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LA Observed: Radio traffic reports fading away

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:42:00 -0500

Cellphones, GPS and the struggling economy are conspiring to begin the die-off phase for regular traffic reports on your car radio, says Daisy Nguyen at AP. (She could have cited... [...]

Right Coast: Ahmadinejad to Chavez: 'We're going to be together until the end' | Headlines News | Jerusalem Post Tom Smith

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:01:51 -0500

"We feel at home here and among our brothers ... we're going to be together until the end," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez during a visit to Latin America on Wednesday.

via www.jpost.com

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Right Coast: Local News | Aerial-gunning foes ask Obama to ban practice Tom Smith

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:00:19 -0500

A wildlife advocacy group Friday asked President Barack Obama to end aerial gunning of coyotes and other predators, citing an Idaho incident where a shotgun-wielding parachutist illegally fired on a wolf.

via seattletimes.nwsource.com

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Politics in the Zeros: Sinfest after Thanksgiving

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:44:34 -0500

Number of comments: 10

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Liberal OC: The Governor Owes Back Taxes

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:13:18 -0500

Well, well well. Owing back taxes is no longer than exclusive domain of Obama administration appointees.

California Governor Arnold Scwarzenegger appears to owe tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes according to [...]

Liberal OC: Voice of OC Hires Managing Editor

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:43:21 -0500

Norberto Santana with his son Maximo at the as-yet-unlaunched Voice of OC's office. Photo: Jonathan Ho

Spencer Kornhaber over at OCWeekly followed [...]

Mayor Sam's Sister City: How will the Outcome in the CD 2 Special Election, "Effect the Legacies" of these Two-Term Mayors?

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:03:00 -0500

Number of comments: 2
A former and current mayor in search of their "floundering vessel" in CD 2.
From the Los Angeles Times via ourla.com
Los Angeles could be facing a $1-billion deficit by the time Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wraps up his second term in 2013, a dire [...]

CaliforniaCityNews.org: Vallejo Mayor Under Fire for Comments on Gays

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:57:00 -0500

If you thought bankruptcy was the only tough issue in the Vallejo, you'd be wrong. Mayor Osby Davis, who won election in a razor close (two votes) campaign against an openly gay candidate, is now the focus of a national backlash for comments saying gays are "committing sin and that [...]

CaliforniaCityNews.org: Santa Cruz Regains Upper Hand in 'Surf City' Tussle with Huntington Beach?

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:58:00 -0500

The long running 'feud' between Santa Cruz and Huntington Beach is one of our favorite plotlines in covering local government in California, and we've got an intriguing new development. The Kawānanakoa family, who represent the heirs to the throne of the now defunct Kingdom of Hawaiʻi and descendants of the [...]

Orange Juice: Mexican Consul Carlos Rodríguez y Quezada leaving Santa Ana early

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:40:51 -0500

Number of comments: 1
“Mexican Consul Carlos Rodríguez y Quezada is retiring from his post in Santa Ana on Monday, his spokesman Agustin Pradillo Cuevas said today,” according to the O.C. Register. Quezada has been controversial, to say the least. He replaced a Consul who was very popular, and who fought for the rights of [...]

New Santa Ana: Mexican Consul Carlos Rodríguez y Quezada leaving Santa Ana early

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:38:08 -0500

“Mexican Consul Carlos Rodríguez y Quezada is retiring from his post in Santa Ana on Monday, his spokesman Agustin Pradillo Cuevas said today,” according to the O.C. Register.

Quezada has been controversial, to say the least. He replaced a Consul who was very popular, and who fought [...]

LA Observed: Avery Clayton, curator of black archives

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:31:00 -0500

News is spreading fast via email and Facebook that Avery Clayton died of a heart attack on Thanksgiving. He was an artist and executive director of Western States Black Research... [...]

LA Observed: L.A. authors in Guadalajara

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:09:00 -0500

LA Observed contributors Veronique de Turenne, Jenny Price and Denise Hamilton will be heading to Guadalajara in coming days (or are already there) for the big book fair, which has... [...]

