Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Scum Sucking RHINO-Pigs
Senator Buttmunch-Weeniewigger Thad Cochran of Mississippissing,
Stupid Greedy Bitch RHINO Susan Collins of Mayne,
Sad Panda Republimunch James Inhofe of Oki'homo,
Biggus-dickwadius Dick Lugar of Indianaana,
InSaNe SCREAMING-EMPRESS BiTCh Lisa Murkowski of AlasKKKa,
and
Turdwadly Richard Shelby of Alabamalamadingdong...
They all voted against an amendment hidden in some obscure food-safety legislation that would have enacted a two-year ban on Earmarks.
Also:
Retiring good-riddance Lame Duck-Ass suckwad George Voinovich of Ohio,
and Defeated Loser Barf-Bag Bob Bennett from Utah also voted against it.
UPDATE @ JammieWearing Fool:
California is a basket case because people like her keep getting elected by the Democrat machine that owns her Democrat-safe, gerrymandered, district. Same thing as PORK-RHINOS (above):
Stupid Greedy Bitch RHINO Susan Collins of Mayne,
Sad Panda Republimunch James Inhofe of Oki'homo,
Biggus-dickwadius Dick Lugar of Indianaana,
InSaNe SCREAMING-EMPRESS BiTCh Lisa Murkowski of AlasKKKa,
and
Turdwadly Richard Shelby of Alabamalamadingdong...
They all voted against an amendment hidden in some obscure food-safety legislation that would have enacted a two-year ban on Earmarks.
Also:
Retiring good-riddance Lame Duck-Ass suckwad George Voinovich of Ohio,
and Defeated Loser Barf-Bag Bob Bennett from Utah also voted against it.
UPDATE @ JammieWearing Fool:
California is a basket case because people like her keep getting elected by the Democrat machine that owns her Democrat-safe, gerrymandered, district. Same thing as PORK-RHINOS (above):
Friday, November 26, 2010
National Ammo Day!! Whoops!
It was last week, or the week before.
But there are some smokin' deals out there, from free shipping to $XX off the overr $XXX cost. I used two deals to make Cabela's (and myself) happy, and the Brady Bunch wet their pants.
Got some 300 .45ACP White-box, and some 300-count XM193.
But there are some smokin' deals out there, from free shipping to $XX off the overr $XXX cost. I used two deals to make Cabela's (and myself) happy, and the Brady Bunch wet their pants.
Got some 300 .45ACP White-box, and some 300-count XM193.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Thankfull Reflections on Thanksgiving
The Kitchen is done (see original - my fourth blog post back in August 2004) and the touch-up paint is dry. My computer is back up and running with just a few glitches to sort out, namely why doesn't the other HD show up, and there will be some (many) things to re-load - for which I am grateful. The green-bean casserole with crunchy onions on top is really good if you fry-up and add the secret ingredient, apple-smoked BACON! Tonight is rack of lamb with chimichurri sauce. Before:

After:

The granite is an awesome thankfulness upgrade.

After:

The granite is an awesome thankfulness upgrade.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
So How's That Global Warming Thing?
All those little flags with the numbers: 43, 44,45 - that's the temperature here. All the bums, hobos, and homeless are in shelters trying not to freeze out here on the balmy West Coast, and we are running the heaters to keep PG&E wealthy and fat while it spreads convenient media disinformation about "climate change"...
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Blogology and TSA Club-Suckers
If I were a more committed Blogger this would be better documented on the Asus EeePC's little Atom processor here, and the expression of my great frustration exhibited for all to see -- but the kitchen is finished and looks incredibly top-shelf gorgeous, there's fresh paint in a professional manner everywhere, and we're unpacking to fill the space after fifty eight-days in the wilderness (or living room) -- so the fact that my super zoot-drive high-phenom Gixxer-speed desktop took a complete shit when the breakers out on the garages fried on a rainy night last week and PG&E had to come out and replace them, is still something I'm dealing with in small bites.
