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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?

Related:

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/