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I vacationed in CA this summer. Bueatiful state if a bit too dry. I prefer Fort Lauderdale but the surreal nature of my homestate can be overwhelming at times.
Please excuse the really really bad typos in my previous post: it was the first thig I did this morning when I got up and I sure was'nt anything close to awake.
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quote:Originally posted by Ritten: ...you should move to California where things aren't so goofed up...
Hey, we're working on it...
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Hey, who says things aren't goofed up in Cal-ee-fornia?
We're plenty goofed up, you take that back!
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The most fucked up thing I saw in CA was at Fry's (kinda like Best buy but better). THe anime section was on the same asile as the softcore pornography. Twelve year olds were all over that aisle.
Man, where was that when I was a kid?
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What, anime? Still languishing in stylistic obscurity in Japan. B)
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Well, I guess it appears to be a tie between CA & FL....
MI is a boring state, and IL has two goveners, if you count Daly in Chicago....
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: THe anime section was on the same asile as the softcore pornography.
Hey, at least you get anime isles. We're still lucky over here if stores realise that South Park should probably not be put on the same isle as Bob The Builder.
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quote:Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: Sorry Rob, but you are way off base. Full of it, one might say.
quote: Conservatives might reasonably argue that Clinton's success in beating impeachment and Arnold's election both represent the triumph of the Permissive Society. But this week, conservatives themselves were complicit in its victory. Mark Oct. 7, 2003, as the day conservatives' moral outrage died.
You may think so, but this article's summation paragraph perfectly bolsters my position.
The Clinton sex scandals were the final destruction of the old sexualpolitical order. Arnold was the test of the new sexualpolitical matrix. Nobody cares anymore. Sexual misconduct is now a nonissue with the vast majority of voters... just as planned. That's why Arnold didn't really even have to bother putting up much of a defense of it.
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Or, maybe it's because the moralists (the ones not discredited or in rehab) just wanted a Republican.
It was certainly interesting to see that Mr. Bush did not come out to Cal-ee-fornia during the process so as to not get tarnished with Mr. Schwarzenegger's sexual peccadillos.
Which means that, dispite your claims to the contrary, such actions are still politically important. However, in the Cal-ee-fornia process, the right-wing did an excellent job of making the Times the story and diverting attention of the public. In the shortened recall process, that killed the story almost altogether since the American mind apparently has no room do deal two different concepts / sotries at the same time.
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Right, so if Clinton (Democrat and therefore a spawn of Satan) hadn't been caught in his little sexual escapade, Arnold (Republican and therefore a gift from God) would have faced the music in his place? Bullshit.
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Cartman: It probably won't work on the next sex-scandalled Democrat, either.
Yes, the Republicans brought the accusations on themselves by pushing the Clinton sex scandals.
They pushed so hard... it broke.
But it didn't break Clinton. This scandal didn't break Schwartzenegger.
The first jaded the public. The second let them prove that they were jaded.
To be honest, BOTH sides would like to have the issue of sexual misconduct removed from the forefront of public consciousness - to have their voters, any time the subject comes up, to say "oh, not AGAIN," and maybe even have their candidate garner the "smear sympathy vote."
Perhaps it's an unintended consequence... perhaps not so unintended. I'm easily suspicious of the Democrats enough to believe that they'd go for the idea. And just suspicious enough of the Republicans that I could believe they'd be in on it, too.
No, I don't trust any of them. Neither should you. I just trust ME. If I've thought of it, someone else probably has, too.
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quote:Originally posted by First of Two: ...Arnold was the test of the new sexualpolitical matrix. Nobody cares anymore. Sexual misconduct is now a nonissue with the vast majority of voters...
Which is why the next time Gary Hart runs for office no one will bring up Monkey Business. And when in the future some poor liberal with a checkered sexual past runs for office there won't be enraged stamping up and down the Capitol floor and furor splashed all over FOXnews. They'll just decide it's a non-issue and commence a measured and comprehensive discussion of the candidate's policies.
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I'm just saying that bringing it up is not an effectively career-destroying tactic anymore, thanks to these maneuverings, while in Hart's day, it was.
OTOH, if Gary Condit ever runs for office again... well, they keep electing Teddy "blub" Kennedy...
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quote:It probably won't work on the next sex-scandalled Democrat, either.
I wouldn't put any money on that. Rush will be out of rehab by then.
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