Allow me to extend an olive branch to HNC. Look man, again, I don't "hate" California. God knows I take enough shit for being from there. I'm never gonna be part of "Red Sox Nation," a fact for which I thank God daily.
But I look at the changes just in the past 15-20 years (to say nothing of since the early 70's) and I'm absolutely saddened by the changes I've seen. I see the exodus of idiots from CA to places like Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, and guess what they're turning to these days?
Again, I wish that I could wave a magic wand and make it better, but the state is going to have to go bankrupt before people wake up to the failure that is liberalism, and perhaps they won't even wake up then. I know you're not the only conservative person in California, believe me.
But I also know that conservatives outside of a few enclaves are hopelessly outnumbered, and given the emasculated entity that is the CA GOP, that isn't going to change anytime soon. Look what the Assembly is doing, cutting off funding to districts of Republicans who don't play ball while gorging their own fat little piggies on the ever-dwindling tax base.
People talk about, "the big one," in terms of a natural disaster which will launch California into the ocean. Me, I see something a lot worse--the implosion of the sixth-largest economy in the world, complete with the Greek-style riots (only worse) which will accompany it. This is a disaster which will affect us all in ways we can't begin to imagine. And woe be unto the idiotic CA politician (but I repeat myself) who thinks the Feds are going to bail them out. Because if Governor Moonbeam thinks it's going to happen, he better up and declare right now because as of 1/20/13 they're going to be told to pound ****ing sand. And if they do, future historians will point to that day as the day the Second American Revolution/Civil War began. I don't want that either, because I know in my heart of hearts that if it DOES happen, it's gonna be a helluva lot worse than anyone wants to imagine.
All that being said, Dodgers ****ing suck. Raiders suck worse. And don't even get me started on their asshole fans.