Those fires here in Southern California ........

[ronnykmarshall]

are just SUCH a bother. Why just the other day I was motoring to The Club when Driver phoned me from the front of Limo to tell me that The Club was CLOSED! CLOSED! Can you imagine? WELL, my day was RUINED! RUINED I tell you! THEN when we tried to get to the dock to check on Yacht .... we TURNED BACK! TURNED BACK I tell you! Something about evacuation.

When I got home to Mansion I ordered Butler to turn on the television and I was SHOCKED! SHOCKED I tell you! All over Southern California .... (you know 100% rich and WHITE Southern California) .... FIRES EVERYWHERE! EVERYWHERE I tell you! Mansion after mansion in blazes! Freeways jammed with RICH WHITE PEOPLE being driven by their drivers (mostly in Rolls Royce's and other EXPENSIVE cars) to some sort shelter. Why my heart just sank! I quickly called Maid, Back up Maid, Butler, Driver and ordered them to clear all the brush around mansion and ordered pool boy to hose down the roof (shirtless of course).

Just when they finished their chores and returned from getting cleaned up in the servants quarters (they were so filthy, FILTHY I tell you)and returning to their NORMAL job functions .... my telephone rang! Well Butler was out drying off Pool Boy (luck him) so I had to answer the phone MYSELF, it was THAD! Thad told me he had to evacuate and would I be a lamb and let him stay over? Well OF COURSE! It might be a bit cramped, but I could spare the south wing for him. I mean what are friends FOR? What ARE they for, I tell you.

Well, I tell you good people this week has been MOST stressful. Once things get back to normal, I think I take Pool Boy off on a little trip to Paris.

How was YOUR week?


:sarcasm:

[tlsmith1963]

1. Excuse Me, But...

...we aren't all rich in San Diego. Please don't stereotype.

[legaltender]

5. Umm, this is called satire

of all the other threads claiming that SoCal is full of rich white people and that's why we are doing better than the Katrina victims. Pretty well done satire, too.

[tlsmith1963]

9. Okay

I get it now.:)

[ronnykmarshall]

11. Thank GOD!

I thought I was losing my mind!

I did add the :sarcasm: just in case.

[ronnykmarshall]

7. Parody ....

In responce to all the bullshit. I'm from California as well.

[gateley]

10. You rich asshole. nt

[EstimatedProphet]

21. Oh, sure you are!

I bet everyone's life in San Diego is exactly like that post!

[Make7]

2. Well, at least someone thinks this is something to joke about. ( n/t )

[gateley]

8. But Your Honor, he wasn't making a joke about the tragedy in California, he

was sticking it to the close-minded people who view San Diego denizens as being rich, white, heartless idiots. Ease up.

[Make7]

I know someone whose house burnt down on Monday...

... perhaps I'll send him a copy of the OP to see if he appreciates the "humor".

- Make7

[ronnykmarshall]

25. Please do

but you might want to get off that high horse before you hand it to him.

[J-Lo Biafra]

29. edit- that was mean. Even for me.

[ronnykmarshall]

31. What did ya write ???

PM me!

[gateley]

30. Our best wishes go out to your friend - that's heartbreaking and I can't

imagine the fear in confronting such an uncertain future.

I don't need to keep defending the OP or try to convince you his intent wasn't cruel. You'll continue to interpret it one way, and I'll continue to interpret it another.

And seriously, I'm sorry for your friend and thousands of others who have had their lives so tragically altered. We all are.

Peace.

[ronnykmarshall]

32. and let me second that.

[Make7]

41. Thank you.

I didn't mean to imply that the OP's intent was cruel, I only meant that perhaps satire might not be the most appropriate tool for discussing something so closely related to an ongoing tragedy. Perhaps the fact that I know people directly affected has heightened my sensitivity regarding the whole situation.

Peace,
Make7

[nadinbrzezinski]

44. THen stay out of GD

serious

We have people actually thinking that we are having it easy, since we are all rich, white in California

And the best to your friend

[ronnykmarshall]

67. This is an example of why I wrote my parody.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2136419

[nadinbrzezinski]

71. Shameful (eom)

[Terran]

39. Unless your friend knows what's been going on at DU...

I doubt he will understand the intent of the OP. Ronny was satirizing the idiots here, as should be obvious by now. He wasn't trying to make a joke about the fires themselves. Get it now?

