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Thinking back to the immigration protest/rallies that were going on about 4 months ago. I remember people complaining about the protesters waving the Mexican flag because this is not Mexico. I'm not Mexican. I'm of American Indian and European descent. As I started...
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Today we got to work on the "Howard, marry me" scene again, Mark was actually at rehearsal so it went better. I love that scene. It was a blast.
I was kind of distracted during rehearsal because I was working on stuff for the awards and dreading the kids going back to school and all...
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Quote from one customer to another while I was speaking spanish to another customer: "Why do you choose to not Speak English? You Live and work in the United States but refuse to learn the language? Why? America gives you all the opportunities to prosper in life, but you will not learn the...
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Some people just can't do it. It is not within their capability or understanding. These are the drunks. Not the drinkers, who like to have a drink or two while socializing or relaxing, but the drunks. The people who can't do anything without drinking, and they can't drink without getting drunk....
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I posted this on my personal blog, but wanted to make sure to get it on here too.
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I write this in total fear of the storm it's about to start in blog comment land. But I'm going to write it anyway.
A few of us on the sports staff had the distinct pleasure of going over to South...
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I write this in total fear of the storm it's about to start in blog comment land. But I'm going to write it anyway.
A few of us on the sports staff had the distinct pleasure of going over to South High for their scrimmage the other night. That's right, I said pleasure and South High in the...
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Common sense and politics should not be an oxymoron; but can politicians really be as stupid as they appear or is it a matter of some kind of disease that infects the breed? For example, is Caesar Bush really an idiot or does he just talk and behave like one? But looking at the...
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Hello, Bakersfield. I call it New Nashville West or the New Bakersfield Sound. They call it Progressive Country. In any case, if any of you would like to catch my debut on this Brave New Frontiers radio show, you find by clicking the link below. Just before you get to the half-way point in...
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I felt like I was living a Jackson Browne lyric at “Picnic” rehearsal yesterday.
“Here come those tears again, just when I was getting’ over you… just when I was gonna make it through another night, without missing you…. thinking I might just be...
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Hey, I am new to town and it looks like I am going to be here a while, so I was wondering what there is for a guy in his late 20s to do here for fun. Any good live music? Good bars? Rollerdisco? What does everyone out here do for fun?
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What do you suggest for a great wedding gift?
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The state's Republicans are partying hard this weekend at the California Republican Party Convention in Los Angeles, no doubt doing their best to cultivate a unified front for the November elections.
A commendable and necessary goal, to be sure, but it's going to take more than...
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If this story turns out to be true then I will stop listening to this jerk and trash all his Cds.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW...
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Well folks, the news all around is so bad you will forgive me if I engage in some reverie about a time in America when it seemed the distinction between good and evil was more clearly delineated, a time when our cowboy heroes did the right thing; they kissed their horse rather than the girl....
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When people ask me if I'm a psychologist or a musician, I say "YES!" The reason? The songs of today are replete with psychological content. Pink is an artist that stands out for the therapeutic value of her lyrics. She and her Arista co-writer were gracious enough to link to me, and I'm taking...
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PANDA BUFFET, 661-834-7737. 3805 MING AVE BAKERSFIELD, CA 93309
To celebrate Friday and the last weekend of summer vacation we decided to put off the rest of our weekly shopping and take a detour to a Chinese Buffet instead.
Several months ago, January to be exact, we discovered Panda...
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Hostage: The Jill Carroll Story - Part 4 : A mother as suicide bomber
By Jill Carroll and Peter Grier | Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor
Exhausted, Jim Carroll walked the streets of Washington, headed back to his hotel. He'd hardly eaten all day, so he ducked into a bar...
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I spent a good bit of my week digging through the bowels of the County of Kern's annual budget.
It goes to public hearings on Monday, August 28 and will probably get approved by the Board of Supervisors that week.
It's an interesting budget (stories in the paper and on the web will explore...
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Hostage: The Jill Carroll Story - Part 3: The first video
By Jill Carroll and Peter Grier | Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor
Monday morning - two days after the kidnapping - my captors began trying to convert me to Islam.
At first, they sat me down in front of the...
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Hostage: The Jill Carroll Story - Part 2 : A spy with a homing device
By Jill Carroll and Peter Grier | Staff writers for the Christian Science Monitor
When Jill Carroll was nearly 4 years old, her family held a picnic at Kensington Park, a beach and lake recreation area outside...
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PUBLISHED 8-20-2006
The Rev. Curtis Jenkins’ warned: “The time is coming when no one is safe.”
Mourners, city officials and the news media stood Thursday afternoon in the very yard where Lawren Edwards’ blood drained from his young body.
The promising...
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PUBLISHED 8-21-2006
Mobile phone companies must put their money where their marketing mouths are by dropping opposition to a bill that restores a key part of what was once the Telecommunication Consumers Bill of Rights.
AB1010, by Ira Ruskin, D-Redwood City, has a simple goal:...
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PUBLISHED 8-21-2008
If high schoolers can do it, so should college students — at least, that’s the reasoning behind a bill the state Senate recently sent to the governor.
Currently, high school newspapers in California have the same free press rights as professional news...
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Lest any of you femi nazis out there think I'm a male chauvinist pig (and really, how could that ever be a legitimate thought), this blog is about a game that ESPN magazine (an enlightened periodical, if there ever was one) called, "A Fantasy League for Females."
According to a story...
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The title and link below goes to Larry Johnson's blog and his current post. Mr. Johnson's resume is quite extensive, he is a former CIA employee, U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, is a recognized expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, crisis and risk...
