Hey, look what happens when you put together a map of the density of diabetics in the U.S. with one of passport ownership! (You get fired from NPR, is what happens.) Isn’t it funny how every map of the U.S. like these are basically the same? Somebody find us a map of dentists per capita so we can throw that up there too.
So what exactly is the problem here? Are type-two diabetics simply too heavy to be craned from their bedrooms and onto cargo ships leaving the country? Or does xenophobia make one eats lots of fatty food to calm one’s angry nerves? Yes.
UPDATE: Wonkette operative “Cody B.” sends us this:
Exactly. [Boing Boing via @linernotesdanny]
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Arkansas: America's Hardened Artery
http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/entries/image…
If we hadn't made slavery illegal this wouldn't be happeining. It's all the 'browns' fault.
So may I assume that every morbidly obese person I see has some African blood in them? Think we should tell 'em?
Just wait 'till ya overlay the locations of McDonalds/Wendys/BurgerKing…
I read that McDonald's is no longer the biggest restaurant chain in America. Now it is Subway, which is nice if you don't mind someone making a sub for you as if they were diffusing a bomb.
Considering how there's one every two blocks around here I'm not surprised; they're more ubiquitous than Starbucks these days.
Or Walgreens. Can't pass a corner without a damn Walgreens on it. Guess that fits in nicely with the diabetes angle.
Around here, Walgreens and CVS seem to have come to a power sharing arrangement so that they alternate intersections. But when you add in every damn supermarket/Walmart/Sam's Club having a pharmacy, it is a pretty telling clue as to where the growth sectors of the economy are.
Or in suburbs with divided highways, there are often TWO in a single intersection. Double your pleasure, drug, alcohol, and snack food fans!
I'd rather have a bomb defused. Diffusing bombs usually mean I'm getting filled with shrapnel. Or is that what you meant?
Subways multiply like roaches because the business model demands it. It makes it impossible to succeed as a one-franchise shop, but as you saturate a territory, you can eke out a livable existence. I read it in Fast Food Nation, because I am a liberal book-learnin' type
At this point the franchisers demand it too. Most seem to want you to take multiple stores slots from the start, or at least prove you have the money to do so. Personally, having to make that kind of leap/exposure would lead me to open an independent instead of 3 chain operations, especially if I had something unique to offer.
You forgot Waffle House.
Ding Ding Ding!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&am…
OMG they have a Waffle House up in the People's Soclialist Republic of British Columbia?!?!?
Oh wait, they're all smoking weed in Vancouver, that's why.
But no Waffle Houses in West Virginia, properly. There locations near (Maryland, Kentucky, Pennsylvania), but not of, it.
All this says to me is "Invest in Bojangles."
If they only knew how good the cheese and chocolate was in Switzerland they'd hop the next flight over.
Does the cheese come out of a spray can? If not, then thanks but no thanks.
Yeah you're probably right. Why go to Switzerland when you have both kinds of cheeses at the Piggly Wiggle. Yellow and white.
But do they have cedar cheese?
Some of the best beer is from Germany.
What was the most popular beer at US Army bases in Germany? Bud.
Granted, Anheuser-Busch probably has some sort of contract. They were the sole provider of beer at the 2006 World Cup held in Germany. That must've driven some people nutty.
Having lived in Europe for a while, its always amazing to see Merkins complaining about the chocolate isn't like Hershey's and why they have all those damned colored fruity ice creams instead of good old vanilla.
Vanilla? Most Americans I know wouldn't even eat vanilla ice cream unless you packed it with chunks of candy bar.
Most vanilla ice cream in the U.S. isn't really "vanilla" so much as it is "white".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Religions_of_th…
Idaho is full of atheists????
Idaho and Nevada have a sekrit, that being Mormon-adjacent.
Oh MAN! I *love* my atheist corner up here in the NW.
I bet the graph that shows people who say "Ameica is the best country in the WORLD" looks the same too.
Along with the ever popular "America has the best health care in the world!"
That's actually true if you're an insurance or pharmaceutical company CEO.
Who wouldn't be caught dead living in any of those counties.
"If I wanted to look at poor people, rest assured that I'd do so through a powerful telescope" — Mr. Burns
I think you have to fill out forms to get a passport. Meaning you have to know how to read.
"Meaning you have to know how to read. "
Thus explaining why fast food menus use pictures instead of words.
"Point-and-grunt graphix."
"Meaning you have to know how to read."
It also explains why putting nutrition labels on food sold in the south is a waste of ink.
Let's also see maps of teen pregnancy rates, divorce rate, education level, belief that Jesus rode a dinosaur, NASCAR viewership, domestic violence rates, and pickup truck ownership.
Beat me to a couple of these… UPFIST for you.
Don't forget "Cops" appearances.
