Righteous, bro! Indeed your editorial, with its echos of Thomas Paine, cuts to the larger ethical point many people would otherwise miss. IMO, your comments are a common-sensical distillation of the moment. If the need for editorial brevity cut short this satisfyingly epic rant please, embellish your thoughts. This nation and the broader world are sorely in need of a bottom-up re-unifying restoration of sanity based on self-evident morality. Your platform is gaining purchase.
I can't tell you how much I HATE these protests, especially since they occur near me since I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I always check traffic before I leave my house, because these idiots can show up anywhere. They blocked I-880 in Oakland yesterday as well; I often travel on that freeway to visit family members and friends. I shudder to think that I could get caught in that snarled traffic. I wish some of the news crews can interview people who have been stuck behind these a$$holes: How many weddings, funerals, doctors' appointments, vital surgeries, job interviews, etc. have been missed because of their behavior?? And for what?! And to add fuel to the fire, we have to contend with testosterone-fueled jackasses closing down the Bay Bridge to do sideshows!! Our leaders are WEAK! (We are trying to recall our district attorney here in Alameda County, because she is not prosecuting violent criminals, and she sure as heck is not going to do much to these protestors.) Props to Florida who does not sanction blocking traffic: you can land in jail/prison for up to 15 years, I heard.
The USS Hornet in Alameda is CV-12. The USS Hornet that sailed beneath the Golden Gate all those years ago to launch the Doolittle raid was CV-8, which was torpedoed by the Japanese Navy shortly after and now lies at rest at the bottom of the Pacific near the Solomon Islands. I
Might be time to make some of these people pay some physical consequences. We still have a "fighting words" standard in this nation - some ignorant neo-Nazi shouts "Death to the Jews" in my face, he might be down on his knees afterward trying to collect his teeth from the pavement. I can't believe we're allowing anti-Semitic scum chant "Death to the Jews" on American streets.
Amen, amigo. Chant "death to Jews and death to America" all you want. Go ahead and burn an American flag. Just don't walk out in front of my F350 while doing it. My Boomer reflexes are getting slow.
Righteous, bro! Indeed your editorial, with its echos of Thomas Paine, cuts to the larger ethical point many people would otherwise miss. IMO, your comments are a common-sensical distillation of the moment. If the need for editorial brevity cut short this satisfyingly epic rant please, embellish your thoughts. This nation and the broader world are sorely in need of a bottom-up re-unifying restoration of sanity based on self-evident morality. Your platform is gaining purchase.
Thank you. I just hope there's more than six people at my funeral!
I can't tell you how much I HATE these protests, especially since they occur near me since I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I always check traffic before I leave my house, because these idiots can show up anywhere. They blocked I-880 in Oakland yesterday as well; I often travel on that freeway to visit family members and friends. I shudder to think that I could get caught in that snarled traffic. I wish some of the news crews can interview people who have been stuck behind these a$$holes: How many weddings, funerals, doctors' appointments, vital surgeries, job interviews, etc. have been missed because of their behavior?? And for what?! And to add fuel to the fire, we have to contend with testosterone-fueled jackasses closing down the Bay Bridge to do sideshows!! Our leaders are WEAK! (We are trying to recall our district attorney here in Alameda County, because she is not prosecuting violent criminals, and she sure as heck is not going to do much to these protestors.) Props to Florida who does not sanction blocking traffic: you can land in jail/prison for up to 15 years, I heard.
82 years ago, almost to the day, the USS Hornet sailed under the same bridge with Doolittle's B-25Bs strapped to the flight deck.
I didn’t know that. It’s a floating museum here in Alameda. Toured it close to 20 years ago.
The USS Hornet in Alameda is CV-12. The USS Hornet that sailed beneath the Golden Gate all those years ago to launch the Doolittle raid was CV-8, which was torpedoed by the Japanese Navy shortly after and now lies at rest at the bottom of the Pacific near the Solomon Islands. I
No worries, the two are often confused. Cheers.
Might be time to make some of these people pay some physical consequences. We still have a "fighting words" standard in this nation - some ignorant neo-Nazi shouts "Death to the Jews" in my face, he might be down on his knees afterward trying to collect his teeth from the pavement. I can't believe we're allowing anti-Semitic scum chant "Death to the Jews" on American streets.
Amen, amigo. Chant "death to Jews and death to America" all you want. Go ahead and burn an American flag. Just don't walk out in front of my F350 while doing it. My Boomer reflexes are getting slow.