How I'm voting on California Propositions.

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 12:55 AM PST

2008/11/04 · 00:55

We've heard quite a bit about Prop 8, of course, but Californians have 12 issues placed up for referendum on the state ballot, plus any local issues various cities and counties have, (in the city of San Francisco there's 22 more, on issues as diverse as land use and housing to some more outlandish bills like decriminalizing prostitution and naming a Sewage Treatment plant after George W. Bush.) On the thought that some folks might be interested in seeing and talking about some of the other eight, I thought I'd run through the rest of the state propositions.

I'll try to be relatively neutral in the descriptions of the measures, though I certainly won't claim to be unbiased. Anyone who wants to know more can of course look at other sources such as Calitics.

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Monday October 27, 2008 · 1:26 AM PDT

2008/10/27 · 01:26

So I ran into Ron, a former co-worker of mine in a Safeway yesterday. I hadn't seen him in three and a half years, when I left the company we'd both worked at. That company went out of a business about a month or so after I'd left. I knew Ron was probably doing fine, though. Ron, who I recall being in the neighborhood of 50, was an Air Force veteran who'd served over twenty years. His military pension was enough for him. I asked why he worked then, he said the extra money might come in handy. "Also," he said, "I'm too young to retire."

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 9:55 PM PDT

2008/10/15 · 21:55

(AP) Following yesterday’s criticism of Democratic candidate for President, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), for delaying a possible game 6 of the World Series 15 minutes by buying ad time on every channel in the world, RNC spokesman Alex Conant spoke out against what he called "an even greater sin against our national pastime."

Conant had been quoted as saying, "It’s unfortunate that the World Series’ first pitch is being delayed for Obama’s political pitch, Not only is Obama putting politics before principle, he’s putting it before our national pastime." Today he offered the comment that, "You know who is responsible for even more delays of baseball games? God. Not only that, but He does so by raining on them, getting hundreds of thousands of baseball fans wet every year."

"It’s bad enough that Obama wants to delay a game 15 minutes so he can talk about the future of our country. What does God delay those games for? To water some plants? How degrading. I would have thought the deity who sacrificed His son for us could wait until the game’s over to take care of His yardwork." The Almighty could not be reached for comment.

69-59 A Good Tactical Move by Obama Campaign

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Sunday June 01, 2008 · 4:36 AM PDT

2008/06/01 · 04:36

Crossposted from myDD

Per Chuck Todd, the Obama campaign could have gotten a 50/50 split out of Michigan. They chose not to, instead opting for the Michigan Democratic Party proposal for a 69-59 split. Clinton supporters (and a few "supporters") have called him "petty" for holding out over a four-delegate swing when his lead is approximately 200, but they haven't really examined the rationale behind his move beyond their anger. For a campaign that's likely going to have won the nomination largely on the back of a superior understanding of the process, they're selling Obama short.

If he was really going to be 'petty' about a four delegate swing, why would he be so magnanimous about the additional five delegate swing he could have had but chose not to receive? A conciliatory gesture of goodwill towards Senator Clinton? When has the Clinton campaign shown any sign that they would be receptive to any conciliatory gesture from the Obama campaign short of a concession speech?

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Tuesday May 27, 2008 · 4:58 AM PDT

2008/05/27 · 04:58

I really have trouble understanding the mindset.

Is it just going to take some time to put the more quarrelsome parts of the primary season behind us? Ok, I get that. Do all sides have to reach out and seek common ground? Makes sense to me. But what I really fail to grasp is the people for whom this is so one-sided.

Maybe it's that I've never really attached myself to a primary candidate that lost. Gore was the inevitable candidate in 2000, and I never found anything in Bradley to change that for me. I liked Dean in 2004, but not so much that I found any difficulty in voting for Kerry when California's primaries arrived.

I participated in a Zogby poll yesterday that asked who I would vote for in both an Obama/McCain election and a Clinton/McCain contest. I wouldn't consider voting for McCain, nor would I stay away from the polls, for anything short of a life-threatening illness or injury. Yet I consistently hear from Clinton supporters on here that they need...something from Obama before they'll vote for him. Are you kidding me?

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Saturday March 01, 2008 · 11:28 AM PST

2008/03/01 · 11:28

Ok, with the growing likelihood that the Democratic primary will be over soon, we're seeing a lot of speculation as to who Obama's running mate would be. Some people complain it's a "jinx" to start this before the nomination is locked up, but unless you're particularly superstitious, I really don't see the problem. Maybe someone in the campaign is watching what we're saying, (wouldn't count on it,) but I doubt we're bringing up anyone they won't on their own.

That said, people are making a lot of mistakes in their suggestions, and not of the "I think A would be better than B" variety. They're proposing people who will not be in the running, and it's kind of silly to discuss the merits of those, so I thought I'd take the time to address some frequent mistakes being made.

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Wednesday February 27, 2008 · 1:59 AM PST

2008/02/27 · 01:59

Wednesday February 27th, 2008. If it's remembered at all, it'll be a footnote, and not necessarily an important footnote, at that. It'll be Ruth's RBI total the season he hit sixty home runs. The number of people the Tennessee Valley Authority put to work in Knoxville, Kentucky. The number of people actually there when Martin Luther King told the world he had a dream. But it's a footnote nonetheless. Today, at approximately 4:45 am EST, one million people have voted with their wallets to support the man who tells them "Yes we can."

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Saturday February 23, 2008 · 5:14 PM PST

2008/02/23 · 17:14

I'm not talking about her delayed-reaction outrage to the memo, I'm talking everything. The last correct decision she made in her run for the Presidency was to run for the seat being vacated by Senator Moynihan in 2000. Ironically, she would run that race a lot better than she's run this one.

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