bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/2 4/ed-begley-jr-loses-it-on-fox-news/

Alright.  All the clap trap crap of left v right, arguing, etc has GOT TO stop....All this does is increase everybody's blood pressure

I cannot believe a NEWS STATION would allow such CRAP to be aired on their channel.  (i have seen some on the other channels too).

if this crap keeps up, yeah, we will need more money towards health care...i mean, watch the damn video, its totally disgusting.  THE ARGUING i mean

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi

Legislators and other elected officials in the capital will see their salaries slashed by 18 percent next month under an opinion issued Thursday by state Attorney General Jerry Brown, who decided that officials' pay can be cut in the middle of their elected terms.

The decision means the state will cut the pay of all 120 lawmakers and nine constitutional officers a year earlier than expected, saving the state $2.8 million next year.

A spokesman for state Controller John Chiang said he will cut the salaries Dec. 7, the start of a new legislative session. Brown is among the officials whose annual salary will be cut, from $184,301 to $151,127.

The pay cuts were approved in May by the California Citizens Compensation Commission, which sets the salaries for elected officials in the state. At that time, the commission was advised by state lawyers that the cuts could not take effect until December 2010 - at the start of a new term.

Chuck Murray, chairman of the commission, said he was pleasantly surprised by Brown's decision because there had been no discussion of implementing the pay cuts midterm.

"With a $21 billion deficit coming up in January, maybe it's not enough," Murray said of the 18 percent pay cut.

Brown's opinion comes nearly two months after the chief executives of the California Senate and Assembly sent Brown a letter asking whether midterm salary cuts were allowed.

The three-page Sept. 28 letter by Greg Schmidt, chief executive officer of the Senate Rules Committee, and Jon Waldie, chief administrative officer of the Assembly Rules Committee, dealt largely with another issue, which Brown did not address in his Thursday opinion.

Schmidt's and Waldie's primary concern in the letter appeared to be whether the Citizens Compensation Commission could legally slash lawmakers' per diem and car allowance benefits by 18 percent - as the panel voted to do in July.

Lawmakers collect $173 for each day they are in Sacramento, up to $400 a month for automobile leases, as well as state contributions for health benefits. Those benefits are also scheduled to be cut by 18 percent next month - in addition to the pay cuts. The benefits cuts will save the state another $1.2 million next year.

A spokeswoman for Brown said the opinion addressed what they viewed as the "primary question" from the letter. "As far as the per diem benefits, we did not see that as the primary question," said Christine Gasparac. She said lawyers at the office are not looking into the other issue, but would do so if they received another request.

State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, referred the pay cut questions to Schmidt, who said that his office had not received the opinion, only a press release, and that no decision had been made about whether to challenge Brown's opinion.

He said the Senate will likely not pursue the benefits question further.

Shannon Murphy, spokeswoman for Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles County), released a statement saying Assembly members would abide by the law: "We're no strangers to stepping up in these tough times."

Murray, the Citizens Compensation Commission chair, said the Legislature may now regret raising the issue.

"In hindsight, it might have been better to let sleeping dogs lie," he said.

The commission made the pay cuts last spring because 193,000 state employees have been forced to take three furlough days off a month to save the state money.

the first paragraph of the article reads like this

Declaring success in border security and immigration enforcement, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that the federal government has done its work and now it's time for Congress to pass a broad bill to legalize illegal immigrants.

washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/14/immigration- bill-promoted-for-2010/

It seems to me that someone made the above judgement from high atop the hill from the castle. 

A success in border security and immigration enforcement cannot be obtained until illegal aliens are non-existant.  That is nowhere close to happening

again, this is just my opinion

Action Sports, in the HELOC  shopping center (inside joke) on the corner of Brimhall and Calloway, will have a 50 ft snowboard jump, along with a 20ft snowboard rail.  Im not sure how many people will be competing, but it should be good times for those of us with kids who want to go watch.

several eating possibilities lie within a short walk too...Carls Jr...Ceasars, Prime Cut, El Portal, Hourglass, etc

hope to see some of you there....Ill be rockin a LEARNEM sticker on my back LOL

a TON of CRAP was tossed back and forth today between the sides that were involved....

it took a post from AudreyB for me to reflect what really happened today. 

Im sure i piss a few people off today..I know i made some personal attacks against some people.  Looking back...i need to apologize for that.  IM sorry.

I think we have to realize that there are those of us that may just never find common ground, that I have to give up trying to make people see things from "my" perspective

i know it would be much easier for us to get along better if politics were just not a part of the bako blogosphere.

