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I just want to let everyone know I am now selling Avon! You can contact me at my e-mail lacebopp@gmail.com or go directly to my Avon Page! http://www.youravon.com/lbo... Free Local Delivery!!
Thank you!!
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I'm sorry it seems like I have fallen off the face of the earth. I'm out of state attending a school. I have found that posting to/reading this website occupies so much of my time that in order to do well in this school, I have to stay away from it while I'm here.
I should be...
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The last and all too brief conversation I had with local historian Bob Powers here in the Kern River Valley happened to touch on the small library in “Old Kernville.” There are few of us left here in the valley to recall that first excursion our principal Mr. Wallace took us on to...
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It's great to have a day off, but does anybody still remember why Veterans Day exists? We may be in the midst of an unpopular war, but that should not in any way diminish the value of those who have served this country with honor and distinction.
Recently, the much of the country...
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Kern County, a conservative outpost of strong Second Amendment beliefs, is first in the state for handing out concealed weapons permits.
In 2005, law enforcement agencies in Kern County approved 4,077 concealed weapon permits, far above number two Fresno County with 2,694. Los Angeles County...
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So, the Democrats won, and the Republicans are gone, for now. Congrats, Dems. Some of my conservative friends are quite worried; black armband kind of a mood. But I’m not wearing one, and here’s why . . .
For a long time, I have been quietly doubting the War on...
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Well, I never would have believed it, but this life long Big Dog lover has been swept of her feet by a little bit of a dog... as a matter of fact, that's her name!
She is a Mini Chihuahua that was given to us by Bryan's Aunt Mom (long story there!) and unlike my German Shephard/Wolf...
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PUBLISHED 11/10/2006
They’re the snipers of the political wars, often well camouflaged, usually emerging at the last minute of a campaign to take shots at the opposition.
“They” are independent expenditure committees, and the shots such campaign finance groups take at...
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Starting very soon, The Californian is going to be running a series of articles on local 'Lost Treasures.'
These are old businesses and landmarks that have disappeared over the years, but still remain strong in the memories of locals. Here's a list of some of the things we'll be profiling....
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Once again, you have no excuse avoid going out to enjoy some awesome live entertainment this weekend, for it's all one click away:
This Week In Bakersfield Theatre is up to date and fabulous.
Assasins, Pirates of The Old Kern River, Sideway Stories, Jessie's Place, Control Freaks, Dearly...
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In the Sideways Stories series there is a student who wears an unusually high number of raincoats. The teacher eventually discovers that he is actually a dead rat who snuck into the classroom. Those dead rats can be sneaky.
It's funny, just one of many delightful ideas I enjoyed in...
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It seems that the government is being more prudish than its people.A study was just released, saying that most Americans favor comprehensive sex education over abstinence-only education, regardless of their political bias.According to a story by Reuters:Of the nearly 1,110 U.S. adults they...
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Just a couple days after winning a spot on the city council, Ken Weir has announced he's gonna be stepping down from the Bakersfield City School District to focus on his new position.
So, just a few days after BCSD held an election for its board, they have a vacancy. Seems awful wasteful....
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If you went by what's in stock at stores, you might forget Thanksgiving before Christmas. While the commerce world may be ready to sell lights and ladders, holiday lights aren't up on homes quite yet.
We're getting ready to create a map of Bakersfield's lighting creations. When do...
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There have been a few times in the course of reporting this project where someone has said or done something and I have been struck by how truly different I am from the subjects of my story.
The first time was an interview I conducted before the academy even began. One of the recruits told me...
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We will have a story in Friday's paper about a student valet program at Nichols Elementary School where older kids direct parents where to park, help get kids out of their cars and escort young kids to class.
This is in response to the daily chaos at schools where it is a daily miracle that...
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Given what looks like will be a Democratic-controlled Senate, our Constitutional freedoms are a bit safer. For now.
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For the past six years, the GOP-dominated Senate Judiciary Committee has rubber-stamped far-right judicial nominees, many of whom harbor an absolute, complete,...
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Conrad Burns, one of Jack Abramoff's closest political buddies, has conceded defeat in Montana. At noon, left-coast time, Senator Macaca is going to speak.
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One of the pioneering black journalists has passed away. WaPo has a write up here. Mr. Bradley was someone I enjoyed watching during his tenure on 60 Minutes. He will be missed by many.
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The question was raised Tuesday by Web editor Davin McHenry here on the blogs about the young voters and if they actually were going to vote. Seems there was quite a good turnout according to a Yahoo article I read this morning:
About 24 percent of Americans under the age of 30, or at least 10...
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I can't prove this cheap Hollywood gossip, but it appears that Britney Spears informed Kevin Federline via text message that she was divorcing him.
A video on You Tube seems to bear this out. Here is the link.
In case you can't download the video, it shows Kevin being interviewed, talking...
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Expressing one of my occasional flights of fancy how about going from First Lady to President? And I mean our present First Lady. In considering Laura Bush as President several things come to mind, not the least of titillating prospects is a presidential campaign pitting Laura Bush against...
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There is no American Dream. There are as many American Dreams as there are American dreamers. But where are all the dreamers these days? It seems like the United States has become a haven of naysayers. The cyanide of cynicism is the daily diet of the average American...
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AS ONE TROUBLING CHAPTER CLOSES, ANOTHER REOPENS
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
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in my opinion, the ones with the biggest signs and name recognition won the bcsd board members' race, not the best men. and what a disgrace that measure I did not pass!
other than that, the house and senate have changed, rummy has resigned, and for that i'm sure i'm not alone in feeling...
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Robert Gates is a member of James Baker's Iraq Study Group and currently is the President of Texas A&M University . He was a favorite of Bush 41(Geo. H.W. Bush). As for Robert Gate's service to his country, Consider the following;
He may be best known for playing a role in arming...
