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Sunday Al Gore won an Oscar for his Powerpoint presentation turned into a movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”. On Monday, everyone’s favorite rightwing nutjob websites went into attack mode on Gore. It started with a rightwing Think tank called Tennessee Center For Policy Research,...
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PUBLISHED 2-28-2007
Let’s agree: Bakersfield’s monument signs — two concrete greetings posted along Highway 99 on the north and south approaches — should be replaced.
They are ugly. Their lettering is hard to read in the daylight and impossible at night. They are...
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PUBLISHED 2-28-2007
Some students are falling to the bottom of the barrel and are being left there. California high school drop-out rates slightly increased with the class of 2006.
Students need to be given options, as early as middle school, to shape their futures.
Not all students want...
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I am a 23 year old guy who has had a lot to go through within the past year and a half, but I am a different person today. I once lived an unproductive life that led me into some trouble. Through the events that took place in my life I came to Teen Challenge a year ago and my life has been...
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An afterschool project, dedicated to the formation of engineering chapters at our local schools, dedicated to Renewable Energy Development in Kern County. We want trade schools in every field related to local industry, and Renewable Energy promises a prosperous future in the High Desert...
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I know, you've been afraid to hope, but finally, it's here.
No longer will your lovingly typed text disappear from the comment submission form at the bottom of blog posts when you mistype the anti-spam code. Go ahead. Test it. I did. It works! Not only will your...
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Central Valley Prices Down 3.5% YOY
Numbers for January 2007 are out and the Central Valley of California is down 3.5% year over year. So much for prices going up, as per ALL the local realtors.
From the report comes a note about the inventory overhang, see your Econ 101 textbook for an...
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Its a British tale..but still, its sad and utterly unhealthy and dangerous no matter where it takes place.
LONDON (Reuters) - British social workers will meet an eight-year-old boy who weighs almost 200 pounds (91 kg) on Tuesday to decide whether he should be taken away from his mother after...
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Gee, couldn't be because we borrow money to fund the war in Iraq? We can't afford to have China 'slow down' right now..they won't be able to keep loaning us money for our war effort.
The Dow fell 500 pts today..biggest drop in quite awhile. MSNBC has a nice writeup here about how the Chinese...
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Al Gore: “It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
I’m not about to cast stones when someone is speaking ex tempore and winds up with their foot in their mouth. And while politicians have...
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Noveltown is gearing up for its NOVELTOWN 2.0 campaign, a community magazine, and we're publishing a memoir... But we need community support.
Here's an article I wrote titled, "The Making of an Indie Press Part One. Is it self-publishing? And what’s the DIY battle in the literary...
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On the outside, they look like they have all their ducks in a row, in one, several, or nearly all areas of their lives. But internally, they are imploding. I'm talking about the ostensibly "functional" alcoholic.
Today, I'm going to unveil the first entry in the...
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For the first time since 1979, religious leaders from America have met with an Iranian leader, in this case..yes, that man..Ahmadinejad. American Friends Service Committee General Secretary Mary Ellen McNish has a video up here, on google about her discussions with Ahmadinejad and...
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I met James Winterroth in The Mint on 19th Street back in August. A friend was in town for my birthday and she was getting a tattoo of a cave salamander on her shoulder at Mad Dog Tattoo. I went across the street to the bar to have a drink while I waited.
At the bar, drinking coffee, was a man...
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Want to see someone who doesn't practice what he preaches? Read this article from the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. By the way, they claim to be a non partisan orginization.
http://www.tennesseepolicy....
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For a Slideshow of the 'Event' Visit:
http://www.ifeelgoodaboutmy...
From the very day we moved to this house the back yard was sort of an...eyesore. Not really bad just sort of as if it had been let go. It is true the owner of this home was quite the socialite...you...
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A friend of mine sent this to me. Truer words have rarely been spoken.
A lady I know wrote the best letter in the editorials in ages!!! It explains things better than all the baloney you hear on TV.
