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Posted on January 9 at 2:46 p.m.
I'll bring the punch.
And bring AShaw with you. One without the other would be no fun.
Posted on January 9 at 2:45 p.m.
Geez, billclausen, the incredibly high hurdles put up to keep black Southerners in the past from registering to vote are a fact. Your exaggerations are absurd. -snugspout-
snugspout: This is really getting quite boring so I'll just say a few things and let you go on with your obsession about a serial killer from over thirty years ago.
As for my remark about Southerners, you either didn't get the sarcasm, or you have a strange sense of humor. OK, for all the brilliant intellectuals who might be inclined to blog and tell us about the evils of racism--and how all that don't adhere strictly to the Santa Barbara "progressive" agenda are either racists--or simply "don't get it", I assure you that we DO know about slavery, racism, and so forth, but we choose to live in the present and deal with issue of today--while snugspout mitigates his/her argument with references to things of the past.
I have always been suspicious of people who bring up such issues of race because I wonder what skeletons THEY have in their closets. I got news for you snugspout: I'm from Chicago (born in 1961) which is a good ol' working-class bastion of left-wing Democratic Party politics and moved out in '73 and I can assure you that there was a LOT of racism back there--a LOT. It's easy to pick on the south but trust me, there was and might still be plenty of it in the North, but the south and rednecks make easy targets don't they? Methinks thou protesteth much.
As for the issue at hand, there IS a difference in the politics of north county and south county, and Pappas is simply challenging what he feels is an unfair election. It's up to the courts to decide whether or not he has a case, and hopefully whatever they rule is the right decision. You claimed on the last blog that you feel if I.V. residents can't vote, then they should not pay taxes, and I agree with you on that. Too bad your other prejudices cloud some otherwise good ideas.
Posted on January 9 at 3:56 a.m.
Holly: I would add that just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT coming after you.
Posted on January 9 at 3:55 a.m.
Holly: Coincidentally, if you google the name truth_machine you will find all sorts of similar posts on www.salon.com complete with all the invectives.
No offense intended to the various writers for The Independent, but with people such as truth_machine, AShaw, Binky, yourself and I and some of the other bloggers, I think we can form our own entertainment committee.
Posted on January 8 at 8:47 p.m.
You speak of your lack of education in this country, should have read "you speak of THE lack of education in this country"
Posted on January 8 at 8:46 p.m.
emptynewsroom: Now you're starting to make sense. I will address what you said.
The U.S. is certainly an example of a country blessed abundantly with resources, yet has squandered those resources. I share your anti-interventionist approach, and it goes without saying that a strong middle-class/educated populace is the way to go. I don't see why a person with an ability for math, business, music, whatever, should have to pay for college when it is in the interest of the state to turn out as many able-minded people as possible.
I am also opposed to the drug war as I see the failure in prohibition. So far, my views would hardly be classified as right-wing views.
Where you and I differ is that I am more radical in my approach to these matters. You speak of your lack of education in this country, and with just cause you speak, but on the very thorny and third-rail issue of bilingual education it has been the Democrats who from I have seen that were supportive of this. Since this is the party of the "man-on-the-street" would it not behoove them to recognize that literacy in the language of the land is the best weapon against racism and oppression? On this issue, which I will not belabor in this post, the evidence speaks for itself: If a person is not exposed to a language, they won't learn it well, and there were eighth-graders at Franklin school who despite attending that school from the first grade were still not English-proficient--all the while the left-leaning education boards saw this going on and continued this policy.
Let us not forget that Bill Clinton attacked Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq and The Sudan, and from what I was told, all within a seven-month period. Who was in power during the Vietnam war? Is Barack talking of ending the war on drugs?
All of that having been said, Barack Obama has been duly elected, and thank God, in a manner devoid of the controversy that sullied the last two elections. He won decisively by a mandate of the American people. He also has a lot of Democrats in the congress and senate to back him so now the Democrats can't say they are being hindered by Bush. I hope he makes positive change, and not just cosmetic improvements. That having been said, I have a strong taste of cynicism that we will have the same old status quo, but I hope my cynicism is proven wrong.
On the other hand, if we still are in this war at the end of his administration, who will his supporters have to blame? Time will tell.
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Posted on January 8 at 3:16 p.m.
"OMG! Where do I live??? AARRGH!!!"
In Cambodian?
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Posted on January 8 at 3:14 p.m.
"( you were deemed unqualified to vote, well, if you were black, anyway. Don't want uneducated voters!" -snugspout-
Yes snugspout, we know that ALL southerners (and rural people) are racists and still pray for the days of slavery, and ALL Yanks and Libs are loving people.
He and Nancy-Crawford-Hall are conducting the Thor Nis Christiansen Memorial North County annihilation of Isla Vista Voting campaigns" -snugspout-
OK snugspout, I give up, you're right, and you've "outed" us. We all think of Thor Nis Christiansen as our own version of Horst Wessel. We sing songs about him and his picture hangs on the walls of most Solvangians homes. If only those Isla Vista people hadn't tormented him into doing what he did with their Lib ways he might be alive today.
(Disclaimer: This post is merely sarcasm directed at the blogger known as "snugspout" and is not intended to imply that Nancy Crawford-Hall or any other Santa Ynez denizen is a murderer, nor does it imply that the general populace worships mass murderers, although some up here may be swindlers, blackmailers, and possibly, Republicans)
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Posted on January 9 at 2:52 p.m.
He was a good guy but didn't put up with any nonsense. I had him for math and drafting back at La Colina.
I had always wondered what happened to him and I ran into him at Longs a few years ago and had a nice conversation with him.
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