And suspiciously shared DNA.
Oh yes, I forgot that show; a great insight into the life of rednecks and their urban equivalents.
GED certificate (as opposed to college degree). amount of cheetohs and beef jerkey purchased. percent of annual income spent at WalMart.
Well where else are we gonna find cakes we like and 3 ketchups?
Cakes We Like would be an excellent name for a band.
I actually have two passports. How do you like them apples, Teabaggers?
But why are you a black male in one and an asian female the other?
Ha. No, but I get "randomly" screened by TSA regardless of which one I use.
I actually had to tell someone to go to the Post Office to get passport forms yesterday. He kept putting off getting the forms because he thought he had to go to the DMV for some reason.
Is he from the dark part of the maps?
No, just a kid at Best Buy in Austin. At least he's smart enough to want to get out of this country for a little while…
He must live down in Del Valle.
Americans are pretty geographically challenged. Maybe he thought one could DRIVE to Europe.
Is one of them from an EU country in the Schengen Zone? If so, would you marry me? Gender does not matter.
As a matter of fact it is, but I'm happily married…sorry darling…have you tried Craigslist yet?
Best.line.ever.
The first sign of diabetes: Redness of the neck…
Yikes, that state up there to the upper right is about to be renamed "Fat-Ass-Achusetts" Bristol should buy a summer home there. (with cash)
There's also a high correlation between swallowing saliva and stomach cancer. But only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.
- rip George Carlin
Well, at least TX's motto can be Texas: Not as Bad as Mississippi or Kentucky
That is so cool! Please, please, overlay the map of Pig Fuckery!!
Ah, yes; Pig Fuckery. That's like the State of Alabama's official State Sport, right?
How comes we can't deport fat people? They don't fit the Emma Lazarus perameter for residency anyway.
"Wretched refuse of your teeming shore" pretty much hits the mark. Wheezing to breathe free…
I thought those were marks of fly-waisted mill jockeys who breathed in too much coal smut in Yurpean factories.
Could it be so wide — wide reaching as to encompass the huffing masses wheeling on scooters, yearning to eat meat?
Ummm…I'm fat.
But smart, if you are here on Wonket.
Can we deport Chris Christie before 2012?
Having spent a good deal of my childhood as well as a significant part of my adult life overseas, the ignorance of the typical American vis-a-vis the rest of the world never fails to leave me speechless. Fuckers live in Disneyland.
The fully armed Disneyland, where everyone has a 9mm and is just beginning to exhibit symptoms of a nervous breakdown.
It kind of makes me want to eat some Bojangles and be done with giving a fuck.
If by Disneyland you mean a very large trailer park with basic cable.
I once stood in the entrance line at the Louvre and listened to the Texan in front of me give a loud lecture on how the French should study at the Disney management school to learn how to make line-waiting more palatable. "Don't they have some of them mimes? They should get 'em to come out here and do some entertainin'." I swear. I actually moved to the back of the line, lest someone think I was in his party.
Pretend you're Canadian, or Australian, or don't understand English. Jeebus.
Other maps to go along-
Teen pregnancy?
Family secks?
Real Mericuns?
They don't have passports because "There ain't nowhere else gooder than the good ol' USA… GO JUNIOR!"
"Bring the truck around, We're goin' to the Titty Bar!"
Nice to see Mississippi excelling as usual. Hotty Toddy!
"Isn’t it funny how every map of the U.S. like these are basically the same?" And the Koch Bros/ Republican Party are slowly succeeding in their bid to turn the rest of US America into this same 3rd-world paradise.
Why would I want to go to Italy when I have a perfectly good Olive Garden right here?
Yes, and why would my Aunt Betty leave Fresno, CA to see a castle, (we lived in England), when she could just go to Hearst Castle?
Or Solvang, (when we lived in Denmark)?
Coloration is not caucasian.
Wilford Brimley laughs at Mississippi.
Yes, I'm sure they've put him in a very nice retirement mansion. Or should I say our tax dollars have put him in a very nice retirement mansion, since I suspect most of those people aren't paying for their own insulin.
…, fat, dumb, low life expenctancy, lean heavily on federal government support, corrupt, higher divorce rates, higher teen pregnancy, …
Man, passport renewal is coming up. Gotta get that thing out before a hurricane hits that house.
"lean heavily on federal government support"
…while complaining about those *other* people (if you know who I mean) getting it.
Where's the map of most camel bucks redeemed, elitist editor? Don't see marlboro miles either, Mr. Writeypants
Apropos of nothing, why do women who have just given birth and are out on maternity leave feel compelled to come to the office with the screeching annoying little thing?
Uh oh, I guess I should ask you to babysit then, eh?
