Thursday, the New York Daily News reported on how Bar Refaeli, “the loneliest supermodel in the world,” just can’t seem to “land a steady boyfriend, future husband and potential father to her children.” And then came the personal ad portion:

Her turn-ons include self-confidence, physical fitness and generosity: “I’m very interested in going out with someone who is big and strong and famous.”

Refaeli took to Twitter to set the record straight.

Hopes ignited!

Don’t stop, belieeeeeevin’!

This one’s for you, guys:

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/10/18/good-news-guys-bar-refaeli-says-its-a-lie-that-she-wants-a-strong-famous-boyfriend/

Fired-up Trey Gowdy ‘nails it’ in must-see Obama-slamming speech [video]

Get ready to fist-pump.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-SC, delivered a passionate floor speech in support of the Enforce the Law Act, a bill aimed at holding the president accountable and putting executive overreach in check. Gowdy asked, “How does going from being a senator to a president rewrite the Constitution?” And he reminded everyone of Senator Obama’s own words. Words like this:

Video:

The House passed H.R. 4138 in a 233 to 181 vote. Conservatives cheered Gowdy’s speech and the bill that would “authorize the House or Senate to sue the executive branch for not enforcing laws and provide an expedited process through federal district courts.”

http://twitter.com/#!/irritatedwoman/status/444057880841707520

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/03/13/watch-this-fired-up-trey-gowdy-nails-it-in-must-see-obama-slamming-speech-video/

After You See These 20 Rare Photos From The Past, You’ll Never Forget Them. Wow.

Even if you consider yourself a history buff, when you see these rare photos from history you may realize you know less than you think. These unique historic photos show a completely different side to stories you may already know. World War II, the Taliban, John F. Kennedy, Tiananmen Square and other historic events and figures may feel completely different to you once you scroll through these pictures.

In 1972, as part of the Apollo 16 mission to the moon, astronaut Charles Duke left a photo of himself, his wife, and his two sons which was enclosed in plastic on the moon’s surface. He took a picture. That photo remains on the moon’s surface today.

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This is The Statue of Liberty under construction in Paris in 1884.

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Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and his son stand in front of The White House in the early 1980s.

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In 1947, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale jumped from the observation deck of the Empire State Building onto a limousine which was parked below. Photography student Robert Wiles heard the explosive crash and shot this photo soon afterward. Years later, pop artist Andy Warhol appropriated the shot for an art print.

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Prior to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the country was moving towards democracy, with the Afghan constitution providing equal rights for women. This picture was from pre-Taliban days, when Afghan women had access to professional careers, university-level education, shops selling non-traditional clothing, public transportation, and freedom.

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Helen Keller meets Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood in 1919.

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This is a completely different view of the Tank Man of Tiananmen Square.

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A Russian spy is laughing through his execution in Finland in 1939 during the Winter War.

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These are survivors from the Titanic boarding the Carpathia in 1912.

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Tsar Nicholas II allows his daughter, the Grand Duchess Anastasia, to smoke.

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Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is returned to the Louvre after WWII.

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Lincoln assassination co-conspirator Lewis Payne was being held in federal custody prior to his execution in 1865. As Lincoln was being killed at the Ford Theater, Payne, an Alabama native and Confederate veteran, entered the bedroom of Secretary of State William H. Seward and began to attack him with a large knife.

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John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and staffers tour Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, Sept 1962.

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Allied forces mock Hitler from atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery at the end of WWII.

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This is a manninquin from an atomic bomb test site in Nevada during the mid-50s.

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An American evacuee punches a South Vietnamese man for a place on the last chopper out of the US embassy during the evacuation of Saigon in 1975.

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The Beatles walking in the opposite direction during the Abbey Road album cover photoshoot.

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This is Queen Elizabeth during her WWII service.

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Here are cameramen shooting and recording the lion roar for the MGM logo.

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This is a young Osama Bin Laden with his family in Sweden during the 1970s. Bin Laden is second from the right in a green shirt and blue pants.

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There are always more than one side to every story, and that’s proven with these incredible pictures. They give us a chance to look at history differently (or maybe learn something we weren’t previously aware of). So cool. Source: Imgur Share these awesome facts and photos with others by clicking the button below.

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