|
|
|
BY COURTENAY EDELHART, Californian staff writer
cedelhart@bakersfield.com | Sunday, Nov 15 2009 12:05 AM
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and actress Goldie Hawn will be among the speakers at next year's Bakersfield Business Conference.
The much anticipated one-day...
|
Comments [68] - Views [220]
|
|
|
|
Members of "The Greatest Generation" that sacrificed and suffered through the great depression and World War II probably never imagined that they would live to see the day when the President of the United States could not answer the question, "Was dropping the A-bomb the right...
|
Comments [52] - Views [179]
|
|
|
|
BC wrapped up the outright National Northern Conference title Saturday night with a 24-9 win over Canyons and assured itself of a home game, Saturday's Golden Empire Bowl.
The eight-team Southern California playoff matchups will be announced later today (this is being written Sunday, Nov. 15, at...
|
Comments [2] - Views [375]
|
|
|
|
And why do I say that? Just a hunch, yet in keeping with today's reading from the Gospel of Mark: http://ewtn.com/vbible/sear...
But there's also the raft of heavenly messages that a new book (given an imprimatur by a...
|
Comments [8] - Views [69]
|
|
|
|
Obama and 'The Great I Am'
by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
November 14, 2009
http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6...
PRESIDENT OBAMA was too busy to attend the celebrations in Germany this week marking the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. But he did appear by...
|
Comments [21] - Views [131]
|
|
|
|
If there is a God, one day we will see George Bush spending his remaining days in the Hague.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
|
Comments [6] - Views [90]
|
|
|
|
ALICEN'S WILD RICE DRESSING
1 box Reese's Wild Rice (or any brand you like). This is the real wild rice, not an instant type, or one mixed with long-grain white rice; it's just plain old real wild rice.*
1 pkg. seasoned dressing mix (without sage)
1/2 pkg. hot seasoned bulk sausage...
|
Comments [2] - Views [23]
|
|
|
|
It is official : Ed Jagels is out of the building.
Read all about it on Yahoo
|
Comments [17] - Views [147]
|
|
|
|
Why does the main stream media continue to ignore the Christian problem here in the United States?
According to the FBI, an estimated 1,382,012 violent crimes occurred nationwide in 2008, and the 99% of those crimes were committed by Christians . In fact, Christians in the United States...
|
Comments [14] - Views [121]
|
|
|
|
My oldest sister was in a really bad car accident in Phoenix on Wednesday. She is my new profile pic. She took a hit on the passenger side from a shuttle bus doing 45-50 mph. Shattered right side pelvis, fractured left side, injured vertebrae, internal injuries. Her husband...
|
Comments [9] - Views [115]
|
|
|
|
By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer Audrey Mcavoy, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 18 mins ago
KAILUA, Hawaii – Jenn Boneza remembers when the white sandy beach near the boat ramp in her hometown was wide enough for people to build sand castles....
|
Comments [2] - Views [32]
|
|
|
|
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 14, 2009
On Saturday November 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM Officers of the Bakersfield Police Department responded to the 2200 Block of Planz Road concerning a collision involving a vehicle vs. pedestrian, with major injuries....
|
Comments [9] - Views [1250]
|
|
|
|
Paul Wendkos, the director of “Gidget” has died. Sandra Dee passed away in 2005. According to her son, Sandra Dee was only sixteen when she married Bobby Darin. They were, as her son Dodd pointed out by the title of the book about his mother: “Dream Lovers.” And so it...
|
Comments [5] - Views [44]
|
|
|
|
BAKERSFIELD POLICE
DEPARTMENT
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
November 13, 2009
As a result of the public’s assistance through the media release of surveillance photos,
investigators have identified the woman previously reported to have passed
forged/stolen checks...
|
Comments [0] - Views [1218]
|
|
|
|
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link below.
ALFREDO PALACIOS M BAKERSFIELD CA 93306 H ...
|
Comments [0] - Views [574]
|
|
|
|
I thought closing the courts one day a month to save money was a tremendously bad idea.
Then California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George answered my call and made his case for the decision.
Hmmm. OK, he makes some good arguments. He is, after all, Chief Justice.
