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Body Parts: Another Big US Company Downsizes

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:00:50 -0500

This time its Pfizer, one of America's great pharmaceutical medicine companies. It's shutting down a relatively new R&D plant in Connecticut, as well as other facilities. Though this downsizing has to do, I'm sure, with the recession and the company's stream of products, we'll see a lot more of this downsizing [...]

New Santa Ana: Solorio Applauds Governor for Signing Historic Water Bond Bill

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:52:07 -0500

For Immediate Release

Nov. 10, 2009

For More Information Contact:

Carol Chamberlain – Office: (916) 319-2069
Cell: (916) 804-5355

Solorio Applauds Governor for Signing Historic Water Bond Bill

Assemblyman’s Dedication to Water Issue Resulted in Key Votes

SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman Jose Solorio (D-Anaheim), a vigorous supporter of legislation to [...]

Body Parts: You're not Alone in Thinking and Feeling as You Do, Caroline

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:46:57 -0500

Caroline Glick's cry from the heart about two presidents' reactions to the massacre at Fort Hood. [...]

Opinion L.A.: The Stupak amendment, deconstructed

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:42:11 -0500

I've encountered a fair amount of confusion about the abortion language the House actually adopted on Saturday. Read it for yourself here -- it's a little more than three pages in large type, much of it spent removing abortion-related provisions in the underlying bill. The amendment by Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) [...]

Cobb: Wife the Ho

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:38:49 -0500

There aren't many things in life that are so poignantly absurd and profound as a rich American rockstar on the verge of... Well, I can't call it. Judge for yourself. The question is NOT how does this get on the air, nor how many millions are listening. The question is how [...]

Speak Out California: Throwing Women Under the Bus: Healthcare Reform? -NOT!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:56:26 -0500

This past week, America's women were, yet again, thrown under the bus. Make no mistake about it; this healthcare bill eradicates years of effort, blood and lives lost by brave physicians and healthcare providers, to take this nation back to the dark ages of back alleys, dead mothers and orphaned children. At the very last [...]

Friendly Fire: Lessons from Fort Hood

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:49:53 -0500

If the shooting at Fort Hood teaches one thing, it is this: The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Hassan gave signals early on that he was a few cards short of a deck, meaning that it was merely a matter of time before he did something crazy. In this [...]

SFGate: Politics Blog: More post-secret taping scandal questions dog Jerry Brown

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:45:33 -0500

California AG Jerry Brown's office may have issued its report on ex-spokesman Scott Gerber's secret taping program, but the political blowback has just begun. Who thought being the only...

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Opinion L.A.: Views from opposite sides of the newspaper pay wall

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:26:26 -0500

Lots of folks are writing these days about Rupert Murdoch's recent statement that News Corp. plans to stop its newspaper stories from being indexed by Google when it throws up a more comprehensive pay wall next year. His comments came days after the American Press [...]

Politics in the Zeros: Key oil numbers distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:05:13 -0500

The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.

This is like the economic crisis. Our government makes up imaginary [...]

Orange Juice: Carbajal Selected to Lead OC Public Works

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:00:29 -0500

Number of comments: 1
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 10, 2009 Contact: Howard Sutter, 714.834.6203 Carbajal Selected to Lead OC Public Works (Santa Ana, CA) — County Executive Officer Thomas G. Mauk has appointed Jess Carbajal as Director of OC Public Works, which includes the County’s Facilities, Planning and Engineering divisions. Carbajal has served in management positions with the County [...]

SFGate: Politics Blog: Consumer group says AG Brown should appoint independent counsel in insurance matter

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:59:21 -0500

The consumer advocacy group which charged state Attorney General Jerry Brown caved into pressure from a major insurance firm in rewriting a ballot measure summary has now called on Brown's...

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America's Finest Blog: Forensic journalism 101: Last quote shows what reporter wants you to believe

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:52:00 -0500

I'm back for now blogging with the old software. For years, I have believed that a reporter's last paragraph shows his real feelings. That's when I was a reporter, I tried to end my stories with benign stuff like "Supervisors...'" [...]

