Posted on 05/31/2020 10:19:29 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Yeah, I noticed that, but I’m not so sure it’s carefully worded so much as typical modern sloppy reporting. Could be either one.
Lots of similarities between Scottsdale and Walnut Creek events, isn’t there?
I totally forgot about the BART lines. Good point.
It’s a lot like how Minneapolis “teens” got to the Mall of America from downtown Minneapolis.
Retail has been under so many pressures the past couple decades. This obviously will not help the retail situation in the U.S.
You have to wonder why ADS hasn’t been deployed after all these years.
The big unit was developed almost 20 years ago. A smaller, more portable 250 meter range unit was brought to market by Raytheon in 2007. I just checked Raytheon’s site and there is nothing about “Active Denial,” ADS, Or “Silent Guardian” there. It seems to have disappeared.
Is anybody making it today?
Your story reminds me of when I was shopping for my first house in the summer of 1978. The realtor was advising me about the Peninsula area of the San Francisco Bay Area and said “don’t ever confuse Palo Alto with East Palo Alto. You don’t want to live in East Palo Alto. That was close to the time it led the country in the per capita murder rate. With th Rolf Dumbarton Bridge and far fewer tech jobs, it wasn’t as common to have to commute through there and most people opted to use the safer Willow Road route.
As you know, many of the Asians arrived in the U.S. fleeing communism in their homelands and are ardent anti-communists.
Nice comment. I would amend it, though. I’m sure law enforcement agencies are champing at the bit to do their jobs, but the Democrat liberal mayors and governors pull the reins in on them.
Fifty years since you left? LOL. Yes, things have changed a bit. The whole Pittsburgh / Antioch Area would be unrecognizable to you today.
So what? We had Willie Brown as a black mayor in the 1990s. Mayor London Breed graduated from my high school (she was born long after I graduated). At the time I attended, it was maybe 30 percent black or more.
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Yes, indeed, let’s not forget about the former Speaker of the California Assembly...
By the way, OJ Simpson grew up in SF...
As you know, many of the Asians arrived in the U.S. fleeing communism in their homelands and are ardent anti-communists.
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San Jose has the most Vietnamese American population in US...
I really doubt that many Vietnamese Americans participated in the riots in San Jose in the last few days...
What I love about living in an area with lots of Asians is how much they care about education (as do I). We’ve all been appalled by the actions of the school district during the pandemic (and before): awful, uncaring “distance learning,” propaganda, getting rid of grades altogether, no interest in excellence. We are in the third lowest funded school district in CA (because it’s a wealthy area, we get the least amount of $$ per student).
I’ve decided to pull my teen daughter out of public school and have started applying to local private conservative small Christian schools. She is so excited. . .
Congratulations to you for your decision to pull your daughter out of the public schools. One of my biggest regrets is not doing that.
-PJ
The whole area's Congressional districts have been the subject of multiple redistricting to convert it from conservative to liberal.
It began to lean Democrat when Ellen Tauscher (D) beat Bill Baker (R) for the House in 1996.
After the 2000 census, Gary Condit (D), who represented the Central Valley towns of Modesto/Manteca and southern Stockton, was squeezed out by the Democrats by redistricting his district with several other neighboring districts. One of those districts was the Livermore/Tracey district represented by Richard Pombo (R). Tauscher's district, which included Benicia on the north side of the San Pablo Bay, was moved south to include Livermore and the nuclear labs. Pombo's district was moved north and west to include Blackhawk and parts of Danville/Alamo.
Pombo was eventually targeted and defeated by Danville resident Jerry McNerney (D).
After the 2010 redistricting, the Democrats again combined districts to squeeze out Fremont/Union City representative Fortney "Pete" Stark (D), who had become senile. The southern part of the Tri-Valley was combined with Fremont. Concurrent with this was the so-called "jungle primary" system, or "top two" system that ensured that only Democrats in California would move onto general elections. In the San Ramon/Dublin/Pleasanton/Fremont district, this resulted in Stark running against former Dublin mayor Eric Swalwell (D), who won.
Meanwhile, in Walnut Creek, Ellen Tauscher was named to Hillary Clinton's State Department staff, which opened up her district to a special election in 2009. San Ramon resident David Harmer (R) ran against John Garamendi (D), who lived in Fairfield in another Congressional district. Garamendi beat Harmer, and then won the seat again in the regular election the following year.
This completed the conversion of the East Bay I-680 corridor from Republican to Democrat.
-PJ
Thanks for that excellent summary! I was a volunteer with the Bill Baker re-election party the night he lost in 1996. The night started out so festive and then got more and more somber until people just started slipping away quietly.
You must either live in my area or are just follow politics extremely closely!
Alamo is part of a “census defined area” and people in Alamo don’t seem to want things like libraries or traffic lights or other city services (they’ve voted against incorporation a few times), so maybe there’s a small independent streak there.
When the rich parents in this area complain about the way schools are funded in CA now—all the $$ goes to the poorest districts—I remind them to be careful how they vote. So much reflexive voting for Dems when nothing the Dems do in CA is in the interest of people who live in the area.
I remember when Baker was having a rally at the Danville Livery and Mercantile when Tauscher had a stooge in the audience who kept taunting and heckling Baker, while video recording the entire incident.
Tauscher ran that video over and over to claim that Baker was unhinged and dangerous, lunging at the heckler.
Baker went from winning 59%-39% in 1994, to losing 49%-47% in 1996.
-PJ
WHY, nobody is abiding by hem, as a mater of fact mayors of the largest cities are applauding their daughters for not adhering to curfews.
Used to live next door in Lafayette. Other than a couple local spoiled Brats, these will be yutes commuting from Oakland.
It’s interesting where these protests are starting. They’ve learned from the Rodney King riots. By the time they got to better neighborhoods the line had been drawn. Now they’re leap frogging to their targets.
Thanks for the history lesson. “Complete”, is right. It is done. The state of California is essentially done. I can’t get out of her soon enough.
Yep. I attended an elementary school on Potrero Hill in the 6th grade, where OJ Simpson lived. Was bused there, taken out of my regular school in the Mission District and put in a mostly black school. Hated it. Later on, O.J. was all the talk because he was local and making it as an all-City football star, and that was before he hit the big leagues.
Much later on I worked I.T., and there were some years I supported the Mayor's office, set up routing and a network. Willie Brown was a formidable presence there. He'd get in the elevator and just stare at me and the others, showing us he was the boss. Much different than Gavin Newsom when he was mayor, he didn't have that presence at all when around him. Willie Brown was a do'er; Newsom not so much.
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