1 It's government by all pressure groups, excepting taxpayers.

2
They don't call it the left coast for nothing.

3 I always liked Hedgecock when he subbed for Rush.  Does he still do that?

4 Let it burn. 

5

Message to yankeefifth:

 

Google "Obama's Intricate Indonesian Wedding Ring".

 

Later...

6 It's really hard to take this column seriously when there's a completely unnecessary (and wholly misleading) shot at Rick Perry smack dab in the middle of it. Just sayin'.

7 So, what's off on the wildfire comment? I know one of them was started by a "tortilla warmer" in NorCal.

Maybe once we get rid of that last republican cowering in the corner there we'll start to figure out maybe he wasn't the problem after all.

Naaaah.

8 Google "Obama's Intricate Indonesian Wedding Ring". Later... Posted by: Meremortal at March 07, 2012 07:05 PM (Usk3+) will do.

9 3 "I always liked Hedgecock when he subbed for Rush. Does he still do that?"

He's got a regular gig on radio in Southern California now as far as I last knew.

10 ... the governor proclaimed the rich must pay their fair share

To which the correct response is, as always, "define fair".  And if he is so foolhardy as to actually suggest a number, then the answer to that is "and just how did you arrive at that number"?

(Hint: The answer is he pulled it out of his backside)

11 Last weekend, counted nine California plates in the Randall's parking lot
Austin, TX

12 Yikes!

13 "Sarah Palin on Voting For Newt Gingrich"  http://tinyurl.com/773a7pn "Governor Palin Interviewed by CNN After Voting in Alaska Caucuses Today; Updated: Complete Video, Transcript Added"  http://tinyurl.com/7gs6f46

14 One industry that is left there is the satellite factories.  Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and Loral all still have their factories in the state.  Unfortunately for them, it is prohibitively expensive to move them someplace sensible like Texas.

Also, their employees are reliably liberal.  Makes me nuts.

15 Pi[11 Last weekend, counted nine California plates in the Randall's parking lot, Austin, TX[/i]

Yup, they're coming.  I'm not sure it isn't better to keep them all ghettoized in one state to minimize the damage.

16 We need to face reality: Starting around 2032 demographic realities will prevent any Republican from being elected President, as the white voting share will fall under 60%. I know that sounds harsh, but I simply do not see the breakthrough with Hispanics that is constantly being predicted by GOP analysts.

17 California loves the illegals because they swell the states representatives in Congress and their electoral votes. 

18 Wow.
Pi[11 = [i][i/]

19 Some of us stuck here, suffering a slow death

20 And they said there would be no more DOOM.

21 He left out the farming, except for the pot farms, that have been shut down.

22 The obvious answer is to encourage the productive class to leave, but as we have seen with states like Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and parts of Texas, these transplants bring their liberal/dysfunctional/destructive ideology with them. It is essentially like the Borg, subsuming the local culture until their is nothing left and then moving on.

23 #11 & #12 - my son relocated from Clownifornia to D/FW a year and a half ago.  Absolutely NO WORK from Redding to Modesto for a stone mason/brick layer.  He got to D/FW on a Saturday, made THREE telephone calls for jobs on Monday; had TWO interviews on Tuesday and began WORKING on Wednesday.  And he has not had a work day off (except vacation time) since.  His truck now has Texas plates and a bumpersticker that reads: "I'm Not From Here But I Got Here As Fast As I Could!"

24 I am so damn proud of the moron horde.  Job well done.  Continue the fight!

New article about all the nasty stuff written about Matthew "Julio" Yglesias' book The Rent Is Too Damn High.  We are at 235 1 star reviews.  Bless you.

Click on my name.

25 I simply do not see the breakthrough with Hispanics that is constantly being predicted by GOP analysts

I remember when we used to hear the same things about blacks.  "We have to speak to their issues."  By which was meant, we have to surrender the plain English of the Constitution and the most fundamental precepts of equality before the law and go along with quotas. 

Funny thing is that it wouldn't have mattered.  Pandering and giving away free stuff beats simple pandering.  And Dems will always give away more free stuff than we will. 