Her point:
Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country...
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Posted by Editorial Page Editor Dianne Hardisty -- On Wednesday, Feb. 28, Bakersfield City Council members will consider a proposal to spend about $69,000 to landscape and improve the two locations along Highway 99, where the city's "monument signs" greet northbound and soundbound...
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So I've tried Siam Dish over on Ming and Stine. And I have to say I wasn't impressed with the dish I had nor the experience of the restaurant. The only Thai food restaurant I have tried and will compare other restaurants too is Royal Thai in San Luis Obispo. I used to live in San Luis...
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My parents have a Maltese that I swear they bought to replace my brothers and me when we left the house. They paid $600 for him when he was six weeks old. They were recently informed that their "baby" needs major surgery on both rear legs. The "specialist" vet quoted them a...
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I just got a new puppy this morning. I've never had a chihuahua before. She's 8 weeks old. How much should she eat? What do I feed her? Is warmed milk OK. How about dry dog food mixed with milk? Will she freeze to death if I don't let her sleep with me...
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Say what anyone will of the good points of the show, some of the good films, why wasn’t there a terrorist attack on the Oscars? Because our Muslim enemies knew the show would be a propaganda coup for their cause. “Hey, don’t we keep telling you America is morally bankrupt and a...
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I highly recommend, “The Untold Story of Emmet Till “after watching this documentary over the weekend. For those unfamiliar with the story, he was a 14-year-old boy brutally murdered after an encounter with a white woman in 1955.This dark time in our collective history is one we...
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I know this will bring comments, and I know not all of you will agree with me, but it's my heart's conviction. So, this is my public forum in which to speak. So from my heart......
I mean, we've all heard about her - whether by word of mouth, news, internet, her story is...
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At Bakersfield.com, we love to engage our visitors, whether it’s through news or advertising or through our growing online community.
Our People section and Inside Guide are the fastest-growing areas of our site, and to spotlight some of the great stuff our readers are posting, we’ve...
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The biggest Kern County trial in years has just started, and we’ve created an in-depth section to help you stay on top of developments.
“The Trial of Vincent Brothers” features:
An interactive Flash feature that breaks out detail on the people involve in...
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The Israelis are negotiating an overflight of Iraqi airspace to strike Iran (if the need arises) and the US has postured two carrier battle groups in the gulf, and who knows what our submarine deployment is like. As these developments are revealed to us, I can see the devil’s maw...
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PUBLISHED 2-27-2007
California’s gambling industry — Indian casinos, state lottery, card clubs, horse racing, bingo, Internet gambling, etc. — generates more than $13 billion a year.
The big winners are the operators, the politicians and the state treasury...
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PUBLISHED 2-27-2007
Hey, what the heck. It’s only Bakersfield. Folks should be grateful for what they get. They have a lot of nerve complaining about what it looks like.
That has been the attitude of a lot of “big box” developers and other commercial investors who...
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Almost every day, I get several press releases on new studies, surveys and medical advancements. Most of the time, they don't warrant a story, due to a lack of clear scientific findings or scrutiny, an inherent financial interest or irrelevance.
The Chicago Tribune's public editor published...
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It is not up to me to judge somebody on their sexual orientation
-Charles Barkley
If anyone should understand oppression, it should be the African-American, and this is definitely the month we tend to remember it. It is hard to imagine that in today’s society, there are still men...
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does anyone understand why george w. bush was voted worst president of the last 50 years in the californian's reader poll, yet they pictured (hugely) jimmy carter???? maybe a californian editor can explain that one... i must've missed the "standing president exclusion clause" in...
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I bought a piece of history at a garage sale today for $3. The bowl might have sat there til doomsday wating for someone like me to come by and buy it. Someone, like me, who would appreciate the journey the china bowl has made to end up on a table crowded amongst mismatched...
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Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007 column by Editorial Page Editor Dianne Hardisty -- Once in a while, we get a letter to the editor that keeps coming back, like a boomerang. That describes a letter the Opinion section received earlier this month from retired Bakersfield teacher Sue Coats, who wrote in...
