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2010-11-06 Home Front: Politix

WARNING Set your BS meter to High: Brown's green vision for California

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-11-06 08:55|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 By Tom Hayden

Okay. We can skip this...

Posted by tu3031 2010-11-06 10:09|| 2010-11-06 10:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Brown as Gov of California, Hayden writing Agitprop?

WTF, have I been in a coma for 35 years?

Posted by OldSpook 2010-11-06 11:11|| 2010-11-06 11:11|| Front Page Top

#3 No. It's a mental condition called regression. Or Political Alzheimer's

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-11-06 11:28|| 2010-11-06 11:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Every time I think we have bottomed out on stupid here, it gets worse. Driving out all of the manufacturing, entertainment, and transportation hubs by regulation, drying up the central valley agriculture by water diversions to save a tiny fish, reducing water storage by removing dams, now we get a transit and green jobs strategy that relies on taxing what little wealth production we have left. Oh and spending more on education (union demand) to train a future workforce for which there are no jobs.
On some cosmic level this is a comedy right?
ANd just to make the point even more certain, it looks like the only Republican on the statewide ballot, Cooley, LA DA with a decent prosecution record, is being beaten by the SF DA, whose overall conviction rate for the crimes they chose to even prosecute is a whopping 30+ percent.
California is utterly insane.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-11-06 12:04|| 2010-11-06 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Tom Hayden? Part of the Bill Ayres "destroy America" crowd back in the 1960s. Hayden; formerly married to Jane Fonda. Still making stupid noises.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-11-06 14:04|| 2010-11-06 14:04|| Front Page Top

#6 I saw a fairly funny movie titled Idiocracy. Long story short: An average man and woman are put into suspended animation and awake 500 years in the future. The culture has been dumbed down so much by that time that these two appear to be geniuses. California politics are Idiocracy realized.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-11-06 14:09|| 2010-11-06 14:09|| Front Page Top

#7 I really have to get out of this zoo. Head on collision coming for CA.

Look at the list of biggest employers in CA. Most of the largest are paid for by the taxpayer. (Long Beach "Financial Mgt" is the City of Long Beach). What's one more industry paid for by the taxpayer?

Cisco will soon be off the list because if I remember correctly, it was financing that "Silicon Valley" in Russia that Schwarzenegger went to visit. And much to Hayden's surprise, since he thinks we need to spend even more on education, UCLA alone is the third or fourth largest employer in California.

Truly unbelievable.

http://www.acinet.org/acinet/oview6.asp?soccode=&stfips=06&from=State&id=&nodeid=12

Posted by Black Charlie Chinemble5313 2010-11-06 16:00|| 2010-11-06 16:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Good luck to you Black Charlie. The pubs are not going to abide a financial bail out. I suspect things may get very ugly when the cheese stops. There may come a day when you won't be able to get out.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-11-06 16:03|| 2010-11-06 16:03|| Front Page Top

#9 formerly married to Jane Fonda. Still making stupid ~~noises~~ choices.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-11-06 16:14|| 2010-11-06 16:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Thanks for the good luck Besoeker. I hope it comes in handy. :-)

Posted by Black Charlie Chinemble5313 2010-11-06 17:04|| 2010-11-06 17:04|| Front Page Top

#11 On some cosmic level this is a comedy right?

"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad", originally in the Greek play Medea by Euripides, the play describes Medea's descent (and her awareness of this descent as it occurs) into self destructive madness where she kills her own children in order to hurt her ex lover.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-11-06 17:37|| 2010-11-06 17:37|| Front Page Top

#12 There may come a day when you won't be able to get out.

Escape from L.A. (and California) becomes a reality?

Our daughter lived in California for about a year but ~~moved~~ escaped and is now in Texas.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-11-06 17:44|| 2010-11-06 17:44|| Front Page Top

#13 from the DEAD KENNEDYS which still seems relevant now
"California Uber Alles"

I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president...

Carter Power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school!

[Chorus:]
California Uber Alles
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Uber Alles California

Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face

Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay!

[Chorus]

Now it is 1984
Knock-knock at your front door
It's the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece

Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes here's a pretty flower.

DIE on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown

[Chorus]

Posted by linker 2010-11-06 20:14|| 2010-11-06 20:14|| Front Page Top

#14 It may just my analysis but isn't it funny that in a state house full of democrats, none of them thought they could win the Governors race. Also IMHO Meg suppressed the GOP vote. She was awkward and basically lined up behind Jerry on all issues, especially Illegal Immigration. WE re-elected BOXER? WTF? Boxer was started out with a 20 point gap and ran no until the last month. A very sad day indeed.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-11-06 20:34|| 2010-11-06 20:34|| Front Page Top

#15 I'm starting to get the feeling that y'all in CA would have been better off with the heroin proponant.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-11-06 21:08|| 2010-11-06 21:08|| Front Page Top

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