Gay Patriot: Global Warming Marketing Is Based On A Complete Lie

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:49:09 -0500

Number of comments: 5

Folks, this is the original “hockey stick” graph that was so compelling in Al Gore’s movie “Inconvenient Truth.” This graph, and much of the other data Gore hawks, came directly from the computer models from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in eastern England.

This graph has [...]

Right Coast: If SCOTUS relied on it, is it still rubbish? Tom Smith

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:36:21 -0500

From

MASSACHUSETTS, ET AL., PETITIONERS
v.
ENVIRON-MENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ET AL. No. 05-1120.

Supreme Court of United States.

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Section 202(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act, as added by Pub. L. 89-272, §101(8), 79 Stat. 992, and as amended by, inter alia, 84 Stat. 1690 and 91 Stat. 791, [...]

Calitics: Arnold, Pay Your Taxes

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:30:40 -0500

Our Governor is always talking about the lack of money coming into the state. Perhaps there would be more if he would pay his taxes:

According to documents filed in L.A. County Superior Court, Arnold Schwarzenegger owes the IRS $39,047 from 2004 and $40,016 from 2005. In total the Guv owes [...]

LA Observed: Frank McCourt claims cash squeeze

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:20:00 -0500

Frank McCourt's latest court filing in the case of McCourt v. McCourt makes for interesting reading, judging by the stories from John R. Emshwiller in the Wall Street Journal and... [...]

OC Progressive: "Forget Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day, it should be Jdimytai Damour Day"

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:16:13 -0500

I prefer Treehuggers take on today. I don't usually take commentary and post here but I think it's time to remind ourselves something significant about how far consumerism really has gone.

But most importantly, it is the first anniversary of the death of Jdimytai Damour, who was trampled to' [...]

Red County: Los Angeles: Socialist party not a big fan of Obama

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:10:49 -0500

Ever wonder what goes on when socialists get together for a conference? So did I, so I stopped by one in Los Angeles last weekend to see what I could learn. Anyone who’s familiar with my writings knows that my political views are light years away from socialism, but I was [...]

A Better Oakland: Help give other Oaklanders a better holiday season: donate to the Mayor’s Holiday Toy Drive and the Blogoaksphere Virtual Food Drive

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:52:41 -0500

Oakland is full of superfun stuff to do during the holiday season. Shopping districts host festive street fairs. Normally-cool institutions like the Dunsmuir-Hellman Historic Estate, the Oakland Zoo, Children’s Fairyland become even cooler when they get all gussied up with lights and decorations. The [...]

Seeing the Forest: Blogging At Open Left

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:11:33 -0500

Remember, I'm blogging over at Open Left instead of here.

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Orange Juice: Howard Dean “Republicans are right”

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:54:15 -0500

Dr Dean gets much of it right about ObamaCare and how important it is at this point to kill it and get something that actually controls costs. He’s right that Vermont tried to reform Health Care as he says, with disastrous consequences. Unfortunately, capping premium costs at the 20% range is [...]

Friendly Fire: Political Correctness and the Security Breach at White House

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:53:53 -0500

Imagine the all too imaginable and there had been an attempt on President Obama's life. Since threats to Obama are 400% higher than against any other president, you'd think security would be pretty tough. You'd be wrong. Party crashers got in, got past the Secret Service, the [...]

Gay Patriot: More Hypocrisy from the One

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:36:59 -0500

Number of comments: 16

Just caught this in Fred Barnes’s WSJ piece on why Obama isn’t changing Washington

“Change must come to Washington,” Mr. Obama said in a June 2008 speech. “I have consistently said when it comes to solving problems,” he told Jake Tapper of ABC News that same month, “I don’t approach [...]

Politics in the Zeros: What Dubai says about capitalism: Not much

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:10:18 -0500

Number of comments: 10

Palm Island resort, Dubai

ZeroHedge says Dubai never even remotely resembled capitalism and makes some telling points, detailing what led to the imminent Dubai default on debt:

A total discount of the importance of institutional strength

A deleterious disregard for even the most basic fixed cost [...]

Orange Juice: Sugarwoman Sides With Deceit; Uses FSD e-mail To Do It!

