Spokane Opinion
I asked Sharon and Don about all the negativity I've been hearing coming from Spokane people towards us Californians. We're all part of the same great country here, so what gives with all the hatred? Instead of bullshitting me or trying to candy coat some sort of response Sharon just came right out with it while Don looked on and occassionally nodded at what she was telling me. The people of Spokane hate people from California for a bunch of reasons. According to Sharon:
1. Californians come to Washington to retire and can afford to pay cash for real estate. So many have moved north that real estate prices have been driven upwards significantly in recent years and now many of the locals can't afford to buy in their own area anymore.
2. People from California are anti-family.
3. Californians are homosexuals (see item number two).
4. People from California are all about committing crimes and participate in mass riots like in L.A. (They've seen it on television so it must be true).
5. Californians are anti-religion.
6. People from California are stealing the jobs from Spokane.
I've been thinking about what Sharon told me over the past couple of days and I think there is alot of truth to 1 and 6. But the rest of it is all complete stupidity. Californians are anti-family? Run that by me again? What? Anti-religion you say? Hmmmm. There's a whole lot of churches in that state. Guess they haven't seen any of them on the TV programs they watch up here. Sure, there's gays running around loose. So what.
And number 4, how ironic they mention California is all about crimes against society. Well check this out. In my boredom I've been watching Spokane cable TV. Crime is so fucking bad in this town that the Spokane County Sheriff has a channel dedicated to showing the mugshots of every person wanted for crimes in the area, and there's a whole bunch of them on the run. The program comes on every other half hour and I'm fascinated by it. I've never seen anything like this before... anywhere. I think it's safe to say that crime is off the richter scale in the city of Spokane. Most of them appear to be wanted for drug charges, but there's plenty of bizarre murders, prostitution, and other oddball shit. I hear there's a ton of Meth labs about. Some people are wanted for really abstract crimes like "Eluding". What the fuck is that supposed to mean? I can see it now, some guy shows up in jail and a prisoner against the wall says, "Hey buddy. What are you in for?" The reply: "I was eludin'". That's hardcore crime right there, fella.
1. Californians come to Washington to retire and can afford to pay cash for real estate. So many have moved north that real estate prices have been driven upwards significantly in recent years and now many of the locals can't afford to buy in their own area anymore.
2. People from California are anti-family.
3. Californians are homosexuals (see item number two).
4. People from California are all about committing crimes and participate in mass riots like in L.A. (They've seen it on television so it must be true).
5. Californians are anti-religion.
6. People from California are stealing the jobs from Spokane.
I've been thinking about what Sharon told me over the past couple of days and I think there is alot of truth to 1 and 6. But the rest of it is all complete stupidity. Californians are anti-family? Run that by me again? What? Anti-religion you say? Hmmmm. There's a whole lot of churches in that state. Guess they haven't seen any of them on the TV programs they watch up here. Sure, there's gays running around loose. So what.
And number 4, how ironic they mention California is all about crimes against society. Well check this out. In my boredom I've been watching Spokane cable TV. Crime is so fucking bad in this town that the Spokane County Sheriff has a channel dedicated to showing the mugshots of every person wanted for crimes in the area, and there's a whole bunch of them on the run. The program comes on every other half hour and I'm fascinated by it. I've never seen anything like this before... anywhere. I think it's safe to say that crime is off the richter scale in the city of Spokane. Most of them appear to be wanted for drug charges, but there's plenty of bizarre murders, prostitution, and other oddball shit. I hear there's a ton of Meth labs about. Some people are wanted for really abstract crimes like "Eluding". What the fuck is that supposed to mean? I can see it now, some guy shows up in jail and a prisoner against the wall says, "Hey buddy. What are you in for?" The reply: "I was eludin'". That's hardcore crime right there, fella.
posted by factory_peasant at 11:27 PM
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As my good pal Samson says, "Christianity is attractive to fuckups". I couldn't agree more. I grew up in a supposedly Christian household. It was severely dysfunctional and my father is one of the most deplorable people I've ever met.
I was forced into Christian school for three years. It was the worst three years of my life. The people there were mentally ill, completely misunderstood the religion they professed to believe in, and continuously committed crimes against their neighbors and families. After that experience I decided to distance myself from them as much as possible. Their actions never met up with their words. I pay attention to people's actions.
My main problem with Christians is that they continuously do wrong and then ask forgiveness. As soon as that's out of the way they go right back out and do wrong again. This is unacceptable behavior. Period.
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