I’m with ficus, ‘Cali’ never bothered me. On the other hand, ‘Frisco’ gets my blood boiling and my fists clenching.
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I should go to Hawaii sometime.
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That’s why I always call it 'Fornia.
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Good thing that their cleaning staff is 100% American, right?
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I’m the opposite. Frisco? Meh. But I was born and raised in Central California and really dislike the Cali thing, and all the merchandising that surrounded it.
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Oh, on merchandising, i’m right there with you.
I’m from the San Francisco Bay area* and ‘Frisco’ always makes me think of snooty Los Angelenos coming up to pretend San Fran is some B&B community.
* Oakland represent!
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ROFL.
Fact 1: Trump has precisely zero respect for the law. In his first week in office, he’s wiped his arse on the Constitution at least two or three times a day.
Fact 2: anyone who doesn’t loathe this deep-fried fuckwit is an incoherent nincompoop who lacks the ability to think their way out of a wet paper bag.
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This could be California’s new national anthem!
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A dumb remake is on the way. Whether it’s dumb in a good way or not is beside the point. There’s dumb trailers, anyway.
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@all: Here’s a thought: the opportunity now exists to steal that term off the authoritarians. When you think about it, the ‘conservatives’ are often pretty radical. OTOH, it’s not a stretch to describe the wish to preserve things like the rule of law, the natural environment, civil society, constitutionally protected freedoms etc, as actually conservative.
Amirite or amirite?
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No, not Michigan, keep going…
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If Trump withholds funds to a state that pays more into the federal government than it gets back, I would think Trump would be totally FOR them leaving the United States… I mean, he thought the Brexit was a great idea because he felt being in the EU was a bad deal for the UK…
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Not only has the left suddenly become distrustful of executive power, but now they are rediscovering state’s rights. If it weren’t all so sad, I should really get a good laugh.
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From the LA Times, which printed the preferred pronunciation (“Loce Ahng-hail-ais”) on their masthead for many years:
(And BTW, the official Spanish name of the pueblo as recorded in its founding documents was simply La Reyna de Los Angeles, “The Queen of the Angels.”
All that other cruft comes from later romantic historicism, which mangles the name of the pueblo together with the name of the river (Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles de la Porciúncula, “Our Lady of the Angels of Porciuncula”), with a sprinkling of common descriptors like "the town of… " and “the river of…”
The river was named first - the Portola expedition first encountered it on “Porciúncula day”, the annual day on which pilgrims to the small chapel at Porciúncula, where St Francis founded his order, could earn the Indulgence of Porciúncula, a plenary indulgence for forgiveness of sins.
The Indulgence was bestowed upon Francis by Our Lady, the Queen of Heaven, surrounded by a host of heavenly angels. A mural of that event is painted on the wall of the chapel at Porciúncula.
It is those angels - and their queen - to which the name refers.)
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From Poland, if I remember the story correctly.
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So California standing up for what they believe in and working within those laws is no different than the way the GOP congregated together the evening of Obama’s inauguration to strategize a way of making sure they would block him on every single move—trying to ensure he would be a one-term president, then continuing on during his second term. THEN a special kind of douche harasses him for a birth certificate for all those years (FYI who never showed his tax return and whose followers did not care).
GOP reap what you sow.
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Sorry, when I see “unpaid Polish” I think of Hamtramck.
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Well I think so.
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I mentioned to a number of people, over beers, that I thought Bernie Sanders was the only conservative running for President last year, in any national party.
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They do not build enough ziggurats anymore.
