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Big Lizards: Does ObamaCare Teeter on the Brink of Collapse?

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:10:53 -0500

There are two possible explanations for President Barack H. Obama's sudden rush to personally lobby and exhort senators to vote for ObamaCare:

It's scant days from passage, and Obama wants to be there for the kill;

Or just the opposite: The fragile coalition is breaking apart, and this is a last, [...]

Politics in the Zeros: Rooftop solar = 4% of Sonoma County’s power

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:45:12 -0500

Number of comments: 10

This is staggering. In just over six months; Sonoma County’s Energy Independence Program has received 375 applications for more than $17 million worth of solar loans. Since Sonoma County went live with its PACE model of solar funding in March; applications have been pouring in [...]

WitnessLA.com: Video Activism…and Pink Gloves

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:12:37 -0500

Well, okay, they don’t have the dance chops of the kids on Glee but this video, produced by Providence St. Vincent Medical Center to promote breast cancer awareness, with 200 of the hospital’s employees participating. has been viewed 3.674,007 times and counting since being posted on Nov. 13. “Our employees put [...]

Red County: Los Angeles: NewsPaper 70 miles away From Placer County Decides to Tell Placer County Republican Party To Support Abel Maldonado for Lt. Governor

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:49:48 -0500

Someone from Manteca, CA thinks they know Placer Politics and also thinks they can re-educate our wayward Central Committee in the virtues of good Taxation.

He says that we should support Abel Maldonado for Lt. Governor.

Of course he quotes Liberal Democrat Patrick Dorinson's' [...]

Red County: Placer County: NewsPaper 70 miles away From Placer County Decides to Tell Placer County Republican Party To Support Abel Maldonado for Lt. Governor

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:49:48 -0500

Red County: Sacramento: NewsPaper 70 miles away From Placer County Decides to Tell Placer County Republican Party To Support Abel Maldonado for Lt. Governor

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:49:48 -0500

Orange Juice: And So It Begins. We Called It

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:23:29 -0500

Number of comments: 1
Well, we called it all right. Matthew J. Cunningham had just invited one Cynthia Ward, AKA “Colony Rabble” to blog on the quickly purpling Red County Blog. He caught a lot of flack from us and one of his own bloggers, Allan Bartlett, for bringing in an obvious RINO into [...]

L.A. Daily Blog: Zuma Dogg's Sunday Morning TWITTER Update: David Berger & Kevin James Hope YOU Vote for Christine Essel for City Council (HUGE NEWS, let's face it!)

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:17:00 -0500

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L.A. Daily Blog: Zuma Dogg Places Top 4 Blog Posts on Sunday's BlogNetNews Ranker -- (LA Daily Blog Ranked #2 In State, This Week!)

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:04:00 -0500

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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog: Day By Day December 6, 2009 – Game On

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:34:16 -0500

Day By Day by Chris Muir

Chris, it sounds to me that President Obama is REALLY GAME OUT in Afghanistan.

But, will the American voters tolerate a policy where he is throwing 30K American troops into combat [...]

Oakland Focus: Tiger Woods alienates black community with white lovers? Garbage!

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:32:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0
The Associated Press' material can be a howler at times. The latest funny was this title: "Tiger Woods alienates black community with white lovers" which was conceived and written by a writer at the AP who presents his take on what the "Black Community" is and who represents it' [...]

Mayor Sam's Sister City: Sunday open thread

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:30:00 -0500

Number of comments: 27
Did you listen to Frank & David last night? Talk about that or whatever else is on your mind.http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/feeds//comments/default [...]

AMERICAN DIGEST: Keith Briffa, ClimateChange Priest,working in the gold mine, going down, down , down...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:11:31 -0500

The Climategate emails are an endless source of fascination. Here's Keith Briffa (one of the leading canidates for serious jail time in this scam) whining about his out of the money experience in 1998:

Email - Re: PAGES Open Science Meeting publication

From: [...]

Calitics: No Deals With Republicans For Speakership

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:39:27 -0500

California Democrats currently have 50 votes in the Assembly. That's 10 more than they need for a majority, though 4 short of what they need for a 2/3rds majority. Still, given the size of their majority, there is absolutely no reason for any Democrat seeking the Speakership to find Republican [...]

Politics in the Zeros: Cop Out Camp Out in Trafalgar Square

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:30:33 -0500

Number of comments: 10

YouTube description

Climate Camp occupies Trafalgar Square to protest against the corporation-friendly ’solutions’ to climate change that will be touted at the COP 15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen.

