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#51 2003-07-22 6:30 pm
- MysticCow
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
Yeah, MysticCow. That is annoying and not clever.
Please refer to #13.
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1. SAME whining from the SAME queens. If a DEMOCRAT did this, nobody would care...
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13. Your post reads something like "blah blah blah, CHEAP LESBIAN JOKE!"
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#52 2003-07-22 6:39 pm
- Mustapha Mond
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
To be fair, mart2001 seems to be quite enamored with it.
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(do you say "enamored with it" or "enamored by it" ??)
I would say "with" since it puts the action on Mart's part. "By" is typically passive voice, which in this instance would make the list itself taking the action, which would be weird.
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#53 2003-07-22 6:49 pm
- El Light Borus
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
Hey, I didn't say that EVERYONE in CA is a yuppie. I just said that it's full of yuppies. There are plenty of good folk in California. It's just that the yuppies are the ones you tend to notice, and there seems to be a greater percentage of them in CA than any other state. Then there's tourists (Oh God), surfers, beach bums, stoners, etc. The somewhat average folk are reduced to background noise amongst them. It's a messy conglomeration.
Washington east of the Cascade Mountains and Washington west of the Cascade Mountains are two different states. At least they may as well be. The west side is pretty liberal, the east side is pretty conservative. I hear it's the same in Oregon. There was even talk about splitting Oregon and Washington down the mountain range and merging the east sides with Idaho. It was just talk, though. Or maybe wishful thinking would be a better term. I think it would make everyone pretty happy.
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#54 2003-07-22 7:20 pm
- ClayH
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
"I seriously doubt that conservative even GET irony."
You generalized!
bratboy: "Settle down."
I'm not all mad or hateful with blood pressure through the roof. When I say "The liberals _____" I'm just sort of calling people out that I know will respond. I don't take MAF too seriously at all. But thank you so much for worrying about me. 
I'm going to leave it at that.
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#55 2003-07-22 7:22 pm
- bratboy
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
"I seriously doubt that conservative even GET irony."
You generalized!

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#56 2003-07-22 10:32 pm
Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
congress is responsible for passing spending oh and guess what the economy got assulted by:
1) an overvalued unsustainable market, primaritly worthless tech stocks
2) we got attacked on 9/11 which dropped down the economy even further.
The point was that you couldn't blame Davis for the financial situation in California while ignoring what Bush has done. You can't have it both ways! Either blame both Davis and Bush, or blame neither.
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#57 2003-07-22 10:44 pm
Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
congress is responsible for passing spending oh and guess what the economy got assulted by:
1) an overvalued unsustainable market, primaritly worthless tech stocks
2) we got attacked on 9/11 which dropped down the economy even further.The point was that you couldn't blame Davis for the financial situation in California while ignoring what Bush has done. You can't have it both ways! Either blame both Davis and Bush, or blame neither.
governors I believe can directly decide how the states spend money, Bush has to go with whatever congress dictates.
Just like back in Saigon! Eh, slick?
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#58 2003-07-23 1:05 am
Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
Here's an interesting twist on the recall. And it's from FOX news, so it has the proper neo-PC credentials.
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#59 2003-07-23 1:23 am
- [MA] Flying_Meat
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
Special recall elections. Impeachment hearings. Whew! Republicans sure like spending the taxpayer's money.
Actually, I think there are a hell of a lot of Democrats in CA who want him gone.
I don't. I'm not gullible enough. Gray Davis didn't deregulate the energy industry. Gray Davis didn't burst the tech bubble. That's where the money went, and isn't coming from anymore, respectively.
...and watch out for the flying meat!
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#60 2003-07-23 3:59 pm
#61 2003-07-23 4:03 pm
Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
The recall is fun. It'll be the first election I participate in.
I think most Republicans are planning to vote out davis, and vote in an equally incompetent democrat.

