“consitution’s” = constitution’s

I wish this forum had an “edit” option.

Venusian Visitor on November 14, 2008 at 10:26 AM

Once upon a time, there was a little blog called “Captain’s Quarters”, run solo by a guy called Ed Morrissey. That blog was far better in terms of software than the current blog he works for, and the software actually let you edit comment typos up until the first reply to your comment by another commenter. It also let other commenters rate your comments, so you could figure out (by the votes) who the best conservative and liberal commenters were, as well as who the guys off in either right or left ding-bat land were.

Sadly, Camelot is gone.

I wish this forum had an “edit” option.

Oh, wait – bailing out foolish and greedy entities has just become the foundation of the national economy. I wounder if our state consitution’s “balanced budget” provision is now invalid as contrary to federal law?

Pretty remarkable that this ultra-liberal state wants a bailout to save them from their ultra-liberal policies.

Hey California, pay off your own debt, like the rest of us have to pay off ours.

Richard Romano on November 13, 2008 at 3:51 PM

INDEED. Throw Michagin, chicago Ill, and Philly in there as well. They can all go down.

And only the gun owning conservatives living in those areas will survive.

(hmm that rant made me peckish…mmm nachos.)

wherestherum on November 13, 2008 at 4:30 PM

Sorry I didn’t get back til now… hope you get this.
ga is beautiful in the winter.. cold temps ( can get to a low around 10, average day temp around 20-25) But no snow in mid- state and south (except once every seven years or so) We have all four seasons.. summer is hot and humid, but tolerable.
I will go and have my rum and coke zero for the evening… take care

Where did you end up In Alabama? I’m being nosy and asking because I too was in CA for about 25 years- all the families are still in CA, and after a few other interesting stops along the way, (detroit, Connecticut, Chicago) we ended up in my “worst case scenario” of Alabama, and I really, really liked it! Great weather, nice people, affordable lifestyle- other than the insults from people when they hear you’re from “Alabama”, it’s a great, well kept secret! I miss it now that I’m in KC.

Oh- we were in Huntsville

Quite simply the Federal government take’s more than half of what most Californians pay in taxes and the State gets less than half. It’s time the federal gov’t stop taking the money of Californian’s and giving to the rich of New York, beause that is what is happening here.

Fuck the legislature! NO NEW TAXES!!

Revenue went up 30%+ after Arnie (aka RINO) took office, AND THEY SPENT EVERY DIME OF IT! Costs didn’t go up 30%. The population didn’t go up 30%. Matter of fact, 250,000 are now leaving the state each year. Wonder why?

Love the commercial indicating that Kalifornia is ‘business friendly’. NOT!

Like I said, let this freakin’ state BURN! Then the freeloaders while find out just how “free” everything is.

It’s such a wonderful place that the dems have pert’near ruint’t.

My family’s lived here for 7 generations.

All those who voted for all those bonds, all those taxes, need to live in the filth they’ve created for a while. I’m hunkering down and living a sparse, but warm, life.

Fat chance, though, of not having a bailout. Most of our federal representation is on the “winning side”, and I doubt that many of those on the “losing side” have the political balls to give California the medicine it needs.

By the way, I voted no on everything that would cost us any money at all. Sadly, that included the veterans home purchase issue as well, since it would be bootstrapped from the General Fund and we all know where any money put into California’s housing market is going….

California: Hey, why not bail us out, too?

None of them should get a bailout, especially California. Both the
American auto industry and California share one common trait:
exceptionally poor management. The shareholders of the……

Here in the northern red counties (a beautiful part of the state), we are disenfranchised by blue county nit-wits and RINOs like Arnold.

The state sucks out all the money and our justice system is a revolving door of pedophiles and parolee freaks. Illegal aliens are transported to the mountains every year to farm pot. They make a horrible mess and are a danger to society. Drugs are everywhere.

Services will be cut, but I never hear talk of cutting bloated state agencies or eliminating them. At the same time, progresssive California requires $20,000 retro-fits on all diesel equipment — tractors, semi-trucks, etc.

Idiot libs vote burdens on others without consequences to themselves — until now. California doesn’t deserve a bail-out. We did it to ourselves. The American taxpayer doesn’t owe us a dime.

AMEN, brother…in NC so many from New York because of high taxes…so who did they vote for? The biggest spenders of the democrats even.

right2bright on November 13, 2008 at 1:50 PM

LOL….that’s what my brothers say.

They’ve ruined Wilmington & Wrightsville beach with overdevelopment and Raleigh/Durham is in danger of becoming overrun with politcially correct ninnies.

Amid the financial chaos closing in all around us, most of the people I know (most of whom call themselves Republicans), still voted for the expensive and unnecessary high speed rail.

OMG, tell me about it.

monorail….Monorail….MONORAIL!!!!

The more they feed the beast, the bigger it gets.

Though thankfully, they do appear to be finally catching on as almost every spending proposition was voted down during this past election. Except for that silly “save the chickens” feel good proposition. I still don’t get the point of that one.

L.A. residents on the other hand, approved every spending measure, plunging our city even further into debt.

Come next March, no doubt they’ll finish the job by slitting their wrists and reelecting Mr. Special Order 40.

Walter Moore appears to be our only hope.

and the deficit projection from the California Treasurer’s office was only $3 billion prior to October.

Only $3 billion…

Ed, I am the opposite of you – my wife came here from MN and you left here for MN. Who has it worse? You have snow and potentially Al Franken. I have all this lefty madness…