If Koch Brothers Buy LA Times, Half of Staff May Quit (VIDEO)

Yeah. Sure.

Don't let the door hit you in the behind on the way out to scoop up ALL THOSE high paying JOURNALISM JOBS just waiting to be filled.

Nitwits.


Related: Newspaper Ad Revenues Lowest in 62 Years

California Bill Would let Illegal Immigrants Serve on Juries

Or reason number 250 California needs to slide off into the Pacific.

From FOX News:

'Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, said his bill, AB1401, would help California widen the pool of prospective jurors and help integrate immigrants into the community.

It does not change other criteria for being eligible to serve on a jury, such as being at least 18, living in the county that is making the summons, and being proficient in English.'

Since when do they speak English in California?

Emma Watson Strips For Earth Day (VIDEO)

And according to her publicist, much to disrobed Emma's surprised, the Gaia deity also demands a naked Hollywood tool thrown into the volcano. Something about photography's carbon footprint and penance.

I don't understand the science. (yes, it's safe for work)

We've dealt with previous Earth Day narcissism here, there, and yonder.

Actor Kelsey Grammer's Wind Energy Investment a Bust

"Former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer told TMZ on Tuesday that wind technology was the worst investment he’s ever made.

Grammer told the tabloid that though his finances are good, he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on a small wind investment."

Don't feel bad, Kelsey. The American tax payers have been fleeced out of BILLIONS by Obama's bankrupt  'green' energy scams.

&&&

'It's so Beautiful to Watch White People with Glasses Make their Yearly Migration South.'

The unbearable Whiteness of SXSW. 

But apparently, the MSM is all cool wit dat because - you know - they vote politically correct.

Lion Kills Santuary Volunteer who Snuck into Cage, Deputies Kill Lion

Entry into the big cat cages at the facility is strictly verboten.

The dead volunteer is 24 y.o. Dianna Hanson. She was two months into her internship program at the Cat Haven in Dunlap, Ca., and is now a candidate for the Darwin Award.

"(The deceased's father) said his daughter loved to be around big cats and working with them was her true passion in life.

Dianna Hanson was inside the cat enclosure when a 4-year-old male African lion named Cous Cous attacked her around 12:30 p.m., officials said. It was not immediately clear what Hanson was doing inside the closure, or what prompted the attack...

"The lion was shot and killed per our safety protocols," Dale Anderson, founder and executive director of Project Survival Cat Haven, which manages Cat Haven, said Wednesday."

How sad; what a waste: She loved big cats so much that she endangered her own life, and the lion's life, to the point of it being killed simply for being a lion.


RIP.

Presidents, Generals, & Giants of the Sierra Nevada

"The giant sequoia - Sequoiadendron giganteum - tends to live for many centuries, enabling it to grow larger than any other species of plant. The trees are naturally found only in a small area of the Sierra Nevada in California, nearly all of which is covered by the Giant Sequoia National Monument.

While they have been successfully grown in other areas of North America and around the world, nowhere have they been standing long enough to challenge the size records set by the Sierra Nevada giants.

They can live for up to 3,500 years, reaching heights comparable to skyscrapers."

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Leftist California Professors "Corrupt" Higher Education

From the succinct and erudite Larry Elder:

"Students are immersed in an education that emphasizes the wrongs done to minorities, women, gays and other groups. Gender, ethnic, religious and sexual orientation grievances are highlighted as representative of an imperial, racist, exploitative capitalist superpower that continues to engage in widespread racism, sexism, homophobia and worldwide domination.

"We wuz wronged" takes center stage over a basic understanding of economics, of the concept of federalism, and of the values that turned a struggling bunch of colonies into a political and economic superpower. Indeed, the very mission statements of many departments on UC campuses stress their commitment to activism for enacting social change, or to bring about social or racial or fill-in-the-blank justice."

And from these ivory sewers of indoctrination crawl the ilk of Occupy Wall Street, et al. Partially subsidized by your tax dollars, of course.

We dealt with "Outrageous College Tuition Pays for "diversity and inclusion" last week.

TEA Party Racist Calls for Revolution & Overthrow of U.S.

(This is a re-post from 2010)

Oh. Wait. Wrong again.

That would be a gub'mint school teacher calling for revolution & overthrow of the U.S. at a La Racist rally in California. Your tax dollars at work.

Fed up, yet?

Janet Napolitano will be predictably otherwise preoccupied, and The One will, once again, get all wee-wee'd up about incivility - just not towards this seditious, Latino racist.

Why? Too many potential undocumented democrat voters at stake.

Meanwhile, our vaunted Main Stream Media directs a chorus of chirping crickets.

How a Teachers’ Rally Made Me Anti-Education

(This is a re-post from 2011)

That's the title of Zombie's latest blog post:

"I write this essay with a heavy heart. I’ve always considered myself an ardent advocate for education. But a  recent rally staged by teachers and students in favor of school funding  forced me to reluctantly acknowledge an awful truth: We have to destroy education in order to save it.

Let me explain how I came to this miserable conclusion..."

It's a thoughtful and worth while read, although I'm pretty sure he's referring to public school education and not the more effective and cost efficient choices of private education.