But nope, sorry, your...
|
Comments [2] - Views [273]
|
|
|
|
UPDATED, 5:36 p.m.:
Division VI — Quarterfinals: (5) Orange Cove at (4) Farmersville
(6) McFarland at (3) Mendota
BYES: (1) Tranquillity, (2) Strathmore
Off-the-cuff predictions: Semifinals, Tranquillity d. Orange Cove, Strathmore d. Mendota. Final, Tranquillity d....
|
Comments [17] - Views [1409]
|
|
|
|
Awesome video.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
|
Comments [0] - Views [30]
|
|
|
|
Isn’t it just… poetic justice for the 9/11 conspirators to be tried and almost certainly executed in a New York City court?
The minds behind the worst terror attack in US history, tried in one of our most important cities, and executed under our system of laws? Sounds great....
|
Comments [11] - Views [70]
|
|
|
|
This is too good. And also too true.
http://www.npr.org/template...
|
Comments [4] - Views [41]
|
|
|
|
I was wondering what was so important that the president couldn't be in Germany to celebrate the fall of the Berlin wall? But was able to travel on our dime to try and get the Olympics to Chicago. One was for recognition of freedom and oppressive leaders downfall and the other for...
|
Comments [23] - Views [115]
|
|
|
|
Is racial or even religious profiling so wrong?
Would our American freedom defenders be alive if our beloved Govt profiled. I am not talking about a traffic stop or having to take your shoes off at the airport.
I wouldn't hire someone with a terrorist past or ties to extremist in my...
|
Comments [1] - Views [28]
|
|
|
|
Enjoy. They only have two left after today. Here's the schedule.
http://www.gobulldogs.com/s...
|
Comments [20] - Views [53]
|
|
|
|
Andrew Malcom calls this a "Wow Bow".
|
Comments [10] - Views [66]
|
|
|
|
The first marijuana coffee shop (?) opens in Oregon. What's next? Cocaine Happy Houses?
http://www.foxnews.com/stor...
It will be interesting to see just how far Obama "lenient" policy lasts now.
|
Comments [8] - Views [69]
|
|
|
|
I love the way the Baseball Crank puts it.
So, Barack Obama will be staging his own New York production of Chicago, with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as Roxy Hart ("You had it coming, you had it coming, you only have yourselves to blame...." ). We will be treated to months upon months of...
|
Comments [0] - Views [14]
|
|
|
|
How odd that a former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic suddenly is a persona non grata at the Episcopalian church she attends after having a change of heart and becoming pro-life: http://www.lifenews.com/sta...
Perhaps she can go back to the old Baptist church that kicked her out...
|
Comments [5] - Views [41]
|
|
|
|
Old Fart Rants.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
|
Comments [10] - Views [64]
|
|
|
|
Fox News tells us the “new” Republican party will save us from the “socialist” excesses of the Obama administration and the Democrats. Republicans are re-thinking their political strategy, we are assured, and embracing constitutional principles. Sarah Palin, the former...
|
Comments [14] - Views [82]
|
|
|
|
A 14-year-old Taft girl was struck and killed Tuesday evening by a hit-and-run driver as she was crossing a street in downtown Taft, police said.
MIchelle Ramirez was in a cross walk at 5:53 p.m. at 2nd and Kern streets where she was hit by a Jeep Cherokee, police said.
A Kern County...
|
Comments [12] - Views [726]
|
|
|
|
Chee, and all Lou did was ask for the undocumented president to shut the "Birthers" up by proving that he is an American citizen as Lou believed he was. Instead, the Obazombies went bananas: http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...
Somebody should have warned Rep....
|
Comments [11] - Views [85]
|
|
|
|
Shafter’s Golden Oak Elementary School on Thursday received $5,000 for physical fitness equipment and $1,000 for school supplies for winning the 2009 Governor’s Challenge, central valley region.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger launched the competition in 2005...
|
Comments [0] - Views [138]
|
|
|
|
University-bred political correctness has all but emasculated America as a cohesive force for any good purpose or end. “I have never seen our government, the military, the media, and those enlightened ones on the Left work so hard to avoid even intoning the words ‘Muslim,...
|
Comments [7] - Views [69]
|
|
|
|
this is a story about a woman who knew this animal and the owner for years until that fateful eve.. The chimp was raised in her friends home and treated like a member of the family. He was in tv commercials when he was younger and loved through out the community.
No one knows why he...
|
Comments [9] - Views [151]
|
|
|
|
Dark is the symbolic color of mystery; its realm is in the shadowed ramparts and recesses where the light of discovery has yet to shine. This is no less true in cosmology, where unknown forces and factors often attract the adjective "dark."
