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Boon Mee

More likely a high probability there...
Recall (you may or may not) what Reagan did to the air traffic controllers?

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AntRobertson

Probability-shmobability. It's still all conjecture on your part.

Yes because American citizens striking is exactly the same as Iranian hostage-takers.

Any other completely irrelevant and meaningless comparisons? Sometimes it really is just easier to admit that you were wrong or engaged in a bit of 'distortion' you know. Certainly prevents the hole from getting deeper.

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Boon Mee

Berkeley - a suburb of SF has now gone full-on Moonbat!
They are giving the US Marines the boot!

http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_8120433?source=rss

Inside Bay Area - Berkeley gives Marines the boot

Unbelievable...

Milkman

It's about time.

Recruiters are doing their job. I respect them. They are doing their jobs.

But I have a problem: I don't like Neo-Conservatism.

Hit the road. Get lost, I say.

raycarey

SF values.

amen.

Boon Mee

The two posters directly above should have to move to Cuba...for the rest of their little commie-lovin' lives...

Boon Mee

Karl Rove's Marines are not letting a bunch of smelly Hippies stop their recruitment of young, patriotic Americans!

Gateway Pundit: Berkeley Chaos-- Protesters Chain Themselves to Marine Office Doors... <em>Scuffle With Recruits!</em>

These people are completely unhinged!

BERKELEY / Facing off over Marine Corps / 3 war opponents chain selves to door of recruiting station, and right-wing blogosphere goes ballistic

Milkman

I don't think I'd fit in to well, Boon.

I'm a Libertarian and have been voting Libertarian since 1996.


Fidel wouldn't welcome me.

Boon Mee

Your Crazy Uncle Ron (as in Paul) ain't doin' too good.
Libertarians have a good philosophy but impractical...

Milkman

Ron Paul is running as a GOPer, but I still hold him close to the heart.


Libertarian, dues paying member, forever.

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Boon Mee

Check out these pics of those so-called 'revolutionary Maoist Cultists' in Berkeley (SF) protesting our brave, proud, Patriotic Marines.

Some of these Moonbats were afraid to show their faces...

Berkeley's Marine Corps Recruiting Center Controversy

Boon Mee

This guy's got the right idea w/respect to dealing with those Moonbats in Berzerkeley.

U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., says the City of Berkeley, Calif., no longer deserves federal money.

DeMint was angered after learning that the Berkeley City Council voted this week to tell the U.S. Marine Corps to remove its recruiting station from the city's downtown.

"This is a slap in the face to all brave service men and women and their families," DeMint said in a prepared statement. "The First Amendment gives the City of Berkeley the right to be idiotic, but from now on they should do it with their own money."

"If the city can’t show respect for the Marines that have fought, bled and died for their freedom, Berkeley should not be receiving special taxpayer-funded handouts," he added.

No shit...

raycarey

maybe demint (and boon mee) should be worrying about the homeless iraq vets, instead of being duped into thinking this is an important issue.

how many marines were actually recruited in berkeley office last year? any?
and considering how expensive this war is turning out to be, as a cost saving measure they should probably move the office to a cheaper real estate market.

but of course the rubes will continue to parrot the talking points from rush limbaugh/foxnews as if this is an important issue.

AntRobertson

The black hood and orange boilersuits are symbolic of the Gitmo detainees Booners. Nothing to do with hiding their identity.

Boon Mee

Update: Well, it turns out dear readers that the Berkeley City Council has raised the White Flag. It seems they had a 're-think' after they heard from hundreds of folks right in their respective districts. The Mayor still thinks that "“Marines are the President’s own gangsters… they are trained killers” and that the Marines are known for “death and destruction…and maiming” and give America “horrible karma,” it’s the “policy” they oppose, you see."

Michelle Malkin » The siege in Berkeley: City councilmembers raise a white flag

raycarey

so boonie, the rabid right wing bloggers successfully manipulated you with a completely unimportant issue....again.

Boon Mee

Not at all.
The so-called right-wing media no doubt part of the VRWC (Vast Right Wing Conspiracy) was alert to more encroachment of Americans liberties by the virulent, rabid, appeasement-monkeys in SF & Berkeley.

Boon Mee

The Semper Fi Act.