This is to EVERYONE out there (yes, even you RF)  if you catch me at all being snarky, brutal, nasty, attacking, dimwitted or just plain stupid...please remind me of this blog.  I would appreicate it.

thanks

I troubles me that we have people on these blogs that CLAIM they want Obamacare because its best for ALL Americans, yet they don't want Americans to know that Terrorist Cells exist in the US and that the FT HOOD SHOOTER was a terrorist

You guys cant even keep up with the crap you posted yesterday.  you turn right around and contradict yourself sooner or later. 

then you attempt to laugh it off as humor

I dont know if it all the drugs you guys are doing...or you trully are SOCIOPATHS.

It seems that the FT HOOD terrorist was on the local law enforcement radar for internet posts about suicide bombings and other threats.

hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FORT_HOOD_SHOO TING_SUSPECT

it also has been reported that the muslim terrorist was shouting ALLAH AKBAR during the attack

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_ hood_shooting

at least no one can point to SHRUB and say he lacked in homeland security.

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33617028/

it seems that if you rob a store, and the clerks, owners, whoever you just violated, chases you down, shoots you and beats you, you can sue them for something that YOU started.

I knew something wasnt right when the White House reported that the Economy is back on track, and the Jobs futures werent going down any more.

www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jMNoef 6xDenBbHWO0Im6rIjDmAgAD9BKQRQ00

I am starting to not like the deceit coming from this administration.  Its like having a full time job just trying to keep up with everything it says, then having to check to see if it was just more B.S. they were spreading, or if, finally, they told the truth about something.

and dave is back under the new monkier straightahead

I will give you a chance to prove how green you are

for a mere $6.66 (holloween special)  you can offset your carbon footprint...

go to

www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr

send your halloween carbon offset to

DEEDEEDEE@hotmail.com

AirQualityGuy, Random Factor, Don Mason,  AdamPayne, FSG, POGO, dave  (i know you are here)

i should be seeing a lot of money from you guys....

Nancy...doing all she can do to curb global warming LMAO

www.naturalnews.com/027331_emissions_carbon_meat. html

WOW... and all this time, i thought it was the emissions out of my tailpipe.  Maybe that is why some people are getting extremely high electricity bills is because THEY'RE FAT!!

HEY BAKERSFIELD FATTIES....WANT A LOWER ELECTRICITY BILL???  LOSE SOME WEIGHT.

LMAO

punish 85% of the population for the 15% that doesnt have it?

great info on cancer comparos with socialized nations too

it seems that since the global warming jihad set forth within the last decade by the man who likes to shut opposing viewpoints up by cutting their mike, has fallen a a great number of adult deaf ears, a new direction has been taken to ram it down the throat of those most gullible......

CHILDREN

www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,2625976 5-953,00.html

Our children have been burdened to now save the world, thanks to the rhetoric coming from the likes of Gore and his global warming/cooling/climate change thugs.  Kids now rank it right up there with higher priority problems like crime, cancer and poverty.

i wonder how it feels to be the adult that saddles a child with a made-up, junk science-backed, invisible threat?

Neither,
it's  
the 535 members of the
United States  
Congress

The  
same group of Idiots that crank  out
Hundreds of new laws each  
year
Designed to keep the rest of us in  
line.

it seems that the White HOuse is now saying that President Obama's Czars dont have to testify in front of Congress, to ascertain information regarding bailouts and takeovers, to make sure they were done on  the up and up

washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/23/czar-war-esc alates-between-congress-white-house/

im just wondering.  I have had socalgas as long as Ive owned homes, more than 10 years

after some research, i have found out that we are getting ripped off for natural gas as well

it seems that we have the same gas baseline as downtown Los Angeles....a much MUCH milder climate

lets start with average high, low and average tempuratures for both cities

here is Bakersfield

www.accuweather.com/us/ca/bakersfield/93301/forec ast-normals.asp

here is Los Angeles

www.accuweather.com/us/ca/los-angeles/90026/forec ast-normals.asp

now, lets show the baselines for socalgas

notice Bakersfield and Los Angeles are in the same zone?

www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/Electric+Rates/Baselin e/socalgas_baseline.htm

now...compare and contrast the differences in temperature in the winter time from December through March.

do you think we should be on the same baseline?

www.bakersfield.com/news/business/economy/x167593 3297/Kern-Schools-Federal-Credit-Union-faces-24-m onth-deadline

Kern Schools Federal Credit Union faces 24-month deadline

BY JOHN COX, Californian staff writer
jcox@bakersfield.com | Monday, Oct 19 2009 05:00 PM

A recent agreement between federal regulators and Kern Schools Federal Credit Union gives Bakersfield's largest financial institution 24 months to improve its finances and reach a certain minimum level of liquidity.

The agreement, proposed by the $1.7 billion credit union and accepted four or five months ago by the National Credit Union Administration, was disclosed Monday by outgoing KSFCU President and CEO Vince Rojas. He mentioned it in an interview minutes before an afternoon press conference introducing his replacement, Steve Renock, the former executive vice president of lending at a large school-based credit union in Orange County.