"Dark matter," for...
|
Comments [13] - Views [68]
|
|
|
|
Q: What is the status with the old Bakers Square on Ming Avenue? The Bob's Big Boy coming soon sign has been up for a while with no construction happening.
- Chris Laramy
Q: What is the status of the Bob's Big Boy that's "coming soon" to the former Bakers Square building on Ming...
|
Comments [2] - Views [1291]
|
|
|
|
Recent Arrests and Court Activity
On 11-6-09, a RCIU Detective arrested Jeffrey Michael Reynolds, of Bakersfield, for possession of stolen property and conspiracy. A stolen John Deere loader valued at $65,000 was located at his Oildale home. It had been stolen from a construction...
|
Comments [3] - Views [955]
|
|
|
|
Yesterday we learned that a woman diagnosed with cancer has a 21% chance of being abandoned by her husband while men diagnosed with cancer have 3% chance of being abandoned by their wives. Today there's this stat in the NYT this morning...
Nationally, about a third of female...
|
Comments [9] - Views [70]
|
|
|
|
Hat tip to the American Papist for the revelation that the new New Jersey and Virginia governors are strong Catholics. I had known that Christie was one, but had no idea that McDonnell is likewise. That makes the recent elections that much more sweeter. Looks like the tide is indeed turning....
|
Comments [2] - Views [21]
|
|
|
|
Wonder what our good Greek Orthodox fellow blogger Wayfarer/Sojourner, who has been absent since the end of July (hope he's OK), would have had to say about this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/...
Isn't it splendid that secularism and relativism have been the great unifying...
|
Comments [1] - Views [21]
|
|
|
|
Thanks to blogger Dad29 for bringing my attention to a well-crafted essay by a Harvard college and law school grad who doesn't share a whole lot of Sarah Palin's values but sees her as being a more qualified candidate than any of the others that both sides have put forth in recent years:
Sarah...
|
Comments [36] - Views [117]
|
|
|
|
Certainly most of you have heard about the disasterous interview former Miss California Carrie Prejean had on Larry King Live a couple of nights ago to plug her book Still Standing. She repeatedly said that King was being "inappropriate." King was befuddled, insisting that...
|
Comments [10] - Views [78]
|
|
|
|
November 13, 2009
11:08 AM
Subject: Message from 'G111'
Message Well I have to say I'm not a big fan of arguing over little comments so I made a profile just for you . I'm a friend of that boy who died from the incident at virgina park and I see you have a lot to say and so do I . I think...
|
Comments [20] - Views [146]
|
|
|
|
Cal State Bakersfield President Horace Mitchell will reveal in about a month which programs and departments will be cut to meet a $8.3 million budget reduction next year.
I spoke briefly with Mitchell Friday morning as I toured the campus with university spokeswoman...
|
Comments [3] - Views [413]
|
|
|
|
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...
|
Comments [1] - Views [14]
|
|
|
|
On Saturday, November 14, 2009, the Bakersfield Police Department Traffic
Enforcement Detail will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License Checkpoint in the
greater Bakersfield area.
This DUI/Drivers License checkpoint enforcement event is in an effort to reduce
the number of persons injured...
|
Comments [9] - Views [804]
|
|
|
|
The Bakersfield Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying
multiple suspects wanted for passing stolen checks and utilizing a stolen credit card.
On 10-18-09, the victim's vehicle was burglarized in the 300 block of Panorama Drive.
The victim's purse...
|
Comments [6] - Views [477]
|
|
|
|
Friday the 13th: Your Luck Is About to Change
Live Science Staff
If Friday the 13th is unlucky, then 2009 has been an unusually unlucky year. But your luck is about to change. Today is the last of three Friday the 13ths you'll have to endure this year.
The other two were...
|
Comments [13] - Views [56]
|
|
|
|
On 11/12/09, the Bakersfield Police Department arrested two men for the murder
of Jerry Luther Ennis which took place on 11/2/09 in the 3600 block of K Street.
Investigators linked Francisco Aguilar, 25 and Robert Alvarez, 31 to the murder
on the day it occurred and arrested them both for...
|
Comments [7] - Views [972]
|
|
|
|
On November 12th, 2009 at about 4:15 P.M. the Kern County Sheriff’s Office received a report that two off road motorists had become stranded in the Sequoia Ridge area of the Los Padres National Forest near Frazier Park.
The two motorists, David Burr and Luke Kalarickal both 34...
|
Comments [0] - Views [289]
|
|
|
