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Entries Tagged as 'California'

Home Depot Required To Make Day Laborer Shelters

August 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments

From KNBC TV (Los Angeles):

Big-box, home-improvement stores in Los Angeles will have to set aside space for day laborers under an ordinance passed by the City Council on Wednesday.
When the ordinance takes effect — the mayor has to sign it, and most city laws take effect 30 days afterward — it will apply to stores [...]

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Tags: Absurd · California · Crime/Law · Government · Immigration · Mexico · Taxes · The Left

Evolution From Rugged Individual To Sheep

June 24th, 2008 · Comments Off

From the San Jose Mercury News:

Investigators struggled Tuesday to explain why a 27-year-old man with no criminal record and no apparent signs of mental illness savagely beat his toddler son to death on a dark country road.
Sergio Casian Aguiar, who worked at a supermarket in Turlock, was fatally shot by police Saturday night after he [...]

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Tags: Absurd · California · Crime/Law · The Left

California’s Gun Laws Cause Innocent Woman To Die

April 4th, 2008 · Comments Off

From Yahoo:

A woman was asking a 911 dispatcher for help when her pleas were interrupted by gunshots, then silence. She was shot to death.
The woman told the dispatcher someone was trying to break into her home in upscale West Covina, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. Dan Rosenberg said. “Deputies heard gunshots followed by silence and [...]

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Tags: California · Crime/Law · Guns

Another Hollywood Genius

March 4th, 2008 · Comments Off

From Agence France-Presse via Breitbart:

French actress Marion Cotillard, who picked up an Oscar for best actress in Hollywood last week, has admitted to having doubts about the official version of the September 11 attacks in the US.
“I think we’re lied to about a lot of things,” she said during a television programme first broadcast last [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Hollywood · Terrorism · The Left

Georgia vs. California

February 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

When someone thinks about the differences in gun laws between California and Georgia they often mistakenly assume that liberal California would restrict guns just about everywhere while conservative Georgia would allows just about everywhere.
And you would be wrong. As stolen from GeorgiaPacking:

Georgia
California

This is a crime in Georgia. See. O.C.G.A. § 16-11-127, which places [...]

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Tags: California · Crime/Law · Georgia · Guns · The Left · The Right

Berkeley Gives Marines The Boot

February 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off

From InsideBayArea.com:

Hey-hey, ho-ho, the Marines in Berkeley have got to go.
That’s the message from the Berkeley City Council, which voted 6-3, with Gordon Wozniak, Betty Olds and Kriss Worthington dissenting, to tell the Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station “is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so [...]

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Tags: Absurd · California · Government · Military · The Left

Star Trek XI

January 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

From director J.J. Abrams (“Mission: Impossible III,” “Lost” and “Alias”) and screenwriters Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman (“TRANSFORMERS,” “MI: III”) comes a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time, “Star Trek,” featuring a young, new crew venturing boldly where no man has gone before.
Coming December 25, 2008.
Be still, my beating heart.

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Tags: Hollywood · Media

Jamie Lynn Becomes Part-time Mother

January 29th, 2008 · Comments Off

From Starpulse Entertainment News Blog:

Jamie Lynn Spears will give her baby to her mother in order to concentrate on her career, according to reports. The 16-year-old stunned the world last month when she revealed she was pregnant with her first child - and now the Zoey 101 star has allegedly agreed to let her mother [...]