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Since Arnolds plan to send inmates out of state was shot down in the courts, he has now announced he will be forced to release prisoners convicted of non-violent crimes. A judge has threatened Federal oversight if something isn't done about the overcrowding in our state prisons.
We already...
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This remarkable dog named Faith, was put on the wrong flight by American Airlines. The owner, Jude Stringfellow went to pick up her dog after arriving in Orlando from Oklahoma City, Faith was nowhere to be found.
I would rather read about this animal that the two blonde ones the press is...
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Watching the present crop of politicians pandering and posturing cannot but remind me of a precious comment by the newspaper reporter in “Bloom County” about the senator “leaving a trail of slime…” That pretty well sums up politicians as a whole; how they get...
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So the race is on. Who are we all hoping makes it to the Presidential suite? Are we all tired of Bush yet? I think it's high time for a major change and Hilary or Obama are it. I really don't care which. I do wish these two where running together. They would be unbeatable by far. A woman and a...
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PUBLISHED 2-25-2007
We’ve been stiffed! That’s what Kern County transportation officials have concluded. And so have most of their counterparts throughout California, as state transportation officials prepare to allocate $2.8 billion from voter approved Proposition 1B.
Howling...
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PUBLISHED 2-25-2007
Do you enjoy woofing down the exhaust from the car in front of you when you are stuck in traffic?
Are Kern County roads falling apart in front of your very eyes?
Is it getting harder and harder to just drive around metropolitan Bakersfield?
Get used to it. That...
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The judge determining the case of where Anna will be buried ended up giving the choice to the guardian appointed to Dannielynn by the judge. The guardian said he will bury Anna in the Bahamas. Now, her mother, who Anna clearly hated from her ET interviews, has filed for an emergency order to...
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So, recently on the Today show and on You Tube, they showed this video of a bride freaking out and cutting her hair off (not quite like Britney but still butchered her hair). This was acting and was not real but it was crazy none the less. Do you know someone who had a real wedding day horror...
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“Rescue the damsel in distress, kill the bad guy, save the world.” It’s the fulfilling of boyhood dreams, and makes “The Mummy” with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz one of my favorite movies. But it’s the reaction by the British aviator to Rick telling him he...
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So I couldn't wait to see video on the first day of the trial. We've been waiting 3 and 1/2 years.
And then it happens and the first thing out of my wife's mouth was not about the evidence Deputy District Attorney Lisa Green was unveiling, but rather what a nice pink suit the prosecutor was...
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Government! What's with those guys?
Seems that some Maryland polititian wants to ban fake bull testicles and other anatomically explicit decorations from vehicles.
The measure was filed in the General Assembly by Delegate LeRoy E. Myers Jr., who says children shouldn’t be...
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This is an email I posted today in our Kern County Barack Obama supporters group. If you would like to join and participate in the discussion, please feel free to do so at: http://my.barackobama.com/p...
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Several blogers have touched on a topic that has been on my mind lately~ the evils done in my name, via the government, to those who chose to serve. We owe so much to them, often promise them much and then deliver less or not at all.
Reading about the men who raped a girl, killed the family...
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One of our regular, but former, blog posters (she doesn't like the new format) sent an e-mail about her experience with Von's and a bottle ot tartar sauce she bought.
She realized at home it was eight months past the expiration date.
So her husband took it back and he found three more...
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Under the stuff you can't make up, the Archdiocese of Washington is starting a media blitz to get Catholics back to confession.
A story by Michelle Boorstein of the Washington Post notes the archdiocese has launched a major marketing blitz, advertising on buses, subway cars, a billboard,...
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The Medical Board of California is seeking to strip local ophthalmologist and philanthropist Dr. Charles David Fritch of his license to practice medicine, citing gross negligence.
The state Attorney General's office, in an accusation filed Nov. 17, says Fritch was either negligent or grossly...
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