Berkeley council tells Marines to leave - Page 2

1 Observer · 01-31-2008, 20:26 PM

And if they "flub the op" we can always get one of bluesmans JDAMs ... grid coordinates sir?

Hey! 'Ja see that!? I got me a 'Skee-to wing! Now I'm reg-U-lar ...

Shamus · 01-31-2008, 22:21 PM

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Originally Posted by lwarmonger

Haha. Secret Service vs local small town police force... my money is on the secret service.

An ex-neighbor of mine is now an agent.My money would be on just him vs. the town police

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1 Observer · 01-31-2008, 22:40 PM

I knew guys like that ... I can't take the bet ... ciao and sh..tuff

BudW · 01-31-2008, 22:48 PM

You know if there were a terrible disaster,terror attack what ever at Berkley those same scum would be quite happy to see the USMC on scene.

1 Observer · 01-31-2008, 23:39 PM

Who would come running to save thier filthy little pink behinds ... Ironic isn't it? Those who give so much, ask so little.... and not a word of thanks.

Blademaster · 02-01-2008, 00:14 AM

You know what? I think it is time for the CIA to leak "accidentally" the coordinates of a high value target to China's nuclear targeteers. This accidentally leaked target's coordinates lies right smack dab in the middle of Berkelely's City Council.

Bad Karma · 02-01-2008, 00:39 AM

I have to say this, but do we really suffer any loss by not getting anyone from Berkeley?

dave lukins · 02-01-2008, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Bad Karma

I have to say this, but do we really suffer any loss by not getting anyone from Berkeley?

Do I sense bad karma from Bad Karma

WaltzingMatilda · 02-02-2008, 01:09 AM

As a former resident of Berkeley now residing in San Francisco, I'd like to add my two cents here: "F" the "Pink PC Protesters" and "the professionally offended." How the Berkeley City Council finds the time is beyond me ...egregious!

lwarmonger · 02-02-2008, 01:26 AM

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U.S. Senator Wants to Revoke Funding From City of Berkeley, Calif., for Vote to Boot Marines

Friday , February 01, 2008

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WASHINGTON —
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.

Sen. DeMint will appear Saturday on FOX News Channel — on FOX Online With Jamie Colby — between noon and 2 p.m. ET.

Click here to read Jamie Colby's blog, The Colby Files, and for more information about the show.

In the meantime, a senior Marine official tells FOX News that the Marine office in Berkeley isn't going anywhere.

"We understand things are different there, but some people just don't get it. This is a part of the military machine that gives them the right to do what they do, but what they are doing is extreme," the official said.

DeMint said he will draft legislation to rescind any earmarks dedicated for the City of Berkeley in the recently passed appropriations bill — which his office tallied to value about $2.1 million. He said that any money taken back would be transferred to the Marines.

DeMint's office provided a preliminary list of items that would be subject to his proposal:

— $975,000 for the University of California at Berkeley, for the Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service, which may include establishing an endowment, and for cataloguing the papers of Congressman Robert Matsui.

— $750,000 for the Berkeley/Albana ferry service.

— $243,000 for the Chez Panisse Foundation, for a school lunch initiative to integrate lessons about wellness, sustainability and nutrition into the academic curriculum.

— $94,000 for a Berkeley public safety interoperability program.

— $87,000 for the Berkeley Unified School District, nutrition education program.

The Marine official, speaking with FOX News on Friday, said Marine Commandant Gen. James Conway scoffed at the news, but there are no plans for to protest the City Council's decisions. There are definitely no plans to move the recruiting station either.

"To actually put something into law that encourages the disruption of a federal office is ridiculous. They are not going to kick a federal office out of its rightful place there, and this is not going to discourage those young patriots who want to be Marines," the official said.

The Berkeley City Council this week voted to tell the Marines their downtown recruiting station is not welcome and "if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome guests," according to The Associated Press.

The council also voted to explore whether a city anti-discrimination law applies to the Marines, with a focus on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prevents open homosexuality in the military.

The council also voted to give the antiwar group Code Pink a parking space in front of the recruiting office once a week for six months, as well as a protest permit.

The Marine recruiting office in Berkeley has been open for about one year, but has been the subject of recent protests by Code Pink members.

FOX News' Justin Fishel and Trish Turner contributed to this report.

FOXNews.com - U.S. Senator Wants to Revoke Funding From City of Berkeley, Calif., for Vote to Boot Marines - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum

gunnut · 02-02-2008, 04:42 AM

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"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."

