Imagine Obama In Danger Of Losing Illinois.Can You Expect Any "Shananigans" Come November?
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Lets use Illinois as an example.Many residents have already fled the state for the same reasons they have in California,Ohio and Michigan.Now,do you think that all of the blue&deep blue districts in the Chicago area still have those former residents on the voter registration lists?And how about all those who have died over the last 10 or so years?As bad as the economy is in Illinois and being the Dem's still run the show there,especially with "you know who"as mayor of Chicago,does anyone really expect an honest count come November 7th?(or is it the 8th?)
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
Night herons settling down in downtown Oakland
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Downtown Oakland has no shortage of wildlife. Now it even has some of the nonhuman variety. A colony of giant, squawking, black-crowned night herons has taken up residence in the gritty urban core of Oakland, apparently thriving amid the tattoo parlors and Afghan restaurants, Occupiers and bus exhaust. "Oh my God, I saw one walking right down 14th Street. I'm like, 'What is that?' " said Jalima Morales, 26, who saw a few more of the striking blue birds as she was walking down Jackson Street recently. "Now I see them all the time. They're so loud. It sounds like...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
Nancy Pelosi Defends Dems Rev. Wright Fundraising Appeal
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Nancy Pelosi Defends Dems Rev. Wright Fundraising Appeal ABC House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi defended the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on “This Week” for sending a fundraising email that attempted to capitalize on the apparently dead advertising plan to link President Obama to Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The plan has been repudiated by Mitt Romney as well as the head of the super PAC reported to have been considering backing the plan. “Why would we have any regrets?” asked Pelosi, dismissing Romney’s rejection of the proposed advertising campaign. During our interview, Pelosi cited a previous attack by Romney on President Obama...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
If You Live In California Things Just Got A Whole Lot Worse
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Why does the state of California seem to be so incredibly hopeless? These days California can't seem to do anything right, and if you live in California things just got a whole lot worse. Governor Brown has announced that the state budget deficit for this year is going to be much larger than projected, that more government services are going to be cut and that voters are going to vote on another round of tax increases in November. Meanwhile, unemployment is sitting at 11 percent and extended federal unemployment benefits for workers in the state are ending. Because California...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
[snip] fears active fault-line could cause Japan-style tsunami that could devastate [CA & HI]
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Scientists say a fault-line running across Alaska could cause tsunamis of the same magnitude as the Japanese disaster of March last year. Attention has turned to the Alaskan-Aleutian subduction zone, a region where one of the earth's tectonic plate, carrying the Pacific Ocean, drops beneath the North American plate. A particular section of the fault near the Semidi Islands has not ruptured since at least 1788, and measurements on this area - which lies four to five kilometres under water - reveal the pressure is accumulating rapidly. If the Pacific Ocean plate slips, as happened in the geographically-similar Tohoku subduction...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
How Gov. Brown Ruined California in His First Term
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California, like Greece is perpetually in fiscal trouble. Overoptimistic revenue forecasts coupled with spending $2 billion more than expected has California in a deep hole. Governor Jerry Brown has the same non-solution as ever, hike taxes. Brown wants a "temporary" (as in seven years) tax hike. Given we all know there are no such things as temporary tax hikes in California (seven years is permanent enough in the first place), and also given the California school budget needs an axe, I say let him. Please consider California deficit has soared to $16 billion, Gov. Jerry Brown says Gov. Jerry Brown...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
Centrist GOP candidates may offer chance to end California gridlock
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SACRAMENTO — For years, running for office as a Republican in California boiled down to one core pledge, bound by a candidate's signature and enforced with a vengeance: no new taxes. Not anymore. The state's new political landscape, scrambled by freshly drawn voting districts and new election rules, has given rise to a handful of GOP hopefuls proudly bucking the anti-tax orthodoxy. Their candidacies have the potential to end years of partisan gridlock here. The creation of more centrist districts and the end of the party primary system have given candidates — and special interests — an incentive to move...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
Calguns Foundation Defends Innocent Gun Owner From Criminal Charges, Secures $35,800 Settlement
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San Carlos, CA (May 14, 2012) – In an excellent conclusion to another federal civil rights lawsuit, The Calguns Foundation has secured a settlement agreement from defendants the City of Calexico, the Calexico Police Department, Chief of Police James Neujahr, and Calexico PD officer Mario Alcaraz. The case, Ian James Farias v. City of Calexico, et al., alleged that the defendants violated Mr. Farias’ Fourth Amendment rights by improperly arresting him and seizing his lawfully-possessed shotgun. The lawsuit also alleged that the Calexico PD failed to properly train their officers on firearms issues, leading to Mr. Farias’ arrest. Mr. Farias...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
This just in: Jerry Brown guessed wrong. Again. Tack another billion or so on that deficit.
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We wrote for the weekend (see our column Sunday morning when it goes up here) that Gov. Jerry Brown is a bad guesser. The ink wasn’t even dry yet – in fact the Sunday paper hasn’t even been printed yet – and we learn that Brown guessed wrong again. Back in January Brown guessed that the state budget would be $9.2 billion in the red. Wrong. Monday Brown revised his estimate. Then he said it would be $15.7 billion in the red. Wrong. Today the independent Legislative Analyst affirmed that Jerry’s wrong again. It will be $17 billion plus some...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
Can liberals "wish" socialist utopia into existence?
