The Secretary of State’s website is overloaded, this according to the LA Times, with 3.5 million votes counted statewide:
source: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/election/#props
Oh, and Jerry Brown. Ah, moonbeams and business exodus, the combo that killed the golden state goose.
Strangely, the first symptom seems to be dyslexia, as this odd Google ad showed up right after I hit publish: (screencap)
Maybe by morning they’ll have that fixed….
In the idiom of OZ Cala-bloody- fornia what have you done. Once you were one of the top ten economies of the world, by my less than university trained brain even I can see a very slippery downward path to penurary.
Disappointment and sorrow is all I can add.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Seems like the “turkeys just voted for Christmas”.
Kate says:
November 3, 2010 at 1:08 am
California … now economically and politically twinned with Britain?
Got there before me, althought i’d rather be paying high fuel cost’s in california than the UK, I always thought the the enviro moment in the UK was pushing ahead with sky high fuel bills to help with the human population growth problem, nothing like the poorest and weakest in your society not able to afford heating in -10 temps to get that death toll up. Although as this doesn’t affect the enviro’s directly i’m sure they don’t really care as long as it saves a polar bear.
well – would not worry, I am sure obama will be pushed into a war with iran soon by the hawks.
So the arms industry will take up the slack like it always does.
I note the heading reads:
“suspend POLLUTION laws”
Dear Anthony,
you have my sincerest commiserations.
You must feel in between a rock and a hard place as to what to do for the best.
Most of us here would probably encourage the Exodus option, but it looks like you’ll need to move fast and probably take a hit or two, but be assured, we’re rooting for you.
Go where the best opportunities present themselves.
Look out for you and yours.
All the best.
Welcome to the hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
They livin’ it up at the hotel California
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis
Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said ’we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’
And in the master’s chambers,
They gathered for the feast
The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can’t kill the beast
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
’relax,’ said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!
__The Eagles, Hotel California__
I have to say that I’m extremely disappointed in the election results. It’s just amazing that so many people could throw such opportunity away. Where I live, everyone hates the current state of affairs, but they hate anyone who isn’t a dimocrat even more. Politics and climate science are much the same in that the general population can’t spare 30mins of time to actually do a little research on any given issue, once again supporting the idea that people truly do get the government they deserve. Or at least some of them do.
JimB
I guess California volunteered for the position of green koolaid guinea pig. The problem with using psychoactive drugs is that the chemically induced fantasy tends to end with the cold, hard fist of reality slamming home. Good luck, Cali
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Kum Dollison says:
November 3, 2010 at 1:39 am
“California’s deficit is, approx, 1% of State GDP. And, they probably send that much money to Super-Duper “Low-Tax” States like my own. I think California will probably be just fine.”
“Kazakhstan and California, the lowest-rated U.S. state, share a Baa1 ranking”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/01/californias-debt-now-risk_n_481058.html
There is nothing such than a concrete example .
Just an example – Communism and Marxism have been destroyed because people had every day in front of their eyes a concrete example of what it does and where it leads when it is in power .
Annihilation of personal freedom and economical ruin .
Unfortunately several generations of good people were sacrificed in the destruction process .
As I have known many people of these generations lost to delirious ideologies , I am sad for Californians (those who will stay) .
But on the other hand it will serve of example for others , clearly showing that the environmentalism is just another of those “isms” that must and will be destroyed in order to live free again .
Okalifornia businesses… the dust left here seventy years ago…
maybe it’s time to come home, at least here you will be welcomed.
As someone said, california is about to go “FULL RETARD”
I’m not disappointed that Jerry Brown was elected because he and his party will take full blame for what is about to happen to California over the next 15 years.
Thick-Skulled Larry’s stoopid question of the day. My imperfect understanding of the history of AB 32 is that California coordinated its effort with neighboring states at the time. If so, wouldn’t moving one’s business to Nevada be pointless if the primary impetus was the failure of Prop 23?
We now have ring-side seats in California, that will show the rest of the country how “green jobs” and overreaching CO2 regulations will first strangle, then kill the state’s economy.
Wow, in Calif not only did we affirm the “green” agenda, we also apparently passed legislation which allows an increase in spending with a simple majority.
The saying, “as Calif goes, so goes the country” may enable our failure to be a warning for the rest of the country. OTOH, Obama may send so much stimulus here that it makes the green agenda appear, on the surface, to be a success. I hope not, but fear this.
The unintended consequences of Prop 19 showed up prior to the vote, which then rejected it.
I have never seen the volume of out-of-state traffic that took place here the last 6 months. They were preparing to turn California into the Golden Dispensary. They came to buy up rural land and made Forest Clearcutting look like a Sunday Picnic as they trashed everywhere they went. That, and the awful stench of putrid skunk invading neighborhoods across the State.
Now, Prop 23 will rear it’s ugly head rather slowly, but it will be every bit as offensive.
Good byeee
What dissappointment that the Democrats held on to the Senate! At least the HoR has converted back to some form of sanity. Is there a system over there where if a Senator shuffles off this mortal coil that a new election can take place for that seat? Just a thought but of course I wish none of the democrats ill 🙂 at all, although I cannot say they would think the same of me et al.
I loved California when I visited there all too briefly as a young man in 1981. San Francisco was beautiful & very cosmopolitan, with some great bars & other places of national interest! (I was only 23 at the time). LA I could take of leave at least some parts of it that is, no offence intended. I loved driving down the coast road thro’ Monterey & on to Santa Barbera then on down to LA. We enjoyed driving from the hotel across the by-pass/inner city highway to the beach, driving down Sunset Boulevard was a real treat. Venice Beach was an eye opener for us young lads, there were some stunning women their too!!!!! (I need a lie down in a darkened room). There was a great bar their called Merlin Mcflys where the bar-tenders all did conjouring tricks in between serving drinks. Then after a visit to Disneyland we drove back up on???? was it Highway 405? long straight almost unending back to San Fran. Getting to drive down the very roads where “Bullet” was filmed, down that wonderful twisty road on that hill, seeing where “The Streets of San Francisco” was made, etc. A real dream come true for a young man. We’d drive over the bridge, which one now Golden Gate or Bay Bridge? along a fairly quiet road off to the right I seem to recall to Sausalito where the house boats all were, & some pretty cool houses in & around the bay on up in the hills, & nice bars there too, including an English Pub called the Golden Hind, run by of all people a couple from Exeter, UK. They served Watney’s Red Barrell beer (I won’t credit it with the term ale, it was a bit like nats’ pee to be frank), was served chilled, so we stuck our pints in front of the gas fire to take the edge off them. The lunch was excellent tho’! The people were marvelously friendly & welcoming, (& because we visited last week in July/first week in August, the fog would hang like some leviathon outside the bay much of the day, & move in during the early evening & night making it feel really strange!) we’d ask people where the sunshine was & they would respond by saying, “you should have been here last week”, it was a wonderful time. I expect it will all change beyond recognition if I returned in a few years time! A great shame indeed!
Conservative bumper stickers in California now read,
“Where are the jobs, Jerry Brown?”
Man the lifeboats…
Well, all that and Jerry Brown too. It seems that the hippies just will not leave.
In the US, particularly California, the population has the best political system that money can buy.
The UK is already demonstrating that Green jobs do not exist.
Could the last Californian to leave please turn off the lights, assuming you have a power supply of course
Well, all you business owners can take a serious look at Texas. No State Income Tax and our Attorney General has filed suit against the EPA to stop their attempted punitive acts. Come on Down !
To recall an old billboard from Seattle: ” Will the last one to leave CA please turn out the lights”?