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The verdict is in - The Philadelphia Story is a well rounded comedy full of uproarious laughter and meaningful character development. It's also a damn fine evening of entertainment. You can check it out for yourself at the Empty Space this weekend, playing through August 26th.
I've...
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The money trail to California's legislatures, proves that the Drug policy alliance, proponents behind Prop 215 and prop 36 are busy little bee's. Note the money paid to members of our Public Safety Committee. The following information is from the Secretary of State's website too....
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The Jill Carroll Story - Chapter 1: The kidnapping
By Jill Carroll and Peter Grier | Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor
My chief captor had an idea about how to prod the US government into action: another video.
He said this one would be different, and left.
I...
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The Jill Carroll Story - Introduction
Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, was held hostage in Iraq for 82 days. This is her story.
Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped by Sunni Muslim insurgents in Baghdad...
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I am a walking encyclopedia on bra strap issues.
So it was with great amusement that I read a story by Brianna Bond of the McClatchy-Tribune that a fashion designer is proposing designer bra straps as a cure for those of us who are repeatedly sickened by ugly ones.
You know what I'm talking...
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While reading about our conscientious congressman Thomas outing a taxidermy hoax ripping off taxpayers, I will be forgiven for a certain amount of cynicism. Such loopholes do need to be exposed and closed, but the bigger fish that need to be fried seem to continue getting a pass by those in...
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The Californian is beginning today a series of stories on the abduction of Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for The Christain Science Monitor.
I've linked the first one above, but you either have to read the newspaper or find the others online.
This blog is to invite you not to miss...
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Mel Gibson's attorney, earning whatever Mel is paying him, slipped into court Thursday and settled the actor's first-time drunken driving case.
The plea came a month and 10 days before Mel's case was scheduled to be in court.
As a misdemeanor, Mel didn't have to appear. The attorney...
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Hello citizens of Korn Kounty! As a local shrink, I'm conducting a survey on the effect of Korn's music on Korn Kounty "Metal" Health. If I am able to formulate some "sound" insights after gathering feedback from you, I plan to incorporate the results in an article that will appear in Phantom...
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Kickers can win games. That's why we see a premium placed on talented free agents like Adam Vinatieri and Mike Vanderjagt in the NFL.
After Ridgeview's 10-3 breakthrough season a year ago, a number of returners will be counted on to help continue the winning ways. In talking to coach Mike...
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First came the song, Right-wingers Need Love Too. Then came the CD of the same title. When Ralph Bailey became the first local radio talk show host to spin this little number, he took quite a bit of heat. When Rusty Humphries added it to his nationally syndicated playlist, he added fuel to the...
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“I can’t stand it, I know you planned it, I’m gonna set it straight, this Watergate . . . I’m tellin’ y’all, it’s a sabotage!” Beastie Boys–Sabotage, 1994.
I’m going to level with you, my readers, I’m pro business,...
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Without getting into the subject of my opinion of Los Angeles as a thoroughly corrupt and degenerating third-world nation of a city, when it comes to suing my native County of Kern so Los Angeles County can use us for its personal toilet I do get a mad on. But after reading so much about...
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PUBLISHED 8-18-2006
Despite this week’s game-playing and behind-the-scenes political tricks, the Legislature still can give Californians the right to vote on much-needed election reform.
While Democrat legislative leaders claim their hands are tied and it is too late for the November...
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Kern County's sludge ban was slapped with a major-league lawsuit this week. This issue has been around since the last century and we decided we needed to create someplace for all our sludge coverage.
Most of the stuff you'll see in here will be the work of reporters Gretchen Wenner or Sarah...
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Reporter Gretchen Wenner got a copy of the lawsuit and we've posted it online. Actually she informs me it was included in the press release the So Cal folks sent out.
You gotta love it when the lawyers send out press releases.
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Columnist Robert Price checks in with a piece on the latest sludge lawsuit. Read the whole thing or check out this tidbit...
In mythological Los Angeles, all swimming pools are 82 degrees, the boy always gets the girl, the air is pure and nobody ever has to use the restroom....
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The editorial page in the Bakersfield Californian has taken on the sludge lawsuit. Here is a taste of what they had to say. Read the whole thing here.
Kern County voters are looking at the business end of Southern California's big gun.
The City of Los Angeles...
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Reporter Ryan Schuster has written a story about changes in downtown to improve the businesses and the clientele.
We've tried gangs and thugs; that didn't work.
The story will run on Friday, Aug. 18.
Capistrano's, complete with an antique piano, long black...
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In her 43-page opinion U.S. Federal Judge Anna Diggs ruled the NSA program violates the rights to free speech and privacy as well as the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution.
This ruling, of course helps restore my faith in our judicial system working. But it should be...
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I received an e-mail from a woman who has two kids and needs help finding really cheap/free clothes.
Our News Editor Christine Peterson offered up the following ideas:
Hall Ambulance is having a big back-to-school distribution on Aug. 19 at the Bakersfield Homeless Center. I think...
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If you haven't been involved in the Intenet buzz, you've at least seen the commercials for the movie Snakes on a Plane.
It opens Friday in Bakersfield.
This is been a very hyped movie.
The Palm Springs Desert Sun put it this way:
But few could have guessed so many years ago...
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Reader: When I opened my Sunday paper, the last thing I wanted to see was a front-page picture of cop killer Bruce Sons.
The only article I am interested in reading about Sons is his obituary. Then you have my blessing to put that on the front page.
-- Janis Pelham...
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About 18 years ago I had a conversation with my Dad in San Diego where we compared and complained about our respective SDG&E and PG&E bills. A third person in the room said he had read an article where the best defense against complaining about utility cost was to invest in...
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