EL SEGUNDO -- Former Three's Company star Joyce DeWitt is facing DUI charges.
The 60-year old sitcom actress was arrested Saturday, July 4th at 4:19 p.m. after DeWitt drove around a barricade at Pine Avenue and Sierra Street near the city's annual fireworks show, El Segundo police Sgt. Dan Kim said.
Witnesses said DeWitt pulled up in a black sports car, parked, and staggered toward a police officer standing in uniform next to his motorcycle. Officers say DeWitt appeared to be intoxicated, so they administered a field sobriety test.
DeWitt, who played Janet Wood on the popular 1970's hit TV show, failed the field sobriety test and was taken to the El Segundo jail. She was cited and released at 1:20 a.m. Sunday on $5,000 bail.
And I thought I'd never read an interesting article in Time again. Afterbirth: It's What's For Dinner
There is so much you can't know about your spouse when you get married, like that one day she will want to eat her placenta. But there are two things you don't argue about with a pregnant woman: what she eats and that being full of life indeed looks sexy. So when Cassandra told me that for $275, a woman would come to our house, cook Cassandra's placenta, freeze-dry it and turn it into capsules to help ward off postpartum depression and increase milk supply, I said, "$275 is a bargain compared with the $20,000 I'll have to spend to tear out our kitchen immediately afterward."
Most mammals, Cassandra explained, eat their placentas, to which I countered that most dogs eat their poop.
Many insect females eat their husbands after -- or sometimes during -- mating. I agree with the writer that what other animals do is not necessarily an argument that humans should, too.
I stopped arguing there, figuring that like many of Cassandra's hippie ideas -- the compost bin, rubbing lemon on her underarms instead of deodorant -- she'd give up on this in a few weeks. Even as the due date approached and she was still set on eating her placenta, I couldn't imagine that she'd remember to request it from the doctor after the most physically draining experience of her life. This is a woman who, 9 times out of 10, forgets the bag of leftovers at the restaurant. Go ahead, read the rest, you know you want to. h/t Hot Air
Ick. I thought that bunch had got past this kind of thing a couple of decades ago. But I guess the concept of recycling covers even old, bad ideas in certain circles.
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Joel Stein has led a sheltered life. In Chinese quack medical tradition, the placenta is a close cousin to the elixir of life. These things are sold for significant sums of money in China, which is why delivery costs are negligible there - the doctor simply recoups his costs by keeping and selling the placenta.
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when Cassandra's looks fade in her 50s, there's no way I'm putting up with this crap.
If you are now, you will then. The shit I put up with depresses the hell out of me.
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Don't most placenta eating mammals do that as a protective measure (to get rid of the birth evidence so predators will have a harder time of finding the vulnerable newborns)?
I mean, unless there are a bunch of saber-toothed tigers prowling the L&D ward, why the hell would anyone want to do this?
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Procopius2k, it is the same Joel Stein, the shallow Time magazine writer about Los Angeles superficialities. However, what he actually wrote about not supporting the troops was
But I'm not for the war. And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken -- and they're wussy by definition. It's as if the one lesson they took away from Vietnam wasn't to avoid foreign conflicts with no pressing national interest but to remember to throw a parade afterward.
This strikes me as reasonable, especially since he wrote, in the same essay but in a previous paragraph that he had to respect anyone who voluntarily signed up for eight years of danger in far away places, and that he was sure such people would be fun to hang out with -- the ultimate accolade in his circle.
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"All together now, Men, wid feeling, EEEEEWWWWWWW!"
Joe, as a woman, I'll say it too: Eeeeeeeewwwwwww!
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Why am I not surprised that someone like Stein married a cannibalistic hippie chick? She's going to make a shake out of your ashes after she drives you into an early grave, Joel!
I swear I know people like these. They're usually pagan assholes of one stripe or another, but still think they ought to be able to have a Catholic Church wedding - without all the references to Christ.
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Maybe they could get together with Erin Jacob and have a party.
It seems it started as a satire piece with no basis in fact. The Somali Cruises website continued the joke.
As a follow-up to the discussions here when the story was posted, I submitted it to Snopes.com. They emailed me today that they'd put up an article on the topic, which was awfully nice of them.
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Despite being both satire and a hoax, it is still an excellent, if short-lived business opportunity. Once people start shooting back, being a pirate will be a lot less fun.
I do love the way the mainstream media got suckered, though. Praise be to Allah for their layers of fact-checkers and editors!
