Fifty years ago on a bridge in Alabama

[matteos]

Originally Posted by bobabode

I learnt real football in Kingston, Jamaica back in the '60s, courtesy of the Peace Corps. Pops was one of Jack Kennedy's boys.

Peace corps is a great program, visited my friend when she was in Guatemala Doing it A few years ago. They built a school essentially out of plastic bottles filled with other kinds of plastic. Chicken wire and cement. Amazing stuff.

[matteos]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Not too far. I'm in Costa Misery (Mesa).

That's a nice area surely?

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by matteos

That's a nice area surely?

It's infested with 'baggers and neocons like the rest of Orange county but the weather is nice.

[matteos]

Originally Posted by bobabode

It's infested with 'baggers and neocons like the rest of Orange county but the weather is nice.

Lol. . Yes the OC is conservative and rich.. go hand in hand

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by matteos

Lol. . Yes the OC is conservative and rich.. go hand in hand

Only the coastal and southern areas. Most of the county is fairly blue collar, Loretta Sanchez kicked B1 Bob Dornan out of office some time ago .

Sadly Dana Rohrabacher-GOTP is my rep in the house.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by matteos

Lol. . Yes the OC is conservative and rich.. go hand in hand

"I've got mine, fuck you".

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[matteos]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Translation: they disagree with you.

i feel i'm pretty unblinkered in my viewpoints. I didn't use to be. I used to be a progressive. But I've spent years on forums such as this. I've been swayed by viewpoints opposed to mine. Mostly over Israel. Over time i realized i was guilty of only looking at half the picture. I'm sure I'm wrong about a lot of things... but I'm definitely open to changing my mind.

I read a lot of chomsky and zinn. And when you read just one side you get closed minded. There's value there for sure. I just realized there is also value in the other side Though too. Britain is very left leaning in its education. There's a lot of guilt and there should be. But not everything on the other wing is bad. I try and keep a more open mind now. Better or worse.

Britain is also very so************************t and is a mixed bag. Some ways its good some ways not. I know for a fact with my lazy inclinations i would have achieved a lower personal success in my career if i had stayed there. you dont need to work to live in Britain. you can exist in council houses and on the dole. Remove some of that you get a much needed kick in the ass... that altogether i feel was good for me personally.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

"I've got mine, fuck you".

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There is an awful lot of that but there are a lot of us democrats too. The undeclared at the bottom of the list is telling.

From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_...ion_statistics
Population and registered voters Total population[23] 2,989,948 Registered voters[63][note 4] 1,397,665 46.7% Democratic[63] 442,878 31.7% Republican[63] 583,625 41.8% Democratic–Republican spread[63] -140,747 -10.1% Independent[63] 36,964 2.6% Green[63] 5,492 0.4% Libertarian[63] 10,824 0.8% Peace and Freedom[63] 3,330 0.2% Americans Elect[63] 244 0.0% Other[63] 4,792 0.3% No party preference[63] 309,516 22.1%

[donquixote99]

Pacifica, yes indeed. I know the feeling. Five minutes in a room of conspiracy believers would do it for me.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Pacifica, yes indeed. I know the feeling. Five minutes in a room of conspiracy believers would do it for me.

What exposure have you had to Pacifica and what do you dislike about it?

Here in the Bay Area, I listen to KPFA in Berkeley. When I lived in New Jersey, I listened to WBAI and also, when I was in the Baltimore/DC area to WPFW. For sure, they're left-leaning but so am I. I don't agree with everything they broadcast but I appreciate the fact that they air what they do since it's opinion and information you're not likely to hear anywhere else.

Also, WBAI is responsible for Democracy Now! which is among the best news programs in the US.

John