26

Happy Place has tipped their hand and will now be deleted from my FB news feed. It was nice knowing you, but all good things come to an end when a libtard enters the room.

RE: The Rush Limbaugh "funny" they put out today.

27 16 We need to face reality: Startingaround 2032 demographic realities will prevent any Republican from being elected President, as the white voting share will fall under 60%. I know that sounds harsh, but I simply do not see the breakthrough with Hispanics that is constantly being predicted by GOP analysts. Posted by: Chris at March 07, 2012 07:11 PM

What law was cast into stone that the Republican party must exist, or the Democrat party for that matter

The Dems are a collection of special interest rent seekers, many who do not like each other very much.

Politics like nature abhors a vacuum, and a new party would spring up to meet the demand

The Dems need the Republican party more than voters do, because they need a common enemy. For those Dems wishing for the death of the GOP, be careful what you wish for

28 Quick! Wall off CA before it's too late!

29  The obvious answer is to encourage the productive class to leave, but as we have seen with states like
Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and parts of Texas, these transplants bring their liberal/dysfunctional/destructive ideology with them.

It is essentially like the Borg, subsuming the local culture until their is nothing left and then moving on.

Posted by: McLovin at March 07, 2012 07:14 PM (j0IcY)

 

--------------------------------------------

 

I agree with your assessment.  We're starting to get these people in OK too.  Perhaps it's time to not only fence off our borders, but start fencing off states too.

30 Californicate yourself out here. best thing they produce is Hanger 1 Vodka and a great example of the left gone bad syndrome. Libbies turned over the keys to the state to Fuckstein and her ilk...I just want to put on the Mr rogers sweater and pull the covers over my head almost everyday, if it was not for my large breasted fiance, I would move....''

31 After driving out the old industrial base (auto and airplane assembly, for example), air and water regulators and tax policies are now driving out the high-tech, biotech and even Internet-based companies that were supposed to be California's future.


You can add the movie industry to that. The other major industry that will close up shop is agriculture, once the greens dry up the central valley its done for. Who does this hurt the most...immigrants. I live in a red district, well used to, its been redrawn, in California the democrats made sure there are no more pockets of conservatives. In their mind the democratic majority should be equal in every district, we have a liberal moving into our district just to run for it. btw the dirty little secret of internet companies is that they employ very few people, they are very lean which means they can move easily and don't improve the govt. balance sheets that much.

32 CA has been losing working people and businesses for the past two decades. If it were not for illegally counting illegals by the Census bureau they would have already lost a lot of congress critters.

33

Can't leave because attempting a career change, at this time and age, could be disastrous for my family. Watching the state devolve is agonizing, though, as documented here by Hedgecock and by Victor Hansen. They do not exagerate in the slightest about what is happening here.

I was lucky enough to have been here during part of California's golden age in the 60's. It was sweet.

34 28 Quick! Wall off CA before it's too late! Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 07, 2012 07:16 PM (eHIJJ) It was too late a long, long time ago. Most of the nastiness coming out of California now moved *IN* 20, 30, or 40 years ago. California wasn't always like this. Besides, a lot of the people fleeing are the productive ones, you *want* them to come. Places like Detroit show that the *last* people to leave are the hucksters and the sponges.

35 > 7 So, what's off on the wildfire comment? I know one of them was started by a "tortilla warmer" in NorCal. Posted by: Clutch Cargo You can read the comment to mean that -A- fire killed 100s of people. It was all the fires, some started by illegals - some not, that killed that many.

36 I still live in a small sane part of SoCal, San Diego.  I don't know how much longer I can hold out here.  Damn shame too, it's a beautiful city.

37 > 21 He left out the farming, except for the pot farms, that have been shut down. Posted by: huerfano A lot of rain in recent months. The Central valley will collapse the NEXT time they need irrigation that would deprive some fish in Sacramento.

38 There were complaints during the statewide fires in 2007 that emergency workers had not gone far enough into the canyons to make sure that the illegal camps were evacuated. Besides not knowing where they camp and the fact that the canyons were funnels of fire, some group actually made complaints about that.