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TW --- heh -- "that was awfully nice of them" sounds like a couple of "Southern" women I know --- one from Alabama and one from Arkansas (both favorite people of mine) --- can hear each of them now... " that was......
Al Gore today compared the battle against Global Warming climate change with the struggle against the Nazis.
The former US Vice President said the world lacked the political will to act and invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill by encouraging leaders to unite their nations to fight climate change. He also accused politicians around the world of exploiting ignorance about the dangers of global warming to avoid difficult decisions.
Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: "Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II."
He could ask for the Churchill bust his dear friend President Obama returned not long ago.
He added: "We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource."
Mr Gore admitted that it was difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change was as urgent as the threat from Nazi Germany.
That's 'cause it isn't as urgent. Of course, climate change isn't a threat either, but rather a promise, and one we can do absolutely nothing to affect on a global level. Locally, small changes can be made by replanting forests -- perhaps Mr Gore should suggest to his English listeners that they give up their lovely village cottages for flats in the city, and replant the vasty woodlands the Robin Hood tales made famous.
"The level of awareness and concern among populations has not crossed the threshold where political leaders feel that they must change.
"The only way politicians will act is if awareness raises to a level to make them feel that it's a necessity."
Mr Gore, who brought the issues around climate change to a mass audience with the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Lie Truth, said the great hope for the future lay in a high level of environmental awareness among young people. He said sceptics who refused to believe dramatic cuts in carbon emissions could be delivered
(plant more trees!)
Mean global temperature has dropped since he showed that movie. Perhaps he should make another movie.
should consider the example of the young scientists in the NASA team which put a man on the moon on 1969. "The average age of scientists in the space centre control room was 26, which means they were 18 when they heard President Kennedy say he wanted to put a man on the moon in 10 years. Neil Armstrong did it eight years and two months later."
He said future generations would put one of two questions to today's adults. "It will either be 'what were you thinking, didn't you see the North Pole freezing melting before your eyes, didn't you hear what the scientists were saying?' Or they will ask 'how is it you were so stupid to believe Al Gore able to find the moral courage to solve the crisis which so many said couldn't be solved?'."
Gosh, why would so many say such a thing?
Sir David King, the Government's former chief scientist and now director of the Smith School, also berated politicians for failing to follow up their statements on climate change with a clear programme of action. "I do think it's relatively easy for a prime minister to make a speech on climate change which sounds committed and very much more difficult for that prime minister to persuade the Treasury to put the finance behind that commitment to make it a reality.
"There is a long distance in government between saying what you think needs to be said and then doing in terms of taxing people to death making budgets available."
Indeed. That's because the politicians are the ones who have to face the voters who actually pay for your pie-in-the-sky projects, Sir David.
Sir David expressed disappointment that no senior British politician had taken up his invitation to address a conference attended by the world's top climate scientists, senior business leaders and the presidents of the Maldives and Rwanda. The Maldives and Rwanda are the vanguard of enlightenment regarding Global Warming?
Since they've refused to think about more important issues, they can devote themselves to such trivialities.
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He's right about the parallel to the struggle against totalitarian fascism; he's just a bit confused about which side of the debate is the totalitarian fascist one.
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Jobs. A study by Redefining Progress found that, if properly implemented, the governors recommendations and/or AB 32 could create as many as 200,000 jobs in Californiaenough to lower the state unemployment rate by 15 percent. This is more than twice the estimatebased on only a partial implementationproduced by the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA).
Savings. When fully implemented, these initiatives could provide the average California household with net savings greater than $750 per year, the equivalent of a 20 percent cut in the state income tax. Properly directed, these savings would be especially beneficial in assisting low- and moderate-income families, communities and small businesses overcome financial barriers to energy efficiency.
Exhaustive research of climatological data going back millions of years carried out by Lee Gerhard, senior scientist with the Kansas Geological Society, reveals an entirely different picture of the forces driving the myriad changes through which the earth's climate has passed. Gerhard dismisses the notion that human emissions of carbon dioxide are a significant driver of climate and refutes the idea that climate change rates and today's slight global warming are unprecedented. "They are not," he flatly states. Instead, Gerhard makes two key points:
* Climate naturally changes constantly, from warmer to cooler and from cooler to warmer, and at many levels of intensity over time at many scales.
