Arnold keeps doing embarrassing stuff.
Defending donor-paid junkets for California state legislators, he said it was good for folks from small towns to get out and see the big world.
“And that’s why I always encourage the legislators in Sacramento, because some of them come from those little towns," Schwarzenegger said [to laughter]. "You know what I’m saying? They come from those little towns, and they don’t have that vision yet of an airport. [Applause] Or of a highway that maybe has 10 lanes. Or of putting a highway on top of a highway. They look at you and say, ‘Well we don’t have that in my town, what are you talking about?’ So they are kind of shocked when you say certain things."
One small-town California legislator is shocked that Arnold would talk smack about them in front of an appreciative and elite Beverly Hills audience. He wants Arnold to prove he’s prepared for the great big world, by taking the California high school graduation test.
Sen. Dean Florez, who took offense to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s comments earlier this week about small-town lawmakers, today announced he was introducing a resolution calling on the governor to take the high school exit exam.
"Given the governor’s distasteful comments, what’s unanswered is whether he can make the grade," said Florez in a long and chiding statement.
"For the leader of our great state to suggest that rural Californians have no vision — of an airport or of a highway — is demeaning in a very personal way for the people who live in rural California," he continued. "The Governor’s comments were unwelcome and at worst hurtful, especially to our children. I’d like to remind him that there are many kids in rural towns who work and study hard day in and day out and yet, according to the Governor, are considered closed-minded simply because of where they live.
Like every other kid around the state, small town students take the same graduation tests as big city kids to show competency. Rural kids can make the grade. Given the Governor’s distasteful comments, what’s unanswered is whether he can make the grade.
That’s why, today, I’m introducing a senate resolution asking the Governor to take the high school exit exam. If the Governor fails the test, then we certainly have a capable Lt. Governor who can assume his duties until the Governor successfully passes the exam."
Florez’s office proudly noted the senator is from Shafter, population 14,000, in the Central Valley.
I’m with David on this. He says:
I would pay money to sit in while Arnold fills in the bubbles on the Scan-Tron sheet. Can we get this on television?
Proving he’s left his own small Austrian town behind and thus is not standing athwart big business and its proposed "progress," Arnold also moved recently to do his donors’ bidding by ridding the State Park and Recreation Commission of two troublemakers. The commission chairman and vice-chairman not only opposed a highly controversial toll road through San Onofre State Beach, an Orange County coastal park. These two commissioners also opposed a plan by the San Diego Gas & Electric Company to build a multi-billion dollar power line through twenty-two miles of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, which covers 600,000 acres of eastern San Diego and Imperial counties.
The Schwarzenegger administration sees the power line as an essential component of its effort to reduce greenhouse gases, because it would hook 650,000 homes in San Diego County to electricity that could be generated by a solar power plant being built in the desert and geothermal energy from the Salton Sea.
A number of alternative routes have been identified that would bypass Anza-Borrego, but San Diego Gas and Electric says all of them would make the 150-mile project far more costly and difficult to build.
Who are these tree-huggers and nature-lovers who oppose Arnold’s donors’ plans to befoul our state parks? Fellow movie guy, noted Monterey County mega-developer and former Carmel mayor Clint Eastwood for one.
Bobby Shriver, brother of the state’s first lady, is the other; he is also a member of the Santa Monica city council.
Shortly after, the Santa Monica city council voted unanimously to ban planes just like Arnold’s from their airport, citing safety concerns.
The Santa Monica City Council voted in March to ban large private jets from using its airport for fear that planes like Schwarzenegger’s Gulfstream IV could crash into neighboring homes if they overshoot the 4,987-foot runway. Shriver is on the council, which voted unanimously for the prohibition.
The new ban, stayed by a plutocrat-friendly FAA, will double Arnold’s ground-travel distance during his daily commute from Sacramento to Santa Monica. Bobby has heard from other jet-setters, but what he expects from Arnold made me laugh:
Shriver said he hasn’t heard from Schwarzenegger yet, but he expects to.
