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Not long ago I responded to an ad on Craig's List where a director was looking for an artist to help with his next movie. And will if you don't know me yet ... let you tell you ... I jumped at the chance just to see what this was. Turns out he is putting together an independent movie and needed...
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A few days before St. Patrick's Day
I haven't entered a word in my diary for days---perhaps weeks. I'm beginning to lose track of time. The reason it has taken me so long to put forth an entry is because I've been forgetting when I put my diary, and I've very bad days when my...
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Leavin' on a JetplaneJohn DenverAll my bags are packed I'm ready to go I'm standing here outside your door I hate to wake you up to say goodbye But the dawn is breaking, it's early morn' the taxi 's waiting, his blowing his horn, Already I'm so lonesome I could die chorus: So kiss me and smile...
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OK..someone had to start a blog on the get together.
Personally I had a great time. I didn't get to visit as much as I'd like with a couple of the bloggers but overall it was really nice to put faces to names.
I want to thank the Californian staff for putting this together and giving us...
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Today's meetup of bakersfield.com bloggers and contributors was a lot of fun.
We had about a dozen bloggers show up for coffee, cookies, conversation, and some bakersfield.com swag. And it was great to see TomW, who was visiting from the Bay area.
It was great to meet some of...
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Q: When is the Akers railroad crossing at Pacheco going to be completed? It appears to be about 99 percent finished, but nothing seems to be happening there any more. Traffic cones indicate that it is not yet completed.
-- Mark Gardner
A: The crossing should be finished by the end of the...
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(More notes from the Association of Health Care Journalists national conference near Los Angeles.)
If it can be done in California, it can be done anywhere.
When it comes to guaranteeing health coverage for all residents, that’s the stance being taken by the federal government on...
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As I was driving home today from our Bakersfield.com blogger event, I saw a couple at the side of the road with their hood up having car trouble. I few cars ahead, I see some guy with a Bakersfield.com bumper sticker on his truck pull over. It was Tom that had stopped to help them!...
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A massive canned pet food recall is underway, for cans or pouches of food described as "cuts with gravy." Brands include Iams, Eukanuba, Nutro, WalMart brand, PetSmart brand and dozens of others.
The story can be found here:...
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Hi there, everyone,
I submitted a story to the Applause section of the Californian a while ago, and it is on the site now! Give it a read and tell me what you think. They messed up some of the punctuation and grammar when they printed it, and of course they spelled my last name wrong (everyone...
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The first round of the NCAA ended with the Lakers seven game losing streak. So far it’s been a rather mild tournament, only one huge upset so far and I’m still laughing at Duke fans. The top twenty teams in the tournament made it through with the second round continuing today. I was...
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Don is my best friend in the whole world. I would have his back and he mine, no matter what, right or wrong, no hesitation, no questions asked. It's the nature of our twenty plus year friendship. One of Don's passions is gambling and the folks at Harrah's love him for it and show it by...
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I'm impressed.....http://www.dailykos.com/sto...
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Dear Reader,
Well where do you start? I have written the same dialog for so long, that I have forgotten where the beginning is.. how bout a/s/l? I STILL can't believe people ask that! 24/f/bakersfield (of course!) I have repeatedly answered that question for 11 years...when I first was a...
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This year, I decided to keep my NCAA tourney bracket simple. I shed most of my fan bias — I do have Kansas winning the title, so I'm sentimental to a point — and made my picks based on what made sense.
Now, the one big upset I did feel comfortable picking was Winthrop over Notre Dame...
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Now that academy's over, the Bakersfield Police Department's newest officers are learning about policing in the real world. The Californian followed several recruits from their first day of academy to their graduation, and now we're checking on their progress in field training. For the past...
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PUBLISHED 3-18-2007
More than three decades ago, California voters rejected “trust me” as being adequate assurance their elected politicians weren’t lining their pockets.
Fed up with political corruption, they created the state Fair Political Practices Commission to...
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PUBLISHED 3-18-2007
There are many California court rulings and opinions rendered by the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission that explain why elected and appointed public officials must disclose their business ties, investments and campaign finances.
Bakersfield City...
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PUBLISHED 3-19-2007
Kern County residents have a special stake in California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s possible investigation of oil companies some claim are preventing consumers from getting what they pay for.
An investigation by the Kansas City Star revealed the...
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PUBLISHED 3-19-2007
The early fits and starts of the Isabella Dam repair process seem to be more sure-footed now.
We’ll all know more when the Army Corps of Engineers addresses a joint meeting of the Kern County Board of Supervisors and the Bakersfield City Council at 5:30 tonight in...
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Here's some neighbors who "believe themselves to be the only idiots alive within a hundred mile radius."
If you can id them I'll send you ten dollars.
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Bush stop talking migration..
People are not Ducks. And America is not a bird sanctuary..
Get on with securing America’s borders. Enforce laws that discourage illegal immigration.
Protect American jobs first.
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The written testimony is not available yet. The second highlight video is here. Editor and Publisher has a writeup here. Thanks to PoliticsTV for the video. She appeared in front of the Oversight Committee chaired by Henry Waxman of CA.
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This was tucked away in yesterdays paper:TBC page 9. A perfect example of the desire to be right,and the calisthenics required to get there.
I read the whole blog at http://www.albertmohler.com , and while it raises some interesting questions, the slant of the writer is painfully...
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I think it's just great how you plant something that looks dead and then months later (just when you start thinking, "maybe I planted it wrong, or I did not choose a good plant") it's the most beautiful thing growing in your backyard. After much hard work and research, I planted a...