The message is that BOOTMGR is missing, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart - in a divide-by-zero mode. It keeps coming up with that. I can get to the BIOS but that's it. So I removed the drive from the box and put it into a USB/SATA case. Powered-up and plugged that sucker into the other laptop, but still can't see any of my own data files. I can see the programs and stuff, and that there's 320GB of crap there, but USER is empty and I can't get to any of my former directories, with pictures and and circles and arrows and documents of many paragraphs and spreadsheets. There's all sorts of permissions bullshit in Win-7 and I made myself the "Owner" of the drive, but still the data is doing a Che Guevara and hiding its cowardly self. It's TSA Craptastic. With the assistance of a buddy dirtbiker-computer builder nerd genius back in North Cackalacky and after some emo remote web-conferencing FAIL (the Win7 box would not submit to TSA Club groping procedures from the XP controller), we squoshed up a disc with a bunch of RAR files in order to boot to some flav of Linux - to no avail. Thinking maybe a boot from teh USB would be cute I tried that too, still no luck.
From the desk drawer I pulled out the Costco special 500MB Seagate FreeAgent to check the latest backup and it won't spin-up. You can hear it humm and click and a whirr as it goes into its windup - and then it backs off and stops. Shit crap fuck hell. No windup, no pitch. I have NEVER had a Windows "backup" actually succeed in any way. Not ever-ever-ever. Not even while employed at Corporate with a large IT operation that did us up remotely like TSA rubber glove snappers - mine always seemed to have the Goober Gremlins, and so I'm not terribly surprised but a bit annoyed since now I have some stupid eWaste to dispose of - but I can do that remotely too with a box of 5.56 luv from Federal.
Maybe there's another way to get at the data and recover it, my neighbor is CEO of a
small mobile gaming company up in San Mateo out by Electronic Arts (I think) and knows a guy who is a data recovery wizard so there are still options. There are plenty of stupid-smart people around here.
But the kitchen is freaking fantastic. Just too bad I don't have Photoshop on this micro machine, and that all the pics of the earlier wreckage and renovation are inaccessible, because I really need to blog with pictures - it's how I roll. Maybe that's why I haven't been blogging much. No piccy, no bloggy.
The message is that BOOTMGR is missing, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart - in a divide-by-zero mode. It keeps coming up with that. I can get to the BIOS but that's it. So I removed the drive from the box and put it into a USB/SATA case. Powered-up and plugged that sucker into the other laptop, but still can't see any of my own data files. I can see the programs and stuff, and that there's 320GB of crap there, but USER is empty and I can't get to any of my former directories, with pictures and and circles and arrows and documents of many paragraphs and spreadsheets. There's all sorts of permissions bullshit in Win-7 and I made myself the "Owner" of the drive, but still the data is doing a Che Guevara and hiding its cowardly self. It's TSA Craptastic. With the assistance of a buddy dirtbiker-computer builder nerd genius back in North Cackalacky and after some emo remote web-conferencing FAIL (the Win7 box would not submit to TSA Club groping procedures from the XP controller), we squoshed up a disc with a bunch of RAR files in order to boot to some flav of Linux - to no avail. Thinking maybe a boot from teh USB would be cute I tried that too, still no luck.
From the desk drawer I pulled out the Costco special 500MB Seagate FreeAgent to check the latest backup and it won't spin-up. You can hear it humm and click and a whirr as it goes into its windup - and then it backs off and stops. Shit crap fuck hell. No windup, no pitch. I have NEVER had a Windows "backup" actually succeed in any way. Not ever-ever-ever. Not even while employed at Corporate with a large IT operation that did us up remotely like TSA rubber glove snappers - mine always seemed to have the Goober Gremlins, and so I'm not terribly surprised but a bit annoyed since now I have some stupid eWaste to dispose of - but I can do that remotely too with a box of 5.56 luv from Federal.
Maybe there's another way to get at the data and recover it, my neighbor is CEO of a
small mobile gaming company up in San Mateo out by Electronic Arts (I think) and knows a guy who is a data recovery wizard so there are still options. There are plenty of stupid-smart people around here.
