tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40558182011-04-21T10:57:28.942-07:00Comments on So California news, law, and politics by Justene Adamec. There are occasional forays into other topics because, after all, it is a blog. Offline, I am a lawyer and mediator. Email justenea -at- yahoo.com.Justene Adamechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09514102885959316245noreply@blogger.comBlogger5521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055818.post-2004003502003-06-08T15:14:00.000-07:002003-06-29T23:52:25.463-07:00

Calblog has moved to its very own domain. Please change your bookmarks to: www.calblog.com

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Yesterday's editorial cartoon in the Bee.

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Sometimes dreams can be so telling. Last night I had a dream that I went on a trip with Calpundit (whom I have never met) to a foreign land (Zimbabwe and Argentina bordered on it) and ended up getting lost and running into snakes, elephants, gorillas, bears and mountain lions. I was in a whole heap of trouble. I woke up and wondered what this meant. I rarely have nightmares, thank heavens,

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A few years ago, gratitude journals were the hot new thing. You were supposed to spend some time each night writing down the list of things you were grateful for -- the kids, the sunset, chocolate, clean laundry -- and this was supposed to lift your spirits and change your life. Turn pessimists into optimists. I suppose it works. For me, though, it was like taking painkiller when you

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Yesterday, I was blogging about the unelected politicos in CA who hold power through the initiative, proposition and now, recall, campaigns. They reached a height of power when Prop 13, limiting property taxes and requiring voter approval of property tax increases, passed. (Prop stands for Proposition not Property). As it turns out, today is the 25th anniversary of the passage of Prop 13.

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OK, easily offended and sensitive types, move on. This is a sad story. A pet is a pet. When my goldfish goes, I will be sad. And the story of fraternity members who captured a campus Koi fish and grilled it is just horrible. That said, I was distracted by some of the writing. First this: On a campus renowned for vegetarian devotion and counterculture values, anger over the slaying of the

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Right now, the Republicans look like they are jumping all over the recall. I think that's misleading. The Republican politicians who are coming to the fore are small-profile types trying to move up. The top of the CA party is looking at the Boxer seat and you know that's where Rove is looking. On Monday, the Green party, which had been playing hard to get, said they'd run a candidate if

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Even though she's only 11, here's proof that Maddy is a teenager. I asked her to do a priority load of laundry. You know, when you're behind, you do the towels, some underwear, etc. Good idea. Off she went. Later I took the "priority" load out of the dryer. Three pairs of jeans and 2 red T-shirts with glitter. Yeah, she got the important stuff.

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After months of letting me languish in my dark corner of the blogosphere, Calpundit has blogged about the recall. I suspect his post will reach a whole new audience and I will be over there in the comments thread answering the questions, which I am sure were supposed to be rhetorical. UPDATE: The LA Times article could have be written by, well, me. I've asked most of those questions here and

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Dean Esmay is assisting those of us resistant to change off of BlogSpot. BlogSpot is free but I pay for BlogSpot Pro and BlogSpot Plus and my page is still down more than I like. Political State Report and Josh Claybourn are both on MT and I've posted on both with ease. It was just the move I was dreading.

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I wonder if these fish tell each other stories of alien abduction?

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Here's the article in today's LA Times: Statewide job growth is anticipated to be a mere 0.4% in 2003, down from the anemic 0.7% predicted earlier this year, translating to roughly 45,000 fewer new jobs than had been projected, according to the quarterly UCLA Anderson Forecast. Taxable sales and personal income, critical revenue sources for the state, also are estimated to come in lower than had

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Hey, Xrlq, we're a nook and cranny.

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According to this LA Times article, Taxpayers Against the Recall has rased $344,000, mostly from unions, whose stated opposition to the recall is the fact that the mere holding of the election will cost $25 million which could be used to hire teachers or firefighters.

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As we continue to discuss whether there are WMD in Iraq, the discussion also turns to whether it matters. It doesn't to me. Here's Lileks today: I read today of another mass grave discovered in Iraq. This one was reserved for children. I repeat: this was a special mass grave for children. The article said that dolls were found among the bodies. Which meant that the little girls were

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Here's a rare example of how not to be biased and it comes from Fox News' Brit Hume. Referring to Palestine and Israel, he mentions the "so-called occupied or disputed" territories. That's the way to do it. Don't pick between the description of either side; throw them both out there.

