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2003-04-21 Home Front

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Posted by mojo 2003-04-21 10:29 am|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let's give 'em a corner of Southern Iraq.

Posted by FormerLiberal 2003-04-21 10:50:05|| 2003-04-21 10:50:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Who the hell is this idiot to think he speaks for "the people of the Bay Area"??? I have to live in this cesspool (due to my career field) and they surely don't speak for me.

Zachy can take his "remedy" and place it VERY far up his own rectum.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-21 11:05:30|| 2003-04-21 11:05:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry, beauzeau. I'm sure that at least ten percent of Californians are unwilling to secede. Ergo, you can't form you socialist ~~republic~~ cruel dictatorship.

Posted by KP 2003-04-21 11:08:33|| 2003-04-21 11:08:33|| Front Page Top

#4 My family and I live in the Bay Area. This fruit-loop bastard doesn't speak for me.

As far as I am concerned, let 'em try it. We are ready.

Posted by penguin 2003-04-21 11:15:39|| 2003-04-21 11:15:39|| Front Page Top

#5 As long as they are truly leaving the United States, there are no objections here in the rest of California.

Please do not pass within 12 miles of the Port of San Diego on your way out, or you will be fired upon.

Posted by Mark IV 2003-04-21 11:35:43|| 2003-04-21 11:35:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Waitaminnit ... Just exactly whom is calling whom an "alien civilization" ?

Posted by dripping sarcasm 2003-04-21 11:48:55|| 2003-04-21 11:48:55|| Front Page Top

#7 I live in the Bay Area and I can say this freak does not speak for many of us, unfortunately his views are shared by far too many for my taste. I have to deal with these idiotarians on a daily basis and it's almost more than I can take at times.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-04-21 12:08:52|| 2003-04-21 12:08:52|| Front Page Top

#8 dripping sarcasm; we use logical reasoning, ergo we are foreign to the moonbats.

Posted by KP 2003-04-21 12:09:44|| 2003-04-21 12:09:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Lets give 'em back to Mexico. See how they like troops armed with automatic weapons patroling the streets. See how they like really corrupt politics. Oh and by the way when they leave the US and California money supply gets shut off too.

Posted by Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire 2003-04-21 12:27:29|| 2003-04-21 12:27:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Bomb-A-Rama, penguin & Rex Mundi: I live out in Antioch. That's about 50 miles away from the city. C'mon out here when the shootin' starts and we'll hold 'em at the border.

:-)

On a serious note - some people just can't stand it. They have to stir the pot and there's all too many people I know who are getting ready to deal with these nutbars when the fecal matter hits the rapidly rotating air oscillation device. Some people actally want revolution and civil war in this country. They'd welcome it. They're on both sides of the issue as well, but the ones over here are a lot more prepared to deal with it if it ever comes.

Posted by FOTSGreg 2003-04-21 12:48:33|| 2003-04-21 12:48:33|| Front Page Top

#11 "I told the geeks that in Omaha, Cleveland, Dallas, Los Angeles or even my native New York City they might be assailed by Americans who now view Germans as an enemy"

The article would have been mildly entertaining but this is rather infamous.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-04-21 13:06:06|| 2003-04-21 13:06:06|| Front Page Top

#12 Apologies to G. Dipshit from the great unwashed, ignorant, intolerant, imbecilic American public. We're sorry, but we seem to have let down our moral and intellectual superiors in the Bay Area once again. We just don't know any better. Again, profuse apologies...

Posted by tu3031 2003-04-21 13:14:55|| 2003-04-21 13:14:55|| Front Page Top

#13 C'mon. Be nice to this nitwit. I got a good fisk out of it.

Posted by Denny 2003-04-21 22:20:38|| [www.grouchyoldcripple.com] 2003-04-21 22:20:38|| Front Page Top

#14 As one who lives in Corte Madera,I wish eveyone of these anti-violence flower toters lost someone close to them in an act of terrorism.Then maybe they would realize how fragile thier little myopic world of peace is.

Posted by Brew 2003-04-21 22:49:30|| 2003-04-21 22:49:30|| Front Page Top

#15 Wow! The Comments From Hell!

Thanks for the back-scratching, guys. Helluv an itch...

And BTW: the quote (if you were wondering) -

"I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!" -- Dark Helmet

Posted by mojo 2003-04-21 23:08:06|| 2003-04-21 23:08:06|| Front Page Top

#16 I am still waiting for Nancy Pelosi to display her parties "outrage" at the awarding of the Bechtel bid... which is HQ'ed in the SF Financial area, right in the heart of her congressional district. That does not sound like the kind of pork her parties "moral compass" would allow her to eat. I would like to see her complain about this big bid being awarded to a company in her ditrict. Might have fundraising implications, but I am sure doing what is right is much more important!

Posted by Capsu78 2003-04-21 13:27:08|| 2003-04-21 13:27:08|| Front Page Top

#17 I say give it a shot. Let Frisco, Berkeley and Marin County hit the bricks. Of course they wouldn't get any money or other support at all after the next big earthquake but I guess all the hippies wouldn't mind that too much. It'd let them get back to nature or something.