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I will soon be a Grandfather by blood and I am excited about that. It is going to be a boy and his name will be Aidan. I will not get to be there for his birth because my daughter lives in Las Vegas. I don't know how involved I will get to be in his life because my daughters boyfriend and...
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What are your favorite old school guilty pleasures? Have you held onto an old Atari video game system? Do you search through vinyl record collections at garage sales? Do you miss the lava lamp you had in your dorm room (I do)? Do you still pull out your hair trying to...
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PUBLISHED 11-9-2006
Voters have spoken: They conclude Kern County has sufficient money to fix local roads. Measure I was not needed.
For the second time in two decades voters have rejected a half-cent sales tax that would have been used to repave and widen some of the roads that are in...
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PUBLISHED 11-9-2006
Change. Clearly voters nationally demanded it overwhelmingly, and they’re getting it. But change must be managed carefully and moderately. It will be tempting for long frustrated Democrats to proclaim a solid mandate for fast and wholesale change. But...
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When I was a teacher, I and most of my colleagues would start each semester by setting out the rules that would govern all classroom interactions. Being young and idealistic, we tried to get our students to come up with their own rules by consensus—of course we always had a list of...
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How is this for timing?
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the poster boy for Iraq war, is going to resign.
This on the day after the election in which Democrats rebounded into legislative power primarily because Americans were fed up with the Bush Administration handling of the war....
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We the Great Unwashed have vented our anger and frustration with the imperial rule of the present White House and Congress. Too late one of the most infamous of insiders, Rumsfeld, is being sacrificed in an attempt to defray the damage done by an administration and Congress that history will...
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Word on the news now is that Donald Rumsfeld is going to resign. Speculation is that Joe Lieberman will be chosen to replace him. If this occurs, the Senate will at most be 50-50 which would turn control back to the Republicans because Dick Cheney will choose who leads the Senate....
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New Bakersfield.com user Sonjaf is a journalism student in New Hampshire doing her senior thesis on how the internet has changed print journalism, and she's looking at The Bakersfield Californian and Bakersfield.com as a key case study in this transformation.
She's started a blog here to...
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In a state where Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein won nearly 60 percent of the vote, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger grabbed nearly 56 percent of the vote.
The Arnold's opponent, Phil Angelides, corralled only 39 percent of the vote.
Schwarzenegger courted moderate Democrats....
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I got an email this morning titled "Bring Back Ike." It was addressing the illegal immigration problem back in the 50's and, being the curious person that I am, I went looking for more information. The links are below to just the 3 I looked at. Very interesting (even...
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The Democrats are back. The Democrats are back.
Democrats, which in the past have been a viable party, reclaimed control of Congress in Tuesday's elections and may squeak in with control of the Senate.
Two Senate races in Virginia and Montana are too close to call and may be subject to...
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I am still looking for LANIS (LANAS) HARMON (HARMAN) that and/or BILL SIMPSON that lived in the Bakersfield area in 1953/1954. If any of you have access to a local telephone book from that time, that would be greatly helpful.
You can email me at : ...
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Nothing comes easy for Nicole Parra as a late surge from Kern County voters put her over the top to win her third term as assemblywoman in the 30th District.
She was losing most of the night to retired California Highway Patrol officer Danny Gilmore, R-Hanford, until her 65 percent vote...
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I am so glad that Donny Youngblood was elected sheriff. I think this will ruin his golf game and I can't wait to go out and bet him on the links.
No strokes, buddy.
I like outgoing sheriff Mack Wimbish, but his golf game was never good enough to risk money on. Maybe he can work on that...
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Its from Dark Wraith Forums or Big Brass Blog...I hope all the rightwingers have a great Wednesday :)
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The Kern County vote just came in, and Nicole Parra has apparently staged the comeback we all half-expected her to pull off. With 93 percent of precincts reporting, including all in Kern County, Parra has jumped from a 2 percentage point deficit to a 5 percent lead. That's probably...
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With the half-cent sales tax having been defeated -- it needed a two-thirds super majority and only got 57 percent of the vote -- maybe we need an alternative financing scheme to fix our roads. Maybe we need our elected officials to get a spine and enact some stiffer developer impact feeds....
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Nicole Parra has closed the gap slightly in the 30th Assembly District race. At the moment it's 53 percent for Danny Gilmore, 47 percent for Parra. But a breakdown by county sheds some interesting light on things.
Gilmore leads in Tulare County, 66.3 pct to 33.7 pct, in Kings County by 57.8...
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If you get a chance, get out to at least on Bakersfield College men's basketball game. The Renegades play helter-skelter, up-tempo basketball: Think streetball with structure.
It took the 'Gades some time to find their offense, but once they did, the results were impressive.
"It's always...
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Elections chief Sandy Brockman says a huge batch of new votes are just now coming into the office. We ought to have a major (and perhaps decisive) update within a few minutes.
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It's early, I realize (with about 43 percent of the vote counted) but the 30th Assembly District race is shaping up as a stunner. Former CHP officer Danny , a Republican, leads two-term Democratic incumbent Nicole Parra 54.3 percent to 45.7 percent.
I guess Parra was more vulnerable than we...
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I read today about Iraqi police forces torturing and killing detainees. Hmmm..It wasn't us, and I guarantee you, they didn't just learn how to mutilate and kill each other since 2003. These people have been doing this since the first two muslims looked over a dune at each other and it won't...
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With Democrats poised to take control of Congress for the first time since 1994, this has to be a bittersweet moment for Bill Thomas and Kevin McCarthy. Thomas, the retiring chairman of the House Ways and Means committee, gets to hand the office keys to McCarthy, his longtime protege who was...
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