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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Strategizing over Stockton
California Progressive calls Stockton “the secret “ to a democratic California here, if only big-city progressives will help the Valley out of its feudal conservatism.
And Mike Machado’s district supervisor, Anne Baird, asks here, “So, what are we Valley Dems? Chopped liver?”
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Summer of Love (cont’d)
In 1967, the Summer of Love, the place where hippies, trippies and dippies let the sunshine in was American Legion Park.
A Stockton Police narc named Officer Rupe made it his life’s mission to disrupt this be-in. Actual law-breaking was not necessary for the zealous Offcier Rupe.
“He’d call your your parents,” recalled Marc Corren. “‘Mr. Corren? I [...]
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Lyon’s demolition
The wrecking ball finally comes to the old, and annoyingly blighted, Lyon’s Restaurant building on Pacific Avenue and Yokuts this coming Tuesday.
The building is making way for an Elephant Bar.
By day Lyon’s was a mild-mannered restaurant with a menu featuring the word “zesty.” By night Lyon’s transformed into a more urban hangout for nighthawks [...]
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Voter fraud (cont’d)
Mr. Farago (see below) may also be interested in this:
WASHINGTON – During four years as a civil rights lawyer, Hans von Spakovsky went so far in a crusade against voter fraud as to warn of its dangers under a pseudonym in a law journal article.
Writing as “Publius,” von Spakovsky contended that every voter should be [...]
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You want callous? We got callous
Bill Maxwell writes:
“I know it is callous, but if we are really lucky, Delta & Dawn, the wayward whales, will make their way south to the Tracy pumping station, get sucked into the impellers, ground up into cat-food-size chunks and exported south along with all our water.
“Maybe then someone will pay attention to the [...]
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Ask Mike: illegal alien voters?
Reader Richard Farago writes:
“How come illegal immigrants can file to vote and no one checks out the fact that they are not eligible?”
That’s not exactly true. When a person fills out a registration form – under penalty of perjury – it is sent to the Secretary of State’s Office.There it is matched against the databases [...]
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Another hack appointee?
“Anymore, however, the system’s helmsmen don’t even bother pretending their rapacious, reptilian minds are interested in anything other than self-interest.”— A former Manteca Bulletin employee is named to a high state post for whch he seems to have absolutely no qualifications – a political appointee, in other words — and The Smirking Chimp doesn’t like [...]
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Cover-ups and booze
” … running from the hounding of the local media … working extra hard to hide from the F.B.I, and of course, busting a move to Shred all of those incriminating documents.”– Eyes of Argus, cruelly explaining the pressures that drove former San Joaquin County District Attorney John Phillips to drink. Should I admit I laughed out [...]
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Another loss, another shrine
A blogger posts a photo of a Lathrop shrine marking the spot where two of his loved ones were recently killed. Someone ought to do a photo essay on shrines like this in our county. They leap out of the mass-produced landscape as embodiments of true human respect and sorrow. They are not authorized; they are not commercialized; they [...]
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Hanging graffiti vandals