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The Washington Post has a story about the possible lawsuits around the early release of details from her new book. Here's the part I find interesting: On Wednesday Clinton told local news station NY1 that the book is about more than the Lewinsky debacle. "This is a story about an extraordinary time in my life and the life of our country," she said. "I touch on the good times, the not-so-good

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There's tons of news now. If you want news, head over to Rough & Tumble (scroll down to the 6/2 news) or Political State Report, where other CA team members are reporting on it now. I continue to predict it will get on the ballot but then Davis will go into campaign mode. It may ruin Davis' career but will it help the state or even the Republicans? What if: a stronger Democrat wins? Issa wins

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Can I rant about an article without reading the article? Sure I can -- it's my blog. Here's the summary of the article on Rough & Tumble. Budget battle unique -- Almost six months after Democratic Gov. Gray Davis defined the magnitude of the budget gap, Republicans remain steadfast in their opposition to higher taxes, which they say will hurt the economy. Democrats, meanwhile, have just as

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Poker clubs are legal in California. They've been legal long enough that they draw a lot of players and have a reputation for some of the best poker play in the world. Indian casinos are cutting into the action. Contra Costa times has this article with the numbers and the quotes from both sides.

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I don't have a laptop. I've purchased three in my life and none has lasted a month. I drop them and the screen goes. I have a client that makes military laptops that'll survive anything, even a bullet. We were discussing getting me one, maybe in exchange for fees. Then I learned that it weighed 25 lbs and was the size of a small suitcase. Can you see me getting that through airport security

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This was an interesting little foray. I explained the problem here. Our letter telling them to stop calling (which they are required to do after notification under the Fair Debt Collection Act) seemed to do no good. They continued to call. I got good comments and an interesting email from a Canadian reporter who has been following them. My complaint to the Attorney General's office got me

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At the risk of suffering great derision, I thought I'd share a glimpse into childrearing in this "conservative" household. Living in a rather homogeneous enclave of the country, our major exposure to other lifestyles is through our television. We generally watch together, except for the Disney/Nickelodeon stuff. I watch both Will & Grace and Friends in syndication with the girls. Calblog

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California Insider has the latest on the price war on pro-recall and pro-Davis petitions. Keep reading down for a preview of an anti-recall Feinstein piece expected to run on op-ed pages soon.

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The Assembly has approved a bill to require handsfree operation of cel phones. I have a hands free earpiece and I have a terrible time hearing with it. I regularly fiddled with it and got distracted by the fact that I couldn't hear. I went back to the cel because it was safer. But laws don't take into account individual variation and personal responsibility.

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Ravenwood does an examination of a claim that the federal government has a $44 trillion deficit. He doesn't think that number is possible.

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The LA Independent suggests that it is just not to be.

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The Girl Scout troop is still headed to SF tomorrow. I'm staying over for a board meeting in Monterey Monday and I have to be in court first thing Tuesday. As you can imagine, much office-based work needs to get done today. So here are the links to the articles. Reading and analysis must be done on your own (hint, hint, Calblog husband). Davis Ally Says Issa Broke Law in Recall Drive Davis

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Just a moment. The LA Times memo has hit Lileks, who refers back to Hewit and the NRO online. None of them talked about how it was leaked. LA Observed had it first and I pulled it from them, posting it here, on LA Blogs and Political State Report. Since I am only a flippery fish, no one will, sniff, notice. Having had the sour grapes moment, I am pleased it's getting the play it is.

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It's hot (especially in Pasadena -- I'm sure Calpundit was fine!) and we had a power alert.

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From new blog, LA Observed: LAT Editor Carroll declares war on "liberal bias" Too bad xrlq is on vacation. He would love this. An LA Times editor sends a memo out and explains to his staff exactly HOW their article was biased, and acknowledges that although they live in a liberal world, not everyone does, and instructs them to pull the bias out. As far as I can tell, no one else has this

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The headline on Drudge reads DOWD WARNING FATIGUE: 'Orange doesn't communicate anything to anybody any more'... This weekend, we were due to go to the Girl Scout Bridging event in San Francisco. Girl Scouts from all over the state bridge from being Junior Scouts to Cadettes by gathering and walking over the Golden Gate Bridge. Not only do the girls join in a longstanding tradition, but its one