39 Excellent post over at NRO: Winning By Jay Nordlinger Have you noticed that, when Romney wins, he can’t quite win? I mean, his victories are spun as losses, or not-good-enough wins. He wins New Hampshire, and everyone says, “Own backyard. Neighboring state. Spent a lot.” He wins Florida, and they say, “Spent a lot. Was mean to Newt.” Wins Nevada, and they say, “Lotsa Mormons.” Wins Michigan, and they say, “Home state, whaddya want? Should’ve won by more.” Wins Arizona, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, they say, “No big deal. Doesn’t really count.” Wins Ohio, and they say, “Squeaker!” A reader of ours writes, “When Newt won South Carolina, why did no one say it was ‘in his own backyard’? When Rick was campaigning in Ohio, why did no one point out it was a ‘neighboring state’ of Pennsylvania? Why is Romney’s wipeout win in Massachusetts less impressive than Newt’s plurality win in Georgia?” Etc.

40

No job is too small to escape the regulators. The state has even banned weekend amateur gold miners from the historic gold mining streams in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

and not only 'weekend' miners; look up Joseph Hardesty or The Big Cut Mine in El Dorado County, CA - guy is being targeted for USING HIS OWN F*ING PROPERTY!

41 I moved from L.A. to FL 20 months ago. Miss the scenery but that's about it. Still have the beaches, warm weather, and things to do here. Don't miss the awful traffic, crumbling roads, earthquakes, wildfires, or the enormous cost of living

It won't get any better in my lifetime. If and when I go back it'll be as a tourist. The drive from LA to SF on the PCH is still something to remember forever

42 The way I read it they discovered these "plantations" of illegals because of at least one of them started a campfire that turned into a wildfire, otherwise most of the public wouldn't even know that these large encampments of illegals existed.

Granted, it's somewhat poorly phrased but that's what I got out of it.  The real problem with wildfires is California has pretty much regulated the timber industry out of existence - as a result there is no one to clear out the forests of old growth, the stuff builds up on the floor and you've got kindling galore.

As a result, any little spark - just looking at it crosseyed, and before you know it you've got a serious wildfire on your hands. 

43 I moved there from my conservative well run state... I lasted a year and a half. The stupidity in California is shocking coming from a state that is well run. From the schools to the environmental nutcases to the illegals freaking everywhere....the sheer waste of money that Gov spends...... it was eye opening. They even had Maria Shriver doing commercials on how to get your free shit from the gubermint. Gorgeous beautiful state with perfect weather.. but no way in hell would I ever go back.

44 28 Quick! Wall off CA before it's too late! Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 07, 2012 07:16 PM (eHIJJ) I keep waiting for the oft-promised Big One to make it drop off into the ocean. Remember all the predictions of The Big Earthquake back in th 70's?

45 I still live in a small sane part of SoCal, San Diego.

Tell me about it.

I was just explaining to one of my high school buddies (in Texas) that the idjits on my Facebook page were my wife's East Coast buddies, and the sane ones were the Californians.

The state ain't dead yet.

(Speaking of ... Calguns has a 2nd Amendment suit in the 9th Circuit and was accepting donations, the last time I looked.)

46

My half-assed brother still lives in Jamul, outside Sandy Ego. He loves that place, but won't be around much longer. Him, not the city.

 

He used to tell me all about living there and how things "were done right." I wonder what he has to say now?

47 6 It's really hard to take this column seriously when there's a completely unnecessary (and wholly misleading) shot at Rick Perry smack dab in the middle of it.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Y-not at March 07, 2012 07:07 PM (5H6zj)


As a Californian, I see it more of a shot at our own state.   We have so much of a heart that we're willing to spend "the rich" into bankruptcy.  

"What do you mean I'm rich?   I'm not part of the 1%!"

48

Posted by:Mpfs We are all Breitbart at March 07, 2012 07:15 PM (iYbLN)

 

Yglesias mentions the iStore in his tweet as a place with only on-topic reviews.  Is there any way to message bomb it as well?

 

 

Sorry if I messed up your full name MPFS, I had to delete and rewrite because of the link.

