tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post8683958338021583877..comments2023-09-15T04:27:57.129-04:00Comments on Commentarama: I Dare You Not To Raise TaxesAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-72332691164407962232011-01-14T23:58:28.089-05:002011-01-14T23:58:28.089-05:00T-Rav: I have to admit New Madrid had one effect ...T-Rav: I have to admit New Madrid had one effect that we've never seen. Sand geysers. We've been too busy dodging rocks and houses.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-536609051918068692011-01-14T22:52:54.277-05:002011-01-14T22:52:54.277-05:00LawHawk, I look forward to my time in the future h...LawHawk, I look forward to my time in the future hypothetical Republic of Caliente. <br /><br />Faults seem pretty much a dime a dozen in CA; all I know is one of them's sure to drop everything off in the ocean sooner or later. I say we Missourians still win, though. I sit on some great bottomland soil, underneath of which is a giant underground lake, and when our Big One hits it'll push all the water up through the dirt. They tell us when it hits, we've got 20 minutes to get out of Dodge and then we're screwed. St. Louis and Memphis will come off even worse. Oh well, this place ain't much to look at even as it is.T_Ravnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-17404905371969495292011-01-14T21:45:39.518-05:002011-01-14T21:45:39.518-05:00T_Rav: I had a temporary brain aneurysm and could...T_Rav: I had a temporary brain aneurysm and couldn't remember the exact name of the earthquake fault that's going to send California (or at least Los Angeles) on a <i>bon voyage</i>. It's the Puente Hills fault, discovered only in 1999. It's a blind-thrust fault, and though it's not as active as the San Andreas, when it goes (every 11,000 years or so), it's a real beaut.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-29551208388714210522011-01-14T20:26:12.364-05:002011-01-14T20:26:12.364-05:00Tehachapi Tom: Can we leave the welfare slums of ...Tehachapi Tom: Can we leave the welfare slums of Bakersfield in California?LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-69927472490872354212011-01-14T20:25:13.505-05:002011-01-14T20:25:13.505-05:00T-Rav: The more the merrier. We'll be like S...T-Rav: The more the merrier. We'll be like Switzerland. No minarets, surrounded by social welfare states, and we put everyone else's money in our banks.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-55539765024126282242011-01-14T20:23:20.928-05:002011-01-14T20:23:20.928-05:00WriterX: And then we'll get to see the magnif...WriterX: And then we'll get to see the magnificent spectacle of them trying to tax each other because there's nobody else left to tax.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-91790695178795459422011-01-14T19:17:22.566-05:002011-01-14T19:17:22.566-05:00Hawk
Maybe we could get the whole County of Kern t...Hawk<br />Maybe we could get the whole County of Kern to secede from the fiscal lunacy.<br />I'll nominate you as Grand Potentate.<br />We could support the whole county by selling oil and almonds to the rest of North America. Raise our own crops and livestock mint our own money and thrive.Tehachapi Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-22817038364225387022011-01-14T19:08:30.110-05:002011-01-14T19:08:30.110-05:00LawHawk, if I move to California, will you annex m...LawHawk, if I move to California, will you annex me? Because then I could get the undeniably beautiful scenery without the idiotic politics.T_Ravnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-10818976638769180942011-01-14T18:52:04.685-05:002011-01-14T18:52:04.685-05:00Yes, the CA and ILL legislatures have done such a ...Yes, the CA and ILL legislatures have done such a great job of managing the money so far, why not give them more?! I feel sorry for the people of CA (and Illinois) but they elect these idiots. Pretty soon the only people who will be living in these states are the politicians who are bankrupting them.Writer Xnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-56947779731467502742011-01-14T18:10:32.467-05:002011-01-14T18:10:32.467-05:00Tennessee: We'd have to win over New York, Il...Tennessee: We'd have to win over New York, Illinois and the other big blue states. And since they're all joined together at the hip for fiscal suicide, it would be a difficult task. But in the event that Kahleefourneeah should get ejected, I'll already have seceded and sought statehood for my State of Caliente. That way, the United States loses a blue state and gets a red one (with a lot fewer electoral votes, however).LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-65985881199508871062011-01-14T16:40:28.514-05:002011-01-14T16:40:28.514-05:00Hawk - good post. I realize you would have to move...Hawk - good post. I realize you would have to move again, but do you think there would be support for kicking Kahleefourneeyah out of the union?Tennessee Jedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10604275115906776992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-32599784283785742552011-01-14T16:26:53.075-05:002011-01-14T16:26:53.075-05:00Stan: I have my own well, lots of land and a clea...Stan: I have my own well, lots of land and a clear shot from every direction. I'll just raise my own crops (good thing I like corn), milk the cows that wander across my lower property, and have lots of blackbird pie. I haven't yet decided if the Hawk's Nest is going to secede from California. LOLLawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-40512483780581116032011-01-14T16:13:18.864-05:002011-01-14T16:13:18.864-05:00Aw…come on Hawk, don’t you know it’s for the child...Aw…come on Hawk, don’t you know it’s for the children. <br /><br />It’s like every ruling class mother in California dropped their kids on their heads simultaneously, 50 to 70 years ago causing the inability for reasoned thought in Sacramento. The good news, it will be a wonderful object study for the rest of the country, the bad news, you have to be there.StanHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07395708786509590321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-5881620251063865412011-01-14T15:27:51.167-05:002011-01-14T15:27:51.167-05:00T_Rav: Gillespie is one of my favorites. He'...T_Rav: Gillespie is one of my favorites. He's completely down-to-earth, and though he is a libertarian, he's not a movement libertarian, so much of what he says is just plain good sense.<br /><br />I know what you mean about the UC campuses. Still, both Berkeley and UCLA are top-tier schools which produce an odd combination of know-nothing leftists and great scientists and doctors. Frankly, I'd be perfectly happy to celebrate the closure of the Muslim enclaves at Santa Cruz and Irvine, but closing Berkeley, UCLA and San Diego would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. And Davis should go back to being the best agricultural school in the nation and give up trying to be Berkeley Lite. Of course, since the liberals and ecoweenies have just about done agriculture in California in, I suppose all they can do now is train radicals.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-88813619841517979042011-01-14T14:28:08.992-05:002011-01-14T14:28:08.992-05:00LawHawk, on that note, Nick Gillespie at Reason.tv...LawHawk, on that note, Nick Gillespie at Reason.tv just did a good piece on the Central Valley and all the wonderful things that have happened to it since they saved the poor delta smelt. <br /><br />I've come to care less and less about public education the older I've gotten. I'm in the midst of applying to the Ph.D. program at my university--God help me--but for the first time, I don't think I care that much whether I get accepted or not. In my opinion, too much of grad school is a joke anymore, as are most of the undergrad programs, and it's really more of a hoop to be jumped through than anything. I could think of a lot worse happening than Berkeley or UC-Davis going under, and frankly, I wouldn't consider it the end of the world if my own university had to lose public funding, either. Even if that means it would run out of money for me, I wouldn't be that bothered. (Except I already renewed the lease on my apartment for another year, so I'd be out $3000.)T_Ravnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-64912287198742263342011-01-14T13:02:14.889-05:002011-01-14T13:02:14.889-05:00Tehachapi Tom: Yep. That's it. I'm a Ch...Tehachapi Tom: Yep. That's it. I'm a ChickenHawk. The only Californians who run their household budgets properly are the ones paying the bills for the rest of those who don't.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-41204415751173620072011-01-14T13:00:12.634-05:002011-01-14T13:00:12.634-05:00Patti: Never have so many received so much for do...Patti: Never have so many received so much for doing so little. Winston Churchill would be horrified.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-21493018097430587112011-01-14T12:58:41.883-05:002011-01-14T12:58:41.883-05:00T_Rav: We've already had some messy student d...T_Rav: We've already had some messy student demonstrations over tuition increases, and the legislature just did it again for the UC and Cal State University systems. The gimmes want their goodies back. I just received an e-mail from the Cal Alumni Association all indignant because for the first time the private portion of the tuition will be higher than the state contribution. I have no idea how, or if, California is going to get through this one. Of course they could always open up the valves and pumps and let agriculture save them--but that's too easy and too obvious.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-57654459205531908212011-01-14T10:57:12.133-05:002011-01-14T10:57:12.133-05:00Hawk
The liberals will call you Chicken Little, bu...Hawk<br />The liberals will call you Chicken Little, but then they voted for Moonbeam.<br />It just boggles my mind that the people of California don't get it.<br />Do you suppose the majority of Californians operate their own finances the way the state does?<br />Obviously Californians do not learn from history. Last time this guy was Governor he did us no great benefit so it looks like we will loose again.Tehachapi Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-55553658573481975212011-01-14T10:18:53.734-05:002011-01-14T10:18:53.734-05:00So I wonder how long it will be until we see massi...So I wonder how long it will be until we see massive European-style protests in the streets of Sacramento or elsewhere by people who have become addicted to the system and who will scream like four-year-olds when everything finally collapses and their benefits get cut off. All I know is, if the federal government bails out California, I may just calculate how much of my taxes go to it and cut that part out. At which point I will probably pop up on DHS' list of enemies--I mean, list of potential security threats.T_Ravnoreply@blogger.com