The agreement calls for KSFCU to raise its net worth-to-assets ratio to 7 percent, Rojas said. That ratio stood at about 5 percent as of June 30, federal records show.

An NCUA representative stated Monday that the agency does not comment on individual credit unions. She added that the national average net worth-to-assets ratio among credit unions stood at 10.03 percent as of June 30.

Renock started work at KSFCU Monday and said he had not participated in the credit union's talks with the NCUA.

Unlike the recapitalization options available to banks, credit unions are not allowed to raise money externally, and instead must do so by improving their own earnings.

Renock emphasized that consumer lending and investing -- the cornerstones of the credit union's plans for reaching the goal spelled out in the NCUA agreement -- depend largely on the performance of the general economy. He said progress toward the credit union's goal has a lot to do with its members' willingness to borrow credit union money -- an activity he said has slowed during the recession.

"We need to get the economy back on track, which is a bigger job than the one" he was hired for, Renock said.

Monday's disclosure comes three days after state regulators shut down another large Bakersfield financial institution -- San Joaquin Bank -- over its failure to reach the same ratio, 7 percent. Bank executives had been working for about a year under a year-old agreement with regulators, and had focused their recapitalization efforts on raising money from outside investors.

Kern Schools board member James Fillbrandt said he was concerned about the agreement, partly because he had been unaware of it until Monday.

"Sure it concerns me," he said. "It would concern me if (the deadline gave the credit union even) 48 months."

A member of the credit union's supervisory committee, Carl D. Woody Jr., said he had been aware of the deadline, and that the credit union had achieved a goal set for the second quarter ended June 30. He and Rojas said they could not remember exactly what that goal called for; Rojas said it involved writing off bad loans.

"I can tell you that we made our first three-month goal," Woody said, "which is a good sign."

Federal records show that Kern Schools lost about $24 million last year. It lost another $26 million in the first quarter of 2009, much of that attributed to its exposure to two financial institutions taken over by regulators.

In the second quarter of this year, the credit union lost about $4.7 million. The total amount of loans more than two months in arrears declined by about 3 percent to $31.5 million between the first and second quarters, records show.

Renock has nearly 30 years of financial industry experience, including the past six years in which he worked as executive vice president of lending at SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union, where he helped create and became president of its wholly owned mortgage banking subsidiary.

Before that, he served as president and CEO of CUNA Mutual Mortgage Corp. and as senior vice president and national wholesale manager and controller of Shearson Lehman Mortgage Corp., among other jobs.

Rojas served as president and CEO of Kern Schools since 1989. He plans to retire in January.

www.youtube.com/watch

www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUKTRE59F21G20 091016

after 138 billion dollars less than a year ago, it seems Bank of America still can't get its act together

could it be that the management is still misbehaving and receiving outragous bonuses like AIG flaunted early this week?

personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/03/10/offic ials-demand-details-bank-america-bonuses/

yep...almost 7 billion in bonuses...yet they LOST a billion dollars.

where the hell is all the control and CHANGE that was promised us when almost a trillion dollars was just handed over to a handful of mega corporations?

i honestly never expected anything to happen

www.bloomberg.com/apps/news

with as bad as the enconomy has gotten, this is something we cant have happen again

What happened to all that talk about "DRILL HERE DRILL NOW"

We are even more energy dependent than we were 2 summers ago.....

Lindsey Graham tells his constituents that if they don't like his decisions, that they can leave.

thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/62805-g raham-to-constituents-chill-out

Maybe he has forgotten who he works for?  Forgotten who pays his salary?  His gold plated medical plan?

Now i would understand if it were just a couple of hecklers he was talking to, but it was the majority of the people who attended this meeting who disagreed with his latest decisions to basically join the Democratic party, while keeping an R behind his name (just furthers my belief that they are all on the same team, and use divisive tactics to stay in office)

I believe that the people in that meeting had a right to voice their disappointment of their elected official.  At least, that is what the constitution says.

They transplanted cancerous lungs into a man that died from it

www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/12/soldier.lung.cancer .transplant/index.html

you guys still want socialized medicine?  sub par care run by a government that pays thousands of dollars for a toilet seat?

one more reason why i dont want a public option

killcarb.org/costofregulation.html

stemming from the following study

www.sba.ca.gov/Cost%20of%20Regulation%20Study%20- %20Final.pdf

the conclusion is that it cost California a total of almost 500 BILLION  dollars to implement CARB's agenda, and to also clean up its messes, like the MTBE scandal of the 1990's

Yearly, the cost is pinned at almost 180 BILLION dollars for the state to carry CARB's agenda out.  Mind you, CARB has no real scientists backing up their claims of pollution, diseases caused by pollution, deaths, etc. 

If they were real scientists, they would allow thier studies to be peer reviewed, as well as replicated to check for honesty.

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