* Variation in solar activity closely correlates with global temperature variations, suggesting that the amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the earth is a primary climate driver at the time scale of decades to millennia.3
"Overall," Gerhard says, "the earth's climate has been cooling for 60 million years, but that is only an average -- temperature goes up and down constantly."4 Addressing a September 20 Capitol Hill briefing sponsored by the Center for Science and Public Policy, Gerhard, in a power point presentation, showed the highly variable nature of the earth's climate over the past 16,000 years and, in more detail, during the last 2,000 years. "Depending on the period in earth's history that is chosen," he said, "the climate will either be warming or cooling. Choosing whether earth is warming or cooling is simply a matter of picking end points."5
Gerhard, whose research took place under the auspices of the Kansas Geological Survey and was not funded by industry, points out that the geological record shows that rises in greenhouse gases do not precede rises in temperature. Indeed, CO2 levels actually rose prior to the advent of the Little Ice Age (circa 1400).6 Moreover, CO2, the greenhouse gas most prominently cited as contributing to global warming, represents only about 1/4 of 1 percent of the total greenhouse gas effect, "hardly a device to drive the massive energy system of earth's climate," he says.
Gerhard's conclusions are supported by findings released Sept. 29 by CO2 researechers Sherwood, Keith and Craig Idso. "[E]arth's mean near-surface air temperature is nowhere near the peak level of what it was a million or so years ago," they write. "Neither is it as high as it was during the mid-Holocene [circe 5,000 years ago], which was itself much cooler than all four of the interglacials that preceded it. In fact, it's not even as warm now as it was a mere 900 years ago, when the atmosphere's CO2 concentration was fully 100 ppm (parts per million) less than it is today..."
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Winston Churchill refused to make peace with Germany after the fall of France, when the war had clearly been lost and there was no further reason to continue it. But Churchill refused to accept anything but Victory. "We shall never surrender" what kind of peacenik would support a stance like that? I'd be careful about liberals quoting Churchill, it's a dangerous precedent to set.
Article in Spanish. Computer translation with cleanup by me.
The undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, Lourdes Aranda Bezaury, said in the event that the deposed president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, requested asylum in Mexico, the government of Mexico would consider it. In a press conference, he clarified that the chancellor of Honduras, Patrician Stems, did not ask asylum or refuge to Mexico.
The official of the Office of the secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE) added that "Mexico will continue seeking that be by means of the dialogue and the coordination, and not traveling through actions of violence, like this theme can be resolved".
In the meantime he assured that Mexico will continue [follow?] closely the resolution adopted by the OAS in which the right of Honduras is suspended to participate in this regional agency.
Aranda Bezaury said that is a priority for Mexico that the facts in Honduras do not result in more acts of violence, and regretted what happened last Sunday. It emphasized that the country will continue working in multilateral mechanisms and also through the Grupo de Río to reach a negotiated solution to the problem.
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July 6 (Bloomberg) -- Manuel Zelaya, the deposed Honduran president, will attempt to re-enter the country again this week after the acting government prevented his plane from landing yesterday and several of his supporters were shot at a rally.
Honduras closed the international airport in Tegucigalpa for 48 hours today, Carlos Pacheco, a legal adviser at the airport, said in a phone interview. The closure came after two protesters died yesterday during a clash between Zelayas supporters and the military at the airport.
Zelaya is still in San Salvador and he will return to Honduras on July 8, Luis Roland Valenzuela, housing minister under Zelaya, told reporters today in Tecucigalpa.
They deceived us, Valenzuela said, citing an agreement with Micheletti that would have allowed Zelaya to land. He wanted to land and Micheletti had said that it was fine.
I doubt that seriously ...
The U.S. State Department called for the restoration of democratic order in Honduras, and for Zelayas reinstatement. We deplore the use of force against demonstrators in the countrys capital of Tegucigalpa, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said at a news conference today in Washington.
How about violent demonstrators?
The exiled leader will head to the U.S. tomorrow, Kelly said. He spent last week touring Central America and the U.S. gathering support and winning a unanimous vote at the Organization of American States to suspend Honduras.
Micheletti put out an arrest warrant and vowed to block Zelayas return, warning his arrival could trigger violence.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Honduras's interim government closed its main airport to all flights on Monday after blocking the runway to prevent the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Clashes with his supporters caused the first death in a week of protests.
Police and soldiers blanketed the streets of the capital early Monday, enforcing a sunset-to-sunrise curfew with batons and metal poles. Civil aviation authorities announced a 24-hour ban on all flights at the country's main airport starting Monday morning.
Soldiers clashed Sunday with thousands of Zelaya backers massed at the airport in hopes of welcoming home the deposed leader removed a week earlier. But military vehicles and soldiers blocked the runway. Pilots of the plane loaned by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez circled the airport and decided not to risk a crash.
