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California is seriously working on it, by 'driving' the middle class out of the state. The 'less people, less pollution' approach. Unfortunately, third world shit holes have shown that is not the case as CA evolves to that arrangement.
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problem for California is that even with zero emissions from autos and mindustry there are natural sources (e.g., seepage) and area sources (e.g., vast housing tracts) that emit enough hydrocarbons to produce smog.
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Most of the pollution is generated by freighter ships unloading plastic crap from China at San Pedro. Those guys burn tons of diesel every minute and the exhaust goes directly into the LA basin. Nobody says "boo" about it.
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Every day California politicians devise new ways to make it more difficult for commuters to get to work in their cars. They convert car lanes to bike lanes. They put speed bumps on roads where the speed limit used to be 45 mph. They call it road diets. Yes, incredible as it sounds, this is a real thing that they really do. People are told to bike to work to prevent global warming even if their jobs are 30 miles from where they live. Politicians build new carpool lanes but never any new lanes for working stiffs who have no other option. They let hybrids and electrical vehicles into the carpool lanes but seem to forget that you have to burn something to charge the batteries and they never talk about how to dispose of those toxic batteries when they die. Mass transit in this state is a sick joke but they keep trying to make it harder and more expensive for people to get to work in cars. Just last year they raised the gas tax which was already the highest gas tax in the country. They want to force people into high density condo and apartment buildings near mass transit lines but the mass transit is dirty, dangerous and unreliable. Hobos, whackos and meth freaks ride for free but commuters are fined if they forget to renew their monthly passes. They keep pushing for more affordable housing for illegal aliens but they never do anything about the state's crumbling infrastructure. None of this actually reduces emissions. Newsom is an asshole.
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^ The southern California-based urban planning expert Joel Kotkin has written extensively on this stupid hostility to single-family housing, suburbs, and highways, the ridiculous attachment to density in a state with fabulous weather and a nation with tons of land, and all the damage it causes to families seeking to raise their kids in an affordable and pleasant environment.
I believe Kotkin writes for City Paper, the same brave publication where you can find Heather MacDonald's excellent takedowns of the lies and BS surrounding BLM and accusations of "racist" policing.
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There are logs from the Spanish Empire days commenting on the smog in the LA basin. Apparently the desert dust gets kicked up and the mountains surrounding the area keep it trapped. We've only made it worse with industrialization but it's never going to go away until they dome the city.
[AOL] The 2020 presidential race is well underway, and while some of the early hopefuls have dropped their bids, there are still a handful of Democratic contenders looking to land on the official ballot.
One of the more prominent candidates, Senator Elizabeth Warren, is putting a lot of effort behind her 2020 bid.
Warren, who is currently a U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, is regarded as one of the more liberal candidates in the current Democratic race. The senator has built her campaign on promising middle-class Americans to fight for their equality. and raise their taxes, but she's not talking about that
"Rich guys have been waging class warfare against hard-working people for decades ," Warren said in her speech announcing her candidacy for president. " I say it’s time to fight back!"
In February, the senator filed personal financial disclosures for her candidacy which were obtained by The Center for Public Integrity and later revealed on Twitter. According to the documents, Warren amassed a majority of her wealth from bond and mutual funds -- as well as retirement accounts and book royalties. The politician and former lawyer, along with her husband, also have two real estate properties: a $3 million Victorian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an $800,000 condo in Washington, D.C.
Forbes reported the presidential hopeful is worth an estimated $12 million.
#2
If Selfie Sioux wantem to swamp 'im,
tribe gotta get lotta more wampum --
go hunting in fridge
or sell Longfellow Bridge? --
but my Wild Trumpitoulas still stomp 'em.
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For what it's worth, on my first pass over the bridge last summer after that project, I christened the bridge my way - with a sixty foot burnout in my old Camry yelling 'Yeehaw!' at the soy boy pedestrians nearby.
#6
Big money for Dems is with sweetheart deals brokered through their political connections with a) media companies , b) major tech companies that depend on favorable regulatory treatment in DC, or c) overseas influence-peddlers.
Warren seems like a) the media grifter type.
Obama is a) and b).
Gore and ValJar are b).
Clinton is primarily c).
Biden through his idiot sons is also c).
#9
Hah. Chortle, even. SteveS, I endeavour to give sad distraction (for me, anyway).
Raj, that's nuts. They were working on that when I was up there a few years back (and it looked then as if they'd been at it a while). And the money... nothing surprises since I got more or less caught up on the Dig (and since then, the whole glorious city-wide saga of engineering, building, demolition... rinse and repeat). Made a minor hobby of trying to figure it all out, starting with the geography, and am gradually gaining on it. Big laugh recently (partly sheer joy, partly at self for reacting that way) at stumbling across pics of the actual filling-in [cue heavenly choir] of a previously mysterious part of the FPC. I mean, a map is one thing, but now shit's getting real. Heh. Ditto first glimpse of SS trainshed, any number of waterfront features where I didn't even know there was a waterfront... Helluva cool place despite the knuckleheads running it.
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Oh, and down your way... freakin' Fore River! Had a vague idea about subchasers or something... few destroyers... maybe a cruiser or two? And suddenly [again with the choir] there's Lexington in that humongous Southie drydock. "Uhhhh, like, where'd that come from?" And so forth. Anyway, got a heckuva city there... if you can keep it. Despairing cackle.
