Welcome to San Louie Obispo.

[Cleita]

I live in San Luis Obispo county, where in the city of the same name Al Franken is doing his radio show today. Al admittedly has said that he keeps wanting to pronounce Luis, Louie.

However, when my Senator Dianne Feinstein comes on as a guest and talks about what a great place San Louie Obispo is, I now understand why she is such a tool of the RW. She can't even learn the proper pronunciation of one of the cities of her state. It is admittedly a Spanish name, but California is full of Spanish names. She should know.

Not only did she get up and denounce Bush for the WMD lie, but back then she was for it. I remember that she voted for the IWR resolution. I wrote her back then and told her that when she was up for re-election I wouldn't vote for her. As a senator she is an example of a Senator, who uses her office for self interest, (Dianne's husband Richard Blum stood to benefit from the invasion of Iraq) unlike her peer Senator Barbara Boxer, who uses her office for the people who elected her.

Her term is up in 2006. Who are we going to run against her? I have no use anymore for Democrats who are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

[Gormy Cuss]

1. Well, that's sad.

It's not like SLO is some tiny backwater. I've only been here a few years and even I get that one right (or sorta right, since I can't speak Spanish.) :)

DiFi is no great shakes, but who DO we have to run against her? Who among the Congressional delegation is ready? I don't see the voters kicking her out for someone without Washington or national credentials, do you? Other than those in Congress, there's former governors. Jerry Brown?

[Cleita]

2. I would love Jerry Brown.

However, he is always so far ahead of his times, that people don't get him. All the things he has proposed in the past that he was laughed at for thinking outside of the box have turned out to be the intelligent thing to do in retrospect.

How about Kathleen Brown his sister? She was once Secretary of the Treasury. I wasn't living in CA at the time so I'm not familiar with her record but I was always impressed by her when she spoke.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Jerry's improved his reputation with age I think.

He's been looking rather dignified during his Oakland mayoral tenure. I don't know about his sister but the Brown name certainly carries a lot of weight here.

[David__77]

4. Feinstein doesn't need our votes...

She has plenty of "moderate Republicans" who love her. I'm voting Peace and Freedom or Green on this one if she's at least 10 points ahead of her GOP opponent--and I suspect she'll be 20 points ahead, at least.

[Cleita]

10. I am actually talking about primaries.

I hope someone with money and a liberal heart will run against her. I will vote for that person in the primaries. If she is still the candidate, then I will be thinking like you.

[ronnykmarshall]

5. I hate when people say "Louie"

One of our clients at work is 1st Bank of SLO and I am ALWAYS correcting people when they say "Louie" instead of "Luis". Drives me MESHUGGINA !!!

[Cleita]

6. Louie is the French pronounciation of Louis.

The Spanish Luis, even with an American pronounciation, comes out kind of like Loo-iss, never Louie. :eyes:

[ronnykmarshall]

7. I lived in SLO from August 1972 to May of 1975.

I hated it when people got the name wrong.

I just found out that San Luis Jr. High is GONE! Damn that Laguna!!!

But I always wondered why the SLO school system was three years Jr High and three years High School.

My brother got screwed out of a year in a high school.

We moved to Atascadero in 1975 and back to Bakersfield in 1977.

[mitchtv]

8. At least you son't live in Sally Andro

San Leandro, Forget about Tiburon or Pally Alto

[Cleita]

9. You know I don't mind visitors getting it wrong, but

when our senator does?????????????

[shanti]

27. pally alto

that always sounds so funny to me when i hear people say it that way:)

[K8-EEE]

11. However You Say It...

It's always been my favorite place, a beautiful city, I wish I could afford to live there! This native Angelino sez: SLO-town rules!

[Cleita]

12. You should come around sometime for a weekend and look at the

real estate in the towns that surround SLO, like where I live that are more affordable. Really, the rents and houses are cheaper than L.A..

Jobs don't pay as well though. There are a lot of L.A. people, who do live up here in the country. My neighbor up the road is an attorney, who still works in L. A., but he spends weekends here picking up clients with the hope of building a practice.

