Saturday, November 12, 2011

I Wish I Could Say This Surprised Me...

Bubblehead Les sent this in. I'm a little afraid that I might be getting just a little jaded, because it didn't surprise me in the least...

California Mayor Snubs Veterans to Attend Occupy Rally
The mayor of Richmond, Calif., is under fire for her decision to skip a Veterans Day memorial to attend an Occupy Rally.

Mayor Gayle McLaughlin sent an email to the San Jose Mercury News explaining why she would not be attending a Veterans Day salute that included a re-enactment of the launch of a World War II-era ship at the Richmond shipyards.
You see, in her tortured logic, since she's against war she doesn't need to support our troops. Instead, she'd rather go to an event that has seen people killed, women raped, and wide outbreaks of various diseases. That's some priorities y'all got out there on the West Coast. I hope she's voted out of office at the next election - or, even better, recalled - but I just don't see it happening in the land of fruits and nuts...

Sadly, sometimes I think we really *do* get exactly the government we deserve.

That is all.

10 comments:

Bushwack said...

The entire bay area should be sold to China to pay off our nations debts.

California is WORSE than China as far as the system The reason is simple. California is basically a communist state. Except they have NO INTENTION to deal with crime. Do you hear about the China criminals? Do you hear about ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS in China? NOPE. Hell California would suck a lot less if they went all in.

Lissa said...

Did you see that new fancy high speed rail that you and I are paying for in Cali?

Stretch said...

Yet one more example why we have bayonets.

Skip said...

Like you Jay, we are marooned.
At least we are in the conservative central valley.

Bushwack said...

California the land of opportunity has been replaced by California the land of perpetual sorrow.

The scenery is amazing in most of the state, MOST of people are idiots (Obvious by the recent election results) but they are "educated" if ya ask them.

I left NC about 25 years ago and came to CA. The first 8 weren't too bad but from then on you could see the trainwreck coming and no matter what some of us did we couldn't stop the morons from shooting themselves in the foot.

Now the pistol is firmly nested against the temple of the state and it shouldn't require an intervention to keep the finger off the trigger... Shouldn't...BUT

Mikael said...

"Do you hear about ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS in China?"

Actually, I have. And a crackdown against them too.

Of course being that they were from north korea, I can see china being a step up.

Mikael said...

Here's what wikipedia has to say:
People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China is building a security barrier along its border with North Korea to prevent the defectors or refugees from North Korea. Also, many immigrants from Mongolia have tried to make it to China. There might be as many as 100,000 Africans in Guangzhou, mostly illegal overstayers. To encourage people to report foreigners living illegally in China, the police is giving a 100 RMB reward to whistleblowers whose information successfully leads to an expulsion.

Bushwack said...

I'm betting China is not granting them free college tuition, free welfare, free education, free healthcare and unlimited access to sue for discrimination and/or access to Gloria Alred for publicity purposes...

the USA is the only nation on earth that grants these freebies for an invasion force. California is at the front of the invasion column. They allow them unfettered access to all things. Oh and we're broke, Business have left, there's very little manufacturing here. There's plenty of SERVICE jobs for the UNIONS of Sacramento....Then we elected Brown again.. wow. please sell this entire state!!!

DaddyBear said...

Richmond would be even more of an afterthought if it wasn't for the military logistics and shipyards. The mayor of that flyspeck on ass of the west coast should get on her knees and thank the Lord that the military ever heard of her little burg.

Wraith said...

It's Richmond...I'm not surprised.