Mr. Zelaya instead headed for El Salvador, ...
Or Managua according to other news reports
... and vowed to try again Monday or Tuesday in his high-stakes effort to return to power in a country where all branches of government have lined up against him. But later Monday, U.S. officials said Mr. Zelaya would return to Washington where Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton planned to him on Tuesday. It would be the highest-level contact the Obama administration has had with Mr. Zelaya since he was deposed last week.
"I am risking myself personally to resolve the problems without violence," said Mr. Zelaya, who planned to fly later to Nicaragua. He urged the United Nations, the OAS, the U.S. and European countries to "do something with this repressive regime."
Mr. Insulza said he "is open to continuing all appropriate diplomatic overtures to obtain our objective." But interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti said he won't negotiate until "things return to normal."
"We will be here until the country calms down," Mr. Micheletti said. "We are the authentic representatives of the people."
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday in Geneva he was saddened by the loss of life in Honduras and he urged authorities to protect civilians, saying they should be allowed to express their opinions without being threatened. He again called the coup unacceptable.
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MOSCOW -- President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a preliminary agreement Monday to reduce the world's two largest nuclear stockpiles by as much as a third, down to the lowest levels of any U.S.-Russia accord, and counter what Obama called "a sense of drift" in the countries' relations.
"We must lead by example, and that's what we are doing here today," Obama declared in a Kremlin hall glittering in gold. "We resolve to reset U.S.-Russian relations so that we can cooperate more effectively in areas of common interest."
Apparently keeping our distance from thugs isn't in our common interest ...
The document signed by the two leaders at a Moscow summit, Obama's first in Russia, is meant as a guide for negotiators as the nations work toward a replacement pact for the START arms control agreement that expires in December. The joint understanding also commits the countries to lower longer-range missiles for delivering nuclear bombs to between 500 and 1,100.
We don't need as many when what we have is more effective and more accurate.
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I am kind of slow here, are we still in an arms race with Russia? Seems that Reagan put this dog to sleep in the 80s. So what we have here is a ?rerun? of Presidential accomplishments?
Seoul is considering a taskforce to deal with a renegotiation of the Atomic Energy Agreement with the U.S. that would enable South Korea to expand nuclear activities. Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan on Monday said the taskforce could be led by the Foreign Ministry's special ambassador for energy and resources "in cooperation with other government agencies concerned."
Yu was speaking in the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification Committee. "The government will make preparations to begin negotiations in the second half of this year for the purpose of getting the maximum peaceful and commercial use of atomic power reflected in the agreement."
Just another subtle signal that if China can't curb its dog, the SKors reserve the right to go nuclear.
Seoul wants to revise the bilateral atomic energy pact, which expires in 2014, so it can at least reprocess its own spent nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes.
Yu said the two countries will discuss ways of reprocessing, including so-called pyro-processing at a high temperature. Unlike the more common wet reprocessing technology, pyro-reprocessing, also known as a dry recycling, offers nearly zero possibility of nuclear arms use given that it makes it difficult to extract pure plutonium.
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Arms race sequence activated. Coordinates locked: Kims ugly ass. Standing by for authorization.
Media buyers said they have written a few deals with cable networks, which also compete for upfront dollars, but there have been no confirmed deals on the broadcast side of the business.
The upfront has been sluggish for weeks because of an impasse over price. Despite lower ratings, competition from cable and the recession, the broadcast networks, which usually lead the market, are seeking to raise ad rates as they have done for years. What a crazy idea, a product that is worth less, costs less. Amazing concept, that. No wonder the media has a problem getting their heads around it.
Sitting across the table, media buyers are adamant that their recession-plagued clients won't pay higher ad rates and want to see price rollbacks. At one point, media buyers were talking about double-digit decreases but now it appears they would be satisfied with something in the single digits.
Typically, the broadcast networks sell as much as 80 percent of their primetime spots in the upfront market. Whatever is left is sold later in the "scatter" market, where prices vary depending on demand. There is talk that the networks would rather book less upfront business, gambling that they can unload their spots later at higher prices, rather than cut rates. So, their master plan is: ignore our huge repeat customers and try to sell our overpriced crap later in dribs and drabs to people who walk in off the street. Brilliant, I say, it's no wonder that television is in the fine financial shape it is today.
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Does anyone under the age of 55 watch TV anymore? When I get the urge to watch it, I can find nothing to watch. Now I usually pop in a DVD and watch that instead.
