27 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

  1. Ah, California, well on the road in leading the Left Coast in the anti-industrial revolution, where the middle class and shrinking tax base are fleeing the state at a rate of 2500-3000 per week. It won’t be too long before tourists wanting to visit Mexico will only have to go as far as California.

  2. Cause nothing says “business friendly” like rolling blackouts.
    Perhaps the Dark Ages should be renamed the Green Ages.

  3. Sigh.
    Send ’em to school and teach ’em to read, and all they do is look at the pictures…

  4. This looks like a New Age for Californians:
    The “Endarkenment” has taken over, don’t forget to turn out the lights when you leave…
    Its “Back to the Future” with Gov. Jerry Brown.
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  6. The owner of the company where I get all my car care products is a born and raised Californian.
    Last year he finally gave up on the business climate in CA. Not only was it grossly expensive from a regulatory standpoint for him to change the formulas for any of his products, as a business in CA he had to deal with each county’s individual sales tax rates for any orders he sold in state. Every month his accountant spent two to three days dealing with JUST county sales taxes. His is a small business employing maybe a dozen people. Think about what it must be like for a small business employing a couple hundred people.
    Last year he moved to Colorado. Since then almost half of his extensive product line has been updated and his overall business is up almost 50% in this economy.
    Adam’s is just one very small example of what is happening to a once great state.

  7. Coal is artifically being kept at low cost…
    Due to declining western markets, pushed by enviro-nazis politicians,
    and to allow former Pm Paul Martin to ship and sell it to China at a resonable profit.
    Thank god for the oil companies…
    They are raising their prices…
    Giving us a taste of things to come…
    Showing us what the enviro-nazis have in mind for the middleclass with their crazy theft by Carbon Taxes and Cap & Trade.
    Every dollar increase for a barrel of oil, brings China that much closer to a level economic playing field.
    The more expensive oil gets, the easier it will be for industry to re-locate back to North America.
    Amen.

  8. Speaking of San Andreas, the ‘Big One’ couldn’t come at a more opportune time. Think of the cleansing that state would get with the better part of the coastline under the Pacific.

  9. California, the poster child or Obama stupidity.
    Your state/country is all but bankrupt but that won’t stop you from forcing very expensive, unwanted, unworkable systems on your population.
    Another way of putting it is “when is the best time to kick your people?” Answer, when they’re already down.

  10. I’m thinking that Texas, Arizona, & the other neighboring states are going to see this the same way that Saskatchewan would look at another 4 years of Special Ed in Alberta
    One of the limiting factors for business’ looking to relocate may be the inability to sell what real assets they have in California, simply not having any_offers_at_all on their land/buildings.

  12. Still asking myself this question every time nonsense like this pops up: why the Americans never use 2A? What’s the point in having it, if it is not used? This is nothing but genocide of North Americans, and done in most insulting way.

  13. California never seems to learn its lesson about energy. First there were the unfettered “capitalist” ENRON crooks (the “Bernie Madoffs” of the energy sector) which caused the energy crises of the ’90’s and 00’s, rolling blackouts, and even deaths attributed to electricity being cut; now they are turning to equally insane unfettered “green” ideologues.

  14. Not to worry, the immanent bankruptcy of the State of California will fix a lot of this stuff. As soon as they begin defaulting on their bonds it’ll all change.
    In other news, long time Phoenix residents have begun complaining about the rash of rear-ender accidents caused by California drivers, who like to text and email while they drive on the highway. Seems the 20mph average speeds on Californian roadways have created a multitude of bad habits that refugees from the People’s Republic have yet to shake.
    I do believe that the combination of jacked-up SUVs and armed drivers down here will have the situation under control shortly. Nothing like a big-tired Ford Excursion and a Colt 1911 to get the attention of some brain-dead LA escapee.
    I went with the F-350 dually, Corbeau buckets and 5-point harnesses. Valley Girl ain’t going to win it with her little Yaris.

  15. Tell you something else I see down here this year that I never saw before: white guys working landscaping, and white kids working at McDonalds.
    Interesting, yes?

  16. Phantom,
    Ha! Reminds me of when California blasted Arizona for its stance against illegal Mexican immigrants — California threatened Arizona with economic sanctions unless Arizona cleaned up its house politically-correct Obama-wise.
    Then California got a big influx of illegals from Arizona diverted to their own State instead. I wonder if California is still singing “We Are the World” with the same gusto now?

  17. Re white guys … that’s maybe because after the Mexicans come the central Americans, after them come the Peruvians, after them come the Brazilians, after them the Argentines, Uruguayans and Chileans … ergo, white guys.

  19. let them sit in the dark . If you act like a dunce expect a dunces solutions.

  20. I filed my last California income tax return (part-year for 2010). That is the last contact that I will have with the state. I didn’t even go back for a class reunion last year. I watched the San Francisco Bay area go from nearly heaven in 1972 to an absolute pit by 2010. Nice work, folks.

  21. If possible we try to avoid purchasing any California products in the grocery stores.

  23. California is the canary in the mine-shaft.
    Eventually, Texas, will be in the same state. There really is no where to emigrate(hide).

  25. After suffering through an hour of the “debate”, I needed a laugh. (If some grade sixes I was teaching had behaved the way the opposition “leaders” did, my students would have been reprimanded, side lined, and “re-educated”.)
    Thanks, Kevin!

  27. It boggles the mind to watch them locked into a state of denial to the point of economic suicide. They won’t recognize reality till it smacks them in the face, if then.

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