A Challenge. Why do people choose to live in South Carolina? The first three answers will receive a genuine THE-Ave.US beer mug! Over the last several weeks THE Ave has been asking why does anyone want to live in South Carolina? The question has focused around the overwhelming collection of stat[...]
Posts Tagged ‘South Carolina’
April 1st, 2014 - 4:58 am § in The Ave Scene
Paul Allen Replaces Old Island Off Of Anacortes
BUILDS An Island! This One Is Not Limited to Puget Sound! (TANews, Seattle) Having sold off his island off of Anacortes, billionaire Paul Allen has replaced it with a magnificent new “floating city” .. also called Allen Island. While the previous Allen Island was part of Washington[...]
March 27th, 2014 - 8:47 am § in Misc.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Why does ANYONE want to live there? The Maps Part IV
South Carolina is NOT the state with the least number of people who have college degrees![...]
March 26th, 2014 - 1:16 pm § in America
SOUTH CAROLINA: Why does ANYONE want to live there? The Maps Part III
Well … one good reason is that the Cradle of the Tea Party, first state to secede, home of the union free workplace and no minimum wage … is #10 on the list of states getting bucks out of Uncle Sugar! Lessee … low taxes, lots of guns, plenty of teen births, ..and government doles [[...]
March 25th, 2014 - 2:19 pm § in Misc.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Why does ANYONE want to live there? The Maps Part II
A few days ago, on the anniversary of Charleston’s celebrations of its resistance to the War of Northern Aggression (aka the Civil War) TA published a list of maps showing that South Carlina may be the worst of place to live in the US. These maps showed the Palmetto State as having the worst[...]
Give South Carolina a Little Credit: They rejected an amendment to oppose Obamacare!
RESOLUTION TO PASS THE FREEDOM OF HEALTH CARE PROTECTION ACT, KNOWN AS H3101 The Businesses of South Carolina Come to Their Senses and Oppose The Dominant Tea Partiers. The opposition by radical Republicans to Obamacare is a major challenge not only for liberals but for any rational business person.[...]
South Carolina: CCC Leader Appointed to Governor’s Re election Committee
Remember the CCC? Try thinking of the KKK. Fifteen years after David Duke urged CCC members at South Carolina’s Clemson University to fight for their “white genes,” Governor Nikki Haley has accepted public support from a white nationalist hate group, and selected Roan Garcia-Qu[...]
Shanda fur die Yidden: Jews Who Shame Us All:
Benjamin’s father was among the founders of the first Reform congregation in the United States, a claim ot pride of South Carolina. The shul described itself as the “Reformed Society of Israelites for Promoting True Principles of Judaism According to Its Purity and Spirit”. L[...]
SOUTH CAROLINA: Why does ANYONE want to live there? The Maps Part I
South Carolina, with what may be the worst record of any state in the union, will celebrate the civil war this weekend. Slavery, as horrible as it was elsewhere in the South, reached its peak in South Carolina where there were intentional efforts to breed a better slave by crossing African sl[...]
SOUTH CAROLINA: A Response to My Sister
My sister, Stephanie, is the wife of William Quick a frequent troll here. She is upset that I write a lot about South Carolina, the place she and William chose as a retirement home. Stephanie feels I ought not to make an issue of their choice of a place to live. Dear Steph, You wrote […[...]