Just take a whiff; you won't be wondering long.
"Weak economy fuels assault on keystone Calif. climate law; Businesses seek to delay rules until employment rises" by Samantha Young, Associated Press | April 5, 2010
SACRAMENTO — Four years ago, California earned accolades for adopting a law that would slash its greenhouse gas emissions and serve as a model for national climate change legislation.
With the state mired in a crippling recession, the law that once looked like a landmark achievement is coming under assault.
It's a landmark, all right. Don't step in it.
The regulatory effort Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger set in motion is facing a political backlash and could come to an abrupt halt in the months ahead.
Translation: the PUBLIC does NOT LIKE being LIED TO!!!!
A coalition of businesses, financed largely by three Texas oil companies, is funding a ballot petition that would delay the law....
Which is strange because oil companies are backing the carbon tax bill.
Lot of other names I bet you didn't expect to see there.
The leading Republican gubernatorial candidate, Meg Whitman, has vowed she would suspend the law on her first day in office, which she would have the authority to do.
A reason to vote for her if nothing else.
Even Schwarzenegger, who has staked his legacy on environmental issues, has begun urging air regulators to take a go-slow approach. But he has vowed to fight the ballot initiative.
I'll bet you are glad to be getting rid of that asshole, huh?
The possibility that a state that has set the national agenda on environmental change for decades might shelve its highly publicized climate regulations could have ramifications beyond California’s borders. In Congress, lawmakers are struggling to craft a national climate bill that uses California’s as a template, but are facing headwinds of their own....
Look at them all worried about their fart-belching plans!!
At issue: whether imposing costly regulations on businesses is a smart move as the nation struggles to emerge from recession....
Answer: NO -- unless you intend to kill this economy over a lie.
The global warming law also is a target of both Republican candidates seeking to replace Schwarzenegger, who will reach term limits after this year.
Yeah, and once again it is a cold spring.
Whitman intends to trigger a “safety valve’’ in the law that allows a governor to suspend climate regulations in “extraordinary circumstances, catastrophic events, or threat of significant economic harm.’’
I'm feeling another valve that needs opening, pffffft!
Ironically, it was a provision Schwarzenegger demanded on behalf of business interests at the time he was negotiating the bill with Democrats in 2006....
Yeah, how ironic that it is now biting him in the ass, pfft.
Man, I'm feeling gassy. Must have been the Around AmeriKa breakfast.
"Calif. boosts sex offender tracking program" by Associated Press | March 20, 2010
SACRAMENTO — California parole officials said yesterday that they have ordered increased monitoring of all sex offenders after recent high-profile lapses, most notably in the case of a young woman who was held captive for 18 years by a convicted rapist.
The new policy requires parole agents to more closely track the movements of offenders using GPS-linked ankle bracelets. It also requires agents to visit high-risk sex offenders at their homes twice a month, up from one monthly visit.
Oh, that will keep the long eye of the law on them.
The policy change came after agents were criticized for not discovering that a convicted sex offender was allegedly keeping Jaycee Dugard hidden at his Contra Costa County home for 18 years. Correction officials are also reviewing whether they should have revoked the parole of John Albert Gardner III, a convicted sex offender now charged with killing one San Diego County teen and being investigated in the death of another.
“We basically have higher-level tracking not only on high-risk sex offenders but even on low-risk sex offenders,’’ said Gordon Hinkle, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “This is basically areas that we felt needed improvement.’’
Isn't that supposed to be one of their top priorities?
Protecting the safety of us all?
Where is all that tax loot going, Californian?
Wherever it is going, it is not going into the parole system:
"Calif. parole panel lacks resources for inquiry" by Associated Press | March 30, 2010
SAN DIEGO — A state board examining why the accused killer of a teenager was not returned to prison for parole violations before the slaying occurred has no formal budget and minimal staff, a member said.
On March 12, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered the Sex Offender Management Board to review the case of John Albert Gardner III, who spent time in prison for molesting a 13-year-old girl and committed seven parole violations in 2007-08 that could have put him back behind bars....
The 17-seat board was unable to get a quorum for a meeting this month, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported yesterday. The lack of resources makes it uncertain when the board will complete its review involving Gardner....
The volunteer board is made up of specialists, including psychologists, judges, and probation officers. It was formed to devise a comprehensive state plan to manage sex offenders and was supposed to disband earlier this year, but the state Legislature made it permanent. The board has operated without a budget since July and has only one staff member, who works part time.
That is almost a year.
Maybe that is how all government should operate.
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Deputies kill suspect in Calif. slayings
Judge appointed in Jackson death case
No big deal now, what with the Tiger on the prowl.
And right back where we started, readers.
Time for lunch.
