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EMAIL RESPONSES See Article RE: A Few Supportive Comments for Joe Mitchell Dear Chron and Joe Mitchell, I could easily write several essays about California and its belief in the image it has created for so many places, not the least of which is Texas. It's too late at night right now to do it and I'm getting a little sleepy but a quick word for Californians who comment about executions elsewhere when their own authorities execute people without trial in broad daylight for just being in the wrong place, and they get away with it too. Police do have guns in L. A. you know. Also, California has the official death penalty too. Regarding people from states associated with reprehensible Republicans, what was the actual home state of Ronald Reagan, where he was elected and reelected to the governorship, and, by the way, who is the elected governor nowadays? Compared to Reagan, Nixon looked good, and where was Nixon and his San Clemente home? A Californian could say Reagan wasn't born there but then where was George W. Bush born and raised? Also, where is Yale? Harvard is in Kerry's stomping grounds, where Bush got his MBA. By the way, that other Massachusetts Democrat, Robert Kennedy, got shot where? Hint: NOT in Texas. Along with Bush's Eastern private schools like Andover, and Yale, Harvard is a long way from Texas even if once upon a time Democrats didn't think Boston was that far from Austin. Regarding California's energy crunch, they set themselves up for that one, what with the California yuppie socialist version of a kind of twisted deregulation. They'd had problems all along not just with electric power, but in refinery explosions, soil water and air pollution, park degradation, dependency on the country's taxpayers to bail them out, education that was overpriced and extremely under quality, bad polarizations in just about everything where somebody could claim victimhood and on and on. However they were too impressed, like the narcissists they are, with how wonderful they were. They would always tell me how "it's not any better anyplace else". If there's a problem Californians regularly blame it on immigrants, meaning those who came after they did, or if they're politically correct and environmentalistic they blame it on "overpopulation" (meaning immigrants other than themselves). Being from Texas I guess I had a different idea of what better was. Texas has a better relationship with Mexico and Mexicans and better border policy despite Reagan's lunatic Californian ideas about putting a moat, some trigger happy armed military from out of state and unfamiliar with Latino Texans, a real high electric fence, and a bunch of blimps on the Texas border. As much as I don't think any state should have the power to impose death penalties, at least in Texas those who receive it get some kind of day in court, however incompetent the defense assigned to them may be. For all the pollution that California exports to Texas via refineries here, like the ones that make chemicals from which Californians derive the plastic goods they enjoy and from which they profit, our plants don't blow up nearly as often as those of some of the incompetent refiners of California. We also tend not to shoot at people as they cross the border, like they still do from time to time down in California. Maybe that's just a modern variation on the "eugenic" forced sterilizations for which the Nazi's admired California so much. California brags about its Universities, but don't even get me started on that, and what I know is known from long torturous experience. I'll just say that a much better education is available at Texas universities and at a price that shows Texas puts its money where its mouth is, especially when it talks about diversity and encouraging foreign students to study here. Also Californians brag about how you can supposedly go skiing and then to the beach on the same day, like any of 'em really have done that even once. The beaches of Texas are still kind of wild and Texas' most beautiful parts are not even closed to filled up with developments, condo's, shopping malls and what have you, because, unlike California, the population is better distributed, not bunched up on the narrow strip of superficially pretty coast. Anyway, I've got to stop or I'll end up writing a book. There's plenty more to be said and I'd have a pretty hard answer to some California woman that did me that way in a restaurant. I wouldn't be the one embarrassed by the ignorant laughter of a bunch of clueless Californians. I have stronger language but it's not printable. Just let Joe Mitchell know he's got my sympathy and moral support. Sincerely, Chuck |