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I’m pleased to announce that Jason Sperber has joined the bakersfield.com crew as our Community Content Coordinator. Jason is an accomplished blogger in his own right, and is a great addition to our team.
This is the first time we’ve had this kind of position, and...
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PUBLISHED 11-8-2006
Complaints by the usual apologists that Saddam Hussein didn’t get a fair trial or that it was manipulated by the U.S. are ridiculous.
Groups like Amnesty International and the International Center for Transitional Justice, among others, have criticized both the...
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A week before the ECHL season got under way, the top brass from the office came into Bakersfield where a West Coast officiating camp was being held and talked up the “new standards of officiating.”
The new standards are supposed to eliminate much of the “gray” areas and...
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yes, i know that i already asked this a while back a go... but this is a littel different. almost every profile that i see is a person who is part of this web site! yeah, i know.. if you dont like it go away and back to myspace... k i get it... oh, btw theres this really cool...
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I voted at my southwest Bakersfield precinct at about 12:15 p.m., which probably wasn't the brightest idea. I didn't realize, until I pulled into the parking lot, that a lot of people might be using their lunch hour to vote. But it was a snap. I walked right in, got my little card and found a...
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Forget about the election, the balance of power, global warming and world conflicts — Britney Spears has just filed for divorce from Kevin Federline.
That marriage lasted two years and one month, a virtual lifetime longer than her 55-hour first marriage to Jason Alexander before it...
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While Bakersfield.com is THE place for local election info, there are a lot of other great sites out there for national election info.
• Fox News has a pretty decent site with a simple scorecard and cool mouse-over map.
• The Wall Street Journal also has a cool Flash presentation...
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Welcome to Blogging Bako: Life on the Bakersfield.com Blogs and Beyond. As Community Content Coordinator here at B.com, this is where I’ll do everything from asking for your ideas or help on, say, product usability issues or new features, to addressing technical (and non-technical)...
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Web editor Davin McHenry here, checking in before Bob Price comes in for the day. Our news editor had an interesting encounter after voting that she recounts here:
"As I left the polls at East Hills Mall shortly before noon, the poll worker asked, “Any problems voting?”
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To amuse yourselves later, you can go to this site and print out a Bingo card that contains 25 of the Repubes running for national office. Be the first on your block to cross off five and you get to yell BINGO! Or, if you play online later tonite here, I will offer a toaster to the winner.
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How They Stole The Mid-Term Election
by Greg Palast
for The Guardian (UK)
Monday November 6, 2006
Here’s how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen.
Note the past tense. And I’m not kidding.
And shoot me for saying this, but it won’t be stolen by jerking with the...
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today! november 7
like many on here, i'm just posting to remind everyone to go vote!
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Poll workers are off to a bad start in several Eastern and Midwestern states.
Has anybody noticed any problems in Kern County?
From Yahoo.com:
Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts early Tuesday,...
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I'll start posting on a regular basis this afternoon about 3 p.m.
In the meantime I'll be drinking coffee and reading the newspaper. I've got enough coffee but I think I'll need more newspaper.
Says here a lot of people suspect the Bush administration of somehow manipulating gasoline price...
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Nick Belardes has a blog about all sorts of local things.
He did an interview with me and posted some of my pictures with it.
Here is the link http://www.nlbelardes.com/b...
if you want to take a peek. Don't be shy about commenting on my...
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It's hard to believe that just a couple of years ago, Saddam was captured, compliments of the U.S. of A. That was quite a a Christmas gift in '04, and just before the election. Now, it's two years later. It's almost Christmas again, and it's election time. And, just before...
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As America heads to the polls, many are fueled by anger and disillusion. Many who were once proud of the Red, White and Blue now hang their head in shame and/or clench their fists in anger?
Will our level of patriotism ever rise to the level immediately following 9/11? It is...
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Okay, happy bloggers, time to get out and vote.
This blog is to find out if anything weird is going on out there. Last election, the whole place went nuts with voting machines that didn't work.
This is just a place to let us know your experiences in being a good American.
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I know some folks do not get HBO, but would like to see this show. Youtube has it up in sections:
Part 1:
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There is also a technical paper on the subject from Princeton University, but the link isn't...
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As I’ve chatted with economists, analysts and real estate insiders about the housing market in recent weeks, the discussions have often turned to buyer psychology.
The idea is this: Buyers are holding back out of fear that house prices will decline. The argument goes that at least a part...
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Here is a great set of "talking points" from Bill Maher's show this weekend. For those of you who say that the "bash Bush" crowd don't bash Democrats equally, take notice. Bill Maher has put all Democrats on notice that their petty whining and infighting has got to stop. Their...
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Patrick Henry: “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom...
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Iraqi High Tribunal officials said Sunday following the handing down of death sentences to Saddam Hussein and two others in the Dujail crimes against humanity case that they would file complaints against several defense lawyers for alleged misconduct. Chief prosecutor Jaafar Moussawai told a news...
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While some landlords only raise rent between tenants, some property managment groups keep tabs on rent trends and reserve the right to hike rent mid-lease. How much is too much? It's a matter of weighing the increased cost against the hassle of finding and moving to a new address.
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I checked my voicemail this morning at work and lo and behold, Bill and Hillary Clinton both called me, as well as Dianne Feinstein and several other high-profile politicians. Who knew I was so well-connected? (I guess you can tell my political leaning ...)
Actually, I was more annoyed than...
