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1 minute ago, Buffalo Timmy said:

It is actually at a point that I look at where a package is coming from before I order now. If it is coming from LA or further west I look to see if there is another similar priced option.

It's gotten to the point that Union Pacific Railroad has informed the County of Los Angeles that they are contemplating pulling as much of their operation as possible out of the county.  

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https://ktla.com/news/california/ca-lawmakers-bill-would-mandate-school-officials-search-backpacks-lockers-under-shooting-threat/

 

State Bill 906 proposes (among other things) the following:

 

Require parents or guardians upon registering a student for public or charter school to disclose whether any firearms are in the student’s home and provide details on ownership, storage, and accessibility of those firearms to the student.

 

Awesome!  :rolleyes:

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5 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

vote to order!

 

who here has not prepared a excuse when caught breaking the mandates? 15 people!? come on guys its not like it has to make sense to these fools. reuse the holding breath one during pictures (everyone laughs)

 

now what was it we were really voting on?

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23 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:


State of Emergency??   Continue??  I didn’t even know we were in one to begin with.  I’d stick around and chat guys but I gotta load up on toilet paper and handI wipes. 🙄

Exactly 

The only way any of this overreach is possible is because they’re calling it a State of Emergency. The ruling class has found themselves a brilliant loophole! Just keep calling everyday life an emergency and you’re free to trample on the rights of the governed forever. Ingenious and really, really sick.

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https://abc7.com/gas-tax-california-prices-legislature/11573771/#:~:text=California taxes gasoline at 51.1,the Federation of Tax Administrators.

 

Well what do you know.  I agree with Newson on this.  

 

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Newsom, a Democrat, in his January budget proposed stopping the increase, at least for this year. That move would cost the state about $523 million in lost revenue that would otherwise go for things like roads and bridges. Newsom said that money can come instead from the state's $45.7 billion surplus.

 

The bolded is exactly what I said to my wife when they were talking about this on the news this morning.  

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As our gas here in California is over $6 Gov Newsom has proposed $400 debit cards for all residents (regardless of immigration status of course) per registered vehicle.  So this should help people of course but I have a couple questions regarding this proposal  for Mr Newsom. 
 

1.  Why will registered owners of electric cars be getting this $400 per vehicle?

 

2.  Why are you giving money to those that take public transportation for three months?  What if they also have register vehicles?  Do they get a double dip?

 

3.  If I have a two registered vehicles and never drive them why do I get $800?  It’s not clear if the $400 debit card can be used for anything or just gas. 
 

4. Why are you proposing dropping the gas tax on diesel vehicles only.  Why do they get to double dip?

 

5. Republicans just want to suspend the $.51 per gallon tax we pay but Democrats say that would benefit the oil companies. Please explain that?  Dems also say the rebate is better because it goes straight to the consumer. Excuse me??  Immediately reducing gas by $.51 per gallon does NOT go directly to the consumer?  They have no clue if they really feel this way. 
 

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-news/california-car-owners-gas-prices-rebate-gavin-newsom/2854596/?amp

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2 hours ago, Chef Jim said:

As our gas here in California is over $6 Gov Newsom has proposed $400 debit cards for all residents (regardless of immigration status of course) per registered vehicle.  So this should help people of course but I have a couple questions regarding this proposal  for Mr Newsom. 
 

1.  Why will registered owners of electric cars be getting this $400 per vehicle?

 

2.  Why are you giving money to those that take public transportation for three months?  What if they also have register vehicles?  Do they get a double dip?

 

3.  If I have a two registered vehicles and never drive them why do I get $800?  It’s not clear if the $400 debit card can be used for anything or just gas. 
 

4. Why are you proposing dropping the gas tax on diesel vehicles only.  Why do they get to double dip?

 

5. Republicans just want to suspend the $.51 per gallon tax we pay but Democrats say that would benefit the oil companies. Please explain that?  Dems also say the rebate is better because it goes straight to the consumer. Excuse me??  Immediately reducing gas by $.51 per gallon does NOT go directly to the consumer?  They have no clue if they really feel this way. 
 

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-news/california-car-owners-gas-prices-rebate-gavin-newsom/2854596/?amp

What’s all this about? I thought the President said we all needed to sacrifice for the war effort. Is the war over? Or is this one more thing to toss on the transient inflation pile? 

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As water runs short in California, commission rejects $1.4 billion desalination plant 

Eleven members of the California Coastal Commission voted against the facility, which water treatment developer Poseidon Water has been trying to build for decades.

 

Poseidon said the plant would be capable of producing up to 50 million gallons of drinking water a day, helping to make the region more drought resilient. 

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/us/california-water-desalinization-vote-drought-climate/index.html

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2 hours ago, ALF said:

As water runs short in California, commission rejects $1.4 billion desalination plant 

Eleven members of the California Coastal Commission voted against the facility, which water treatment developer Poseidon Water has been trying to build for decades.

 

Poseidon said the plant would be capable of producing up to 50 million gallons of drinking water a day, helping to make the region more drought resilient. 

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/us/california-water-desalinization-vote-drought-climate/index.html

I have not put much thought into the concept but why would they say no if they are having this horrible drought? Are they basically saying they would rather deal with a limited water rather than have a desalination plant?

