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I have been getting e-mails on how to bring down the price of gas since it first went over $2.00 per gallon. Don't buy gas on Tuesdays, Don't buy from this company or that, impeach the president, etc. Novel ideas, I suppose, but all totally ineffective.
It doesn't matter which day you buy gas,...
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Anybody else STILL seeing campaign signs from the June 3 primary up around town?
They're supposed to be down within 10 days of the election, but we've seen one at the Marie Callender's East Hills entrance (we're not sure it's still there, though) and along Seventh Standard Road coming back from...
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Hey Folks,
We're on for tomorrow (Thursday 7/3/08) night at Pizzaville on Oak Street. I'll be there at 7:30. We won't be an official chapter until I file some stuff, but this is a good "dry" run. If you haven't seen me, here I am working.
So, who is coming out to...
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I was really depressed when I read the news that The Bakersfield Californian (TBC) has fired Leonel Martinez, because the newspapers executive editor Mike Jenner, TBC decider; decided he needed a columnist who "will focus more on local issues and local people." So I did what I...
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Yikes...I just heard the news this evening that the Bakersfield City Council has now made the decision to implement a plan to increase enforcement of dog license compliance as a means to reduce pet overpopulation here. Nooooooo...
Many are tired of the pet topic -- but it is in the...
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So folks, how about it? I'm thinking of starting up a chapter of the much loved Drinking Liberally right here in good ole B-town. I'm thinking Thursday nights and someplace downtown like Jerry's Pizza. I'd like to do something with a bit of food and something other than just...
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This conversation was copied from another blog on bak.com.
For the entire blog, you can click on this link:
people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakoblue/28607
Laurie Weir, one of our five Kern County Animal Control Commissioners, stated the following in a comment on that...
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I recently witnessed something that is becoming more and more typical of liberal behavior and it is happening more often all the time. My friends and I were sitting in our usual booth at the restaurant we frequent most days for breakfast and were discussing the upcoming presidential campaign....
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A question for the residents and local officials of Bakersfield and/or Kern County:
Which rights are you trying to preserve?
Does a mandate for pet owners to spay and neuter their pets infringe on our 'rights?'
Will this type of mandate affect anyone, (pet owner or not), in any way...
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This is just so sad. I really admired Tim Russert and never missed Meet the Press. We need him to grill the presidential candidates!
Here's NBC's latest story:
WASHINGTON - Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday after...
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Supervisor Maggard is one of very few local officials that has the foresight and courage to maneuver through a minefield of bureaucratic nonsense.
At today's BoS meeting, Supervisor Maggard was successful in persuading his fellow supervisors to delay, rather than vote down, a decision on...
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This was a blog entry I wrote a year ago on another site, and I think it'd be great to hear what others have to say about it..
The Healthcare System
I think it's safe to say that the nation's current Healthcare system is beyond screwed. Insurance companies have a chokehold on the...
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So I was reading some of my old papers I wrote in college, and came across this one. Thought it was interesting what I wrote, and now, 4 years later, I'm wondering if I should revisit my conclusions, or if they still hold up.
A Brief Overview of United States - Saudi...
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After some initial confusion Wednesday night as to what Kern County is going to do with gay marriage (our misunderstanding, not a county flip flop), the bottom line now is that the county clerk's office will cease performing all ceremonies as of June 13.
Here's the statement from...
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Kern County will perform both same-sex and traditional marriages beginning June 17, County Counsel Bernard Barmann said this afternoon.
"There's going to be a landslide of people, we think, in the gay community coming forward for weddings," Barmann said.
A few hours later,...
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I love Hugo Chavez, He makes me feel either smart or psychic..or BOTH! I have derided this pinata ante distator since his..um...election(for reasons of simplicity I will henceforth refer to it as that)I guess that's what it was, I can assure the next one won't be called that! I predicted after...
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Several health care bills are working their ways through the Assembly and Senate — many incorporating ideas originally introduced in the governor's health care proposal and other older bills.