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The new tax cut and aid to states package signed by Bush sends $2.4 billion to California. (Snide sneering comment of the day: I think that's more than we got from Davis' highly touted victory before FERC but don't expect the same sort of whooping from the unbiased CA press). According to this shocking story, the Democratic members of the state legislature want to increase spending and the

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The new anti-recall group, just launched today, already has a budget in the low 7 figures. According to the LA Times, they will raise $1-4 million to gather signatures on an anti-recall petition to to save the $25 million that this "insanity" and "anarchy" will cost the state. (Come on, admit it, the recall is as fun to watch as I said it was). Now, I am still searching diligently to figure

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Some depressing followups today over at Fox News. Chandra Levy is buried and Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost two-thirds of its employees in 9/11 is now being sued for back rent on the WTC space it rented.

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The Carnival of the Vanities is up over at Dean Esmay's this week. With the variety of posts included, you're sure to find something of interest. Mention my name at the door and you'll get no special treatment.

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From the Bee: The new effort, "Taxpayers Against the Recall," will formally launch Wednesday outside a Sacramento fire station. In addition to Dan Terry, president of the California Professional Firefighters, other co-chairs of the new group are: Rev. Cecil B. Murray of the First AME Church in Los Angeles; Mary Bergen of the California Federation of Teachers; Fred Keeley, executive director of

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The recall is so popular now that there's argument over who started the ball rolling.

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From the SF Chronicle: In recent months, hackers have been dialing into peoples' voice-mail boxes and trying to guess the password. If successful, they then record a new outgoing message. Later on, the hacker places a long-distance phone call and asks the operator (or a computer) to forward the charges. The operator calls the hacked phone number and gets the changed message, which tricks the

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Here's what the talk will be about. Bravo to Keep Gay Reality Date Similar in format to ABC's "The Bachelor," "Boy Meets Boy" features an eligible man looking for love in a pool of 15 potential mates. But in a twist worthy of the bogus baron on Fox's "Joe Millionaire," some of the suitors are actually heterosexual men who were paid by the program to pretend to be gay -- unbeknownst to the

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I've already posted anti-Scheer, so before the day's out, let's point to an anti-Dowd piece. Then I'll stop throwing stones before someone peers in my glass house. This one in the Rocky Mountain News (via Chronwatch). Consider her May 14 column. She wrote: "Busy chasing off Saddam, the president and vice president had told us that al-Qaida was spent. 'Al-Qaida is on the run,' President Bush

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From the Chronicle website: 3.4-magnitude quake today in SF means that all 3 big Bay Area faults have shaken recently. If only news like that meant something. About 5-10 years ago, there were lots of quakes in Mammoth CA. There was talk of imminent volcanic activity. Then it all went away.

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The LA Examiner, now a website but soon to be a newspaper, reports the attacks, official and otherwise, on the LA Times columnist Robert Scheer.

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Yahoo News is reporting a TV Guide article that says that Arnold Schwarzenegger may consider a run for governor later . . . or not. Oh yeah, Drudge picked it up too.

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As Molly would say, I be rich! Jeff of So Cal Law gave me 5 shares of his blog. Thanks Jeff! I also got shares in each of two blogs completely new to me -- A Course in Miracles (300 shares!) and A Nickel's Worth of Free Advice (4000 shares!) Thanks Linda JM! Please go check these blogs out.

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This morning as I was disposing of chicken eggs, I suggested candling the eggs before disposing of them. My husband suggesting just breaking them open since we were tossing them out. Cool. Just like CSI, I could figure out the clues to cause of death. If they had never developed, we'd know that they died in cool storage because UPS delivered the incubator late. First, we broke open one of

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Some may view this as a continuation of my cheap ploy campaign. However, I was just in the mood. Here’s the deal: Prize is $10 sent via Paypal. Deadline is July 4, 2003 (midnight PDT). Entries only via the comments section to this post. Enter as often as you wish. I am the sole and absolute judge. Your task: Submit a question you would want to ask anyone. The one that I find

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The San Diego Union Tribune has a roundup of the current Republican possibilities in the new hit reality show Search for a Candidate. Toni Casey is in. Rosario Marin, outgoing US Treasurer, is likely. Wilson is unlikely. (I expect we'll hear his name for a while in the hopes that the outside world will take its shots at him which the party figures out who else to run.) Other possibilities:

