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Senator Wants to Revoke Funding From Berkeley for Vote to Boot Marines

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Posted by tu3031 2008-02-01 13:14|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I sent out a less-than-civil email (yeah, surprising, I know...) to the entire City Council and Mayor, and got a civil response from Kriss Worthington of the Council:

Thanks for your email. Contrary to several newspaper reports, the City Council vote was 6-3 not 8-1.

I was one of the NO votes. I expect a correction to appear soon. Kriss W

While I'm glad the vote was closer, the effect is teh same. Boycott Berkeley

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-02-01 13:51|| 2008-02-01 13:51|| Front Page Top

#2 BLOOD is A'BOILING:
Oakland Airport is messing with returning Soldiers and Marines. It's an important airport because it's straight across the Bay from SFA and absorbs the overload.

CUT every federal dollar to Oakland, Beserkely, and San Fran Freak-O.

Every road dollar, school dollar, Food, Teacher dollar, Police, Sherrif, jail, subsidy, Homeland security , BART [subway], Bridge, FireHouse and Fireman etc.

If the Federal officals would have the guts to cut even one thousand dollars, these jellyfish fags and pols would scream bloody murder.

Posted by RD">RD 2008-02-01 14:17|| 2008-02-01 14:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Where's the Boxer Babe & Finestein on this ? This do-do is in their backyard. We can't heeeeaaarrr you !

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2907 2008-02-01 14:52|| 2008-02-01 14:52|| Front Page Top

#4 I know, I know Berkeley has produced several impressive achievements in its science and computi,g departments but I ever had the impression, pehaps from too much watching "The Graduate" that it was the chemically pure paradigm of the university for rich white kids with too much time in their hands. Am I wrong?

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-02-01 15:48|| 2008-02-01 15:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Just cut off that entire county from all federal funds. They will be bankrupt and unable to do anything in a year.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-02-01 15:51|| 2008-02-01 15:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Chez Panisse? Is that a friggin restaurant?

Yes, and a self-parody.

IIRC, it's about the most insufferable, elitist, patronizing idea for a restaurant ever: the head chef decides on the menu based on what's available from the local markets (organic, whole foods, locally-grown, yada*3) with very little lead time and lots of ridiculous "fusion cuisine" ideas and politically-correct ambiance thrown in. The wait for a table is MONTHS, so you have no idea what will be served when you go. Of course, it costs an arm and a leg+, so you're essentially obligated to love whatever you get.

I have no doubt the food can be delicious, but, even if I could afford it, the rest of the shtick would make me lose my appetite.

Posted by xbalanke 2008-02-01 16:06|| 2008-02-01 16:06|| Front Page Top

#7 If Sen. Jim ~~Damit!~~ Demint should threaten to spend the $2 Million on pot sniffing dogs that will from noon till 4 PM each week (which is the bull horn permitted time for the pinko panties) to go sniffing house to house, car to car, starting with the car parked in the free Code Pinko commie parking spot in front of the USMC office.

THAT will change the city council's mind!

Posted by Cheech and Chong 2008-02-01 16:15|| 2008-02-01 16:15|| Front Page Top

Yawl go easy on our brothers on the council, dudes. Like, man, they been getting nothing but bad weed lately which ain't helpfull to the decision making abilities.

Posted by Cheech and Chong 2008-02-01 16:29|| 2008-02-01 16:29|| Front Page Top

#9 "...I ever had the impression, pehaps from too much watching "The Graduate" that it was the chemically pure paradigm of the university for rich white kids with too much time in their hands. Am I wrong?"

Yes, I'm afraid so. The kids there these days are much more likely to be from poor Asian than rich white stock. And, on the whole, they haven't got much time for this silliness, the kids have to work hard at Berkeley. There is a leftoid tint to the place (the university), but not more than at most universities. The City of Berkeley, though, is settled in large part by graduates who never moved away (what does that tell you ?), and these people elect just the kind of time-on-their-hands dilettantes you have in mind.

Posted by buwaya 2008-02-01 17:17|| 2008-02-01 17:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Chez Panisse? Is that a friggin restaurant?

Holy shit! It is a friggin restaurant!! And a damn fine chichi one from looking at the menu as I just did!
Think you could maybe drop the entree prices down from the eighty five buck range, seeing how you're already raking in a quarter million bucks from the Feds which probably already includes some of mine? Power to the People, right! Unfuckinbelievable...I'll bet Pelosi's in there twice a week when she's in "the district"...

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-01 17:49|| 2008-02-01 17:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Thank you Buwaya. I meant that in my impression Berkeley was more hippy, more wacko but also less serious and science oriented than MIT, Caltec and GeorgiaTech. Thinking it better my impression based on the acts of those wackos was perhaps more accurate for describing the people who have studied at Berkeley in the mast years/decades than to people studying at it, now;

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-02-01 18:21|| 2008-02-01 18:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Put DeMint in the Primaries. Vote DeMint!

Posted by jds 2008-02-01 22:18|| 2008-02-01 22:18|| Front Page Top

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