"Today, U.S. Senators James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia), Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Oklahoma), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and David Vitter (R-Louisiana) introduced the Semper Fi Act of 2008. The bill would rescind over $2 million in hidden earmarks for Berkeley, California in the 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill, and transfer the funds to the Marine Corps. U.S. Congressman John Campbell (R-California) is introducing a companion bill in the House of Representatives."

So much for an 'unimportant issue' eh?

OK & TX U.S. Senators Introduce Semper Fi Act of 2008

Boon Mee

San Francisco Values spreading east?

"A company of Marine Corps Reservists received a cold send-off from downtown Toledo yesterday by order of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner."

Anyone with a name like 'Carty Finkeiner' has to be a left-wing liberal Moonbat. It's like a disease those sissy-mary's let loose in SF...

toledoblade.com -- Mayor to Marines: Leave downtown

Boon Mee

Update on the Toledo Mayor who hates Marines.
Turns out this creep has a rap sheet long as your arm:

* Toledo restaurateur John Skiadas filed a law-suit alleging that Finkbeiner physically and verbally assaulted him at the Erie Street Market in 2000. The lawsuit was dismissed by Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Charles Wittenberg in 2004.[1][2]

* Finkbeiner was the focus of a segment on the Daily Show poking fun at statements he made suggesting that Toledo could be the next Hollywood. During the interview, Carty expressed his ideas while the camera fixated on Toledo's most rundown neighborhoods, contrasting them with the glitz and glamor of Hollywood. The segment aired during the 1997-98 season.

* On July 1, 1998, Carty was fined $400 and court costs after pleading guilty to ethics charges when he was Mayor, realized a $10,000 profit from Owens Corning's purchase of his condo, and his failure to publicly report the gain.[citation needed]

* He plagiarized a single line in his KICK-OFF speech in 1998.[3]

* Finkbeiner suggested relieving the problem of noise complaints from neighbors of Toledo Express Airport by selling homes nearby at low cost to deaf people.[4]

* In early 2006, political adversaries scoffed over the Mayor spending $9,996 of city money to complete the installation of shower facilities in his City Government building office. The project was considered "controversial" in part because the shower quote was originally $10,006, six dollars over a threshold that requires approval from City Council. The contractor was able to shave $10 from the project, thus avoiding a Council vote on the proposal. [5]

* In May 2006, he called Toledo's African-American Fire Chief Michael Bell “King Kong” at a staff meeting. Finkbeiner later clarified his remarks as relating to the Chiefs physical stature, and Chief Bell has acknowledged in public that he took no offense to the remarks.[7]

* In June 2006, Jack Smith resigned from his brief tenure as Chief of Police after what he described as a near-physical confrontation with the mayor after they exchanged words.[8]

* In January 2007, Finkbeiner claimed that both he and wife Amy were treated unprofessionally by Ottawa County sheriff's deputies when they tried to visit Amy's son, an inmate, on separate occasions. Amy Finkbeiner claimed she was not allowed to use a ladies' room at the jail, while Finkbeiner said he was denied a chance to visit after visiting hours had concluded. Sheriff Bob Bratton said the deputies were only doing their jobs. [9]

* Also, in Jaunary 2007 Finkbeiner and his press secretary were sued by radio station WSPD, claiming that First Amendment provisions regarding freedom of the press were violated when the press secretary forcibly kept a station employee out of a public press conference. Finkbeiner's objection to the employee is that he produces opinions and editorials, and is not in fact a reporter on behalf of WSPD. On January 31, a federal judge granted the station a permanent injunction requiring Finkbeiner and his staff to admit station personnel.[10]

* FinkBeiner has also suggested a cafe be built on the Martin Luther King bridge so city employees could eat there while the bridge was undergoing construction. [11]

* In August 2007, Finkbeiner was confronted on two occasions by reporters because he parked in a handicapped spot and left his dog in the car during a hot spell. Finkbeiner was ticketed and fined, but denied mistreating the animal.[12]

* In February 2008, Finkbeiner refused to let a company of Marine Corps Reservists engage in urban patrol exercises on the streets of downtown as well as inside the mostly vacant Madison Building, 607 Madison Ave. Toledo police knew about the event three days in advance, but it wasn't until the Marines arrived that "the mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people," said Brian Schwartz, the mayor's spokesman.[13]

Carleton S. Finkbeiner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Carty should get a clue - it ain't nice to diss the Marine Corps