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As this exclusive article in the Independant states, the Iraqi government, along with their "friends" in the Bush administration, are planning on allowing Oil companies to profit from their oil reserves: "Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be...
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Okay folks.. here is my latest drawing I thought I had better share. There were several since my last posting but those were commissioned and I don't always show those without the owners permission. However yo can go to my website and check them out there.
Some pathetic news.... I broke my...
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In order for Bush to attempt to gather public support for his increase of troops in Iraq, he has begun his tour of military bases, as of yesterday. Stopping at Fort Benning GA, the small assembly of soldiers gave him a polite but far from rousing welcome. As this article in WaPo states, the...
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Shrider Extinct, TK declares.
Yes it is true. Gone the way of the Norwegian Blue..
Thanks to the total failure of the Bush regime and his Neo Con puppet handlers.
Shrider, Rush, Hannity, O’Reilly and the rest of the political parrots are done. Gone belly up..
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No one was sitting on their butts tonight watching sit-coms. It was cold but we all gathered together tonight to speak as one voice against the escalation of the War in Iraq. We rallied together in front of a military recruitment location here in town. You can click here to view the video of it....
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Of all the red herrings in the world, the biggest one is saying that the Iraq War is part of the War on Terrorism. The War on Terrorism is the war in Afganistan, finding Osama Bin Laden and bringing him to justice. Iraq is in Civil War, and we don't need to spend $400 Billion to bring...
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Brooke Burke and David Charvet, who are married and have very nice names, welcomed their first child and named her Heaven Rain.
They said they chose the name because "rain grows everything."
A blog poster offered this alternative, "they should have named her Heaven Brain...
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off the new year by flexing the muscles he's famous for, proposing to save millions in the state budget by terminating welfare benefits for families when parents won't work.
The proposal, crafted by someone who's serious about welfare reform, also will cut...
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PUBLISHED 1-12-2007
California’s bigger-than-life, action-packed governor thinks big. And that’s what he is doing in his agenda for 2007, which he laid out in his State of the State address. He is calling for another $43 billion in borrowing to pay for prisons, classrooms and dams....
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FINALLY!
My brother-in-law's band, Lost Ocean, is finally getting the media coverage it deserves!
Since most of you folks are older, you probably won't care as much for their band as your kids will; the music's probably meant more for younger people. But I've been waiting a long time for...
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Anyone want to make a prediction on the snow?
Will it happen? When will it happen? How deep will it be? How long will Bakersfield talk about it after it happens?
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What a disappointment. The first episode of "Armed and Famous" aired on CBS last night. Apparently the show is more about them being on the streets than going through the academy. They were graduating 30 minutes into the thing!
Plus, they really abbreviated the academy. Maybe it's a...
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When Gov. Schwarzenegger says everyone must have health coverage, he means everyone — illegal immigrants included.
And if you can't afford it, you will be enrolled in one of the existing government-funded programs (Medi-Cal or Healthy Families) or will get coverage through the pool of...
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Looking for some new decor for your home? Here are the places you can get up to 75% off!
Decorate with some of your Disney Favorites! Check out the Home Sweet Sale for up to 75% off! Go to http://www.disney.com and get free shipping with $80 or more purchase. Use shipping code: Ship80
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While I am not overjoyed at the speech and choices our president has made ,I am sure that is being covered hot and heavy in other spaces here. In case anyone has not read or seen the Lord of the Rings,leaders of men sold themselves to Evil,becoming slaves to it and the...
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Many times I have written about the WWII era within the context of “you had to be there.” It is understandable that young people would watch the Hollywood films of the 30s and 40s, even the 50s and think America could never have been a nation like that portrayed in these old films....
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David Beckham, one of the most recognizable soccer players in the world (they even made a movie about him titled, "Bend It Like Beckham," is leaving Europe to join the LA Galaxy.
The Galaxy, for the uninitiated, is a professional soccer team. He signed a $250 million, five-year...
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Check out Godiva's Chocolate-Covered Sale!
The sale continues at Godiva.com, now with even more sweet chocolate treats at special prices. Save up to 50%* on select items through January 19th, or while supplies last. Here are our featured sale items. Treat your loved ones, or yourself,to an...
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So, I'm 22 years old. And for the first time in my life, without someone watching over my shoulder and controlling every move I make, I made dinner all by myself. Ever since I burned popcorn, by accident, my friends and family stopped having faith that one day I would be a...
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PUBLISHED 1-11-2007
The vow to “stay the course” is now “change the course” — slightly. In an address to the nation Wednesday night, President Bush unveiled his plan to “surge” troop strength in Iraq and step up economic aid to the wartorn nation.
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PUBLISHED 1-11-2007
Advanced Placement classes are falling short of College Board requirements. For the first time, and rightfully so, AP courses will be audited to determine if the label is being too loosely used to describe courses.
Suspicions about “fake AP” courses have...
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It looks like the President has already begun to implement his New Way Forward, which looks remarkably like the old way. Since we've had a surge in troop levels 5 times already, I'm not sure what this one hopes to accomplish. But the more important aspect was that everyone had decided...
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We may get some snow this weekend in Bakersfield.
Since I've been here (28 years), it has snowed five times. Three were very light, one stuck to the ground and on Jan. 25, 1999 there was a bunch. Three to six inches.
But some interesting things happened before we set out to do work. An...
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woman and Men A fellow blogger sent me a essay of his on the nature of men and women,very nice bit of prose, and I was initially going to toss off a rebuttal. He state how restricted women are in just moving about in life,this struck me as,while perhaps a...