49 A 2nd Amendment Case?  In the 9th Circuit?  Good luck with that, The 9th Circuit makes Sean Penn look conservative.

50 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

51 "They all came here and they ruined my home and I have to flee to another country or some frozen tundra of a state."

More than welcome to join us here in the heartland anytime runningrebel.  Granted it does get a bit chilly in the winter and we do get some snow on occasion, but hey, once that darn global warming thing finally kicks in we'll have California style climate in no time.. lol..

52 A 2nd Amendment Case? In the 9th Circuit? Good luck with that, The 9th Circuit makes Sean Penn look conservative.

You don't have to win. You just have to have enough money to keep fighting to the next level.

53

I'm happy to hear that your move was a good one for you, kbdabear. You were smart to make it.

Just don't know how long circumstances will force my family to stay while things go to hell around us.

54

You can see Mexico and the Pacific Ocean from by half-bro's place. The last time I was out there in 2001, we'd walk his property and kick rocks. He said that illegals would form them to point other illegals in the right direction.

 

I told him then that Kaliforneea was a beautiful place, but I wouldn't give him two cents for the politics there.

55

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 07, 2012 07:27 PM (R5yLq)

 

Stuck!  Any updates?

56 What can I say?  I like the topography, the weather, the cultural and recreational opportunities (we have one of the best vintage dance scenes in the world), the weed is abundant and 'shrooms (which I don't do, but could) grow in the parks.  Hopefully things will balance out down the road when the Chinese reach critical mass.

57 Pi[11 Last weekend, counted nine California plates in the Randall's parking lot, Austin, TX Yup, they're coming. I'm not sure it isn't better to keep them all ghettoized in one state to minimize the damage. Posted by: pep at March 07, 2012 07:11 PM (6TB1Z) Not to worry: those of us who are coming do NOT like the liberal mess that California has become. In fact, Austin may be too liberal for me.

58 I am so damn proud of the moron horde. Job well done. Continue the fight!

New article about all the nasty stuff written about Matthew "Julio" Yglesias' book The Rent Is Too Damn High. We are at 235 1 star reviews. Bless you.

Click on my name.

Posted by: mpfs, WeAreBREITBART at March 07, 2012 07:15 PM (iYbLN)

Couldn't post a review yesterday, said there were some tech issues. Just put it up now, hopefully Amazon doesn't reject it! Is 'bong hits' allowed?

59 This is how solid and irrevocable the Democrat hold on California is Governor: Democrat Democrats hold all eight of the statewide constitutional offices Mayors: 7 out of 10 of the largest cities are Democrat: 70% State Senate: 25-15 Democrat: 62.5% State Assembly: 52-28 Democrat: 65% US House: Of the 53 seats Democrats hold 34: 64% US Senate: Democrats hold both seats. Board of Equalization: Democrats hold 3 of the 5 seats on this board that are responsible for tax collection and fee administration among other responsibilities. It's go time productive class! It's only going to get worse.

60 A large portion of CA's economy is the ports of Oakland and Los Angeles. Right now it's the only economically viable ports for containerships coming from Asia (other than Puget Sound)

So Sacramento figures they can squeeze freight haulers with ruinous EPA regs, high fees, and union extortion of course

Once the Panama Canal widening is complete in 2014, a lot of rectums in Sacramento will be puckering as a shitload of cargo business lands in the ports of Houston and New Orleans. Tampa and Charleston would reap the rewards too if they started dredging now, but they won't spend the money at this point.  Don't know about Savannah

61

Any refugees from the People's Republic of Kalifornia are welcome down here in the Sunshine State.

 

Alligator is fine eatin'...

62 Yes, I can vouch for all this. I have lived in California since I came out here to go to school in 1970, and then married my husband, who works for the US Navy out here.

I hate the place. I am as conservative as Rush Limbaugh, and I would love to get out, but I am pinned here by a house I can't sell.

Believe me, if I ever come to Texas, you won't get any loony liberal ideas from me. It is really disheartening to know, even before I walk into the voting booth, that everything I am for is going to go down to defeat.

63 "Stuck! Any updates?"

Apart from his iron balls accidentally getting magnetised and erasing his hard drive? That would suck if it happened

64

"I hate the place. I am as conservative as Rush Limbaugh, and I would love to get out, but I am pinned here by a house I can't sell."