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:57:02 -0500

Since we at FFFF like sharing so much, I thought we would share this email with our Friends. I wonder if it ever occurred to Hilda Sugarwoman that her old pal Linda Ackerwoman moved to Irvine a long, long time ago. It’s been 10 years. Maybe, just maybe, Hilda lost [...]

Orange Juice: Harpoon Thanksgiving Message

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:44:44 -0500

We received the following cell phone message from The Fullerton Harpoon who is currently on a fishing trawler in the vicinity of the Sea of Japan and, apparently, has no computer access. Dear Friends, Happy Thanksgiving. Some of you may wonder what an old, crusty, salt-bitten sea gherkin like the Harpoon is [...]

Oakland Focus: Oakland Barnes and Noble may close Jan. 31, 2010

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:09:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0

According to Sanjiv Handa of the East Bay News Service the enormous Oakland Barnes and Noble bookstore at 98 Broadway in Jack London Square may close Jan. 31, 2010. Barnes and Noble is expected to make an official disclosure next week, baring any intervention from [...]

Opinion L.A.: Thanksgiving thoughts

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:58:48 -0500

1) I was struck traveling on Wednesday by how many uniformed soldiers clotted my planes and the airports, and how young they were. (A couple of reservists were carrying skateboards.) It put faces to all the TV talk about our "brave young men and women in uniform." Not in itself [...]

Red County: Placer County: Red County Placer News Roundup - November 27, 2009

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:49:49 -0500

Happy Black Friday Edition of the Red County Placer News Roundup. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving with family and friends!

Placer committee targets fellow Republicans, roiling GOP - Sac Bee
The Placer County Republican Central Committee is making waves with accusations that some GOP officeholders in the party [...]

Capital Notes: Podcast: Checking In On 2010

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:39:55 -0500

Next year's big contests for governor and for the United States Senate are closer than they seem.

On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we take a pause from weekly events to check in on where the candidates and campaigns stand as 2009 comes to a close.

The gubernatorial and senatorial campaigns [...]

Body Parts: Travelling

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:20:00 -0500

Visiting New England. [...]

Orange Juice: Rackaukus Argues Self-Defense

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:35:12 -0500

Number of comments: 1
Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackaukus has joined 33 other California DA's in a Supreme Court brief supporting the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The California DA's joined with several Nevada and Arizona district attorneys, police organizations, and other persons and groups concerned with protecting the public [...]

Paragraph Farmer: Just because

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:18:00 -0500

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Orange Juice: Democratic Holiday Party

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:08:29 -0500

The 68th Democratic Assembly District PAC and 67th Democratic Area Wide Alliance are celebrating the holidays together. On Tuesday December 1st at 7:00pm, We will be having a Holiday Pot Luck Party;at the International Association of Machinists Hall, 5402 Bolsa Ave., Huntington Beach. Scheduled speakers include State Senator Lou Correa, State Assembly Representative [...]

uggabugga: Site notice:Light blogging today as ...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:08:00 -0500

Site notice:

Light blogging today as I plan to go out and max out all my credit cards* with purchases of whatever is on sale at every store I visit.

You should too.

* - And when the bills come, I'll do what Dubai World did:' [...]

Blogging Bayport Alameda: Fee fi fo fum

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:45:47 -0500

So my latest project has been reading through the 2001 Citywide Development Fee Nexus Study. Essentially this document was created so that the City could charge developers for the impact of their project on the City. According to the state level legislation that controls, this type of Nexus [...]

Oakland Focus: OSCAR ALERT - Screen Credits and Music Entry Form Due December 1st for Academy Awards

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:18:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0
OSCAR ALERT. You have until December 1 to get your Screen Credits and Music Entry Forms in to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) if your movie is to be considered for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. From the press release, AMPAS explains:

For a feature [...]

Politics in the Zeros: Salinas brings in military to advise on counter-insurgency tactics against gangs

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:23:57 -0500

Number of comments: 10

Salinas homicides and shootings 2009. By KSBW

The homicide rate in Salinas is three times that of L.A. and local police are clearly overwhelmed by warfare between the major and powerful Hispanic gangs of La Familia and the Mexican Mafia. So they’re [...]