According to California Healthline and the L.A. Times, some aim to curb the insurance industry...
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Russell Judd, president of Mercy Hospitals, submitted a letter to the editor about the state's cuts to Medi-Cal.
I would love to hear your thoughts.
For more info about the cuts, read "Calif. sued over Medi-Cal rate cuts" and "Is health reform dead?"
Budget Cuts Put...
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That's it!! I remained silent through the first article. Now I have had it with Marylee Shrider trying to use ancient, old hat rhetoric and terms like "judicial tyranny" from the late '30's (*see article below) to shove her religious views down my throat! Yes,...
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http://www.familysecurityma...
In a recent comment following my own blog entry relating to Scott McClellan and "the" book, I wrote that I believed McClellan had had a ghost-writer.
The above link will take one to a piece in...
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This is the guy I voted for twice. I am not a man who lives with regrets in any area of my life. Regrets are for the weak and the pitiful, of which I am neither, I simply take what I learn from mistakes and apply that knowledge to future decisions, hopefully avoing the same mistake more than...
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A new tax to lower gas prices? Please tell me they are joking! As the senate grilled the heads of Americas largest oil companies as to why prices are so high and what they intend to do about it, they hung thinly veiled threats (probably culled from Obama's speech which he stole from Hillary...
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I do not like Hillary Clinton. I disagree with 99.99% of everything that falls from her megalomaniac driven piehole. I believe she is a socialist who would like to see everyone(with the exception of her and her family)in America in the same boat. Her ideas genuinely frighten me as do most short...
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His name is on the new airport terminal. He brought to Kern County more than $700 million for road improvements. And he pulled together a $40 million authorization for the Valley Fever Vaccine Project.
For these reasons and more, Cal State Bakersfield President Horace Mitchell will present to...
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A new report ranks Kern fourth for its teen birth rate.
Sad, yes, but not necessarily a big surprise is the gist of the comments I've heard. (Read "Kern fourth in teenage pregnancy" on the front page of today's Californian.)
Besides breaking the rates out by county, the Public Health...
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We've learned that Kern County elections officials are going to use a loophole to expand the use of electronic voting machines in the June 3 primary. (Details below).
You guys think that's a good or bad idea? Do you prefer voting on paper or via machine — or do you not really care as long...
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UC Davis slams county:
www.bakersfield.com/102/story/451296.html
How many more times is input from outside our county going to have to come in and reveal the truth before our local authorities finally step up, read the information and then do something about this?!
In 2005 it was the...
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I know companies like to give to both Republicans and Democrats, but still, it's a little jarring to see it.
The Personal Insurance Federation of California gave $1,000 to Democrat Fran Florez the same day it gave $1,500 to Republican Pete Gilmore. Both are running to succeed Democrat Nicole...
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In 1994 the voters of California voted to deny illegal immigrants social services, health care, and public education...........A Federal court overturns the election setting the stage for the massive invasion of illegal aliens...
The Country highest court appointed Bush in 2000. ...
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The Difference Between
Republicans and Democrats
John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barak Obama were walking down a Washington D.C. street when they came upon a homeless person.
The Republican, John McCain, gave the homeless person his business card and told him to come to his office for...
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Here's a sneak peek at the "May Revise" from the L.A. Times. Schwarzenegger wants to borrow against the lottery or hike sales taxes a full 1 percent. And he's proposing to let voters decide. How would you vote and why?
If state's numbers don't come up, bet on a sales tax hike
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I don't know why, but it still amazes me at how thoughtless, mean and immature so many liberals can be. I suppose I should be used to it, but I am not sure that one should ever get used to such things. I actually hope I never do.
I recently sent an e-mail about the personal struggles,...
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Nope definitely not.
Republicans are attacked and called names because of their beliefs in a small government, individual rights and self sufficiency.
Looking through our parties past, there are a couple of things I'd like to remind people of.