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It is doubtful Caesar Bush has the intellectual capacity to recognize his tyrannical abuse of office is setting a course for national suicide. But history is replete with such examples of the madness of rulers. And while many, both conservatives and liberals decry any comparison between Bush and...
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We love all the great people who create stuff on Bakersfield.com, whether it’s blog posts or comments, ratings or reviews on our new Inside Guide, personal profiles or Your Words stories.
That’s why we’ve launched a new weekly email newsletter called Ngage, which highlights...
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http://player.clipsyndicate...
PLEASE NO GOVT BAILOUTS!!!
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College is theoretically a place where people go to get smart.
But apparently, a whole lot of students do a lot of dumb things while they are there, such as binge drinking and abuse of legal and illegal drugs.
A new study says almost half of U.S. college students dabble one time too many in...
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Those of you who are,or were parents will shake your heads at this,but it is due to MOVE that my son finally wore out a pair of shoes!
Now having been a mom before I knew my job was not going to be the "normal". I did things like dust toys~unheard of...
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A third witness has testified Vincent Brothers was in town at the time his family was murdered.
The latest is Audrey Wandick who testified she saw Brothers stopped near Brundage Lane and P Street in the afternoon of July, 6, 2003, the same day prosecutors believe Brothers killed his family in...
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Dear Ken,
I don't know you from Adam. Only what I read about you in the newspaper.
And that's not real good, Ken.
You were elected to a PUBLIC job, Ken.
This is not the CIA. This is the Bakersfield City Council....
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No. He's a fixture of the zoo and we naaayed him back.
TK says:
Where’s the Humanity?
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This parable taken from Eric Raymond's "Gun Nut" page. His home page can be found here.
The Parable of the Sheep
Not so long ago and in a pasture too uncomfortably close to here, a flock of sheep lived and grazed. They were protected by a dog, who answered to the master, but...
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I had heard about City of Hope from some of the cancer patients I've talked to. The revolutionary research and treatment center had always sounded like a refuge, a place some patients are thankful they've gone to or hopeful that they'll one day get the chance.
Now I had an opportunity to see...
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No Neo Con ever won a War We have fought.
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miss spelled reqest should be request... answering on doc's post... don't want to give you a head ache ta ta. jean ps just leave the correct words if any spelled wrong.... thanks!.
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Jim Harrick sat in a chair along the sideline inside Rabobank Arena Thursday afternoon. Sitting to his right was Tamar Slay and on his left was Gerry McNamara.
Harrick was discussing the difficulty of going back to the NCAA tournament the year after winning the title. As the trio sat and...
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PUBLISHED 3-16-2007
More than only three state senators were temporarily locked out of their Sacramento offices this week. All Californians were figuratively locked out , as Senate President Pro-Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, declared freedom of thought will not be tolerated in his chambers....
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — After winning the Pac-10 title at 197 pounds, Brandon Halsey looked nothing like the wrestler who started the season as a sophomore transfer from Fresno State.
He had a calm confidence that proved to be a sign of things to come. Halsey took the momentum of that win...
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According to the Center for Social Services Research department at Berkeley, between July 1st 2005 and June 30th 2006 there were 495,000 reported cases of child abuse in California.
Also during the first 11 months of 2006 the city of Los Angeles had 79 child homicides. County wide there...
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Greetings from Angels Camp California.
We have been "off-the-grid" for a couple of days. This morning we got a good internet signal, finally, at Starbucks which was closed when we rolled in last night.
Last night we stayed at the Jumping Frog Motel, being that we are in...
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white flowers drift down from the trees like snow
an obligitory two weeks of distance
one week down, one to go
time changes and the hours seem longer
everything set on a high contrast
sky blue to spring green
infused with the sun
reflecting back only the colors not absorbed
cats padding...
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Gov. Schwarzenegger is expected to sign a bill today to move California's presidential primary up from June to Feb. 5.
That will mean that when California's voters cast ballots for presidential candidates, it won't be a foregone conclusion who they will be.
It will also mean California will...
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Citizens' Against Government Waste puts out a report each year on the earmarks..pork aka special interest amendments..that fill our bills and laws passed each year by the Congress.
You can read through it here. Their summary follows:
The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW's annual...
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If I should die right now,
would you cry for me publicly?
Or would it be done secretly?
If I toke my very last breath,
would your heart be broken?
That you yearn for your very death.
If the Lord decided to take my soul tonight,
would there be words left unsaid?
and would that be alright....
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We are less than twenty-four hours away from sports Nirvana. Jim Boeheim is still pissed because the men in orange are playing in the not-important tournament and Tubby Smith might not have anymore nails to bite. Day 1 of the greatest spectacle in sports begins tomorrow and it’s unfortunate...
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From Politico:
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote Thursday on whether to issue subpoenas to 14 current and former administration officials, including White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, John Bresnahan reports.
Judiciary...
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I want to preference this post by stating: Yeah I know bad choices, yeah no free lunch,” it is what~ I~ my daddy ~etc had to do” comments, while they may relieve your issues, have no pertinent input.
*Smiles * now what is a young Mother supposed to do? A friend is 26, two young...
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PUBLISHED 3-15-2007
Outrage over the firing of eight United States attorneys is no mere partisan dustup or a “badly handled” public relations issue.
The episode reeks of the administration’s interference for political and ideological reasons in a system designed to protect...
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