Dante

It has been happening here as well. So people work their asses off so their kids can go to a good school in a good neighborhood. Drop 10 or 15k in property taxes for what? To go to school with kids that are out of control and the parents don't give a shite. We've lived it. We actually moved from one town(Walnut Creek) to Danville just for this reason. The school he was going to had kids fighting all the time and we couldn't figure out how come our guy all of a sudden was pulling down A's in every class. He wasn't a bad student before but he was basically a solid B guy. We went for open house and it became clear. The teachers were pretty disengaged. After that we made the decision to move to Danville. After that his marks dropped back to the normal. Obviously we loved the A's he was getting but he was being passed through with no challenge. It was the most important move we ever did getting him out of the old school into the new.

I don't think Rubio is a option now. For me anyway. He's now fully supporting the TPP. First anything Barry wants to ram through shouldn't be trusted and by default refused. Any reasonable person would want this thing thoroughly appraised before even thinking of voting on it. He's for open borders and says the NSA isn't gathering info illegally when they are admittedly. I think he's one of the bad guys.

LOL ok I wasn't picturing such a low tech solution. I thought you had some elaborate water reclamation system going on.

My favorite movie vampire ever. Horror Of Dracula and Dracula Has Risen From The Grave scared the crap out of me back then.

So the terraces mean you are in the city? How do you catch the water?

I think out here that is the best way to go. We have a small front yard with grass and a decent back yard with grass. It was with the house when we got it. I would really like a desert type back yard with a small patch of grass for our 2 small dogs. Since we back onto a field the gophers tear up the back grass as well. It was just about fully recovered from their attack last summer and they resumed their assault a few weeks ago. We also had racoons get at our front yard grass last summer. We got a trap but all we have caught is a couple neighborhood cats. No harm to them btw just must have pissed them off having to be in the trap for a couple days. At least there was some food for them.

It's been raining here all day. A miracle. But someone always has to take the jelly out of my donut. Just like I predicted the drought out here would be followed by permanent price increases. They say for infrastructure and a temp gouge to pay off whomever we bought water from. http://patch.com/california/danville/ebmud-board-calls-temporary-25-percent-drought-surcharge-0?utm_source=newsletter-daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=community%20corner&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_content=article-mostrecent

I like the part about a boat. A little insight aholes. 24ft and 80k does not get you luxury. " But at the same time, he splurged on an extravagant purchase: $80,000 for a luxury speedboat, state records show. At the time, Mr. Rubio confided to a friend that it was a potentially inadvisable outlay that he could not resist. The 24-foot boat, he said, fulfilled a dream." All this is probably a fraction of what Hillary has spent on her girlfriend(her assistant and Wieners wife) and assorted lesbian hookers. Allegedly of course.

The climate thing is a lost cause. Evidence it brought up to disprove it and it is ignored. Can't make those who don't want to see, see. I'm bored with it. I just found the "get out of the country" if you don't like it angle the most interesting thing to comment on that's all.

I suggest some of the left on the board should consider relocation to China's ghost cities. New developments almost unpopulated. A authoritarian political system more in tune to their sensibilities. Mandatory abortions is a hi light for any prospective transplant leftists. You might be let down a bit on the environmental angle though. Maybe you guys could get them in line on that. Anyway, I bet there are some nice condo's available cheap. http://www.thebohemianblog.com/2014/02/welcome-to-ordos-world-largest-ghost-city-china.html

Here is where a lot of this crap is hatched. I would imagine the G7 and Davo's as well but Bildeberg is supposed to be where the real stuff goes down. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/3-things-we-know-about-the-secretive-bilderberg-group-and-1-thing-well-never-know-10307054.html

Like all liberals they can't see the trees for the forest. US became the powerhouse of the world, created a real middle class. Became the biggest innovator of pretty much everything all based on freeing the individual. All in record time. That was until up until 50 years ago when the liberal left cancer took hold. What a coincidence things have become progressively worse in every way ever since. But like I said, their heads are to far up their asses to see the obvious.

God damn Texans actually fire back! WTF?

They can work for the EPA, BLM, IRS, NSA and so on all to make our lives that much safer and better. As it is now the California Air Resources board only makes it in our place every 3 years or so to aggravate us for no reason. With increased staff they could be here every year.

I am on this one.

I guess the head criminal must get exhausted having to paper and pen executive orders. My suspicion is that he can advance his marxist agenda and by pass congress by this agreement. Probably lots of his crap tacked on it like more open borders, carbon taxes and international wealth redistribution (none of it coming to us of course only going out of the country) you name it. I think only a quarter of it is actually concerning trade so what does that tell you? No way to tell whats in but if Barry and his republican plants Boehner and McConnell like it you know were in trouble. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/05/exclusive-sessions-to-obama-why-are-you-keeping-obamatrades-new-global-governance-secret/

Yeah because when the 1% elitists drive bad things happen. Like they drive cars into the channel and girls drown.

I can't believe this is a story. It almost seems like a Onion article. I like the fact he has fought the last two.

Your idiotic investigation of Rubios wife's driving record revealed to me how hot she is. Damn nice! Yes I would! http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/05/media-never-mind-hillarys-scandals-lets-talk-about-marco-rubios-wifes-driving-habits/

Now I know you know better than this. For the left everybody losing IS them winning.

Doesn't the word phobe or phobia mean you fear something? Just wondering. When someone says "your a homophobe" does that mean you fear them or hate them? Both?

That's closer to protection money than it is a charity.

Globalization. Isn't it great! This is why Zuckerberg is constantly pushing for amnesty and open borders.

Well someone was embracing the entrepreneurial spirit. Why steal a flat screen when you can take the drugs, sell them and buy a full suite of things to decorate your section 8 crib.

No exactly the opposite. I would rather have most of this opened up to private operators who compete and I will pay for them rather than a huge slush fund that can't and won't be accounted for. I know I will get a better product for cheaper. A superior labor force compared to government employees unmotivated because they can never go broke and so on. Some of the stuff you mention like the military and police and roads should be tax funded though. My main point is that our mentality about government and OUR money has to change. Instead of readily accepting whatever they want to do with our property(money) we should make them grind for every penny. Every level should be challenged. Like why I should pay property tax on a home that I already own? Now if you want to deny my kids school because I didn't pay my school bill I'm good with that. But why should any government be able to put a lean on my property because of unpaid taxes? It should be untouchable unless I sign off.