First off, We freed the slaves, thanks Lincoln.
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Here's the question: by JFrancais
"Why is the popular vote not used and what makes the electoral college more superior?"
Well for a number of reasons JFrancais, but before I go into all that I want to address our favorite far left loony RF and his answer to the above...
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We posted this story today. What do you think — is this a serious slur as the Obama folks contend or harmless humor? (Attached is a screen grab the Obama folks sent us).
— Government editor Christine Bedell
Fake Obama slogans anger local supporters
Local supporters of...
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how can this be I thought she was done? Guess West Virgina wants their vote to count, go figure, guess no one told them that the Super delegates had already decided even with primaries to go, Obama has won. I mean N Caroling won by Obama already decided the winner right? right? When are Dems...
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Question: Is it Democratic?
Look, all the states vote to pick delegates at your Nat. Convention presumably to pick the best Democratic candidate and then out of the 4000 or so have about 800 of those delegates to be picked by the party. How is that Democratic?
I just don't...
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Congressional Republicans (including McCarthy, R-Bakersfield) voted *FOR* motherhood before they voted *AGAINST* it.
http://thinkprogress.org/20...
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Dear Clinton supporter,
I just want to let you know I don't like how Obama has treated you guys. I mean he lies about your girl, trying to paint her as some kind of inexperienced horrible person that is not qualified to bring our country together, even though her established record goes back...
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A large coalition of California medical organizations is suing the state over the planned 10 percent cut to Medi-Cal.
Locally, this cut will mean Kern Medical Center will lose $4 million per year in Safety Net Care Pool Funds and $1 million per year in outpatient Medi-Cal funds, KMC CEO Paul...
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From Don Frederick, a Washington editor for the Los Angeles Times:
Small-town folks just aren't getting much respect these days from some big-time politicians.
Indeed, the phenomenon has become bipartisan -- add California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, to the list that...
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Today's quote:
"Senators come and go. Presidents come and go. The lobbyist has been there for 20 years."
--J.R. Lewis, an agent with Scott Tobias Real Estate, expaining the benefits of professional political help to a room full of newbie Realtors
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't given up on passing a health plan that covers all Californians.
According to the Associated Press, his staff is working to fix the previous plan.
"Now we'll try again," Schwarzenegger said. "We will continue on, keeping the stakeholders...
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A Massachusetts bill aims to add weight and height to the list of characteristics people cannot use to discriminate with.
From the Chicago Tribune:
Currently, people can seek protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act, but they must prove their obesity is a disability and, in some...
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http://www.dailykos.com/sto...
(For those who don't read DailyKos on a regular basis)
Things I have learned during this campaign season:
In a race that includes a former First Lady of the United States and a multimillionaire Republican senator rumored to...
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Once again I am tired. I am tired of seeing shady and corrupt public officials in government. I have Weir on my mind.
John McCain seems to think that it is okay to limit how much can be given to a political candidate. I see this as an affront to freedom of speech (which must...
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Who in Hell is Jimmy Carter other than the worst president since Andrew Johnson? Well, it's painfully obvious that HE thinks he is still a President! Who gave this nit-wit, closet anti-semite the authority to represent anyone in any country or any government anywhere in the world? I know, to be...
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go to www.pbs.org to view.
don't believe the soundbiters.
go on here to joe bertia's blog for further discussion, too: http://people.bakersfield.c...
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I responded to some inquires to my last post "Come on Over", their was some questions and comments I had to respond to. Anywasy I also wanted to say congrats to the Dem with the great win by Clinton today.
Once again Clinton has shown why she is the strongest to fight McCAin in...
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I hate being wrong. Worse than that I hate admitting I was wrong, but I am not above doing so. SO..I was wrong. It pains me even to pen the words. I had to practice..do a few rough drafts, check the spelling. I have yet to say it aloud, but I know that, at some point, I will have to do it.
I...
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