Posts Tagged ‘California’
No Frisbees on the beach! Fine raised to $1,000 in LA County
Goodness grief. If you plan to head to LA County beaches in the summer, you best leave the football, Frisbee™, and other dangerous objects at home. The Southern California Save Volleyball Alliance (lobby) was able to get volleyballs exempted from the mandate.
Read MoreCalifornia is in the news again…
This time about high speed rail.
Read MoreAre there any rational beings left in California?
Other than Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill that is. Let me, as they say, begin at the beginning.
Read MoreGoodness grief: 21 H&K MP5s stolen from the Los Angeles PD
Unlike almost every other news story that mistakenly reports a “machine gun” was involved with some sort of crime, these guns really are machine guns; submachine guns to be specific. LAPD housed these weapons in a facility with no alarms or security cameras.
Read MoreWhat was Governor Jerry Brown thinking?
On Thursday, Governor Jerry Brown (D. Ca.) signed into law a bill that mandates that all California schools add lessons about gay and lesbians to their Social Studies programs. Whether you have issues with gay rights or not, this law should outrage you for what it not so subtly accomplishes…divisiveness.
Read MoreNewport Beach lifeguard staff and unsustainable pensions
Lifeguards have an important job as first responders saving lives just like EMTs and paramedics. But in Newport Beach, Calif., it’s not a question of their performance or need, it’s the $100,000 in pay and benefits many guards earn each year after retirement at age 50.
Read MoreFeds pay to upgrade Mexican trucks – US trucks not so lucky
A story broke yesterday concerning the retrofit of more than 100 trucks from Mexico that do not meet United States environmental standards. Our federal government is paying to upgrade these trucks, yet when the state of California and the EPA set new rules for US-owned trucks, they fine companies who do not comply.
Read MoreSome on the left are finally getting it
Would you expect a mini-uprising against public unions to be launched in San Francisco, California? Would you expect that Democrats would be leading this mini-uprising? If your answer to either of these questions is, “no”, please read on.
Read MoreYour money and high-speed rail
Remember all of the hoopla earlier this year when President Obama gave your money away to various states to build high speed trains? Well, sanity has prevailed, at least in two states. Last week, the newly elected Republican governors of Ohio and Wisconsin said no thank you to $1.2 billion, and “returned” it to the…
Read MoreGovernor Moonbeam has a Flashback
It has been said, in a less political correct era, that California is like a bowl of granola. Looking at some of their past political leaders, the old line about nuts and flakes comes into its own.
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