November 7th, 2008 — California Government, barack-obama, california, politics, sarah-palin Tagged amendment, basic-human-rights, california, cheriot, domestic-partnership, economics, election, gay-rights, language, ohnezu, personal, politics, post, sarah-palin
Everyone in the blog community (ok, it could just be the blogs I read — an example would be this post at Bitch, Ph.D., which perfectly verbalizes how I feel.) is outraged about California’s Prop 8. And rightly so. I am too. But there is barely any mention of Florida’s Amendment 2. I understand that it is especially devastating in California because the right was taken away in this election. Following is the language of the Amendment, which has seemed redundant to me all along considering th
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FL Amendment 2
November 7th, 2008 — California Government, california, environment, money, photos Tagged 74a-class, 74div-class, barack-obama, california, canada, environment, federal, hours-ago, liberal, liberals, november, ontario, photos, supreme-court
John McCain, on the left, in introduced to “21st Century Elections” by Obama Barack, on the right. Ironically. I’m conservative. In a “leave me the fuck alone” kind of conservative kind of way. I live in a very left-wing nabe (Beaches-East York, Toronto). I voted for Marilyn Churley (NDP) in the recent federal election in order try to get rid of an odious Liberal (Maria Minna). It didn’t work. Minna is like a cockroach. Yes, that is metaphorical. No, I don’t care what you think. I hope the
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Drunk Blogging Part (Who Cares)
November 7th, 2008 — California Government, Uncategorized, california, democrats, money, politics Tagged america, california, culture, democrats, election, google, homestar-runner, homophobia-in-action, jabbering-stooge, moving-day, naked-racism, politics, state, Uncategorized, war-on-science
Melissa Etheridge speaks, Posted at 20:25 by J. A. Baker in Religious Thuggery; Election ‘08; Homophobia In Action; Good Stuff you listen: Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Ok
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Melissa Etheridge speaks,
November 7th, 2008 — California Government, business, california, money Tagged business, economics, education, entertaining, freakonomics, mckenzie, movies, much-at-the, popcorn, popcorn-costs, power, recommended, university, x2026
Editorial Reviews With exhaustive research and a wry sense of humor, University of California, Irvine professor Richard McKenzie probes the pricing questions that consumers so often fail to ask in Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies. By distilling the effectiveness of commonly-held strategies, McKenzie illuminates the logic in the seemingly illogical and shakes the foundations of prevalent pricing myths. Are we really fooled by prices that end in 9? If holiday clearance sales are about e
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Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles: Richard B. McKenzie
November 7th, 2008 — California Government, california, politics Tagged arnold-schwarzenegger, california, California Government, california-politics, freedom, governor-arnold, letter, marriage, mobile, november-revise, policy-report, republican, sales, state, the-policy-report
Many workers for the California Government make much more than their counterparts in the private sector (where comparable jobs exist). It’sa shame that we couldn’t just decrease their pay because now the state’s output of services, …
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Schwarzenegger Proposes Sales Tax Increase and Employee Furough
November 7th, 2008 — California Government, business, california, environment, money, politics Tagged bickford, business, california, classifieds, columnist, elections, entertainment, mobile, money, news, opinion, politics, real-estate, research, shopping
Bickford Ranch was fighting words for years in Placer County. Before this decade started Miami-based Lennar Communities saw almost 2,000 acres of pastureland and foothills ridges between Penryn and Lincoln - and saw a lovely golf course community. Environmentalists, people in Loomis and rural folks saw a suburban community dropped into their quiet midst and cried foul. It was war, always war. And ironically now, after years of lawsuits, fights before the board of supervisors and finall
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November 7th, 2008 — California Government, california Tagged 74a-expr, 74div-class, 74span-class, amendment, basic, california, include-data, jrcls, loop-values, mormon, mormon-legal, revision, state, supreme-court
Neither involves extensive changes to the state constitution, or numerous or profound changes to the basic structure of California government , or an alteration of the judicial role. Each involves the denial of a fundamental right to a …
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November 7th, 2008 — California Government, california, climate, environment Tagged 74span-class, california, casitas-water, clemente, climate-change, dam-removal, environment, field-report, include-data, label-cloud, matilija, point, surfers-point, ventura-river, watershed
On Nov 5, 2008, the California Coastal Conservancy hosted a tour of the San Clemente Dam on the Carmel River near Monterey, CA. Planning is underway for the removal of this obsolete dam. Constructed in 1921, the structure has become a liability to its owner, CalAm Water, mainly due to sedimentation and structural instability. San Clemente dam is located just downstream of the confluence of the Carmel River and San Clemente Creek, and the majority of the accumulated sediment is located along
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November 7th, 2008 — California Government, business, california, environment, money, politics Tagged american-future, books, bookworm, business, california, economics, environment, facebook, google, links, michelle-malkin, money, stumbleupon, the-dress
I suspect that, once Obama starts raising taxes, buyer’s remorse is going to set in with incredible speed. This article focuses on the local economy, but is a harbinger of what will happen when taxes go up on a larger, national scale: A temporary 1.5 percentage point sales tax increase proposed Thursday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to deal with the state’s worsening fiscal crisis comes just two days after Marin voters approved a quarter-cent sales tax increase for passenger rail service.In S
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This is what happens when taxes go up
November 7th, 2008 — California Government, california, money, photos Tagged august, california, categories, from-the-recamier, money, monthly, new-orleans, pennsylvania, people, picture, search, september, television, united
We have no saints to honor on this First Friday (devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus), but it was on this date in 1940 that the the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge (”Galloping Gertie”) collapsed in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge’s completion. The bridge’s collapse had a lasting effect on science and engineering. In many physics textbooks the event is presented as an example of elementary forced resonance with the wind providing an external periodic frequency that matched the
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Daily Update: November 7, 2008