I like kids – once they're old enough to actually have a personality and do stuff Newborns though? They just either sleep or cry and they all pretty much look the same, and I'm not gonna drop all pretense of working, run over and coo, probably in embarrassing baby talk, just 'cause there's a baby in the office.
Yes, but where there is a newborn there is usually breastfeeding.
You say that like it's a bad thing? Titties!
To remind you that even though she's not at work, she's not on a fucking vacation, etiher, and stop piling shit up on her desk goddammit it ain't your fucking storage closet.
Or so I've been told.
For some reason, I tend to talk to babies as if they were pets, so I avoid the visits and the mom's reaction to my asking the lil tyke 'who's a good puppy?'.
As long as you can substitute "baby" for "puppy" this is an excellent strategy.
I'm more irritated when the 16 year old drop out shows up at school to show off her baby like a new outfit, and then leaves it with the office secretary so she can say hi to her friends. Ten teen moms at the high school I teach at, out of 150 girls.
Why would anyone ever want to leave Mississippi? Especially considering the availability of dialysis machines per capita when compared to, say, Paris?
Why would anyone ever want to leave Mississippi? It happens all the time. The population stays that same because every time a woman gets pregnant a man leaves town.
Of course Paris doesn't have any dialysis machines. They have socialized medicine!
You can be sure that most of the passports issued to Mississippi residents are for oilfield workers who applied for them when hired on for jobs in Alaska.
In fairness to Mississippi, I've been there several times and felt I needed to use my passport to enter that 3rd world country of hicks.
I spent the 9th grade in Biloxi. They had just gone to forced desegregation, but the folks there were no fools, they bused all the white kids from the air force base to the poor black school. Having just spent 3 years in Turkey, that bus ride down Division Street on the first day of school was quite an eye-opener. Much more depressingly impoverished than anything I had seen in Turkey. So yes, third world is quite an appropriate descriptor.
Type III diabetes is on the way. I love the way the fat guy says diabetes on those commercials. Is he that oatmeal guy. Oh sh*t my minds straying again…………………
Is there a correlation between all you can eat buffets and Diabeetus and passports and gun ownership in the map of the USA?
Awesome! I can now ignore my doctor and continue to ignore exercise and a healthy diet. Passports also cure high blood pressure, right? Or is the only cure for that having the teens move out?
Shockingly, I'm NOT shocked.
I'm betting if you superimpose these maps with strength of opposition to mild healthcare reform that passed, it would almost line up with these maps.
You are absolutely correct. That is what the sandwiches are.
what's up with alaska?
that's not very palin like of you elistist AK passport holders…
(Gotta get through Canada to go anywhere in the 48 contiguous.)
For which you used to just need a driver's license, but now you actually need a passport.
It's the proximity to Russia, obviously.
Take away Colorado's mountain towns (young fit educated) and we are as dark as GA. My western Rerul area was dominated by the KKK until the 1950's. Acutal KKK political party winning elections.
probably the only time you would describe that part of Colorado as dark???
Arizona is looking a little gray, is this before or after SB 1070?
So…what do you think the common factor for these two outcomes was….? Hmmm???
So if we pop over to the Isles this summer we won't be surrounded by enormous-assed American racist dickwads, just chinless brown-toothed limey ones? Sweet!
Ironically, the places with the lowest passport numbers are the places you'd most want to leave. Maybe irony is the wrong word, pathetic, that's it.
Every day here in SC, I hear a little whisper of hopelessness creep into each day's voice.
Try living in Georgia.
I'm from Wisconsin — it's all "Coming soon to a state near you!" It's like something out of Kafka; One morning I woke up in Wississippi…
Stupid is on the move, heading north.
The rumor that our FLOTUS forced the air industry to charge by the pound has resulted in a drop in long distance travel by the folks in those states.
I totally want credit for starting that rumor, too.
Yeah, dentristry tracks the same pattern:
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_tot_den_perc…
Loss of natural teeth:
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_ora_hea_los_…
Amount of physical exercise:
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_phy_exe-heal…
Smoking:
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_smo_eve_smo-…
Per capita lynchings:
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/cri_lyn_bla_perc…
Per capita number of prisoners:
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/cri_pri_und_the_…
% of college degrees:
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/edu_bac_deg_or_h…
There are more on that site, but I'm tired and depressed from listing them.
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This map shows where we should have been building the fence all along. Or maybe a fence is not necessary as they don't travel further than a hoveround can go on a single charge.
If I say, "Stay home and die, you fat conservative ass" would that be considered a pejorative or statistical analysis?
Can we overlay a map of scooter sales on this please? Also – the Biggest Loser thanks the CDC for providing it with a nice recruitment map.
Not only keep a valid one, I don't leave the fucking house without it… I know, but just because you're paranoid doesn't mean your aren't being followed. The lack of curiosity on the part of the average American about things that don't impact him personally is gobsmacking. Someone important once said, "War is how Americans learn geography.".
