When you ask commercial property owners to subsidize all other citizens by paying higher taxes on commercial property than on residential property, you are basically giving the finger to all businesses, not just property owners. Those costs WILL be passed on.
How about all of us bearing the burden together, regardless of how our ground is zoned?
I tread carefully on feelings because I think it is high time to exorcise the ad-hominem attack from politics. We need to assume the best of intentions on the part of those with whom we disagree, not the worst (unless proven otherwise in a court of law, of course.)
Show me a politician is ready to work with (read “compromise with”) left, right, and center to fix the state’s problems, even if it pisses off his core voters, and you’ve got someone I will support and for whom I will vote. Anyone, Red or Blue, who wants to march to Sacramento for a showdown with “the other side,” OTOH, is making a bad problem worse.
California is overdue for some bi-partisanship, and I am more than happy to point the first finger (first three fingers) at the right wing of my own party. Unfortunately, focusing on giving one party or another 2/3 majority only propagates the “Us versus Them” element in California politics that has proven so toxic in the past and has led to the current gridlock.
It is past time for the left of the hip to end their secular canonization of Ernesto Guevara.
You may as well put Joseph Stalin on a t-shirt.
(Source: the-altar, via youreabitweird)
When in danger,
when in doubt,
hose the tree line.
How can a guy who spends money like this be depended upon to bring order into the Department of Defense?
Whatever you have to say about POTUS, on this basis alone he should fire Panetta. This is borderline malfeasance.
I don’t switch on the hate-pump about liberals on this Tumblog because while there are some notable exceptions, I like a lot of them. Do I agree with the things they say? Not usually. More often I disagree, frequently with great passion.
But I can’t let that turn into hate. Pity? Frustration? Absolutely.
Hate I save for the genuine evil-doers, regardless of what side of the political fence they call home.
Fucking parents today. Shut the fuck up and discipline your kids and maybe they won’t be fucking stupid and get pregnant at 16. Also society won’t consider you a failure… maybe.
^ this.
Parents these days don’t fucking discipline their children. They are all spoiled brats. It’s this American mentality of “we must make them have great self esteem!”
But do you realize lying and not disciplining them won’t help? By teaching your child to do well in school fosters good grades AND good self esteem. By blaming the teacher you are just raising a moron.
Yep.
(Source: verasfreedomofspeech, via youreabitweird)
A couple of guys in first class on a flight
From New York to Los Angeles
Kinda making small talk killin’ time
Flirting with the flight attendants
Thirty thousand feet above, could be Oklahoma
Just a bunch of square cornfields and wheat farms
Man, it all looks the same
Miles and miles of back roads and highways
Connecting little towns with funny names
Who’d want to live down there, in the middle of nowhere
They’ve never drove through Indiana
Met the man who plowed that earth
Planted that seed, busted his ass for you and me
Or caught a harvest moon in Kansas
They’d understand why God made
Those fly over statesJason Aldean, Fly Over States
(via caityycatt)
Bill Maher believes that if you can say something in a locker room you should be able to say it on TV.
Some people find that enlightened, I guess.
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Bo Guagua’s Parties and Privilege Aggravate Elite Chinese Family’s Fall - NYTimes.com
In other words, Harvard is not a meritocratic institution, but a oligarchic one.
(via siliconhutong)
The next time someone tries to tell you that Harvard admissions are based solely on merit, and that the days were long gone in which someone could be admitted into their hallowed halls based on parentage, call “bulls**t” and say “Bo Guagua.”
(via siliconhutong)
i don’t think that eating meat, in and of itself, is necessarily a problem; the problem lies with CAFOs, the exploitation of human labor, and the low quality of the hormone- and antibiotic-filled meat that too often has adverse effects on our collective health.
i don’t think that converting to a…
Brilliant post. Well worth the read.