"Arnold will come up with something like, ‘Now I have to go all the way to Van Nuys because of Bobby and his communist friends,’ " Shriver said, doing his best Schwarzenegger impression with an Austrian accent.
He said he’s not sympathetic with the people who’ve complained to him: "You know, get in the back of your limo and make your calls."
Arnold pays for his own daily commute, although when he leaves the country to get "a vision of an airport or of a highway that maybe has 10 lanes," his big-bucks donors pay.
The governor’s plane has come under fire previously for its impact on the environment and for its $12,800 hourly cost, paid for by donors, when he goes on trade missions and campaign trips. Schwarzenegger pays for his own daily flight costs and for carbon credits that finance environmental projects to offset his emissions.
Schwarzenegger routinely flies between Santa Monica and Sacramento, about a 50-minute flight. Each hour, his Gulfstream jet emits as much as 4.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide, according to the online luxury journal Helium Report. That’s roughly equivalent to what a small passenger car produces over the course of 8,000 miles.
Bobby Shriver seemed surprised when a reporter asked if the airport vote to ban the big private jets was connected to his brother-in-law bumping him from the commission chairman’s seat earlier that month.
He said he wasn’t bitter about his removal from the commission – and he said it had no impact on his decision to vote for the airport ban.
Heh. Indeed.
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Teddy!
DEZ
Dam Ct howd ya do dat to me:>)
Heh, Zed is still alive…8-P
Heh, with all that talk of greenery and Teddy’s Utube selection how could I not get it? ;-)
Good evening all!
Do we have a stoopit governor, or what?
Boy I bet family get togethers are really, really interesting with this clan.
Speaking of those Gulfstreams, what happened to that Yacht luxury tax exemption…?
Digg it for Teddy
Hi Teddy…. good evening everyone….. had a great evening with my two youngest kids….. over for dinner… lot of Tuscan dishes…
Dugg! Speaking of which, I need to go Digg Siun’s…!
I hope Arnold takes his buddy McCain to some of those small California towns this fall to campaign. I hope he brings his jet.
I wish Maria would talk more about this, from McCain’s 2000 race:
Does Ahnold come from one of those Austrian towns where fathers emprison their daughters and father children by them? I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04…..ref=slogin
I neither like nor respect Governor Schwartznegger. He is an uneducated and unsophisticated but very intelligent man. Don’t underestimate him.
Got it. But is “asshole” an accurate characterization?
We all know McSame is one rude SOB…. just ask Cindy!
Heh, Ahnold might not get any for awhile if he flies McInsane around in CA!
Teddy!
ah-nold can kiss my ass
Ahnuld may decide that he needs to make a quick trip to Iceland for a trade agreement if McC comes to Cali.
Howdy, Suz! For what it’s worth…! ;-)
I want his score the 11th grade California Standards Test. Asking him to pass the high school exit exam it a bit beneath what we need in a governor.
With the CST’s, we get to determine if a human being is:
Advanced
Proficient
Basic
Below Basic
Far Below Basic
In other words, we get to call kid (a whole lot of kids) terms that would be used on reptiles.
The day I watched the Governator get sworn in on the Kennedy family bible I was thinking how JFK must be rolling in his grave at the thought of a Rethuglian even touching it!
He is all muscles mostly between his ears!
Me too.
Between you and me, yes. In public, he’s not yet crossed the line where it’s safe to call him that. Close, but I’d hold back for now. Don’t let looks fool you, this guy is very, very smart.
Those are horrible terms to apply to a child. Just horrible.
Not stupid, and very ambitious.
arnold. what a … just what is the right word?
If Ahnold has to go to Van Nuys and back to use his jet, maybe he’ll have a better handle on what life is like for the commuters going over the hill on the 405. It’s a parking lot, doing maybe 20mph in midafternoon – if you’re lucky. Never empty, even at oh-god in the morning.
Then, we might consider having sympathy for him.
betcha he was smoking oregano and did not know the difference
I’m not a “looks” person, but his put me over-the-top. How many procedures do you think he’s had to scrub his face & take inhis skin when he went off body enhancing drugs to tryto appear like a normal human being? Why can I see this but not others? The man is a monster.
