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Civility Reigns at San Diego Stadium
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| 10/23/2007
| SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer
Posted on 10/23/2007 6:58:00 AM PDT by shbox
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To: sofaman
WOW, stay safe over there, sofaman.
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posted on
10/23/2007 9:36:10 AM PDT
by
shbox
(BobbyHill: "What's the matter with those people, Dad?" HankHill: "They're hippies, son")
To: shbox
However there’s a whole lotta illegal aliens at Qualcomm Stadium at the moment...25 miles from Tijuana.
To: erikm88
Good on your SF. I hope his property can make it through. But property is just material things. If they stay safe, the same mentality that got them where they are today will enable them to rebuild.
....and they will do it without government handouts.
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posted on
10/23/2007 9:42:43 AM PDT
by
shbox
(BobbyHill: "What's the matter with those people, Dad?" HankHill: "They're hippies, son")
To: jamese777
However theres a whole lotta illegal aliens at Qualcomm Stadium at the moment..
Yeah...and what does that have to say about the people in NOLA? If illegal aliens can be in the same situation and be civil about it......
At the very least, they will at least be gracious for any help they get.
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posted on
10/23/2007 9:46:48 AM PDT
by
shbox
(BobbyHill: "What's the matter with those people, Dad?" HankHill: "They're hippies, son")
To: shbox
What a sterling example of making the best of a bad situation.
I’d expect nothing less from Southern California, at least the SoCal of decades past. Growing up there and living there as an adult, I was always impressed with the ability of folks there to turn what might otherwise be a big mess into, well, a party. I was the beneficiary of that several times: when a freeway disaster stopped traffic for hours
and a bag of Trader Joe’s groceries became a spontaneous picnic; when a wheel fell off our car on Deadman’s Bend north of Laguna and the quiche we were carrying to a friend’s house became the centerpiece of a teenage
beachside mobile-home celebration while we called for a tow...
Spontaneous parties were a happy consequence of SoCal’s local culture, and, after all the horrors of Katrina, I’m delighted to read that it still exists.
To: shbox
"But they have nicer busses..."
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posted on
10/23/2007 10:06:03 AM PDT
by
avacado
(Republicans Destroyed Democrats' Most Cherished Institution: SLAVERY!)
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
That sounds about right...you mean you didn’t blame Bush’s failed trade policies on the defective overseas lugnuts that made your wheel fall off??? LOL
Around here we have what we call Hugo kids. My daughter is a Hugo baby, born July 1990....exactly 9 months after Hurricane Hugo came through and cut power and blocked roads and confined us to dark houses with no power for a week. Hey, we made the most of the situation...
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posted on
10/23/2007 10:10:25 AM PDT
by
shbox
(BobbyHill: "What's the matter with those people, Dad?" HankHill: "They're hippies, son")
To: EveningStar; humblegunner
"I hope some of them have gotten jobs by now. Its only been two years." Are you kidding me! They have their free rent taken care of all the way to March of 2009, not 2008, but 2009! And they have other monies coming in. Job? LOL! Freeloading is their job and right now they are in the zenith of their careers!
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posted on
10/23/2007 10:13:11 AM PDT
by
avacado
(Republicans Destroyed Democrats' Most Cherished Institution: SLAVERY!)
To: Roccus
Mr. Fowler considers help a handout, not a right. Therein lies the difference. Absolutely on the mark, and not a thing to add. BTT.
To: avacado; EveningStar
Freeloading is their job and right now they are in the zenith of their careers! Some are ambitious and find time for extra-curricular gang activities as well.
I gotta respect initiative.
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posted on
10/23/2007 10:16:17 AM PDT
by
humblegunner
(My KungFu is ten times power.©)
To: martin_fierro
Yeah where is Looter guy I thought he was show up unless he is Saints fan he afraid he get his a*** kick by Raider or Charger fan LOL!
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posted on
10/23/2007 10:23:07 AM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
That’s the message I’m getting from those I know there.....they’re either busy, doing something, helping out or trying to find a way to get to their jobs.
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posted on
10/23/2007 10:37:25 AM PDT
by
najida
(Just call me a chicken rancher :))
To: EveningStar; monkapotamus; dead; All
ESSSS rack itt ROFL
MONK get in here darling
OUR Fav dude show up FINALLY
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posted on
10/23/2007 10:40:34 AM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: najida
"Thats the message Im getting from those I know there.....theyre either busy, doing something, helping out or trying to find a way to get to their jobs."
Not all of California is like that. Attitudes differ significantly from South to North, for example.
When the terrible earthquake hit the Bay Area in 1989 and a big freeway fell down, there commenced ten years of arguing and obstructionism on the part of the locals. The area is filled with neighborhoods where you can drive for blocks and blocks and know with certainty that no one there had held a job for four or five generations. But they have plenty of time on their hands to get in the way of progress. The impasse eventually resulted in the State and Federal agencies capitulating to their demands, and the freeway was re-routed out of its former neighborhood and onto fresh landfill in the Bay, with new feeder roads (including the "Mandela Parkway"). Until the Big Dig took the crown in Boston, the result was the costliest roadway in the nation.
Ten years. Ten years of wrangling and griping and posturing and obstructing.
In the middle of it, four years in, Southern California had a terrible earthquake and a big freeway fell down. Within two weeks a parallel alternate road had been opened. Within six months the freeway had been completely rebuilt.
We asked our Bay Area friends why it was that the Oakland freeway still hadn't been rebuilt when it was clear from Southern California's example that the job could be done. Their reply: "Well yeah, that's 'cause all the rich Republicans there stole all the money for freeway rebuilding."
I kid you not: In all sincerity, they believed that the weekly spectacle of mobs of welfare myrmidons yowling at endless panels of commissions and planners and review agencies and councils for four endless years had nothing to do with it. Oh, no, it was the eeeeevil Republicans and their sticky fingers, four years in, which deprived the Bay Area of the money that was rightfully theirs.
This was one of my early educations into the mental dysfunction that is leftism.
I fully expect the San Diego situation will be held aloft by the Left as clear proof that Bush and Rove victimized the denizens of New Orleans because of their skin color, or because they vote Democrat, or something of the sort. The culture of self-sufficiency and community that characterizes Southern California simply cannot be grasped by these people.
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
You’re probably talking about the freeway pass in my area that collapsed and as an alternative the Old Road pass which goes out into the valley was opened. You’re right, it took months to get the freeway pass rebuilt, but luckily we live in a heavily republican area otherwise it might just have taken years. This area at the time of the ‘92 quake was mainly middle class, now I’d say we have quite a bit of upper middle class living in this area.
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posted on
10/23/2007 12:06:12 PM PDT
by
psjones
(u)
To: EveningStar
You owe me a new keyboard!!!
Bwahahahahaha!!
Hey isn’t that the firefighter from LA that looted the LAFD because of the whole “Big Dawg/dog food” practical joke? Kinda fitting IMHO.
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posted on
10/23/2007 1:17:06 PM PDT
by
BJClinton
(Don't taze me, bro!)
To: BJClinton
To: shbox
>That mentality of “getting something” is the root of the problem IMHO.<
I am amazed that you didn’t realize sooner what the problem was at Katrina, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FINGERS. Yes, F.E.M.A.!
Without F.E.M.A.’s assistance, even the sun can rise and fall smoothly.
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posted on
10/23/2007 5:03:15 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(( "Freedom is not free, but don't worry the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share." ))
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