PolitickerCA - California Politics News, Reaction, and Analysis: [America's Finest Blog] Forensic journalism 101: Last quote shows what reporter wants you to believe

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:52:00 -0500

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Red County: Placer County: Source: Audra Strickland to announce run for Ventura County Treasurer-Tax Collector seat

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:45:38 -0500

Assemblywoman Audra Strickland will soon announce her intention to become Ventura County’s next treasurer-tax collector, according to a source very close to her office.

Larry Matheney, who currently holds that position, announced yesterday that he will not seek a third term.

Ventura County voters elected Strickland to the Assembly in 2004, [...]

Red County: Sacramento: Source: Audra Strickland to announce run for Ventura County Treasurer-Tax Collector seat

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:45:38 -0500

Assemblywoman Audra Strickland will soon announce her intention to become Ventura County’s next treasurer-tax collector, according to a source very close to her office.

Larry Matheney, who currently holds that position, announced yesterday that he will not seek a third term.

Ventura County voters elected Strickland to the Assembly in 2004, [...]

Red County: Los Angeles: Source: Audra Strickland to announce run for Ventura County Treasurer-Tax Collector seat

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:45:38 -0500

Assemblywoman Audra Strickland will soon announce her intention to become Ventura County’s next treasurer-tax collector, according to a source very close to her office.

Larry Matheney, who currently holds that position, announced yesterday that he will not seek a third term.

Ventura County voters elected Strickland to the Assembly in 2004, [...]

Right Coast: Enormous Implicit Marginal Tax RatesMike Rappaport

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:45:28 -0500

Here. And those rates, which exceed 100 percent for many people, are calculated under existing law and before the health care monstronsity is passed, which makes matters much worse. [...]

Orange Juice: Josh on the Larger Significance of the Healthcare Vote

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:45:17 -0500

(Right now there’s a bit of a sour aftertaste over the Stupak amendment (which will be modified or dropped) but the usually restrained Josh Marshall’s uncharacteristic triumphalism last Sunday is still appropriate and inspiring. Read, ye teabaggers and reactionaries, and tremble.) One Vote on Health Care Reform, One Giant Leap… There are many [...]

Calitics: Somebody buy Carly Fiorina a Newspaper

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:45:00 -0500

On the Larry Mantle Show on KPCC, Carly Fiorina had this to say:

I believe that life begins at conception. I would certainly that there are exceptions for the health of the mother. I support stem-cell research. But let me just say that on these very difficult social issues, I recognize [...]

Orange Juice: Polling? What’s All That Dough Buy You?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:32:52 -0500

Number of comments: 3
We noticed the other day that the Ackerwoman has spent a ton of money on polling: over fourteen big ones were paid to a guy named Adam Probolsky (who is supposedly the “boyfriend” of Ackerman, Inc. campaign fundraiser Desiree Mouzoon). Being the political novices that we are, we really have to [...]

Opinion L.A.: Married Catholic priests? Yes and (mostly) no

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:28:11 -0500

It was a blow to Roman Catholic liberals when the Vatican announced last month that it would welcome, en masse, conservative Anglicans who share the pope's opposition to female clergy and traditional views about homosexuality. But there was a silver lining for liberals: The fact that in welcoming married Anglican priests [...]

Liberal OC: Five Orange County Congressmen are Hypocrites on House Health Care Bill

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:19:24 -0500

Number of comments: 1

Of Orange County’s six members of the U.S. House of Representatives, only one, Democrat Loretta Sanchez, for voted the [...]

Friendly Fire: When Racial Profiling Becomes a Family Affair

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:15:39 -0500

My two-year-old nephew Nicholas is as sharp as they come.

He sees a Starbucks logo and immediately says, "Robbie's coffee," recognizing his uncle's favorite brew. He sees a Mercedes logo and says, "Gramma's car."

He saw the Ft. Hood shooter on TV and immediately said to [...]

Paragraph Farmer: Tax-exempt status as a political football

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:01:00 -0500

Of course it's come to this. And the sad thing is that the Stupak Amendment carried Pelosicare over the finish line in the House but will probably be gutted or ignored by the Senate.