But the kitchen is freaking fantastic. Just too bad I don't have Photoshop on this micro machine, and that all the pics of the earlier wreckage and renovation are inaccessible, because I really need to blog with pictures - it's how I roll. Maybe that's why I haven't been blogging much. No piccy, no bloggy.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Moto Musings
This is basically a cut-and-paste of a little emaill conversation I had with another Motoblogger.
I think the golden age of motorcycles is always in someone's hazy-fond memories - but its also always still now! It's a little more expensive, but the technology today is fantastic. Lightweight stuff means you don't have to bench-press every corner and turn just to get around.
TwistGrip was an experiment in Urban moto attitude/culture that was slightly off-center from the major magazines, but it just didn't quite make the necessary subscription rate. The publishers are fairly successful with Thrasher (skateboard culture) and a hipster-art magazine called Juxtapoze. I did the "Xing" logo that's on the key-fobs and bumpersticker, of the tucked-in rider. My buddy knew the publishers, and he/we had been with SF based CityBike for a while, until its owner/publisher kinda went bananas and godlike and generally impossible to work-for. I had quit a while before...
For riding I still have The Mighty KTM (a '97 KTM 300 MX/C) that I trail-ride - Hollister and local riding areas. I went from Street with an '89 FZ600 to and '94 XR650L and got into Dual-Sport riding, then to a '97 XR400 when I tried racing Enduros - but I only began in my late 30's and was behind the curve the whole time.The Enduro schedule for District 36 out here is/was awfully busy and maintenance intensive. One weekend you're way up in NorCal in the wilds, the next weekend you're up in the Gold Country/Sierra backwoods, the weekend after that you're in SoCal in some hot canyon. Just a lot of driving (this state is looong!) and wrenching, even if it's just tires and air filters, and the races are on back to back weekends through the season. A lot of the AA-level "kids" are out there with dads who used-to race (and still do), with a motorhome and satellite dish - a kitchen on wheel, and often a couple bikes. I was in a tent with a camp-stove and that got old fast, especially when it rains! I found-out that the XR400 was too heavy and short for my height, so after a year or so I sold it and got the KTM 300. It's a two stroke that weighs about 30lbs less than an XR400 and makes about 10 more horse-power, but the power is torquy and manageable - not all top-end, so you can tractor around in 3rd gear and not flip-out in wheelies everywhere. But the new stuff they make is even lighter-weight and easier handling.
I used to hang out on a Usenet newsgroup, rec.motorcycles.dirt, and at various times the guys who were active on the board would get together and meet-up for a ride. We rode together in Oregon, Colorado, and Idaho and it was a good time and fun adventures but I kinda got tired of all the driving (again) and the away-time, and haven't been on one of those since 2002 so it's been a while - and that's where the "DirtCrashr" nickname comes-from.
I think the golden age of motorcycles is always in someone's hazy-fond memories - but its also always still now! It's a little more expensive, but the technology today is fantastic. Lightweight stuff means you don't have to bench-press every corner and turn just to get around.
TwistGrip was an experiment in Urban moto attitude/culture that was slightly off-center from the major magazines, but it just didn't quite make the necessary subscription rate. The publishers are fairly successful with Thrasher (skateboard culture) and a hipster-art magazine called Juxtapoze. I did the "Xing" logo that's on the key-fobs and bumpersticker, of the tucked-in rider. My buddy knew the publishers, and he/we had been with SF based CityBike for a while, until its owner/publisher kinda went bananas and godlike and generally impossible to work-for. I had quit a while before...I used to hang out on a Usenet newsgroup, rec.motorcycles.dirt, and at various times the guys who were active on the board would get together and meet-up for a ride. We rode together in Oregon, Colorado, and Idaho and it was a good time and fun adventures but I kinda got tired of all the driving (again) and the away-time, and haven't been on one of those since 2002 so it's been a while - and that's where the "DirtCrashr" nickname comes-from.
Monday, November 08, 2010
Wind Deflectors...

Sorta like bark-busters, but for the cold, biting, wind that freezes the digits on those wintry rides.
