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California Speaks Austrian
A special moron vote. Gypsy cyclists. Bush and the worst. Obama as Pobedonostsev. Plus more.
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Obviously, one possible impact is that cars made in the last model-year before the new standards take effect will fly off the lots until that supply is exhausted. Older cars will remain in service longer. Will Canadian or Mexican border towns suddenly sale huge numbers of cars that are then resold as used cars to Americans? Are certain types of vehicles, like trucks and vans, excluded from CAFE? etc.?
Thank you in advance for your/Mr. Peters’ consideration
of this topic.
— Trogluddite
FAR FROM THE WORST
Re: Dennis Homerick’s letter in Reader Mail’s D-Disrespectful:
It is always amusing to listen to folk proclaiming President George Bush (the 2nd) “will go down in history as The Worst President” as Dennis Homerick had done in the TAS May 21, 2009 Reader Mail. As memory serves, every time a Republican President left office he was said to be “the worst President ever” — even R. Reagan the Great. Unfortunately, Republicans are too inclined to accept the stigma on their leaders. Democrats are different. Even mediocre Presidents are rehabilitated to greatness. Truman was a straight talker. JFK was a magisterial visionary who’s womanizing has slowly been transformed into THE behavior common among all great men. (Note the uncontrolled orgasms every time PBS recalls the days of Kennedy’s Camelot.) LBJ is the great champion of Civil Rights (they still haven’t figured out how the handle that “war thingy.”) Clinton was that lovable rake who put it to the Republicans while the greedy (er…salt of the earth) reaped the riches of the “best damn economy ever.” And, if you listen to them, somehow Jimmy Carter’s Presidency is morphing into some sort of American golden age (tales of secret Republican supersonic jet trips to Iran to sabotage Carter’s re-election still lowly rumble among Democrats).
So. Now we are supposed to yammer amongst ourselves and go “boo-hoo” while cursing Bush the Second’s shadow? Save It.
We got a President who stands to leave us an America we won’t recognize by the time he spends his last day in office. That isn’t a fanciful tall tale. It’s what he intends and he’s said so.
We have a press that thinks Colin Powell (who endorsed Obama) represents real Republicanism while it thinks there is a rotten fish somewhere when Cheney speaks.
We have an American electorate which doesn’t recognize that the Republican Party is the only American political party that gives Conservatives a platform to speak. The relationship between the old Republican leadership and Conservatives is an uneasy one; but Conservatives will not go away simply because some “moderate” is whining about “real Republicanism.”
Lastly, we have an educational system, mass media, religious
leaderships who could not replicate a Conservative argument if
their lives depended on it. This leaves whole populations with
slurs and clichés for Conservativism. Conservativism is unlike
the definition found in the dictionary. We have the task to
clearly speak in every corner the principles that lead not to a
perfect society but to a humane one. Conservativism is more than
politics. We believe in it not because we capriciously want it
but because it is true. If every Conservative suddenly
disappeared tomorrow, the truth will still exist. Those who come
after will have to “rediscover and reinvent the wheel”; but have
the truth they will.
— Mike Dooley
NO JOKE
Re: P. David Hornik’s Judenrein
Judea:
In addition to the U.S. asking Israel to curb natural growth in the West Bank, we have the Pope calling for and I quote: “Mr. President, the Holy See supports the right of your people to a sovereign Palestinian homeland in the land of your forefathers, secure and at peace with its neighbors, within internationally recognized borders…”
I’m not surprised American policy makers do not know the history of the Holy Land, but the Pope?
The West Bank is Judea and Samaria. It’s the original land of Israel which predates Islam by millennia.
The present population of Palestine are Arabs from other Arab countries and nomads who settled there because Jews returning to Israel, indisputably their land, whilst escaping the pogroms and other persecution, gave them jobs and improved their lots!
I guess California should be returned to Mexico too when the Mexican population reaches the tipping point… This is no joke; some are calling for exactly that…
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1 dead, 1 injured in California military jet crash - Boston Globe | California news links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Crisis in the world today| 5.22.09 @ 10:33AM
Government is to govern countries, not the private lives of people, who are not breaking the law.
If 3 Million teenagers got Pregnant every year and the state had to pay for housing and give them money to live on, it would not be long before most government see it as a problem, an economic problem.
If rats were breeding out of control in your area, you would see it as a health issue. And many studies find people behave like rats, think like rats. As long as rats gets food and warmth they do nothing but breed and produce more rats, till supplies dry up.
