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2008-02-08 Home Front: Culture Wars

Berkeley Mayor 'Apologizes' To Marines Over Recruiting Center Flap

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Posted by Steve White 2008-02-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Yank their funding anyway. Apparently they don't support what is needed to defend the bennies they want, therefore they get none.

You don't stand behind our troops, you sure as hell can stand in front of them.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-02-08 00:05|| 2008-02-08 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Free speech means that the government can't throw you in jail for disagreeing with it.
We shouldn't be giving federal money to any city for hoity-toity school lunch programs,especially Berkeley.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2008-02-08 00:33|| 2008-02-08 00:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Yank it. They're a cheap bunch.

Just leave Cal alone.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-02-08 01:01|| 2008-02-08 01:01|| Front Page Top

#4 "I'm sorry if you ~~misunderstood~~ were offended by what we did."

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-02-08 01:22|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-02-08 01:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Let me try to get this right. Bring the troops home, but they will be considered intruders if they are in Berkeley.

Posted by www 2008-02-08 01:22|| 2008-02-08 01:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Click here to see another typical day in Beserkeley.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-02-08 02:49|| 2008-02-08 02:49|| Front Page Top

#7 My take is for our Repubs to jerk their funding inspite of what they do now.

If they [Repubs] play their cards right Di-Fi and Babs will have to go along!

GolfBravoUSMC, do you live in the Berkeley area?

Posted by RD">RD 2008-02-08 03:47|| 2008-02-08 03:47|| Front Page Top

#8 I like the in-line comment "If I get it, lady, it ain't subtle." Prety well describes my intersection with the rest of humanity. My two cents on the subject is beat these asses unmercifully and continuously for as long as necessary until they issue a REAL apology and stop acting as if they speak for everyone. And yes, leave the rest of California alone, but whack the hell out of Boxer and Pelosi over this until they too publicly denounce the fools in the Berley City Council. Practically speaking, this can be used for years, decades, maybe even longer (they are too stupid and self righteous to see that they are in error) or at least until we tire of it.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2008-02-08 06:09|| 2008-02-08 06:09|| Front Page Top

#9 2 million is chicken feed. The real damage will be done by the DOD programming R&D dollars away from UC Berkeley. The bright professors and grad students will follow the money. Does the DOD have the cojones?

Posted by ed 2008-02-08 06:25|| 2008-02-08 06:25|| Front Page Top

#10 ed, DoD won't even enforce the Solomon Amendment even though SCOTUS said the government had full rights to.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-02-08 08:07|| 2008-02-08 08:07|| Front Page Top

#11 P2K - is that related to what I remember about the case involving military recruiters?

If recruiters can't be banned from universities without penalty, who should Beserkley expect to get away with it?

Posted by Bobby 2008-02-08 08:47|| 2008-02-08 08:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Yep, dealing with recruiting on campus.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-02-08 09:07|| 2008-02-08 09:07|| Front Page Top

#13 "Senators sitting 3,000 miles away are trying to take food away from the children of Berkeley," said Cooper. "Why? Because the Marines and the city aren't playing nice -- and that's just not OK."

One earmark provides gourmet organic lunches to schools in the Berkeley School District. While our Marines are making due with MREs of Sloppy Joe and Chili with Beans, the organization Chez Panisse is getting federal tax dollars to design meals that promote "environmental harmony." Chez Panisse's menu features "Comté cheese soufflé with mâche salad," "Meyer lemon éclairs with huckleberry coulis" and "Chicory salad with creamy anchovy vinaigrette and olive toast."

That's my Fed tax dollar buying the "~~poor~~ children" a much better lunch than I get.

Posted by KBK 2008-02-08 09:13|| 2008-02-08 09:13|| Front Page Top

#14 RD I live in a little Conservative Ghetto 15 miles SE of Beserkeley.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-02-08 10:13|| 2008-02-08 10:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Let 'em eat Meyer lemon éclairs with huckleberry coulis!

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-08 10:17|| 2008-02-08 10:17|| Front Page Top

#16 Thanks Senators. It's working. But we wouldn't want any 'poor' chiddrens in Beserkley going hungry. So instead of subsidizing a gourmet restaurant, provide rations in kind to the spoiled brats -- MREs.

Posted by GK 2008-02-08 10:35|| 2008-02-08 10:35|| Front Page Top

#17 Bates said the city didn't mean to offend anyone in the armed forces

No, no, of course not. We love "intruders". We usually give them taxpayer funded health care, housing, education and drivers licenses... in Spanish!

"There's really no correlation between federal funds for schools, water ferries and police communications systems and the council's actions, for God's sake,"

Except that the federal government has chosen to entrust the spending of its money to the council.

"Berkeley is supposed to celebrate diversity and free speech and we welcome homeless people here. We welcome illegal immigrants. We give them sanctuary. We should welcome the Marines. I mean they're basically dedicating their lives to protect their country."

Wow. Yeah. I hadn't thought of it that way. They are basically dedicating their lives to protect their country. Just like homeless people and illegal immigrants.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-02-08 10:44|| 2008-02-08 10:44|| Front Page Top

#18 "I was under the impression that we have the right of free speech," said Xanne Joi of Code Pink. "To me, I thought free speech meant you get to say what you want without recrimination."

Translation:

"Consequences? Nobody told us there'd be consequences!"

Posted by charger 2008-02-08 12:16|| 2008-02-08 12:16|| Front Page Top

#19 at last, true context for the line,

"tell it to the Marines!"

Posted by Querent 2008-02-08 13:07|| 2008-02-08 13:07|| Front Page Top

#20 Hudna

Posted by Mullah Richard 2008-02-08 14:30|| 2008-02-08 14:30|| Front Page Top

#21 As I understand it, some transportation people, couldn't tell if it was state or federal, wants to withhold funding for Berkeley's higways in the town. That is because the free parking space allotted to Code Pink was a state or federal location and they were miffed that the city decided to determine who could park on that spot over and above all other state or federal tax payers. A story I had only about 15 seconds to read yesterday. Wish I had more time to read it to find out what level those people were on in the government.

Posted by www 2008-02-08 16:14|| 2008-02-08 16:14|| Front Page Top

#22 I mean they're basically dedicating their lives to protect their country.

A textbook example of damning with faint praise.

Posted by xbalanke 2008-02-08 18:13|| 2008-02-08 18:13|| Front Page Top

#23 The Berkeley Police allowed the burned-out brained hippies to chain themselves to private property for hours. That denied the private citizens, as well as the Marine recruiters inside to exercise their freedoms and civil rights.

I hope that the six senator bring this up and stay with it in the Senate to bring up the actions of the City of Berkeley. They may not win, but they will exposed these hypocrite Lefties for what they are and that they are Fascists.

I went through 4 years of this crap at UC Berkeley with the SDS types, and I still feel the bile in my throat from the actions of these people.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2008-02-08 23:30|| 2008-02-08 23:30|| Front Page Top

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