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True story: I'm an expatriate who never watches American TV. When I get home, once or twice a year, I like to relax with a beer and get reacquainted with an old friend called "television." It takes 24-48 hours before I get totally bored with the constant repeats and insipid shows, and I'm ready to not watch for another year. A pity, my father has this totally sweet home theater setup with risers and everything, couch potato heaven. 550 channels and nothing's on.
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Just like the folding of the Big Three advertising has hammered a number of the dead tree media, the ripples are finally reaching broadcast. You know they're elites when they act the same. The legislature in California can't get its head around the fact it has to live in budget and neither can these execs. Your product is overpriced for the market. You have to cut expenses on everything to include leveling the management structure.
BTW, I think Deadliest Catch, Dirty Jobs, and a number of other programs on sat/cable access are well worth the viewing. If you want to get a good laugh you should have caught the last couple minutes of After the Catch which featured the captains seeing their program in international release and themselves dubbed. Salty Bering Sea Captain(tm) just is not the same in French.
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I've reverted to DVD's. Watched Daniel Craig in Defiance for the 5th time last evening. I keep looking for Judith Dench to arrive in a Dakota resupply drop, but no luck. A good training film selection for the upcoming Obamageddon. Highly recommend it.
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Pink Floyd's comment was thirteen channels of shit to choose from - a lot in the broadcast days. Bruce Springsteen added 57 channels and nothing on in the cable TV 80s. Funny how the number of choices increases, but the quality remains the same.
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Unless there is a national emergency kinda thing (and no, Michael Jackson's demise doesn't count even if the networks think it does), what's the point of watching live TV if you have a DVR and can skip the ads?
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I use an online movie service named Graboid, for 5 bucks a month I can download about 5-6 movies, Depending on size) and watch them whenever I wish(They stay on computer so you can re-watch at your pleasure), Then next month, 5 more and so on.
I highly recommend WALL-E.(SCI FI Animation)
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I do watch TV - HGTV, that is. Also Food Network and some programs on Discovery, Discovery Health (Dr. G's interesting, though I wish they wouldn't blur the gory stuff), and the like.
If it weren't for cable, I'd never turn on the TV except for the local news. What frosts me is I'm paying for sports channels, since it's part of the "basic" subscription. Several years ago, Comcast called me to try to convince me to pay them even more money for HBO, et al. I told them I'd rather they took away all the sports channels and charged me less.
Haven't heard from them since.
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If some of those sports channels are hunting and fishing shows, Barbara, they might come in handy over the next few years in an instructional way.
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I'm in my later thirties now, and about a third of my peers have cable. It's easier to just buy dvds & wait until the few decent shows' seasons pop once a year.
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TV networks trying to raise ad rates as viewers stop watching
I think the TV execs deserve some credit for their totally genius spin on the traditional "If we're losing money on every sale, we can always make it up on volume". It's the kind of marketing ingenuity that has made the American economy what it is today.
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OK, I'll take the mocking - I just got hooked on "Gary Unmarried" with Jay Mohr. About the only network show I watch, but it's pretty damn funny (I DVR it to skip the ads, k?).
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Do what, Frank?
Never even heard of it. Mercifully.
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jeebus. Fredman makes it hard to reset your nic after sockpuppetting
Right now California's economy is moribund, and the prospects for a quick turnaround are not good. Unable to pay its bills, the state is issuing IOUs; its once strong credit rating has collapsed. The state that once boasted the seventh-largest gross domestic product in the world is looking less like a celebrated global innovator and more like a fiscal basket case along the lines of Argentina or Latvia.
It took some amazing incompetence to toss this best-endowed of places down into the dustbin of history. Yet conventional wisdom views the crisis largely as a legacy of Proposition 13, which in effect capped only taxes.
This lets too many malefactors off the hook. I covered the Proposition 13 campaign for the Washington Post and examined its aftermath up close. It passed because California was running huge surpluses at the time, even as soaring property taxes were driving people from their homes.
Admittedly it was a crude instrument, but by limiting those property taxes Proposition 13 managed to save people's houses. To the surprise of many prognosticators, the state government did not go out of business. It has continued to expand faster than either its income or population. Between 2003 and 2007, spending grew 31%, compared with a 5% population increase. Today the overall tax burden as percent of state income, according to the Tax Foundation, has risen to the sixth-highest in the nation.
