California (again)

[3rdnlng]

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/07/15/california-public-schools-promote-polyamory-for-pre-teens/

 

It was a California teacher who discovered the “LGBT Consensual Non-Monogamy Task Force.” She was reviewing the state Department of Education’s “health” lesson mandates for the fall and stumbled across a term she didn’t know. She went to look it up, and was led to the American Psychological Association.

California instructs teachers to talk to youngsters about sex “partners.” They are to avoid terms like “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” because “some students may be non-monogamous.” This is in the lesson plan for 12-year-olds.

There it is. The American Psychological Association reaching its crusty paw all the way down to pre-pubertal kids.

For a stomach-churning exercise, read through all of the California Revised Draft Health Education Framework (April 2019 revision, the final version comes out this Fall).

The Education Department tells teachers that 14-year-olds “may have various gender identities and sexual orientations.” Indeed, “there are an infinite number of ways an individual can express their individuality and sense of self.”

Special emphasis is to be given to non-heterosexual ways, however. “Teachers should affirmatively acknowledge the existence of relationships that are not heterosexual by actively using examples of same-sex couples in class discussions.”

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[OldTimeAFLGuy]

.....how sad it is STILL attached along with Oregon and Washington......Arizona oceanfront had a nice "retirement ring" to it....dammit............

[B-Man]

 

 

 

California doesn’t have enough doctors.

 

 

Unexpectedly............

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

 

Priorities! Berkeley city council makes town more inclusive by renaming manhole covers (and more)

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

THIS WEEK IN CALI MADNESS: Saving the Planet from Natural Gas. 

 

“Are you tired of paying too little for clean-burning energy that reduces carbon emissions?

 

Then has Berkeley got a deal for you!”

 

 

 

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[Buffalo_Gal]

 

[DC Tom]

2 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

 

 

$950?  TYhat's awesome...that's a large-screen TV these days.

[Buffalo_Gal]

Just now, DC Tom said:

 

$950?  TYhat's awesome...that's a large-screen TV these days.

It is insanity. What is to prevent roving gangs from robbing stores daily, as long as each person stays under their "daily limit"? 

[Chef Jim]

19 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

THIS WEEK IN CALI MADNESS: Saving the Planet from Natural Gas. 

 

“Are you tired of paying too little for clean-burning energy that reduces carbon emissions?

 

Then has Berkeley got a deal for you!”

 

 

 

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I heard this.  WTF??  

[OldTimeAFLGuy]

On ‎7‎/‎15‎/‎2019 at 1:36 PM, IDBillzFan said:

 

Followed by giving illegal immigrants sanctuary for the entire state...

 

Followed by giving illegal immigrants free health care...

 

 

The only thing missing from this equation is a typhus outbreak.

 

Oh. Wait.

 

 

.....and let's not forget the notion to abolish the Electoral College.....strength in numbers (illegals).....

[Hedge]

35 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

It is insanity. What is to prevent roving gangs from robbing stores daily, as long as each person stays under their "daily limit"? 

 

I've heard some interviews over the radio recently (Bay Area of CA), where calculators are now commonly being found in the possession of people who shoplift, so they can tally up their ill gotten goods and make sure they are under the $950 limit.

 

And they all have smart phones, with a built in calculator app, but apparently are too stupid to know how to use that. So, buy stock in Texas Instruments.

 

[IDBillzFan]

3 hours ago, Chef Jim said:

 

I heard this.  WTF??  

 

PGE and SoCalEd have been warning about a lot of sustained blackouts that will take place this summer to avoid whatever happened last year that wiped out the city of Paradise. I'm curious to see how often that happens.

[Chef Jim]

13 minutes ago, IDBillzFan said:

 

PGE and SoCalEd have been warning about a lot of sustained blackouts that will take place this summer to avoid whatever happened last year that wiped out the city of Paradise. I'm curious to see how often that happens.

 

Well this whole carbon footprint thing drives me nuts. So electric at the user end may be (slightly) cleaner than natural gas but what about the other end? The ozone doesn’t care whether the issue is a gas stove in Berkeley or a coal fired plant in Nevada. 

[IDBillzFan]

17 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

 

Well this whole carbon footprint thing drives me nuts. So electric at the user end may be (slightly) cleaner than natural gas but what about the other end? The ozone doesn’t care whether the issue is a gas stove in Berkeley or a coal fired plant in Nevada. 

 

I've never been convinced that this is anything more than elected officials responding to campaign donations.

 

PGE escaped a bullet after the Paradise fire since they were the one's who caused it. Instead, the state passed a bill that allowed SoCalEd and PGE to make up their fire-related losses by adding those costs to customer bills.

