Prop 20: Manda Recommends - NO

-          Here’s the deal, and I mean, literally, the deal: During one of the ever-so-fun budget negotiations, this rumor started floating around the Capitol. The Governator was pulling weight with certain Republicans to get them to sign onto the budget deal in exchange for the Dems allowing certain “reforms” to be ( Read more... )

Hey All!

I've never really done a meme before but racethewind10  said I should start this one. I know a couple of you are going to Jon Stewart's "Restoring Sanity" rally in D.C. and taking your best sanity-inducing signs :) I myself would be trying to hitchhike my way there if I wasn't so deeply mired in keeping California sane this election cycle. So, since I ( Read more... )

(Oh, look, another one of these posts from me. This is becoming habit. I swear I'm working on fic. EPIC fic. But epic fic, like a good whiskey, needs a certain amount of time to age. Or you know, be written. Anyways, just read this.)

It's all in the title people, or in this case, the subtitle. In the Newsweek article "Straight Jacket" Ramin ( Read more... )

CAUTION: STRONG LANGUAGE  (not mine)

It seems hard to believe that in California of all places, the bastion of wacky-treehugging-gunhating-elitist-marxist-communist-socialist-progressive-liberals, that something like this could happen. But it does. It happens every day. Once you hear this, ask yourself, are you *sure* state politicians get paid TOO ( Read more... )

Recently, I've become more and more annoyed and upset by what I can only describe as outright lies and fairly blatant biases on the part of news outlets and so called "journalists" in the media. Media bias? What? I know… shocking. I realized as I started to sit down and write a full-on rant that my problem isn't just with the media in its many ( Read more... )

Lovingly snagged from Irony_rocks.

Watch our kick-ass President show once again how he managed to get so many of us to vote for him - and no, it's not because he is secretly indoctrinating our school kids via "stay in school" messages. Dude - I went to a private school. I know my indoctrination when I see it. Pfft.

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I don't think it's possible to love this woman any more than I already do. But she just keeps trying *g*

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Go Madame Speaker!

Oh, California... *sigh* and btw - the clip title says the Senate's asleep, but all the video is from the Assembly. I can name off the members for fun if anyone wants :-D

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That's *Mr. President* now baby!

Thank god, I can start using my civil liberties again.

ETA: I keep trying to embed the video, and it's just not working. So until I can figure out... Go here to see the speech (in case you missed it): http://www.nbc.com/news/watch ( Read more... )