Posted on 03/28/2014 7:15:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I had mostly Democrat friends, both at work and at home. NOW, they are ALL Republicans. I don't remember who wrote this but I remember: if at 21 you're nor liberal, you have no soul; and if, at 41 you're not conservative, you have no brains. MOST of my friends became conservative because they WISED UP and realized how STUPID it was to be a liberal at their age.
I still have some liberal acquaintances at work and they are, well, embarrassing to know. They STILL spout liberal garbage.
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So you are the expert on San Francisco. I guess Tennessee really is the volunteer state--as you volunteer your opinion to others no matter what...even expertise on a city, NO AN area, that you never lived in...oh yes, I almost forgot, your RELATIVE lived in San Francisco, NO, I forgot again...they lived in the HUGE Bay Area. It is HUGE--but you know that too, having RELATIVES who lived in the Bay Area. WHAT am I THINKING to contradict you!
WELL, that sure 'nuff makes you Mr. Expert on San Francisco, California and the whole dang world!
I also went to UCB in the '60's. WHAT a zoo it was...STILL is. I always called it Berzerkly...much more descriptive of the school.
Cloud, I’m at a loss to why you lace your replies to me with heavy sarcasm and thinly-veiled insults. You start off well enough, but slap me for trying to tell you something about San Francisco’s political history. I’ve been interested in politics from childhood, well over 3 decades now, and I’ve studied up on every state in the country personally (not from some indoctrinated leftist idiot in college), and I do so every day, trying to keep abreast of the changes. It isn’t just SF I know about, I can give an encapsulated history of any state in the union and most major cities. That’s what I’m here to do, and what people ask me about (whether it is SF, Miami or Anchorage, Alaska).
I felt it demeaning to have you repeatedly point out a page on Wikipedia (especially since I’m often the one that has to edit those pages) that was nothing but a simplistic spreadsheet on Presidential votes from 1916 onwards when I was giving you hard data on a much larger picture of voting for the bulk of offices there. You seemed to oddly take offense at that that I was trying to give you some interesting factual information about the city’s history. It’s actually totally meaningless that I have relatives there, since that has nothing to do with my learning about the nation and local politics. I study it to be informed and to inform others, since many don’t have the time or the inclination (or worse, have been told things that simply aren’t so).
Many don’t know that San Francisco used to be a premier Republican city for more than half of the 20th century. They look at it as it is today and presume it was always Democrat extreme-left, and it isn’t so. As someone who has lived there all your life, I’d have presumed you’d have remembered when it didn’t used to be that way (unless you were a small child prior to 1964). I’d have thought names like George Christopher, William Mailliard and Cap Weinberger might ring a bell with you if you were around then. All San Francisco Republicans of the period.
If I’ve done something to offend you, I’m sorry, but your replies to me have been completely unwarranted and mean-spirited. Maybe you should move out of the place entirely, since having been taken over by the radical left, their hatred and offensive belief system poisons almost everyone they come into contact with. In the times I was there, I never felt comfortable.
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I felt it demeaning to have you repeatedly point out a page on Wikipedia (especially since I’m often the one that has to edit those pages) that was nothing but a simplistic spreadsheet on Presidential votes from 1916 onwards when I was giving you hard data on a much larger picture of voting for the bulk of offices there. You seemed to oddly take offense at that that I was trying to give you some interesting factual information about the city’s history. It’s actually totally meaningless that I have relatives there, since that has nothing to do with my learning about the nation and local politics. I study it to be informed and to inform others, since many don’t have the time or the inclination (or worse, have been told things that simply aren’t so).
Sorry for seeming so insensitive. Geez, now I, a female, know how the husband feels after being told that he was "insensitive."
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Many don’t know that San Francisco used to be a premier Republican city for more than half of the 20th century. They look at it as it is today and presume it was always Democrat extreme-left, and it isn’t so. As someone who has lived there all your life, I’d have presumed you’d have remembered when it didn’t used to be that way (unless you were a small child prior to 1964). I’d have thought names like George Christopher, William Mailliard and Cap Weinberger might ring a bell with you if you were around then. All San Francisco Republicans of the period.
Also, very interesting.
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If I’ve done something to offend you, I’m sorry, but your replies to me have been completely unwarranted and mean-spirited. Maybe you should move out of the place entirely, since having been taken over by the radical left, their hatred and offensive belief system poisons almost everyone they come into contact with. In the times I was there, I never felt comfortable.
Boy, you've met some nasty folks. Nasty folks DO EXIST everywhere on this planet. No one group has cornered the market on nasty. SOME individuals have, though, and they need to seek some peace from Our Lord.
I have traveled throughout much of the world and I felt COMFORTABLE everywhere. The exception was the hotel we went to in Beijing in 1983--FILTHY, FILTHY, FILTHY!! The Chinese hotels for foreigners have, since then, cleaned up there act.
I even felt comfortable with all the Lefties I worked with for DECADES.
Tsk, here I thought that FReepers had a tougher hide.
BESIDES, being mean-spirited ISN'T the bailywick of the radical left. I worked with tons of far lefties. They weren't mean-spirited to me but I did think it annoyed them to no end that I was a dyed-in-the-wool conservative and Republican. I could out-argue them any day and I wasn't that smart.
They are PLENTY of mean-spirited people in ALL political parties, all faiths, all cultures, everywhere. They are UNHAPPY people. However, I KNOW how to handle SOME of them.
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We had a strike at my place of work. I went in, not belonging to ANY union. I went in at my usual time.
At the entrance to where we worked there was a picket line of my co-workers, chanting, screaming and so on. MOSTLY they were 40-something year old women, come to think of it, as I was.
I KNEW I would meet up with this so I came prepared.
As they approached my car window, I rolled down the window and presented the head of the picket line with a couple of HUGE boxes of fresh, fresh, right out-off-the-shelves DOUGHNUTS!!
Best twenty bucks I ever spent...that shows you how long ago it was!
No one said a word but they all moved out of the way, let me park and NEVER bothered me again. I don't recall how long the strike lasted but I never met ANY problems with them, even AFTER the strike was over.
I knew how to get to them because I knew how I could be "gotten to."
Never hurts to give the folks a little SWEETNESS once in a while.
I hope you now won't lecture me on the flecklessness of buying immunity with doughnuts.
God bless America.
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