 These are just a small sample of disturbing pictures captured at simultaneous rallies across California last month of the gub'mint school neo-bolsheviks and their demands for money, along with threats against the taxpayers and politicians if they don't get it.

The fact that California is broke and running a 20 billion dollar deficit this year is obviously lost on these geniuses.

These are the people educating your children.

Hollywood ‘Comedian’ Calls for Assassination of Sarah Palin

(This is a re-post from 2011)

Yes, I know. This story is already growing cold. But why are Leftists so hateful and violent?

“You know what man? I am going to literally — if she gets elected president, I am going to hang out on the grassy knoll all the time, just loaded and ready — because you know what? It’s for my country."

Obviously, another moron who couldn't read the 'new civility' memo.

Warner T. Houston unpacks the stupidity of yet another hollyweird nutjob spewing intolerance, hate and violence.

But you already knew that history proves it's Leftists and Anarchists who are the assassins of presidents.

And 6 out 7 of their targets have been Republican presidents.

Not that history or facts matter to Leftists or Anarchists...

Saturday Saunter

A brief look around the inter-tubes.

MSNBC, the Faux News Network (Ol' Joe Goebbels had a TV Network... Ee, I, Ee, I, Ohh).

Current TV fires 'Worst Person in the World,' replaces him w/ Client number 9.

Unpaid bloggers' lawsuit vs Huffington Post Dismissed.
(Alternative headline: Uber-Liberal Mega-Blog that champions wealth redistribution & workers' rights pleased uber-liberal bloggers who champion wealth redistribution & workers' rights won't get paid for their efforts.)

Miss Universe Disqualifies Transgender Contestant.
(You can cut it off n pump 'em up, that's your prerogative, but don't pee on me then insist it's raining!)

Reason number 247 California needs to slide off into the Pacific.

Obama Makes Election Year Call for Higher Tax Rates (of course).

5 key questions for the Supreme Court in Obamacare decision.

California Smoking Nazis Upset Fewer Smokers Generate Fewer taxes

Or reason number 246 California needs to slide off into the Pacific.

From the Orange County Register:

"Welcome to California. America's nonsmoking section," stated an ad from the California Tobacco Control Program. Tobacco users have listened, and so many have quit the unhealthy habit that the state budget is getting sicker.

The biggest hit could come from the money California gets from the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement between the big tobacco companies and 46 states, including California. The deal called for $246 billion to be paid over 25 years."

"To be paid over 25 years...." with future tobacco sales.

But California didn't want to wait 25 years, so California borrowed that money in the form of bonds to fund the "First 5 Program", etc. which provides health and wellness services to children up to 5 years of age. California has issued $16 BILLION in bonds since 2001 - partially guaranteed with the state's general funds!

And then California doubled down on its demonization of smokers with harsher anti-smoking laws.

Predictably, tobacco sales have plummeted along with tobacco tax revenue and the settlement money from Big Bad Tobacco, which California counted on to pay back bond holders. So what solution are these 'taxifornia' geniuses proposing? Increase tobacco taxes by $1 per pack, raising the average price for a pack of California smokes to $7.

Liberalism truly is a mental disease. Children and the poor hardest hit.

Yet retired California public school teachers are making out like bandits. From 2011: the number of $100,000 retirees skyrocket in California's teacher pension system (that's a 76% increase in 2 years).

Related: Businesses continue to flee the regressive taxes and punitive regulations of California.

TY RL 

Update:  Californians moving to Texas in record numbers.

TY HA

Amazon dot Com Terminates Deal with 25,000 Calif. Affiliates

Why? Because California wants to tax those internet sales. And Amazon doesn't want to absorb the onerous regulatory costs of collecting taxes for California.

Alternative headline: Greedy Liberal Fascists Accelerate California's Rapid Downward Spiral into a Third World Toilet.

Or reason number 248 Kalifornia needs to slide off into the Pacific.

From the OC Register:

"Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law California’s tax on Internet sales through affiliate advertising which will immediately cut small-business website revenue 20% to 30%, experts say.

The bill, AB 28X, takes effect immediately. The state Board of Equalization says the tax will raise $200 million a year, but critics claim it will raise nothing because online retailers will end their affiliate programs rather than collect the tax."

Once again, the super colossal cognitive dissonance of Liberalism demonstrates its total ignorance of human nature. Plus, there are Constitutional prohibitions against states taxing interstate commerce - which is Federal jurisdiction; like immigration enforcement.

(I'm sure our incompetent, finger wagging AG Eric Holder will jump right on California's flagrant intrusion into Federal business.)

The article continues:

"Almost all the California Amazon affiliates have fewer than 75 employees and a large percentage have no employees, according to Rebecca Madigan executive director of the Performance Marketing Association, a Camarillo-based nationwide trade association.

“This law won’t impact Amazon that much but it is a crisis for website owners who make revenue by placing ads on their websites for thousands of online retailers,” Madigan said. “Most of them don’t have a physical presence in California.”

Liberalism truly is a mental disease.



At least he can't raise your taxes.

