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Why I'm Leaving California
Townhall.com ^ | September 30, 2020 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 09/30/2020 4:15:10 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

My brother left after the “last earthquake”. Apparently people who didn’t grow up there have one of those. That and he suffered so many break-ins. .


41 posted on 09/30/2020 6:19:45 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: MayflowerMadam
I did a search for reign and rein and found these 3 caricatures which also include Rain


42 posted on 09/30/2020 6:21:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: cherry

He’s married to a woman, who is from Israel and they have 2 children.


43 posted on 09/30/2020 6:28:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Yup. I always think:
reign = royalty
rein = control


44 posted on 09/30/2020 6:32:22 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Disappointment is inevitable. Discouragement is a choice.)
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To: Kaslin

I was born in Santa Barbara. I spent many years of my life in California. I wouldn’t go back there not even for business. I was last there in 1995.


45 posted on 09/30/2020 6:53:11 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: LouAvul

26’ U-Haul Truck: San Diego —> Tulsa: $2945. Tulsa —> San Diego: $474. OKC is $2818 & $886, which makes me wonder if safer cities have no one leaving. (BTW U-Haul tip: always check nearby cities. Decades ago we saved $500 picking our truck up in Phoenix instead of San Diego. Tulsa is a 90-minute drive from OKC. Take extra mileage charges into consideration. And check Penske.)


46 posted on 09/30/2020 7:07:42 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Kaslin

Will he still get a bill for the next 10 yrs. of California income tax? Will he pay it? When I first heard that, I didn’t know if it was a joke or not....it sounded like one & how would they possibly enforce it?


47 posted on 09/30/2020 7:44:51 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: cherry; Kaslin

The problem I have with Ben Shapiro (and I stopped watching him a few years ago) is the he tries too aggressively to appear bipartisan and attacks both sides.

Where he excels, is going on the attack for something that is innately conservative. In that respect, he is nearly unstoppable, as a multitude of videos on the Internet attest to.

He rarely ever gets even close to being owned.

Where I can’t stand watching him is when he attacks positions held on the conservative side, and appears to be doing it for political theater, just to show how even handed he is.

I have never been a fan of that, and though I have not watched him for some time, I presume he still does it. I wish he didn’t, because I have a high regard for his intellect.

I never thought he was gay. I just thought he was a very young man with a sharp voice, a quick mind, intense focus, and boyish looks.

Now, when I saw Richard Grennell in person at the RNC recently, I had never seen or heard him speak, and when I saw and heard him...my Gaydar pegged completely off the end of the scale, only to find I had never been paying attention, that was well known by everyone but me who pays attention to those things.

Not so with Ben Shapiro. He just reminded me of a really smart, sometimes annoying 16 year old boy.


48 posted on 09/30/2020 7:49:19 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Leftism is the plaything of a society with too much time on its hands." - Candace Owens)
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To: Kaslin; MayflowerMadam

Rain, Rein, or Reign, you better pack that mistake in a trunk and keep it safe, because, like or hate Ben Shapiro, you won’t get many of those trophies!


49 posted on 09/30/2020 7:51:01 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Leftism is the plaything of a society with too much time on its hands." - Candace Owens)
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I guess he’s moving here to TN. That should be interesting.

Once I was watching a history of Tennessee, and I think I heard that at one point in time, centuries ago, Tennessee had the largest Jewish population in the country. Even more than NY. He should fit in fine as long as he stays conservative.


50 posted on 09/30/2020 7:54:25 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Disappointment is inevitable. Discouragement is a choice.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

It is my hope that Ben Sharpiro becomes a fully partisan conservative, because I view his assumed even mindedness as a flaw.

There are many things I am in no way even minded on, because I have already thought them through and decided that at a conceptually foundational level, those things are utterly incompatible with my principles and I don’t have the bandwidth to waste on it.

Perhaps he does have that bandwidth, and it is important to him to do so.

I have respect for his formidable intellect, and wish that were not so.


51 posted on 09/30/2020 8:05:48 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Leftism is the plaything of a society with too much time on its hands." - Candace Owens)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t think I’ve ever heard the word rein. Always as plural.

Keep ahold of the Reins to not fall off the horse.


52 posted on 09/30/2020 8:13:16 AM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: skinndogNN

“I don’t think I’ve ever heard the word rein. Always as plural.”

That would be the noun “rein”.

“Rein” also is a verb — to “rein in” something.


53 posted on 09/30/2020 8:14:32 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Disappointment is inevitable. Discouragement is a choice.)
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To: skinndogNN

Rein that animal in sir


54 posted on 09/30/2020 8:14:47 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) t Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay My, oh, my, what a wonderful day)
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To: Kaslin

Please check out Colorado Springs! You’ll love it here!


55 posted on 09/30/2020 8:19:08 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
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To: Technical Editor
So where’s he going?

He's relocating to Nashville, TN

56 posted on 09/30/2020 8:21:10 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

Check even further:

“26 foot” U-Haul truck is actually 23 feet on the floor—the other “3 feet’ is over the cab, and that is alot of lost cubic space.

The payload-—the weight safely carried-—in a 26 foot U-Haul is ONLY 7400 pounds.

I checked with Penske.
Their 26 foot truck is all of 26 feet on the floor—8 feet wide—8 feet tall & NO wheel well bumps like U-Haul.
The payload in a 26 foot Penske truck is 17,000 pounds.
That is 215% of the U-Haul truck.

When I checked the prices, etc, last time:

The low payload in the U-Haul truck of 7400 pounds caused me to have to rent TWO U-haul trucks PLUS TWO U-Haul 12 X 6 enclosed trailers.

The cost for all of that was $5500 PLUS sales tax, adding up to $5900 for a one way trip from Nevada to Missouri.

Penske quoted me $3468 only for 2 trucks, insurance, appliance dollies. That is a savings of over $2400.

I need to move a lifetime of items, plus ranch equipment—about 21,000 pounds. I have weighed every single item I can loft I put on scale, and recorded info for loading those 2 rucks. I have scaled those loads on graph paper, along with a LOAD SEQUENCE list. (Twice—U-Haul & then Penske)

My current property in N Nevada is for sale......set up for multiple horses.

Anyone interested can contact me.

BUT-—Look at Penske before you get sold on U-Haul.


57 posted on 09/30/2020 8:43:51 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Savage Beast

The once-Golden State—the envy of the world—is now a Third World Hellhole.

... as in the scene at the end of Paint Your Wagon?


58 posted on 09/30/2020 8:55:08 AM PDT by RideForever (We were born to be tested)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

I am VERY CONCERNED because of the absolute CAOS they have created over these last 4 years that people will think if we just get rid of Trump the CAOS will stop!!


59 posted on 09/30/2020 9:03:06 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Kaslin

And still, the state legislature is dominated by Democrats.

It all started with the flower children in the 60’s and they never went away just hold office.


60 posted on 09/30/2020 9:10:44 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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