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From the California State DEM site ( http://www.cadem.org/site/c.jrLZK2PyHmF/b.947937/k.CC3A/Home.htm ):
Proposition 13 YES Earthquake Safety Measure
Proposition 14 NO "Top Two" Primary
Proposition 15 YES California Fair Elections Act
Proposition 16 NO Utility Power Grab
Proposition 17 NO Insurance Rate Hike Initiative
Dance monkey, Dance!
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THOM you have it backwards. The truth is that President Obama IS a Conserva-DEM, “let big business do what ever the farg it wants” pro-corporatist and Rahm IS Obama’s dancing nickelodeon monkey.
@Thom H. re: How do we channel Jimmy Carter?... why don't you try to get him on your radio program, last I knew he was still alive and kicking.
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Gasoline is not cheap. Our military budget is largely invested in acquiring fuel.
I guess what I'm saying is get out, vote early and often . . .
http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/quick-reference-guide/
Quick Reference Guide – Propositions:
13 Limits on Property Tax Assessment. Seismic Retrofitting
of Existing Buildings. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.
14 Elections. Increases Right to Participate in Primary Elections.
15 California Fair Elections Act.
16 Imposes New Two-Thirds Voter Approval Requirement for
Local Public Electricity Providers. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
17 Allows Auto Insurance Companies to Base Their Prices in
Part on a Driver's History of Insurance Coverage. Initiative Statute.
Prop 14 is the Republican WET-dream of open primaries with no party affiliations disclosed.
Prop 16 is the private utilities attempting to squelch competition from public utilities
Prop 17 is the right for insurance companies to raise rates willy-nilly hidden behind “You should keep your” (ficticious) “continuously insured discount.”
Prop 15 is public funding of elections and being opposed by all the usual jack_holes.
Jeez, I guess NY hasn't gotten on the bandwagon yet. Firstly, statewide ballot initiatives are pretty rare - we usually do that stuff on the county level. Secondly, it's generally pretty damn clear what it is you're voting on, e. g., should we re-instate after-school programming, and raise taxes to pay for it, or not?
Are we living in the past here in NY? If so, I guess I hope we STAY there! LOL
@mstaggerlee, re #18 ? to rladlof: YES it's almost impossible to understand what a Prop means when you read it on the ballot. Basically if you have a Law degree you're ahead of the curve, but you're still going to have a hard time understanding it. I have come to relie on my party's recommendations, since I'm a Green, I feel safe that I'm voting progressively. I have also come to realize that if I hear and see a lot of ads for a Prop, its more than likely a give away to corruption.
A lot of the Props are designed with the law of unintended consequences (or should I say hidden intended consequences) to come into effect after they have been voted for.
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Speaking of "Federal Friendly Courts" (#19), I read an article this morning that discussed the difficulty of finding a judge in a Gulf Coast state who's NOT invested in BP, Halliburton, or some other big oil company. Can you say "conflict of interest"? I thought ya could. ;)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j8f2c5EMHHyphrI-OoK7rj...
re: #18: they sure do it in Texas, I assumed everywhere. A ballot issue here sometimes sounds like a "Who's on first"? routine, or something from Firesign Theater.
News Alert: Helen Thomas announces retirement
Retirement or forced out?
Well once the homeowner starts making monthly payments, that journal entry becomes a cash crop.
It gets lost when it's bet on the table via a derivative. Someone bets that income stream against an odds game in another income stream. It should be illegal... and it used to be.
Of course Obama is continuing to support this unlawful activity. And the report about B of A moving their issue to Federal Friendly Courts illustrates that it's about time we did something serious.
Passive lack of participation in all markets includingt the local super market or department store will empty the pockets of the rich rather quickly.
@Maxnels re #11- Thanx - I'll check it out later on.
@Radlof, re: #15 - Help me out here - as an Easterner, I'm kinda bafflled. Does CA routinely word their ballot propositions in order to disguise what a yes/no vote actually MEANS?
Looking for LIBERAL RADIO IN ARKANSAS?
Try HEADONRADIONETWORK.COM
Bob Kincaid has it covered. He's the ONLY Liberal Radio in that area.
Putting corporations out of their misery? How about putting corporations out of OUR misery?
Regarding California State Measures:
Prop 13: Vote your conscience . . . (Yes)
Prop 14 : NO
Prop 15: YES
Prop 16: NO
Prop 17: NO
Re: Foreclosures
How can a bank "loose money" when the loan was simply a journal entry (money created out of thin air)?
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2010/06/05/poll-problems-in-hot-springs
http://www.cwarkansas.com/news/local/story/Hundreds-of-voters-turned-away-from-the-polls/dNEE5Lj9F0SzZFAPscEGzg.cspx
http://bluearkansasblog.com/?tag=charles-tapp
http://elections.firedoglake.com/tag/charles-tapp/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/5/873244/-AR-Sen:-Despite-promises,-only-two-polls-open-in-crucial-county
Charles Tapp did not allow early balloting in Garland County and closed 40 of 42 polling places in Garland County, a strong-hold for Bill Halter, for the June 8th Run-off Election.
Is this institutional election fraud designed to throw the election to Blanche Lincoln?
Congress forgot long ago that there is supposed to be a balance of powers. The unitary executive demonstrates the dictatorship of the plutocracy.
@mstaggerlee, I think you mentioned before you listen to Amy Goodman/Democracy Now in the morning, right? If so did you hear the last section of her show this morning, she was talking with someone (I forget his name), that was predicting that the end of the American Empire around 2020. It was part one of her talk with this fellow, I'm not sure when she plans on continuing it, other than later this week.
Anyway I think this theory of the end of American Empire and our endless wars tie together, obviously, and figure if you hadn't the chance to catch Democracy Now this morning, you might want to watch it on one of its several repeats (I think Free Speech TV shows it in the evening), or podcast it.
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re; #3,6,8: "well, the Lord can make you tumble;
the Lord can make you turn;
the Lord can make you overflow....
but the Lord can't make you burn.
Burn on, Big River, Burn on...
re: #6: I heard on Thom's show that a worst case scenario of the gulf oil volcano could be a rain of fire, due to evaporating benzine and other flammable chemicals being ignited by lightning. biblical, huh? and I bet Charlton Heston will oversee it all.
re: #s 3 &6 - Burn on, Big River!
http://new.music.yahoo.com/randy-newman/tracks/burn-on-big-river--191200212
Today is an auspicious day, as Afghanistan becomes America's longest war - as of today, it has outlasted VietNam.
And yet, if the goal of this action is making the US safer. it's failing miserably, as DHS itself says that 'the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other previous one-year period.'
Whatever President Obama may think we are doing in Afghanistan, he's wrong - we are doing ourselves NO good there. It's time to cut our losses, find the fastest and least damaging way outta that hole, and, stated as simply as possible, GIT!
I suppose it's too much to hope that, after the exit, we could take the MILLION dollars it's costing us to keep each soldier there, and simply put that cash into a GI's pocket once he gets home, so he can support his family AND our economy. But I'm sure we'll be able find something worthwhile to to with all the money we'll no longer be dumping down the Afghan money pit.