Meanwhile, someone in the City of Klatovy, in the region of Plzensky Kraj in the Czech Republic showed an interest in red-dot sights on an M1 Carbine.
That damn post gets a lot of hits, more than any other I have ever written, because of the pictures.
Barack Obama as Willy Loman?
Quote of the Day:
The Travis McGee Reader: No you can't, Mr. President: "We're all getting a little sick of your self-portrait as a brilliant policy maker but a poor salesman for your ideas.
Barack Obama as Willy Loman? My butt.
Mr. President, if there's one thing you have it is the huckster talent. You could sell horse apples at a rodeo. That's how you came to be president."
Fix California, Fix it Like a Dog and Kill CARB
Neuter the Agencies. Don't just stop the growth of useless and unelected bureaucracies, reverse the course by cutting them off at the root. Stop the funding and get back the money.
California is a thoroughly gerrymandered state where the incredible growth-outcome was predictable since there were no hurdles or barriers to State cronyism. In 1962 The state was re-districted by Democrat Jesse Unruh who’s work since then and from beyond the grave has provided permanent safe majorities for Democrats, with an assist from dead Democrat Phil Burton in 1981.
California Democrats did to Golden State congressional districts what Hitler and Stalin once did to Poland. As a result of total-control we have a an incredible surfeit of agencies engaged in useless work, sucking the economy dry and making husks of taxpayers. Personally I would go after demonstrated fraud. I'd get rid of the agency that has caused the most damage and been complicit in supporting a fraudulent scientist with a fake doctorate degree in statistics from a UPS mail-box drop. An agency that published this fake-scientists' bogus study used to justify sweeping, costly new emission rules that would affect the rest of the nation, under the guise of "Global Warming." An agency that has from January to Octonber 2009 collected $9.7 million in total fines based on the fraudulent "research" and that has “grossly miscalculated pollution levels” of 340% over reality, used to create onerous regulations and push forward a giant tax-fraud against the citizens of California.
Kill CARB now.
Got CalPork? From Maggies Farm, here goes:
California Academic Performance Index (API) California Access for Infants and Mothers California Acupuncture Board California Administrative Office of the Courts California Adoptions Branch California African American Museum California Agricultural Export Program California Agricultural Labor Relations Board California Agricultural Statistics Service California Air Resources Board (CARB) California Allocation Board California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority California Animal Health and Food Safety Services California Anti-Terrorism Information Center California Apprenticeship Council California Arbitration Certification Program California Architects Board California Area VI Developmental Disabilities Board California Arts Council California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus California Assembly Democratic Caucus California Assembly Republican Caucus California Athletic Commission * California Attorney General
California Bay Conservation and Development Commission California Bay-Delta Authority California Bay-Delta Office California Biodiversity Council California Board for Geologists and Geophysicists California Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors California Board of Accountancy California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology California Board of Behavioral Sciences California Board of Chiropractic Examiners California Board of Equalization (BOE) California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection California Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind California Board of Occupational Therapy California Board of Optometry California Board of Pharmacy California Board of Podiatric Medicine California Board of Prison Terms California Board of Psychology California Board of Registered Nursing California Board of Trustees California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians California Braille and Talking Book Library California Building Standards Commission California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education California Bureau of Automotive Repair California Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair California Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation California Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services California Bureau of State Audits California Business Agency California Business Investment Services (CalBIS) California Business Permit Information (CalGOLD) California Business Portal California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency California Cal Grants California CalJOBS California Cal-Learn Program California CalVet Home Loan Program California Career Resource Network California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau California Center for Analytical Chemistry California Center for Distributed Learning California Center for Teaching Careers (Teach California) California Chancellors Office California Charter Schools California Children and Families Commission California Children and Family 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Division California Consumers and Families Agency California Contractors State License Board California Corrections Standards Authority California Council for the Humanities California Council on Criminal Justice California Council on Developmental Disabilities California Court Reporters Board California Courts of Appeal California Crime and Violence Prevention Center California Criminal Justice Statistics Center California Criminalist Institute Forensic Library California CSGnet Network Management California Cultural and Historical Endowment California Cultural Resources Division California Curriculum and Instructional Leadership Branch California Data Exchange Center California Data Management Division California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission California Delta Protection Commission California Democratic Caucus California Demographic Research Unit California Dental Auxiliaries California Department of Aging California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control California Department