Thank you George W…what a jerk talks all about NO Child Left Behind and then won’t Fund the Bill… WTF I can understand testing a child but to label them at such young ages is just WRONG!
Weren’t all the schemes, like ‘raptor’ etc… that Lay and Enron had spawned create the backlash that swept Ah-nuld into ‘power’ to begin with…?
I’m 47 years old and have been in the Information Technology field for 24 years. I can analyze raw data over an Ethernet connection. But I feel quite confident that I couldn’t pass a High School equivalence exam.
Class?
hey balrog, is the wee rog still wee or has he become a mobile wrecking crew?
Balrog! Long time no-see! How’s wee-rog these days? Must be close to toddling these days…
Thanks for the reminder, nahant!
Good for you! How old are the youngsters?
What really sucks is Pete Wilson R pushed through the deregulation of the power companies which set up the Enron fiasco and then to the recall of Grey Davis!!
Now we got this sorry excuse of a person… I mean why would you want to piss off the nurses, firemen, state worker and the police… He was pandering to the Rethuglians…what a waste!
cause the peons are for just that…
He certainly pissed in a lot of bowls of cheerios, didn’t he…? ;-)
But of course… thats all we are to them… not even human… we don’t deserve any thing but to pay taxes for their corporate welfare.
Let me think….. the youngest is 25 and my daughter is 27….. they are my two adopted kids from Korea…. came to my family when they were 4 & 7…. my son is approx 6 credit hours from his degree in Biology…. woohoo….
And he’s raised more contributions from “special interests” that Gray Davis ever did, after fooling enough Californians with his rap about being a rich guy and not needing to take special interest money.
But his ways are catching up with him. Next week, we’ll get another budget deficit estimate. Arnold’s last quoted numbers were “between sixteen and twenty billion.” That’s a lotta green.
Awesome, Katy! Job well done! ;-)
Hey Teddy. You got to give old Ahnuld credit though. He is just as good as governor as he was as an actor!
hi ho hi ho is what they think work is like
WeeRog is turning 1 this month. He continues to be far above average in all aspects of life, much like his proud father.
Or not.
He is a guaranteed laugh a minute. What a strange but wonderful age.
watching a program on CNN on the mortgage finance problem…. Paul Krugman is on the panel…. very good…. had a run in a few weeks ago with a libertarian who said that no one should be bailed out as home owners need to take personal responsibility for getting these loans…… this libertarian had NEVER bought a home, did not know the process or how many pages of paper and the whole process…… WOW…. boy did we unload on her…
Great program so far….
Balrog, my sweet! I haven’t seen you around these parts for soooo long!
Heh, it only gets stranger…! ;-)
By the way, hi all! I have been absent from posting for awhile, but I read regularly and find all of you to be brilliant as always.
Hey, they work hard at being social parasites!
Hey Teddy. Good evening firepups.
nahant, another OT! Maybe, it’ll be resolved shortly again!
Hi, LooHoo. I’ve been remiss. But at least you got a Christmas Card.
My parents got nothing. ;)
Aloha, Tex!
Hey ‘rog!
Hey Betsy!
Hi Betsy.
Hey Balrog!
Hey Teddy. Your stock has risen around here I see. I approve fully.
My realization about Schwartznegger came about in a strange way. In the late 70s, I decided to get in shape and took up weight lifting. The brother of the lady I was living with was a Bruce Li look alike, black belt in karate and had medals in weight lifting. So I looked to him for advice. And he referred me to Arnold’s book, saying you’ll probably not believe this but this guy is really, really smart. So I read the book, having read several others on the subject, and no doubt about it, his was the most insightful. But the other side of the book (flip it over) was an autobiography wherein he announced his intention to eventually get into movies and then run for governor. That was late 70s. Do not underestimate this guy.
You know, I really resent that us teachers and lawyers and EMTs and police and fire officers, and cosmatolagists and food and beverage workers, etc. all have to prove that we know our field, but politicians never have to be tested before they can get a job. Just doesn’t seem right.