(Representative Cao, the lone Republican who voted for Pelosicare, is an honorable man, but [...]

Cobb: Destination: US

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:59:50 -0500

A thoughtful reader just passed on this interesting tidbit from a recent Gallup survey:

The United States is the top desired destination country for the 700 million adults who would like to relocate permanently to another country. Nearly one-quarter (24%) of these respondents, which translates to more than 165 million [...]

Gay Patriot: Thank you, Ma’am!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:46:58 -0500

I never thought I’d be grateful for anything my state’s hyper-partisan junior Senator has said or done, but it seems Mrs. Boxer is bound and determined to prevent Obamacare from passing. According to law professor William A. Jacobson, Ma’am “is proclaiming she has enough votes in the Senate to [...]

Orange Juice: What they’re saying about GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:35:03 -0500

Number of comments: 3
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 10, 2009 Contact: Julie Soderlund Cristina Minasian 916-551-1383 WHAT THEY’RE SAYING: PRAISE FOR FIORINA’S STRONG SENATE BID Fiorina A Serious Challenger For Boxer “The Charismatic Former Business Leader Could Be Boxer’s Greatest Challenge Since Her Election To The Senate In 1992.” “Boxer has the edge in Democratic-leaning California, but Fiorina’s entry [...]

Calitics: Looking at Illinois: Releasing Prisoners to Reduce Deficit

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:30:00 -0500

I listed a few ways to reduce the budget deficit earlier this morning, but one thing I didn't mention was the way Illinois is now reducing the budget deficit: reducing prison populations:

Gov. Pat Quinn tried to allay concerns Tuesday about the state releasing prisoners early to save money' [...]

Political Blotter: John Yoo asks that torture lawsuit be dismissed

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:25:43 -0500

Number of comments: 1

University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall Law School Professor John Yoo – widely recognized as an architect of Bush Administration policies on torture and detainee rights – has filed a brief asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to toss a lawsuit filed by a former prisoner.

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Orange Juice: Anti-Norby TV Ad Hits New Low

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:23:49 -0500

Martin Wisckol at the Register has posted a youtube clip of a cable TV run ad that basically paints Norby some sort of anti-feminist monster. The thing is so hyperventilated that it’s hard to believe anybody would take it seriously. It starts out with an image of Mike Duvall that [...]

uggabugga: No politics: 20 of ...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:21:00 -0500

No politics: 20 of the Worst Men’s Hairstyles

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Body Parts: ObamaCare Will Subsidize Middle-Class Lifestyle, Not Middle-Class Health Care

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:04:26 -0500

ObamaCare is ostensibly directed at health care and would ensure that all middle-class families have medical care through insurance by requiring and underwriting that insurance (the poor and the elderly already have governmentally funded medical care). But a little thought would show that federal subsidy of medical insurance for the [...]

Right Coast: Is the world made of math? Tom Smith

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:21:46 -0500

I have started reading Steven Landsburg's new book The Big Questions. So far I find it perhaps a little disappointing. But as I have read only the first chapter, I should reserve judgment. The first chapter is an excursion into metaphysics that I must say I found singularly unpersuasive. [...]

Liberal OC: DeVore’s Positive Review of “Liberal Fascism” Gives Boxer/Fiorina Material

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:57:47 -0500

HT to Instaputz for this item about the GOP US Senate fight in California. The blog notes that Chuck reviewed right wing columnist Jonah [...]

New Santa Ana: NAHREP OC Homeownership Fair set for Nov. 14, in Santa Ana

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:47:00 -0500

“NAHREP OC Homeownership Fair”

With Support From State Senator Lou Correa

Saturday, November 14, 2009, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

FREE Workshops in English and Spanish Face Painting, Music, Raffle Prizes Assistance for first time homebuyers Low down payment programs Free credit reports

Event located at 2323 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, [...]

Fresno Bee Opinion Talk: Getting out of the car and getting around

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:33:22 -0500

I love San Francisco. But I sure couldn't live there if my car were my primary mode of transportation. The great thing about a big city like San Francisco is you can function, even thrive, without a car.

I just spent the weekend there, the second one I've [...]