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Post whatever you want. Here's what I'm looking at today:
State weighs cutting "idiot" from constitution
PHILADELPHIA, Jan 8 (Reuters Life!) - New Jersey is to consider cutting the word 'idiot' from its constitution so that people with some mental disabilities won't be barred...
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Electricity is the heart of modern life. While you can’t have a city without plumbing, our modern way of life is truly enabled by electricity. Everything you do it touched by it and a century after it began to make its way into our lives, we still haven’t figured out...
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Peace will come.
The fighting will only have begun when American Troops leave Iraq. The only question is how many of our troopers will die before we leave. And the name of the last American trooper that will die.
Peace will come. Whether it be at the hands of a dictator or a president.
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Employers beware..
If the product that you produce. Can not bare the cost of a minimum wage.
Then the product your company produces. Is of minimal, if any importance..
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The much-traveled Alex Kim arrived in Bakersfield on Tuesday and will make his Condors debut against the Utah Grizzlies on Wednesday. Kim is an offensive talent who has a rap of being a "me" guy who doesn't get along well with others. He has the ability to excel, as he did in San Diego...
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My second post on this blog, “Community Rules,” and my last post before the end of the year, “All in Moderation?” were about a subject that, when I bring it up, makes a lot of the regulars around here moan and groan (or worse). But, as the saying goes, the more...
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I can't believe that there is not more outrage at this mans actions. They are beyond criminal. For the full report click Here
I wonder what he was really up to and for who? I guess we'll never know. There should be quite a few people in the unemployement line over this.
Press...
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PUBLISHED 1-10-07
Donny Youngblood, Kern County’s new sheriff, was sworn in Monday with a great show. Now it’s showtime.
After perhaps the shortest honeymoon a local politician has enjoyed, Youngblood finds himself and his department under the gun.
Kern County supervisors...
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PUBLISHED 1-10-07
Lawmakers can easily break taxpayers’ trust, depending on how they choose to spend billions of dollars in bonds approved on the November ballot.
The $40 billion bond package approved by voters is to be spent on programs that don’t yet exist.
The money has no...
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Reporter Meredith Moss of Cox News Service has suggested that a New Year's resolution you might want to consider is to say no to people who drag you down.
She calls it emotional detoxification.
The concept comes from a book by Susan Newman who authored, "The Book of No, 250 ways to...
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The governor laid out his comprehensive plan to improve health care in the state yesterday. Here are some of the highlights:
All Californians will be required to have health insurance.
Insurers must guarantee coverage.
Access to public programs, like Medi-Cal and Healthy...
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed some very dramatic changes to the state's health insurance industry.
He wants employers with 10 workers or more to buy insurance for their workers or put money in a program to help the uninsured; he would tax doctors 2 percent of their...
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“It is a mistake to suppose that, in a country where the usual evidences of civilization exist, the condition of a very large body of the inhabitants may not be as degraded as that of savages.” Thoreau may as well have been writing for the present conditions in America as he was about...
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Shrider needs to read the history of the minimum wage..
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original proposals for the FLSA provided for a commission that would set the minimum wage after a public hearing and consideration of cost-of-living”
From:
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Is Bakersfield's housing market a bubble? If so, will the bubble burst?
Some national experts say it is inevitable that Bakersfield will have one of the worst housing markets in the nation in 2007 after the local market was one of the hottest in the nation in recent years, propped up by...
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A Pentagon official has confirmed that the United States launched air strikes in the west African nation of Somalia.
The purpose of the Monday bombing was to try to kill three "high level" al-Qaida operatives believed responsible for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya...
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I am sure that unlike the recent FBI report on Gitmo however, no one was chained in the fetal position for 18-24 hours, but a Detroit "terrorist" can now sue the county that jailed him. The Federal Judge upheld three other counts, including Koubriti's claim that he was "repeatedly...
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Larry Hood will be on Dirt Racin Station this coming week. He will be just getting back from Imperial Valley Speedway in El Centro Ca. Larry started his career at a very young age and has continued to progress up through the ranks until last year when he started driving a Late Model for Chris...
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My name is Matt Ray and I'm a long time resident of Bakersfield. I've been involved on a volunteer basis with a group called Healing Hands for Haiti Foundation since around 1998 and have gone, almost on a yearly basis to help that organization as a translator. I...
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I got an interesting e-mail today from the Convergence Technology Council. I was asked to debate with others about the pros and cons of Net Neutrality. Having debated this topic in these forums before I thought it might be a good idea to bring it up again, especially since CES going on right now,...
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So, I went on an adventure on Friday night with some fellow TBC employees to The Laugh Factory in Hollywood. Anyone who knows me is very aware that I am a huge Dane Cook fan! We left Bakersfield at 5:30 pm, got there by 8:00 pm and waited in line outside for about an hour and a half. It was quite...
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Hey there folks...I am looking into doing some videos about haunted places in Bakersfield. I have done a little research and found some of the key places....such as BHS, Garces Circle, The Padre Hotel, and the Californian itself. It seems the downtown area in general is quite a hotspot. :)...
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I don't know this for a fact, but apparently there are some people who don't watch the Super Bowl.
Or, they may choose after the game is over, to watch only what they want to watch — and that just might be the commercials.
It amazes me that we allow this kind of diversity in America....
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http://www.sacbee.com/103/s...
Bob Shallit: Web site needles our realty bubble
By Bob Shallit - Bee Columnist
Published 12:00 am PST Monday, January 8, 2007
Story appeared in BUSINESS section, Page D2
you doubt there's a frosty trend in the local real estate...
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