My baby saw Inconvenient Truth and with a grandfather who is a biologist… and three years into ASU has now decided on pursuing in the new alternate energy/fuels program. Makes me and grand Dad very proud…
Liveblogging of tonight’s Indiana Democrats’ Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, with all the usual suspects, can be found here
congrats!
ding ding double ding
And just what has he proposed to cut??/ the money for those who can least afford it… Those on Medi-Cal and such… But will he propose taxing the riches yachts and airplanes… nooo never Raise Taxes on the rich!!
Wonderful, katymine! My girls are adopted too.
But I had to tinkle in a cup! I must be qualified!
My sweet Chelsea turns 17 in July; adopted when she was 6 weeks old.
She’s SweeRog.
Nabby is just amazing… WOW!
I’m thinking 7
California has a Democratic legislature. They are going to have to come out of hiding and stand up to the Govunator, and it’ll be a fight to the death, likely theirs. Whatever, at the end of it only they or he will be politically viable.
Evening, Teddy!
Evening, Suz!
If you’d like a chance to chatz with the twenty-something WaPo reporter who wrote up this weekend’s “Chelsea Clinton: Our Generation’s Great Monster or The Greatest Monster of Our Generation?” tripe, you can do so tomorrow at noon.
International or local adoption?
Now you can understand why I get on my high horse about McBush NOT defending his adopted daughter in 2000……. No one messes with my kids…. NO one….
Hey you forgot the Nurses who have to take boards AND continuing ED to keep their license…..
So I hear rumor that Michelle (barfy) Bachmann is favored in MN-06. How can this be, and can I bring my family of 6 to live with you, LooHoo, if she’s re-elected?
I got first round of Sashimi and spicy tuna rolls if you say yes.
hey newton
Keep all extremities crossed… including da eyes!
Fantastic save!
LQQK
Us Pharmacy Technicians have to do it too! The Pharmacists also have the same 2 year renewal/Continuing Education regimen.
Me! 8-P
Aimless Arnold has become a sorry case. His secret plan to solve the California structural deficit disappeared upon his election, and his re-election occured before the new economic downturn arrived to reveal that he has done exactly nothing, or actually less than nothing to solve it.
Our projected deficit is now $20 billion and probably will grow. Actually, Aimless Arnold worsened the structural deficit by reducing a moter vehicle registration fee back to previous levels (that has been the sum of his good work in solving the state’s structural deficit).
So, now he wants to gut school spending, and every other kind of discretionary spending. An across the board rollbakc in expenditure is what his promise of new, innovative and progressive thinking has produced.
He has faced reality in a minor way, and apparently he will now press for a tax increase, but it will be a sales tax increases. Rich Californian’s income will be off limits, as will be any increased taxes on their yachts, luxury cars, and other rich person’s toys.
The state GOP not so secretly hate the Gubernator’s very guts, for not being completely insane, rather than a half baked, weasly moderate with no solid plans to do much of anything. So they will piss all over him in public, as they did every time Aimless Arnold tried to find a compromise.
The GOP is an insance rump that will not compromise on anything. The state may be in a real mess unless Perata and Nunez can muster the political genius of Willy Brown and get a few GOPers to happily commit political suicide by signing on to a compromise.
Maybe the courts will end up taking over the whole state. Might do some good if it demonstrates to the rest of the country eactly where the reactionary wing of the GOP is trying to take us.
I have to admit that Ol’ Aimless had done good work on the envirnoment and global warming. He has even made half hearted efforts on electronic voting integrity. But most of that has been in cooperation with other states, and largely symbolic on a state level. California has a plural exectutive and the state AG and Secty of State will do most of the hard lifting in terms of court case, regulations and certifications on those issues.
His promises in terms of the real problems of California government have produced bupkis.
Good luck with the test, Arnie!
Great post, Teddy. Dugg!
So glad you’ve shined a light on this serial sexual assailant. Living in Santa Monica just north of Venice (and a few blocks north of the Gold’s gym there), the waitstaff folk I knew at several establishments had multiple accounts of this steroid-addled creep grabbing waitresses’ genitalia, breasts, and asses while his beefy
entouragegoons laughed – and not so subtly menaced anyone who complained.Ahhnuld (R-Anschluss)is a perfect symbol for the Bush Reich. Corrupt (could any of us crash the motorcycle we weren’t licensed to drive…with our kid on it…and not face jail/loss of license?), violent, and cruel.
