Posted on 05/31/2009 11:21:08 AM PDT by atomic_dog
"Yee-HAW! $100 + fees for "Impeding Traffic" by driving slower than conditions warrant! Woo-hoo! I hardly ever get to write one of these," says first cop to see you.
He should tell them he can’t pay and that he requests to be taken to jail.
Then the jail will have to pay for food and lodging.
org.whodat, as I am discovering, is another of those bizarre lovers of the administrative apparatus of the State who style themselves as “conservatives.” The world is a better place in his mind because we have low level adminstrators, inspectors and LEOs to watch each and every move and take a piece out of you to pay for it all. If you didn’t want them looking through your garbage, well the solution is obvious. Don’t have garbage. Don’t have a dog either. Man if you would just die, then the state will stop hassling you and move on to your heirs.
Just don't drive 5 mph over the speed limit during rush hour. You could get one ticket for speeding and another one for impeding traffic.
I lived there for more than forty years, and my family goes back several generations in California. I remember the Seventies and Eighties, when the lunatics all came there from somewhere else, and were open and proud of that, and joked about it.
If California could have sealed it's borders in the mid Sixties, it'd probably be a solid red state today. I feel for the neighboring states when they complain about 'Californians' moving in and screwing things up the way they did in California. As far as I'm concerned though, most of them were never really Californians to begin with.
I would love to live in the California that I grew up in, but that place doesn't exist, so I left. For that matter I would love to live in the Unites States I grew up in, ...
This is what I love about Alaska. Regular folks are pretty much left alone. I walk my dog without a leash all the time...while carrying a concealed firearm and nobody bothers me.
Been there, done that...Cleveland asked me to help finance the new Indian’s Stadium some years ago.
10 over the limit, (45 limit on the freeway) while being passed on the right by a school bus, and on the left by a tractor-trailer rig.
We have lunatics moving out of the North East to Florida. A lot of them are conservative for that region. Here they are raging liberals when compared to conservatives here.
They are bringing their stupid ideas with them.
1060 W. Addison, Chicago, IL.
Bingo. I went to California for graduate school and had a very very good reason for being there at the time. I was amazed at the milieu of ne'er do nothings and ne'er do wells that migrated from somewhere else, all doing " a bit of this and a bit of that" and asking me how much I liked it there. Then as I met actual native Californians I discovered that they were decent civilized hard working folks, like an old uncle of mine who lived in the real Berkeley back before it became the modern Berkeley. They were also horrified to watch this beautiful place that they had helped build sink into a cess-pool of drifters and grifters.
I don't know whether there is much if any of the old California left any more.
Nope... Ares.
There are still holdouts there, a lot of the state outside the LA Basin and the Bay Area are pretty red. They feel like they’ve been run over by the left in state politics, and they have. They soldier on and do their best in spite of it.
I find this entire subject very depressing. As I grow older I understand better and better the views of our founding fathers. The Constitution is a document built on our forefathers profound cynicism about their fellow men built over a lifetime of disillusionment in human nature. Basically I think the idea is to tell folks that they have to make their own decisions and stand and fall with the consequences and not bother other people either way. I honestly think there is nothing wrong with that. Our collective defense seems to bring out the best in us. The American penchant for going through dirty linen and dogcrap is a less flattering side of us that is all too true to form.
George Washington was as fine an executive as this country will ever have.
Yup.
As I grow older I understand better and better the views of our founding fathers. The Constitution is a document built on our forefathers profound cynicism about their fellow men built over a lifetime of disillusionment in human nature. Basically I think the idea is to tell folks that they have to make their own decisions and stand and fall with the consequences and not bother other people either way.
So true, unfortunately the nanny state has replaced the federal republic.
University professor? Monterey County? Expert on useless Chinese “studies.”
You made your bed, now lie in it....shut up, pay it and quit yer bellyachin’.
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