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Yeah, governor. Smart people figure out that the best way to "make it" is to move to Texas.
Folks, this leaves me very conflicted. Look, California is NOT Detroit. For one thing, it doesn't freeze in the winter and the summers are not hot and humid. In fact, the weather here is better that anywhere else in the country. Really, no exaggeration, it is.
That said, there is more to a good quality of life than a constant temperature of 70 degrees.
But then, I can afford to live here even with Brown and his taxes. What bothers me the most is that I don't like being ripped off even if I can afford it. It's the principle. So do I leave a nice home in a nice neighborhood with comfortable weather that is unparalleled anywhere else in the country just because of the principle? I dunno.
I can certainly understand why people want to leave. I have a brother and a brother-in-law who can't wait to retire and move out of the state. When that happens they won't be paying Brown's taxes anymore. They can afford to pay but Brown offends them. Brown doesn't seem to understand that. There are a lot of dumbasses who don't understand. I will miss my brother and my smart brother-in-law. I'm afraid I'll be stuck with a lot of dumbasses. The more smart people who leave, the more dumbass politicians like Brown will get elected.
I dunno, maybe North Carolina...or South Carolina...hot humid summers, snow in the winters...I dunno.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Abu, it's not all about weather. CA is full of shit birds. It reminds me of Saudi Arabia -- all the workers are imported, and the native princes and princesses lift nothing heavier than their egos.
Posted by: regular joe ||
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Always looking for people of quality out here in west Kansas. Weather is so exciting, you won't have to go to the movies ever again. Get a little homestead, raise some critters.
if you go to NC or SC you will be able to afford a mountain home (e.g., Highland, SC) for the summer and a coastal home for the winter. Downside is it can rain really really hard for days at a time.
Posted by: lord garth ||
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#7 abu,
if you go to NC or SC you will be able to afford a mountain home (e.g., Highland, SC) for the summer and a coastal home for the winter. Downside is it can rain really really hard for days at a time.
Posted by: lord garth 2017-05-18 12:19
Preach it, Lord Garth. I'm an Ohioan by birth, but when the USAF dropped me off here 19 years ago I never had a second's hesitation in deciding to stay. Noplace else in the country you can do so well on comaparatively little money.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
05/18/2017 12:36 Comments ||
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"the native princes and princesses lift nothing heavier than their egos."
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Abu, I am exactly in the same boat. I live in a lovely foothill community east of Sacramento, and its great, quality of life and climate is near perfect, but its a bubble, like the one my kids live in down in Newport Beach/Huntington Beach. Much of the state is descending into Guatemala quality of life and appearance. The central valley is like visiting a foreign country if you get off the freeway. We are looking at Aiken SC and Nampa ID but hate the weather.....like the frog in the pot, I can tel its getting warmer but seem stuck!
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And there is NASCAR at Bristol Motor Speedway.
For whatever reason, I cannot stand short-track racing. My home state of New Hampshire has the most boring track at Loudon (a lot of 1 mile tracks aren't much better), which explains why they're dropping the fall race (lost to Las Vegas) in a few years.
They should add two more road courses in order to try and stem the fan losses. Add Mid-Ohio or Road America, but definitely add Gilles Villenuve in Montreal _ I think I like it better than Watkins Glen, site of Marcos Ambrose's only Sprint Cup win.
I cannot stand this 'stage race' bullshit - I turned off Daytona as the first one approached and I could barely watch Talladega, probably because my decision to drink early made it more palatable. I'm so close to boycotting the sport over that crap, but they keep pulling me back in!
No, I'm not trying to hijack this thread - why do you ask?
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WRT the weather: you're never too old to make snowmen.
Posted by: james ||
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Rural northern Nevada my friend. The weather is often surprisingly good, you can wear a sidearm, land is cheap, and nobody - not white, Mexican, or native - think Califoria is paradise. Cause we've all been there.
[Breitbart] Stocks closed sharply down on Wednesday as political chaos in Washington, D.C. dominated headlines.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 373 points, or 1.78 percent. The S&P 500 fell 43.6 points, a decline of 1.82 percent. The Nasdaq Composite index fell 2.57 percent.
It was the worst day for U.S. stocks since September of 2016. The financial sector led the way down, suffering its worst day since last June. Big banks were some of the worst performing stocks of the day.
Stocks have rallied this year on hopes of tax cuts and regulatory reform. Many investors now worry that the Trump administration’s latest political troubles could delay or prevent the implementation of its agenda. Wednesday’s declines reversed all the gains the market had made in May.
The CBOE Volatility Index, known as the Vix, rose 39 percent Wednesday but still remains low compared with historically normal levels.
Bank of America’s shares fell by almost 6 percent. Several large regional banks also saw big declines. Analysts say falling interest rates are a drag on the bank stocks.
I believe it was J.P. Morgan who said, "Buy when there's blood running in the streets." This sounds like a buying opportunity to me...
[FreeBeacon] The investigators were not looking to seize or deport the child. A U.S.C.I.S. spokeswoman said that agents only wanted to confirm the child's enrollment to determine whether the parents qualified for an immigration benefit. Upon learning the student wasn't enrolled, they left. Y'all probably heard about this "story" a couple of days ago. The correction not so much.
