Yesterday's Mass Shooting.

DoubleAtotheRON

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The area Action Jackson and PW are castigating, urban Southern California, was mostly under Republican control until recently.

https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2022/11/07/how-san-diegos-political-map-shifted-from-red-to-blue-and-what-comes-next

As usual, Democrats are looked to in order solve the problems Republicans have created. I grew up in Northern CA and always looked down on SoCal for the very reasons that it is now experiencing an environmental crisis. The grew without adequate planning and regulations into the cancer of the west coast that they are today. The cancer is curable but only with thought, consideration and science, not Republican witch doctors. CA has a world class economy and would rank highly if it were an independent nation. This the result of CA investing in its people through education, infrastructure and providing a good safety net for those who are under economic stress.

They are experiencing a housing crisis. It's causing enormous stress in that state. The roots of those problems go way back. CA simply does not have enough housing for everybody, which explains why so many people can't afford the very basic need of shelter.

It's true that OK doesn't have the population that California has. It also doesn't have anywhere near the size of CA's economy either. A lot of people who left state to move to jobs in CA. Which explains why a person with an average income can do well there. They do so on the backs of the many who live below the poverty line. In most categories used to compare states in the US, it's a shithole.


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I don't know how accurate this chart is, but OK has been very good to me. I had a great 32 year career, retired at 54, own everything outright, have great healthcare, everything is cheap, gas is around $2.89.... our most expensive monthly is healthcare at $1200 a month, but that's because we own a consulting business, and don't have a Corporate share pay to help pay for it. ... and that's ok. It's all perspective I suppose. I just got home,.. it's 1:30am, and Im blasting streaming music at level 100 with the windows open (Violent Femmes currently playing), just took a piss off the porch, fired up a blunt, and there's nobody else around me to give a fuck. .. and I like that.
Our roads are much better than SoCal, the infrastructure is solid with oil and gas as our economy driver, as well as wind farms. We don't see homeless people, but Im sure there are some. We have the worlds largest tire manufacturers, Oil service companies, the most and Worlds largest Casinos, (China is working to beat us out on that, but we keep adding on). .. and Im not saying that OK is the best place to live, but it's home to me, and I'll prob die here. We travel quite a bit, so we get to see a lot of other cultures, but SoCal has to be on the bottom of the list of all of the places we've visited on Earth... and we've been to a lot of Countries.. some I used to live in when I was younger in the Middle East. (U.A.E.) Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Bahrain.

World Casinos..https://www.statista.com/statistics/871915/largest-casinos-worldwide-by-size/... and that's just the machines. The whole resort is about a square mile.
 
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DoubleAtotheRON

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Wattzzup

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CNN???..... C'mon man.. everything's great with you know.. um. th the the thing.

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I know reading is difficult for hillbillies. The info isn’t from CNN it’s from the CDC. :roll:

here I’m sure you recognize this site

Is it true now that Fox News said it? :hump: :hump:

never mind this explains it. You “Okies” ranked 35th in IQ:lol:
 

CunningCanuk

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I know reading is difficult for hillbillies. The info isn’t from CNN it’s from the CDC. :roll:

here I’m sure you recognize this site

Is it true now that Fox News said it? :hump: :hump:

never mind this explains it. You “Okies” ranked 35th in IQ:lol:
Oklahoma should change their state motto; “You can piss off your front porch and nobody cares”.

It’s like the song says, “California is alright but it’s no Oklahoma”. No, wait, there’s no song that says that. That would be fucking stupid.
 

Wattzzup

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Oklahoma should change their state motto; “You can piss off your front porch and nobody cares”.

It’s like the song says, “California is alright but it’s no Oklahoma”. No, wait, there’s no song that says that. That would be fucking stupid.
But but he’s been ALL over the world. Now that I know pissing off his front porch is on top of his life goals, I can’t even take him serious anymore. :lol:
 

DoubleAtotheRON

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Looks like Smokey should’ve gone back home sooner.
I was really wanting to, but I like to see other places even if I don't like it.
So the chart is wrong. The CDC is wrong. And CNN is wrong. But YOU are right because “it’s been good to YOU” :wall::wall:
I was referring to your other post... I can read fine.
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but it’s good for the groundwater
You should see what the leaky hydraulic wind farms are dumping onto it.
 

cannabineer

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I was really wanting to, but I like to see other places even if I don't like it.

I was referring to your other post... I can read fine.
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You should see what the leaky hydraulic wind farms are dumping onto it.
which underlines why I think some “freedoms” (e.g. to pollute because maintenance costs money) need to be reined in by regulations and, in this instance, fines stiff enough that what you describe is way more expensive than keeping them tight and clean.
 

DoubleAtotheRON

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which underlines why I think some “freedoms” (e.g. to pollute because maintenance costs money) need to be reined in by regulations and, in this instance, fines stiff enough that what you describe is way more expensive than keeping them tight and clean.
True... I was just glad to find out that this one wind farm didn't belong to Paige's company. It's been leaking since December. The whole shaft, housing, and blades are covered in hydraulic fluid. It belongs to Vestas.. ever heard of them?
 

cannabineer

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True... I was just glad to find out that this one wind farm didn't belong to Paige's company. It's been leaking since December. The whole shaft, housing, and blades are covered in hydraulic fluid. It belongs to Vestas.. ever heard of them?
Yup; they’re a leading manufacturer. Danish I believe.
I don’t blame them for what sounds like the operator ignoring the user’s manual.

I wonder how easy it would be to find out who’s operating the dirty bird. Probably the owner of record for the property.

I also wonder if this is lax law or lax enforcement. Either way, perhaps a letter to your Congressperson* without naming names, since keeping good neighbors is a big plus imo.

*almost certainly Frank Lucas since Rush Springs is almost entirely in district 3
 

DoubleAtotheRON

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Yup; they’re a leading manufacturer. Danish I believe.
I don’t blame them for what sounds like the operator ignoring the user’s manual.

I wonder how easy it would be to find out who’s operating the dirty bird. Probably the owner of record for the property.

I also wonder if this is lax law or lax enforcement. Either way, perhaps a letter to your Congressperson* without naming names, since keeping good neighbors is a big plus imo.

*almost certainly Frank Lucas since Rush Springs is almost entirely in district 3
IDK.. just bad management or struggling financials.. Her Company is EDF Renewables based in Marseille, France, but has US headquarters in San Diego, which is why we were there. Im all about clean energy, but for christ's sake, clean that shit up. It sits right on the hwy, ... quite the eye sore.
 
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