Re: My hometown. The People's Republic? :)

Post #112,996 by deSitter 8/6/03 10:14:16 PM Reply	Re: My hometown. The People's Republic? :) My Dad was a high mucky-muck (said in greatest respect) in security at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach - he attended management meetings and all that, was good with words so designed a number of safety posters for the workplace. I remember some of California (moved when I was 4 to Georgia by train = big extreme fun for a kid) I think we lived on Beethoven Street - nearby is Beethoven Liqours (not what you think, this is a well-kept respectable neighborhood and always was) - it had a rotating "Seagram's 7" sign - for some reason I remember this rotating neon "7" as being a zillion miles away, rotating evenly, mournfully, with the empty, vast Pacific in the background, reflecting a somber evening moon in an indeterminate season. In fact it was a liquor store a few blocks down the street. IOW, this was a middle class town, with working people in it. -drl
Post #112,999 by a6l6e6x 8/6/03 10:26:27 PM Reply	Re: The People's Republic. The [link\|http://www.hlkklaw.com/livingwage/news/kcrw11072002.html\|reason] I mentioned it is an old reputation: "It was once so liberal that landlords and developers called it the "People's Republic of Santa Monica," but Tom Hayden's gone mainstream, Jane Fonda's moved away, and rent control has been pre-empted by state law. And [link\|http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1034\|another]: The Santa Monica City Council is now considering a law -- repeat, a law -- mandating that private homeowners spend their own money to make their homes handicap "visitable." But what about the Constitution? What about property rights? The People's Republic of Santa Monica, remember? The land of below-market rent-controlled apartments whose tenants drive BMWs while their landlords drive Hondas. Alex A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw
Post #113,001 by deSitter 8/6/03 10:39:26 PM Reply	Neat :) Glad I'm from there! Really, I have very fond memories of it. The beach was very nice, other than being attacked by a prehistoric beach fly. Drew blood it did. -drl
Post #115,593 by mmoffitt 8/27/03 5:19:42 PM Reply	Douglas? When? 4456 Clark Avenue (about a block away) is where I grew up. bcnu, Mikem The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism. - Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"
Post #115,597 by deSitter 8/27/03 6:17:55 PM Reply	Re: Douglas? When? 59-63. Kennedy was killed a few months after we arrived in Georgia. -drl

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