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From the Bee: This week, the Davis administration will announce that Steve Smith will leave his government post as secretary of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency to work on anti-recall activities. My prediction, for some time, has been that the recall will get on the ballot, but then will fail. I have been advocating this position despite poll results showing the opposite -

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I made my first trek out there Saturday night. As much as I enjoy gaming, I am not a big fan of casinos. I actually prefer online poker play, where I can watch TV, talk to the kids, pet a cat. Two hours of sitting quietly, trying to see my cards but not letting anyone else see them, doesn't make for a fun evening. My husband and I play different games so we sit alone when we go. Yesterday,

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Margeret Talev has a profile in the Bee today. His last name means Jesus in Arabic. He has been planning his involvement in the recall carefully. His logic is still escaping me. If the recall gets on the ballot there will be challengers. Why does he think getting it on the ballot will help him in particular? Why not wait for 06? I would bet that your average Californian has not even heard

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Our chicken eggs did not hatch, unfortunately. We're not sure why -- whether they died in the cool storage before the incubator came or whether we did something wrong in the incubator. We're going to try again after some discussion with the hatchery. We got a squirrel-proof feeder. The perches are set so that when the squirrel lands on one, his weight closes the door. A squirrel discovered

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My page has been down a lot the past few days. There's no problem with the post page, just the viewing portal. There's news that some sites are moving to the "new" blogger. You know, Movable Type has those cool features like trackback and categories. I think I am almost ready to make the move.

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If you need a reason to visit Jay Solo, other than his quarter-blogiversary, he's got good stuff like this post about business blogs, which points to BusinessPundit. One day, I went out on a blogosphere safari and couldn't find many business blogs. I certainly never wandered across BusinessPundit.

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Jay Solo is looking to hit 5000 hits by tomorrow, his 3-month blogiversary. Drop by to help him out and post it on your blog if you have one!

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The Rojas case is the newest wrinkle in mediation law. In Rojas, the California Court of Appeal ruled that "raw data" evidence introduced in mediation is not confidential but evidence such as charts which are prepared just for the mediation are confidential. The opposing viewpoint is that anything in mediation is confidential -- period, end of story. The case has gone to the California

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Issa has put $445,000 into the campaign and paid signature gatherers are out on the streets. Here's the website for Issa's group, Rescue California. The signature count is now at 287,434 out of 898,157 petitions or 32%. I called my friend who had bet me a quarter that it won't get on the ballot and said I want a shiny new one.

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Rosario Marin, the US Treasurer, has resigned as US Treasurer and is expected to take on Boxer. I saw Rosario speak about a month ago. She came here from Mexico when she was 15, unable to speak English. For reasons that were unclear, she was given an IQ test in English and scored 28 (70 is considered profoundly retarded). That spurred her to work hard, learn English, and do well in school.

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Rick Leventhal is coming back! Memorial Day on Special Report with Brit Hume, there will be a panel interview of 4 embedded reporters including a wellrested-looking Rick Leventhal.

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The three lawyers of the Trevor Law Firm who had made money filing unfair competition lawsuits against small businesses have been suspended. I am looking for more coverage on So Cal Law, but it isn't there yet. UPDATE: Shortly after 5 pm, So Cal Law did not disappoint.

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Yesterday, Amanda, 11 years old and in the sixth grade, brought home the book she had bought herself at the book fair. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. She likes Jane Austen but previously had read abridged versions reduced to an elementary reading level or had watched the movies. Sense and Sensibility was a thin copy so I thought it too might be abridged. I opened the book to the

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Lileks today: How many buttons do I have? I have 473 buttons. How do I know? Because Gnat pushed every one of them today. I didn’t even know I had a button marked “No, you cannot have strawberry juice until you finish the orange juice I just poured, and do not stand in front of the open refrigerator pushing the door against the hinges” button. Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt. My

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Build your human-powered flying machine. Make a facsimile of the Jehoash Inscription that will fool the experts.

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Ravenwood, who doesn't live here in the LA area, predicts we won't get a football team. A pox on his house!

