Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Even funnier
The Ha Ha is rolling now.
Michael Stephens points out what I and many folks know from experience: Berkeley folks are intolerant nutcases who don't think their ideas need justification, in comparison to normals around the country. I take issue with him saying he moved to the Midwest when he lives in Chicago, though. That sort of misses the point of the "Midwest."
Alan Reisse has by far the funniest piece, directed towards Jonathan Wornick.
In two commentaries in a row you claimed your vote against peace related proposals was because it made no difference what Berkeley said, so the vote was a waste of our tax dollars.
Get real. City councilmembers are paid the same salary no matter how many things they debate or vote on, so it does not waste money to have the City Council act on peace resolutions.
So that must mean your complaining about the cost of implementing the recommendation. Let’s see, that would be the cost of four postage stamps to mail copies of the resolution and a cover letter to Barbara Lee and Senators Boxer and Feinstein. A tremendous burden on our tax payers. Sure glad we have a fiscal watch dog like WAR-nick on the case.
Why all the fuss? Were you really worried about the cost of a few postage stamps?
Good job, Alan. You win. Did you know that time is not infinite? That time spent doing one thing is time that cannot be spent doing something else? Apparently not.
Then we learn from another commentary ("Don't Let Conservatives Silence Berkeley’s Voice," Elliot Cohen, Aug. 12) that Wornick's ability to buy a house in Berkeley’s expensive market is the result of money made selling food rations to soldiers who Wornick voted against withdrawing from mortal danger in Iraq!
But wait. He's a vegetarian. Even if Wornick gets rich while people die in far off places eating food rations that make him rich at least we can take comfort in the notion they eat vegetarian foods!
This is pre-emptively rebutted. Twice. First, Mal Burnstein points out that the army eats even when we aren't at war. Jonathan Wornick points out that his family doesn't even own the company anymore.
Berkeley has room for conservative viewpoints; there are already several conservative democrats, as well as a vegetarian, on our City Council. What we don't need are war profiteers that lie about their motives for voting against peace.
Alan wins at mind-reading!
Diane Tokugawa says, about the whole gigantic bomb thingie:
But I don't want to get into the whys or who suffered more. I quietly mourn the loss of hundreds of thousands of civilians whose lives were lost with two bombs. I mourn for those who have died in the process of making the bomb, from the miners of the radioactive material to our solders and scientists who were exposed during testing to Americans exposed to the radioactive fallout after the testing, and for the devastated Pacific islands where the testing was done. Aug. 6 and 9 remind me to continue to oppose the proliferation of nuclear weapons and Bush's plans for mini nuke bunker busting bombs and to worry about the security surrounding nuclear power plants. As my uncle once told me, "War makes everyone crazy. In war, everyone suffers."
"While I don't want to actually deal with important issues like why and what could have been done, instead I'll be unequivocally against nuclear weapons because bad things happen."
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