“Learn a little discretion”
OK. How about this. California sucks, you know it, and you
don’t like to be grouped in with all the sucky people that
surrounds you. No problem. You shouldn’t be offended if
you had nothing to do with your fine and beautiful state
going down the liberal craphole. However, you seem to have
worked yourself into a twitter to the point you are actually
typing your maniacal laugh, “Bwaaaaahahaha!”. Tell me why
does it bother you? Why does my concern for my state going
down the same craphole, in spite of the great example your
state previously made,bother you. Your in a state that was
once and in some aspects still a great state but you feel
you’ve lost that high and mighty, nose in the air status
and your taking any criticism personally. You shouldn’t.
All it does is make you sound like a Canadian.
But hay “That’s California for you”. Ay?
I don’t know what an “ansel” is but here in the great
mostly conservative state of Texas we have an old saying,
“It takes one to know one” Good luck.
“California sucks”
Well, no it doesn’t but I will grant that the dominant
political culture does suck, not the state as a whole.
Too many millions of good conservative Californians to make
such a generalization. Acknowledge that fact and I have
little, if any, problem w/ what you state. The voters of
this state passed Prop 187, an initiative which was even
opposed by a Texas Governor named GW Bush because it
was seen as too harsh on illegal aliens. And, even tho’
Swartzenrino was a big dud the voters recalled the
Demo Governor who preceded him.
“twitter”
Really? You know good and well stupid liberal stunts
happen all over this nation on a regular basis and
most of them have nothing to do w/California. Yet,
when something happens here that offends your
sensibilities you link it to the whole state. I would
call that working “yourself into a twitter”.
But, you do need to be concerned about your state
“going down the same craphole” not because of what
does or doesn’t happen in CA but because of your
own governor. Bringing tons of jobs to your state
is great, over populating with newbies....not so
much. With great population growth comes activist
liberals and you won’t even know it until too late.
There is a lot to learn from conservative Californians
if you would tip your hat a little instead of
treating us like the liberal scum who have moved here
and taken over.
“Your (you’re)in a state that was once and in some
respects still a great state....”
Ah, since we have had, and still have some redeeming
qualities we can talk. I’ll accept that!
“....but you feel you’ve lost that high and mighty,
nose in the air status....”
No, not that. If you read my bio page you will see that
I contend that Hollywood types and other transplants have
created an image which real natives have never really
understood. Whatever I have posted to you about the
beauty of California was to attempt to uncover just how
much of this state you have seen for yourself. I would
not charge you with a little bit of jealousy here but
others might see it differently.
As to taking criticism personally, there is legit
criticism and just plain horsesh!t attacks. Often
I agree or learn from the criticism.
“ansel”
That is a person who is well meaning but has some
serious drawbacks. They fancy themselves as sheepdogs
who quietly protect the ignorant flock and keep to
themselves, mostly. In fact, they are more like Summer
camp counselors. They define the activities and put
everyone into groups sometimes without thinking
things through. They are not as all-knowing as they
think and they believe that those who do not completely
agree with them must be on the other side. Yes, I
identified you as ansel but I might have been a bit
hasty.