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…and this graph shows the growing number of Californians who regret ever voting for me.
(Arnold Schwarzenegger)
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You’d think Cali would have learned their lesson with Reagan.
Who is the best Actor-turned Governor?!! My vote is for Jesse Ventura…
Jesse Ventura freaks me out.
Can’t argue with you there.
I met him on a plane when I was in eight grade and he is more scary than Pennywise the Clown will ever be to me. But still, a very nice guy to chat with once you get past being piss-in-your-pants terrified of him.
My brother was a WWF fan back in the day… he has a picture of the two of them together… Jesse has the big feather boa and triangle shades on… my brother said he was a big teddy bear. He apparently loves kids and does all kinds of children’s charity events…
All my friends were like, don’t talk to that guy. I was like, Dude, you seriously don’t know who this is? It’s the Body!! He was really nice though, even talked to a thirteen year old girl like I was an adult.
He got a bad rap from the whole WWF-thing. He’s actually an intelligent, articulate man (I don’t agree with all his political views), but have always found him engaging. Plus, he was a Navy SEAL and could kill you thirty different ways with a paperclip…
Wouldn’t it have been great to see him AND Arnold as governors at the same time? They could’ve had a Gubernatorial-steel cage-barbarian strap no-holds-barred death match. Think about how the pay-per-view money could have helped the economy!!!
Link for those who don’t remember him as Jesse “The Body” Ventura…
Is that a necklace, or is it a beaded beard?
I’m betting necklace; but with Jesse, one never knows…{link)
I love that he was always an “old school” wrestler. The ones who just wear the tights and wrestling shoes (or the spankys…..thank you, Randy Orton and Edge! *drools*) are just not trying. I want Rick Flair with his feathers and sequense (sp?)! I want Jesse The Body with his triangle sunglasses! I want Hulk Hogan with his feather boas!!! Give me sparkle, dammit! And I don’t mean fake vampire sparkle either!!
I must admit my schoolgirl crush (and guilty pleasure) for Shawn Michaels… yummy… {link}
*blushes*
Best tag team ever…The Road Warriors. Always brutal, always funny.
Sorry, Brak…. gotta go with DX (Michaels and HHH)…they were my oldest son’s favorite.
DX is Teh Awsum as far as tag teams go. I can’t stand Shawn Michaels for some reason……he irritates me with his goodness, hehe. I do appreciate that he’s got a set of morals and sticks with them, though. That’s why he quit DX the second time, and why he left the WWE for about a year. He couldn’t reconcile his beliefs with his job. I believe that he and Vince came to an understanding about what he would and wouldn’t do as far as out of ring promos and skits, so he came back.
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Now, seeing Randy Orton’s ass after he was pantsed by Michaels was the highlight of my year last year! (it was in a dark house show in my town). I’m waiting to see Edge’s shiny white rear now to make my collection complete
I still like Mick Foley. I mean that guy is your atypical muscle-head and sure wasn’t afraid to take some abuse. On top of that, the guy was just so butt ugly how could you NOT like him?
It’s not NICE to mess with the Legion of Doom!
Anyone remember the Pit Bulls from ECW days? ECW may have been the best promotion ever. I mean….what’s better than putting some poor bastard through three tables? That’s right….set the tables on FIRE. Lordy those guys made me laugh.
Rowdy Roddy Piper was in my restaurant last year with his daughter after her graduation. He was such a down home, Levis and flannel shirt kind of guy I didn’t even realize I was talking to a “celebrity” until my co-workers started crowding around after he left.
“What’s he like?”
“What did you talk about?”
“Did you get his autograph?”
I was all, “Nice enough”, “I asked him if he enjoyed his meal”, and “No, of course not… why, is he someone famous?!?”
I’d pay.
I’m not sure if it would have mattered. With propositions, people can vote for new state programs and leave someone else to scramble with how to pay for them. That’s part of why we have representative democracies, because true democracies would mean that idiots will vote for anything that gets them something, but against the taxes required to pay for them.
Recent Cali transplant agrees completely- they want the cake and they want to eat it too- they are nuts– on both sides.
What was it john hodgman said? “Remember, this was a placed settled by actors, and before that by a bunch of farm hands looking for shiny rocks in water”
I lived in California back when Reagan was governor and say what you will, the state was incredibly prosperous. Then some years down the track with Jerry Moonbeam Brown it all went to sh*t. What really killed the state was back in the 80’s when they started taxing the hell out of Big Business and they all moved out. Aerospace in So Cal came to a grinding halt.
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The best one though was when the legislature enacted a ’snack tax’. The taxpayers said, “I don’t think so!” and revolted. That particular law lasted 6 months before it was repealed.
You are skum. Got do nasty things to yourself. Sit on sharp pointy things.
Or Obama
Get a life.
…good one…
I don’t regret voting for him.
An article for your reading pleasure
Well the recall was either him, or Cruz Bustamante. Quite a few people figured Bustamante would open up the California boarder.
Maybe Tom McClintock wasn’t such a bad choice.
Ooooh I remember Bustamante. Yeah, I think I’d still go with Arnold.
A thousand or so people throwing their hats into the ring in that election, and they ended up with HIM???
Well, I didn’t vote for him. I didn’t vote for prop 8 either. My vote makes a difference? Hmmm… I’d get out of this state if it weren’t so damn beautiful in parts.
I think we should require all propositions to be PAY_GO—if you add somethign that will cost money, you have to explicitly say what taxes will be used to pay for it. If you want to reduce a tax, you have to say explicitly what service will be removed to accommodate- would reduce the number of props that pass…but then we could PAY for them when they did!
One word for you: “entitlements”
Like Cali is the only place that has beautiful areas? Go somewhere else, and you will find the beauty WITHOUT the smog and crazy drivers
Like Norway.
I can read what that graph actually says.
Caption Fail.
Vision test Win?
Surprisingly after being up for 30 hours straight, yes.
Also, 18, but I haven’t vote for anything yet.
I would have voted against Prop 8 though… such a sad turn of events…
Because at 18 you only look at one overly emotional point of view without taking into account the religious persecution that was demonstrated in Massachusetts when they allowed gay marriage. NH got it right be exempting religions and religious organizations from being forced to do things against their moral code. The Constitution does after all say no law shall be made against religion and no state religion shall be established (not separation of church and state, btw).
Cite for your claim that Massachusetts religious organizations are being forced to marry gays?
I believe I said religious persecution was demonstrated in Massachusetts, not “Massachusetts religious organizations are being forced to marry gays.”
But here are a few examples from Jersey, Iowa, and Mass. for you.
In 2007, two women filed a complaint in New Jersey because they were denied use of a pavilion for their civil union ceremony. The pavilion was owned by a Methodist ministry. It had been rented out for marriages, but the ministry refused to rent it for civil unions because it is a religious structure, and civil unions are not recognized in the United Methodist Church Book of Discipline.
Due to the ministry’s refusal to rent it for the lesbian ceremony, New Jersey revoked its tax-free status.
The Des Moines Human Rights Commission found the local Young Men’s Christian Association in violation of public accommodation laws because it refused to extend “family membership” privileges to a lesbian couple that had entered a civil union in Vermont.
Accordingly, the city forced the YMCA to recognize gay and lesbian unions as “families” for membership purposes, or lose over $100,000 in government support.
Perhaps the most notorious example of a state forcing its view on a church agency comes from Massachusetts, where Boston Catholic Charities ran an adoption agency that had been placing children with families for over 100 years.
In 2006, Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley announced that the agency would abandon its founding mission rather than submit to a state law requiring it to place children with homosexual couples. (A Vatican document from 2003 described gay adoptions as ”gravely immoral.”)
It seems ironic that you would view these situations as religious persecution, but the denial of equal rights to gay Americans as somehow okay.
People are denied things all the time by private religious and non-religious organizations. It’s the private part of the name that’s the important part. Just like excluding women from the Elk’s Lodge or the Masons. We don’t persecute them for that.
I’ll give you that. When my brother got married, he had to join his fiancee’s church or the church wouldn’t marry them. If it’s okay for a church to not allow people who don’t share their faith to get married there, then wouldn’t it be okay to not allow gays get married there since homosexuality violates their beliefs? I’m not saying I agree with it, in fact I think the entire religion needs to look real hard at its views on homosexuality. In the meantime, though, if they are allowed the power to decide who can and cannot be in their church, then homosexuality would unfortunately be part of that.
Did that make any sense?
To me, it made perfect sense
I actually agree that religious organizations shouldn’t be forced to accept everyone. I mean, then how would we know who Jesus loves and doesn’t love? Anyway, my point was that the same people who would deny gay Americans the right to marry (whether it be at the city hall or not) are mortified at the idea of their religious rights being infringed upon. Oh, the irony.
It is irony, but that sword cuts both ways. The churches are mortified that they would be infringed, as is the gay community mortified that they are being infringed. It’s just as wrong to force either side to do something that they don’t want to do.
Somehow, I don’t see the situation with Catholic Charities in Massachusetts as being religious persecution. The state of Massachusetts asked the Boston Archdiocese to please obey state law, which stipulates that adoption agencies can not discriminate against gay or lesbians who wish to adopt. There is a shortage of adoptive parents for these children who are coming from foster care, by the way. And naturally, adoption agencies can deny persons unfit to adopt. Boston Catholic Charities chose to discontinue their work with adoption, rather than obey state law. This is certainly not persecution, in any way. In fact, many people feel it is unfortunate that the archdiocese chose to abandon their work, rather than to work with potential parents who are homosexual. But Boston Catholic Charities has not been penalized for their decision in any way.
Yah, but they’ll turn them gay! Just like their gay parents did to…wait…uh…never mind.
Typical politician putting the solution before the problem.
*sigh* Writing as a native Californian over the age of forty (that puts me in a minority, for what it’s worth – the other four people are fixing to move somewhere else and raise the cost of real estate there) I objected to the recall for a couple of reasons. One, while the recalled governor was pretty much useless, the real problem was (and still is) the legislature. Two, they let people vote for the recall who didn’t bother (or weren’t eligible) to vote in the previous gubernatorial election.
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If you’re too frickin’ lazy to vote you don’t get a do-over. Deal. And don’t give me crap about “oh, it wasn’t convenient” or “I had to work” or any of that – absentee voting is not that big an effort, so just shut up already.
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For the record, I’m registered as a non-partisan and consider myself a liberal-leaning moderate – if I remember correctly I voted for Gallagher at that time (although I voted against the recall itself for the above noted reasons). It did scare the legislature into actually doing something other than partisan whining and pork for a while, to be honest, but they’re back to normal now.
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Oh, and I think Mr. Schwarzenegger has done at least as good a job as anyone could have under the circumstances.
He did a great job initially. He called in experts to go over the budget. He became the state’s PR man to being in business and employers.
Then, I dunno, he got taken over by a brain slug or something. He tried to over do it with the first special election, and when that failed it’s like he has been punishing the voters ever since.
>>>”It did scare the legislature into actually doing something other than partisan whining and pork for a while”
That was why I supported the recall. It sent a message, but Arnold fumbled that ball. We probably should have put Tancredo in there. Now the only thing left is to just let the state go bankrupt so all the asinine state employee contracts can be redone.
See, but I would’ve rather kicked the entire legislature to the curb first and started over, is the thing.
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Maybe we could start recalling them in batches?
Like peanut butter, or hamburger patties with salmonella. There’s a thought. (“If you have a legislator imprinted with batch number 312Z58, please return him or her to your local election commission at your earliest convenience for a full refund.”)
I’m, uh, not qualified to handle politicians (I have no HazMat equipment, you see).
I liken politicians to be more like the Borg. Amazing how many people get assimilated.
Too bad that more of them don’t look like 7 of nine!!
But I’ve got my receipt for him and everything. Maybe I can just get an exchange?
Well, I haven’t emptied the litter box yet today…
I’m sorry. He’s past the 90 day return policy. You can try sending him back to the manufacturer, but it’ll take about two weeks to get him replaced or repaired. If you had purchased the special protection plan when you bought him, you could have brought him back to the store any time in the next 3 years to swap him out with a brand new one, no questions asked. Maybe you’ll think next time you pass on the extended warranty, huh?
(OMG, I’ve been working at Sears way too long.)
OMG….Eric, I spent a miserable three months in 1982 working for Sears selling extended warranty protection on the phone! That job suuuuuucked!
Well, he started out fine. Then the unions got to him. Now he’s just another puppet.
Darn unions. Always standing in opposition to those nice multi-national corporations, asking for a stupid living wage, and that darn health care…
Not to mention safe working conditions. What are they thinking of!!!!1!1!!elebenty!!!
Honestly, not to knock the unions, but they had their place back in the day. They truly revolutionized the way industry works, kept kids from working, made working safer and better for all. But really, aren’t employment laws (most of which were brought about by union involvement) enough to protect your average worker? All of the experience I’ve had with unions is that they meddle and make it harder for a company to do its job. I think they were relevant back when people were cattle, but they are holding a lot of people and companies back today.
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Anecdotally, we have several plants in the company I work for that are unionized. Last year we had several jobs that we wanted to turn into upgraded positions that included better pay. The reason behind this switch was so that this particular job (which took more skill than other jobs on the line) would incentivize people and encourage them in the job, as well as give them more money for doing a slightly harder job. The unionized plants fought the change, saying that it was unfair to make people bid on this job instead of paying everyone the wage, regardless of skill level. To this day, our non-unionized plants pay more for this particular job than our unionized plants, because the unions would not agree to the condition that the job was to be bid on and was performance based as far as keeping it.
I would certainly not claim that unions are the be-all and end-all. They involve humans, so…!
But employment laws are only as good as enforcement. Just look at the leather factory in Fall River, MA, which was raided by the INS in 2007–300 illegal immigrants were imprisoned, with a major scandal because many had small children who could not be picked up from day care with their parents transported to Texas. But ANYway, the point is that it turns out this factory–who was doing work for the US military–was running sweatshop conditions, with ridiculous rules which enabled them to fine the workers down below their $7 an hour salary. (link to Wall Street Journal article)
Also, OSHA staffing has been significantly cut over the last several years (if not longer?), which frees unethical companies to skirt safety rules.
As I said, I’m not a union apologist, unions can serve as a balance against unethical employers or managers. IF the union is doing its job properly.
I just moved here a few years ago- but I think we must ALSO blame the morons who vote for both lowered taxes AND increased services- can’t have both! On propositions. And to be fair to legislature they do not always have much wiggle room with the props controlling a large portion? But the real reason we ended up here in RECENT history is bc of extremist right wing groups threatening REPs with recall/no re-election if they vote for anything vaguely resembling a tax. Rather than try to compromise (and yes potentially loose there job- whaaa), they capitulated. But this is recent history- this has been building for years and years—-That is why I think PAY-GO propositions must be initiated ASAP—-if you want to add a program, or add funding to a program, you have to say WHERE it will come from- by reducing other programs? OR a new tax program? And vice versa- if you want to lower a tax- how will that get paid for? And finally—-taxes are quite high in CA, so I am not saying that something needs to be done- I am just saying that there is a small group of pp voting for EVERYTHING on the props—then they pass, and we are all screwed. Since you have been here longer can you comment on this idea/perception? I am not over 40 (getting close!)..so not sure if that disqualifies me or not
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As I noted above in a different thread, entitlements are a problem (they are literally not allowed to re-allocate the money because certain allocations are sacrosanct).
PAYGO is easy to get around, as is evidenced by the Clinton Administration. I have a story at Politifact linked to show how it can be easily circumnavigated by those with ulterior motives. You know, like Congress.
Wanna meet Anniee451’s best buddy? Click here.
We usually wait for Anniee to post a stupid and or mean-spirited comment before we attack her…but I see what you did there.
Good!
I have to admit, when I noticed that story, it did remind me immediately of someone.
Yup.
I would only engage her if she says something seriously offensive. Otherwise, as much as I don’t *like* her opinion, she’s entitled to it.
And this is relevant how? Are you just trying to stir the sh*t some more?
Yes.
Troll elsewhere loser.
No.
I have a feeling that DT is trying to make friends. There are always those people that see a group attacking someone and decide they want to be a part of that group. Sadly, DT has only managed to have the microscope of stupidity put on him/her.
Wrong.
He don’t get me wrong. My feelings for Anniee have been pretty clear. However, randomly attacking her only feeds her misplaced persecution complex and I don’t feel like more lectures from Seth about how we’ve all been picking on her.
Random?
What, do you need a dictionary troll?
Y?
*takes the kibble from Jane’s hand*
Selfish
Damn it Eddie, I laced it with rat poison this time! ;P
Yeah, but it wasn’t working..