Camp Out Why

Because the failing UNFCCC talks in Copenhagen are at best planning false solutions to climate change like [...]

Right Coast: Grim Rites of the Moche Tom Smith

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:19:11 -0500

The Moche balanced stylized painting with realistic representations, such as this expressive individual pictured on a large vase found in the tomb of a potter. (Patrick Aventurier/Gamma) [LARGER IMAGE]

via www.archaeology.org

Note the "octopus like" creature. Hmmmm? Hmmmm?

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Politics in the Zeros: US has no clue where Bin Laden is, hasn’t for years

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:59:57 -0500

Number of comments: 10

Only the truly cynical would assume our government knows Bin Laden is dead but needs him alive for propaganda purposes. Otherwise you would have to assume the government is incompetent.

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Orange Juice: Are you ready for gang land bus safaris?

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:12:06 -0500

Have you ever been to the San Diego Wild Animal Park? You get to ride a tram through their park and see the wild animals up close. Now a non-profit organization in Los Angeles is proposing to conduct bus tours of gang-stricken areas in Los Angeles. “A group of civic activists, [...]

Right Coast: RealClearPolitics - The Climate-Change Travesty Tom Smith

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:04:59 -0500

WASHINGTON -- With 20,000 delegates, advocates and journalists jetting to Copenhagen for planet Earth's last chance, the carbon footprint of the global warming summit will be the only impressive consequence of the climate change meeting. Its organizers had hoped it would produce binding caps on emissions, global taxation to redistribute [...]

Orange Juice: What the world sees in Obama

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:00:31 -0500

Number of comments: 2
From Spiegel Online Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America’s new strategy for Afghanistan. It seemed like a campaign speech combined with Bush rhetoric — and left both dreamers and realists feeling distraught. One can hardly blame the West Point leadership. [...]

Window Manager: In Israel Having a Blast!

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:03:00 -0500

Okay, maybe a poor choice of wording.On the flight over a couple women on the plane made me think of the classic SNL Jewiss Jeans commerical with Gilda Radner, which still makes me crack up. I link to it here for your enjoyment. [...]

Oakland Focus: Oakland Adams Point Action Council Party December 8th

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:03:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0
The Oakland Adams Point Action Council, a group of neighbors that live in the Adams Point area next to Lake Merritt, is having its Holiday Party Tuesday, December 8th at 7 PM the Bellevue Club 525 Bellevue Avenue.

They're asking you to bring cookies and other "nibbles" to' [...]

Orange Juice: Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to impose a new global tax on financial transactions

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:00:21 -0500

Number of comments: 3
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not very popular in Orange County! (Picture Courtesy of the O.C. Register) “Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave her strongest endorsement yet of a global financial transaction fee Thursday after raising the issue directly with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in a conversation this week” according to Politico.com. Has Pelosi lost [...]

Politics in the Zeros: Utah Supreme Court blocks coal plant

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:15:44 -0500

Number of comments: 10

You can put a fork in a gigantic new coal fired power plant proposed for rural Sugard, Utah, because it’s done. Yesterday the Utah Supreme Court struck a major blow against the plant by ordering it to start back at square one in the pollution permit application process.

It’s because [...]

OC Progressive: AG Brown to OC Fair Board - Drop Dead

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:18:59 -0500

Wow.

Attorney General Jerry Brown responds to the festering scandal surrounding the sale of the OC Fair Ground with a stunning move in a letter dated December 1st to the Chair of the OC Fair Board.

I wrote about the issue in a Calitics Diary in October, and I even talked [...]

Orange Punch: Video of Neda shooting in Iran

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:00:00 -0500

Number of comments: 2

In my column this week I referenced the shooting of Neda. Here is the video of the shooting. I warn you again in advance that it is very gruesome and hard to stomach.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Post from: Orange Punch

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WitnessLA.com: Liam Clancy – 1935-2009: Beat the Drum Slowly

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:55:19 -0500

Bob Dylan once called him “the best ballad singer I’d ever heard in my life.” Anyone who once hears Liam Clancy sing Waltzing Matilda or The Green Fields of France will have trouble disputing the assessment. Irish folk balladeer Liam Clancy, together with his two brothers, Tom and Paddy, and [...]

