B-Man Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 California nightmare: How high taxes, rampant crime, suffocating wokery, streets littered with homeless addicts, and years of liberal policies are blamed for ruining the Golden State... as thousands of families flee to Republican Texas and Florida by Ian Birrell https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9608111/How-high-taxes-rampant-crime-streets-littered-addicts-blamed-ruining-Golden-State.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal Deek Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 On 5/18/2021 at 5:59 AM, Tiberius said: Wow, California has a huge budget surplus!! How is West Virginia doing? https://thehill.com/policy/finance/553976-legislative-office-estimates-california-budget-surplus-just-38b-not-76b Must be because they defunded garbage collectors and highway maintenance departments. This place is rapidly resembling a third world sh$& hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Taxpayers Fleeing California Take $8.8 Billion In Gross Income to Other States. https://www.theepochtimes.com/taxpayers-fleeing-california-take-8-8-billion-in-gross-income-to-other-states_3844818.html?utm_campaign=socialshare_twitter&utm_source=twitter.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristocrat Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/05/us/california-gun-ban-overturned/index.html (CNN)A federal judge overturned California's longtime ban on assault weapons on Friday in a ruling that likened the AR-15 to a Swiss Army knife. Assault weapons have been banned in California since 1989, according to the ruling. The law has been updated several times since it was originally passed. According to the ruling by US District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego, the assault weapons ban violates the Second Amendment's right to bear arms and deprives Californians from owning assault-style weapons commonly allowed in other states. Benitez issued a permanent injunction Friday so the law cannot be enforced. "Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment," Benitez said in the ruling. "Firearms deemed as 'assault weapons' are fairly ordinary, popular, modern rifles." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 https://fee.org/articles/california-s-100-million-marijuana-bailout-tells-you-all-you-need-to-know-about-its-government/?utm_source=ribb GOODER AND HARDER: California’s $100 Million Marijuana Bailout Tells You All You Need to Know about Its Government. I bring up [the Johnny Depp film] Blow in light of news that California’s legislature approved a $100-million plan to boost California’s struggling legal marijuana industry. As the Los Angeles Times reports, the industry is in serious trouble. The growth of licensed cannabis shops has been dismal and far below state projections. Just 1,086 retail and delivery firms have been permitted to date—about 82 percent lower than the 6,000 cannabis shops the government anticipated. How is this possible? Well, shortly after California legalized pot in 2016, lawmakers began burdening the industry with so many regulations—particularly myriad compliance orders associated with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)—that businesses are drowning under paperwork, fees, and delays. “Many cannabis growers, retailers and manufacturers have struggled to make the transition from a provisional, temporary license to a permanent one renewed on an annual basis — a process that requires a costly, complicated and time-consuming review of the negative environmental effects involved in a business and a plan for reducing those harms,” the Times reports. Who on earth could have predicted this development? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlando Tim Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 On 5/18/2021 at 8:59 AM, Tiberius said: Wow, California has a huge budget surplus!! How is West Virginia doing? https://thehill.com/policy/finance/553976-legislative-office-estimates-california-budget-surplus-just-38b-not-76b They received 151 billion from the Biden Stimulus- so they were 110 billion short until then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding.’ “Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability—and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers.” https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/06/25/blackouts-loom-in-california-as-electricity-prices-are-absolutely-exploding/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Over 29 years of fanhood Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 (edited) This stuff is pretty wild! California travel ban to states that don’t have same views on LGBTQ+ Quote Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta added Florida, Arkansas, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia to the list that now has 17 states where state employee travel is forbidden except under limited circumstances. Quote Florida, Montana, Arkansas, and West Virginia passed laws that prevent transgender women and girls from participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity. I have no question there is prejudice, which I thought was progressing nicely to a more accepting society… but why is the physiaoloagical competitive disparity not the center of the discussion? I suppose we could just go to single genderless sports leagues, but I thought the reason for separation of men and women’s sports was because of physiology. https://apnews.com/article/048670c6461032de3cb67154d624ab13 I why is it every last topic is so dam polarized? Edited June 29, 2021 by Over 29 years of fanhood 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Newsome sues own SoS for for not listing him as a (D) on recall election ballot. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/29/newsom-sues-to-be-listed-as-a-democrat-on-recall-ballot/ Then again, you might have a better chance this way, Gav... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 5 minutes ago, Doc said: Newsome sues own SoS for for not listing him as a (D) on recall election ballot. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/29/newsom-sues-to-be-listed-as-a-democrat-on-recall-ballot/ Then again, you might have a better chance this way, Gav... He forgot to blame Islamaphobia. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal Deek Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 1 hour ago, Doc said: Newsome sues own SoS for for not listing him as a (D) on recall election ballot. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/29/newsom-sues-to-be-listed-as-a-democrat-on-recall-ballot/ Then again, you might have a better chance this way, Gav... I think he meant D-bag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Legalize marijuana! Tax it! Raise money! The cartels will go away! They said. I said then that legalization of marijuana will not have the cartels disband and sell Mary Kay. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-11/illegal-marijuana-grows-have-overrun-the-california-desert?_amp=true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal Deek Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 4 hours ago, Chef Jim said: Legalize marijuana! Tax it! Raise money! The cartels will go away! They said. I said then that legalization of marijuana will not have the cartels disband and sell Mary Kay. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-11/illegal-marijuana-grows-have-overrun-the-california-desert?_amp=true But at least if the cartels drive those pink cars we’d be able to spot them faster. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 52 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said: But at least if the cartels drive those pink cars we’d be able to spot them faster. For a second there I had no idea what you were talking about. I had forgotten my Mary Kay comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted July 19, 2021 Author Share Posted July 19, 2021 https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-07-15/los-angeles-officials-let-homelessness-overwhelm-venice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irv Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 California. What a mess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal Deek Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 4 minutes ago, Irv said: California. What a mess. I’ve lived out here for forty years. The decline is obvious to everyone and there’s no end in sight. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irv Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 14 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said: I’ve lived out here for forty years. The decline is obvious to everyone and there’s no end in sight. NY following same script. What a mess. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 I might just move to California just to get my $1000 a month no questions asked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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