If Knowing is Half the Battle...

[kingfuraday]

Last night the bar was pretty happening. A good mix of people and surprisingly a lot of younger guys. It was fun and the time flew by. At one point a guy who comes into the bar fairly regularly was talking to another guy at the bar and this regular was being told about the court decision that was being made today. The regular didn't know about

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[xianjessen]

Thoughtful and inspiring. Thank you, Brian.

[kingfuraday]

My pleasure man... I just needed to get it out of my head and onto my LJ :)

[joebehrsandiego]

Brian - I agree with you wholeheartedly ... but would broaden the context to include much of what has happened in CA politics and governance since Prop. 13 passed in 1978.

What I said in my FB a short time ago:

"(Joe) wonders if (and hopes that) his fellow Californians realize the Prop. 8 debacle is just the latest maniifestation of the paralyzing, dysfunctional mess that has grown, barnacle-like, over governance and accountabilty in CA since Prop. 13 passed in 1978. F**k overturning Prop. 8 as an isolated instance. We need a Constitutional Convention to lance and cauterize the entire financial, ethical, and legal boil."

Ths is not meant to discount the importance of fighing for our civil rights. But the whole Prop. 8 mess would have had less chance of happening in a state where the law-making and law-amending process weren't so insane.

[kingfuraday]

I was reading somewhere else about that... someone made a statement that the prop process is also responsible for a lot of the State's debt as well. That citzens tend to vote for costly initiatives but not for the taxes that support them.