*noms*
Rasputin? Is that you?
Jane, does a dictionary troll post random definitions? That might be fun.
Only wimps use commas. ;P
*cautions Jane* – I know it’s tempting, but let it ride.
SALLY!
In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.[2]
And it’s really fun to see people get so pissed off about it.
IKR!!!
No, no, she said dictionary troll, not wiki troll.
What’s a dictionary troll?
Hmmm….maybe I could be a dictionary troll:
re·dac·tion NOUN:
1. The act or process of editing or revising a piece of writing; preparation for publication.
2. An edited work; a new edition or revision.
A dictionary troll? That sounds scary! Or maybe you should use a comma next time.
I’m inclined to give DT the benefit of the doubt unless they start shitstirring for no reason on a regular basis. She has made the gorilla comparison on more than one occasion; and while I didn’t feel the need to post about it myself, I did think of her when I saw the story.
But, yeah, being posted apropos of nothing current that she’s said would fall under poor sportsmanship or something.
Pre-preemptive.
I would have given DT the benefit too had it been appropriate. I just don’t see much future in pulling the door open just to see what’s going to jump out.
Regret…
What’s going to jump out is Anniee having a whine fest about how everyone unfairly picks on her and her lesbian daughter and so she doesn’t know why she bothers trying to be “nice” and then she’ll spend several days going back to unprovoked attacks and Seth will come in and try to talk her back from the crazy ledge by feeding her persecution paranoia.
On the other hand, it’s entirely possible that she was going to show up later and link to the same news story as proof she’s not the only person making gorilla comparisons. *sigh*
Perhaps if we just drop it for now, we could go back to discussing fun stuff.
Justification.
Like circumcision?
Wait, what? I’m not sure I like your definition of fun..
Well it was very informative and to think it was all because of nuns talking about penii (penisii, penises, did we ever decide on a plural?)
I think the definitive plural was “cocks”.
Oh good, so glad I won that round.
really? i thought it was one cock, two cocki, three cockee and anything more is a caucus of cock…
“My tubby husband here LOVES the cock!”–2 point reference.
This is kind of surreal for me (I haven’t spent that much time in the…er, comment rooms? of these forums) – it’s reminding me of the scene in Blazing Saddles where the brawl breaks through into the musical (RIP Dom) for some reason…
TWUE!!
Just roll with it.
We are something of an acquired taste here at PK, but we have fun, and actually have some good serious discussions too.
VOILA!
No, mostly just oboe these days.
I used to work with someone that was converting to Judaism and as part of the process had to get circumcized. This person was well into his 40’s when this was done I’m sure to this day he still relives the moment. Unfortunately for him, the girl he was doing it for dumped him after it was done.
UGLY!
Awwww, that’s so sad.
It taught him a lesson though..
Yes. Never chop your willy for a girl. Ever.
In the words of Dave Chapelle from Men in Tights “I forgot man.. I… I already got one.”
Well….yeah, pretty much any discussion of penises qualifies as “fun stuff”, Jane!
I’ve always found it to be so.
That, and of course, “boobies!”
One day in the hospital, two little boys were lying on stretchers next to each other outside of the operating room. The first boy leans over and asks, “What are you in for?”
“I’m here to get my tonsils out and I’m nervous,” the second boy says.
The first kid says, “You’ve got nothing to worry about! I had that done when I was four. They put you to sleep and when you wake up they give you lots of ice cream and
Jell-O. It’s a breeze!”
“Well what are you here for?” the second kid asks.
“A circumcision.” The first kid replys woefully.
The second kid says “Wow! I had that done when I was born and I couldn’t walk for a year!”
HA!
Entertainment!
I think it probably would have been better to put this in the thread with Anniee’s gorilla comments. As it is, it does look like we’re picking on her when she hasn’t even been on this thread that I’ve seen.
AAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
Good point, Eric.
Git to da choppa! Naw!
Sorry couldnt resist.
Seeing how he pulls numbers out his arsehat, i’m not surprised. Then threatening to cut schools and public services FIRST when we should fund those FIRST.
Him, and the Legislators make me sick.
good lol though
Wow, the troll isn’t even trying hard and has everybody eating from the hand… Tsk tsk…