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		<title>By: Top Post Wordpress &#171; ATer: Criação de Sites Empresa (5511) 2527-3032. Sites Dinâmicos!</title>
		<link>http://christopherfountain.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/california-nightmares/#comment-4053</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...]  California nightmares There’s already plenty of documentation about the collapse of California and how its citizens legislated it from [...] [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...]  California nightmares There’s already plenty of documentation about the collapse of California and how its citizens legislated it from [...] [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Jinkies!</title>
		<link>http://christopherfountain.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/california-nightmares/#comment-4036</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our family moved to CO from CA in the 70s and brought our solid Reagan conservative values with us.  My dad&#039;s business partner at the time was horrified by the deterioration of the Los Angeles school district where his daughter attended school and he chose Colorado as a good place to raise his family.  He convinced my dad to bring us. My parents are now watching with dismay as the state goes blue (liberals used to be confined to Aspen and Boulder) with the new generation of Californians moving in.  These newcomers just don&#039;t get that they are sowing the seeds of a repeat of the decline that they are fleeing.  

I now live in Austin, TX which used to be the lone liberal hang out but Houston and Dallas are starting to get inundated with California libs who don&#039;t go native once they get here.  The one CA transplant I do like is our new police chief but, in general, the push to the left seems to be a depressingly irresistible force.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our family moved to CO from CA in the 70s and brought our solid Reagan conservative values with us.  My dad&#8217;s business partner at the time was horrified by the deterioration of the Los Angeles school district where his daughter attended school and he chose Colorado as a good place to raise his family.  He convinced my dad to bring us. My parents are now watching with dismay as the state goes blue (liberals used to be confined to Aspen and Boulder) with the new generation of Californians moving in.  These newcomers just don&#8217;t get that they are sowing the seeds of a repeat of the decline that they are fleeing.  </p>
<p>I now live in Austin, TX which used to be the lone liberal hang out but Houston and Dallas are starting to get inundated with California libs who don&#8217;t go native once they get here.  The one CA transplant I do like is our new police chief but, in general, the push to the left seems to be a depressingly irresistible force.</p>
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		<title>By: christopherfountain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go back and read Thidwick - I suspect that Dr. Seuss didn&#039;t do so often enough himself.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Go back and read Thidwick &#8211; I suspect that Dr. Seuss didn&#8217;t do so often enough himself.</p>
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		<title>By: drunkenhopfrog</title>
		<link>http://christopherfountain.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/california-nightmares/#comment-3975</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ayn Rand and Dr. Seuss mentioned together is about the most appropriate blog comment I have ever seen.  Greenspan&#039;s Rand-esque self policing free market turned up Greenspan Eggs and Rand Ham.  Well done... even if unintentional.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ayn Rand and Dr. Seuss mentioned together is about the most appropriate blog comment I have ever seen.  Greenspan&#8217;s Rand-esque self policing free market turned up Greenspan Eggs and Rand Ham.  Well done&#8230; even if unintentional.</p>
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		<title>By: Doulos Christou</title>
		<link>http://christopherfountain.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/california-nightmares/#comment-3957</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We left California (an Angelino by birth) 23 years ago because of the declining way of life and now it has bottomed out. Sadly, the escapees are heading to Colorado and inflicting the same kind of damage here. The state has already changed from R to D and the policies that naturally follow are alive and well here. Where to next?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We left California (an Angelino by birth) 23 years ago because of the declining way of life and now it has bottomed out. Sadly, the escapees are heading to Colorado and inflicting the same kind of damage here. The state has already changed from R to D and the policies that naturally follow are alive and well here. Where to next?</p>
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		<title>By: deanadya</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[nuclear testing??   :(]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nuclear testing??   <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: 3iny3ink</title>
		<link>http://christopherfountain.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/california-nightmares/#comment-3951</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>merci</p>
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		<title>By: tyree</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Abstrator said, &quot;American democracy–as structured–is falling apart.&quot;

When your vote is canceled by illegal immigrants, when judges overturn the peoples initiatives, when politicians support the &quot;rights&quot; of non-citizens over the well being of the state Democracy is in big trouble.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Abstrator said, &#8220;American democracy–as structured–is falling apart.&#8221;</p>
<p>When your vote is canceled by illegal immigrants, when judges overturn the peoples initiatives, when politicians support the &#8220;rights&#8221; of non-citizens over the well being of the state Democracy is in big trouble.</p>
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		<title>By: tyree</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[nerotype said, &quot;that dude has the right to be angry that he’s basically a second-class citizen in these kinds of places&quot;

NO.

