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Ninth annual Cajon Classic Cruise – who are these people?
jerome...I guess my point is this. I think it's horrible that if cops show up somewhere, everyone has to question it. If there is a group of teenagers loittering outside a business, a cop might show up and ask questions. If these teenagers are minorities, their parents get all upset and question it, wondering if they were "white teenagers" would they have been "harassed." And that argument just gets old. Who knows why the cops were there. Maybe when people have "car shows" without permits, they show up. But nooooooo! Everyone has to think that because it's lowriders, they were "bothered" by the police. Yet, from the story, it doesn't sound like anyone was bugged by the cops. They checked out a scene and left. No problems. My point was....do you think more crimes occur when men in their 50s and 60s bring their old hot rods to Fuddrucker's or Cruisin' Grand? Or more crimes when lowriders are hanging out in a parking lot? Answer that question honestly, and then maybe we can continue this dialogue.— August 27, 2009 10:56 a.m.
Ninth annual Cajon Classic Cruise – who are these people?
Well...instead of wondering about cops showing up at a "white wedding", if you truely are perplexed by this "car profiling" or whatever you're implying, why not ask a police officer how often they see a bunch of lowriders, and then they see crime. I'm not saying lowriders committ crimes. But I'm guessing the cops have reasons. The same way they do when Japanese cars with tinted windows and big tail pipes show up in parking lots to go to local streets for drag racing.— August 27, 2009 9:23 a.m.
El Cajon no-smoking law flouted
I agree with ya Pete. Although, aside from the second-hand smoke statistics I've heard (which I can tell are bogus, just because the numbers they claim of people that die each year from it, can't be proved and sound bogus). Although, something else to keep in mind, is that even if it doesn't give you lung cancer, if you're around a smoker for a while, you go home and your entire wardrobe smells like a cigarette. But if everyone was polite, I think it would all work out. I was at Pat & Oscars in Mission Valley the other night. This young girl working there came over to us. She asked if we minded if she smoked at the far table of the patio. We said we didn't mind. The table she sat at was so far away from us, or anyone else, that you couldn't smell the smoke. And even if once in a while I would've gotten a wiff of it...no biggie (to me). But if someone is eating outside, they might not want their entire meal ruined by someone chain smoking right next to them. It sucks that laws and rules keep making it harder for smokers, but you have to keep in mind, you're participating in a habit that can bother other folks. Whether they "think" it's because they'll get lung cancer from your smoke, or they just don't like the smell...well, it seems to be getting to a point where you can smoke in your car and your house (with all the windows closed, of course).— August 26, 2009 4:03 p.m.
James Cotton Meets James Cotton
Oh, I got it Pete. I was confused. I'll with the video later on my girlfriends computer. I don't gots no speakers on mine.— August 26, 2009 3:54 p.m.
Marilyn Monroe -- Lives Her Life Like a Body in a Box
Well...I don't "frequent" karaoke bars. I have a few friends that sing, so sometimes I meet them there. Other times, you just end up at them. I might be at The Ould Sod, and it's Wednesday or whatever, and that's "karaoke night", so you're forced to hear Crazy sung so many times, you start to go crazy. I'm not a Metallica fan, but it seems the term "selling out" doesn't really apply to them, because their sound never really changed. They just became a tad more "mainstreem". Green Day was a sell-out from day one. Offspring as well. I wonder, with someone like Elton John...an artist that had such huge hits in the 70s...and they get sick of everyone telling them how much they loved [insert old song here], why they don't try to go back and write a song that sounds like that. I don't mean the way John Fogerty did a song that sounded exactly like a CCR song, but a song that is the same style. When Aerosmith used to do all those lame ballads that Mtv seemed to show once an hour, I thought the same thing. But they would occasionally surprise me by having a newer song that rocked my socks off.— August 26, 2009 3:53 p.m.
Banned on the Run
Yeah, Champagne Supernova is a decent song. Although, Liz Phairs Supernova is a thousand times better. Oasis wasn't horrible, but...they tried way too hard to sound like The Beatles and about a handful of other bands. And the Gallagher Brothers antics got old quick.— August 26, 2009 3:48 p.m.
The City Needs Me
Any line-up with Page and Sara Petite is worth seeing. On another note: I got this email from a friends son that is doing a benefit that involves Gregory Page. So, if anyone wants to see Page before this Nov 9th show, here are the detials, directly from the email I got -- Our Youth Group at Good Shepherd is planning a benefit concert to help St. Kizito Children Foundation of Southern Uganda (Africa). The concert will be on Friday, August 28 at the Epicentre and will feature Gregory Page and other performers. The St. Kizito Children Foundation was started by Father Kizito Kirenga in 1997 to help impoverished and orphaned children in Uganda acquire an education. The foundation also provides medical help and teaches self sufficiency in agriculture. The public education system is extremely flawed due to corruption within the Ugandan government, therefore the St. Kizito Children Foundation helps sponsor kids to go to private schools in Uganda.— August 26, 2009 3:41 p.m.
Letters
Pete...glad to see you're a fan of Kids in the Hall, the best comedy show of all time. But can you at least see the point of the letter writer? Why should some words be banned, that people are sensitive to, but not others? Either ban all those words, or none of them. Although, probably with an auto censor type of system, you can't ban certain words, because "retarded" isn't offensive in some uses, while the "n word" is always offensive.— August 26, 2009 3:34 p.m.
Marilyn Monroe -- Lives Her Life Like a Body in a Box
I like thos songs, well...not Madman so much (although the rest of the Madman album is pretty good). I hate the Lion King and later stuff, too. I know it sounds cliche to say that about an artist, that you like their earlier stuff better. But, Honky Chateau and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road are the two best albums.— August 26, 2009 10:27 a.m.
Pedicab Crackdown
But back to the caption contest: "Lukes father may be my boss...but if he doesn't start peddling faster, I'm shootin' his ass!"— August 26, 2009 2:07 a.m.