 

I'm sure someone at PGE gave Kate Harrison a little sumpin-sumpin for her trouble to get this bill going.

[OldTimeAFLGuy]

 

..so for the privilege (COUGH) of living in that fine State, you get to pay at least 10+ grand more for your new home on top of already exorbitant real estate prices?......gotta love "legislative solutions".....

California Will Require Solar Panels on All New Homes

Rachel Kaufman     December 11, 2018

 

California is officially the first state to require newly built homes to come with enough solar panels to offset their electricity use. The state Building Standards Commission voted unanimously to add the requirement to the state building code last week, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

 

The new code takes effect in 2020 and covers all single-family homes as well as multifamily buildings up to three stories high. There are exceptions for houses with too-small roofs or those in the shade. An average home is expected to use 53 percent less energy under the new code than one built under the previous standards.

 

Solar panels can cost up to $10,000 upfront, but are expected to save at least $19,000 in reduced electricity bills over 30 years, the state energy commission executive director Drew Bohan said.

[Koko78]

2 hours ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said:

 

..so for the privilege (COUGH) of living in that fine State, you get to pay at least 10+ grand more for your new home on top of already exorbitant real estate prices?......gotta love "legislative solutions".....

California Will Require Solar Panels on All New Homes

Rachel Kaufman     December 11, 2018

 

California is officially the first state to require newly built homes to come with enough solar panels to offset their electricity use. The state Building Standards Commission voted unanimously to add the requirement to the state building code last week, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

 

The new code takes effect in 2020 and covers all single-family homes as well as multifamily buildings up to three stories high. There are exceptions for houses with too-small roofs or those in the shade. An average home is expected to use 53 percent less energy under the new code than one built under the previous standards.

 

Solar panels can cost up to $10,000 upfront, but are expected to save at least $19,000 in reduced electricity bills over 30 years, the state energy commission executive director Drew Bohan said.

 

How long until they institute a non-use fee because people won't be buying enough energy from PG&E?

[OldTimeAFLGuy]

11 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

 

How long until they institute a non-use fee because people won't be buying enough energy from PG&E?

 

...have to ask former Governor Jerry Moonbeam Brown and his interplanetary council...that state is cooked period.....

[SoCal Deek]

I'm far from a raging liberal but have had solar on my house for over a decade. It works great and here in california it makes virtually 100% of my power. I see no problem with this legislation. You have to buy electricity from somewhere. It’s the law. You can’t get an occupancy permit without it. Do you think the big power line in/on your street got there by magic? Where do you think your power comes from? Here’s a hint...in the West, most power plants are either coal or petroleum powered.

[Foxx]

1 hour ago, SoCal Deek said:

I'm far from a raging liberal but have had solar on my house for over a decade. It works great and here in california it makes virtually 100% of my power. I see no problem with this legislation. You have to buy electricity from somewhere. It’s the law. You can’t get an occupancy permit without it. Do you think the big power line in/on your street got there by magic? Where do you think your power comes from? Here’s a hint...in the West, most power plants are either coal or petroleum powered.

maybe it's just me but i have a severe aversion to legislated mandates.

[SoCal Deek]

1 hour ago, Foxx said:

maybe it's just me but i have a severe aversion to legislated mandates.

What? You do realize your entire house is built to legislated mandates. It’s called the Building Code.

[Foxx]

31 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

What? You do realize your entire house is built to legislated mandates. It’s called the Building Code.

yep, well aware as it is within my field of business.

[DC Tom]

34 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

What? You do realize your entire house is built to legislated mandates. It’s called the Building Code.

 

Not mine.   ?

[IDBillzFan]

On 7/20/2019 at 2:20 PM, Foxx said:

maybe it's just me but i have a severe aversion to legislated mandates.

 

Yep.

 

Plus, it's CA. Dig into the bill and let's find out how many state legislators have their hands in some solar panel company or manufacturer.

 

Must be put on every new house? Sounds like a good time to have a piece of that action, and mark my words, the money trail will bring you back to Sacramento.

[whatdrought]

On 7/20/2019 at 7:13 PM, SoCal Deek said:

What? You do realize your entire house is built to legislated mandates. It’s called the Building Code.

 

Youre comparing safety with governmental whimsy. I have nothing wrong with solor and I applaud you for utilizing it. That doesn’t mean the hovernment gets to dictate others use it. You made a free choice to invest some money to save some money- let others make the same choice.

 

p.s. - I didn’t mean to say hoverment, but I kinda like it as a subtle dig, so I’m leaving it.