WitnessLA.com: Handicapping SCOTUS and Juvenile LWOP

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:14:16 -0500

Monday’s hearings on the two Florida cases, each involving juveniles who received sentences of Life Without the possibility of Parole—LWOP—has had reporters on the Supremes beat scrambling to analyze what exactly the various justices comments and questions portend for the decision. The precedent that both SCOTUS watchers and the justices themselves [...]

Orange Juice: Candidates Sought to Fill O.C. Retirement Board Vacancy

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:06:56 -0500

Number of comments: 4
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Howard Sutter, 714.834.6203 office November 10, 2009 Candidates Sought to Fill Retirement Board Vacancy (Santa Ana, CA) — Board of Supervisors Chair Patricia C. Bates is seeking candidates to fill a vacancy on the Board of Retirement of the Orange County Employees Retirement System (OCERS). The vacancy, created by the resignation [...]

Patterico's Pontifications: It Wasn’t a “Tragedy”

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:06:31 -0500

Number of comments: 8

[Guest post by Jack Dunphy]

If a bus had hit a patch of ice and skidded off a highway, resulting in the death of 13 people and injuries to dozens more, that would have been a “tragedy” as the term was once commonly understood.

But when a member of the enemy, even [...]

Calitics: Lynn Woolsey Asks: "Who Elected These Bishops?"

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Once upon a time, in a far away land called Orange County, I was a Catholic. I come from an Irish-Catholic family and we did the usual church thing, though my own parents were infrequent about it. Over time I came to realize that my lack of belief in a [...]

SFGate: Politics Blog: Write a bill, win a trip to Sac

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:57:00 -0500

If you live in San Mateo County and want to be a state legislator, here's your chance. Well, kind of. Assemblyman Jerry Hill's office announced its second annual "bill idea contest," which...

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Calitics: Healthcare Reform and Workers' Compensation

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:43:10 -0500

From this morning's Los Angeles Times:
Steve Poizner on Monday rejected a call from the California Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau to hike rates by 22.8% for policies that would be written or renewed after Jan. 1. Poizner also rejected a subsequent recommendation made by a hearing examiner from' [...]

Politics in the Zeros: Remedial constitutional law for Republicans

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:30:21 -0500

Number of comments: 10

Not sayin’ all of them need it but…

Clearly some of them do:

Ya think? Some of them may need some work on The Pledge of
Allegiance, as well:

H/T to ctblogger at MLN for the Boehner and Akin videos. And just a quick note to say thanks to Bob for inviting [...]

uggabugga: Reaction to Frederic Mishkin:I consider ...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:29:00 -0500

Reaction to Frederic Mishkin:

I consider Mishkin's remarks that "pure irrational exuberance bubbles" are no big deal, to be one of the most significant statements ever made by a (former) Fed Governor (see this post). Mishkin is clearly sending a Bernanke-approved signal about how they judge these things. [...]

SFGate: Politics Blog: Alioto-Pier's insurance commissioner bid gets a boost

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:19:28 -0500

You may not have given much thought yet to the 2010 California Insurance Commissioner race -- but apparently former VP Al Gore has. Gore announced Tuesday that he is endorsing San Francisco...

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Gay Patriot: A Friend’s Quixotic Quest for Congress

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:18:01 -0500

Number of comments: 3

At some point, I will have to blog about the consideration I have given to runnig against my big-spending Congressman Henry Waxman, a man who has spent 35 years representing Hollywood while doing nothing to stop the steady drain of entertainment jobs from his district. Ol’ Henry, like all too [...]

Political Blotter: AMA: Marijuana has medical value

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:07:54 -0500

As proposed ballot measures and a legislative bill to allow recreational marijuana use advance here in California, medical marijuana advocates scored a big win today as the American Medical Association shifts to a friendlier stance.

The AMA’s House of Delegates voted to reverse its long-held position that marijuana be classified on [...]

Window Manager: I Feel Safer Already

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:57:00 -0500

Senate plan calls for new agency to prevent economic crashYeah, right. These are the guys who set up everything that caused the crash. [...]