The media and political pundits refuse to see this gap between the state's budget and its ability to pay as an essential issue. It is. (This is not to say structural reform is not needed. I would support, for example, reforming some of the unintended ill-effects of Proposition 13 that weakened local government and left control of the budget to Sacramento.)
But the fundamental problem remains. California's economy--once wondrously diverse with aerospace, high-tech, agriculture and international trade--has run aground. Burdened by taxes and ever-growing regulation, the state is routinely rated by executives as having among the worst business climates in the nation. No surprise, then, that California's jobs engine has sputtered, and it may be heading toward 15% unemployment.
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Gov. Sarah Palin was coy about her presidential aspirations but criticized both President Obama and the Republican Party in her first interview since announcing she was stepping down as governor of Alaska.
Standing astride a fishing boat she would later climb aboard to haul in fishing nets and salmon, Palin expressed bitterness at bloggers who peppered her with ethics accusations, whom she said brought government in Alaska to a grinding halt. "The critics want to put you on a course of personal bankruptcy, so you can't afford to serve," she said, calling the attacks "bull crap." The Newt Gingrich treatment. (Newtered)
The governor made the remarks in an interview with FOX News in Dillingham, where she was fishing with her husband, Todd, and daughter Piper. Reporters from three other networks were also in attendance.
Palin said she has started a legal defense fund to raise money for legal fees.
She said Obama is taking the country in the wrong direction, and while she wouldn't reveal her future plans, indicated she has fight left in her. "Average, hard-working Americans need to be able to get out there, unrestrained, and fight for what is right," she said. "Fight for energy independence and national security, fight for a smaller government instead of this big government overgrowth that Obama is ushering in."
Palin also offered criticism of the Washington, D.C., political establishment, and even the Republican Party, which nominated her to be vice president last year. "Obsessive partisanship" has hurt the party, she said, striking a more independent beat than the partisan tune she sang on the campaign trail. "We have so many people who offer advice, but I'm going to continue to be, whether some of them like it or not, pretty darn independent, and not get wrapped up into a strong political machine that hasn't been extremely successful in some ways."
Palin also decried the state of the American media and said news coverage of her children was unfair. "Most candidates, most public officials get to look into a camera and say, 'you better leave your hands off my kids,'" she said. "Well I haven't been able to say that. And that double standard that's been applied, that's been a little bit frustrating."
Asked if she wanted to be president, she repeated she did not know what her future holds. "I want to work, right now, for people who are going to work either in office or out of office for the right things. Those principles that build up America, those who are inspired by the values of America, and will not deride or apologize for the values we hold as Americans."
Palin had cited attacks on her family and multiple ethics complaints that had forced her family to rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills. As a result, it's unlikely she'd run for president in 2012, suggested Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. "Not having talked to the governor, I take 2012 off the table right now simply because given everything she's going through personally, dealing with the financial mess that all these ludicrous investigations have put her and Todd in, at the moment, I think she's trying to focus on getting her house in order, her personal house in order," Steele told FOX News. "I look forward to welcoming her out and helping us in our campaigns this fall if and when shes ready to do that. Sarah Palin will be the ultimate arbiter of when she will engage and how she will engage," he said.
As Palin spoke, she and her husband Todd Palin loaded four news crews into two small fishing boats and headed into Bristol Bay from Dillingham. The Palin family -- Todd's sister, mother and father, as well as nieces and at least two children, had picked the journalists up at the airport in Dillingham and shuttled them to Bristol Bay in old pickup trucks and SUVs.
On the bay, Sarah Palin showed how they spent time each summer hauling up pre-placed nets, emptying them of captured salmon, and tossing them back into the water.
Todd Palin was all smiles as he captained the fishing boat in Bristol Bay out to nets filled with Sockeye. He grew up commercial fishing these waters and Sarah Palin has been making the summer trip to Dillingham for many years. She joked that even though she's been helping her husband haul in fish for decades he still yells at her for doing it wrong. The governor and another hauler lifted the nets out of the water and pried the salmon out.
It was tough work. She wore rubber gloves, knee-high boots and waders. This was a portrait of the moose hunter and folksy hockey mom that emerged soon after she was picked by Sen. John McCain to be his running mate.
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I see the MSM can't stop getting their digs in.
I guess it's in their blood.
Except for Lightworkers, of course.
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On the bay, Sarah Palin showed how they spent time each summer hauling up pre-placed nets, emptying them of captured salmon, and tossing them back into the w
I've been fishing for decades, recreationally not commercially, but I never realized I was "capturing" fish all this time. I guess this makes the stringer the Abu Ghraib of fishdom.
