Hear my prayer: Since 2001, [the Los Angeles] hit-and-run rate has hovered at or near 50 percent of all vehicle crashes.
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As long as the end effect is to depopulate the planet this will be a net plus for most California proles. It is happening in virtually all areas where excess inventory of humans can be deleted under acceptable circumstances. Namely where the cause of death is far detached from the actual killer. It is the cities and state/provinces that encourage these culling methods. Kind of like completely “retiring” humans through fatal attrition. Every little bit helps you know…
Wasn’t it Victor Davis Hanson who had a piece last year about Cali’s increasingly Mad Max like existence? How long before the s really hits the fan? Not very.
The article mentions the “idyllic 1950’s”.
There has never been “a golden age”, and the 1950’s were no exception, but in this case, in most ways, it really was better.
(Civil rights legislation and the attempt to eliminate discrimination is one improvement that comes to mind although obviously race relations are far from ideal.)
Hit and run was rare and generally considered a serious crime, not to mention a low-life thing to do. I wonder about the main reasons for the ethical slide and if the decline is as obvious to younger people.
This is the other side of the too much/not enough government argument. There is nothing the California government does not regulate and/or tax. But you can’t walk down the street in safety.
No more rule of law.
Kinda like our Chief Theresa Expense.
“Mexicans live in the 70s”. Um, the 1770s?
Seriously, that’s one of the few Shaidleisms I’d like to tweak. If Mexicans just lived in the ’70s it wouldn’t be such a big deal, them invading the southern States of the Union. If Hawkeye-from-M*A*S*H level sexism (I love to image how long that lefty smuggenheimer would last in a modern hospital before the class action suit ruined his life), general bad TV shows, ugly colour schemes*** and a Kennedyesque attitude to drunk driving were all we had to worry about we’d be sitting pretty. We could just, you know, give them a few years to grow out of it.
These problems are way worse than “eh, they’re 40 years behind us”. If only.
(***shite brown, international orange and a sort of unpleasant yellowish green. Just beautiful. I grew up looking at the leftovers. Was there some particular drug going around that caused people to think this sort of thing looked good? WTF?)
The US has created a huge problem for themselves by being unwilling or unable to secure a border with a populous and lawless third world country. Just more handwriting on the wall for the USA, I guess.
However it sounds as if the problem in LA cuts across ethnic lines. If half of all auto crashes there are hit-and-runs a lot of them are not Mexicans. Ryan Bowman who killed a young woman and drove off is a wealthy Australian. Something is seriously wrong with a lot of people, not just the Mexicans.
Their problems go a way, way back.
From his 1903 inaugural address, Governor George Pardee declared:
“California, probably on account of her geographical position and her fame as a land of wealth and easy condition of life, which serve as an attraction to the restless and idle, has an overplus of inmates in her penitentiaries and reformatories.” George Pardee
Page 130. A Crack In The Edge Of The World by Simon Winchester
As long as the end effect is to depopulate the planet this will be a net plus for most California proles. It is happening in virtually all areas where excess inventory of humans can be deleted under acceptable circumstances. Namely where the cause of death is far detached from the actual killer. It is the cities and state/provinces that encourage these culling methods. Kind of like completely “retiring” humans through fatal attrition. Every little bit helps you know…
Wasn’t it Victor Davis Hanson who had a piece last year about Cali’s increasingly Mad Max like existence? How long before the s really hits the fan? Not very.
Mexicans live in the 70s: littering and animal abuse still ok, and so is drunk/hit and run driving.
Also there’s an Adam Carolla for everything:
http://realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/01/14/adam_carolla_on_charlie_sheen_partying_with_la_mayor_hit__runs_in_ca.html
The article mentions the “idyllic 1950’s”.
There has never been “a golden age”, and the 1950’s were no exception, but in this case, in most ways, it really was better.
(Civil rights legislation and the attempt to eliminate discrimination is one improvement that comes to mind although obviously race relations are far from ideal.)
Hit and run was rare and generally considered a serious crime, not to mention a low-life thing to do. I wonder about the main reasons for the ethical slide and if the decline is as obvious to younger people.
VDH has been observing the drift of Cowleefoawnyah for some time . . .
http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/california-at-twilight/?singlepage=true
This is the other side of the too much/not enough government argument. There is nothing the California government does not regulate and/or tax. But you can’t walk down the street in safety.
No more rule of law.
Kinda like our Chief Theresa Expense.
“Mexicans live in the 70s”. Um, the 1770s?
Seriously, that’s one of the few Shaidleisms I’d like to tweak. If Mexicans just lived in the ’70s it wouldn’t be such a big deal, them invading the southern States of the Union. If Hawkeye-from-M*A*S*H level sexism (I love to image how long that lefty smuggenheimer would last in a modern hospital before the class action suit ruined his life), general bad TV shows, ugly colour schemes*** and a Kennedyesque attitude to drunk driving were all we had to worry about we’d be sitting pretty. We could just, you know, give them a few years to grow out of it.
These problems are way worse than “eh, they’re 40 years behind us”. If only.
(***shite brown, international orange and a sort of unpleasant yellowish green. Just beautiful. I grew up looking at the leftovers. Was there some particular drug going around that caused people to think this sort of thing looked good? WTF?)
The US has created a huge problem for themselves by being unwilling or unable to secure a border with a populous and lawless third world country. Just more handwriting on the wall for the USA, I guess.
However it sounds as if the problem in LA cuts across ethnic lines. If half of all auto crashes there are hit-and-runs a lot of them are not Mexicans. Ryan Bowman who killed a young woman and drove off is a wealthy Australian. Something is seriously wrong with a lot of people, not just the Mexicans.
Their problems go a way, way back.
From his 1903 inaugural address, Governor George Pardee declared:
“California, probably on account of her geographical position and her fame as a land of wealth and easy condition of life, which serve as an attraction to the restless and idle, has an overplus of inmates in her penitentiaries and reformatories.” George Pardee
Page 130. A Crack In The Edge Of The World by Simon Winchester
Looks like Toronto’s got a similar problem with our taxi drivers. Great!
http://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2013/02/05/assault_drunk_driving_death_threats_the_cab_drivers_the_city_cant_get_off_the_road.html
The world’s going to hell in a handbasket ~ in a city near you.