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Bobby Digital posted:California Politics Thread: On the California Sperg Highway How much time in the Assembly do you think is spent arguing about proper highway nomenclature.
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# ? Dec 5, 2014 21:10 |
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# ? May 23, 2024 16:26 |
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NorCal turns against whichever party starts the War on Hella.
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# ? Dec 5, 2014 21:15 |
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:NorCal turns against whichever party starts the War on Hella. First they came for 'hella', and I did not speak out— Because I'm not from NorCal. Then they came for 'the O.C.', and I did not speak out— Because I live in "Orange County", you rear end in a top hat. Get it right. Then they came for 'ése', and I did not speak out— Because we don't speak Mexican here in these United States! Learn to speak American! Then they came for 'swole', and there was no one left to speak for me.
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# ? Dec 5, 2014 22:00 |
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Bizarro Watt posted:And amusingly, LA county only has 5. Now I'm just wondering if 5 is the minimum required. Inane question, but I was curious.
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# ? Dec 5, 2014 23:05 |
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SomethingAwful posted:First they came for 'hella', and I did not speak out—
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 00:48 |
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It looks like they 'cleaned up' the jungle 2 years ago and this time when it was destroyed, the very next day people were moving back. Looks like no real change has happened except it has been destroyed and hopefully cleaned up garbage a bit for them to resettle.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 23:31 |
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Crossposting from the 2016 senate thread but Boxer's retiringquote:A parade of ambitious California public figures, who’ve spent years itching for a shot at the state’s top political offices, are anticipating a shake-up of the state’s political hierarchy that could begin in a matter of weeks with the possible retirement of Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. And some big names — including the mayor of Los Angeles — are already sizing up possible bids to succeed her.
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 20:35 |
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Feinstein's exit can't come soon enough, I am so sick of her. I don't mind Boxer as much, but they're both super-old and calcified. Newsom is kind of a prick, but I guess he'd be OK. I'd love to see Camila Harris elected, and actually Jackie Speier might be my dream candidate. I happen to have had dinner with her (before she was elected to congress, we were at a fancy christmas party held by someone my wife works with, and she and her husband were randomly seated at our table), she's a genuine person, and she's very liberal. I had the opportunity to vote for her a few years ago, before we moved. However, although she's fairly well-known as a member of congress for a district on the San Francisco peninsula, she might not have the name recognition in the southern part of the state like the politicians who have held statewide office. I doubt she'd win a primary against Newsom or Harris.
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 20:43 |
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So an entire city block of Los Angeles caught fire over the night. A major part of what burned down was controversial luxury housing development where they most recently got approval to build a bridge over the top of the homeless population so the gentrifiers wouldn't have to dirty themselves. A dude I know wanted to open a business in one of their buildings but they have no street level retail, it's all internal. Zeitgueist fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Dec 8, 2014 |
# ? Dec 8, 2014 20:58 |
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Leperflesh posted:Feinstein's exit can't come soon enough, I am so sick of her. I don't mind Boxer as much, but they're both super-old and calcified. Agreed. I don't mind Boxer much either, but at the same time we're quite liberal with our federal level politics here in California. If Boxer steps down, there's a rare opportunity for a strong left candidate to move into a secure senate seat. All the better if it isn't yet another member of the rank-and-file Dem core, but I guess we'll see.
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 21:05 |
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Here's that image in huge version Makes a nice wallpaper.
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 21:05 |
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FCKGW posted:Here's that image in huge version Jesus christ, everyone needs to zoom this in and appreciate the scale of the flames compare to downtown LA.
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 21:07 |
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Sydin posted:Agreed. I don't mind Boxer much either, but at the same time we're quite liberal with our federal level politics here in California. If Boxer steps down, there's a rare opportunity for a strong left candidate to move into a secure senate seat. All the better if it isn't yet another member of the rank-and-file Dem core, but I guess we'll see.
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 21:12 |
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Oh yeah don't get me wrong - gently caress Fienstein forever. My first experience with her was when I went to look up the backers of the old SOPA bill, only to find her, as a cosponsor. I wrote her office a pretty nasty letter, and I actually got a response - she regretted doing it "now that she had become aware of the full text of the bill", and that the way the bill had been originally sold to her was what convinced her to cosponsor it. I replied to her that this was perhaps the absolute worst excuse she could give, since her one and only job is passing loving bills and maybe she should actually understand those bills before jumping on board full-steam? Funnily enough, never got a reply to that one.
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 21:23 |
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I got a response when I sent her an email opposing the latest anti-flag-desecration amendment: "The flag, as a symbol of freedom, needs to be protected." I got the came response from Lois Capps. Boxer's response was like, "Right on, bro. poo poo's a waste of time."