of Boating and Waterways (Cal Boating) California Department of Child Support Services (CDCSS) California Department of Community Services and Development California Department of Conservation California Department of Consumer Affairs California Department of Corporations California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation California Department of Developmental Services California Department of Education California Department of Fair Employment and Housing California Department of Finance California Department of Financial Institutions California Department of Fish and Game California Department of Food and Agriculture California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) California Department of General Services California Department of General Services, Office of State Publishing California Department of Health Care Services California Department of Housing and Community Development California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) California Department of Insurance California Department of Justice Firearms Division California Department of Justice Opinion Unit California Department of Justice, Consumer Information, Public Inquiry Unit California Department of Justice California Department of Managed Health Care California Department of Mental Health California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) California Department of Personnel Administration California Department of Pesticide Regulation California Department of Public Health California Department of Real Estate California Department of Rehabilitation California Department of Social Services Adoptions Branch California Department of Social Services California Department of Technology Services Training Center (DTSTC) California Department of Technology Services (DTS) California Department of Toxic Substances Control California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVets) California Department of Water Resources California Departmento de Vehiculos Motorizados California Digital Library California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Certification Program California Division of Apprenticeship Standards California Division of Codes and Standards California Division of Communicable Disease Control California Division of Engineering California Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control California Division of Gambling Control California Division of Housing Policy Development California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement California Division of Labor Statistics and Research California Division of Land and Right of Way California Division of Land Resource Protection California Division of Law Enforcement General Library California Division of Measurement Standards California Division of Mines and Geology California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources California Division of Planning and Local Assistance California Division of Recycling California Division of Safety of Dams California Division of the State Architect California Division of Tourism California Division of Workers Compensation Medical Unit California Division of Workers Compensation California Economic Assistance, Business and Community Resources California Economic Strategy Panel California Education and Training Agency California Education Audit Appeals Panel California Educational Facilities Authority California Elections Division California Electricity Oversight Board California Emergency Management Agency California Emergency Medical Services Authority California Employment Development Department (EDD) California Employment Information State Jobs California Employment Training Panel California Energy Commission California Environment and Natural Resources Agency California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) California Executive Office California Export Laboratory Services California Exposition and State Fair (Cal Expo) California Fair Political Practices Commission California Fairs and Expositions Division California Film Commission California Fire and Resource Assessment Program California Firearms Division California Fiscal Services California Fish and Game Commission California Fisheries Program Branch California Floodplain Management California Foster Youth Help California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) California Fraud Division California Gambling Control Commission California Geographic Information Systems Council (GIS) California Geological Survey California Government Claims and Victim Compensation Board California Governors Committee for Employment of Disabled Persons California Governors Mentoring Partnership California Governors Office of Emergency Services California Governors Office of Homeland Security California Governors Office of Planning and Research California Governors Office California Grant and Enterprise Zone Programs HCD Loan California Health and Human Services Agency California Health and Safety Agency California Healthy Families Program California Hearing Aid Dispensers Bureau California High-Speed Rail Authority California Highway Patrol (CHP) California History and Culture Agency California Horse Racing Board California Housing Finance Agency California Indoor Air Quality Program California Industrial Development Financing Advisory Commission California Industrial Welfare Commission California InFoPeople California Information Center for the Environment California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank) California Inspection Services California Institute for County Government California Institute for Education Reform California Integrated Waste Management Board California Interagency Ecological Program California Job Service California Junta Estatal de Personal California Labor and 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California Medical Care Services California Military Department California Mining and Geology Board California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts California Museum Resource Center California National Guard California Native American Heritage Commission California Natural Community Conservation Planning Program California New Motor Vehicle Board California Nursing Home Administrator Program California Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board California Ocean Resources Management Program California Office of Administrative Hearings California