Poster child for California’s GOP “leaders”.
cops have on-going continuing education in daily briefings in addition to training days and proficiency testing quarterly.
You rat.
Another edition of What Digby Said
OK. Off to bed for me. I have a meeting in the morning and then a dental appointment. Haven’t decided which is worse. Take care and be sure to shred the gropernator.
hey doctor murphy
g’nite dr (pause) dick
Aloha, DD!
At least he can’t run for president, but he can run for the Senate – scary.
g’nite dr (pause) dick. hi suz!
have they dropped that change to the constitution for good? i could not believe it when they tried to float that trial balloon.
That balloon will never fly – thank goodness. By the way, I got my puppy !
oh oh oh what did ya get, name, pictures? details!
Digby is a gem! She never takes her eye off the puck, err… ball…! ;-)
Well you sure are missed here. I would love to see pics of the wee rog.
And, even where Aimless Arnold pronounces half decent policies that go in the right direction, his weasle factor is immense. You have to watch the dude like a hawk, or he tries to undo most of the good behind closed doors.
The example discussed in Teddy SF’s excellent post is an example of how this guy operates. Gotta watch the guy like a hawk.
I don’t think he is as evil as Teddy and some others here do. I think he has a stereotypical narcissistic actors craving for approval and success. Look how he changed after his loony right wing intitative went down in flames. I can picture him asking himself “Gee, how could that have happened? -I was so gang popular” -well it happend because your initiative stunk, that’s why. The zany Californian’s like moderation and responsible goernment -most of them do anyway. Looks like the voters could damge Arnold’s feelings and status more than his rich buddies, so he tacked towards sanity. But in half hearted ineffectual way.
Thank goodness most of the executive branch in CA is in responsible Democratic hands.
pictures. definitely need puppy pictures!
Ya and right along with Bush serving a 3rd term….. they got the old geezer to serve that 3rd term so that Bush could go to da ranch to play….
Will get pictures as soon as possible. Eight week old chihuahua – sorta brown and caramel blend. Her name is Dilly – my 12 year old granddaughter wanted me to name her Delilah – we settled on Dilly. I really love her and she is wearing me out playing.
LQQK
I forgot a lot of workers, was just trying to be representative…
My girls were adopted two ways. The first daughter was adopted through an attorney in San Diego while I was waiting for Catholic Community Services. (Now Catholic Charities)
#2 came through Catholic Community Services. I’ve been absolutely pleased. Very professional work.
dilly is a great name – can’t wait to see the pictures
Barbara Boxer is understandably afraid of him.
I don’t give her good odds against him in 2010, unless we have a hard crash here in CA.
You’re welcome, but you have to give it up for Darrell Issa.
Boxer should be nervous. He’s would have millions of dollars.
Well, that worked out nicely. “He would…”
She just has to beat him down with his treatment of the poor!
and how his ‘workers’ compensation reform’ fucked the workers and helped the insurance companies
Totally. There seems to be only one group of workers that doesn’t have to pass an exam to prove they are competent. POLITICIANS!
but most especially repiglican politicians
I hope all good Californians here show up to vote for the June election. One of the eminent domain initiatives, 99, would be catastrophe if it passes. Eliminating rent control and any renters rights is not even the half of it. It would gut state level environmental and safety regulation in California. Even earthquake safety stuff. Proposition 99 is 100% nuts.
The CA GOP wants to go back in time, to.. I dunno… about Rome 100 AD, I’d guess.
Show up and vote no on 98, yes on 99!! Fer sure, or kiss your state goodbye.
Start your research here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C…..%282008%29
I have faith, though that Arnold will come out on the right side on this issue, just like he did on the term limit initiative. But he will do it in his typical weasle way that does nothing. Probably let his name be used on a few broadcast ads running two days before the election in low rent time slots. That is how he operates inside the state, despite his showy actions on state-federal reations on environment and global warming.
