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2005-10-18 Fifth Column

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Posted by Steve 2005-10-18 15:17|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Plz, Plz, Plz, Al Q..consider Berkeley next time.

Posted by Whomogum Shenter2703 2005-10-18 15:43|| 2005-10-18 15:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Time to blow up Berkley.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-10-18 15:50|| 2005-10-18 15:50|| Front Page Top

#3 C'mon folks. Berkeley's been celebrating Veterans day for four whole years! There was bound to be burnout from such a maximum effort.
And speaking of burnout, it's good to see that Country Joe is still around wasting perfectly good oxygen...

Posted by tu3031 2005-10-18 16:09|| 2005-10-18 16:09|| Front Page Top

#4
It's like some has-been retirement community.

Posted by macofromoc 2005-10-18 16:28|| 2005-10-18 16:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Too bad there's no way for the military to defend the whole country except for Berzerkley.

Posted by DMFD 2005-10-18 16:46|| 2005-10-18 16:46|| Front Page Top

#6 The veterans there should hold there own parade, spontaneously, without anyone invited to speak at all. They should prearrange a start point and an end point, with veterans joining the parade en route, and if someone should attempt to get up on a podium to speak, they should as a group turn around and disperse. Any freak attempting to join the crowd will just be shouldered out.

If left to their own devices, once they arrive at their destination, one pre-designated person should loudly say, "let us pray". And then have a minute of silence before dispersing, each in their own direction.

With a few acting as road guards, the very orderliness and quietude of the event should be shocking to a corrupt city, used to shameful displays and screaming loudmouths.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-10-18 16:50|| 2005-10-18 16:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe they could break the political logjam by just honoring North Vietnamese veterans and John Kerry -- oops, redundancy alert.

Posted by Matt 2005-10-18 17:15|| 2005-10-18 17:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Looks to me that in Berkley 'Veterans day' is "shit on a veteran day"....

That is what Shithan and her supporters have been doing all this time....

Damn Vampires...

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-10-18 18:40|| 2005-10-18 18:40|| Front Page Top

#9 In all honesty there are two very different sorts of people in Berkeley. The first and largest group are middle-of-the-road Democrats. These are not all that different from the ones you would find in, say, Iowa City. Yeah, they believe in higher taxes, unions, and whatever; but they arenât actually traitors to America. Many of them have served in the military, for example, and fly American flags in their yards. These people are identical to that relative who annoys you over turkey every Thanksgiving with his idiotic, half-informed banter. Wrong, but not actively evil.

Then you have the OTHER group: radical Democrats, Greens, actual Marxists of various stripes, weak-ass pretend anarchists, ACLU lawyer types, and college professors. These are genuine, real life enemies of your nation. Although they are only 10-20 percent of the population they are very loud, very determined, and often quite naked. Itâs an ugly, harsh thing; but they dominate the cityâs government and culture. Itâs institutionalized. Most of the other inhabitants are like Syrians: they simply shrug and deal with it because they arenât going to be able to change anything.

In reality most people in Berkeley arenât all that political.... just like most Americans. Itâs a nice place to live. The public schools are pretty good, you can have a lawn party late into the Autumn, people are friendly, the cityâs economy is pretty healthy, and there are lots of good-looking young people walking down the streets on a Saturday night. The crime rate it low and the restaurants are excellent. Except for the fact that Berkeley is run by wackos itâs a nice place to live.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-10-18 19:22|| 2005-10-18 19:22|| Front Page Top

#10 My son is in the NROTC unit out of Berkeley. They get a real kick out of group runs, calling cadance, and inciting the LLL.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2005-10-18 21:31|| 2005-10-18 21:31|| Front Page Top

#11 and its one two three four what are we fighting for...

I guess he will never know...
(old dogs and all that)

Posted by 3dc 2005-10-18 21:35|| 2005-10-18 21:35|| Front Page Top

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