Northern Calif. mourns Schwarzenegger win

AP | 10/12/03 | RACHEL KONRAD

[CurlyDave]

Hve you ever noticed how all the "environmentalists" live in the middle of cities?

Not only is a city the biggest environmental disaster in existence, but these people have no first hand experience about the real environment, no clue about conservation, and think that wildlife is the animals on a farm.

On the other hand, they firmly believe they should be in charge of making all decisions about how everyone who lives in the "country" should conduct their lives.

[Kuksool]

***The rest of California would love it if the wacko extremist welfare-centric San Francisco area WOULD form a separate state***

Don't stop there. The Bay Area ought to form its own independent nation.

[NYpeanut]

Author Anne Lamott is seen at home in Fairfax, Calif., with her cat Jeanie on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2003. Lamott says she cried herself to sleep, puppy at her side, after Arnold Schwarzenegger's stunning election victory.

"sob, sob, sob, if only they all thought like ME, sob, sob, sob! And willya look at the saintly expression on my liberal face?"

[freedumb2003]

The book's already been written and it was pretty funny - and pathetically stupid: Ecotopia.

I remember that one -- they use good looking women as contacts to use sex to convert outsiders, like the hero of the story! I agree -- funny but not like the author intended.

[glaux]

The recent midterm elections were a surprise to many pundits. The fact that the GOP regained the Senate in an off year was remarkable event and violated common politcal wisdom. Conservatism is the logical direction to go, given the abject failures of leftist policies througout the globe. This fact is puntuated by the onslaught of islamic terrorism, an improving economy, the increasing stability of Iraq, and a leftist defeat in CA.

The conservative citizen will stiffen the spine of even the most invertabrate GOP rep.

regards.

[Burlem]

Good grief! I love my cat too, but NO WAY would allow him on the table........
With regard to the win in California, I am in Butte County, we overwemingly voted to oust Davis, I wonder if too much is being made out of the fact that Arnold won. He is hardly conservative, now if McClintock had won that would be the story.
People were just tired of Davis and his pandering, my reasons for ousting him was not only the budget mess, but more than that, his anti-business bills, anti-family bills, the tripling of the car tax, the raisig of so called sin tax, just tax, nevermind cutting........Horrors!

[SpaceBar]

The San Francisco Bay area, and the east bay area in particular has become nothing more than a sprawling service industry dependent anomaly of US industry as a whole. Black Angus, next to Barnes & Noble, next to Waterbed Warehose, next to Discount Tires next to the Law Offices of So and So.... and it just goes on and on. Once you get over the Sierra Nevada things start to change and you will glimpse the real American. A hard working individual who actually grows something, mines something, or kills something for the good of the community.

[annyokie]

That was uncalled for. San Diego is quite conservative, yes. Calling Eggs a dolt was wrong.

[annyokie]

My apologies. I miss read your post. :(

[Utilizer]

Ummm... I hesitate to point fingers here, however I feel obligated to point out that there are two counties listed that are incorrectly named. It should read "Sutter" county and "Lassen" county, NOT 'Stutter' and 'Lasses'. Feh!

That being said, I have always believed that there can be made a valid argument for dividing California into three separate States, consisting of Northern, Central, and Southern partitions. Of course, now I might have to restrict the 'Central' section to only the Bay Area, and divide the Sacramento Valley into the other two divisions.

Oh, and San Francisco and the Bay Area are NOT bloody 'Northern California'! Ye gods! Was this article outsourced to India?

[kstewskis]

thanks for rereading my post, and your apology.

[annyokie]

You're very welcome. Sorry, again.

[Allegra]

Oh Lord, where do I sign!!! The rest of California would love it if the wacko extremist welfare-centric San Francisco area WOULD form a separate state ... that would cease a tremendous drain, a loud "sucking sound" that leaches from the rest of the state year round!!

Even better...they form a separate country. And they can take the illegal aliens with them too and let them get drivers licenses and free educations and nobody will complain.

[ambrose]

[BurbankKarl]

"He just seems like he's genuine, honest and wants to clean it up," said P.J. Wick, a 62-year-old housewife from Yuma City in Stutter County

I can't believe this made it by the editors...is this a slam against Sutter County?

[LieFreeGov]

Democrats near seawater. what bunk. I live half a mile from the pacific here in Ventura, CA, a county that thumped Davis on the arse and went heavily for Tom & Arnold....

it's not a sea water thing....it's a bay area post-LSD insane asylum.

[tortoise]

Author Anne Lamott is seen at home in Fairfax, Calif., with her cat Jeanie on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2003.

A clinically liberal middle-aged woman living alone with her cat in Fairfax. Damn if that doesn't reinforce every stereotype about these idiots. Hell, it should be the basis of a DSM-IV diagnostic entry.

[EGPWS]

"This is still San Francisco, and we're like our own little island from the rest of California,"

Lets just hope it stays that way! Sadly enough the rest of the "coherent" people of the great state have to support your fanatical ideologue though financial support through state taxes.

[nosofar]

Some residents joke darkly about forming a separate state, with San Francisco as the capital.

Please, oh please, oh please!!

[nosofar]

"The pattern emerging is that the closer you are to salt water, the more likely you are to vote Democratic,"

They're devolving back into amphibians.