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 21:42 |
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Leperflesh posted:Feinstein's exit can't come soon enough, I am so sick of her. I don't mind Boxer as much, but they're both super-old and calcified. I suspect that Kamela Harris will aim for something in the Clinton administration, maybe AG. I think Newsom will run for Gov. I have no particular reason to make these guesses, just the vibe I've gotten from listening to various interviews they've given. If Boxer really does retire it may cause people to rethink their plans.
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# ? Dec 9, 2014 02:09 |
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Zeitgueist posted:So an entire city block of Los Angeles caught fire over the night. God has a good sense of humor
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# ? Dec 9, 2014 02:19 |
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Family Values posted:Clinton administration
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# ? Dec 9, 2014 02:20 |
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I dunno if this is super common knowledge among Californians or not, but Jackie Speier has an interesting background. quote:Speier entered politics by serving as a congressional staffer for Congressman Leo Ryan. Speier was part of his November 1978 fact-finding mission organized to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by the Reverend Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple followers, almost all of whom were American citizens who had moved to Jonestown, Guyana, with Jones in 1977 and 1978.[5] Speier was one of two members of the mission who made wills before traveling to Jonestown.[11] Several Peoples Temple members ambushed the investigative team and others boarding the plane to leave Jonestown on November 18. Five people died, including Congressman Ryan. While trying to shield herself from rifle and shotgun fire behind small airplane wheels with the other members of the team, Speier was shot five times and waited 22 hours before help arrived.[12] That same day, over 900 of the remaining members of the Peoples Temple died in Jonestown and Georgetown in a mass murder-suicide. This is a lady who, despite being a career politician, has Seen Some poo poo. Her husband was killed in a car accident in 1994, when she was pregnant with their second child (she has since re-married). I'm not universally in love with her position on every subject, mind you. Her gun control ideas are, as usual for the far left, correct in the general direction (we should have more and better gun control) but really dumb on the specifics (mandated universal trigger locks for all guns is both completely impractical and completely ineffective at addressing the vast majority of gun violence), and she apparently introduced a bill trying to set a national freeway speed limit of 60MPH in "urban areas." But she's very firmly pro-choice, pro-gay rights, wants to directly address global warming, and as far as I can tell, her voting record seems pretty good.
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# ? Dec 9, 2014 02:27 |
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Leperflesh posted:Feinstein's exit can't come soon enough, I am so sick of her. I don't mind Boxer as much
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# ? Dec 9, 2014 03:01 |
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http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/12/05/camp-pendleton-marines-to-conduct-training-in-downtown-la/#.VIJX9n74ntM.facebook Possibly related to giant fires in LA, the Marines are doing exercises downtown.
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# ? Dec 9, 2014 23:32 |
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Zeitgueist posted:http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/12/05/camp-pendleton-marines-to-conduct-training-in-downtown-la/#.VIJX9n74ntM.facebook "You've earned points for reading!" I hate everything. FTGE.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 05:37 |
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I don't get all the dithering. She looks pretty awesome to me. I don't agree with all of her platforms, but not all disagreements are equal. This is a problem with the left: your middle paragraph disagreeing with her is longer than the two paragraphs where you do agree with her. It reads like someone saying, "I'm not racist, but [the most racist thing you've ever heard]. But it's not about race, it's about culture." Just own it and represent the folks you like. The enemy is doing a good job cribbing from Alinsky. I'm cool with us cribbing from Goldwater.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 09:03 |
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Shbobdb posted:I don't get all the dithering. She looks pretty awesome to me. I don't agree with all of her platforms, but not all disagreements are equal. This is a problem with the left: your middle paragraph disagreeing with her is longer than the two paragraphs where you do agree with her. It reads like someone saying, "I'm not racist, but [the most racist thing you've ever heard]. But it's not about race, it's about culture." Just own it and represent the folks you like. The enemy is doing a good job cribbing from Alinsky. I'm cool with us cribbing from Goldwater. I guess it just reflects the deep dissatisfaction many of us independent lefists have with the Democratic party. I mean, I vastly, vastly prefer Democrats to Republicans. But there is no viable American party that actually represents me, and it tends to come out when I start talking about specific Democrats. But you're absolutely right that, when it comes to political strategy, the Left constantly shoots itself in the foot by failing to be sufficiently enthusiastic about our chosen candidates.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 09:31 |
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Good old SD. The less-failed cousin of Orange. http://www.alternet.org/ca-city-council-staffer-fcking-idiot-ferguson-protesters-i-wanted-shoot-them quote:A staffer for a San Diego city councilwoman reacted to protesters who interrupted inauguration proceedings with “hands up, don’t shoot” by referring to the disruptors as “f*cking idiots,” before adding “I wanted to shoot them,” reports KPBS. She worked retail for Nordstrom! Obviously quality government material.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 17:03 |
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FRINGE posted:Good old SD. The less-failed cousin of Orange. SD mayor or city government getting into hot water is a must have for any california politics bingo game. http://voiceofsandiego.org/2013/02/19/hall-of-dishonor-sds-eight-most-scandalous-mayors/
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 17:34 |
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So the final counts for the gubernatorial votes are in. Only 7,317,581 votes were cast for governor in the unexciting first Election under the Top 2 system for governor, down from 10,095,183. And that means it will only take ~365,880 signatures to get a proposition on the ballot in the next 4 years (585,407 for an amendment), down from 504,760 signatures (807,615 for an amendment) in the past 4 years. Combine that with the new legislation mandating the Assembly hold hearings on any proposal that gets 25% of that figure (~91,470 signatures) and giving proponents an extra month to get signatures, and it looks like it could get pretty interesting. So look forward to a lot of fun propositions in 2016 and 2018...