Read up on what we have written. He is not even close to being a second class citizen. The people who do this quite often never visit the business in question. They file a lawsuit that cannot be dismissed without the services of a $5000 lawyer. One of the victims of these guys had to sell his wife&#039;s jewelry to pay the judgment. Another guy claimed he couldn&#039;t reach the &quot;take a number please&quot; machine. The business knew this and had an employee on hand to hand out numbers to everyone, but the guy sued. Security video showed no one in the store that day in a wheel chair, so whoever visited the store wasn&#039;t even handicapped. Enduring a towel dispenser set an inch or so out of the code doesn&#039;t make you &quot;second class citizen&quot;, it means a screwdriver needs to be used to reset the dispenser. The Handicapped code in California was enforced before the legislature finished writing it, so there are thousands of &quot;legal&quot; handicapped installations that don&#039;t meet the code as it was formally adopted. First they force the property owner to make tens of thousands of dollars of changes to their property and then they encourage them to get sued if anything doesn&#039;t fit the lawyers interpretation of the code. One lawyer in Irvine made $2 million dollars suing businesses under this law, and as far as anyone can tell, none of that money went to a handicapped person.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nerotype said, &#8220;that dude has the right to be angry that he’s basically a second-class citizen in these kinds of places&#8221;</p>
<p>NO.</p>
<p>Read up on what we have written. He is not even close to being a second class citizen. The people who do this quite often never visit the business in question. They file a lawsuit that cannot be dismissed without the services of a $5000 lawyer. One of the victims of these guys had to sell his wife&#8217;s jewelry to pay the judgment. Another guy claimed he couldn&#8217;t reach the &#8220;take a number please&#8221; machine. The business knew this and had an employee on hand to hand out numbers to everyone, but the guy sued. Security video showed no one in the store that day in a wheel chair, so whoever visited the store wasn&#8217;t even handicapped. Enduring a towel dispenser set an inch or so out of the code doesn&#8217;t make you &#8220;second class citizen&#8221;, it means a screwdriver needs to be used to reset the dispenser. The Handicapped code in California was enforced before the legislature finished writing it, so there are thousands of &#8220;legal&#8221; handicapped installations that don&#8217;t meet the code as it was formally adopted. First they force the property owner to make tens of thousands of dollars of changes to their property and then they encourage them to get sued if anything doesn&#8217;t fit the lawyers interpretation of the code. One lawyer in Irvine made $2 million dollars suing businesses under this law, and as far as anyone can tell, none of that money went to a handicapped person.</p>
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		<title>By: petdefense</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have a point and the handicapped filing claims is not illegal. But of course that&#039;s not how CA went in the toilet. Combo of factors spelling doomsday were on horizon for years. And (not related but WTH),HSUS is taking $$ w/people thinking they save pets.No, most of their legislation is aimed at anti-pet laws as lawsuits prove. They spent $52,000,000 for lawsuits,litigation,media,political lobbying in 07. $400,000+ soliciting churches/congregation tactics. Kids are a target too, as HSUS is the &#039;political&#039; Peta, w/o all the stunts.They closed their Sacto office now. Beware of donating to humane society usa. They mislead the public well.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have a point and the handicapped filing claims is not illegal. But of course that&#8217;s not how CA went in the toilet. Combo of factors spelling doomsday were on horizon for years. And (not related but WTH),HSUS is taking $$ w/people thinking they save pets.No, most of their legislation is aimed at anti-pet laws as lawsuits prove. They spent $52,000,000 for lawsuits,litigation,media,political lobbying in 07. $400,000+ soliciting churches/congregation tactics. Kids are a target too, as HSUS is the &#8216;political&#8217; Peta, w/o all the stunts.They closed their Sacto office now. Beware of donating to humane society usa. They mislead the public well.</p>
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