 

Just do what everyone else does these days, file for some gub'mint program to have it paid for and get out.

 

These are the end days, unless of course there is a Great Awakening in November.

65 A few of the ONT regulars moved out recently, y-not to Utah and sifty to Idaho. When sifty got back to us about a week after living in Idaho, he sounded like a Soviet defector amazed at all the freedom in America

66

Well, being optimistic, we do have unlimited opportunities to be as Breitbarty as we want, all day long, where ever we go.

No shortage of those daily situations here.

67 Tampa and Charleston would reap the rewards too if they started dredging now, but they won't spend the money at this point
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The idiots here are trying to get the feds to finance the dredging in Charleston. meanwhile they are financing that worthless free way from NC to Myrtle Beach that doesn't go through any SC towns.

68

kbdabear, are you in Central FL?

69 Left West Los Angeles for Dallas at the beginning of 2003 and haven't looked back... Being around LA liberals for 5 years turned me from a moderate to a conservative and I knew I had to escape before the state imploded ...

70

They all came here and they ruined my home and I have to flee to another country or some frozen tundra of a state.

 

Posted by: runninrebel at March 07, 2012 07:31 PM (N/1Dm)

 

Native Californian here, too, sick about what has happened to my beloved state, and thoroughly pissed at having to leave to escape the liberal Goetterdammerung in the making.

 

Our house goes on the market Friday.

71 62 kbdabear,
 
The port in Gulfport MS is undergoing a major expansion right now.
 
Hurry up, Panama.

72 75 kbdabear, are you in Central FL? Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 07, 2012 07:46 PM

Sarasota

73 The 9th Circus Coart has gone "both ways" on gun cases, but they seem to be willing to go Pro-2nd Amendment if the case is well-brought - like Nordyke. Calguns Foundation has won a number of cases in the state. CA is less anti-gun than it was 20 years ago, though there are some *catastrophically* bad laws here, and corrupt agencies are almost a worse problem. Most of the state *geographically* is shall-issue for CCW. The two big population centers are literally defying court orders on the subject. Also, LA isn't going to fall into the sea. The fault movement isn't West or down, it's North. Few score million years, all that shit will be Canada's problem.

74 Native Californian here, too, sick about what has happened to my beloved state, and thoroughly pissed at having to leave to escape the liberal Goetterdammerung in the making. Our house goes on the market Friday. Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2012 07:51 PM (goqAN) I am able to appreciate why you may not want to move but you should. you have the right to move freely about the country as you desire and the ability to leave if your state hates you and what you stand for - as well as your decision to exercise that right - is important for the nation. they are not gonna change.

75 "Also, LA isn't going to fall into the sea. The fault movement isn't West or down, it's North. Few score million years, all that shit will be Canada's problem."

Also also, there's talk the Big One will hit Cascadia. It's Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver which will take it in the ass.

76 Updates?  Yup.. a couple.  Most of the day was pretty quiet, I had lunch off site with my supervisor today - she has a friend who has a friend in HR and she was let in on some of the more interesting doings as a result.

Now this is all coming third hand of course and I can't confirm any of it, but apparently the scuttlebutt from the HR department is as follows.  The lady that I talked to yesterday, the one the Managing Director told me to work with directly, well it turns out she's the one who normally handles employee conflicts and complaints.  She should have been the one I dealt with from the get go, but according to this unnamed source in HR the Director had heard about the incident in the lunch room before che-boy's supervisor complained, and told the lady I'm dealing with now that she would handle it.

I guess that didn't sit all that well with the lady who's job it was to take care of this sort of thing, and when she found out how the Director had handled it she got very upset.  I don't know this lady myself, just met her yesterday, but from what my supervisor heard she is very much by the book and had it gone through her things probably would have been handled very, very differently.

So, a few other interesting items to note.  No one in HR has a clue who sent the email.  Much like our "generic" accounts in my department they can only be accessed from in house, they can't be accessed from outside via webmail.  The email was sent out after the department was closed, so the mystery deepens there.