#11
Disturbing the injuns a smidge
A bowshot from Longfellow Bridge:
Beware, Kendall Square,
And hang onto your hair
When the Raj charges over the ridge!
h/t Instapundit
[NationalReview] Sherikia Hawkins was charged Monday with six felony counts for allegedly altering absentee ballots during the November 2018 election in her capacity as city clerk for the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Mich.
Hawkins, a 38-year-old registered Democrat, stands accused of altering 193 absentee ballots. She was arraigned Monday in Southfield on charges including falsifying returns or records, forgery of a public record, misconduct in office, and multiple counts of using a computer to commit a crime. She was released on $15,000 bond.
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#2
...technically, yes. There was an examination of voting in New York and Florida (snowbirds) with participants from both parties. It wasn't organized nor done by people in positions to manage or oversee the voting process.
#4
{Dem Hawkins was accused of] falsifying returns or records, forgery of a public record, misconduct in office, and multiple counts of using a computer to commit a crime. She was released on $15,000 bond.
What was her reward for this malfeasance?
The Michigan Democratic party honored Hawkins this year with the prestigious Dingell/Levin award at its annual Legacy Dinner in Detroit, and she was included in the Michigan Chronicle‘s “40 under 40” list in 2017.
#6
There is *absolutely* no voter fraud in Michigan. Or so our betters tell us. But it does seem rather common for a box of ballots that somehow got overlooked to show up at the last minute in a close race.
After the last Presidential election, they tried to do a recount in Detroit, but had to call it off when there were too many precincts where the actual number of ballots in the storage box did not match the total written on the outside.
MI uses paper ballots that the voter runs thru the scanner personally on election day. But the only thing stopping someone from running them thru again after hours is personal integrity.
I understand the logic behind "D'[insert stressed syllable ending in 'an' or 'ana']": it sounds like Wakanda and sets up a nice anapestic meter that creates the illusion of swiftness, action. Byronic, almost: The Wakandan came down, like the wolf on the fold...
But Sherikia sounds like a botched attempt at a shriek.
Why not take some random terms out of the Physician's Desk Reference? Add a weird syllable or change the spelling to make it authentically "sick." For example:
#12
"Salon de Bo-tay." "You take walk-ins?"
"Or mah name ain't Sherikia Hawkins!"
"I wish to explore your community
To freshen my do... and immunity...
So, see you next weekend,
Post-waffles and chicken!"
"Who dat?" "Sound like damn Dickie Dawkins."
Go figure. Whoda thunk it?
[Daily Wire] The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it is releasing an inspector general report on the whistleblower complaint that is at the center of Democrats' push to impeach the president which reportedly found that the whistleblower had a bias in favor of one of Trump's political rivals. "Whistleblower" is incorrect. Leaker and hearsay is correct
"A senior Trump administration official told Fox News late Tuesday that the administration will release a document showing the intelligence community inspector general found the whistleblower who leveled an explosive accusation against President Trump concerning his talks with Ukraine had 'political bias' in favor of 'a rival candidate' of the president," Fox News reported. "The official did not identify the name of the rival candidate. Separately, a senior administration official told Fox News the White House has been working as quickly as it can to release to Congress the whistleblower complaint involving President Trump's conversations with the leader of Ukraine, as long as it's legally possible."
The development comes hours after Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that Democrats were launching a formal impeachment inquiry into the president over a phone call that he had with Ukraine.
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"Whistleblower" is incorrect. Leaker and hearsay is correct"
An excellent point. Don't let the Left frame the language by hijacking a word that has a lot of positive associations (for now, at least.) "Disgruntled employee" might be more like it.
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So it turns out that this is a big nothingburger, as usual. But my question is why did Nancy make such a big frickin' deal about yesterday? Oh, they've really got him this time! Yeah. But they don't. So why all the hub-bub? My theory is that Trump is getting close to some facts about Ukraine, China and Biden that are extremely uncomfortable for Democrats. It might even implicate their precious Baraq and so they're squealing like stuck pigs about a phone call that violated no laws at all to distract from Biden.
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Bingo.
Biden's finished, and Pelosi panicked.
She and the Dem leadership are terrified about and trying to get ahead of the inevitable stories revealing Hunter & Joe Biden's obvious-to-heaven corruption. Plus Hillary's collusion with Ukraine via GPS/Nellie Ohr to nail Manafort.
Note that neither Warren nor Sanders has any interest in protecting Joe or Hillary. So Pelosi and the DNC felt they had to act, fast, with whatever weak cards they head. Even a two of clubs, like this idiocy.
This is the biggest boomerang we've seen in a long time.
And if you think Swillary didn't know when to shut up after the election, just watch Joe go go go if he's not the nominee. And that will suck up oxygen all during the campaign.
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jypothetically, what difference does bias make if the evidence was actually legitimate... Would evidence against someone only count if it came from loved ones? That's not how evidence typically works.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[AOL] The 2020 presidential race is well underway, and while some of the early hopefuls have dropped their bids, there are still a handful of Democratic contenders looking to land on the official ballot. 