[Name removed]

74. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[gateley]

3. I had no idea it was that bad! You poor thing - my prayers are with you. K&R!

[Midlodemocrat]

12. Maybe we could all pitch in and send him a care package?

[Gormy Cuss]

14. He's still got a pool boy. He'll muddle through it okay.

Save your compassion for poor Thad.

[ronnykmarshall]

26. See message #15

I've got all the package I can handle.

[ronnykmarshall]

15. Thank you!

I actually found ASHES in my pool!

WELL, Pool Boy has been working OVERTIME! OVERTIME I tell you! And not just in the pool! *wink* *wink*

[Midlodemocrat]

4. .

:rofl:

:yourock:

[Gormy Cuss]

6. Pardon me.

Do you have any Grey Poupon?

[tjwash]

13. It sucked here in San Diego too.

After Van-Halen made a last minute cancellation on their reunion concert to entertain all of us at the stadium, we got stuck with having to listen to the 2 remaining members of Whitesnake instead. It was sheer HELL I tell you. Then the Dom Perignon that was donated by my fellow wealthy entrepreneurs, showed up WARM. IT WAS NOT EVEN ON ICE!! I just can't believe that they expect us to put up with such barbaric conditions. Don't even get me going on how the caviar was Beluga instead of Golden Sterlet...awful, just awful.

Oh well, even though my 40000 square foot McMansion burned to the ground, for the 4th time in as many years, I'm gonna rebuild it again with the money in my trust fund. It just never runs out you know.

[ronnykmarshall]

17. Darling!

You're touching my heart SO! TOUCHING it I tell you!

Don't worry. It will all be better!

[Midlodemocrat]

19. They fed you Beluga? Oh, darling! I had no idea it was that bad.

:cry:

[tjwash]

33. I survived...but when the goose liver pate was not at exactly 78.5 degrees...

...I almost lost it.

[MindPilot]

55. Oh sweetie, don't use your trust fund for that.

Naturally you have the R&W (rich and white) rider on your insurance policy that will pay off that sub-prime equity line and rebuild your house even bigger and more fire-prone than before.

No use that trust fund for nice big GOP campaign thank-you donation.

Oh god, that dreamy hunk of presidential man, George Bush is IN TOWN!!! Every time he blocks traffic on the 15, I just get all twitterpated.

[tjwash]

58. Ooh. Perfect. See, I'm so rich I had money I didn't even know about.

twitterpated...:rofl:

[begin_within]

16. Please post the version by the migrant worker who lives out of a box in the canyon in back.

[tjwash]

18. We would, but they all got arrested and deported for having the gall to get hungry and thirsty.

nt

[ronnykmarshall]

20. I'll let you have that honor.

[begin_within]

24. OK here goes...

We went down to Qualcomm to pick up some of the food and water being offered for fire evacuees, with the intent of bringing it back to our brothers and sisters in the migrant camp hidden in the bottom of a canyon in the fire zone. But we were arrested and deported instead.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. Oh the curses,

thanks for the laugh!

Beluga... oh the horror

[MindPilot]

23. Oh you poor thing!!

One of my friends accidentally ended up and the "Q" and they had to drink COSTCO bottled water!! Oh the horrors! You would think the Mexicans would learn to donate the proper and fitting beverages. But at least WE we not waiting on the federal government to give us a handout like those icky low lifes in NOLA. We had our Mexicans up and bringing us stuff right away.

On the bright side though, the insurance companies have set up check distribution centers at most of the corner Hummer dealers so we can all pay off those pesky sub-prime mortgages. Ahhh, it's good to be one of the ordinary everyday rich white San Diegans.

[ronnykmarshall]

27. COSTCO WATER???

I'd faint like Marie Osmond if I had to drink THAT!

[MindPilot]

28. You know that is just the kind of failure that makes me think twice

about who I make my employees vote for.

[Joanie Baloney]

34. Actually, RK dah-ling....

The Kirkland product line is owned by Pomposa A. Kirkland, III, a dear family friend. She owns that fab cottage in Rancho Sante Fe where we feted the Sultan of Kahuna last season. Her family made their fortune in avocados - in fact, I heard that some of the sla...err, um...I mean laborers are being hired out as household help now that the groves went up in smoke. If you need extra pool hands or such, let me know, dear.

