54 degrees and windy today

I know California is a dung heap of socialism and a wasteland for business. I know, I know. But I tell you, the mountains are great for skiing, the beaches are good for everything else. I used to complain about California weather and the lack of seasons. But now that I am, er, more seasoned, I have an appreciation for California itself.

I hope there is a way to save this fine state from the liberals who have just about destroyed its economy.

What is going on in California, I don't know.

We conservatives in California are hurting. No matter how hard we try, we can't help our state. Now we have a "simple majority" to pass liberal spending measures? We are for sure circling the drain now. :-(

Maybe CA needs to be trashed completely before people wake up. Maybe if they go to the beach one hot summer day, and it's closed, they'll wake up. Maybe if they can't get on the freeway without paying by the mile they'll start to think differently. Liberalism is one thing, but mindless leftist robot voting is another. It's not just ignorant, it's now quite dangerous.

And many of you can laugh and carry on about how crazy voters are here - and they are - but you better be careful because this state has a huge economy, even now as gutted as it is. And CA has the juice to take a lot of the country down with it if we don't get our collective s**t together. Anyway, here's my note to my liberal friends, some of whom are really hot women who will probably hate me now. But I don't care, because I probably should have been speaking up a long, long time ago.  Enjoy.

Barbara Boxer: The people of CA, hardest hit by a lack of jobs, re-elected one of the chief architects of this economy that has given us 22% unemployment [CBS News] in our state. I have to ask those of you who voted for her: Don't you !@&$^?! get it? Or you home owners:

When Jerry Brown repeals Prop 13, and your property taxes triple (like they did LAST time under his 'leadership'), will you be upset? If you lose your house, who will you blame?

Now over to Prop 23: When the CA Air Resources Board insists that you pay 25¢ per mile to drive on the freeways [San Jose Mercury News], will you think even for a moment that maybe -- just maybe -- you weren't paying enough attention? Did you even know that C.A.R.B. can do pretty much whatever they like to enforce AB 32, including raising gasoline to $9 per gallon? [According to CARB themselves]. Our state is on the precipice of being completely broke, and the voters just created a perfect storm for these people to finish the once Golden State off. And if you think I'm exaggerating - or making things up - fine, laugh at me. But one day I'm going to follow you to the gas station and laugh at your dumb ass.

I know many of you do not share my political views, but one thing we surely agree on - we love this state. With every election, the voters are making it more and more impossible to live here. Businesses and major corporations are leaving the state. Some of our finest recreation land and parks are being shuttered. Arnold just sold the ?!@$?#?^%?& Orange County Fairground for God's sake!  And you voted to keep things going in this same direction? You know I very rarely if ever post politically, because I have a lot of respect for all of you, and I realize that good people do disagree.  I know that people on the left and the right both love this country. I know that Republicans and Democrats are both patriotic care about this land. That has not changed.

But what really bothers me, deep down, is that I don't think many voters at all did a little leg work to find out what they were really voting on. You saw a commercial with a mother holding a toddler, who was taking a breath from a large inhaler, and you said "oh we can't have that! No on 23!"  I could go on and on - Meg Whitman understands business and how to get things moving again. 22% unemployment!  That means that more than 1 in 5 Californians is, at best, unable to find full time work as they used to have. But you voted for Jerry Brown, whose history is there to see. He has said, on his radio show, that our state needs MORE welfare and LESS jobs. He said that - word for word - I'm not making it up.  And as stupid as that is, as ridiculous as it is to think that voters would give ol' Jerry Brown a second chance to ruin the state - You did it. You voted him in.

I'm not upset because my 'side' lost. I'm pissed off because CALIFORNIA lost! I'm grieved because my beloved state -- where I have grown up, gone to school, played in the surf, fallen in love, worked hard, enjoyed such great times I could never recreate them in a thousand years -- is crumbling. We are watching the demise of what was once the envy of the nation. Hard working employees are leaving. Soon, there will be government workers and people on welfare, and nothing else. Again, you think I'm exaggerating? Look around you. The state is losing its collective grip on reality.

No, I don't care about politicians - I wasn't so hot on Meg Whitman myself. I have no love for these political leaders on either side. But what happened tonight is that the California voters lost, and they don't even know it. And that's just pathetic.