Office of Administrative Law California Office of AIDS California Office of Binational Border Health California Office of Child Abuse Prevention California Office of Deaf Access California Office of Emergency Services (OES) California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment California Office of Fiscal Services California Office of Fleet Administration California Office of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Implementation (CalOHI) California Office of Historic Preservation California Office of Homeland Security California Office of Human Resources California Office of Legal Services California Office of Legislation California Office of Lieutenant Governor California Office of Military and Aerospace Support California Office of Mine Reclamation California Office of Natural Resource Education California Office of Privacy Protection California Office of Public School Construction California Office of Real Estate Appraisers California Office of Risk and Insurance Management California Office of Services to the Blind California Office of Spill Prevention and Response California Office of State Publishing (OSP) California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development California Office of Systems Integration California Office of the Inspector General California Office of the Ombudsman California Office of the Patient Advocate California Office of the President California Office of the Secretary for Education California Office of the State Fire Marshal California Office of the State Public Defender California Office of Traffic Safety California Office of Vital Records California Online Directory California Operations Control Office California Opinion Unit California Outreach and Technical Assistance Network (OTAN) California Park and Recreation Commission California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) California Performance Review (CPR) California Permit Information for Business (CalGOLD) California Physical Therapy Board California Physician Assistant Committee California Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services California Policy and Evaluation Division California Political Reform Division California Pollution Control Financing Authority California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo California Postsecondary Education Commission California Prevention Services California Primary Care and Family Health California Prison Industry Authority California Procurement Division California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) California Real Estate Services Division California Refugee Programs Branch California Regional Water Quality Control Boards California Registered Veterinary Technician Committee California Registrar of Charitable Trusts California Republican Caucus California Research and Development Division California Research Bureau California Resources Agency California Respiratory Care Board California Rivers Assessment California Rural Health Policy Council California Safe Schools California San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission California San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy California San Joaquin River Conservancy California School to Career California Science Center California Scripps Institution of Oceanography California Secretary of State Business Portal California Secretary of State California Seismic Safety Commission California Self Insurance Plans (SIP) California Senate Office of Research California Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Certification Program California Small Business Development Center Program California Smart Growth Caucus California Smog Check Information Center California Spatial Information Library California Special Education Division California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) California Standards and Assessment Division California State Administrative Manual (SAM) California State Allocation Board California State and Consumer Services Agency California State Architect California State Archives California State Assembly California State Association of Counties (CSAC) California State Board of Education * California State Board of Food and Agriculture California Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) California State Children's Trust Fund California State Compensation Insurance Fund California State Contracts Register Program California State Contracts Register California State Controller California State Council on Developmental Disabilities (SCDD) California State Disability Insurance (SDI) California State Fair (Cal Expo) California State Jobs Employment Information California State Lands Commission California State Legislative Portal California State Legislature California State Library Catalog California State Library Services Bureau California State Library California State Lottery California State Mediation and Conciliation Service California State Mining and Geology Board California State Park and Recreation Commission California State Parks California State Personnel Board California State Polytechnic University, Pomona California State Railroad Museum California State Science Fair California State Senate California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) California State Summer School for the Arts California State Superintendent of Public Instruction California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) California State Treasurer California State University Center for Distributed Learning California State University, Bakersfield California State University, Channel Islands California State University, Chico California State University, Dominguez Hills California State University, East Bay California State University, Fresno California State University, Fullerton California State University, Long Beach California State University, Los Angeles California State University, Monterey Bay California State University, Northridge California State University, Sacramento California State University, San Bernardino California State University, San Marcos California State University, Stanislaus California State University (CSU) California State Water Project Analysis Office California State Water Project California State Water Resources Control Board California Structural Pest Control Board California Student Aid Commission California Superintendent of Public Instruction California