The few times it has been asked for, I hand over my international drivers lic to our local traffic officers. No tickets, warnings only. My theory is; they have never seen one and just are too lazy to find out what is the official protocol for the document.
When in doubt, avert eyes/ignore. One very rarely comes upon an intellectually curious civil servant.
Here's the dentists per capita map:
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparemaptable.j…
It is pretty much the same as the others.
IQ, educational achievement, income, divorce, teen pregnancy, VD, murders, rapes, gun ownership rates, the distributions of ALL these things, it never varies, the fucking Bible Belt, the red-state heartland of Amurrica, is the land of murder, wife-beating, diabetes, ignorance, syphillis, illegitimate children, xenophobia, cowboy hats, nascar fans, and dropping out of high school. And pig-fucking, never forget the pig-fucking.
How dare we elitists look down on them
The northern tip of Maine has the diabeetus too? Ay-yuh, hahdly makes sense. Must be puttin' too much sugah in tha flapjack battah.
Running through foreign airports to make your next connection is very good exercise.
I think this is the best argument AGAINST socialized health care I've ever seen.
Cause, basically, I've had it. Let them all die.
I almost got a passport once when my girlfriend's dance troupe got a gig on a Caribbean cruise ship and she wanted me to go along. We broke up, so I never turned in my app. If it ain't gonna help get me laid, what the fuck good is it, anyway?
OMG it so can help you get laid. Go to any rockin' hostel bar in Europe.
You guys haven't seen me, have you?
Counter intuitively, when rednecks get passports for the first time they often break them in with a trip to Cancun. And they have their bright, shiny new passports all ready to go. Often those of us who are flight crews are asked to help them with their landing cards and immigration and customs documentation, questions arise like, "it says here passport number and date of issue…..where do I find that?…." Oh, but they have some of the words and phrases they'll be using memorized. ¿Dónde está el bar? and ¿Dónde está el bathroom? They're so cute, you almost wish they'd never grow up.
You just described my mother. (From Texas.)
Another favorite:
"Family name? What's that?"
"It means 'Last name'."
"Hmmph. [Grumbles] They could've just said 'Last name' and saved all the confusion."
more map like this will only make us hate Abe Lincoln
The good news… The fatasses also oppose health care reform which means the diabetes will wipe them off the planet. Additionally, they're too stupid and lazy to fill out a passport application which means they won't be able to get socialized medical care overseas.
Why do those maps show the epicenter of conservative fucktards, or is that my imagination running wild again?
I bet the passport numbers were even worse before a passport was needed to go to Mexico or some of the Caribbean nations.
Or sources of interstate handgun traffic: http://vizwiz.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.htm…
Born into grinding poverty fucks you up.
Ot.or maybe not so much, David Broder has died from complications from diabetes .
Having to buy two airplane tickets for one ass inhibits the desire to travel abroad. QED
I literally just got back from the post office to pay a hojillion dollars for expedited passport service when I saw this. Sometimes I just love you so much, Wonkette. And those times are all of the time.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/06/wee…
Map of happiness indicators survey overlays pretty well, too.
Wow! I'm wondering how Wyoming and North Dakota came off so well. Must not have polled any Native Americans, I'm guessing.
Interesting map, anyways. Thanks.
Here is a whoooole page of the same pattern with different factors. http://www.raconline.org/maps/
Since marx layed out the concepts, one of the signatures of being part of the petit bourgeois, or the 'creative class' as it has more recently been called, has been disgust for the lower classes.
Just like with that guy yesterday who posted the shopping list of crap food found at Wal*mart for everyone to laugh at, this map serves as a psychological vehicle for you to assert security in your class status. And you are falsely blaming poor people in Mississippi for our country's problems, even though they are peasants and it's all a distraction from the real power structure. Do you think everything would be perfect if the poor could be vaporised?
The percentage on disability is dead on: http://www.raconline.org/maps/mapfiles/disability…
And I live in DE and have passport AND diabetes. Shows what them eeelitist science folks know.
You know, this information actually is positive in my view. The urban legend I had always heard was that less than 10% of Americans had passports. And judging by ~90% of the population, I had naturally assumed that number to be correct.
Question: if you are in the military, do you need a passport? All the wars may explain why the numbers are 'too' high?
Double points for mullet-wearers who sport T-shirts with NRA slogans.
I just found my misplaced passport. I guess I can now eat anything I want for dinner.
The "prevalence" key is just awesome.
"Even the attractive people," indeed.
When will Mississippi not be covered in a blood-red substance?
Why go to France when you can go to Paris Las Vegas?
Errr – - – - First?
http://io9.com/#!5779921/a-diabetes-belt-runs-thr…
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