Mine are siblings adopted through Holt Adoption Agency in Eugene Oregon who was the first to bring Korean “orphans” to American …. my kids came in 1986…… the agency was the best, honest and very supportive….
there are some good pigs out there
but none are in congress with -R after their names
Aw, Cali wouldn’t supplant Boxer with Ah-Nuld, would it? I know it’s the land of the fruit, nuts and flakes, but, c’mon…! ;-)
Nabby!!
BTW…. anyone gotten their stimulus check yet?
no
No on prop 98!
Yes on prop 99!
http://www.no98yes99.com
I sure as hell hope not! She also has to make it clear that it is all about the SCOTUS and ask them if they want to give up more of their Bill Of Rights!!
Not I, but if my SSN were a draft number during Vietnam, I’d be safe and secure. Up there in the 90’s!
My daughter received a letter from the IRS about it this week….. but no money yet…
This seems to be a left coast thread tonight. Too bad I haven’t lived there since I was two.
No. I was supposed to be in the first group. Something’s F’d up.
I gotcha beat. I lived there at 7.
Yeah, but were you born there? That is one of the Gnome’s darkest secrets!
Move back! jk
Nope. Born in NY.
I wish I could afford to. I’d like to live in one of those rural valleys that Ahnult was speaking of. Napa, I think it is called.
Nah. Texas has bids on da gnome!
um, 98 is the crazy initiative.
DIBS. DIBS! Not bids. Oy!
Who does Ahnald think he is – Justice Stevens?
I live in Arizona which is NOT the west coast….. just have to put up with McBush as my Senator…..
BTW Michael Moore is on Larry King and is really good….. talks about McBush’s healthcare plan…. a market based plan that will give everyone a $4000 rebate but a family of four health insurance costs $12,000/yr and DO AWAY with employer based health insurance ……now that is really F*cked up… but that is my Senator….. McBush…. McSame….. McInsane…. you know that old guy…
We actually had a naming contest for him over at the treehouse.
Napa is way expensive. Most of California isn’t quite like that!
Per Michael Moore….. the rationing of rice is the FIRST gas line of peak oil…. interesting concepts….. a wind generator cannot make your glasses or other things made of oil…..
Hi Newtonusr.
I can’t imagine who Arnold thinks he is in life. He’s been very wealthy for a long time (although he did work really hard to gain his wealth, as opposed to someone like W.)
Sonoma is much more reasonable! I live on the peninsular and our home bvalues are still going up….
I have a feeling that it is still a lot more than what I can afford. I tend to have an eye for the piece of property that would be affordable if either a few zeros were knocked off the price, or the decimal moved the left a few places.
It’s looking like it will decided in a good ole western style shootout…! ;-)
did everyone go to bed?
I really need to travel Central through Northern California in a leisurely way. I’ve been there, but I’ve always been racing.
With Ahnald, it’s not the $$$ that bothers me. It’s the sense of entitlement and political opportunism. But in all fairness, we Californians never learn.
California has now traded one fiscal catastrophe for another, and CA Dems are bound and determined to sit back and let it continue. Ahnald has an unmatched record of pseudo-leadership, and miraculously straddled the issues to his reelect after his disastrous ballot flop.
nope.. i was rummaging in the fridge for a snack – to no avail
That flat out sux…! 8-(
what were ya lookin’ for?
Nope, just sneaking away for a little guilty pleasure, my Desperate Housewives — the only thing I watch on the rat channel, please don’t tell spocko!
cookies?
An unmatchable ego, to be sure. And he’d like to rule. You’re right, he believes it’s his calling.
i dunno what i was looking for but i know where it is not – my fridge nor my panty :(
i did my monthly shopping today and forgot snacks. i can’t believe i did that
sure seems like it 90 shots already tonight… whew
OK Suz LQQK
Talk of Ahhnuld reminds me of other domestic violence….
Happy Fascist Anniversary: May 4
Didn’t you get cheese? And tortilla chips?
lQQk
Arnold is a twit.
From the NYT’s:
LINK
I should hope it’s not in your ‘panty’, Suz! ;-)
LQQK
It’s spreading, nahant.
I think Betsy has gone off to get some really good snacks.
nope
They gotta be real big images they take so long to display… but NICE!
FORK pantRy
i’ll be over in the corner until i quit blushing
Sweet look.
got it – in the news queue, thanks
Senator Boxer screwed herself betraying her SF staff and countless constituents when she rushed to Liarman’s side against all reason and counsel to “stand down” in the Ned Lamont/Lieberman contestand richly deserves to be defeated and lose her Senate seat.
Unless the central CA coast political gossip among the resident celebrities is a fantasy Maria extracted a promise he would not remain in elected politics when his term expires in Sacramento. Several claim to be the source of this information, including a top caddy inside the gates of Del Monte
Forest who swears the promise to Maria is true. Hope burns eternal!
Thanks for the great post & video dear Teddy!
for you!
ding! *waving hi*
Dang, you have some fun with linux and ubuntu, eh? ;-)
I’ll go sit with you and not giggle at all.
mmpfffffff
Just finished the Tiramisu gelato from Trader Joe’s….. and too much Chianti … good Italian Chianti…. wow….Michael Moore states the French pay less taxes than Americans……free college, free daycare, free healthcare…. in American we pay for are own college, daycare & health care…. Plus pay taxes…
Anyway…. going to shut it down and head off to bed…. {{{{{{{{FDL}}}}}}}
you all are a great bunch of people…..
hmmmffft yourself mz margot
g’nite katymine
it’s a slow/bad wireless connect on my laptop
:)
“Hold our large heads high“
g’nite, katymine – sleep (and live) well….
npb, from that caddy to Maria’s “bobbit”ors….
hope maria enforces that, if true.
hiya brat!
cookiesssssssss
Woo Hoo Loo Hoo! You have an open invitation to stay with us in Carmel and explore the seven towns of the Monterey peninsula as well as Carmel Valley and Big Sur. Oh, and less than a 2-hour drive to the incomparable San Francisco and/or the east bay! ;~)
npb, reading your comments makes me wish I’d accepted a job offer at CHOMP… (but I don’t think my smile was up to it….)
‘C is for Cookie, and that’s good enough for me!’
Hey, I got it right:
No on 98!
Yes on 99!
Thanks for clip on Arnold’s anti 98 stand.
Lets see what he does, though. I bet not much.
CHOMP is a country club hospital, oh so fancy digs but lousy executive management. Following a recent major expansion that includes a wing that includes oh so rich patient suites with amenities, i.e., large flat screen TVs and more generous visiting hours, etc. etc. Staff turnover is dramatic and we lost some of our best doctors, nurses and lab techs to nearby Salinas Memorial Hospital. One of my best friends, a lab tech revered in the senior community including Clinton’s former chief of staff, Leon Panetta, was forced out of CHOMP less than a year ago because of his objections to mass layoffs of experienced nurses, lab techs and others. My friend commutes to Watsonville, a bit further than Salinas but he received an offer he couldn’t refuse, happily.
You’d love it down here Kirk and like LooHoo the invitation to stay with us while you explore possible professional opportunities or just want to hang out.
Wow, brat – I had no idea. Thanks for the news and the invite. So long as 5 cats and…uh…early DFH digs are OK, you and Mr. Brat are always welcome in SF.
(Actually, you’re both welcome under in any event…but those with feline allergies may wish to lay in epi pens and O2 tanks….)
In all seriousness, thank you.
underI should fix you up with my sister. She has six kitties. ;)
At least one political writer with LA Times, I think, believes that Ahnuld will run for mayor of LA because he wouldn’t like being in the Senate. Those all night legislative mark-up sessions would bore him, and Maria doesn’t want to live in DC anyway. Ahnuld loves being a Star and glad-handing. He doesn’t really want to work at anything else.
Thanks for putting this up, Teddy. Although I have to say there are legitimate reasons to stop big jets like Ahnuld’s from landing at Santa Monica Airport beyond spite. The runways are tiny and they abut a residential area, and the potential for a bad accident is great.