Well the un. now tells you who you can hear and see. Next stop who to vote for. William Buckley, I'd rather be governed by the first 1000 names in the Boston phone book, than the combined faculties of Harvard and Yale.
COL. Schlicter's fiction ages so well that it seems it can actually become modern history, books of current events, factoids & truth. ...sadly. They are must reads for me.
I would, once again, like to thank my ancestors for stopping in the midwest and not continuing on to the west coast.
As for California, I would also like to extend my thanks, yet again, to my recruiter who gave me plane tickets to a better place and suggested I never look back after I had lived in what, at the time, was the worst case scenario for California. 18 months on the edge of the Bay Area was enough to convince me to leave.
As for their elections, they get what they voted for. All decisions seem to be based on an assumption that they will always have an overwhelming majority, but that only works if their base is not apathetic and the opposition isn't mad as hell.
Spent 1972 to 1975 stationed at Treasure Island and Alameda. Had an apartment in Oakland. Had access to the best hiking trails, camping and the most wondrous sights that Mother Nature could provide. Good eats in the Bay Area, no poop on the streets, for the most part it was friendly. But there were a few places where common sense said "Don't go there". Now? "Ruint", like we like to say in the South. Where were you in the Bay Area, Tom?
Antioch. not so bad. You had a few mountain ranges twixt you and the Bay Area with the Caldecott Tunnel as a defensible choke point. My apartment in Oakland was a mile east of 14th Street and Lake Merritt. Safe back then.
Oakland was really rough when I was there. Height of the crack epidemic, and my stupid ass thought going to parties on the other side of that tunnel made me worldly.
Spores of rot from Oakland and the city made their way over our way and metastisized. Concord was pretty OK, but Pittsburg was, and still is, a pit. Parts of Antioch were pretty bad, but the new developments were quite nice.
Maybe, just maybe, minorities are too intellegent to decide to go through the debasing political process for an office where you are expected to raise the sinking ship from the bottom of the ocean.
But, Tom. The most debasing aspects of the process like fund-raising, spin and image building are largely done by the D.E.I. infrastructure apparatchiks. I wouldn't call it "debasing" for those aspirants. It's more like "elevating", "empowering" and "ego stroking". It's really not like anyone has to sell their soul. They just have to rent it out.
It has gotten so bad as far as advertising goes, there are virtually no white, and especially white men, in commercials on YouTube.
I am not biased nor racist, but, I just reject it and turn it off. These A-holes keep showing how much they hate us.
Well the un. now tells you who you can hear and see. Next stop who to vote for. William Buckley, I'd rather be governed by the first 1000 names in the Boston phone book, than the combined faculties of Harvard and Yale.
I was born and grew up in the Bay Area. They voted a paradise into a cesspool. Never going back.
Heh. I just finished reading Kurt Schlicter's "Peoples Republic" for the first time. This would fit in well - heck, seamlessly - into the story.
Sadly, the book has aged well since it was published.
COL. Schlicter's fiction ages so well that it seems it can actually become modern history, books of current events, factoids & truth. ...sadly. They are must reads for me.
I would, once again, like to thank my ancestors for stopping in the midwest and not continuing on to the west coast.
As for California, I would also like to extend my thanks, yet again, to my recruiter who gave me plane tickets to a better place and suggested I never look back after I had lived in what, at the time, was the worst case scenario for California. 18 months on the edge of the Bay Area was enough to convince me to leave.
As for their elections, they get what they voted for. All decisions seem to be based on an assumption that they will always have an overwhelming majority, but that only works if their base is not apathetic and the opposition isn't mad as hell.
Spent 1972 to 1975 stationed at Treasure Island and Alameda. Had an apartment in Oakland. Had access to the best hiking trails, camping and the most wondrous sights that Mother Nature could provide. Good eats in the Bay Area, no poop on the streets, for the most part it was friendly. But there were a few places where common sense said "Don't go there". Now? "Ruint", like we like to say in the South. Where were you in the Bay Area, Tom?
I was at Moffett in 73! Going through VP-31
Antioch, out in Contra Costa county. Moved there in my junior year of high school, and signed up for the Army the day after my 18th birthday.
Antioch. not so bad. You had a few mountain ranges twixt you and the Bay Area with the Caldecott Tunnel as a defensible choke point. My apartment in Oakland was a mile east of 14th Street and Lake Merritt. Safe back then.
Oakland was really rough when I was there. Height of the crack epidemic, and my stupid ass thought going to parties on the other side of that tunnel made me worldly.
Spores of rot from Oakland and the city made their way over our way and metastisized. Concord was pretty OK, but Pittsburg was, and still is, a pit. Parts of Antioch were pretty bad, but the new developments were quite nice.
I'm sure they will change that law with a quickness.
The law must further the 5-Year Plan and the Long March.
Maybe, just maybe, minorities are too intellegent to decide to go through the debasing political process for an office where you are expected to raise the sinking ship from the bottom of the ocean.
But, Tom. The most debasing aspects of the process like fund-raising, spin and image building are largely done by the D.E.I. infrastructure apparatchiks. I wouldn't call it "debasing" for those aspirants. It's more like "elevating", "empowering" and "ego stroking". It's really not like anyone has to sell their soul. They just have to rent it out.