SFGate: Politics Blog: Liberal bloggers: Don't give $ to Obama, Dems until they pass pro-LGBT laws

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:50:00 -0500

Some of the top liberal bloggers -- Daily Kos , FireDogLake , Dan Savage -- are tired of waiting for President Obama and the Democratic Congress to take major action on gay rights issues. So...

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Calitics: Camp Courage: Winning Back Marriage by Telling Painful Stories

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:46:14 -0500

This weekend's Camp Courage in Sacramento was a good tonic for the loss in Maine and part of our collective path forward to restoring marriage equality to California. The heart of Camp Courage is learning how to craft your "story-of-self" a personal, emotional version of who you are and why [...]

Gay Patriot: Has anyone ever asked Boxer about her double standards on sexual harassment?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:40:06 -0500

Number of comments: 7

More than eighteen years ago, a Congresswomen from the San Francisco Bay area led a group of her Democratic female House colleagues in marching across Capitol Hill to demand a delay in the confirmation hearings of then-Judge Clarence Thomas. That woman, a Ma’am Barbara Boxer, was upset because that good [...]

Gay Patriot: Sexual Fascism

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:15:14 -0500

Number of comments: 3

Jonah Goldberg could find inspiration in Anne Moir and David Jessel’s Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women for a sequel to his book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change.

The problem is that it is the apostles of [...]

OC Progressive: Earthflow's Permaculture Design Course

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:07:10 -0500

It's starting NOW but it's not too late? This weekend is the first session. Read more!

One weekend a month for 6 months...
Orange County's first Permaculture Design Certificate Course!

Once a jewel upon the land, filled with orchards rich in fruit year-round, Orange County's landscape has changed dramatically in [...]

Seeing the Forest: How Wall Street bought Tim Geithner

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:51:47 -0500

I just came across this: How Wall Street bought Tim Geithner -- DailyFinance.

Have you ever wondered why Wall Street was able to get $23.7 trillion from the federal government after making some bad bets that wiped out $30 trillion [...]

A Better Oakland: Condo conversions return to Council

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:48:03 -0500

Number of comments: 8

Condo conversions were a big controversy a few years ago, but since then, have pretty much faded off the radar of everyone but professional affordable housing activists and developers. Now the issue is back, sort of.

Councilmembers Pat Kernighan and Rebecca Kaplan have introduced a proposal to make some [...]

SFGate: Politics Blog: Is your Congressman or Senator on a hit list?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:34:17 -0500

While the health care reform sausage is being cased in Congress, the warring political factions are passing the time by making lists. Specifically, "target lists" of legislators who dared vote the...

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Orange Juice: My Town is Happier than Your Town

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:17:27 -0500

Number of comments: 2
The rankings are in: Irvine’s CA-48 is the third happiest congressional district in the country and the happiest in California. Being close to the beach helps, as CA-46 (Huntington Beach) and CA-50 (North County San Diego) are also happy. The full rankings are here. Of course we are smiling. We [...]

LA Observed: Jamie McCourt denies affair

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:17:00 -0500

The ousted Dodgers CEO gave her first interview since the divorce papers were filed to Times columnist T.J. Simers. She said in the hour-long sit-down that she was never with... [...]

Fresno Bee Opinion Talk: Is Schwarzenegger getting public-policy ideas from his movies?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:11:51 -0500

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger offered an idea Monday that he says might have less political opposition than building a peripheral canal to transport water around the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta. It would be an underground canal -- similar to the one in his movie "Total Recall." The governor actually [...]

LA Observed: Accidents up near red-light cameras

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:53:00 -0500

CBS 2's David Goldstein and team got the data from the city and found that instead of fewer accidents, the number of traffic accidents has gone up at most of... [...]

Orange Juice: County to Launch New OC Fire Watch Program on Anniversary of Freeway Complex Fire

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:49:31 -0500

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 10, 2009 Contacts: Marisa O’Neil at (714) 310‐5478 or marisa.oneil@ocparks.com Lynnette Round at (714) 290‐7772 or lynnetteround@ocfa.org Sergio Prince at (949) 933‐0595 or sergio.prince@ocgov.com County to Launch New OC Fire Watch Program on Anniversary of Freeway Complex Fire (Irvine, CA) – Orange County Board of Supervisors Chair Patricia C. Bates will join the [...]