The source in HR said that the Director and 3 of the "higher ups" in the HR department had a conference call with the Managing Director pretty much as soon as they walked in the door.  In fact if the source is correct the Director walked in on the call 15 minutes late because she was late for work that morning, so 3 of her upper management on the HR team were already on the phone with the Managing Director when she finally showed up.

I guess the Managing Director started ripping her a new one, not only for being late but of course about how my "case" was handled.  Supposedly the HR Director tried to defend herself by claiming that I was belligerent, argumentative, and that I had even screamed at her several times during our meeting.

The Managing Director wasn't buying it though, apparently she'd had plenty of time on the phone with the other HR ladies who had already confirmed that none of them had heard me raise my voice throughout the entire meeting.

So according to my source at least, the HR Director was fired on the spot.  I guess they keeping it quiet for now at least until the Managing Director can get back into town and deal with it personally.

It was all quiet on the Western Front other than that though.  I was glad to get out of there for lunch - it's just weird being in the cafeteria and having it be that damn quiet, especially since it isn't that quiet until I walk in.

As for Che-boy and the che-ettes, I did see them today but they are avoiding me like the plague, as are pretty much all the folks in there little clique. 

So not a whole ton to report today, but it was interesting to say the least.

77 Oh, ya, almost forgot.. Barney Fief says hi.. lol

78 The port in Gulfport MS is undergoing a major expansion right now.

Hurry up, Panama.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 07, 2012 07:53 PM

Mayor Tony and his SEIU buddies are putting major squeezes on the Port of Los Angeles, and Sacramento is putting such heavy EPA regulations on trucks on top of the huge operating costs that many are saying they'll go out of business or leave the state. Other carriers may turn down CA hauls, They do now when the Central Valley isn't in harvest season

Once the shippers figure they'll save tons of money skipping CA and going on to the Gulf, be ready to see lots of job openings in Gulfport. Well, relative to other places if the SCOAMF stays in the WH

79 Thanks for sharing your story, SoS.   Two scalps and counting? 

80 The person who runs the port of la is pretty green oriented she forced many of the truckers to change to become more environmentally friendly. Plus they have a huge not in my back yard problem with some very vocal locals.

81 SOS, when is your meeting with the MD? Sounds like the HR bint got what she earned.

82 But hey, at least we governed by such an entertaining class complete fuckwits like Lockyer's wife and Sheriff Mirkarimi.

83 It sounds like Illinois minus the mountains

84 I keep waiting for the oft-promised Big One to make it drop off into the ocean.



When I lived out there the joke was that when the Big One came, everything east of CA would slide off into the Atlantic.  Not so funny now.

85 I was born and raised in California. I bailed at the young age of 34...not so many years ago, and as much as I miss the state's amazing natural beauty, I'll not go back, not even to visit, if I can avoid it. Too many good memories will be dashed on the rocks of reality, and the good memories of my childhood I still have left, I prefer to keep unsullied. Well...those that I can. It's recently come to my attention that if I attempt to throw a Nerf Frisby on certain Socal beaches, I can face a fine of up to 1000 dollars.

Sigh.

86 " SOS, when is your meeting with the MD? Sounds like the HR bint got what she earned."

Friday morning.  I guess I'll know more for sure then, but in the meantime I'll keep you folks up to date on anything of note that happens between now and then.  I'm not 100% certain the HR Director got bounced, but I'd say I'm like 99% sure, I only have one unconfirmed 3rd party source but from what I've heard of the MD - well, it certainly doesn't surprise me.

87 Ok, I get the 'off damn sock' thingy now.

88 So, I had a "fun" facebook encounter with a liberal (now former) friend and his gaggle of idiots.

Jackass posted something about the whole birth control fiasco.  To which replied that no-one should be forced to pay for anyone else's birth control.

Well, that shit got out of hand in a hurry.  I tried my best to keep things on the topic and point of "it's not actually about birth control", and didn't call anyone any names.  I got called ignorant once.

