Posted on 08/24/2004 4:18:42 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com
I don't get the Daily Breeze, although I check it out online occasionally. I've been reading the online edition of the local newspaper in the desert for the last couple of months for the classifieds.
I'm not surprised about the sob stories. The LA Times is the worst. I'm cancelling my subscription to them when I no longer need newspaper to wrap up breakables and pad moving boxes. I don't even read it except for the ads and the coupons.
I cancelled about a year ago after the neighborhood section started sounding as goofy as the rest of the paper. Recently, a guy was hawking subscriptions in front of the supermarket. I told him I didn't want it. He said "But it's FREE!" Hell, it's getting so bad they can't even give the thing away.
Um hmmmm, they OWN the houses but lease the land. Mexico won't sell land to foreigners.
Quite a few U.S. folks moved to Mexico and built, then Mexico decided they wanted their land back. Guess who had to vacate their homes and lost everything?
It was all over OUR California news.
I remember that. There were many seniors in that group, and they lost everything. Mexico - third world sh**hole.
There isn't much news in that paper. Plenty of news locally and nationally, but they aren't going to print it. Maybe they need new management.
"Mexico - third world sh**hole."
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you!
Superb post. It doesn't get tiresome, doesn't it?
Welcome to the club. I dumped the rag about 5 years ago.
I spelled {does} wrong. I am very sorry.
I guess you never attended a state convention?
In Nevada at least, the discussion can get pretty lively, and a single platform plank may take several votes before the final language achieves majority vote.
It would be pretty hard to enforce any edict on thirty or so independent thinking Nevadans!
Judith:
From Robert Novak's column this morning. There will be no debate on immigration.......
The greatest point of controversy among the conservatives huddling at the Shelburne was the Bush immigration reform, which has lain dormant in Congress after generating fierce opposition. Evoking eerie memories of Bill Clinton's formulation on abortion, the platform calls for an immigration system that is ''legal, safe, orderly and humane,'' while endorsing the Bush program.
The White House has trembled at the thought of an immigration fight but had nothing to fear. Colorado Gov. Bill Owens, chairman of the subcommittee considering this issue, can be counted on to support the president's position. But what harm would it do to debate this important issue? Vigorous platform disputes did not keep Ronald Reagan from landslide election wins in 1980 and 1984, and sticking to the normal process would not have threatened George W. Bush in 2004.
If you don't get it soon, we'll have to apply the hot pokers!
And I'd better write like Richard Lederman for a while...
Please see
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1203114/posts
on quieting floor quarrels.
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