Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Seattle Times - The 112-foot square-rigger, perhaps best-known as the ship hijacked by Jack Sparrow in the Disney film "Pirates of the Caribbean," normally spends its winters in California waters. Last winter, it hosted more than 70,000 visitors and took more than 7,000 California school kids sailing from California ports. But not this year. Despite its 4,442 square feet of ever-so-green sail power, the Lady W also employs a 60-year-old diesel engine that fails to meet California's air-pollution standards.
Bloomberg - California Budget Is Already in the Red 10 Weeks After Passage
Sure.Turn away a revenue maker because it isn't "green" enough. I get such a laugh when they show that lame commercial with Awhnold and Mawie asking when you can you come to Calif*%kedaway to start a job/business. Sure. I'm heading right out to a state with killer taxes,debt,unemployment,issues IOU's for tax refunds,etc. Man.Are leftards ever stupid.
Posted by: Justthinkin at October 11, 2009 3:03 PMCalifornicated: WOW, that's one of your very best Kate! Is it your own? This could go viral.
These California regs have really helped California's economy.
Many trucking companys have closed due to the requirement of trucks being banned due to date of manufacture rather than passing emissions standards.
What trucking California firms do is limited to picking up crossdocked loads at the california line. The California trucks cannot compete on long haul due to their high fixed cost newer equipment. Out of state trucks cannot enter and drop their loads at the line. California trucks hauling produce face the same problem. California WILL not allow refrigerated trucks over 3 years old.
Clever real clever....
Serial #s are the guage of emmisions....only in California.
the Governator should donate the engine from the Hydrogen hummer , after all he helicoptors from his home near Los Angelis to Sacramento almost daily.
Posted by: cal2 at October 11, 2009 4:22 PMDon't knock California standards - I got a perfectly nice car at a good price because it couldn't stay in California. Mind you, the original California-taxpaying owner probably wasn't quite so cheerful.
Posted by: Aviator at October 11, 2009 4:29 PMIF YOU Google 'Californicated', right now, SDA is close to the top with the wacky story regarding the TALL ship being denied access to port.
SDA just gave California a "green" wedgie!
AAhnold CALIFORNICATED by SDA !!
How is it even possible to blow all that taxpayer cash? Are they buying jet packs for their unicorns or something?
Posted by: Osumashi Kinyobe at October 11, 2009 5:20 PMYou know, they deserve to slip into the Pacific when the next earthquake hits that cesspool.
Posted by: robins111 at October 11, 2009 5:28 PMCalifornicated: WOW, that's one of your very best Kate! Is it your own?
Posted by: Me No Dhimmi at October 11, 2009 3:28 PM
Heh, sadly there is a T.V. show, just into its second season, called Californication, starring David Duchovny (it's actually a pretty good show). So unfortunately, it's not a home-grown Kate-ism. :-}}}
Posted by: Colin from Mission B.C. at October 11, 2009 5:37 PM"Californication", Red Hot Chilipeppers, released 1999.
Excellent CD, I still listen to it.
How is it even possible to blow all that taxpayer cash? Are they buying jet packs for their unicorns or something?
Posted by: Osumashi Kinyobe at October 11, 2009 5:20 PM
Well, when over 25% of your population is gubbermint/unionized employees,50% illegals, and 10% unemployed,all of the above which suck of the taxpayers teat,it doesn't take long.
Posted by: Justthinkin at October 11, 2009 6:07 PMJustthinkin - I remember being puzzled by those commercials. The tease was stuff like "we have board meetings", meaning surfboards, etc etc. Everyone and everything looked so happy and artificial, with hypersaturated colours.
In other words, the subtext was "come here and don't bother to really work, because the CA economy is all pretend anyways".
Posted by: Erik Larsen at October 11, 2009 6:53 PMWell, when over 25% of your population is gubbermint/unionized employees,50% illegals, and 10% unemployed,all of the above which suck of the taxpayers teat,it doesn't take long.
Posted by: Justthinkin at October 11, 2009 6:07 PM
Put another way, the parasite has grown larger than the host.
Posted by: Colin from Mission B.C. at October 11, 2009 7:20 PMBack in the '30s California was the light that attracted the refugees from the dust bowl. Funny how things reverse.
Posted by: Joe at October 11, 2009 7:36 PMCouldn't happen to a nicer bunch of fr*^ts.
Posted by: Ken (Kulak) at October 11, 2009 7:37 PMColin, I just got the image of a really big tick. Ew.
Thanks for that picture I can't unsee now.
Anyway, I'm sure after the state government defaults on all its debts (municipal BONDS kids!) the trucks will resume running as normal and all the illegals will wander back home again.
Buffet is over, no reason to stay.
Posted by: The Phantom at October 11, 2009 7:42 PMArny renmionds me of O'brien. mayor of Ottawa. Popularly elected but denied any effect by the incumbent leftists in council
Posted by: RW at October 11, 2009 8:46 PMCalifornia Dreaming has turned into a Nightmare.
The horde has overtaken them from the South. Regulations so dense the Minotaur would be lost in the maze. So dying industry (Hum sounds like Alberta under Eddy).I hear the stamping of many feet leaving the economic purgatory its become. From its , lets just say, more eccentric nuts?
From what I hear from Texans they don't like em much. Seems their trying to turn Texas into the same hellhole they created back home.
JMO
it's not green enough! get rid of the engine and refit the ship with oars. think of all the green jobs they will be creating.
Posted by: xena the dog at October 11, 2009 10:28 PMJuest thinking: yeah, I guess so.
Maybe, for a brief moment, I thought people wouldn't throw their money away.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/10/11/california-water-bill-veto.html
california's water problem could easily be solved by banning exports of water in every form to Canada. no more Chardonney for the latte crowd. fresh fruit or veggies for the vegetarian hairy legged lesbo crowd and no more crap movies like "waterworld"
Canada imports far more water from the USA than the reverse , but it is all encased in bottles , cans and fresh produce
Posted by: cal2 at October 11, 2009 11:57 PMColin, I just got the image of a really big tick. Ew.
Thanks for that picture I can't unsee now.
Posted by: The Phantom at October 11, 2009 7:42 PM
Heh. Sorry about that.
Funny thing is, when I first read your post, I misread "tick" as something....else. I was really concerned for you Phantom for a few seconds.
:o
Posted by: Colin from Mission B.C. at October 12, 2009 12:45 AM"Californicated on SDA" is tops on Google!!!!
And Californis is still bankrupt.
Posted by: Joe Molnar at October 12, 2009 8:26 AMNot Goreificated enough? Goreacle falls into "depr*" courtesy Shrink Link.
"The frost moves up the window pane
Against the sun's advance"
(H/T Ned Pratt)
*Weather Maps: North America
*urlm.in/depr
As Frank Zappa sang on his 1979 classic "Shiek Yerbouti" album song "Flakes"
California's got the most of them,
Man, they got a host of them...
My industry as well is struggling with the impact of the new CARB [California Air Resource Board] laws. Consider the expense of upgrading a fleet at $20Gs per unit. Cost/benefit analysis is belly up before you start. Do you remain in the business or demarket California segments? The willful ignorance to the impact of these regulations is surely a form of mass suicide in the name of hair-brained ideology.
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