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I remember a sandstorm in San Antonio when I was a kid visiting my grandparents. It probably wasn't this bad, but I do remember sand sifting in around the closed windows. I don't think it lasted too long.
For a kid from the Virginia mountains, it was a real kick. (For my grandparents, not so much, I suspect.)
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Israel dropped out of a multi-billion dollar joint venture with a Swedish firm to develop new fighter jets for India because of U.S. pressure, according to Monday press reports.
Israel Aerospace Industries was planning to develop a new model of the Swedish-made Gripen fighter jet with its manufacturer, Saab, to compete in a tender to sell the planes to India's armed forces, the Jerusalem Post said.
But the state-owned firm backed out on the orders of the Israeli defense ministry "after the Pentagon expressed concern that American technology, used by Israel, would be integrated into the Gripen," the newspaper said.
It said Washington had likely pressured its close ally because two major U.S. aircraft manufacturers -- Boeing and Lockheed Martin -- are also participating in the tender for more than 120 aircraft estimated at 12 billion dollars.
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ION TOPIX > ANKARA: ISRAEL AFTER LOSING TURKEY IN THE DAVOS RUMPUS. IS REACHING OUT TO .......
[CAUCASUS + CENTASIA States, includ MUSLIM]?
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Had Saab been a Chinese firm, hundreds of millions in 'seed money' from the bailout pot would have been forthcoming. Tim Geithner and Kissenger & Associates would have seen to it.
Women who say they don't need a man may well be right -- after human sperm was created in the lab. The breakthrough could give hope to infertile couples and men left unable to have children after having cancer treatment.
But don't worry guys, the scientists who created the sperm using stem cells don't plan to take you out of the baby-making process just yet.
'While we can understand some people may have concerns, this does not mean that humans can be produced in a dish and we have no intention of doing this,' said researcher Prof Karim Nayernia. 'The work is a way of investigating why some people are infertile and the reasons behind it.
'It could also allow men who are currently infertile the chance to have a child which is genetically their own but this will be many years away -- at least a decade.'
While scientists at Newcastle University and the NorthEast England Stem Cell Institute insist 'fully mature, functional sperm' was produced, other experts cast doubt on their findings.
Prof Azim Surani, from Cambridge University, described the lab samples as 'a long way from being authentic sperm cells'.
And the MRC Institute of Medical Research said: 'Although they find some of the sperm cells have tails and can swim, this is not evidence of normality.'
Nonsense. Labs would be absolutely no fun at all....
By the way, women who say they don't need men should live without them - completely.
Why not? There are women doctors, dentists, mechanics, electricians, carpenters, firefighters, cops, pilots, farmers, truckers, even garbage haulers. You don't need men? Then get ALL your goods and services from women.
Or STFU.
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Men are fun. Who'd want a world without them? As for lab-made sperm, Nature usually has good reasons for organizing things the way she does. We could all be like that mushroom mite which mates with sons never born, and gives birth to daughters who do the same.
Political rivals have accused him of being a neo-liberal and a ditherer, but Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has emerged as the favourite ahead of today's Indonesian presidential poll. The former general and incumbent is widely tipped to be re-elected in the first round of voting when as many as 176 million Indonesian voters cast their ballots.
It has been a campaign largely devoid of penetrating discussion of the many pressing issues facing Indonesia. Even so, there have been moments of colour and drama, including an intriguing claim on Friday by President Yudhoyono that black magic spells had been cast against him and his campaign team.
"Many are practising black magic. Indeed, I and my family can feel it," he was quoted as saying by Antara, the official Indonesian news agency. "It's extraordinary. Many kinds of methods are used. I have come to the conclusion that only prayers can defeat black magic attacks. For instance, last night I kept praying all the way to the venue of the [candidates'] debate along with my wife, aides and driver." The comments caused a stir amid accusations Dr Yudhoyono was being "irrational". However, the belief in supernatural spirits remains deeply entrenched in Indonesia, notwithstanding that most of its population are adherents of Islam.
There has also been an alleged dirty tricks campaign to portray the wife of Dr Yudhoyono's running mate, Boediono, falsely, as a Catholic. It remains unclear whether this so-called black operation was launched by supporters of Dr Yudhoyono and attributed by them to the rival party Golkar, or actually carried out by cadres of Golkar. Either way, Golkar's candidate, Jusuf Kalla, has run an extensive advertising campaign featuring his wife - and the spouse of his running mate, the former general Wiranto - proudly wearing the traditional Islamic headscarf. The wives of Dr Yudhoyono and Mr Boediono do not wear the scarf, known here as the jilbab.
