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PUBLISHED 12-26-2006
What a relief! We have been saved from the evil “winter break” title. Kern High School Trustees Chad Vegas and Ken Mettler have ridden to the rescue on their white horses.
Christmas Break! they proclaimed. That’s what it is and that’s what it...
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It's been pretty cool that since we've started, my co-host's blog has been a regular on the Podbean.com top 100 list. We funnel the I-Tunes subscriptions through his Dirt Racin' Station blog. We're also usually on the top 10 list for the day on Mondays after we archive our Sunday night...
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Today I rode with Kuya Gilo, a neighbor, to town. We had an interesting conversation. When I told him the family is moving to California he got excited and congratulated us. Like most of our friends and acquaintances who know of our plan to migrate, he was very supportive. ...
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For over 4 ½ years I have spoke out against invading Iraq. I Have accused the Bush administration, at the very least, of holding back from the American public. TRUTHS..
Everyday that went by. Validated my statements. Yet I was accused of name calling. Invalidating the...
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Californian columnist Herb Benham has written a piece about a movement called GodMen which is aimed at portraying Jesus Christ in a more manly way.
The movement is championed by Brad Stine, a conservative comedian, who notes 60 percent of the people in church are women.
He attributes a...
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So, you waited until the very end to find a gift. You will end up wading through thousands of people in the next few days if you go shopping.
Here are some easy up to the minute ideas if you don't want to brave the crowds.
Get lottery tickets!
Go to the grocery store and...
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Let me be the first to say this — how silly it is that you approved Christmas and Easter breaks to replace winter and spring breaks.
It's a public high school district you run, not a religious one.
You will find me in church on Christmas and Easter as well as most Sundays.
But you...
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If you were out and about Saturday night you may have noticed an increased police presence around town.
If you were out drinking and driving you may even have had a personal encounter with a couple of Bakersfield's finest, after which you were treated to a ride downtown.
If you were driving...
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PUBLISHED 12-22-06
The holidays can be a scary time for motorists. At least it can be for the sober ones.
Children are left without parents and people lose family members in alcohol-related accidents.
Last year, at least two families were involved in fatal accidents during...
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The various interpretations and presentations of “A Christmas Carol” are something many of us look forward to during the Christmas season. But Dickens was castigated by some church leaders of the time for his emphasis on the goodness of the human spirit rather than on the birth of...
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This is the new Bakersfield.com wedding blog. It will cover anything and everything wedding related. We will start out with this question:
Is it ok to ask guests not to bring their kids to the wedding?
If your family is anything like mine, we have at least 20-30 kids at any given...
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A New York Times story says Americans are messy people.
Well, welcome to my desk top.
The story says Americans buy billions of dollars worth of organizing things each year to help them cope with their mess and January is Get Organized Month.
That would imply mess is bad and you should...
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Plans to develop an 11,000-acre off-highway motor vehicle park near Round Mountain Road north of Bakersfield have been scrapped.
Daphne Green, deputy director of the state's Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division said there were too many problems with the site and so she ended the plans...
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What do you guys think? Was it a "mistake" as he claims, or were the reasons more naferious than he claims? Do the potential penelties fit the crime, or is he getting off easy? Remeber he was the National Security Advisor for our country. I personaly find this whole affair...
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How lucky is this guy? Have any of you ever leaped out of a perfectly good airplane before, or had an inclination to do so?
I would say this guy recieved an early Christmas present. And the folks at the end of the article, seems luck was also on their side...............
I'm...
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Another person posted a blog on this topic, but no one can get to it because he kept his profile private.
So I'm posting it.
The fine print on the card says the $10,000 cost of the cards was paid for by the Keep Kern Clean Committee, which was set up by Sen. Dean Florez to fight sludge...
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He took monies, donated by The People, meant for fighting sludge in our home area, and bought Christmas cards with it. What does that say about him? Really Mr. Florez, we do not need any more sludge in this area then we already have!