Superior Courts California Tahoe Conservancy California Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists California Tax Information Center California Technology and Administration Branch Finance California Telecommunications Division California Telephone Medical Advice Services (TAMS) California Transportation Commission California Travel and Transportation Agency California Unclaimed Property Program California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board California Unemployment Insurance Program California Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission California Veterans Board California Veterans Memorial California Veterinary Medical Board and Registered Veterinary Technician Examining Committee California Veterinary Medical Board California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board California Volunteers California Voter Registration California Water Commission California Water Environment Association (COWPEA) California Water Resources Control Board California Welfare to Work Division California Wetlands Information System California Wildlife and Habitat Data Analysis Branch California Wildlife Conservation Board California Wildlife Programs Branch California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) California Workers Compensation Appeals Board California Workforce and Labor Development Agency California Workforce Investment Board California Youth Authority (CYA) Central Valley Flood Protection Board Center for California Studies Colorado River Board of California Counting California Dental Board of California Health Insurance Plan of California (PacAdvantage) Humboldt State University Jobs with the State of California Judicial Council of California Learn California Library of California Lieutenant Governors Commission for One California Little Hoover Commission (on California State Government Organization and Economy) Medical Board of California Medi-Cal Osteopathic Medical Board of California Physical Therapy Board of California Regents of the University of California San Diego State University San Francisco State University San Jose State University Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy State Bar of California Supreme Court of California Teach California University of California University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Hastings College of the Law University of California, Irvine University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Merced University of California, Riverside University of California, San Diego University of California, San Francisco University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Cruz * Veterans Home of California.
California is a thoroughly gerrymandered state where the incredible growth-outcome was predictable since there were no hurdles or barriers to State cronyism. In 1962 The state was re-districted by Democrat Jesse Unruh who’s work since then and from beyond the grave has provided permanent safe majorities for Democrats, with an assist from dead Democrat Phil Burton in 1981.
California Democrats did to Golden State congressional districts what Hitler and Stalin once did to Poland. As a result of total-control we have a an incredible surfeit of agencies engaged in useless work, sucking the economy dry and making husks of taxpayers. Personally I would go after demonstrated fraud. I'd get rid of the agency that has caused the most damage and been complicit in supporting a fraudulent scientist with a fake doctorate degree in statistics from a UPS mail-box drop. An agency that published this fake-scientists' bogus study used to justify sweeping, costly new emission rules that would affect the rest of the nation, under the guise of "Global Warming." An agency that has from January to Octonber 2009 collected $9.7 million in total fines based on the fraudulent "research" and that has “grossly miscalculated pollution levels” of 340% over reality, used to create onerous regulations and push forward a giant tax-fraud against the citizens of California.
Kill CARB now.
Got CalPork? From Maggies Farm, here goes:
California Academic Performance Index (API) California Access for Infants and Mothers California Acupuncture Board California Administrative Office of the Courts California Adoptions Branch California African American Museum California Agricultural Export Program California Agricultural Labor Relations Board California Agricultural Statistics Service California Air Resources Board (CARB) California Allocation Board California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority California Animal Health and Food Safety Services California Anti-Terrorism Information Center California Apprenticeship Council California Arbitration Certification Program California Architects Board California Area VI Developmental Disabilities Board California Arts Council California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus California Assembly Democratic Caucus California Assembly Republican Caucus California Athletic Commission * California Attorney General
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Thursday, November 04, 2010
What Now? STOP the Stupid - stop High-Speed Rail
Back in the day when former Governor and Senator Leland Stanford was a robber baron and used his political connections to have the state pass laws prohibiting competition for his Central Pacific railroad, the whole rail monopoly-thing was the height of high dudgeon and social injustice.
It seems now the shoe is on the other foot, and for those with a concern about the actions demonstrated by the Kelo decision that allows governments to snatch your home or other property for a "public purpose," High Speed Rail represents a HUGE potential for Super-Kelo-nomics. It's going to rob from the small landowners and give to the Unions.
While California is on the economic ropes, the tale of the tape tells a different And wtory:
Towns that are largely integral now will be split down the middle and become lobotomized by a giant Railroad Super Highway - the head separated from the body by the massively ugly structures the Utopian train-dreamers envision - or don't envision. Because it's going to really-really suck. And be really ugly.
The truth about railroads has been evident for many-many years now and it doesn't involve passenger traffic - not anymore than most ships are ocean liners, they aren't and this isn't the 19th Century either.