:)


(JB <~~~~ shaking her head in San Diego)

[ronnykmarshall]

35. Pomposa is a DARLING!

We lunched on Rodeo last month. A little Tiffany's, a little lunch and A LOT of botox!

[pacalo]

38. Dupe...sort of.

[pacalo]

46. COSTCO water?! You're not a full-fledged refugee until you've tasted the freeze-dried MRIs

that were parcelled out to us low lifes in Louisiana. :hi:

[MindPilot]

50. refugee?! You think this is some...impoverished developing nation?

We are EVACUEES...this is SoCal, dear.

By the way, I sent six of my staff out for supplies earlier this morning and they have not returned. Has anyone seen them?

[pacalo]

57. I'm sincerely sorry if I offended you, MindPilot

but I had the impression that this thread is about satire. The Californian who started this thread knows the value of laughing when he's/she's hurting. I've been there myself, & my husband & I, thankfully, always maintained a sense of humor through it all. Believe me, it helped.

The survivors of Katrina, which included my family, were referred to as "refugees" on the news, which explains my joke about that. That's a well-known fact to those who paid attention, so I'm sure your "we are EVACUEES...this is SoCal, dear" remark wasn't intended to be uppity.

Again, I'm sorry that you were offended & that your friends get back safely.

[MindPilot]

75. Oh not offended at all! I'm sorry you even thought that!

I figured since the whole thread was satire, I didn't need the little :sarcasm: thingie.

[pacalo]

76. I'm so relieved!

I thought I had lost a friend. :cry:

Did your friends make it back safely yesterday? I'm so sorry you're having to go through this; I know what it's like. After two years, a number of small businesses & major department stores around here haven't re-opened. Macy's announced that they're coming back next year at a mall just 15 minutes away from where I live & they are also opening an additional store that will be about 25 minutes away. That's excellent news. And, for some reason, the fast-food places & convenience stores in the suburbs as well as the city no longer stay open as late as they used to do. But the worst that we had to endure was the entire first year following the hurricane. Meat & other refrigerated foods were scarce (& limited in quantity to each family) because the distribution centers used for storage were out of commission & because trucks were unable to get in to deliver the goods.

Good luck with getting normalcy back. I hope that the assistance given to the victims in California will be much improved from that given to Louisianians. With today's political climate & a partisan, punitive in the White House, it's good that you have a Republican governor. The boy king will be sure to try to make him look good.

Best wishes. :)

[Joe for Clark]

36. Don't make fun -

You know - guys in Malibu - didn't lose too many homes. You know hoe expensive it is to live there??

Middle class areas sure did.

I live in the Valley - they evacuate here - their horses do anyway.

If you live in the valley - at evening the sun is blood red from the smoke. We will not get hit - we just see the people that had their lives destroyed.

Joe

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. Joe you have read all the hate filled we are all rich

in Cali posts, haven't you?

We are sick and tired of this, so he made a JOKE

A JOKE by a californian who has noticed the same thing I have

Perhaps if we had an 8.0 in the Richter and Blackater in the streets, and thousands dead, people might actually show some empathy

It is CALLED SATIRE

[Joe for Clark]

40. No Nadin - I haven't read alot of the things here - except LBN.

But I don't think anyone should make fun of this. Not even sarcasm.

Too much, I have never seen anything like this - And I have lived here since 66 - this is different. I couldn't go in my front yard - the winds were so strong. And I have had the hinge of a car door snapped off in these winds in the past.

I usually appreciate satire - not this time.

Too many people hurt - too much smoke and wind - too much.

Joe

[nadinbrzezinski]

43. Then perhaps we should give you some links

or you can look at GD yourself

People outside the state have swallowed the media image

The hook, the sinker, the line, the bait, all the way to the shoulder

So enjoy some of the Caviar that apparently we all eat every day... courtesy of the US Media

And remember to have the hired help wash your Hummer, I mean the ash could ruin the pain job. Again courtesy of hte MSM

[tjwash]

45. Don't forget those damn illegals having the gall to get hungry and thirsty.

That was :sarcasm: by the way.

Just the fact I have to point that out should be a clue to Joe on that subject as well.

