Posted on 11/06/2010 11:36:00 AM PDT by Starman417
“In Fallon and Fernley you also run into all those underground nuclear test sites from the 1950’s and 1960’s. Not really prime real estate there.”
I know of at least one for sure out near middlegate (its not really known well, but there is a plaque on a mountain top with a sign that prominently sais “No Digging”), but I thought most of that happened further south, closer to vegas.
One could analyze things at great length is response to your question, but there’s not much to be gained by overthinking it.
In the 60’s and early 70’s San Francisco & Berkeley culture was “quaint” or “cute” in its way... and existed in confined little petri dishes. SF hippies exulted in the city itself (which as you may or may not know is a TINY city of ~~~600K inhabitants that you walk across in a long day) but a mere 45 miles down the peninsula was a gigantic, unfathomably rich and creative and productive computer and chip and hi-tech industry and aerospace web that might have been 5% of US GDP right there. That business/those businesses are still there, but massively reduced.
Over the 40 or years I have lived in CA, about half northern, and about half southern, the left just won out, by relentless, incremental erosion of what was once a rather conservative state EXCEPT FOR SF & Berk. Where there were once hippies, there are now hordes of illegals, one form of uselessness having been replaced by another. (Racist comment alert!!)
But by bit, diversity by diversity, new math textbook by new math textbook, recylcing bin by recycling bin.
On SF: I had the experience of seeing a SF City Council ballot (or was it Supervisors - don’t remember) — but the number of factions both fascinated and disgusted me — the City is Ungovernable in my opinion. Every faction gets a piece of the pie and they DO hand it out for voter support.
the Yes on Prop 19 people said they will bring this back every year until it passes. And during a Presidential election they will probably win. If they’d done it in 08 it would be law with all the youth vote.
But I am most concerned about Prop 13 (70’s Prop tax initiative) — Brown has already said he is going to attack the Commercial property side of it — and if he succeeds in making any inroads to Prop 13 — you know what is next.
Yup, the attack on commercial side of Prop 13 has been hinted at for quite a while; and now is probably too tempting of an idea for the anti-business CA libs to leave alone. They can no longer resist. Their brilliance will be shown in just how artfully they pull yet another pillar of busines viability out from CA business creation.
IMO the real damage to CA will be from prop 23, the (failed) one that wanted to hold AB32 (= LSD-induced global warming insanity) in abeyance until the unemp levels fgto back down to 5.5%. Over and above the 25+% rise in power and fuel costs this is sure to create, this is one absolutely enormous, onerous piece of goofballism.
But not to worry nor to be too picky, CA voted upon itself 2-3-4 weapons of mass economic suicide, and we’ll apparently just have to watch the movie of CA’s destruction. I will be watching it from somewhere else. I felt and feel bad about it, having lived here for 40 years, but CA is cooked and that’s all there is to it. In 6-8 years, this entire state will look like little Tijuana except for armed enclaves.
How many Mexican nationals not legally residing in California are currently employed in California? No one knows, but does this not affect the rate of joblessness among Californians?
I know. To ask the question is to ansswer it.
Well said.
Another good post. I’m just taking note of the good writing here today.
The best thing that can ever happen to California is Al Qaeda nukes their major cities and baths the entire region in deadly radioactivity. Let nothing grow there ever again.
Let Jihadists nuke Los Angeles
Not kidding.
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