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A Florida business has been set up to call in sick on your behalf.
You actually make the recording yourself, and the service calls it in for you on the day and time you designate.
In murder cases, prosecutors call that premeditation.
You can find this at call-in-sick.com.
I don't know...
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Just wondering what you all think of the video clips on bakersfield.com.
Are they helpful in telling the news?
Do you view them often?
Is the trouble of putting this technology up worth the results?
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Saddam Hussein was convicted of executing 148 people in 1982, for which a court ruled Sunday that he should be executed by hanging.
Associated press reported ecstasy swept Iraq’s Shiite and Kurdish regions Sunday after Saddam Hussein was sentenced to hang, while in the Sunni heartland...
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The first inclination when a nationally prominent Evangelical falls from grace in a sex scandal is to laugh.
Preachers who don't do what they preach is always good for a chuckle.
Ted Haggard himself admitted he was "a deceiver and a liar."
Haggard was forced last week to resign...
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I am belatedly trying to grasp the situation in the 22nd Congressional District in the aftermath of longtime Congressman Bill Thomas's imminent retirement from his 28-year Republican hold on the distrtict.
I live in Paso Robles, am relatively familiar with Bakersfield but not so much with...
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My blog buddy Peter lives in NYC. He recently lost his uncle, Marine Captain Robert Secher in Iraq. It has hit him very hard. If you would like to read what Peter has written about his uncle,here is the link to his latest post about him. Newsweek has written an article about Robert, and I want to...
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From the L.A Times:
Monday, September 18, 2006 10:05 AM
1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10 million
people) are working for cash and not paying Taxes. This was because they
are predominantly Illegal Immigrants, working without a Green Card.
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The elephant that is the impending public employee pension crisis flopped into taxpayers' living rooms a few years ago, but is a topic most politicians vigorously avoid around election time.
Bakersfield City Councilman Zack Scrivner must have missed that particular memo because he's making...
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Some years ago, a neighbor asked me to weigh in on a spat he was trying to settle between his son and his son's friend, both about 8 years old.
The son had traded away a baseball card to his friend, a transaction that sent the son spiraling into buyer's remorse a few hours later. The card, he...
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Hello Bakersfield!
My name is Sonja and I'm a student at the University of New Hampshire. I'm studying your fine newspaper to analyze how print has changed with the Internet.
Bakersfield has done some pretty cool interactive stuff with its web site.
I'd love to hear what readers think about...
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Q: Do you know what they are building beside Home Depot across from Walgreens on Gosford Road?
— Armando Domingo
A: The empty lot south of the railroad tracks on Pacheco Road used to be a nursery, according to Jim Eggert, principal planner with the city of Bakersfield.
Grading work...
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Q: I live in the South San Lauren development off of Fruitvale Avenue and Hageman Road. There has been construction work going on along the canal behind our development with huge piping that looks like sewer lines. However, we have sewer in this and surrounding developments.
Can you tell us...
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As promised, here's a guide full of tips on how to eat healthy if you have diabetes or if you just want to straighten out your diet.
Do you have any tips to add to this? Anything you do at home that you think other people could benefit from?
The Diabetic Chef
Right foods keep diabetics,...
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Yesterday, my hubby and I went shopping. I really love that about him. He'll shop till I drop. He can always find something that interests him while I'm looking for something specific. And he takes an interest in what I'm trying to find. Our quest took us out of the...
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First, lets revisit a remark from "The Donald": Rumsfeld told Steve Kroft of CBS Radio in November 2002. "It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil."
Now, lets see what the Shrub had to say on the campaign trail this week..from a WaPo article today:
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I don't get it! Maybe we're small potatoes.
Today's Californian (Sunday) features a front page article about "Choosing Sides" with a subtitle about Kern school boards - plural. What follows is a restatement of what anyone who actually follows local politics already...
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I have been blogging for almost two years on the mecca of bubble sites thehousingbubbleblog.com, a few months ago I started my own. I receive about 2,000 visitors per month. I hope we can have discussions on the Californians blog as this is an important issue facing our town and many others...
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Gas will be close to $2.20 a gallon by Election Day. This will have nothing to do with elections. It will be due to complex economic phenomenon that frankly -- democrats are just too stupid to understand. After the elections, gas will go to over $4.00 a gallon but this will be...
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Those who ask someone why they don’t attend church and meet with the criticism “There are too many hypocrites” should never reply, “There’s always room for one more.” With many years of experience in the churches hypocrisy comes as no surprise to me. Ted...
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High School
Bakersfield.com > Today's Paper > Sports > High School
West rolls to title
Ryan Mathews gets a hug and kiss from his grandmother Beverly McGowan after West High won the Southwest Yosemite League title with a 35-14 victory over Centennial. Mathews rushed for 372 yards...
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Mike Trout
James Dobson's co-host of 15 years cites personal reasons for abrupt departure.
By Mark A. Kellner | posted 10/01/2000 12:00AM
Mike Trout, for 15 years co-host of "Focus on the Family" with Dr. James Dobson, abruptly resigned from his position as senior vice president of...
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Marine Corps Times on Monday
calling for Rumsfeld to go
Rumsfeld has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with the public at large. His strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our...
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What's really at stake this November? For about 13 percent of Americans -- the 13 percent that President Bush caters heavily to -- the stake is the intentional destruction of Constitutional liberty in the United States. The 13 percent that, in the form of James Dobson...
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