More "Conservative Texas is Booming VS Liberal California is Floundering"

 From Jay Ambrose @ RCP:

"Businesses love all that, varied researchers tell us. A number point out that, in 2008, Texas accounted for fully 70 percent of all new jobs created in America, and if you think that's great, which it is, don't suppose this was a one-shot deal. Businesses are reported to rate Texas the single best state in which to operate. Give them a chance and many will pull up stakes from yonder plunder-and-abuse venue and follow the Lone Star to high profits, sharing prosperity and opportunity as they resettle.

Meanwhile, what glitters is definitely not the Golden State. California is faced with a $26 billion deficit, cripples businesses with unconscionable taxes and rules, has dreamt up environmental objectives that in effect are combat tactics against the common good and is faced with a cost of living that is only part of the reason why citizens are deserting the place like the hordes that once upon a time rushed to enjoy its splendor."

Hollywood ‘Comedian’ Calls for Assassination of Sarah Palin

Yes, I know. This story is already growing cold. But why are Leftists so hateful and violent?

“You know what man? I am going to literally — if she gets elected president, I am going to hang out on the grassy knoll all the time, just loaded and ready — because you know what? It’s for my country."

Obviously, another moron who couldn't read the 'new civility' memo.

Warner T. Houston unpacks the stupidity of yet another hollyweird nutjob spewing intolerance, hate and violence.

But you already knew that history proves it is Leftists and Anarchists who are the assassins of presidents.

And 6 out 7 of their targets have been Republican presidents.

Not that history or facts matter to Leftists or Anarchists...

How a Teachers’ Rally Made Me Anti-Education

That's the title of Zombie's latest blog post:

"I write this essay with a heavy heart. I’ve always considered myself an ardent advocate for education. But a recent rally staged by teachers and students in favor of school funding forced me to reluctantly acknowledge an awful truth: We have to destroy education in order to save it.

Let me explain how I came to this miserable conclusion..."

It's a thoughtful and worth while read, although I'm pretty sure he's referring to public school education and not the more effective and cost efficient choices of private education.

 These are just a small sample of disturbing pictures captured at simultaneous rallies across California last month of the gub'mint school neo-bolsheviks and their demands for money, along with threats against the taxpayers and politicians if they don't get it.

The fact that California is broke and running a 20 billion dollar deficit this year is obviously lost on these geniuses.

These are the people educating your children.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidago

From Wikipedia:

"The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo in Spanish) is the peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States to the interim government of a militarily occupied Mexico City, that ended the Mexican-American War (1846 – 48) on February 2, 1848.

With the defeat of its army and the fall of the capital, Mexico surrendered to the United States and entered into negotiations to end the war."

I would argue that Mexico is still waging war today.

In 1848, James Polk(D) was president. General Scott was the hero of the war. Many thought the war a pre-text to expand slave holding territory. Thoreau's essay, "Civil Disobedience," emerged out of his experience opposing the Mexican-American War.

"Under the terms of the treaty negotiated by Trist, Mexico ceded to the United States Upper California and New Mexico. This was known as the Mexican Cession and included all of present-day California, Nevada and Utah as well as most of Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.

Mexico relinquished all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary of the United States."

Those who cannot - or will not - remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The current crop of seditious La RACIST / Aztlan agitators know this all too well, as borne out by the current truth of revisionist history indoctrinating students in California / Arizona gub'mint schools, paid for by your tax dollars. At each and every protest against the U.S. of A. by these seditious La RACIST / Aztlan agitators, cries of "this land was stolen!" can be heard.

Wrong. This land was not stolen. It was won by conquest.

Hence, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

GET. OVER. IT. 

Or go back to Mexico.

However, you can keep the land of fruits n nuts with its $19 billion/yr deficit.

Oh. And mind the alligators.

TY BG

Disease Outbreak at L.A. Playboy Mansion Ain't what You Think

It's worse. Much, much worse.

Reason Number 245 Kalifornia Needs to Slide Off into the Pacific

Low-flow Toilets Cause a Stink in San Francisco.

Alternative headline: The Land of Fruits & Nuts Epicenter is Full of Sh*t.

"Skimping on toilet water has resulted in more sludge backing up inside the sewer pipes, said Tyrone Jue, spokesman for the city Public Utilities Commission. That has created a rotten-egg stench near AT&T Park and elsewhere, especially during the dry summer months.

The city has already spent $100 million over the past five years to upgrade its sewer system and sewage plants, in part to combat the odor problem."

Perhaps they cannot spell "unintended consequences" out there on the Left coast.

"Now officials are stocking up on a $14 million, three-year supply of highly concentrated sodium hypochlorite - better known as bleach - to act as an odor eater and to disinfect the city's treated water before it's dumped into the bay. It will also be used to sanitize drinking water."

One hundred million dollars. 14 million dollars. What the heck. It's only other people's money. And these fruits n nuts wonder why California is broke.

But guess what? The same water saving, enviro-nutjobs who demanded the low-flow toilets object to the chlorine clean up. It's ba-ad for the environment.


Perhaps these nutjobs should be looking for two brain cells to rub together instead of creating solutions in search of a problem.