One cannot egnore a growing problem, it has to be addressed, if the government has to pay for the problem it becomes a public issue. If the entire GDP goes to wards paying for none productive people in society, it becomes a drain on the economy. You can't egnore the problem forever.
Most teenagers don't want children, they want to have fun, but sex is a fun but it has consiquences.
As for the unborn grandchildren, most responsible mothers want their children to get an education. !Not a baby!
California is a Bankrupt State, huge numbers of homeless people. It's got to the stage of either letting people out of prisons, close down schools.
If that is a growing trend, it's of great concern, amongst the growing poor and homeless population. Thanks to 10 years of George W Bush.
Roy Northam| 5.22.09 @ 11:10AM
The last comment states that "If that is a growing trend, it's of great concern, amongst the growing poor and homeless population. Thanks to 10 years of George W Bush."
It is almost a certainty that the writer is a left coaster. Neumayr responds aptly to this statement in his article. "The word "morons" flashes back into my mind."
logmak| 5.22.09 @ 12:27PM
Mr. Reynolds - And this makes the California electorate different from the rest of the country - how?
HotPat| 5.22.09 @ 3:11PM
Mr. Reynolds, I grew up in Chula Vista and have been a life long Californian since. The problem is not with the voters, but with a corrupt political class that has gerrymandered themselves into invincible re-election. Term limits was supposed to cure that, however these swine have become mere players in a game of musical chairs. The liberal control over this state's political system has engendered out of control spending. Add that to mendaciously worded Initiative measures and constitutional amendments bankrolled by out of state billionares, coupled with a gullible, and dumbded down , illerate electorate, utilizing massive support by government workers unions, and the SEIU which has given us a budget containing mandates that are a far greater portion of the state's spending than so called "discretionary spending." Therefore it is impossible to fund the fundamental mission of government: public safety and infrastructure that encourages growth.
I say enough for mountain lions, dolphins, webbed toed salamanders, nature preserves, child care programs, and educational spending that has had the net effect of paralyzing the ability of California to adapt. No need to mention the NIMBY enviornmentalists pushing solar and wind power. We need far less government in this state. But like you, I have little hope that this state can return to the relavite sanity marked by the Reagan and Wilson years. Too many liberal socialists with the attitude that "I've got mine, screw you" toward market based solutions and freedom are driving employers out of this state at an alarming rate.
Lord help us.
Larry| 5.23.09 @ 11:06AM
Well, having been born in Oregon and now living in Washington, I can tell you this. The northwest has been invaded by and taken over by Californians and it is not a pretty sight! The stupidities border on criminality. To0 many of them to list here.
DaveS| 5.23.09 @ 8:24PM
Hair-brained is supposed to be 'hare-brained.'
Richard Baker| 5.24.09 @ 7:39PM
The pioneers who founded the "Bear Republic", (look on the state flag) would be appalled to find that their efforts have been stymied by a narcissistic population who want everything handed to them but want someone else to pay for it. Let them go bankrupt. At least their self-esteem will be high.
Daphne Kenward| 5.25.09 @ 1:50AM
Mr. Reynolds, do you know that you're a California voter--or is your IQ so low you didn't realize it? What a fool you are; it's not the California voter who is the moron--it's the liberal voter who holds that dubious honor. Last time I checked, liberals populated all fifty states in our Union, not just California. Senile old dope.
Smitty in Cali| 5.25.09 @ 2:01AM
Larry, I know many people who live in Oregon and Washington; no Einsteins in the bunch sorry to say. Your state of Washington has a liberal euthanasia law in place now--not so smart of you folks, is it? Better watch yourself and don't get sick or next, one of your medical finest could be coming toward you with a hypodermic needle. At least we haven't been THAT stupid.
David Govett| 5.25.09 @ 12:40PM
Not too many people recall that the reason JFK ended up in the Pacific in PT109 was that, while stationed in D.C., he had an affair with a Nazi naval attache and was hurried out of town to cover it up. (Given the family's sordid history, "Kennedy" seems to be the Gaelic word for "cover-up.")
Richard Baker| 5.25.09 @ 2:26PM
Mr. Govett:
Her nickname was "Inga Binga" and she was a friend of Goering and Hitler. Since the Father, Joe Kennedy, had to be recalled as Ambassador to Great Britain for saying that the Brits were going to lose against the Nazis, Jack's "friendship" was a potential source of family embarassment (didn't know that a Kennedy could be so afflicted).
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Austria » Siemens to cut over 1,000 Austrian jobs links to this page. Here’s an excerpt: