California Megathread: Best State

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Bizarro Watt: May 30, 2010; My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

I'm assuming that Kamala Harris may be more likely to run for governor when she feels good and ready, which doesn't bother me since I'd probably vote for her. The more likely future candidate for a position on SCOTUS would probably be Goodwin Liu, rather than Harris, now that he's on the CA Supreme Court.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2013 05:23

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 21:03

Bizarro Watt: May 30, 2010; My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

I remember when Brown came to my university to give a speech in favor of the tax proposition and at the start he spent a couple minutes talking about being fascinated by the redwood trees on campus. I like the guy, but by all accounts (including friends of mine who have sat in on meetings with him) he is an odd man.

He also challenged Chris Christie to an athletic contest. :laffo:

# ¿ Jun 28, 2013 05:31

Bizarro Watt: May 30, 2010; My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

JesusSinfulHands posted:

Would Liu stand a chance of getting confirmed though? Some Democratic senators were squeamish about him even back in 2011

Oh I don't know, I was just speaking of his chances relative to Harris. I doubt he's on Obama's mind for replacing Ginsburg when she retires, which means we'd have to wait until someone like Scalia croaks, in which case it would take enormous brass balls to nominate Liu as his successor.

Play posted:

Anyways hope you liked my story.

I think I briefly met your mom at an award ceremony. :v:

Although it is nice that California feels like it's at least somewhat back on the right track again.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2013 05:55

Bizarro Watt: May 30, 2010; My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

foot posted:

Not north of Los Angeles County it isn't.

People from Los Angeles like to tell themselves this, at least.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2013 07:15

Bizarro Watt: May 30, 2010; My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

Zeitgueist posted:

Someone posted this over in the picture thread.

Good to see Gilroy getting attention for something besides garlic, I suppose. In my dreams, I'd like to have a high-speed rail line that goes up and down the coast.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2013 21:41

Bizarro Watt: May 30, 2010; My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

Zeitgueist posted:

Yeah the coast is beautiful, but that would pretty much be Rich People Express. Though Amtrak already does that route at non-high speeds.

Yeah, I know it'd never happen and it wouldn't be particularly useful anyway, I just think it'd be a nice ride.

Trabisnikof posted:

I'm pretty sure Gilroy gets a stop purely because they are using existing Caltrain right of way.

You know, I probably should have figured that.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2013 22:08

Bizarro Watt: May 30, 2010; My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

"Militarized repression of free speech"? My union kinda annoys me sometimes. Although I don't like the Napolitano pick on the surface, either.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2013 06:33

Bizarro Watt: May 30, 2010; My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

Thanatosian posted:

On the one hand, yeah, seems kind of over-the-top. On the other hand...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdDLhPwpp4

To be fair, they did fire him after that... after 8 months of "paid administrative leave," a.k.a. what anyone else would call "paid vacation."

It is over the top wording. I'm aware of the UC Davis incident (What UC student isn't?) but it wasn't an example of encroaching militarized repression of free speech, as abhorrent as it was. The other poster who replied to me had a point though, that as long as our union keeps its focus on where it counts (the bargaining with UC administration) they can keep with their rhetoric. I just find it kind of eye-roll inducing sometimes.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2013 01:59

Bizarro Watt: May 30, 2010; My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

pokie posted:

I am sure my accent wouldn't give me away . I think this the first time I've heard anyone complain about this term in 10+ years I lived here though.

Say Cali all you want, I couldn't possibly care less.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2013 20:43

Bizarro Watt: May 30, 2010; My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

As far as I'm concerned, "the" never goes in front of the names of freeways, highways, and interstates.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2013 23:50

Bizarro Watt: May 30, 2010; My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

WampaLord posted:

Well, we can either have a Jets/Sharks style musical gang fight to decide who's right or we can drop the dumbest derail ever over the use of "the" before highway names.

The food derails are better than this.

e: VVV Where else? How about here - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3032518

It's just a funny discrepancy between how people from different parts of California speak, nobody is really being serious. The whole subject of the California accent/dialect is a funny one in and of itself, too: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/august/california-dialect-linguistics-080612.html

Vivian Darkbloom posted:

Whaaat? Demonstrators deliberately hurt by riot cops sounds like some repression to me.

I take issue with saying that Yudof's tenure as the UC President was characterized by militarized repression. It's a purely semantics thing and it's not like I approved of the job he did either though, so it's probably not worth pursuing.

Bizarro Watt fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Jul 20, 2013

# ¿ Jul 20, 2013 00:20

Bizarro Watt: May 30, 2010; My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

Brown's idea with expanding private prisons in the state sounds pretty abhorrent. To think I was actually considering voting for him again, too.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2013 03:29

Bizarro Watt: May 30, 2010; My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

I really don't understand why there isn't a state-run pension fund. It would have to get me better return than my terrible 401k (15 years at 3.8%! Whoopty loving doo!) and I would absolutely pay into it rather than the goddamn STOCK MARKET.

There was a push recently in the state legislature to create a state-run pension plan for people in the private sector, but I don't think anything came of it, which is too bad.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2013 21:00

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 21:03

Bizarro Watt: May 30, 2010; My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

So I've found myself going for a PhD in Texas and after being born and raised in California, I miss the state a lot right now. At least rent is cheap out here, I guess.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2014 22:57

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