For one thing this is going to be unimaginably expensive, right at a time when it's least affordable. Even the We Are All Socialists Now Newsweek writes:
It seems now the shoe is on the other foot, and for those with a concern about the actions demonstrated by the Kelo decision that allows governments to snatch your home or other property for a "public purpose," High Speed Rail represents a HUGE potential for Super-Kelo-nomics. It's going to rob from the small landowners and give to the Unions.
While California is on the economic ropes, the tale of the tape tells a different And wtory:
Two weeks ago, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced a second round of high-speed rail grants. California was awarded an additional $902 million; Florida $800 million.If it goes forward, this totally unnecessary political boondoggle is going to be a disaster. We already have cheaper and faster travel from California El Norte down to the Southland, it's called Southwest Airlines.
The biggest awards announced last January were $2.3 billion to California to begin work on an 800-mile-long, high-speed rail line tying Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay area to Los Angeles and San DiegoI pray to god that the newly inducted Congresspeeps will yank Gub'mint funding on the insanity of "high speed rail" in CA, because in order to locate those lines and the massive undertaking it will impose - including massive and monstrous and hideous construction to elevate the lines in earthquake country - there will be a LOT of Keloization taking place, and many homes will be devalued permanently, even more than the damage done by the real-estate market bubble.
Towns that are largely integral now will be split down the middle and become lobotomized by a giant Railroad Super Highway - the head separated from the body by the massively ugly structures the Utopian train-dreamers envision - or don't envision. Because it's going to really-really suck. And be really ugly.
The truth about railroads has been evident for many-many years now and it doesn't involve passenger traffic - not anymore than most ships are ocean liners, they aren't and this isn't the 19th Century either.
For one thing this is going to be unimaginably expensive, right at a time when it's least affordable. Even the We Are All Socialists Now Newsweek writes:
Obama calls high-speed rail essential "infrastructure" when it’s actually old-fashioned "pork barrel." The interesting question is why it retains its intellectual respectability. The answer, it seems, is willful ignorance. People prefer fashionable make-believe to distasteful realities. They imagine public benefits that don’t exist and ignore costs that do.It's sheer craziness and utter nonsense to build this ridiculous 19th Century edifice - a monument to self-indulgence and wishful thinking by train-dreamers.
Consider California. Its budget is a shambles; it furloughed state workers to save money. Still, it clings to its high-speed rail project. No one knows the cost. In 2009, the California High-Speed Rail Authority estimated $42.6 billion, up from $33.6 billion in 2008—a huge one-year increase. The CHSRA wants the federal government to pay about half the cost. Even if it does and the state issues $9.95 billion in approved bonds, a financing gap of almost $15 billion would remain.
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Monday, November 01, 2010
The Thinnest Skin and its Enfeeblementia
listeners said they wanted to support NPR against what they perceived as a Fox-News generated attack. ...because NPR fired a news analyst, because he appeared on Fox too many times angering NPR's listeners, radio listeners angered over TV appearances, appearances where supposedly "repeated violations of NPR’s ethics codes" occurred - but Mr. Williams' right to free speech was not violated? Their ethics stink when their CEO Vivian Schiller wants Government to control the media via the FTC, and conducts federal brainstorming sessions on the "reinvention of journalism" - what utter gall, but completely in keeping with the Left's desire to silencing someone based on political speech that's inconvenient.
In 2008, I received 378 emails complaining about remarks Williams made on Fox – but I heard very little about his comments on NPR. My February 2009 blog post on the Stokely Carmichael incident drew 216 comments – many asking why NPR put up with Williams' dual role.The heavily moderated comments to each NPR blog post show an amazing blend of self-serving smugness and politically correct blindness, mixed with a wholly incapable and blanket misunderstanding of anything outside their echo-chamber - indeed to look into the comments is to look into the blank abyss of the Liberal echo-chamber, because really the actual problem isn't NPR, but
because his appearances on Fox News had become a frequent source of embarrassment to NPR.Heat, kitchen - directions to the outdoors...
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