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Cal State Fullerton came from behind to beat San Francisco on Monday 72-69. Can the Titans make it two in a row? With the way Cal State Bakersfield has been playing, there's a good chance the Roadrunners will lead by double-digits at some point.
The Titans don't have the size that San...
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I had this great idea.........and yes, I am truly a procrastinator. I am pretty sure I saw somewhere doing personalized ornaments! Does anyone know where?
Kari
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I'm in Colorado for Christmas this year. And in case you haven't seen the news, there's a major blizzard underway. We're getting 2 feet of snow up here! I've uploaded a few photos.
Maybe some other holiday traveler can share some more soothing pics. Anyone in Fiji by chance? That would be a...
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Still not working for me... posting comments back.. Keep posting though, I'll get back to ya'll as soon as I have the Time..
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While the loss of my sons colors everything, I did want to honor the season with a acknowledgement of my blessings.
My first son taught me that what I thought previously, that I would teach him (which I did ), in truth he would also teach to me. I was struck at how like a mirror he was for me....
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In today's story KHSD trustees Chad Vegas and Ken Mettler say they think the district should change the names of winter and spring breaks to Christmas and Easter breaks.
"We're just trying to uphold American cultural and religious history," said Vegas, who is also pastor and founder...
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It's that time again -- National Goofing Off at Work Hour. So here's my contribution. This little Flash-based game called Line Rider lets you draw a sledding hill for a little penguin-ike man. After you draw it, click Play and off he goes! You can waste minutes of valuable work time making tracks...
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Those of us who recall Christmas during WWII know that metal toys were scarce due to the war. In fact, many of us children at the time contributed our metal toys for scrap drives. Naturally I don’t know what girls were looking forward to, but one of the first things boys were looking for...
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Today is "Peace and Goodwill Reader Comments Day" on sj-r.com, the website of the Springfield, Illinois State Journal-Register. In order to break through the tedious negativity that dominates the Reader Comment boards found beneath its online articles, sj-r.com is invoking...
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What's the worst gift you've ever given or received? Socks from grandma? Breath mints from a co-worker as a not-so-subtle tip? Did you give your wife a vacuum cleaner for your anniversary?
As a kid, I gave my aunt and uncle a tiny ugly ceramic squirrel for Christmas one...
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If you're a fan of local racing or even local history, you must listen to the weekly podcast Billy Simkins and Lee Jensen have started on their Dirt Racin' Station. They're also streaming their shows on bakersfield.com (thanks, guys!).
Of particular note is Sunday's interview with Spud...
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Report: Central Valley leads nation in foreclosure risks
DURHAM, N.C. December 20, 2006 6:08am
• Merced ranked most risky
• Nationally, 2.2 Million borrowers face foreclosure on subprime loans
Holders of so-called “subprime” mortgages are in danger of losing their...
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PUBLISHED 12-21-2006
Kern County District Attorney Ed Jagels is justified in his criticism of a light sentence given to a child molester by Superior Court Judge Richard Oberholzer.
Jose Richard Leiva, 23, was sentenced to three years in jail following his conviction for having sex three...
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.............................................Well, if you haven't guessed by now, it's a freshly broken heart? How many of you have suffered one of these just before the holiday season? How many of you have had to take back a cornucopia of gifts because the one you bought them for...
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With Cal State Bakersfield making the jump to Division I, it seems only natural that the 'Runners eventually start playing Fresno State.
It would make sense, considering it could turn into an interesting rivalry between two Central Valley schools. With that in mind, I made the drive to Fresno...
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Might as well have been Godot.
4am Sunday morning 36 degrees I got in line at Target...about #25 in place - not bad! By 7am there were over 100 waiting.
Then someone came out of the store only to tell everyone they only got 15 of them in.
LOSER
I think I got sinusitis from the...
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I tell you what! Keeping up on all this stuff is tougher than I thought it would be. After our Sunday night shows Billy and I are generally up until 1 or 2 in the morning. Most times the show is done with us each in our own homes, and our wives trying to keep the kids quiet while we get our show...