Friendly Fire: Fort Hood: Terror & Tragedy

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:48:09 -0500

What does this terror and tragedy mean, and what does it not mean?
(Note: This is a second look at this delicate but important topic)

The shooting rampage at Fort Hood was an act of terror, but we should not feel terrorized or lash out against Muslims. We should also not [...]

New Santa Ana: Senator Correa to host Pathways to Higher Education Conference on Nov. 21

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:41:15 -0500

State Senator Lou Correa is conducting a free conference for current high school students and their parents. The Pathways to Higher Education Conference will take place on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, from 9 am to 1 pm, at Coastline Community [...]

LA Observed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's leukemia

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:35:00 -0500

The Lakers' special coach and former great for the Lakers and UCLA made the media rounds Monday announcing that he is being treated for a rare form of leukemia. The...' [...]

LA Observed: Morning Buzz: Tuesday 11.10.09

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:16:00 -0500

More on that secret taping of reporters by a Jerry Brown aide, Beck moves forward and the City Council is gone to Texas. Plus more, of course, after the jump.... [...]

Fresno Bee Opinion Talk: Schwarzenegger discusses a range of issues at Bee editorial board meeting

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:02:20 -0500

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave his take on California's water challenges, the state budget problems and who might be the next lieutenant governor during a 61-minute meeting with The Bee's editorial board Monday. He went to The Bee after signing a part of the water reform package during a ceremony at [...]

Seeing the Forest: Climate Denial and the Chamber

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:58:37 -0500

In James Boyce: Chamber Me This. some guy named James Boyce writes about the head of the Chamber of Commerce and their climate-denial efforts to prevent us from reducing CO2 emissions.

Did you know that Tom Donahue, head of the Chamber of Commerce, is on the Board [...]

Right Coast: It's possible to be too diverse Tom Smith

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:50:43 -0500

You want to exclude America-hating jihadists, for example, from your Army and from your country too, I should think. I also don't understand why we can't acknowledge that there is something going on within the Muslim religion world wide that motivates some Muslims to become terrorists. If there were a [...]

Calitics: I'll Be Baaacck: Deficit Edition

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:45:59 -0500

Know how we've kind of moved on from the myriad budget crises? Well, it's not moved on, and it's out for blood...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger estimated Monday that California's budget will fall out of balance by $5 billion to $7 billion this fiscal year, on top of a $7.4 billion' [...]

Paragraph Farmer: Faith and gravity

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:42:00 -0500

I would not ordinarily connect those two things either. But Reluctant Scribe did, to very good effect (as friend Bookworm noticed). Then Julie went and quoted from Kevin Knight and his astronaut analogy, which also fits. [...]

Red County: Placer County: Congressman McClintock Town Hall Meeting, this Saturday in Lincoln

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:41:27 -0500

Rep. McClintock Announces Next Town Hall Meeting in Lincoln

U.S. Representative Tom McClintock (R-Granite Bay) today announced he will hold a town hall meeting with constituents November 14th in Lincoln.

When:

Saturday November 14th

10:00am

Where:

Sun City Orchard Creek Lodge

965 Orchard Creek Lane

Lincoln, CA 95648

For those of you who have never attended to a town hall [...]

DISSENT the BLOG: Gustavo Arellano v. Saddleback's "Gaucho"

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:17:00 -0500

Separated at Birth? Ask a Mexican's Logo, Saddleback College's Gaucho (OC Weekly)

…Look, Saddleback: if you're going to use Latino stereotypes, at least use the right ones. Compare your gaucho to the one below used by the University of California, Santa Barbara. Notice the flat' [...]

Right Coast: Fred Tom Smith

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:14:37 -0500

Fred Zacharias

[I am posting this memorial notice on behalf of Fred's friend Bruce Green -- BW]

It is with sadness that I report the death of Professor Fred Zacharias on November 8, at the much too young age of 56, after a valiant, months’-long battle with a rare form of [...]

