1001 Reasons LA is Better than Florida

Rose Parade Frog

Florida fucks up every day. They're a blight to this country. We love 'em, but they blow. Big Time. The hide in the corner of the nation in shame and they should. Every day we will list three or four troubling things that they should be sorry about. We won't stop until they change their motto from "The Sunshine State" to "We're Really Really Sorry".

4. Palm Beach County's homicide rate rose by 26% in 2006:

Berno Charlemond, a gang member who lived by the gun, was killed on Christmas Eve. His death at age 23 was most notable for its location: the crowded Boynton Beach Mall.

The shootings capped a year when 101 people were shot, stabbed, strangled, set on fire, struck with a table or otherwise killed in Palm Beach County.

- Palm Beach Post

5. Not enough lifeguards lead to a swimmer drowning yesterday in Ft. Lauderdale - Salem News

6. 18,000 votes are "missing" in a Congressional race won by a Republican by just 368 votes, but it's cool cuz in Florida they never have issues with ballots and voting and that junk - TechWeb

photo by Peggy Archer

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