My other neighbor is a doctor. He's finishing his residency and hopes to find work here as well. My family bought up here, spending weekends here and working in L. A. until they could find jobs here. My late husband and I parked our trailer in their pasture helping them to rennovate the place. We never left.

The nice thing about SLO County is that you get all the ammeneties of LA, including the beach, without the congestion, traffic and air pollution.

[K8-EEE]

13. What I Would Love

Is to have a little vacation house in an area surrounding SLO and eventually retire there. I don't care if it's 500 sq ft as long as it's Central Coast and I can bike to the beach!

[tularetom]

14. Hey I'm your neighbor sorta

I'm originally from SLO Co (born in PR many yrs ago). We now live in the valley but we store a trailer at the beach and use at at several of the RV parks in the area. As the air in the valley gets worse and our allergies become more severe we've thought often of pulling up and getting the hell out of here. we're both retired and the prospect sounds better every day, except for the sheer effort of packing 30+ years of stuff in preparation for a move. Plus kids and grandkids still close by.

On edit - oops response is to the OP. Sorry about that

[Cleita]

16. The Valley is no place for a Democrat.

It's cooler here and the air is still relatively unpolluted. When we first moved here we lived in our trailer. When my DH retired we had a yard sale and got rid of everything. I haven't missed any of the junk. I kept in storage what was important to me and that fit in a couple of boxes I kept them in my son-in-law's garage until we stopped traveling in our trailer.

There are plenty of places to park as you know and while you are here, you can look around for a nice place to live or even a piece of land (plenty of that still around) and live in your trailer while you build a home. I now live in a small mobile that's parked in the back of my son-in-laws property. I like the fact that I can have a yard and garden to work in outdoors.

[padia]

15. Doesn't she have a staff

to do that kind of checking especially in campaign season. As far as her being a DINO it is the problem that the CA party has gotten them selves in by sleeping at the wheel. Maybe Gov. Brown will be ready next time, also Boxer was considering retirement and Fienstien is going to be 80+ shortly.

[Cleita]

19. Barbara can't retire. No! No! No!

She has to help us save our country and the world first. Dianne should retire.

[99Pancakes]

17. Technically

The "Luis" in Spanish, is actually pronounced "loo-ees" (long /e/ sound). The /i/ in Spanish has a long /e/ sound. But not the French "loo-ee"--agree.

My husband and I are in SLO/Pismo Beach/Morro Bay quite a bit, being Valley people. We LOVE it over there, and the clam chowder at the Splash Cafe in PB is the BEST.

This is the fountain outside the Mission.

[Cleita]

18. I love it when they play the mission bells at noon.

I usually have lunch by the creek on the otherside of the mission. It makes you forget the problems of the world for that moment.

[99Pancakes]

20. Agree

It's very peaceful there. We like having coffee or a beer by the creek.

[99Pancakes]

21. And here is the famous Splash Cafe

Ok, it's not SLO, but Pismo Beach is close.

[99Pancakes]

22. 99Pancakes at the Splash Cafe

[Cleita]

23. I have rarely ventured to Pismo Beach and I have

lived here for six years. LOL. You know more places than I do.

[99Pancakes]

24. That's like the folks in Anaheim

They live across the street from Disneyland but have never been there.

We live in Bakersfield where the famous Buck Owens Palace is. In my 20+ years here, I had never been there. So, my husband and I went for our last anniversary just so that we could see Buck before he died. It'd be a shame not to have seen him after having lived here our whole lives.

Anyway, this has nothing to do with politics so I better get back on topic before I get booted to the DU Lounge. You think DiFi has ever been to Bakersfield? Unfortunately, Repugs LOVE it here. Blah! Buck Owens is a huge Repoop supporter.

Here's the Crystal Palace

[bridgit]

25. that is correct...

:hi:

[bridgit]

26. i'm just glad none of them have to try to get their tongues...

all the way around the original name for l.a. = El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles :shrug:

[mshasta]

28. lol

that is funny...or this one: Nuestra Patrona Maria de Los Angeles....

that's heavy..:hide: