Here’s some fuzzy video of Republican Assemblyman Mike Duvall bragging about sticking it to a couple different female lobbyists. Oooooh sexy talk. Way to represent the OC with flair Mike! Maybe you should have moved to South Carolina – maybe then you wouldn’t feel the need to resign from office.
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Did you know we had an OC Pride event this year? Yeah me neither. They really need to get the word out a little more. Finally there is an official event in OC for LGBT pride and I missed the damn thing. Poor Gay Days in Anaheim has been carrying the unofficial OC Pride torch for so long it seemed likely we should just officially call it OC Gay Pride and get it over with.
Anyway! I am just a wee bit irritated about the complete lack of visibility for the event. Maybe the organizers (listen up boys) should have reached our to their popular queer friendly community blogs (not unlike this one) and let them know it was even happening. Also, lets be real, if we’re gonna have OC Pride shouldn’t we be having it in Laguna Beach? Why Irvine? Oh well, here’s hoping there will be one next year and here’s hoping they actually, you know, tell people about it!
Did you know there was an OC Pride Picnic this year? If so, did you go?
What do you do when 75 gallons of raw sewage comes spewing out of your toilet? Imagine just sitting in your bed reading a good book when a literal shit-storm is unleashed in your master bath – leaving sewage all over every surface in the bathroom and bedroom. Well that very thing happened to one unlucky Huntington Beach family… twice. Oy gevalt.
Apparently, the city was cleaning out a sewage pipe outside their home causing 75 gallons of shit to hit the (ceiling) fan. The family is asking the city for ten thousand dollars to help them clean up the mess and restore order to their lives. This seems like a very reasonable request to me and I think the city ought to cough it up. What do you think?
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By appealing a recent court decision to reject Supervisor Moorlach’s pet project to renege on a contract with the Orange County Sheriffs.
Their suit has already been rejected twice. You would think they would get the hint. But no, they see the possible future savings as worth it.
Granted, it would indeed be a large savings. But the problem with this whole thing is that once you have negotiated a valid contract, you shouldn’t be able to say, oops, never mind, I don’t like the terms anymore. Which seems to be what they are doing.
I think the Supervisors are trying to capitalize on the extremely high anti-union sentiments that seem to be everywhere these days.
Why all the resentment?
They aren’t perfect, but unions are why you get breaks, lunches, and a set-hour workday, amongst many other things.
I see more anger directed at unions than I do at almost all CEOs, Wall Streeters, and banks combined.
According to this piece in the LA Times, it looks like housing builder Lennar Corp is getting a great deal.
Oh yeah, you know the golf course they were contracted to build in exhcange for the right to build a few houses?
Well, never mind that, forget the golf course. Just give us a fairly paltry 58 mil, and we’ll call it even. Well, more than even because now you get to build up to 5,000 housing units on land surrounding the park.
Because that’s exactly what I go to a park for, to be surrounded by thousands of houses.
Those of you who have been following the saga might be under the impression that you can no longer chill out with your drill out at the end of Trail 6 in San Onofre Sate Park. Well, if you did think that, you were wrong. Apparently “reports of the demise of clothing optional use of state parks are premature!”
The Naturist Action Committee and Friends of San Onofre Beach have filed a Petition for Review in the California Supreme Court and the Fourth District Court of Appeal’s order is on hold. Soooooo what this means is you can still rock out with you cock out because the Cahill/Harrison Regulation is still valid throughout California.
Personally, I don’t see the big deal about this. It’s just skin and I have yet to hear one reasonable argument explaining to me why it shouldn’t be allowed. It “seems to be a victimless crime at worst, and certainly an innocuous action” and only a friggin’ retard would be worried about nude suntanning when we he have so many other problems to be concerned with (sorry Gina). If you don’t wanna see someone roll out with their pole out then go anywhere else on the entire west coast aside from the lousy three hundred yards set aside at San Onofre. Sheesh.
United States Representative John Campbell (R-Irvine) has an opinion piece in the Register about the health care debate.
And for some reason, he thinks that a comparison between owning a gun and having affordable health care is a good one.
Basically, he argues that because it isn’t stated specifically in the Constitution, the people of the United States have no right to expect affordable health care.
I’m not even going to go into the hundreds, if not thousands, of things the government does that are very much not stated in the Constitution. Well, ok, maybe I will. Medicare, the interstate highway system, education, and regulatory bodies such as the FDA, just to name a few of the biggies.
I would like to ask Mr. Campbell if he would also support a measure to abolish Medicare if he is so adamant about government staying out of the healthcare game.
With a constituency that includes residents of Laguna Woods, I’m not so sure.
Dopey Dick Nixon
In 1955, Vice President Richard Nixon visits the less-than-1-month-old Disneyland Park in Anaheim, CA. Of the Seven Dwarfs whose names grace the cars in the “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” ride, “Slippery Dick” chooses “Dopey.”
Strong work Mr. Vice President.
After years of expressing support for a high-speed rail project originating from Anaheim to Las Vegas, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid now favors a line that begins in Victorville.
That is bad news for Anaheim, who has been anticipating the high speed rail system in the plans of their newly approved design of the transportation hub, dubbed ARTIK, that has been in the works for years. I know that the city of Anaheim has lobbied aggressively for the maglev.
What gives, Mr. Reid? I can tell that he doesn’t live here.
Because whilst I have no grudge against the expanse of sand that is Victorville, I would like to point out that often the longest and hardest part of the commute to Vegas is from Los Angeles/Orange County to Victorville. Once you are up the Cajon, it usually gets much easier from there, depending on construction projects on the 15. Yeah, it may be cheaper to build from Victorville, but once you’re already made it to the high desert, it seems to me you might as well keep on going.
This is the problem with so many mass transportation projects in SoCal. Just do the damn thing right the first time!
Here we go again.
Based on rules they made up a couple of months ago, the Orange County Board of Supervisors rejected the grant application for tobacco settlement money from Planned Parenthood.
It seems they rejected the grant on a technical issue concerning a nurse case manager, whom the Board claims would not be providing direct clinical care, and thus the application does not meet the requirements.
Uh, I’m going to guess that pretty much any program from any applicant is going to include incidental personnel such as the case manager. Have you ever known a doctor to answer the phone at their clinic or hospital?
No, what I’m guessing is that Planned Parenthood’s application was gone over with a fine-toothed comb until the supervisors found something they thought could be used against them.
Here’s hoping Planned Parenthood sues the crap out of them.
