Some things about Thousand Oaks, the city where William Rice got his finger bit off.

I live in Ventura County, only about 30 miles from the location where William J Rice got his finger bit off yesterday in a scuffle at a town hall meeting about health care reform.

Let me tell you about Thousand Oaks. First of all, T.O. has historically been a rather wealthy city. They have also resisted efforts to build low-income housing, despite state and federal mandates, because the residents wish to "preserve their home values". Subsequently, Thousand Oaks has become home to a large number of reactionary freeper-types. It is also a bedroom community for cops, in much the way that Slimy - oops, I mean Simi - Valley is.

I would not be at all surprised if Mr. Rice started the fight and provoked the bitten-finger response. That's how his kind around here operates. He probably started the verbal altercation, as well.

I worked briefly as a civilian employee in the Ventura County Sheriff's Department, and part of my training was to sit-in with a dispatcher for a day, to familiarize myself with the communities and their calls for service. We received one call from a woman in Thousand Oaks, who reported, "There's a strange black man walking down my street, and I just *know* he doesn't belong here."

The dispatcher asked, "How's he dressed, ma'am?"

The woman replied, "He's in a suit."

The dispatcher said, "Is there a bus stop nearby?"

"Yes," said the woman, "What does that have to do with anything?"

The dispatcher said, "Have you considered that he's on his way to work, and that his car might be in the shop today? Sounds like he's a businessman to me."

And that conversation, folks, summarizes Thousand Oaks in a nutshell.

Just what I've noticed.

More than a few, anyway.

An eyewitness:



http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/eyewitness-tells-of-finger-biting-at-health-rally.php?ref=fpb

the incident. I hope someone did. I liked the comment in your link about 'giving a new meaning to 'he gave him the finger'.

This version of the story needs to get out as Mr. Missing Finger is whining all over the place about those nasty liberals. And here I thought liberals were 'wimps'.

Looks like Rice is a supporter of Socialism also as he apparently is covered by Medicare. I hope someone points out to him that he was there protesting programs like Medicare and maybe, if there is a brain cell functioning in his brain, he might begin to wonder what exactly he is protesting in the first place.

sounds like things haven't changed too much since then.

That's a clear uniform for the oppressors.

Beware the suits. :scared:

so does this mean if you want the police to send a cruiser, you say it's a dude in blue jeans with some sort rope (tie) around his neck?

The dispatcher asked how the man was dressed for description purposes.

When elements of the story didn't add up, that's when she let the caller have it.

Please, try to keep up.

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She has been a little corrupted I'll grant you since moving there, having voted for Schwarzennegger, but she still has a pretty reasonable perspective, on most issues.

I did even hear my Mom say (who's living with her at the moment) that she heard recently that stats show they are in one of the safest communities around, so your note about it being a bedroom community for cops is probably not too far off base.

I guess Pepperdine isn't too far from there too, which is home to a lot of despicable wingnuts like Kenneth Starr.

But they've elected some of the most reactionary fools to ever come out of California politics.

Google Tom McClintock and Tony Strickland should you get the chance. Both are idiots from T.O.

Though that can be good or bad depending on how you look at it. I've liked Waxman on many issues, but I still have a hard time forgiving him for not getting Sibel Edmonds to testify before his committee when the Dems took charge of the House, as he promised to do earlier. Perhaps it was pressure from people living in these very communities! Jane Harman's district isn't far from this either.

Elton Gallegly is the rep for Thousand Oaks. ANOTHER ultra-rightie. Real race-baiting slimeball. Good office staff, though.

and is still in Waxman's district. We go to Thousand Oaks for a lot of things when I visit and wrongly assumed that she was there rather than Agoura Hills.

So maybe all of those in Thousand Oaks are all scum! :)

I used to live in conservative districts like that in San Diego. I'm glad I moved north now!

It's getting to be San Fernando Valley North.

Definitely had some strange right wing neighbors there too. Accused me of being from L.A. :rofl:. "We know your type." They said to me. :shrug:

I'm from Pgh. originally.

I had a college roommate from T.O. His dad worked for an opil company as a trader, and his mom was office staff for Tom McClintock. That was how I came to know the otherworldly craziness of Thousand Oaks folks.

Not in this part of SoCal, anyway.

Using Public Transport while Black is cause for concern, too I guess.

keep re-electing Gallegly, who is a total waste of DNA, because they reflexively vote R. Most residents are not wealthy, but they consistently and unknowingly vote against their own self-interest because they're not very bright. It's a town of strip malls, chain restaurants, one college (Cal Lutheran), and a bunch of anemic, sluggish businesses with piss poor customer service. The pro-growth faction of the city council has seen to it that practically every inch of the place is occupied by an office building or McMansion. It's full of people who've fled the multi-culturalism of the San Fernando Valley. The high school prom is sometimes held at the nearby Reagan Library and nobody thinks that's weird. I know Gertrude Stein was referring to Oakland, but the same could be said of T.O. - "There is no there there."