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Oakland Pride

1 posted on 12/07/2008 12:11:03 PM PST by CE2949BB
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Eating glass is better than living in Oakland.

Passing a kidney stone is better...

2 posted on 12/07/2008 12:11:58 PM PST by billorites
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Any city under the corrupt, criminal democrat party yoke eventually becomes uninhabitable.


3 posted on 12/07/2008 12:16:47 PM PST by FormerACLUmember
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LOL at the comments section, especially from el_polacko, it’s worth repeating:

“amusing to note how the barack-voting ‘progressives’ just LOVE the black ‘community’ until they have to live near them. then they go running to the whitest place they can find. even if it’s 40 miles away. it’s “worth it”.


9 posted on 12/07/2008 12:24:16 PM PST by Ballygrl
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Read the comments. Some idiot suggested they have compassion instead of fear. Others think its the victims fault for having their stuff stolen.


10 posted on 12/07/2008 12:26:13 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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It had heart, community and color.

San Francisco has more fruits and nuts.

12 posted on 12/07/2008 12:31:49 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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Big mistake to live in a leftist paradise.


13 posted on 12/07/2008 12:34:12 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism = serious mental deficiency)
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Susan Glass - a republican in the making?


15 posted on 12/07/2008 12:39:56 PM PST by aquila48
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Funny thing is, moral at OPD is waaaay better than at SFPD; you GET CAUGHT doing bad stuff in Oakland, and they the cops will **** you up big time —not true in SF.

It’s simply that Oakland has sooooooooo many poor, malevolent blacks looking to vicimize anyone with stuff, or just anyone.


16 posted on 12/07/2008 12:42:15 PM PST by gaijin
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Oakland, Detroit, Gary-Indiana, Brownsville-Brooklyn: available homes for just one dollar but only in the cities noted, which city would you pick?/Just Asking - seoul62......


20 posted on 12/07/2008 12:46:05 PM PST by seoul62
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Lived in the Bay Area for my undergraduate. Don’t miss it a bit. Noone ever took personal responsibility for everything and the whole place was a mess.

Lovely weather though.


23 posted on 12/07/2008 1:15:25 PM PST by DiogenesLaertius
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Anyone who can praise Ron "Red" Dellums on one hand and complain about Oakland violence on the other, isn't able to relate cause to effect. That's the typical liberal mentality.

I worked in nearby San Leandro a few years and my ex-secretary, a gun-hating liberal, lived in a Lake Merritt high-rise apartment. One day she came to work and asked me to help her select a pistol. Frankly shocked, I asked her why.

She lived on the 7th floor and had left her apartment to come to work. After she got to the elevator she thought of something she needed, so went back and unlocked her door. To her surprise she found a guy pawing through her stuff. She let out a terrified scream and started yelling. The man ran through the French doors to the patio and scrambled down, Spider Man-like, patio to patio with her screaming her head off. He hit the ground running and disappeared.

After that we spent some pleasant time at the local gun range as she learned to use her new revolver. She did move to a safer place not long afterward. Unfortunately the lesson didn't "take." She's still a bleeding heart San Francisco liberal who thinks Pelosi's wonderful.

24 posted on 12/07/2008 1:28:38 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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Friends told me to move. I hesitated and told them that they didn't get Oakland. Just weeks before, I had walked to Rockridge and its eclectic mix of restaurants and shops and stumbled upon a street fair with three stages of live music. Would you find that in the suburbs? No.

Liberals believe in their fellow man rather than God. And that gets you....

But a gas station robbery on Piedmont Avenue, just blocks from my apartment, finally confirmed for me what shopkeepers and residents here had known for years: The violence in Oakland is relentless. During that assault, a stray bullet hit a young boy practicing piano at a nearby music school; the child was paralyzed, the community stunned. Restaurant robberies followed in quick succession, terrorizing diners in Oakland, Emeryville and Montclair.

Finally, she flees. But she has to be talked into it not by a normal person, but rather....

An eccentric old friend finally persuaded me to do the unthinkable: move to Marin County. It would mean driving over the Richmond Bridge to work, spending untold hours in traffic. For me to give up a walker's manna to commute 40 miles a day spewing exhaust and wasting money on fuel and tolls was ludicrous. But that's how bad it is in Oakland.

The other thing that came to mind reading this is that Oakland is how the Left wants us to live. They don't want people to have the freedom to choose to drive 40 miles to work--think of the greenhouse gases! If it were up to the Left, this woman would be SOL. Choice? That's for pregnancies.

25 posted on 12/07/2008 1:40:39 PM PST by denydenydeny ("Banish Merry Christmas. Get ready for Mad Max.."-Daniel Henninger)
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There is a simple solution. Making California a “shall issue” CCW state would clear all off this mess up in a couple of years.


26 posted on 12/07/2008 2:15:19 PM PST by atomic_dog
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If she respected Dellums she still needs to grow up. She still can’t connect the dots of liberal leadership and communities not fit to live in. Are these people blind?


28 posted on 12/07/2008 4:54:11 PM PST by Joan Kerrey
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Another Mormonphobe...


31 posted on 12/07/2008 5:10:26 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (It's no longer the Press Van, it's a "Tanker" Truck!)
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