[nadinbrzezinski]

47. It should but it won't be...

hell I have posted a REALITY BASED post and nobody is touching it

Here it is

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2134951

Wonder why the hate filled folks are not touching it

[tjwash]

51. I just kicked that on to the greatest page for you...

nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

54. thanks I hope people get it

now here is some champagne and beluga for you

:-)

[Joe for Clark]

52. They should be looking - I do not fault the media

for all this coverage. They should be converging on this one.

I don't watch this on TV - I go outside and watch the smoke. The winds are coming back this way - not cool.

I have seen the hills burn all around the valley before - but I have never seen smoke in a 360 degree view ever.

Those winds - they usually last a few days and then quiet for a few days - then they pick up again.

I know about where you are and you know about where I live out here.

No joke here at all.

Joe

[nadinbrzezinski]

53. You should pay attention to the spin

in the spin you and I are living high on the hog

Oh never mind Joe...

[Joe for Clark]

59. No spin - CNN can tell me its noon out - I will double check.

None of us trust this.

99% of this country is living paycheck to paycheck.

It is not supposed to be this way.

Joe

[nadinbrzezinski]

60. Go to GD

and then talk to me

[Joe for Clark]

69. I live here - I trust my own eyes the most.

[nadinbrzezinski]

70. Whatver Joe, if you have not noticed the nastinness you are lucky

[tjwash]

42. We're not making fun. We're venting.

nt

[Joanie Baloney]

48. I certainly am

[AZBlue]

49. Darling! As my maid read this to me I almost fell off the massage table!

Why, I nearly fired her for saying such things! Thank goodness Chips, my butler, had smelling salts and fans on stand by. You should warn people before you create such horrible and devasting posts!

Sweetie, you simply must use my pied-a-terre in Paris for your getaway. Darling, what you've been through is just monstrous - I shudder just thinking of it! We must never speak of this again!!

[ronnykmarshall]

56. Sweetness!

Thank you SO much for your offer.

I'm sure Pool Boy will enjoy it too!

[tjwash]

62. Hey-where did you get that picture of me at?

Well, it would be me...if he was 30 years older...and fat...and bald

[KitchenWitch]

61. ronny - I love you, even if I am the wrong flavah!

:loveya:

[ronnykmarshall]

63. Back at ya!

[KitchenWitch]

64. Other than the smoke, you holding up okay there?

We have had a few touch and go moments down here (Irvine - Northwood village). But we are in our home, which is quite a thing.

:hi:

[ronnykmarshall]

65. Things are ok up here.

The smoke is better and we were never in any danger.

Many of my co-workers in SD were either on stand by or had to evacuate.

[KitchenWitch]

68. I am glad to hear you are okay.

Hope your co-workers are able to go home and find everything the way they left it.

[bigwillq]

66. Ah, Miss Thang

you are something else. :) ;)

I love the new bee look. :) :hi:

[troubleinwinter]

72. Numbers! We got some bona fide numbers...

From the U.S. Census Bureau:

United States Median household income, 2004 $44,334

Los Angeles County Median household income, 2004 $43,518

San Diego Median household income, 2004 $51,939

San Diego Cost of Living Index = 186.95% National Average

Go to this site: http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.html?step=form&x=27&y=9 and type in $53,000 San Diego, and then type in your town and state. See if San Diegans are "rich".

Salary in San Diego CA: $53,000
Comparable salary in Baton Rouge LA: $34,018.62

If you move from San Diego CA to Baton Rouge LA...

Groceries will cost: 16.49% less
Housing will cost: 61.005% less
Utilities will cost: 4.396% more
Transportation will cost: 15.096% less
Healthcare will cost: 16.422% less


Salary in San Diego CA: $53,000
Comparable salary in Pittsburgh PA: $34,467.23

If you move from San Diego CA to Pittsburgh PA...

Groceries will cost: 16.857% less
Housing will cost: 59.73% less
Utilities will cost: 7.209% more
Transportation will cost: 14.307% less
Healthcare will cost: 26.022% less

GO TO THIS SITE: http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.html?step=form&x=27&y=9

Ronny has a beautiful pool-boy only because Ronny is a superstar-celebrity.

[malaise]

73. LOL

Can't blame you. You're all in my thoughts. :grouphug:

[hiphopnation]

77. enuff already (eom)