Orange Juice: Unplug the Political Machine

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:08:28 -0500

Number of comments: 11
The public employee unions have corrupted California state government. The public employee unions have become the most powerful special interest group in Sacramento. As a result, California’s state and local employees are the best compensated in the country. Californians pay ever higher taxes for ever worse services. Now, taxpayers are [...]

Politics in the Zeros: Elinor Ostrom has transformed economics by showing communal ownership works in capitalism too

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:05:34 -0500

Number of comments: 10

Elinor Ostrom

Derek Wall on Strom winning the Nobel prize in Economics for refuting the “tragedy of the commons.”

Ostrom’s work is important to socialists because it shows that it is possible to run economic systems without private property or state control.

Marx famously argued that socialism would [...]

Liberal OC: Jan Vandersloot OC Environmentalist Leader Dies at 64

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:48:47 -0500

Number of comments: 2
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Orange Juice: Kelo… redevelopment project area.. four year later

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:48:23 -0500

Number of comments: 4
When meeting victims of eminent domain abuse you feel powerless to come to their aide other than to see if there were any mistakes in the process that could be contested before the bulldozer arrives at their front door without an invitation. We met New London, CT victims Susette Kelo and the [...]

Bill Bradley's NEW WEST NOTES: Non-Random Notes (Throughout the day)

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:32:20 -0500

Number of comments: 10

President Barack Obama, honoring the 13 soldiers slain in last week’s Fort Hood shooting rampage, discussed the long tradition of military service in this country.

** ** QUICK HITS. President Barack Obama is getting some rave reviews for his speech today at Fort Hood. It was delayed, as was his [...]

Body Parts: We Are Going to Get Socialized Medicine

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:16:26 -0500

Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire is a politician with directness and integrity. In an interview on a local public radio station the other day, he said, that some form of ObamaCare will be passed in the Senate. Simply, the Democrats have a supermajority and the President really wants this. He said he and [...]

Cobb: Ghoul Systems

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:13:32 -0500

What does Google do with your data after you die? What does Yahoo do? What about Facebook? How does anybody actually know when you are dead in cyberspace? Seems to me that this is a problem that hasn't been well thought out. How long would it take that thing that' [...]

Patterico's Pontifications: Teary Scozzafava: Maybe I’ll Run on a Republican Ticket Again in the Future

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:02:10 -0500

Number of comments: 10

The Washington Post has a story titled ‘Scozzafava’ turns into epithet with the offensive deck headline: “It’s a Grand Old Purging as moderate’s ouster spotlights Republican dysfunction.”

Actually, the Republican dysfunction was supporting this turncoat — someone who, the article makes it sound, endorsed the Democrat because she was emotionally [...]

Blogging Bayport Alameda: I’ve been searchin’

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:35:43 -0500

Number of comments: 8
John Knox White has an interesting post on his site about the Mayor dropping hints at a previous Chamber of Commerce meeting that she would like to change Interim City Manager Ann Marie Gallant from interim to permanent. JKW brings up some good points about why we should slow down the [...]

Red County: Placer County: Red County Placer News Roundup - November 10, 2009

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:18:10 -0500

Council won’t ban pitbulls - Auburn Journal
The Auburn City Council put worries of a ban on pitbulls to rest Monday. The city won't ban pitbulls, in part because state law doesn't allow it.

Roseville kids line up for swine-flu shots - Roseville Press-Tribune
Thomas Pridham and [...]

Politics in the Zeros: It takes a pillage. Banksters in DC greeting card

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:15:48 -0500

Number of comments: 10

Cara Scissoria has some new greeting cards for the holidays. ‘It takes a pillage’ is particularly timely, don’t you think?

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Liberal OC: Chris Norby: Opportunist or Revolutionary?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:12 -0500

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Supervisor Chris Norby

We are a week away from the November 17th Special Election Primary to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of disgraced Republican Assemblyman Mike Duvall. It seems to be a forgone conclusion among Orange County’s [...]

Big Lizards: A COIN Flip

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:08:27 -0500

Yesterday, rumor swept the dextrosphere that President Barack H. Obama was prepared to accept the recommendation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal; the president, quoth the Great Mentioner, would send 40,000 troops to Afghanistan.

