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Two Californias
National Review Online ^
| 15 December 2010
| Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 12/15/2010 12:31:51 PM PST by ScottinVA
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This is a sad account of how socialism, unbridled third-world invasion and gross mismanagement have destroyed California.
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:31:54 PM PST
by
ScottinVA
To: ScottinVA
What is happening to Kalipornia is entirely predictable given all of those self-imposed circumstances.
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:34:24 PM PST
by
GeronL
(#7 top poster at CC, friend to all, nicest guy ever, +96/-14, ignored by 1 sockpuppet.. oh & BANNED)
To: ScottinVA
California is doomed..Thread # 9,573
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:36:09 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit.)
To: dragnet2
California is doomed..Thread # 9,573 With many more to come.
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:38:21 PM PST
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: ScottinVA
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:39:52 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
To: ScottinVA
Everyone in the country ought to have to read this and ask themselves if this is what they want for their state. We are being turned into a third world country before our very eyes, and only a few have noticed.
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:40:06 PM PST
by
La Lydia
To: ScottinVA
How many times can it get doomed?
lol...
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:40:18 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit.)
To: ScottinVA; Jim Robinson
Jim:
You're in an ideal position as a Fresno resident (and as our fearless leader) to assess whether the NRO article is accurate or not.
Are the perceptions of Victor Davis Hanson accurate?
I had always thought that the Central Valley was the better part of California compared to the communist coastal regions. I know that Bakersfield seemed nice and sane compared to Los Angeles during a recent visit but I've never been to Fresno.
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:42:59 PM PST
by
re_nortex
(DP...that's what I like about Texas...)
To: dragnet2
How many times can it get doomed? Judging by the actions of the majority of its voters and its political leaders, it always seems to be one short.
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:44:58 PM PST
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: dragnet2
Can’t be stated enough. Sadly, some people might just now be starting to pay attention.
Well, at least until the next bong hit.
To: ScottinVA
It is almost as if the more California regulates, the more it does not regulate How true it is!!
I have lived in or visited several socialist/communist countries - and that is exactly the case. Everything is regulated or illegal, but nothing is controlled. The more that is regulated, the more chaos actually results.
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:47:19 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: La Lydia
I agree.. if the rest of the country would like to resist what seems to be an inexorable trend toward third-world status, the time to act is now.
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:47:56 PM PST
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: ScottinVA
To: ScottinVA
Is this the area where the jackwagons turned off the water to the fields because of a frikkin’ fish?
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:50:13 PM PST
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: re_nortex
VDH has for years lived in the area he's writing about.
Urban California is liberal. Small town California is conservative, but only because its illegal alien community is either too illiterate or has not yet screwed up the courage to vote.
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:51:53 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: <1/1,000,000th%
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:52:47 PM PST
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: dragnet2
Not doomed, just as many left wing hell-holes are not doomed it is just a lousy place to live and getting worse, as it slips deeper and more irreversibly into liberalism.
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:54:56 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Lonnie, little by little the look of the country changes, because of the men we admire.)
To: PGR88
Socialisms goal is a society where anything not forbidden is compulsery.
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:55:57 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
To: ScottinVA
I grew up in the central valley and now several of its counties rank as the poorest in the country. Very revealing article. How sad.
To: ScottinVA
So there is a surreal nature to these protests: [against deportation]
something like, Please do not send me back to the culture I nostalgically praise; please let me stay in the culture that I ignore or deprecate.Spot On. The liberals aren't the only ones who are hypocrites.
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posted on
12/15/2010 12:57:00 PM PST
by
Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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