Time to get outta Dodge:
So ARB’s reaction to Friday’s ruling was mostly a sigh of relief. According to a written statement from spokesman Stanley Young:
“We are pleased that the court’s decision enables ARB to continue moving forward on implementation of a range of AB 32 measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, drive innovation, improve energy security, and steer California to a clean energy economy.
But the order expressly prohibits the Air Board from “engaging in any cap and trade-related project activity that could result in an adverse change to the physical environment,” until ARB fully complies with CEQA. ARB says it will continue its fight on the cap & trade front:
“We respectfully disagree with the court’s determination that ARB did not adequately analyze alternatives to cap and trade program in the Scoping Plan, and will file a notice of appeal on Monday.”
Full story here at KQED
ARB has that “we are right and everybody else is wrong attitude” even in the face of cap and trade being a bust most everywhere else in the world. I hope these bureaucrats get a swift kick in the butt from reality when they finally go through this court battle again.
The cap and trade program proposed for California is almost as stupid as the medical marijuana law, which is now turning residential neighborhoods into war zones thanks to pot growers.
All right Anthony, here are some suggestions, in no particular order:
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KT82 231835Z AUTO 20010KT 10SM OVC042 28/17 A2984 RMK AO1
KERV 231835Z AUTO 19011G16KT 10SM OVC036 27/18 A2984 RMK AO2
KJCT 231824Z AUTO 20012KT 5SM HZ SCT029 SCT036 28/20 A2982 RMK AO2 TSNO
KSJT 231751Z 18012G17KT 10SM CLR 33/16 A2977 RMK AO2 SLP053 T03280161 10328 20233 58010
all representative of typical late spring, early summer conditions. And a business “climate” vastly better than in California
John-X San Angelo looks nice
Corky Boyd says:
May 23, 2011 at 11:08 am
The theory that Californians will come to their senses when things hit bottom, simply won’t work. All the conservatives and business owners will have left by then. There will be no republicans left to vote the dingbats out.
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CA going down just might save the US. Unfortunately, when the maggots leave the rotting corpse of CA, they’ll infect other states. Those who left the Bay Area and LA looking for less expensive housing a decade ago turned many conservative counties into liberal outposts. In the 70s, radicals leaving California university towns ruined Oregon and Washington. Well-programmed liberal automatons have already infested formerly sane states like Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico.
European socialists have been coming here, telling us how our system is wrong. Socialist ideas sound great, but they have nearly destroyed us (that is the plan). Fortunately, some european countries are wising up and moving back toward sanity and freedom. Meanwhile the Obama crowd try to remake us as a soviet system every day – mob rule versus the rule of law.
Only when the 60s radical communists pretending to be mainstream are long dead and buried will we have some hope of the threat ending. But the damage has been done to the generation soon to be taking power – the 40 year olds. They believe the socialist programming is normal. They don’t understand what America was or should be.
I suspect the generation getting out of college, looking for work, and having a very hard time think the people in power now are the problem. The old radicals are the establishment after all. The wheel comes around.
Note that in Obamacare, the US government now controls student loans. Not banks. And who will decide which kids get to go to college, get the good jobs, and acquire positions of power? Did your daddy donate to the right political party? Remember how unbiased closing the GM dealerships was? Republican donors lost their dealerships under Government Motors. The masters are at work furiously finding ways to enslave us. Is it too late?
What may save us is a fundamental American attitude that we will not be controlled. No matter how much the government wants to tell us what to do, people will not just go along. The radicals bred people to resist. And they will resist the new oppressors too, once they figure out what the game is. In other words, the old radicals may take power, they may destroy our institutions, but the people will not be held down forever.
Anthony, you folks in Calif. have a lot more to worry about than AB 32!!
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-california-inmate-release-20110524,0,2921563.story?track=rss
Do you like dry and hot (out near the ‘dry line’ usually too, like today):
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Or a little more rain (and greenery; shrubs and trees):
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If you like something a little more progressive, of course:
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Just north of there by a county:
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That last line about the war zone had to be sarcasm right? But I didn’t see a sarc switch. It was still pretty funny anyway.
On top of all the other problems in Kalifornia, the Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling to release approximately 33,000 prisoners due to overcrowding. It really is worse than you thought.
Bob Diaz says:
May 23, 2011 at 8:30 am
FACT: 1 out of 5 small businesses in California won’t be around in 3 years.
That may be the intent. When all small business leaves the only thing left will be union businesses. Unions would have a monopoly. That could be the goal.
I’ve had to deal directly with CARB a couple of times. Institutionalized irrationality, their response to easily demonstrated facts is “Nay nay, we have rules!”
They don’t know and they don’t care, they just get to make everyone else follow inane rules, consequences be damned.
We are talking about the state that banned cell phone use at gas stations because of the terrible record of gas station fires caused by cellphones: Zero. Ever.
If California were a parody, no one would believe it, except maybe Massachusetts.
The best way to stop the rot spreading, is to get commitments from every State and Federal politician right now that they will not bail out California under any circumstances.
Not many results to choose from on the google search of ” pot turning neighborhoods into war zones”, but this is interesting…. http://www.chicoer.com/ci_17988826
Unsubstantiated hyperbole.
All pit bulls are bad dogs, or, guns kill people, or, there is no social clique amongst scientists pushing global warming