And who could doubt the gossip? After all, it came from CBS, bastion of unbiased and utterly [...]

Marooned In Marin: The Fall of Berlin Wall

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:06:00 -0500

...was 20 years ago yesterday.Video above from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.The Wall fell in large part because of the moral clarity and leadership of one man, Ronald Reagan. Gorbachev, who seemed to get all the credit yesterday, didn't just decide to tear it down for his own entertainment or out' [...]

Shark Blog: A multi-cultural conundrum

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:04:00 -0500

The Fort Hood killings will reverberate. At the lower end of the military, Muslims will find their property trashed, and... [...]

The Claremont Conservative: Chuck DeVore in Real Clear Politics

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:56:00 -0500

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A few days ago, Carly Fiorina secured the backing of eight GOP senators in her California Republican primary bid against CMC alum, Chuck DeVore.

Kyle Trystad for Real Clear Politics wrote up how this race is the next New York-23, a reference to the failed bid of [...]

WitnessLA.com: Floating Garbage Nation

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:18:55 -0500

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One should not miss Lindsey Hoshaw’s gruesomely fascinating article in Tuesday’s NY Times, about the vast garbage islands in the Pacific. Most of us had heard about these giant floating garbage collections, but somehow Hoshaw has gone the needed distance to make us feel how impossibly and fantastically awful these [...]

Patterico's Pontifications: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:23:24 -0500

Number of comments: 10

[Guest post by DRJ]

President Barack Obama made a surprise video appearance at the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall:

“In the message beamed into celebrations at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, once on the border between East and West Berlin, Obama told cheering crowds: “Even in the face of [...]

Politics in the Zeros: Afghanistan. Vietnam all over again

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:13:07 -0500

Number of comments: 10

Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan

What is the goal of this war? Apparently it is to somehow chase down and then kill terrorists fighting on their own ground when we often don’t even know who they are. Good luck with that.

The most idiotic thing being said about [...]

Red County: Los Angeles: Local News Anchorman blasts President Obama!

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:51:28 -0500

It is not too often that we hear a local television news anchor to take a swipe at the President of the United States.

However, by reading between the lines on the Twitter posts by Los Angeles Anchorman Carlos Amezcua of KTTV's Fox Station Channel 11 shares his thoughts about President Obama:

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear [...]

Hispanic Pundit: Quote Of The Day

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:51:14 -0500

“The bill is framed in terms of Republican attacks on the Democratic bill, not in terms of its own aims or methods. Which is fine, and to be expected. If I were a Republican, I wouldn’t spend my time crafting a health-care reform plan, either. Republicans don’t have the votes [...]

LA Observed: Yaroslavsky as web news pioneer

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:35:00 -0500

That innovative new website for Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky that we told you about in May has gone live. It features a blog by Yaroslavsky and stories about county news and... [...]

The Claremont Conservative: Meg Whitman Just Lost My Vote

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:08:00 -0500

The Griffith R. Harsh IV and Margaret C. Whitman Charitable Foundation in 2007 contributed $100,000 to the Environmental Defense Fund, which is now at odds with Whitman over water policy. The foundation also invested $3 million in hedge funds based in the Cayman Islands — a Caribbean tax haven that's' [...]

DISSENT the BLOG: The Southwestern College Scandal: the ACLU weighs in

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:07:00 -0500

The blog Save Our Southwestern College (here) reports that
In an extensively documented letter to SWC President Raj Chopra, David Blair-Loy, legal director for the San Diego/Imperial County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, outlines how the college's actions and policies violate' [...]

LA Observed: Luc Robitaille in Toronto

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:05:00 -0500

Video of the Kings' Luc Robitaiile speaking at his induction into the hockey Hall of Fame tonight in Canada. He didn't choke up until addressing his parents in French. Robitaille... [...]

LA Observed: Luc Robitaille in Toronto *

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:05:00 -0500

Video of the Kings' Luc Robitaiile speaking at his induction into the hockey Hall of Fame tonight in Canada. He didn't choke up until addressing his parents in French. Robitaille... [...]