No, I'm not kidding. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors just passed an ordinance to raise fines to up to $1,000 for anyone who throws a football or a Frisbee on any beach in Los Angeles County. No baseball either, not even a softball or a whiffle ball. Nothing except beach balls. What, you haven't heard about the hundreds of fatal Frisbee injuries on L.A. County's beaches? ...
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A voter-supported ban on same-sex marriage in California was declared unconstitutional by a US federal appeals court
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Ah, the beat goes on... Notwithstanding the massive recalls of Chevy Volts, the low driving range before recharging and the high incidence of battery fires,The California Air Resources Board unanimously approved a set of new rules requiring that one in seven of the new cars sold in California by 2025 be an electric or other zero-emission vehicle. The plan also mandates a 75 percent reduction in sm...
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JOSHUAPUNDIT on 29th Jan 2012 (via joshuapundit.blogspot.com)
Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase offered help to the state’s borrowers to settle allegations of mortgage-related misdeeds
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Jerry Brown implored voters to back temporary tax increases which he said would restore the state’s fiscal health
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Private Bradley Manning, the accused in the passing of classified documents to Wikileaks, will likely face court martial and possible life in prison for "aiding the enemy"! And rightfully so, as the final decision to have the trial now moves up the chain of command. I first wrote about this case back in December of 2010 in conjunction with the attempt by Berkeley, California to officially bestow t...
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PoliticsandFinance on 12th Jan 2012 (via politicsandfinance.blogspot.com)
Dymaxicon doesn't accept 'submissions'. I'm not a particularly submissive person, and I have always resented that writers were always cast in a submissive role... no one should ever be in the position of accepting or rejecting. So says California-based Samizdatista Hillary Johnson about Dymaxicon, the new model publishing company she set up as an imprint of Agile Learning Labs....
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