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#63 2003-07-23 4:34 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
To be fair, mart2001 seems to be quite enamored with it.
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(do you say "enamored with it" or "enamored by it" ??)I would say "with" since it puts the action on Mart's part. "By" is typically passive voice, which in this instance would make the list itself taking the action, which would be weird.
Why not avoid grammatical confusion and just say he's got a hardon for it. I suppose you could use "with" there, but it implies they're pairing off somehow.
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#64 2003-07-23 10:57 pm
Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
governors I believe can directly decide how the states spend money, Bush has to go with whatever congress dictates.
You couldn't be more wrong. In California, the budget has to be approved by both the governor and two thirds of the legislature. So, despite the fact that Republicans are a gross minority in the state, they have the power to stonewall the budget from going through -- which they did. As I said before, they blocked Davis from raising taxes at all, even when his plans called for both tax increases and cuts in spending.
Contrast that to Bush. He is the undisputed leader of a party which has absolute control of all three branches of government. He got basically everything he wanted in terms of economic policy and spending, and the budget has never been worse.
You can't blame Davis when you ignore Bush. Indeed, their respective budget problems are more Bush's fault than Davis'.
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#65 2003-07-24 12:51 am
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
13. Your post reads something like "blah blah blah, CHEAP LESBIAN JOKE!"
please, read # 13
do us a favor, and cut it down some. Mabye just show the specific response you pointed at. It is annoying to read that crap over and over.
Sometimes before replying to a topic, I think to myself: I am just so original!
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#66 2003-07-24 1:02 am
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
13. Your post reads something like "blah blah blah, CHEAP LESBIAN JOKE!"
please, read # 13
do us a favor, and cut it down some. Mabye just show the specific response you pointed at. It is annoying to read that crap over and over.
He obviously has no other point than to be annoying.
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#67 2003-07-24 1:04 am
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
More power lies in a T'u Lung court fool than in its emperor.
George Bush: "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
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#68 2003-07-24 1:06 am
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
More power lies in a T'u Lung court fool than in its emperor.
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#69 2003-07-24 7:46 pm
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
actually, the content and level of discussion and analysis in this thread is all the information you need as to why this
RECALL PETITION was successfull.
most of you [recall supporters or republikans] are completely smurfing stupid complainers, who shop at wal-mart and like to sign things.
if i hear one more idiot blame gray davis for the energy crisis, i will implode. that bill was proposed by Pete Wilson, and passed by the gop cronies and the fence crawling, conservative trolling democrats of the central valleys. most of you probably aren't sure what party wilson was/is - now do you?
so, recall supporters... please tell me EXACTLY WHAT mr. davis did wrong, and how IT SHOULD have been handled?
here is you -->
i'm taking away the oracle software issue, cuz i'll grant you that one.
i'll be waiting.
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#70 2003-07-24 8:33 pm
- ClayH
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
"so, recall supporters... please tell me EXACTLY WHAT mr. davis did wrong, and how IT SHOULD have been handled?"
Why don't you pose that questions to 77% of California voters? I'm not saying I'm all for recall, I'm just saying that they have the right to do it and if they hate the guy then good for them for booting him out.
Amazing how the non-Californian recall attackers [I made a clear effort here to not say "liberal"] will whine like little babies about Gore getting 1 or 2% more popular votes than Bush (never mind that he got almost double the states), yet they go against the wishes, no, RIGHTS of 77% of Californians. More of what we are used to... one set of rules for us, another set for everyone else.
I'm going to leave it at that.
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#71 2003-07-24 8:34 pm
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
if i hear one more idiot blame gray davis for the energy crisis, i will implode.
If you're gonna implode, first come out to california. Maybe we can harness some of the energy released during your implosion to help with the gray davis energy disaster.
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#72 2003-07-24 8:35 pm
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
if i hear one more idiot blame gray davis for the energy crisis, i will implode.
If you're gonna implode, first come out to california. Maybe we can harness some of the energy released during your implosion to help with the gray davis energy disaster.

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#73 2003-07-24 11:09 pm
Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
if i hear one more idiot blame gray davis for the energy crisis, i will implode.
If you're gonna implode, first come out to california. Maybe we can harness some of the energy released during your implosion to help with the gray davis energy disaster.
it doesnt get any better than that 
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#74 2003-07-25 7:53 am
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
When democrats do it, they're sore losers. When Republicans do it, they're preserving freedom.
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#75 2003-07-25 10:48 am
- mtpalms
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Re: Doesn't anybody care about Gray Davis getting recalled???
actually, the content and level of discussion and analysis in this thread is all the information you need as to why this
RECALL PETITION was successfull.
most of you [recall supporters or republikans] are completely smurfing stupid complainers, who shop at wal-mart and like to sign things.
if i hear one more idiot blame gray davis for the energy crisis, i will implode. that bill was proposed by Pete Wilson, and passed by the gop cronies and the fence crawling, conservative trolling democrats of the central valleys. most of you probably aren't sure what party wilson was/is - now do you?
so, recall supporters... please tell me EXACTLY WHAT mr. davis did wrong, and how IT SHOULD have been handled?
here is you -->![]()
i'm taking away the oracle software issue, cuz i'll grant you that one.
i'll be waiting.
Also, I heard on the news that this is gonna cost CA taxpayers around $35 million, but of course, estimates are always low. Funny, how they can afford this.
The only thing Davis 'did' was nothing - or did things without fanfare: I understand he has sued the out of state power companies on behalf of CA citizens to get their money back. A slow and laborious process, and hardly something the media can get excited about and milk for long . If, in 10 years Californians start getting rebate checks from Haliburton, Edison Int'l, Enron, et al, they will surely be pleased, but the governor of the hour will get the laurels, Davis will be long forgotten. (The main reason I am saying that is because I had to look up who was the preceding governor a few days ago, because I couldn't remember - and I think I'm pretty average, in that respect - no long term memory, which says alot about why this recall happened, and the point of more or less' post )
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