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 17:44 |
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ComradeCosmobot posted:So the final counts for the gubernatorial votes are in. Only 7,317,581 votes were cast for governor in the unexciting first Election under the Top 2 system for governor, down from 10,095,183. And that means it will only take ~365,880 signatures to get a proposition on the ballot in the next 4 years (585,407 for an amendment), down from 504,760 signatures (807,615 for an amendment) in the past 4 years. Combine that with the new legislation mandating the Assembly hold hearings on any proposal that gets 25% of that figure (~91,470 signatures) and giving proponents an extra month to get signatures, and it looks like it could get pretty interesting. So look forward to a lot of fun propositions in 2016 and 2018... 100,000 signatures is basically free to the industries that hate sustainable progress.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 18:36 |
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FRINGE posted:100,000 signatures is basically free to the industries that hate sustainable progress.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 19:04 |
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CopperHound posted:In my experience, signature gatherers seem to have 2 or 3 initiatives. At least one will sound good on the surface and another will be a regressive bill with big business backing. I had one of these guys get pretty irate with me when I signed one initiative, but refused to sign the union busting one a couple years ago. I remember two of these guys going to me for the Six Californias initiative, and when I told the second one I'd throw myself off a cliff before I sighed his petition, he tried guilt-tripping me by saying "I get paid based on how much signatures I get...I'd like this to happen, but I know it probably won't make it to the ballot anyway..."
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 19:12 |
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I remember two of these guys going to me for the Six Californias initiative, and when I told the second one I'd throw myself off a cliff before I sighed his petition, he tried guilt-tripping me by saying "I get paid based on how much signatures I get...I'd like this to happen, but I know it probably won't make it to the ballot anyway..." It's funded by Tim Draper which is pretty much a perfect head in the clouds loathsome techie.
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# ? Dec 14, 2014 02:21 |
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etalian posted:It's funded by Tim Draper which is pretty much a perfect head in the clouds loathsome techie. Even my Stanford techie acquaintances think Draper is a moron for his Six California malarkey. Which says something since they were crying rivers for Satoshi Nakamoto, the bit coin dude.
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# ? Dec 14, 2014 03:26 |
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Signatures submitted to fight California bag ban It'll cost us joooooobs. Can the bag manufacturers not retool to produce other plastic stuff?
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 20:46 |
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CPColin posted:Signatures submitted to fight California bag ban It begins...
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 20:54 |
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I live in LA and having to use paper bags to carry poo poo is super lovely especially when your car is far away from your place.
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 20:58 |
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And plastic bags are better? Do you have any reusable canvas or recycled plastic bags?
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 21:02 |
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How California's New Rules Are Scrambling The Egg Industry Npr article on the new regulations saying that all eggs sold in the state have to come from chickens that have enough room to essentially turn around and flap their wings. I was wondering why egg prices seemingly doubled recently, I guess this explains it. While I sympathize with people on really tight food budgets, I'm all for this. Chickens are really loving awesome, and I will pay extra if it means treating them with as much respect and compassion as possible.
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 21:03 |
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I only buy free range eggs anyway. They cost like twice as much, but that's still like less than four bucks for twelve eggs that last me and my wife for at least a couple weeks. Also I just keep a couple reusable bags in my car and bring them in when I buy groceries or whatever, it's not difficult and it keeps the bags from piling up at home.
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 21:08 |
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CPColin posted:And plastic bags are better? Do you have any reusable canvas or recycled plastic bags? Plastic doesn't rip if I hold it wrong.
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 21:08 |
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Leperflesh posted:I only buy free range eggs anyway. They cost like twice as much, but that's still like less than four bucks for twelve eggs that last me and my wife for at least a couple weeks. There is no legal definition of any of the terms, and "free-range" can literally mean that there's one door in the barn, good luck getting to it. http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/confinement_farm/facts/guide_egg_labels.html (I stick to "cage-free" or "free-range".)
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