Court Orders 20,000 to 60,000 Inmates Released From California Prisons

Realizing that a tuberculosis outbreak is a much bigger threat to public safety than the early release of a guy caught with a few pounds of weed in his trunk, a federal court ordered the release of tens of thousands of California inmates.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Totally Awakward State of the State Address. Text and Video.

Watching Governor Schwarzenegger’s State of the State address was like watching the father-of-the-bride give a wedding toast when he and everyone else in the room knows the marriage is doomed.

California Budget Crisis: No Progress, State Workers Defy Schwarzenegger’s Order

How can Gov. Schwarzenegger solve the budget crisis when he can’t get anyone to follow an Executive Order?

The Santa Rampage, Budget Crisis Christmas, A Look at Arnold’s Year

Let’s get the horrifying stuff out of the way first. You probably already know that 9 people were killed in Covina when a guy dressed like Santa Claus showed up at his ex-wife’s Christmas party shot people and burned the house down before driving back to his brother’s house in Sylmar and shooting himself in [...]

Republicans’ Budget Negotiations with Schwarzenegger are Terminated

Remember yesterday how we said that Gov.  Schwarzenegger’s attempts at “reaching-out” to the Republicans legislators wouldn’t work, especially after he wished he had the power to lock them all in the state capitol building until they came up with a solution to the financial crisis?  You don’t remember?  Well go read it here and then [...]

Schwarzenegger Begs, Polanski Files, Environmentalists Sue, Junior Race-Baits, and Bar Dancers Get No Love

Don’t get your hopes up that Gov. Schwarzenegger’s hitting up President-Elect Obama for a gazillion dollar bailout investment in California public works projects will get us out of the budget mess.  We need the feds to invest in infrastructure projects because everything is crappy and falling apart and sure, in the next couple of years [...]

Budget Crisis: Gov. Schwarzenegger Declares Fiscal Emergency

Gov. Schwarzenegger took 2004′s Proposition 58 out for test drive by declaring a fiscal emergency and ordering the whole mess ‘o’ lawmakers into a session to figure out how to come up with $11.2 billion by February — because as of now, the state is gonna run out of cash in February.  Yes,we’ve heard this [...]

California Budget Crisis Update, No On 8 Leaders Face Public, Bar Exam Score Freakout

Is this the day of reckoning for the California budget crisis or just another fire drill? [Calitics] No-On-8 campaign leadership faces an angry public tonight in LA.  They have some explaining to do. [Queer Town] The race for the 19th District State Senate seat is exactly why we need Prop. 11. [LA Times] As expected, [...]

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