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1 hour ago, Buffalo Timmy said:

I have not put much thought into the concept but why would they say no if they are having this horrible drought? Are they basically saying they would rather deal with a limited water rather than have a desalination plant?


One thing I heard was they were concerned about the amount of salt being dumped back in the ocean. 
 

So the commission said they’d rather see other ways of helping the problem.  Ok, we’ve had water issues here forever but they’ve done nothing. It blows my mind how they can’t figure out how to capture and store the millions and millions of gallons of runoff from our melting snow each year that just ends up in the ocean.  🤦🏻‍♂️
 

 

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55 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:


One thing I heard was they were concerned about the amount of salt being dumped back in the ocean. 
 

So the commission said they’d rather see other ways of helping the problem.  Ok, we’ve had water issues here forever but they’ve done nothing. It blows my mind how they can’t figure out how to capture and store the millions and millions of gallons of runoff from our melting snow each year that just ends up in the ocean.  🤦🏻‍♂️
 

 

It makes you wonder if they can’t figure it out, or don’t want the problem solved.  
 

When one controls water supply….

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47 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

It makes you wonder if they can’t figure it out, or don’t want the problem solved.  
 

When one controls water supply….

Until recently I've chalked it all up to incompetence or stupidity but recently have concluded it malicious intent and simply that the goals and objectives of politicians and government everywhere, and in most cases, do not align with the needs and desires of the citizens they represent.  

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On 5/14/2022 at 8:17 AM, All_Pro_Bills said:

Until recently I've chalked it all up to incompetence or stupidity but recently have concluded it malicious intent and simply that the goals and objectives of politicians and government everywhere, and in most cases, do not align with the needs and desires of the citizens they represent.  


New on this planet?  

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On 5/14/2022 at 7:25 AM, Chef Jim said:

One thing I heard was they were concerned about the amount of salt being dumped back in the ocean.

 

Considering the price of Sea Salt, wouldn't it be a source of revenue?

 

Edit: typically Sea Salt is anywhere from 3X to 20X more expensive than regular table salt.

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Los Angeles DA Gascon's office lands 5-month probation camp sentence for teen who mowed down mom and infant

 Why are Gascon’s policies prioritizing the livelihood of rotten monsters when my child, my baby, who is incapable of protecting himself, is left to fend for himself, and is essentially being told his life doesn’t matter?"

https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-da-gascon-sentence-teen-mom-infant-video

 

The video is unreal , that pickup truck driver is a real hero who should be rewarded , the DA should be in jail.

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Los Angeles DA Gascon's office lands 5-month probation camp sentence for teen who mowed down mom and infant

 Why are Gascon’s policies prioritizing the livelihood of rotten monsters when my child, my baby, who is incapable of protecting himself, is left to fend for himself, and is essentially being told his life doesn’t matter?"

https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-da-gascon-sentence-teen-mom-infant-video

 

The video is unreal , that pickup truck driver is a real hero who should be rewarded , the DA should be in jail.


That dude has to go.  We knew he was trouble when he was SF DA when we lived there.  I will my best to never spend a penny in that city/county.  

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1 hour ago, Chef Jim said:


That dude has to go.  We knew he was trouble when he was SF DA when we lived there.  I will my best to never spend a penny in that city/county.  

You have to sprinkle in a little anarchy if you want to fundamentally transform a country.

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California Warns: Here Come the Blackouts, Don’t Charge Your Car. 

 

“I really couldn’t say for sure if Sacramento is trying to drive millions of poor people out of the state, or if the Democrats in charge just get their jollies out of making miserable their own most reliable voters.”

 

 

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/08/31/california-warns-here-come-the-blackouts-dont-charge-your-car-n1625210

 

 

 

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Good. no taking Great lakes water like Bill Mahr has been yammering about 

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California regulators this week approved a $140 million desalination plant that could convert up to 5 million gallons of seawater each day into drinking water, as the state grapples with a persistent megadrought and plummeting water supplies.

The state’s Coastal Commission on Thursday voted 11-0 to approve the Doheny Ocean Desalination Project in Orange County in Southern California. The plant could be functioning within the next five years and supply water for thousands of people in the South Coast Water District.

The approval comes as record temperatures and drought conditions have forced states like California to address a future with dwindling water supplies.

The megadrought gripping the Western U.S. has generated the driest two decades in the region in at least 1,200 years, and scientists say that human-caused climate change has fueled the conditions. Water levels at the two largest reservoirs in the country, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, have hit their lowest levels ever recorded.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/14/california-approves-desalination-plant-as-drought-hits-water-supplies.html

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3 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Good. no taking Great lakes water like Bill Mahr has been yammering about 

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/14/california-approves-desalination-plant-as-drought-hits-water-supplies.html

Given our track record we’ll be lucking to get a tea cup of drinking water out of that plant in the next thirty years. 😉

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-just-made-it-harder-to-use-rap-lyrics-as-criminal-evidence-will-more-states-follow-215301918.html

 

This will be fun- rapper gives details in lyrics of the murder he committed, when he is brought up on charges he simply claims they used the lyrics against him illegally and walks. 

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