Hat Tip http://thejimmyzshow.com/ via JimmyZ on Resistnet.

California Dust Bowl-Turn the Water ON!

You are Cordially Invited to Attend

A Conference on the

“California Water Crisis - Government

Created - Can We the People Solve it?”

Sunday, April 25, 2010 – 2:00 PM

Irvine Valley College

Performing Arts Center

5500 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, CA 92618

Moderator: Martha Montelongo, (martha@marthamontelongo.com) - Radio Host - CRN Digital Talk Radio

Panelists include:

Jim Verboon: Central Valley Walnut Farmer, former Farm Bureau Water Committee Chairman, past Chairman State Farm

Bureau Natural Resources Committee with extensive knowledge of Water issues pertaining to the CA Delta.

Larry Easterling: Pistachio Farmer in the State Water District in the Central Valley.

Piedad Ayala: Farms, operates a large custom farming operation and farm labor operation in the Central Valley.

Allen Ishida: Tulare County Supervisor, runs a 3rd generation Family Farming operation in Tulare County.

Paul Sihota: Operates a family farming and trucking company on the Westside of the Central Valley.

Russell Waymire: Co-Chaired local Farm Bureau Water Committee in Kings County.

ECOLOGICAL PRIMITIVISTS SEEK TO REVERT CALIFORNIA BACK TO AN

18TH CENTURY DESERT - AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS AN ACCOMPLICE!

**Cutting off the Water Supply to People of Central California

**Redirecting Water to the Ocean for the Sake of Declining Fish Species

**Decimating California’s Central Valley Agriculture and Food Supply for California and America

**Causing the Loss of Thousands of Jobs in California – Unemployment at 40% in Some Areas

**Imposing Hardship on Hundreds of Thousands of California Residents

**Will Contribute to Worldwide Food Shortages

**Adversely Affecting Drinking Water Source for 25 Million People in So. California

Why the crisis, how bad is the crisis, and what can we do about it?

Sponsored by: California Republican Assembly (CRA) & CRN Digital Talk Radio

Please RSVP to: Linda Barnes at: BARNESLK@aol.com or (949) 533-3277

Swear Now, Or Forever Hold Your Peace

Can you believe that the CA legislature just voted to establish a "Cuss Free Week" as the first week in March? If this measure passes the senate next week, it will take effect immediately.
Theuglytruth commented: "You gotta love these politicians and the way they spend tax payer dollars. It's amazes me every time they come up with some rhetorical idea. "SAVE A TREE, SAVE THE FISH, SAVE THE OWLS" But don't save California. Ha, haaa, haa ha ha ha ha haaaaa!"

What's Wrong With CA, and What's Right With Texas?

Why are the top 5 job-creating cities all in Texas? Will CA continue to lose jobs to Nevada? Will Texas continue to be a magnet for new business? Will other states adopt tort reform measures pioneered in Texas? What can the country learn from this dichotomy?

First, Texans on average believe in laissez-faire markets with an emphasis on individual responsibility. Since the ’80s, California’s policy-makers have favored central planning solutions and a reliance on a government social safety net. This unrelenting commitment to big government has led to a huge tax burden and triggered a mass exodus of jobs. The Trends Editors examined the resulting migration in “Voting with Our Feet,” in the April 2008 issue of Trends.

Second, Californians have largely treated environmentalism as a “religious sacrament” rather than as one component among many in maximizing people’s quality of life. As we explained in “The Road Ahead for Housing,” in the June 2009 issue of Trends, environmentally-based land-use restriction centered in California played a huge role in inflating the recent housing bubble. Similarly, an unwillingness to manage ecology proactively for man’s benefit has been behind the recent epidemic of wildfires.

Third, California has placed “ethnic diversity” above “assimilation,” while Texas has done the opposite. “Identity politics” has created psychological ghettos that have prevented many of California’s diverse ethnic groups and subcultures from integrating fully into the mainstream. Texas, on the other hand, has proactively encouraged all the state’s residents to join the mainstream.

Fourth, beyond taxes, diversity, and the environment, Texas has focused on streamlining the regulatory and litigation burden on its residents. Meanwhile, California’s government has attempted to use regulation and litigation to transfer wealth from its creators to various special-interest constituencies.

Hat Tip New Geography via The Enterprise Blog.