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Kadie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 12:52 PM Original message |
Jittery Californians Buying Bullets And Safes |
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Hestia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
1. My gosh, for once quit feed the fear, feed hope. |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
2. When I was young the same people's parents were building bomb shelters |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:42 PM Response to Reply #2 |
35. When I was in high school, some friends and I converted a 1950s bomb shelter into a darkroom |
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McCCain4retirment (345 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. This is like Y2K all over again |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
4. Putting that money in a safe isn't going to help if the government |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 01:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. They'd choose the path of Hitler over the path of FDR.. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 01:59 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Ain't that the truth! |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:58 PM Response to Reply #4 |
38. They need wheelbarrows instead. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:05 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. What was probably true was that many Germans found their life |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:20 PM Response to Reply #39 |
45. I loved Shirer's book. |
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mulsh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
5. I'm in Oakland, Ca. I just got back from a weekend party with my |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 01:08 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Those people up in the Sierras need a reality check. They need to |
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MicaelS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 02:36 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. The worst thing in the world |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:10 PM Response to Reply #5 |
20. Lately that the idea of purchasing a gun crossed my mind. |
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jrockford (504 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
7. why not just hide it under the mattress? nt |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
8. If this is the way you react to an economic crisis, then you are a coward.. |
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rvablue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
10. California is in a lot worse shape than the rest of the country.... |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 02:09 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Wrecked their education system too. |
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rvablue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:00 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Don't think it had much to do with David |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:23 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Oh no, two issues, I think Prop 13 was under Deukmejian** |
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rvablue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:28 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Yeah, it was under Brown, but it was a voter-initiative, didn't need his sig. n/t |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:33 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. That makes sense, I was a kid in school at the time so all I really knew |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:11 PM Response to Reply #21 |
41. Proposition 13 was hatched by Jarvis under the approval of Reagan when |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:15 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. The surest way for a California politician to not get elected is to attack Prop 13 |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:24 PM Response to Reply #43 |
48. Why, that's downright republican of you. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:30 PM Response to Reply #48 |
50. It takes 55% of the popular vote to approve tax increases |
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spinbaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 02:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. As California goes... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:50 PM Response to Reply #10 |
37. The only problem with the state's revenue system is an out-of-control legislature |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:09 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Bullshit. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:13 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. Horse puckey. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:21 PM Response to Reply #42 |
46. Wrong. There's not much administrative waste, either. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:29 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. It's not capped at 1% |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:35 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. It IS capped at one percent. The other taxes go to all citizens, not just homeowners. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 06:05 PM Response to Reply #51 |
53. My PROPERTY TAX bill has surcharges totalling about 10% of my property tax |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
16. everyone should pay attention to California, what happens here blows east. |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:07 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Yeah...somethings blowing all right. |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
17. Bullets? What the fuck; haven't they learned from the terra fear mongering that duct tape cures all? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
19. Holy cow, I hope no one in this hood is doing that. |
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spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:28 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. It would be my bet that plenty of people in the hood... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:29 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. No here. We don't even have tire irons. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
26. My brother in law.. |
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dogpatch (660 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
27. Could be earthquakes |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
28. I'm sure everyone in Marysville will be safer if they have more ammo to shoot at each other |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:10 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Knowing Marysville, they're more likely trying to protect thier meth labs. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:12 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Still better than Oroville |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:20 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. What isn't? |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:31 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. we could keep playing this game you know |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:34 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Pretty much. |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
34. This reminds me of the rice shortage a few months ago |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
36. Anyone buying ammunition now is taking it in the shorts |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
44. Put the bullets in the safes so no one gets hurt... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:21 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. Wrong |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:36 PM Response to Reply #47 |
52. I was assuming that they were already there... |
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