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BERKELEY SLAMMED
Just as happened in Telluride, conservative counter-protests are quietly underway in Berkeley:
The city’s recent dustup with the U.S. Marine Corps has so far cost the city more than $200,000, while businesses say they’ve been slammed by related protests ...
An Oregon Ducks football fan club and a Lafayette golf club are among the groups that have canceled junkets to Berkeley this fall ... A San Diego resort developer said he canceled three contracts with Berkeley suppliers and has persuaded other businesses to follow suit.
One advantage of being on the right: we’ve got the money. And we can withdraw it.
I’m shocked that a Ducks fan group would do that. Their collegiate stereotype is that of the “University of California at Eugene”. The campus is infested with dreadlocked white guys and women with braided leg hair.
Posted by Ernst Blofeld on 2008 04 05 at 09:23 PM • permalinkFrom the halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli,
We fight our country’s battles
In the air, on land, and sea.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 05 at 10:13 PM • permalink“Other such duties as assigned” has always been characteristic of Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children. An unofficial additional verse of the Marine’s Hymn, written by an officer about 1912, gives voice to this reality:
From the pesthole of Cavite
To the Ditch at Panama,
You will find them very needful
Of Marines, that’s what we are.
He’s the guardian of the pile of coal
Or he digs a magazine.
Though he lends a hand at every job
Who would not be a Marine?Posted by Michael Lonie on 2008 04 05 at 10:34 PM • permalinkAnother student of life, Clooney comedy fumbles at box office.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 05 at 11:41 PM • permalink#9, Hucbald, I gotta see a motorcycle race there one of these days, fer sure.
I’m apparently mistaken that Tasmanian Ambrose will road race at Infineon. I heard he’d do the “Sprint Cup” (formerly Nextel, formerly Winston) road races, but no. Or maybe. I don’t know.
At most, I’ll do a slow cruise up Telegraph from my old stomping grounds in Alameda and Oakland ‘til it ends at the San Rafael bridge. No gas, no Slurpees, maybe a salute left behind at the Marine recruiting office and some CO2 from the rental car.
#12 virtue is in the eye of the beholder.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 06 at 12:37 AM • permalinkYou may have the money, but you certainly don’t have the morality.
Well, that’s the Poor And Pure faction heard from. Moving right along…Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 06 at 12:56 AM • permalink#12
You may have the money, but you certainly don’t have the morality.
How is the right immoral, pray tell Gladio? The right support an economic environment which results in everyone being able to find a job instead of relying on taxes to support themselves, which in turn lowers tax rates, lowers crime rates, and boosts our economic prowess in the overseas market. It gives those people a sense of purpose, assists in setting a life routine, and allows that sense of dignity that we all get when we receive our pay for jobs well done.
The left supports an economic environment where those who don’t want to work don’t have to, and therefore rely on taxes which means that those who work for their money lose more of it to the Government. It also leads to a situation where people who don’t want to work eventually become difficult to employ because they don’t have any references from recent history, or they’ve become so entrenched in not working that they’re not fully prepared to return to the work market. Surely this type of economic environment isn’t healthy for Australia or for those on government benefits, or employers.
I know I’d rather support a system that supports people to work for themselves, rather than rely on others. It just seems more moral somehow. Wouldn’t you agree?
#14 to #19
#12 seemed trolley
#20 #21 yesPosted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 06 at 04:19 AM • permalinkWell, he’s got us there hasn’t he? Working, saving and investing is foolish because of the chance of a temporary recession. Better to suck at the welfare breast, it’s recession proof, and besides, “Money is impure unless cleansed by the state.”
Posted by dean martin on 2008 04 06 at 06:47 AM • permalink#25
Me wrong on Michael Lonie but it seems not on Gladio. Andrea will be administrating soon on Gladio. In the meantime have fun. I will watch from the sidelines.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 06 at 06:57 AM • permalinkBefore that aside I was about to comment o/t that the discussion on the Tim Russert show involving himself and Sullivan/Hitchens is priceless.
Particularly to us Australians, where it is impossible to get a host who stays out of it to that extent, but intrudes with good and brief judgement, or to have a balance of guests rather than carefully picked fellow travellers. Sullivan is a fascinating study.
I have never clicked to six parts of such a show before!Went to do some ironing (work tomorrow) and found that instead of “News Radio” I was being treated to a full-throttle re-enactment of Martin Luther King’s last stand in a show called 4.4.68.