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We have Chris Kearns coming on the show Christmas Eve. This show will be a pre-recorded show, so we won't be taking any calls. Chris is the promoter of the Western All Stars late model tour, and has the best travelling dirt late model series on the west coast, period. We'll ask him abut his...
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I have a proposal in regard to the recent debate about a new Bakersfield logo. I, for one, do not object to the infamous "squiggle." BUT I really have difficulty using an obvious knock off of Lending Tree's logo, especially with the "Life as it Should Be" tag...
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"Balboa," which debuts in theaters tomorrow, is the sixth movie in a series that began with 1976's "Rocky." Stallone famously raised about $1 million to make that low-budget film based on a screenplay he wrote and would not sell to Hollywood's studios unless he was the star....
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What are the county supervisors thinking?
Oak Street turns to Wible Rd., Coffee Rd. to Gosford Rd., Brundage Ln. to Stockdale Highway, Decatur turns into Olive Dr then turns into Kratzemeyer Rd., or my personal favorite, Haley turns into MLK Jr. Blvd which turns into Cottonwood Road, and...
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JerSooz says ... We would like to extend Our warmest Thanks to the people of Bakersfield ... Yes thats to all the Good Men Ladies Kids and Teenagers too of Our New Found Town ... Hard to believe this will be our 2nd Christmas here and the unbelievable events we have seen ... The Toys for Tots was...
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PUBLISHED 12-20-2006
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is pursuing exactly the right course to save the state’s death penalty in reaction to a critical federal court ruling.
Avoiding the usual overheated rhetoric that normally follows adverse legal opinions on capital punishment,...
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PUBLISHED 12-20-2006
Parents should be first in line to discipline children. But too often teachers are the ones who have to discipline students. That’s not the way it should be.
A recent duct tape incident at Bakersfield High School left a student upset and others shocked.
Carol...
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The frosty mornings, silvered surfaces shimmering from the sun
Cold air into my lungs, memories unbidden come back of you
At a time, when hockey and condors faced extinction, way past
Your days of childhood, when still you believed enough in the
magic of this world, not yet resigned to dull...
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I almost dropped my teeth. A couple of days after my wifes son and young family came down from Washington for Christmas something was said about President Bush. Their 9 year old son said, "He lied." I said, "What? Who lied?" He said,...
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Lately, I've been hitting the gyms more than normal as a group of us at the Californian finish our first-ever gym review (look for it to come out in the Eye Street section around New Year's).
Now I'm trying to keep the momentum going, which, you can imagine, is a hard task considering the...
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There are few things more abhorrent to news reporters than baseless libel lawsuits aimed at stifling news.
It's even worse when the libel lawsuit is filed by a publisher against a reporter.
That's what the publishers of the Santa Barbara News-Press are accused of doing in filing a...
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Apparently you can't be a last minute shopper for Christmas trees in Bakersfield.
They've virtually vanished from the lots and stores.
Have you bought yours yet? Where did you go? Do you have any tips for last-minute tree buying?
Will you break down an buy a fake tree?
Posted by Steve...
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Ah, the mystery of the toilet. Push a button, press a lever, pull a chain and your waste magically disappears. In this age of computers and plastics, the toilet is a dinosaur of modern invention, essentially unchanged in a hundred years. Despite this, most people have a lack of...
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We are now a two bike family, I just got my first motorcycle, a Suzuki SV650. It needs a little work and I still need to take the MSF course in January to be able to really ride it, but it's mine and I look forward to many hours of joyful riding in my future. I'll post a...
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Since I am a writer and author and write for some “mega sites” as well as local I’m familiar with the gargantuan task webmasters have trying to deal with hackers, worms and viruses of many kinds, and just plain old fashioned courtesy. But we read and hear from many sources good...
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I wouldn't say any of this to the faces of these football and basketball players. They are too big and they've shown by their actions that they would beat me up or spit in my face.
But Terrell Owens, receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, and seven NBA players on the New York Knicks and Denver...
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