Dr Yudhoyono's other rival, the former president Megawati Soekarnoputri, has run on a populist, nationalist platform of rapid economic expansion and largesse for poor villagers, without actually saying how she would generate the promised 10 per cent GDP growth or pay for the handouts. She and her running mate, Prabowo Subianto (another former general), have regularly labelled Dr Yudhoyono a pro-foreigner "neo-liberal" who has created an "errand boy" economy for Indonesia.
The President, meanwhile, has campaigned on his record of bringing economic stability to Indonesia, crushing terrorism at the same time as attacking the country's endemic culture of corruption. Dr Yudhoyono's imposing lead has, in part, driven many loud complaints from his opponents about deep flaws in the election commission's list of registered voters. But a decision on Monday by the Constitutional Court to allow people to vote if they show a valid identification card has taken the heat out of accusations of a rigged poll.
Learning at the University of Colorado will go on without Ward Churchill.
On Tuesday Chief Denver District Court Judge Larry Naves denied Churchill's motion for reinstatement of employment as well as any "front" pay. It was part of a decision where Naves granted CU and the Board of Regents immunity from being sued, which vacates the jury verdict from April of this year.
Churchill essentially got nothing.
We believe the judge appropriately applied the law to recognize the Board of Regents role as a quasi-judicial body. This ruling recognizes that the regents have to make important and difficult decisions. The threat of litigation should not be used to influence those decisions, said University of Colorado President Bruce D. Benson on Tuesday.
The ethnic studies professor had sued CU in an attempt to regain his teaching post.
Churchill was fired in 2007, following a two-year investigation into allegations Churchill fabricated some of his scholarly publications.
But a Denver jury in April 2009 ruled the school had only fired him after controversy erupted surrounding an essay he'd written in September 2001, comparing the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to a Nazi leader.
That ruling included only a symbolic damage award of $1.
In court last week, Churchill testified that money was not his motivation for this lawsuit.
On Tuesday, Naves ruled "because quasi-judicial immunity was a 'defense that would have been applicable to any of its officials or employees' it is a defense available to the University and the Board of Regents. In this case, it is clear that the Board of Regents performed a quasi-judicial function and acted in a quasi-judicial capacity when it heard Professor Churchill's case and terminated his employment."
"Based on the foregoing, it is hereby ORDERED that Defendants are GRANTED quasi-judicial immunity as a matter of law from Professor Churchill's second claim for relief. As a result, the jury's verdict in this matter is hereby VACATED, and judgment is hereby entered in favor of Defendants on Professor Churchill's Second Claim for Relief."
Naves went on write: "If I granted reinstatement I believe there is a substantial likelihood that there would be future disputes about the propriety of Professor Churchills academic conduct... Under these circumstances and recognizing that the Universitys faculty must have the ability to define the standards of scholarship, I am persuaded that reinstatement is not an appropriate remedy in this case... The same 'sharply conflicting evidence' about Professor Churchills job performance and the fundamental disagreements between the parties lead me to conclude that 'an absence of mutual trust' makes reinstatement unfeasible."
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"But a Denver jury in April 2009 ruled the school had only fired him after controversy erupted surrounding an essay he'd written in September 2001, comparing the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to a Nazi leader."
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wanna buy a pic of me in a Che beret, wayfarers, and an AK47? Way cool! Only a buck, man. I'll autograph it for a quarter, "Little Eichmann's" for 50 cents
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
EL SEGUNDO -- Former Three's Company star Joyce DeWitt is facing DUI charges.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Honduras's interim government closed its main airport to all flights on Monday after blocking the runway to prevent the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Clashes with his supporters caused the first death in a week of protests.
Media buyers said they have written a few deals with cable networks, which also compete for upfront dollars, but there have been no confirmed deals on the broadcast side of the business. 
Right now California's economy is moribund, and the prospects for a quick turnaround are not good. Unable to pay its bills, the state is issuing IOUs; its once strong credit rating has collapsed. The state that once boasted the seventh-largest gross domestic product in the world is looking less like a celebrated global innovator and more like a fiscal basket case along the lines of Argentina or Latvia.
Political rivals have accused him of being a neo-liberal and a ditherer, but Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has emerged as the favourite ahead of today's Indonesian presidential poll. The former general and incumbent is widely tipped to be re-elected in the first round of voting when as many as 176 million Indonesian voters cast their ballots.