Then the guy who *originally* posted it (mind, this is several hours later, and about 30 posts in) comes in and A) apologizes *for me* and B) accuses me of being disrepectful and mean C) demands that I delete all my posts in the thread or, and I quote, "you'll be deleted" (I figure he meant he'd delete my posts himself, but lol).

to which I replied "I *have* been being respectful, I haven't once called any one of your friends ignorant, like your friend did to me.  I won't back down on anything I said, and I don't *need* friends that cannot take honest criticism of their positions.

I then defriended the douche. Not sure if I should have done that bit, or if I could have had a  better response.  But that's my little bit of not bowing to the libs for the day/week (probably week).

Just wanted to get that off my chest a bit, because I'm still pretty damned annoyed.

89 And you know what, I'm thinking that, after the experiences with the trolls here earlier, maybe I'll write a little thing for firefox that'll allow you to filter out posts by hashtag.  That way trolls could get ignored, without even having to read over their names.

90 I am able to appreciate why you may not want to move but you should. you have the right to move freely about the country as you desire and the ability to leave if your state hates you and what you stand for - as well as your decision to exercise that right - is important for the nation. they are not gonna change.

 

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 07, 2012 07:58 PM (Z9EHQ)

 

Yep, it's not easy, but we're leaving CA for AZ this summer. CA does hate us, and what stand for (or rather they love us, and what we stand for to them, which is money they can extract from us to pay for bullshit social spending). We are interviewing realtors, and my wife is literally setting up the last interview as I type here.

 

It's stressful as hell to be out of sync with everyone else, and know that in every instance they'll be trying to figure out a way to stick it up your ass. It's like SoS's problem (btw, well done, SoS!), but on a low-level chronic scale (instead of his acute flare-up). CA views productive, taxpaying citizens as drayhorses, from whom Democrat politicians can extract cash to give sweetheart contracts to the public sector unions, which then kick back some of the money to the politicians' campaigns. It's totally corrupt, and infuriating.

 

Forty years ago CA was nothing like this, but since then the liberal infestation has grown apace, and now we're Red as anywhere. I'm worried that AZ, TX, etc. will become infected in time too. I had one ultra liberal friend say he was thinking of moving to AZ too, which pissed me off. He voted for all this crap, over and over, and now that he's got his way, he doesn't like it. But has he learned, and then vote differently in AZ? Of course not.

91 He usually scoffs at my prepper-talk since he's firmly in the "it can't happen here" mindset, but this time he listened.

 

Posted by: runninrebel at March 07, 2012 08:20 PM (N/1Dm)

 

You'll like this one. A friend of mine scoffs at my concerns re CA, saying it'll always be wealthy because we've got the weather and the ocean.

 

I replied, "Oh, you mean like Baja?"

 

End of discussion.

92 I left Idaho to take a job in LA in '99. The whole place crashed in '08 and I felt fortunate to be able to come back to my old job in Idaho.

When people ask about my time down there I just say it's a shithole with nice weather. I've been meaning to try to hook up with sifty because I know he lives within 10 miles of me, but I never seem to hit the right ONT.

93 And you know what, I'm thinking that, after the experiences with the trolls here earlier, maybe I'll write a little thing for firefox that'll allow you to filter out posts by hashtag. That way trolls could get ignored, without even having to read over their names.

There's a Greasemonkey script that does that.

94 #104

See, I knew I should ask before writing the dozen or so lines of JS.  Thanks!

95 It is essentially like the Borg, subsuming the local culture until their is nothing left and then moving on.

Posted by: McLovin at March 07, 2012 07:14 PM (j0IcY)

 

Except the Borg have a fucking sense of humor compared to the leftards here in California.

96 Hey, StuckOnStupid. Would you like to make a post about your inicident? If you don't have posting priviliges, write it up, email it to me and I'll post it for you. A story that carrys over mutiple threads on multiple days must have wide interest.

97

In 2011, including all combined income taxes (SS, Medicare, state, federal), the effective marginal income tax rate on a self-employed plumber living in California earning $70,000 was 53.5% (12.3%+2.9%+10.3%+28%). 

98 #104 bah, looks like the site that hosted the script and instructions is not available.

Maybe I'll just do one.  It shouldn't be that hard.