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Here's an idea that I am sure I disagree with but darned if I have the argument back. From Calpundit: Yes, rich people are often rich because of their innate talents and hard work. But as Buffett points out, they are also rich because the culture they live in helped them along. If Bill Gates had grown up in Pakistan, he might be worth a few million dollars, but growing up in Seattle he ended up

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An interesting observation from Daniel Weintraub: It turns out that 90 percent of the federal gas tax we pay to support highway and transit construction must, by law, be returned to the state. The rule was adopted to ensure that every state was getting its fair share, that no one became an obvious example of a donor state. So first we send the money to Washington, then they decide how we ought

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I have expressed an interest on the use of blogs for business networking. At the time, I had trouble finding business blogs and getting feedback. Maybe the concept is taking hold. Here's an article that you may find interesting on the topic and the recent article that updates the topic.

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Those of us who watched 24 saw the President removed from office with an unusual reading of the 25th amendment. The Cabinet determined that the President was unable to carry out the duties of office when they disagreed with his decisions during a crisis. The usual reading of the Amendment is hat the President be physically incapacitated. During the Clinton Administration, we discussed the

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Houghton Mifflin has published the 100 words every high school graduate should know.

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First the Republicans proposed borrowing to cure the deficit problem. Then Davis proposed the same thing as part of "his" budget, ignoring the fact that it was a Republican idea. Now the non-partisan Legislative Analyst's office attacked his plan saying it would solve the deficit this year but saddle the state with even bigger problems in the future. Davis' reaction is that he didn't want to

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California Insider has lots of scoop these days. Ose will not challenge Boxer for her senate seat. That was quick. It was only a couple of weeks ago that he was the first to officially announce his intentions. Dianne Feinstein may run on the recall ballot hoping that Republicans will vote against the recall for fear of having Feinstein take the governorship, dashing hopes of the GOP taking it

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I find the recall story fascinating but it's not the only thing going on in CA. PSR had nothing else from CA for a couple of weeks and i wasn't even the one posting the recall articles. So I have added something else. Let's hope I'm not the only one.

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Last week's travels took me to San Francisco. I grew up in New York City -- the upper East Side of Manhattan. Being in San Francisco reminded me of what I love and hate about living in the city rather in the suburbs I now call home. I really like being able to walk or take a cab to whatever I want. I don't like driving as much as many people do. The hotel I stayed at was near Fisherman's

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No more roundup. There's a lot of news now and I'm cherrypicking instead of gathering. Here's my eyebrow raiser: The Orange County Lincoln Club has put $250,000 behind the effort. The OC Lincoln Club has long struck me as an entity that only backs winners. The recall effort struck me as a longshot play. I think this news reflects the amount of influence that Issa wields among CA GOP

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Spam Zoo sent me a gift of 7 blogshares in his blog. What a good way to get people to come take a look. Unfortunately, his site is in Spanish so I won't be a regular visitor.

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Some interesting new sites worth taking a look at: Corp Law Blog is written by someone identified only as one who practices "corporate law at a Los Angeles-based law firm." I've eliminated the Calblog husband but other than that, it's up for grabs. Lots of good info but I detect a sense of humor -- my number one criteria -- in the disclaimer: This blog does not offer legal advice. If you

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Amanda and I went to see this romantic comedy, making our way through the crowds for "Matrix Reloaded." It was just as advertised -- a well-executed 60s-style show in the tradition of Doris Day and Rock Hudson. If you like that (and we do), you'll have a pleasant two hours. What amazed me though was how young and robust both Tony Randall and Florence Stanley looked. They're giving Dick

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In the midst of a week of travel and meetings, the home computer had some sort of seizure. I have reinstalled Windows but need to locate the driver disk. Everything is too big and I can only view half of what I usually view. The Calblog twins' story of how it went from functional to permanent black screen was incomprehensible. I can only assume it was only of those computer moments that still

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Davis is proposing borrowing to fix the deficit. Last I checked, that was a Republican proposal but now it's Davis' plan. Speaking of the Republicans, the Assembly Republican Leader Dave Cox sent out this week's newsletter and there's still no mention of the budget.