LA Observed: Blogging the hospital

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:32:00 -0500

Television writer Earl Pomerantz has been blogging about his time in the hospital leading up to, and after, open heart surgery. If nothing else, he seems in a good enough... [...]

Orange Juice: Senator Lou Correa’s 9th Annual Santa Ana Zoo event this Sunday

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:13:14 -0500

State Senator Lou Correa greets local residents at his Santa Ana Zoo event State Senator Lou Correa will be hosting his 9th Annual Santa Ana Zoo event this Sunday, Dec. 6, from 10 am to 2 pm. Correa is offering free admission to the Zoo, and free food too! Correa and his staff [...]

New Santa Ana: Senator Lou Correa’s 9th Annual Santa Ana Zoo event this Sunday

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:10:07 -0500

Number of comments: 2

State Senator Lou Correa greets local residents at his Santa Ana Zoo event

State Senator Lou Correa will be hosting his 9th Annual Santa Ana Zoo event this Sunday, Dec. 6, from 10 am to 2 pm.

Correa is offering free [...]

Shark Blog: Moralities

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:57:00 -0500

Israel attracts attention like a magnet. Some years ago, at the height of the Cold War, there were said to... [...]

Politics in the Zeros: Turnabout is fair play

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:41:04 -0500

Number of comments: 10

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Orange Juice: Steven Greenhut signing his new book on Thursday, near Mainplace

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:39:14 -0500

The Forum Press is pleased to announce the 1st Southern California Book Signing Event for: Steven Greenhut author of PLUNDER! How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation Click here to read the rest of this [...] [...]

New Santa Ana: Steven Greenhut signing his new book on Thursday, near Mainplace

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:28:38 -0500

The Forum Press
is pleased to announce the
1st Southern California Book Signing Event for:

Steven Greenhut
author of

PLUNDER!

How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation

Thursday, December 10, 2009, 6:00 PM

791 S. Main Street
Orange, CA 92821
714-871-7148

The event [...]

L.A. Daily Blog: Zuma Dogg's LA Daily Blog Ranks #2 This Week on BlogNetNews "Weekly Influence Ranker" of 100 News Blogs (Mayor Sam's Blog NOT In Top 3)

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:11:00 -0500

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LA Observed: Walter Karabian arrested at Coliseum

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:52:00 -0500

Former state assemblyman Walter Karabian was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly running over a parking attendant at the Coliseum before today's USC game. He... [...]

AMERICAN DIGEST: Global Disastrification (Global Warming Climategate makes this threat #1!)

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:18:13 -0500

THIS is the real threat. It's music and noise that are causing natural disasters. We have proof. Don't be a denier! Take a look at our graphs and statistics. Green jobs are useless. We need quiet jobs. Carbon credits? Useless, but you'll soon be getting noise credits from Uncle [...]

L.A. Daily Blog: BREAKING NEWS: EXPLOSIVE Zuma Dogg Radio Show for Saturday Night (7pm Report) L.A. City Weekly News Update - ZD's MOST EXPLOSIVE SHOW, YET!

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:15:00 -0500

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Mayor Sam's Sister City: Its All About the Money In CD 2, or Lack Of ?

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:38:00 -0500

Number of comments: 23
"Boss D'Arcy of IBEW. His member's dues keep Essel's Campaign afloat"

"Can any of you spare some cash??"

The last Saturday in the long and grueling process to replace Wendy Greuel, as CD 2's representative to the "Horseshoe" [...]

Orange Juice: The Desecration of Science

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:30:18 -0500

In the mid 17th century, Galileo Galilei was brought before the inquisition for heresy. His scientific beliefs had challenged established knowledge and Aristotelian scholars. Blind dogmatism even led some scholars of the day to refuse to look through Galileos telescope, insisting it was a trick. Galileo was judged ridiculous, and [...]

Seeing the Forest: The Bank Overdraft Fee Scam

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:29:45 -0500

So I had dinner at a friend's house last night. She works hard (caring for mentally challenged people in a facility), but of course doesn't make a lot (she only has a Master's degree). She tells a story about how she went to the bank to be sure she had' [...]

Seeing the Forest: Forefox Makes My Laptop Fan Run Constantly

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:23:33 -0500

When I use Firefox the CPU meter goes way up, and the fan runs constantly. Sometimes when I am watching a YouTube the computer just shuts itself off. If I run Firefox and Skype at the same time I have to anticipate the shutdown.

Does anyone else have this problem?

I [...]