Edited July 22, 2019 by whatdrought

[3rdnlng]

Guys, I got a hot tip from William Devane. With all the new solar panels being built, investing in silver might be a good idea.

[Chef Jim]

On 7/20/2019 at 8:05 AM, OldTimeAFLGuy said:

 

Solar panels can cost up to $10,000 upfront, but are expected to save at least $19,000 in reduced electricity bills over 30 years, the state energy commission executive director Drew Bohan said.

 

So the break even point is about 15 years?  Glad my retirement home was built this year.  

[Hedge]

 

 

[/dev/null]

1 minute ago, Hedge said:

 

 

 

2 problems with this. 

 

First, I'm not a fan of the "make your name private" part.  A petition like this needs verifiable signatures

Second, even if Newsome, the DNC would rally behind him and there is no way a Republican could oust him.

 

I kinda think this is might a trojan horse effort to strengthen Newsome by surviving a recall vote

[Hedge]

15 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

First, I'm not a fan of the "make your name private" part.  A petition like this needs verifiable signatures

 

That was just referring to if you wanted your name displayed in the scroll of those who signed.

 

16 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

Second, even if Newsome, the DNC would rally behind him and there is no way a Republican could oust him.

 

Probably not, but I would like to see the numbers now.

[Buffalo_Gal]

LA’s top water and power executive steps down in wake of FBI raids, mayor says
 

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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s top executive stepped down Tuesday, one day after FBI agents raided the utility’s downtown headquarters.

Mayor Eric Garcetti had announced weeks ago that David Wright, the DWP’s general manager, would be leaving the utility Oct. 1. In the wake of the searches at the DWP and other city offices, however, Wright is leaving immediately, Garcetti said.
 

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FBI agents served search warrants Monday at multiple government offices, including at City Attorney Mike Feuer’s office, as part of an investigation into how the city responded to the disastrous rollout of a new DWP customer billing system in 2013.
 

Feuer spokesman Rob Wilcox said the warrants served at the city attorney’s office were connected to the city’s settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed over inaccurate DWP bills, as well as a separate lawsuit filed by the DWP and city against a consulting firm.
 

Wright was appointed general manager of the DWP in 2016 and focused on trying to fix the billing system and improving customer service.
 

At Wright’s recommendation, the DWP in 2017 approved a no-bid $30 million contract for Aventador, a company owned by Paul Paradis, who also was an attorney retained by Feuer in a lawsuit filed against the consulting firm that implemented the utility’s new billing software.
 

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[B-Man]

 

 

 

California faces rising danger of mosquito-borne diseases.

 

 

 

 

[Ralonzo]

On 7/20/2019 at 7:48 PM, DC Tom said:

On 7/20/2019 at 7:13 PM, SoCal Deek said:

What? You do realize your entire house is built to legislated mandates. It’s called the Building Code.

Not mine.   ?

What's wrong with a Federal Pacific panel and knob & tube wiring?

[DC Tom]

1 minute ago, Ralonzo said:

What's wrong with a Federal Pacific panel and knob & tube wiring?

 

 

 

Take that, splice it into 15-amp NM, splice that into BX, hook that up to a 20 amp breaker in a box that somehow - don't ask me how, but an electrician has confirmed - has TWO mains - a 60 and a 40 - coming in from the meter.  And a 20 amp breaker for a subpanel in an outbuilding workshop wired for 75 amp.  

 

Last time I tried to replace a ceiling light, it took me and a master electrician FOUR HOURS just to figure out how the duplex switches were wired (with a combination of BX and NM, of course).

[IDBillzFan]

On 7/23/2019 at 3:41 PM, Hedge said:

Probably not, but I would like to see the numbers now.

 

There is no way, in the foreseeable future, that any Republican will ever do anything other than sit on a city council for, say, Palos Verdes Estates.

 

The left have every inch of CA locked down. Tied down. Gagged. Duct taped. Crazy glued. In their full control. The only red that state will ever see again will be in their budget.

 

[Wacka]

Swallowell (as I call him) was a town councilman  in Dublin, CA when I lived there. Shows how f'd up that srate  is.

[3rdnlng]

1 hour ago, Wacka said:

Swallowell (as I call him) was a town councilman  in Dublin, CA when I lived there. Shows how f'd up that srate  is.

So, he started out with small swallows?

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[SoCal Deek]

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

Not usually a big fan of these but this is spot on! The photo is clearly not from a street in Malibu where some elite nut case soccer mom decided straws were our biggest challenge.

[B-Man]