California nears financial "meltdown" as revenues tumble

What isn't so funny is that too many in the administration think using your tax dollars to rescue California is a wise course of action.

OK, so labrat2 and I hit the storage unit today and partially loaded the trailer.


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Does anyone else see the irony of Hugo Chavez announcing his plans to nationalize Venezuelan telecom and electricity companies on the same day as Governor Schwarzen-Kennedy plans a state takeover of health-care?

Goodbye cruel world California!

labrat2 is taking Molly to the kennel, and I just finished packing up the Kiwimobile (let's see- 2 FAL's, an M4, her Winchester, the Kimbers, 100lbs of assorted ammo... what am I forgetting? Oh yeah! The bags ( Read more... )

Crime: Violating the Constitution.

Specifically: Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3:

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent ( Read more... )

That was exciting.

labrat2 was downstairs watching tv. I was upstairs editing photos on the PC. She screams out "MARK". I jump up and start down, she says "There's someone out back, he's knocking on the back door!". I run back to the bedroom and grab Mr Kimber and a Scorpion light, rack the slide, go downstairs. Keep in mind the only access to the back ( Read more... )

*Disclaimer- no puns were intended in the drafting of this post!

In a flamboyant back-door maneuver, the California Senate passed a bill (AB 849) originally intended to deal with spawning fish and government run hatcheries, but re-written to legalize Gay marriage. They did this yesterday, when everyone in the country was focused on the unfolding ( Read more... )