Here's a CA post from the Kerry thread that was sort of OT there..
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What California thinks today, the US thinks of tomorrow.
That's actually funny. In days gone by, CA was looked at as a positive harbinger of future trends. Now, people look at CA as an example of trends to avoid.
The poll found that the public strongly favors increasing taxes in at least several areas. Nearly four out of five Californians back higher taxes on cigarettes, and, by the same ratio, alcoholic beverages. An overwhelming 69% support raising income taxes on the wealthy.
Truly idiotic. Prepare to kiss more businesses and jobs goodbye. I love CA, a never ending source of amusing idiocy. As examples, I found the two excerpted links below in this mornings RJ...
jewishworldreview.com
Thomas Sowell
Criminalizing business, Part II
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Can you imagine being charged with murder for the death of someone you didn't even know was dead, when you were not even around when it happened? Only in California — and only if you are in business.
In a state where hardened criminals are coddled, and sometimes lionized, a California dairy farmer named Patrick Faria and his herdsman were charged with murder in the accidental death of two dairy employees who fell into a sewage pit and drowned while Mr. Faria was away. The rationale is that the farm was not in compliance with the innumerable safety rules that bureaucrats can dream up, even if nobody can keep track of all these rules...
...California is the only state that has ever brought a murder charge against an employer in an accidental death. It is one of many dubious distinctions that California has when it comes to anti-business laws and policies.
California's workmen's compensation costs also lead the nation. And it leads businesses right out of state. Yet some people wonder why businesses are leaving California, taking their jobs and their taxes with them...
reviewjournal.com.
Sunday, April 25, 2004
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: If it's a threat .. shoot the cat
It's been 10 years since 40-year-old Barbara Schoener was mauled to death by a nursing 80-pound cougar while jogging on a secluded mountain trail about 45 miles northeast of Sacramento. (Schoener was one of two women killed by cats on California hiking trails that year.)
The cat was tracked down and killed.
In California, the incident led to an extraordinary outpouring of empathy ... for the cat. In his book, "Ecology of Fear," Mike Davis reports sympathizers reportedly donated twice as much to a fund for the lion's orphans than to the fund for Schoener's two small (human) children...
...But the other problem is that it's now politically incorrect to hunt the big cats in California. In fact, Californians passed Proposition 117 in 1990, banning the "sport hunting" of cougars.
California game wardens now visit elementary schools, advising children to stand still, wave their arms and shout when they encounter one of these deadly predators.
It's good advice as far as it goes -- the animal is far more likely to take a small human for prey if it tries to run away. But shouldn't the kids yell something else, first? Something like, "Daddy, shoot the cat"?
For most absurdly of all, the pathetic bedwetters who have taken over the state of California have made it almost entirely illegal to carry a firearm for self-defense in precisely the places citizens are most likely to have this kind of unpleasant encounter -- the state's parks and recreation areas... |