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California is in the midst of a monstrous debt crisis, the inescapable result of its leading Democrats having gambled on an annual deficit less than $9.2 billion (an immense sum in itself), but now facing a shortfall of nearly twice that amount. For the good of the country, anyone who is actually surprised at this development should be barred from voting in any election until they can pass a third-grade remedial math exam. The inevitability of the California crisis has long been glaringly obvious to all but the most ideologically blinded leftists. Unfortunately, the government of the Golden State is...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
California unemployment has improved to Eurozone levels! We’re in the Great Distression.
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We were lamenting just the other day, yesterday in fact, that California’s 11.0 percent unemployment rate was identical to Ghana’s, that sub-Saharan economic stalwart. Today we awoke to the good news. California’s unemployment rate has plunged to (drum roll please) 10.9 percent! That’s as good as the unemployment rate in the euro zone, where people out of work also account for 10.9 percent of the working population, a new high for those folks...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
Hoarding Tax Dollars (contractor discovers the depth of government profligacy in California)
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California is headed for the fiscal cliff even sooner than was expected, as the budget deficit has suddenly grown from a projected $9.2 billion to $16 billion. Governor Brown, who helped put California on its current unsustainable path during a prior term as governor, wants to raise taxes even higher, which will further cripple the economy of this already over-taxed state. Of course, Brown and Democrat-controlled legislature can't find any legitimate areas where spending could be cut and instead threaten to slash spending for schools and public safety. This is akin to an alcoholic who, when confronted with a lower...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
Newbury Park Woman Faces Eviction After Husband’s Suicide
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A woman is packing up her home after being served an eviction notice — a situation that drove her husband to commit suicide. “I lost my husband and it hurts me like hell,” said Oriane Rousseau, whose husband, Norman, took his life Sunday after an eviction notice was placed on their front door. Norman’s death has delayed the eviction but Oriane said it’s difficult for her to stay in the home where he died. “I don’t want this to happen to anybody. This is horrible. I lost my husband. I lose my pets, I lose my house, I lose my...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
Ninth Circuit to Determine Whether "Spiritualist" Charter Schools Get Tax Dollars
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CASE NOTE: 10-17720 Plans Inc. v. Sacramento City Unified School District[caption id="attachment_4394" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals - San Francisco"][/caption] SAN FRANCISCO, CA – MAY 17, 2012 – The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing a case this morning on the issue of whether the Sacramento Unified School District is violating constitutional principles of separation of church and state in awarding Waldorf-method charter public schools tax-based funding. In the case brought by People for Legal and Nonsectarian Schools (PLANS), PLANS argues that Waldorf-method schools should not publicly funded because they are rooted in a spiritual philosophy called...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
How California's budget blunders led to my divorce from the Golden State (Chuck DeVore)
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Chuck DeVore, former California Assemblyman has moved to Texas and sings our praises, while pointing out the pitfalls of statist California: Texas’ bureaucracy, excluding teachers, is 22 percent smaller as a portion of the population than is California’s, with every Texan paying about $467 a year for government retiree benefits, compared to California’s $1,105 in pension costs. Sky-high benefits for bureaucrats may soon cause the bankruptcy of Stockton, California’s 13th-largest city. California has more government paper-pushers but Texas has 17 percent more teachers per capita, with educational outcomes favoring the Lone Star State. In fact, Texas K-12 schools perform consistently...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
Do They Understand Where the Money Comes From?
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Does Governor Moonbeam and his clueless California Democrat legislature understand where the money comes from? Or is it just that they can’t get past their core Socialist philosophy to find their way out of this mess?
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
Former police officer claims to have solved mystery of the Zodiac killer
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For more than 40 years the identity of the Zodiac killer has eluded police. Blamed for at least five murders in San Francisco between 1968 and 1969, he taunted detectives and their inability to catch him by sending letters and clues to the local newspaper. Now a former police officer says he has finally solved the mystery. In a new book Lyndon Lafferty says the killer is a 91-year-old alcoholic man living in northern California. The only catch: Mr Lafferty refuses to name his suspect. Mr Lafferty claims the killer is now a 91-year-old man living in Solano County but...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
[Manny] Pacquiao Banned from L.A. Mall for Opposing Same-Sex Marriage
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The “tolerant” same-sex marriage left has struck again – this time, at the popular hangout The Grove, in Los Angeles. The owner of The Grove, Rick Caruso, tweeted that iconic boxing great and Philippines Congressman Manny Pacquiao would not be allowed “on the premises” thanks to Pacquiao’s outspoken opposition to same-sex marriage. “Boxer Manny Pacquiao is not welcome @TheGroveLA,” he tweeted. “@TheGroveLA is a gathering place for all Angelenos, not a place for intolerance.” Pacquiao was supposed to do an interview today with “Extra” at The Grove.
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
Strip Club Tax of $10 a Head Being Considered by California Legislature
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Gov. Jerry Brown says there are $8 billion worth of cuts coming to state programs this summer, and that's not even enough to fill the $16 billion sinkhole California faces July 1. One enterprising legislator has a wild idea, though: Tax strip club patrons $10 each time they enter an exotic dancing establishment. Damn. Talk about your cover charge. Assemblyman Das Williams of Oxnard plans to tax you like a gangster taxes drug dealers: AB 2441, which is moving through the state Assembly as we speak, would levy a $10 fee on each and everyone of you good gentlemen (and...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
Poll: LAUSD calling on Calif. voters to approve new taxes on the November ballot.
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The LAUSD Superintendent is calling on Calif. voters to approve new taxes on the November ballot to safeguard education spending. How do you plan to vote? Yes No Don't know Vote
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 04:45:45 AM
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