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As I recall, it was the Demonrats who sent Elián González back to Cuba in June 2000 against many protests in the U.S. and that was true; not a false rumor.
[Hot Air] "You should have been reading The Godfather," Alan Dershowitz told Chris Cuomo on CNN’s New Day, rather than law books on the nature of obstruction of justice. Cuomo later picks up the theme by asking whether Donald Trump attempted to give James Comey "the baccio di tutti bacci" to Jeffrey Toobin, who says that we won’t know until we actually see the memo and get testimony about the nature of the conversation. But as Newsmax notes, Dershowitz believes that the controversy is more likely to provide full employment for pundits and constitutional experts than produce an indictment:
"Under the unitary executive theory, the president has the right to tell the FBI what to do," Dershowitz told CNN’s "New Day" anchor Chris Cuomo, invoking a theory that holds the president possesses the power to control the entire executive branch of the government.
"Thomas Jefferson managed the trial against Aaron Burr. President [Lyndon B.] Johnson interacted with the Justice Department and FBI."
However, he continued, the fact that Trump is president cuts both ways, Dershowitz continued.
"He has the power to tell them what to do," said Dershowitz, but since the president also was the only person who could have fired Comey, it’s not clear if he obstructed justice if he suggested to Comey to "go soft" on former National Security Agency Director Michael Flynn, as Comey has suggested and written in a memo.
"This is a complex and difficult issue, which we will never reach," said Dershowitz.
One point Dershowitz fails to mention is that the president is immune from prosecution while in office. In the clip, he suggests that even if House Republicans are inclined to look toward impeachment, they’d want an independent prosecutor to produce a bill of charges on which they could rely. However, Ryan Goodman pointed out today at Politico that a special prosecutor might be inapplicable due to two findings on presidential immunity. And an attempt to get around it could be stopped by Trump:
#1
True dat. This is all about casting shade on the Pubs for '18.
Posted by: Caesar Bucket6243 ||
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So a reporter from a newspaper that's maybe just slightly biased against Trump talks to a guy (whose name he can't tell us) who says that he saw a memo (which the reporter hasn't seen) in which Comey says that Trump said to go easy on Flynn?
That's a great law school exam question for the course on evidence. "List the ways in which this reporter's article is inadmissible as evidence" or for the trial practice course, "How would you cross-examine the reporter?"
(That's old law school -- new law school would be "If doing so would not put too much pressure on you, describe the ways in which the reporter, his source, Comey and Trump were all exercising their white privilege.")
Posted by: Matt ||
05/18/2017 8:16 Comments ||
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Even if that's what Comey said, it's not proof. Comey has shown himself to be a bumbling idiot and biased in favor of Democrats. Let's just say he is not the most reliable witness. Further, he now has an ax to grind. Like Ryan said, why didn't he mention this to anybody at the time when it supposedly happened?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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no one's going to indict Trump for obstruction
The two scoops of ice cream, on the other hand, will be the end of him.
[Daily Caller] Former FBI Director James Comey may have been building a legal case against President Donald Trump well before the president fired him on May 9, according to a former Department of Justice (DOJ) spokesperson.
Matthew Miller, who served as the DOJ’s Director of the Office of Public Affairs under former Attorney General Eric Holder, suggested that Comey may have been building an obstruction of justice case against the president, in an interview with the Washington Post.
Miller’s suggestion carries weight not just because of his extensive background at DOJ and in government, but also because he predicted that Comey left a paper trail of his interactions with Trump. Miller sent the following tweet five days before the New York Times reported that Comey wrote a memo indicating the president had asked him to end an investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
While Miller said it is standard practice for an FBI director to record potentially inappropriate conversations and behavior, Comey could have taken a different approach when speaking with the president.
"I keep wondering, something in the back of my head keeps saying to me, maybe Comey was actually trying to build an obstruction-of-justice case against the president here," Miller told WaPo.
He explained that when Trump allegedly made the request to end the investigation of Flynn in February, Comey could have immediately warned the president that the conversation was inappropriate and that a request like that should never be made again.
"But if you’re trying to build an obstruction-of-justice case, you might want the president to keep talking, because everything he does is digging a deeper legal hole for himself," Miller suggested. He also speculaed that Comey may have stayed on, instead of resigning as Trump’s FBI director, in order to dig that hole a little deeper. "Comey might have wanted him to keep talking to see what he says," he posited.
Miller agreed with the president that Comey is a "showboat," which is another reason he believes Comey may be coming after Trump.
"You just look at his [Comey’s] actions in the [Hillary] Clinton case, where he made himself the central player when there was no reason for him to be the central player," Miller said. "That aside, his entire history shows that he likes to be at the center of attention."
Miller claimed that its still unknown who leaked the Comey memo to The New York Times and admitted that it is unclear what the goal was.
"But if you were really looking to damage the president," he added, "you wouldn’t leak the most damaging memo first. So who knows what comes next?"
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At the level this has been going, I really think it was more like Comey was trying to 'count coup' on Trump, and get the applause from the adoring 'cloud people'.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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