I could not agree more. Let's pull federal funds out of public schools who kick out military recruiters. They have the freedom to be an ass. We have the freedom not to give money to the ass.

Exarecr · 02-02-2008, 23:16 PM

And I thought all the Lefties were in Canada learning how to be relevant. They seem to spread like flies exulting in a steamy pile of ship.

kmchugh · 02-03-2008, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by tankie

f,kin tosspots

Ah, the British turn of phrase. Elegant, to the point, and exactly spot on.

Bluesman · 02-03-2008, 14:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Bad Karma

I have to say this, but do we really suffer any loss by not getting anyone from Berkeley?

Probably not, but the residents of Berkeley are not uniformly nuts. There may be a few young people there that recognize that they live in a moral sewer, and that wish to improve their lives. They should not be impeded in doing that by an out-of-control political regime. Just think: it would be an act of rebellion for that young person to join the Marines!

I know you were just kidding, but I think about the 'disenfranchised' and marginalized people that are doomed to live under idiotic, self-regarding crazies like this. There are several people that must live under just as bat-**** loony 'leadership' in Vermont, and it must be terrible to be from a place like that, where the majority foist upon themselves and rational people alike the madness that extreme left-wing political thought will drive policy to an extreme and untenable riot of beyond-the-looking-glass kind of life.

Public parks become havens for homesexual contact and open drug-dealing, with the homeless and insane free to defecate on the green spaces that normal people fear to tread. Aggressive panhhandling and street people shreik at anybody that looks like they may have a few bucks that choose not to contribute to the social breakdown by subsidizing the decay that threatens their well-being as they attempt to go about their lives. Schoolchildren are taught not the glory of their heritage, but just the 'warts' part of the picture, and where the military is seen not as your protector and guarantor of your rights, but as an oppressive force of evil that bullies brown people.

Well, I hope the people that disrespect the military will one day see why their worldview is so utterly screwed up, but I don't hold out much hope of that. They're as convinced of their own righteousness as any fanatic that holds themselves to be in possession of the truth, and they're not likely to ever admit any error.

1 Observer · 02-04-2008, 00:07 AM

"They're as convinced of their own righteousness as any fanatic that holds themselves to be in possession of the truth, and they're not likely to ever admit any error."
Bluesman
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"A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still..."

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1 Observer Banished Regular Join Date: 01-28-08 Location: Highplains Posts: 123 Country:	I knew guys like that ... I can't take the bet ... ciao and sh..tuff

01-31-2008, 22:48 PM	#19 (permalink)
BudW Patron Join Date: 02-24-07 Posts: 176	You know if there were a terrible disaster,terror attack what ever at Berkley those same scum would be quite happy to see the USMC on scene.

01-31-2008, 23:39 PM	#20 (permalink)
1 Observer Banished Regular Join Date: 01-28-08 Location: Highplains Posts: 123 Country:	Who would come running to save thier filthy little pink behinds ... Ironic isn't it? Those who give so much, ask so little.... and not a word of thanks.

02-01-2008, 00:14 AM	#21 (permalink)
Blademaster Military Enthusiast *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 08-15-03 Posts: 2,774	You know what? I think it is time for the CIA to leak "accidentally" the coordinates of a high value target to China's nuclear targeteers. This accidentally leaked target's coordinates lies right smack dab in the middle of Berkelely's City Council.

02-01-2008, 00:39 AM	#22 (permalink)
Bad Karma Regular Join Date: 01-28-08 Location: Arizona Posts: 49 Country:	I have to say this, but do we really suffer any loss by not getting anyone from Berkeley?

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WaltzingMatilda Regular Join Date: 04-02-07 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 75 Country:	As a former resident of Berkeley now residing in San Francisco, I'd like to add my two cents here: "F" the "Pink PC Protesters" and "the professionally offended." How the Berkeley City Council finds the time is beyond me ...egregious!

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Exarecr *Military Professional* Join Date: 10-18-07 Location: Kingston Ontario Canada Posts: 365 Country:	And I thought all the Lefties were in Canada learning how to be relevant. They seem to spread like flies exulting in a steamy pile of ship.

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1 Observer Banished Regular Join Date: 01-28-08 Location: Highplains Posts: 123 Country:	"They're as convinced of their own righteousness as any fanatic that holds themselves to be in possession of the truth, and they're not likely to ever admit any error." Bluesman WAB Bartender Defense Professional Military Professional "A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still..." f,kin tosspots

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