99

It's recently come to my attention that if I attempt to throw a Nerf Frisby on certain Socal beaches, I can face a fine of up to 1000 dollars.

Sigh.

Dwarf tossing however, has not yet been explicitly outlawed. So there's that.

100 > Oh, you mean like Baja? Thread Winner (posted on twitter)

101

I'm not sure how it's going to shake out but the nastiest faction without a doubt will be the public employees.

 

Posted by: runninrebel at March 07, 2012 08:45 PM (N/1Dm)

 

Maybe, but my bet is on the feral underclass that the public employees will loose upon the citizenry. We're seeing signs of this already, for example in Oakland, which has (IIRC) 40+ offenses to which the police will not bother to respond. (Think that nugget has escaped the attention of Oakland's ... uh ... "Democrats?") The parallels to the late Roman Empire are striking. Rome, too, ran out of money to pay for its defense, and then it was Hello, Goths!

102 bah, looks like the site that hosted the script and instructions is not available.

Maybe I'll just do one. It shouldn't be that hard.

You can still get the script from userscripts.org, no instructions but it's not too hard to figure out from what's in the code.

103 So many of my friends have left CA in the past ten years. Couldn't really figure out why, but it's just that they saw it coming and got out.

Now I see. Went to a condo complex and looked it over--about 10% of the places are bank owned. No telling how many more are "distressed."  Cataclysmic fuck up from our government.

It's really a third world situation, economy as well as ethnically. Diversity is fine, except that CA encourages them specifically not to assimilate. Immigrants brought down the crooked Bell pols, but they are swimming against a big tide.

104 Stuck, thanks for the update.  Sounds like everything is calming down.

I'd give my left font to know who sent that e-mail, though.

105 the HR Director was fired on the spot.

Ahahahahaha!!!  You are my hero, SoS!  Although I hope the scalp you now have on your belt won't add too much weight.  You are already lugging around those giant bawls . . . 

106 I missed something somewhere, SOS (or anyone else that knows).  What e-mail does this refer to?


No one in HR has a clue who sent the email. Much like our "generic" accounts in my department they can only be accessed from in house, they can't be accessed from outside via webmail. The email was sent out after the department was closed, so the mystery deepens there.

107

I live in extreme northern ca. Modoc County.

Last I recall, we have about 25000 people here.

Total for the County.

We have 26 or 27 CHP road cops running full time.

Fed cops, and this includes USFS, BLM,  I would estimate at 20 to Thirty positions...

County cops at prolly 8 to 12 positions..

City cops total must be 6 or seven.

And all of the supporting "Team Work" that now goes on to enforce THE LAW.

Did I mention a few Game Wardens here too?

This is California.

108 I missed something somewhere, SOS (or anyone else that knows). What e-mail does this refer to?

That's the FWD that was sent out later on Mon night after hours from "the inside".

109 42 I moved from L.A. to FL 20 months ago.... Don't miss the ... earthquakes.... Good luck with hurricanes bro.

110

@108

 

What the hell are we paying Ace and the cob loggers for?  You guys should collect the posts by SoS and have a.....

 

The Ballad of Stuck on Stupid

 

maga post that has it's very own thread.  It will be legendary!  Epic!    

111 Holy crap. The iBooks store description of Yglesias book indicates a print equivalent of 80 pages. And he has the nerve to ask $4 for this collection of recycled columns?

There is a whopping 14 reviews there. Compared to the Kindle store, Apple's share of e-books sales is almost a rounding error.

112 And on the Nook store he has a whopping two reviews. Both from sycophants.

113 You all want to yield CA to the libtards? They will soak you for the bad debts the state gov't racks up through a federal bailout, so you'll subsidize it without having any voice in stopping it. Instead of moving out you should send reinforcements so we can reclaim it. We few (we happy few) are still fighting here, but encouragement and hope of eventual relief from fellow conservatives would be cool. Retreat is not an option for some of us. We have to fight where we stand. Remember that when you say "fuck all those CA 'conservatives'"

114 Hey Californicators... You will not want to come to Florida. Haven't you heard of the intolerable humidity and the mosquitos as big as parrots? Stay away! That goes for the Massholes and New Yuckers too.