How to insure that you get your stolen computer back........

so proud… so confident...

David Miller, [Sen. Pat Wiggins’ [Dumbass] Santa Rosa] press aide, declined comment Thursday, but told the Sacramento Bee that it’s not “a secret that she (Wiggins) has a medical condition for which she’s being treated.”

Miller added that the condition “does not affect her ability to do her job as a senator. But it can make her irritable, and when she’s irritable, she lets it be known.”

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A California state senator [Sen. Roy Ashburn [R] Bakersfield] who reportedly has voted against every gay rights measure since he took office eight years ago was charged with driving under the influence [0.14] on Wednesday, reportedly after leaving a gay nightclub [Faces] in Sacramento.

Last summer an editor heard that a Sacramento publication with a gay audience might “out” state Sen. Roy Ashburn as being gay.

So I called Ashburn and asked him flat-out: “Are you gay?”

His response: “Why would that be anyone’s business? Including The Californian’s?

“I think there are certain subjects that are simply not relevant and this is one of them. It has no bearing on the job I do.”

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It must be tough when just about everything anybody says about you is prefaced with the words “disgraced former assemblyman.” But that’s what Mike Duvall lives with every day. ... is benefiting from being away from the non-stop Sacramento smorgasbord provided courtesy of all those lobbyists.

..."hot mike” ... “set-up” by an aide and other assemblymen ...

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[newly appointed] Assembly Speaker John Pérez [40, a cousin of L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa] ... his years as an executive with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union ... Pérez carved a lucrative exception into state law for billionaire developer Philip Anschutz. He also introduced a bill at the request of Enterprise Car Rental that would have helped boost the company’s bottom line by stripping away a significant consumer protection…

Pérez voted to give millions in government subsidies to a giant real estate firm that contributed heavily to his union’s political fund ... one step short of payola ... “In retrospect, yeah, I would have asked questions,” Pérez said ...

Pérez said there was no connection between his votes and the contributions, adding that he didn’t “know ...

[Perez’] vote in 2005 to let CIM install “supergraphic” signs on Sunset Boulevard…

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Assembly Speaker John Pérez [BMOC]

“ Amazing Grace “

Fair Budget organization push an out-of-gas Volkswagen Volvo stationwagon carrying symbolic coffin past the Legislative Building Thursday before carrying it up the Capitol steps as part of a protest…

we’re bein’ Alinskied

1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”

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8. “Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.”

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10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.”

Tea Party = Open Source Politics

There are certainly no socialists in DC, especially in Obama’s WH.

Janet, I think it’s time to look under the other beds…

A California man killed in a shootout with Pentagon police drove cross-country and arrived at the military headquarters’ subway entrance armed with two semiautomatic weapons, authorities said Friday. The shooter apparently left behind Internet postings resentful of the government and airing suspicions about the 9/11 attacks.
John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., was named as the gunman in the Thursday evening attack. Authorities said he’d had previous run-ins with the law.

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Signs emerged that Bedell harbored ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces, and had questioned the circumstances behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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The user named JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was “a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions.”

That same posting railed against the government’s enforcement of marijuana laws and included links to the author’s 2006 court case in Orange County, Calif., involving allegations of cultivating marijuana and resisting a police officer.

John Patrick Bedell: Did right-wing extremism lead to shooting?

First Communion Figurine (Lower East Side)

About 5 inches tall.

February 25th, 2010

Amid considerable controversy that seems destined to spill over into the 2010 legislative races, Governor Gregoire and the Democratic-controlled Legislature have suspended a voter-approved initiative that would have required a supermajority two-thirds of both houses to boost taxes or eliminate tax exemptions…

March 4th, 2010

Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown wants voters to weigh in on the idea of an income tax on high earners.

In a blog posting on Thursday, the Spokane Democrat suggested that the Legislature pass the Senate Democrats’ temporary three-tenths-of-a-cent increase sales tax increase proposal and that it take effect immediately. But Brown also suggested that the Senate should pass a bill sponsored by Sen. Rosa Franklin, a referendum that would ask voters whether they want to lower the sales tax to 5.5 cents once the temporary sales tax increase expires in 2013, and in its place approve a “high earners” income tax.

The tax would be on 4.5 percent on all income over $200,000 for individuals, $300,000 for heads of households, and $400,000 for married couples.

“It’s a question to voters if that’s the direction they would want to go..........

how to make friends.......

An estimated 150 people were arrested Thursday evening after a splinter group broke away from a large protest in Oakland and took to I-880 and I-980, a police spokesman said.
The group took to the streets of Oakland just after 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon, marching away from a downtown rally protesting massive cuts to education as Oakland police followed
Just before 5 p.m. at the intersection of 11th and Castro, the group made its move and bolted, swarming onto Interstate 980.
“It’s pretty clear that once they got to the freeway that there were intentions to disrupt traffic throughout the Bay Area,” said Thomason.
The group started running at the 880-980 interchange behind them, police in riot gear pursuing on foot. The crowd then jumped from northbound 880 to southbound 880
One witness says a protestor trying to avoid arrest made a move and leaped off the interstate.
“[He] tried to jump onto a tree and then hit the ground and wasn’t moving,” said Mike Lewis, one of the protesters involved in the freeway demonstration..............

......and influence people......

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I wonder if the ambulance had a hard time getting through traffic to the hospital…

At least 200 inmates received early releases from the L.A. County jail system this week because officials couldn’t find beds for them as the Sheriff’s Department attempted to downsize the population of a detention facility in Castaic.

The action occurred as the Sheriff’s Department is trying to cuts its budget by about 9% by reducing deputy overtime and slashing the inmate population at the north facility of the Pitchess Detention Center.

Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said the inmates were released beginning Tuesday. Sheriff’s Department policy requires that most male inmates serve at least 80% of their sentence. Whitmore said these inmates were released after serving only about 50% of their sentence because there was nowhere else to place them.

Hmmmm… what to do.

What.to.do.