Cobb: What Is Maya Angelou Thinking?

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:20:23 -0500

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LA Observed: Villaraigosa to Guadalajara

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:43:00 -0500

Mayor Villaraigosa begins a four-day working trip to Mexico later this morning, meeting for breakfast with business leaders in Guadalajara and tonight giving remarks at the University of Guadalajara's Museo... [...]

LA Observed: See from Malibu to Downtown

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:31:00 -0500

This is how nice a day we had for Thanksgiving: Veronique de Turenne could see Downtown Los Angeles from the cove that Here in Malibu calls home. Multiple, larger views... [...]

Gay Patriot: Climategate & the “need” to blame Western man for all manner of social and environmental ills

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:24:48 -0500

Number of comments: 20

It seems every now and again this idea for (what seems to be) a brilliant post on Climategate flashes across my mind and then fades before I have a chance to write it down or otherwise record it.

When I try to recall those thoughts or call them up by [...]

LA Observed: L.A. isn't Canada

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:24:00 -0500

Rich Hammond, the ex-Daily News reporter hired by the Los Angeles Kings, has been the only journalist accompanying the team on most road trips. This week they're in western Canada,...' [...]

DISSENT the BLOG: Pleasant, gaudy, uncanny IVC

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:04:00 -0500

The A-quad. We used to have a clock tower here. Rot.
We saved the clock's hands. Metal.

The new commencement zone, between Biz-Tick and PAC.
Nice, but, here, the sun is all wrong in the late afternoon, when the ceremony occurs.[...]

LA Observed: Wanted: one film critic

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:55:00 -0500

Here's a hire that will be closely scrutinized and dissected, no matter who gets it: the LA Weekly is looking for a replacement for Scott Foundas. The L.A. Weekly is... [...]

Politics in the Zeros: Instead of walking miles, Indian farmers use cellphones to operate irrigation pumps

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:47:59 -0500

Number of comments: 10

A telecom company in India, has launched a new service that allows farmers to operate their irrigation pumps remotely using a SMS-capable cellphone. This is extremely useful because the alternative often is for the farmers to walk many miles to the pumps, often at night because the electricity supply [...]

LA Observed: Happy Passedover

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:45:00 -0500

A day-after-Thanksgiving poem from Tony Peyser: My wife Kathy recently announced that She would not be bereft over A new holiday after Thanksgiving where Each guest brought a leftover. We... [...]

L.A. Daily Blog: "The Downgrading of Los Angeles" Make Reuters News..(Merely Re-caps Zuma Dogg Public Comments Over Past Two Years).

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:05:00 -0500

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Shark Blog: An empty gesture

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:46:00 -0500

Reading the announcements of government officials is more of an art than a science. It is appropriate to weigh the... [...]

DISSENT the BLOG: Jason's hanger shots

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:21:00 -0500

"In the Hangar"

Our pal Jason (aka 13 Stoploss) somehow got access to the old blimp/helicopter hangers in Tustin (on Tuesday). He took some seriously cool pictures. Check out the massive doors, the cavernous interior!

"Door"

An enormous dog, [...]

Orange Juice: Leftist Rats Deserting the Sinking Ship

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:11:23 -0500

Number of comments: 9
News this week is not good for the carpet chewers. Democrat incumbents in handily won Obama areas are not running for re-election. The heart can be weak when the road is long and looks like a loss anyway. The lower The One goes, the grimmer Reid’s and Pelosi’s prospects get. [...]

Fresno Bee Opinion Talk: Happy Thanksgiving!

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:28:23 -0500

Now that most of us have consumed (or over-consumed) our Thanksgiving meals, the next step is planning how early to get up tomorrow for the Black Friday sales. How many of you will be out early hitting the stores to get some hot deals? Looking for a new computer or [...]

L.A. Daily Blog: WALL STREET ALERT: US Markets Bracing for Selloff, Friday, On Worries About Dubai's Debt

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:17:00 -0500

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