asanta - 21 January 2009 06:56 PM
Occam - 21 January 2009 06:11 PM
Hey, W.A. Don’t forget the eastern three-quarters of northern California. They out-Republican SoCal any day. 
Occam
OOPS, I try to forget they exist! The Bay Area is truly a land unto itself! It’s a wonder CA is still a blue state! 
asanta - 21 January 2009 06:56 PM
Occam - 21 January 2009 06:11 PM
Hey, W.A. Don’t forget the eastern three-quarters of northern California. They out-Republican SoCal any day.
Occam
OOPS, I try to forget they exist! The Bay Area is truly a land unto itself! It’s a wonder CA is still a blue state!
“California. Knock, knock, knocking on heavens door.” GR
did I get that right?
You got me reminiscing now. In my high school days I used to deliver papers on a route that straddled Burlingame and Hillsborough (halfway between SF & SJ). Many a nice well to do old folks of long standing. On occasion I’d be invited in when collection the monthly fee and during those couple years I wound up looking at a good handful of old photo albums (now, isn’t that a fun basic human need ~ the need to share ones experiences). Looking at these albums, sitting next to old folks, but seeing them in younger days ~ and the bay area & the greater state, oh what an incredibly gorgeous Eden it was. Those pictures with there accompanying narratives effected me for sure.
Had USA white man possessed any sanity, they would have found a way to create a cross between a national park and a biological harvest-able resource area out of much of California. Instead we gobbled it up, possessed by some need to shoot everything that runs wild and consume & build on everything that stands still.
But, then if rational thinking had been part of the “pioneering spirit” they would have created States based on watershed boundaries rather than political profiteering considers. {As John Wesley Powell tried to persuade Congress to do.}
Why is society so hell bent on the destruction of its own nest?
Is it just a natural biological outcome of getting to be so in control?
