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Aug. 16th, 2003 01:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ealgyldenYou know you've been spending too much time on fannish things when your immediate response to this is "Ahh! Sam! What are you doing?!" and it takes a while before it occurs to you, "Wait, I mean Rob. Rob! What are you doing?!"
Still, I can't think of a more fitting situation in which to make a fiction vs. reality slip like that. This whole California debacle could easily be blamed on untalented writers or pressure from the network, and I wouldn't blink. It would make so much sense.
Still, I can't think of a more fitting situation in which to make a fiction vs. reality slip like that. This whole California debacle could easily be blamed on untalented writers or pressure from the network, and I wouldn't blink. It would make so much sense.
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Date: 2003-08-16 05:35 am (UTC)But, honestly, I'm so amused. *snickers behind hand*
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Date: 2003-08-16 06:34 am (UTC)This California thing just keeps getting wackier. New York politics are never this weird, or at least not this kind of weird. Nowhere else is this kind of weird, I think.
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Date: 2003-08-16 06:38 am (UTC)Again with the whole 'I know, man' thing. I'm glad I don't live out there. Heh.
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Date: 2003-08-16 05:57 pm (UTC)Seriously. If the land itself isn't trying to kill everyone with earthquakes, mudslides and forest fires, the people are doing the strangest things. But at least they aren't dull. *g*
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Date: 2003-08-16 06:11 pm (UTC)That's true. And we wouldn't have TV without 'em. well, we would but ;)
Seriously, though. I worry. If Arnie become governor, what does that mean for all the machines in the world? Does this give them some sort of voting power?
*cough*
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Date: 2003-08-16 06:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-16 07:45 pm (UTC)Me too. I always rant about them. We're so screwed.
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Date: 2003-08-16 06:04 am (UTC)Hehe. It is starting to sound like something The West Wing third season writers cooked up. Though, with the parties switched, of course. Just goes to show, truth is stranger than fiction.
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Date: 2003-08-16 07:05 am (UTC)This whole thing just gets more and more odd. It's like West Wing with a little bit of David Lynch and some terrible reality show for seasoning. Only in California. I'm so glad I don't live there.
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Date: 2003-08-16 10:52 am (UTC)I'm so glad I moved. I was there a year and a half, and that was too freaking LONG. There's just something about CA that turns ordinary people into complete loons.
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Date: 2003-08-16 06:08 pm (UTC)Certainly seems that way. Something in the water, maybe? It's interesting to watch, in the way that a circus or a sideshow is interesting, but it's good to be on the other side of the country, I think (not that NYC is much better).
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Date: 2003-08-16 08:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-16 10:50 pm (UTC)I was in three earthquakes in the year and a half I was there. The first two struck late at night and were fairly mild; I actually slept through one of them. The third hit while I was watching a San Jose Sharks game on TV and damn near rattled me off the couch, but play didn't even stop at the game. When asked about it later, one of the opposing team players (think it was Forsberg) said, "Well, the puck was already bouncing, so we didn't even notice." ::G::
Being from Florida, I'd much rather deal with a hurricane than an earthquake. You get fair warning with a hurricane, and can pack up and leave before it hits. Earthquakes strike without warning and there's not a blessed thing you can do but hang on. All a matter of what you're used to, I suppose.
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Date: 2003-08-16 11:03 pm (UTC)I've always wanted to experience an earthquake, just once. We have them (thank you, Quebec), but they're always little and I never seem to be awake at the time. No tornadoes, hurricanes, or mudslides either. Snow, though, snow we have. In immense quantities. And ice. And Canadians (kidding).
Albany generally seems to restrict itself to criminals as politicians rather than crazies and colorful people, so it's not half so interesting to watch. In all seriousness, though, I find this whole situation a bit boggling. I mean, I know Davis isn't very popular, but how is spending all this money on a recall rather than waiting for his term to be up and voting him out going to help anything? I don't get it. Maybe it makes more sense if one is a billionaire Republican?
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Date: 2003-08-17 06:20 am (UTC)Heh. Well, considering about 40% of Democrats polled want Davis gone, I don't think you need to be a billionaire Republican to understand it. The recall, as of right now, looks like it's gonna cost somewhere in the vicinity of 70 million dollars. Davis wastes that in, like, a day. You don't have to live here to understand what a crook the man is, but I think you do have to live here to understand how fed up Californians are with him and his wicked ways. We've seen spending go through the roof, only outdistanced by our taxes, businesses packing up every day, every single public service deteriorating to the point of uselessness, etc., etc., all so the prison guard's union could get a 38% pay increase. Of course, that was only so they would contribute heavily to Davis' campaign. And then to find out he lied about CA's financial problems before the election and then 'corrected' himself afterwards? You'd be amazed how angry people here are.
And for a damn good reason, too.
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Date: 2003-08-17 07:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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