Posted on 06/27/2002 3:20:29 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:07:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Where's a San Francisco earthquake when you really need one?
That's what most Americans must have been thinking yesterday, when a panel of judges on the notoriously - nay, outlandishly - leftist 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, sitting out by the Golden Gate Bridge, declared the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional.
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Uh huh. Real funny. What if a California newspaper had begun and ended an editorial, in regard to the latest outrage in the financial markets, "Where's a jetliner flying into a skycraper when you really need one? ... Just kidding."
You'd have had howls of calumny and calls for California to sink into the sea, that's what. The U.S. Congress would probably have voted involuntary secession for California.
I drive past a banner every day over Garfield Avenue in the eastern L.A. suburbs that says, "From Bell Gardens to New York ... We Salute America, United We Stand." But you'd rather that we all just fall off the Earth, wouldn't you, New Yorkers?
I am TIRED of all this cheap California-bashing.
Would you prefer some expensive California-bashing?
No?
Never mind.
Can we still bash the French though?
NO! All these liberal/lefty decisions always and only applies to OTHER people. They never apply this junk to themselves. For example, did judges, who supported bussing, require that their own kids be bussed? How about the race discrimination rules? How many of those white judges resigned and insisted that blacks and/or women be appointed to take their place? But the middle class white males (and their families) had to pay the price for the fine feelings for "diversity". The elite never pays, they just make others pay.
More than a few non-statists are still here.
No, and whether I do or not -- I've posted on it elsewhere -- is entirely immaterial to my point here. Which is that New Yorkers and other FReepers get away with snide bashings of California that would cause them to howl in wounded anger, if they were applied to their own cities and locales. Most Californians shrug it off as the rest of the country being uptight.
You, perhaps, don't find someone blowing up a cobalt dirty bomb in the Empire State Building a jovial thing to talk about? A new San Francisco earthquake would kill thousands of people and destroy tens of billions of dollars' worth of property. I don't find THAT pleasant to joke about.
If that doesn't get to some of you, how about this? What would you think of beginning the destruction of California by dropping anthrax powder on Jim Robinson's house in Fresno? Wouldn't that be a "good" start? ... You don't like contemplating that, which, of course, I'm "only kidding" about? Then maybe you see my point.
BTW, I lived in CA for two years and you have to admit there are some strange people in CA. My heart goes out to the conservative patriots in CA.
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