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OBAMA WHORING INAUGURATION

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JESUS-FREAK'S BLESSING NOT BAD ENOUGH

NOW BARACK IS SELLING SEATS WHICH BELONG TO THE PEOPLE

Live From His $9 Million Mansion On A Public-Excluded Beach In Hawaii, Obama Betrays Us Again

We voted for "change." We're getting the Same Old Sh*t from Obama and his Republican & Democrat-In-Name-Only Cabinet. First, he excludes anyone left of Center-Right from his staff and Cabinet. Then he picks a professional racist-sexist-nativist-homophobic televangelist to bless his inauguration, in defiance of the Separation of Church & State upon which this country is based. He's acting just like a Republican, or a "Blue-Dawg" Southron DINO.

Now his election campaign manager, David Plouffe, is emailing Obama supporters in Obama's name to offer them a chance in a paid raffle of seats at the inauguration, seats which belong to us in the first place and are supposed to be free. Don't they have enough of our money, what little we have left after the Wall Street and Detroit and who-knows-where-all-else taxpayer-bailout ripoffs?

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Outlook for the California State Legislature in 2010

It is never too early to look ahead to the next election, and I am doing that with my handy dandy registration tables for the State Senate and State Assembly districts with term-limited and possibly vulnerable freshmen incumbents (in italics). Without further Apu, here are the numbers.

Cross-posted at Swing State Project, Calitics, and my blog.

And I might as well use this diary to promote my new 2010 California Race Tracker website. Anyone is free to join in and contribute information that will be useful for us going into the 2010 elections.

SENATE
8 incumbents are term-limited in 2010, 4 Republicans and 4 Democrats. I am also watching Lou Correa in the 34th district due to his razor-thin win in 2006 after recounts. The 12th district has the best chance of flipping to us, though if we work very hard in the 4th, like Charlie Brown in CA-04, we may have a chance here too.

Republicans (4)

Democrats (5)

ASSEMBLY
17 Assemblymembers are term-limited in 2010, 6 Republicans and 11 Democrats. I am also including the 6 new freshmen (2 GOP, 4 DEM) that were elected by close margins. Where the Senate lacks in pickup opportunities, the Assembly makes up. These numbers are over the flip.

MERRY CHRISMUKKAHWANZAMADAN!

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[Cross-posted at blog me no blogs by cosanostradamus.]
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING

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WHATEVER HAPPENS . . .

DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY

And Remember: It Could Be Worse! YOU Could Be The TURKEY!!!

[Cross-posted at blog me no blogs.]
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"COMING HOME" 2008: IRAQ & AFGHAN VETS RETURN

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WHAT SORT OF PEOPLE ARE THEY, NOW?

HOW HAS THE WAR AFFECTED OUR PEOPLE?

YOUTUBE: IAVA
"Community of Veterans"

More Importantly, How Are Our Vets Being Treated?

TV has recognized our vets. Well, a soap opera hired one, anyway. Obama may hire one, too: Hawaii's own Major Tammy Duckworth, the Army's female helicopter pilot who lost both legs fighting for her country, might be our next Secretary of Veterans' Affairs. As for the rest of those coming home, it's not a happy time.

Unemployment in parts of the States has hit double digits. State, County, City and private colleges are cutting back their financial aid and their enrollments. The credit crunch is hitting kids who grew up on plastic especially hard: Can't even afford a Slurpee at the 7-11 now that the VISA-card is canceled. And that dream home the military bonus was supposed to buy? It's a bit beyond the means of most enlisted personnel and lower-ranking officers, even if they could get a mortgage these days. Just getting a loan for a new car might be a problem for many. And let's not talk about the price of gas, "down" to $2.50/gal! Welcome home, soldier!

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LET THEM EAT SMOKE

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CALIFORNIA ARISTOCRACY INCONVENIENCED BY FIRES

STARS TRAUMATIZED: SOME LOST STUFF

Several Regular People May Have Been Roasted Alive (Ho-Hum)

Mansions and palazzo's, estates and compounds, luxurious beachfront bungalows and quaint canyon hideaways were all suddenly violently approached by something that has no respect for fame or fortune: Fire. Actors and directors, producers and television "personalities" abruptly found themselves in the exact same position as commoners. Only their native noblesse oblige, and a boost from the mainsteam media, got them through it. Star quality, you might call it!

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SYLMAR & "TEA" WILDFIRES: WHY CALIFORNIA KEEPS GETTING BURNED

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OVERDEVELOPMENT IN ARID AREAS EQUALS FIRE & DESTRUCTION, DUH

FOLK OF THE GRANOLA LIVING IN DENIAL: WATER-POOR STATE CANNOT SUPPORT 40 MILLION+

Does this look like a forest to you? It's the "Angeles National Forest" in the high desert above LA. And it's a tinderbox.

NOTE: This post is not meant to criticize in any way the victims of these tragedies. They are twice victims: Once by the developers and their pet politicians who built where they knew building should not have been allowed. And again by those same louts who took their money and ran, leaving them without protection from these fires, which have now consumed their lives. We hope they can survive this, and our hearts go out to them, especially the poor and elderly who have lost their humble trailers, which they must have been promised the sky for to get their last dimes. The builders and politicians are the ones who should burn in Hell.

If you build it, they will come. And come. And come. As in one of those San Fernando Valley-made videos, they just keep coming. Although California's golden days are far behind it, new huddled masses yearning to breathe smog keep arriving every year. Immigrants continue to stream in from Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Weather-refugees from the Snow Belt, job-seekers from across the nation and around the world arrive every day in the Bay Area, Los Angeles metro, greater San Diego, and all the dry and formerly desolate areas in between. They love the idea that "It never rains in Southern California." It just doesn't occur to them what that means.

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Throwing Good Money After Bad

Secretary Paulson's credibility is plunging faster than the DOW.

Arianna Huffington has a clear grasp of the situation: While Paulson Waffles, the White House Dawdles, and Congress Dithers, the Economy Continues to Burn.

OBAMA & THE FUTURE OF RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICA

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LET THE BLOVIATIONS BEGIN!

WHAT A BLACK MAN'S ELECTION MEANS & DOESN'T MEAN

"Black" By Racist Classification, Obama Enjoyed Benefits Not Available To Most African-Americans

Everyone seems to be focusing on what the neo-Fascist Premier of Italy referred to as Obama's "tan:" As if it had anything much to do with his election, or his future policies & performance as President. Granted, many on the Left are assuming that the new President's African ancestry and hard-scrabble beginnings will translate into a progressive agenda, aggressively pursued. But what's hue got to do with it?

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