It's really tough, but somehow I hang in there.
Posted on 05/02/2008 10:56:32 AM PDT by EveningStar
Because California, and Hollywood in particular, have been the punch line for so many jokes over the years, I suspect that people who don’t live out here assume we can’t possibly be that wacky. They don’t know the half of it...
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“Mind if I quote you next time someone makes a generalization about The South, Southerners and The War Between The States?”
I have been on FR since ‘97. The mindless, ignorant, self jerking rhetoric piles up so fast each day you need wings to stay above it.
Hopefully, you also live there :-)
please.
Cal should be renamed the turkey state... there are so many gobblers there.
As much as I love all you have listed, It would not be enough to keep my in the land of fruits and nuts. My brain would explode having to deal with liberal idiots on a daily basis.
Given a choice between freedom, and the power to tell your neighbor what to do, most people will choose the latter every time.
People say they want to live in a free country, but thats just a platitude, its just something to say. They don't mean it. Most people want their neighbors managed, and they are willing to be managed themselves if thats the price.
And, to push this thought just a little further, most people want a safety net provided by the society. And, again, if the price of the safety net is to accept supervision of every area of your life, they will gladly accept supervision. They feel safer that way, and whatever problems come with it, at least you don't have to take the blame for them. If your life is not your responsibility, it also is not your fault.
We may have whackjobs for politicians but I love our state. Like SF Republican said (are you the only one in S.F?) our climate is great. I look out my windows in downtown Sacramento and it is nice and cool. When I get up to my house in the foothills it’s bright and cool and clean. Lake Tahoe is an hour drive from my house while the bay area is only 2 hours from my house. Everything I need is here.
I’ve been all over this country but can’t imagine living anywhere else. In fact, the weather was so mild this winter that I never put the hardtop on my car. It’s nice having the top down in January!!!
Granted, we’ll have 110 degree days during the summer but it’s the dry heat...
One caveat, the sprawl is making its way up hwy 50 to my area.
Oh yeah, it’s horrible here, don’t ever think of moving here :)
I have been here as a teacher, pastor, since 1962. One just goes against the pacifist-socialist flow as best one can. Writing, preaching, teaching still with students who sometimes do question Sacramento as well as DC’s crazy anti-American policies.The area in which I live is beautiful, near any cultural or geographic area one wishes. If one can step over the homeless, the illegals and the gang shootings, it is still liveable. Of course, the Dem leadership which will never change in my lifetime(I am near 70), is pro gay, pro treason, pro illegals, pro death except with the death penalty!! , pro whackoe-enviro, pro tax hikes,and the non-productive love it here!!
This guy needs to stop crying and having dinner with liberals.
What would he expect?
It's really tough, but somehow I hang in there.
“Every state has it’s share of “fruits and nuts”, none are exempt.”
You made some good points Bob J.
It must also be noted that 90% of our “fruits and nuts” are from out-of-state. California is doing the rest of the nation a service by sopping up liberals from other states, thus making those states more conservitive.
Oh, and another thing, Ronald Reagan was a Californian who worked in Hollywood. Any smart-mouthed morons out there want to call HIM a fruit or nut...?
I didn’t think so.
My problem with California has to do with how you people say the word "orange". It's "orange", not "awwwwwrange". And you guys have Al Davis and your pizza sucks. 3 strikes, bro.
I think for some people it makes them feel better about where they live because their summers are too hot, winters too cold, humidity too high, bugs to numerous and lack of intellectual diversity too stifling.
CA is more tolerant and less judgemental than many other places and for some that kind of freedom is scary. It attracts the nuts as well as those sincerely looking for a place where their every word and move is not scrutinized and then judged as to how well it fits into local conformities...and then crushed if it deviates from group think and look. It’s a “tribal” survival mentality.
I can understand that but if you have to gratuitously tear down others to make yourself seem taller one needs to look at their own situation/motivations.
Heheh...not much I can respond to there.
But making it out to be specifically a left coast phenomenon is somewhat provincial. No offense to you provincials out there.
Even worse. Dirty Jerz. :-/
We’re vacationing in Newport Beach at the moment, and I was just telling my husband that I understand completely why California has always drawn people to it. The cost of housing and politics keep us away as permanent residents.
I can understand the “housing” issue, it is expensive here but “politics?” .... Newport Beach & Orange County, the capital of conservatism? what is your problem with the “politics?” LOL
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