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The San Diego Union-Tribune has this: What is Darrell Issa up to? That is the question preoccupying California political circles as the wealthy Republican congressman from Vista appears to be hijacking the struggling grass-roots effort to recall Gov. Gray Davis. The LA Times has a "how is Davis doing in light of this hardship?" puff piece in the news section. It is so sure to work xrlq up

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I skipped over the various articles in all the papers about Issa's entry into the fray. There are some older articles on the news section of the official site that you might find interesting. I was interested in the two points of view in today's Sacramento Bee. Margeret Talev reports that Issa has put up the first $100,000 of the $1.5 million needed to get the signatures in from a professional

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SoCal Law has an update on the White v. Davis case. Interesting -- The Judicial Branch says that it is unconstitutional to pay state workers more than minimum wage if there's no budget (one of my favorite Superior Court judges originally said they could not be paid at all because if they continued to work, they were volunteers!). The Executive Branch, specifically the controller Westly,

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Easyguru is back from India!

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Should we go for an Instapundit link? Did you know Glenn holds the the top bass boat record at over 115 mph?

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Having successfully lured Calpundit into a link, I decided to continue my foolishness. Let's see if we can get xrlq to link. That will take more than cute pictures of cats and kids. First, let's try a cheap Clinton swipe. How do we know this wasn't the real Bill? If that doesn't work, we'll have to go for some German article that needs translating. How about this shocker? UPDATE: Success.

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Maddy and our oldest cat, the short-tailed (you see all of it) Star.

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Yes, it looks like a cheap ploy to get a link from Calpundit. It's really just the first in a series of cheap ploys. This is our youngest, Patrick.

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Has anyone else had this problem? Having no idea of who they were, we started receiving bills from them. We called to complain and they insisted that we had told one of their telemarketers that we would buy a listing in their publication. Numerous calls and similar discussions later, one of the attorneys here wrote a letter, the kind we write for clients when there's a dispute. In response,

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Sometimes blogging feels too much like work. One reason I started this was to have the opportunity to delve into issues that nobody will pay me to delve into. So I have a stack of things to get to. One is the decision by the California Supreme Court discussing who and what the Controller can pay if there's no budget passed. It's actually an interesting decision which will provide a roadmap

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A list compiled by Senate Republicans of bills that propose raising taxes or fees. Link via California Insider.

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I have an article up at Mediate.com entitled "Settlements That Don’t Work . . . Or Do They?"

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Well,well, well, from Rough & Tumble this morning: Davis Recall -- Political aides to a wealthy Southern California congressman who aspires to be governor plan to file papers as early as today creating yet another campaign to recall Gray Davis, the incumbent who has plummeted in the polls since his narrow reelection last fall. Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican multimillionaire from Vista, plans to

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From the Contra Costa Times: Republicans mentioned as potential candidates: at least 10. Declared Republican challengers: 0.

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From the LA Daily News: The landmark passed last week was the filing of 100,000 signatures of registered voters who want to recall Davis -- the first threshold to qualify the measure by the Sept. 2 deadline for a statewide election. "No one thought we would get this far," Russo gloats. "There have been 31 other recalls of governors tried in the past and no one has gotten this far."

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The Twins Tell the Truth is available for trading on blogshares. You too can own a piece of a blog run by 11-year-olds.

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This decision should be a big factor in the budget negotiations. I was not going to blog at all until later but it deserves a heads up mention. Any longer analysis I have will likely end up on Political State Report, unless someone else hands in a piece first. The California Supreme Court has decided that, if there's no budget agreed upon, and therefore, no appropriations bill, most state

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Great post at Ravenwood's Universe today about Sen. Charles Schumer's suggestion that a bipartisan commission submit federal judicial nominees from each state to the President. Here's a taste of Ravenwood's criticism: Talk about rewriting the Constitution. Schumer wants to cross out "advice and consent" and pencil in the word "permission". Now I don't think the Democratic Senators are acting

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Think this recall has no chance? Apparently the governor doesn't agree with you. He's started fundraising again. The article mentioned that supporters have gathered over 100,000 but the countdown on the site says 80,371 out of 898,157 petitions.

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We have a deficit of over $30 billion. Democrats have been saying raise taxes and cut some spending. Republicans have said no tax hike and cut a lot of spending. Now, Republicans have suggested that we borrow money and cut some spending. Davis thinks their plan is bad. Anyone need details? Didn't think so.

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It seemed to me there was a lot of news on this topic today (links via Rough & Tumble): They have arrested the man suspected of shooting the condor. Sea otters are dying at higher rate than ever before and scientists don't know why. There's also news about tiny freshwater shrimp (may be added to endangered species) and salmon (a good season expected).

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