Posted by Christopher Johnson 2003-04-21 13:29:27|| [mcj.blogspot.com/] 2003-04-21 13:29:27|| Front Page Top

#18 I here ya FOTSGreg...and thanks for the offer. You know the saying, "Best defense is a good offense". I'm up north in Santa Rosa (about 56 miles out of Baghdad By The Bay), so I've got the Northern Flank covered....you carry the East. When the whack jobs start agitating for their "leibensraum", we drive in from the North and East. They can either head south (Bakersfield?) or end up in the ocean.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-04-21 13:37:50|| 2003-04-21 13:37:50|| Front Page Top

#19 OK guys, when the effluent hits the propeller, you will probably be calling for close air support. As an ex bay area chap (Richmond, Pleasant Hill, Berkeley (almost got a purple heart for riot debris hit)I will heed the call and fly down in my little Cessna 172P. Better give me a few days warning, cause it takes about 2.5 days to get there from Alaska. Heh heh....

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-04-21 14:16:12|| 2003-04-21 14:16:12|| Front Page Top

#20 Hey Formerliberal, the southeastern corner of Iraq has lots of oil. Make sure you give them the southwestern corner, where's there's nothing going on.

Posted by Tibor 2003-04-21 14:38:36|| 2003-04-21 14:38:36|| Front Page Top

#21 Are Canadians allowed to participate?? Hey it's funny how what you regard as a joke, we Canadians have to deal with for real every now and then: Quebec. I can advise you all that in their provincial elections a few days back, the separatists were defeated (they were in power until now). The guy that will become Quebec's premier is a federalist. The seperatists' leader and until now premier of Quebec, made a statement around 9-11 saying something to the effect that 9-11 is what happens when people are driven to desparation and their plight is ignored. This of course was an allusion to Quebec politics vis-a-vis the rest of Canada. Well, it seems he flew into a building himself and became the first casualty of foot-in-mouth disease. This was a sound defeat too, not a 49-51 type of deal.
Some of you may say, if they want to leave, let them! But you see, 80% of the tech industry is in Quebec. Hey, sort of like the Bay Area, right?

Posted by RW 2003-04-21 14:56:20|| 2003-04-21 14:56:20|| Front Page Top

#22 I'm in Newark (CA) myself.
Some things to keep in mind about the Bay Area...
The Digital Division runs Sun hardware.
A lot of guided munitions and aircraft use systems designed by Systron Donner.
VTA trains have a "Lockheed" station.
The engineers who build those "wizard weapons" know exactly what they're used for. They do it because they believe in it.

"Field Poll notwithstanding..."
Sorry, it should have said "Reality not withstanding..."
Seems to me the author is more interested in secceeding from reality.

Posted by Dishman 2003-04-21 15:11:52|| 2003-04-21 15:11:52|| Front Page Top

#23 TGA -- Please consider the source. This dork probably rarely leaves his precious little corner of the country, and thinks the rest of us between the coasts are illiterate morons.

I live in Phoenix, and about 2 weeks before we invaded Iraq, there was an airshow out at Luke Air Force Base. It's a major training facility, not just for the USAF but also for German pilots. There were some German student pilots milling around, and nobody bothered them. The worst I heard said about them when they went past was "I guess they're still our allies." No threats, nothing like that at all.

There's been nothing aimed at Lufthansa out here (we have a daily nonstop to Frankfurt). I haven't heard of any attacks on Germans, and I work for the City government. If there would have been something, I would have heard about it.

If you or some friends still want to come out to the States on vacation, they have nothing more to fear than they did last year. Us 'Merkins might be a touch uncivilized compared to the sophisticated Bay Area, but we're smart enough to determine the difference between a people and their government.

Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-04-21 15:29:53|| 2003-04-21 15:29:53|| Front Page Top

#24 man sure are alot of post for some comment from the bay area. you must remember where the comment is coming from!

Posted by Dan 2003-04-21 15:31:58|| 2003-04-21 15:31:58|| Front Page Top

#25 One posting about a statement made by a nutcase in the Bay area is like a visit from Murat (taking a look down memory lane.....heh heh)

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-04-21 15:58:10|| 2003-04-21 15:58:10|| Front Page Top

#26 Oh, Murat. How can we forget him?

Posted by KP 2003-04-21 17:05:28|| 2003-04-21 17:05:28|| Front Page Top

#27 If you need a desert redoubt,come to Sth.Cent.Arizona.Geronimo ran the cavalry ragged here.

I miss Murat,no more canon-fodder.

Posted by raptor 2003-04-21 18:15:14|| 2003-04-21 18:15:14|| Front Page Top

#28 How does that saying go? I use to worry California would break off and fall into the ocean during an earthquake. Now I worry it won't!

Posted by Constitutional Individualist 2003-04-21 18:48:38|| 2003-04-21 18:48:38|| Front Page Top

11:32 Anonymous
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21:00 Ed Becerra
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19:56 KP
19:45 Bomb-a-rama
19:41 Lu Baihu
19:35 KP
19:24 Anonymous
19:15 Ed
19:14 Sassafrass
19:06 KP
19:05 11A5S
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18:59 Better safe than sorry
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