Daily Archives: June 9, 2025

It Would Be Worth It

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just to stop California from thinking they can tell the rest of us what to do and how to live.

"Full Marine Battalion Of 500 Deploying To LA As Newsom Sues Trump Over National Guard"

Navin Grewsom: "Californians pay the bills for the federal government. We pay over $80 BILLION more in taxes than we get back. Maybe it’s time to cut that off, @realDonaldTrump."

[then why are you running such huge deficits?]

Cut them off. Let them keep their $80B. The rest of us already need permission to enter - the state has "customs" stations at the border; make those work both ways.

Let them get it shoved in their faces they're not as independent of us as they'd like to believe; that they need the rest of us for such things as electricity and fuel and water.

The expression "Don't Californicate xxxx" didn't come about out of nowhere - look what happened to Oregon.

Let's hear it for the great state of Jefferson ...

Rant OFF.

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The Old Gazebo…

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Originally published December 22, 2006

Winter. Late afternoon.
The beach is empty. The air is grey-blue.
The ocean is grey-silver, scattered with foamy white waves.

At the high-tide mark is a long wooden, railed walkway leading to
an old gazebo perched on top of the highest dune.
Inside the gazebo is a picnic table with benches.

Under the table is a pair of small deck shoes.
Between the shoes is an empty styrofoam coffee cup.

The most interesting thing is on the table. An open book.
The pages on the left are flapping lightly with the breeze.
The pages on the right are clipped together by a pen.
They struggle to move with the wind..

On that first page on the right is a single handwritten line.
In the most delicate and precise penmanship. It says...


"I am going home."

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