Could the ABC keep its dramatic reflexes on Radio National and leave the news network to do, you know, news?
After hearing David Marr on Insiders (just joking, of course!) say that Mal Brough was going to intervene in the QLD Nationals and ban booze and bring them into the societal mainstream ... I have about had my fill of dramatic invention for the day.#40
“...news network to do, you know, news?”
ABC news is like no other.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 06 at 08:29 AM • permalinkYeah, I caught that play too. News Radio ain’t the service it used to be - apart from the breakfast show and the drivetime show it seems to be all foreign news services beamed direct. And mostly the BBC at that.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 06 at 10:13 AM • permalinkTheir collegiate stereotype is that of the “University of California at Eugene”.
Ernest, that’s true enough. But I can assure you that while the faculty hearts Mao, Stalin, Mugabe, Kim, Castro, Pol Pot, and the other mass murders of Socialism, more than a few Oregon natives do not. There are plenty of bona fide American patriots in Oregon.
It’s just that they are actually earning a living, instead of feeding off the public teat through the schools and local government.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 04 06 at 10:50 AM • permalinkAsh_, that is an excellent response to “Gladio”. But I doubt that you’re going to get an honest answer, as “Gladio” assumed his/her moniker from a rather hypocritical source.
Hypocritical in the sense that “Gladio” was part of an anti-communist operational contingency plan, as our “Gladio” seems to heart the left.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 04 06 at 10:58 AM • permalink#4 We on the right, like to make money, not play politics.
Hate to disagree with your disagreement, but we on the right do play politics. We just don’t play dirty.
#6 To protect against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
#8 If Michael is a troll, then he can be assured that the devil dog that wrote that verse is laughing at him, for not getting humor.Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 04 06 at 12:23 PM • permalink#12 You may have the money, but you certainly don’t have the morality.
You mean the morality of murdering babies inside or partially birthed.You mean not supporting state sponsored rape rooms. You mean freeing 50 MILLION people from being fed into wood chippers, mass graves, imprisonment. You mean inoculating 96% of kids under the age of 6 in Iraq, 4,ooo schools, 630 hospitals, 20 universities, FREE elections, a new constitution, ect. Yep, no morality.
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 04 06 at 12:35 PM • permalinkThere are patriots standing up all across our great country. The mainstream media won’t report it. Shameless plug alert. Richard McEnroe and I have done a “support the troops/America” rally every Friday for the last 4 1/2 years against overwhelming numbers of anti-war morons. We don’t surrender and we don’t back down. BTW, “the troops” aren’t just our. Thank you Australia! On my dashboard is a koala holding an American flag in support of your guys.
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 04 06 at 12:49 PM • permalink#31So, er Ash how come the nation that most embodies these right-wing goals, or at least professes to…is on the verge of recession..?
Because a economy that has been going full throttle must slow at some point. It’s the natural. Also, Economics 101. How do you explain recessions under Democrat presidents?
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 04 06 at 01:06 PM • permalinkEverybody knows Carter’s recession wasn’t his fault, or JFK/LBJ’s; it had to all be on that bastid Nixon.
Just as Democrats can apparently go to the same church for twenty years without once hearing the sermon, they can also go four to eight years without making a single economic mistake. For example, it’s obvious the dot-com bubble under Clinton HAD to be the fault of Bush the Elder.
EVERYBODY who’s ANYBODY knows that…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 06 at 01:58 PM • permalinkShameful confession—I’m probably going to see Clooney’s movie today. Two reasons: Rene Zellweiger playing a wisecracking dame and George Clooney gets punched many times in the face while reminding us how much Hollywood misses Cary Grant…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 06 at 02:00 PM • permalinkGladio proclaimed:
So, er Ash how come the nation that most embodies these right-wing goals, or at least professes to…is on the verge of recession..?
If you mean the United States of America, perhaps you’d like to back up the “verge of recession” claim. Mind you, a recession is two consecutive quarters of falling gross domestic product, not because you want it to be.
Well?
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2008 04 07 at 12:04 PM • permalink
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“...we’ve got the money.” Well that’s the stereotype. But what of Billary’s tax returns?
Anyway, what money I’ve got won’t be spent in Berkeley. I have frequent business in the area (Bay Area), and as a one-person microcosm, I’ll stick to Livermore (the labs) and Sears Point (Infineon Raceway) where Marcos Ambrose will race in the premiere NASCAR series this June.