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Posted by: thepinetree on 09/13/2021 07:04 AM Updated by: thepinetree on 09/13/2021 10:32 AM
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Mornings with the One Percent™ Live Weekdays 7-10am, This Morning’s Replays are Below

Arnold, CA…Mornings with the One Percent™ is live weekday mornings from 7-10am. The premise for the show is that the USDA ranked all 3,142 counties or county equivalents in the USA on a livability or desirability scale based on factors such as climate, scenic beauty, bodies of water for recreation, humidity and much more. All of our area ranked not only in the top one percent but in the top one half of one percent. So in the ups and downs of daily life remember you don’t have to be a Gates, Buffett or Bezos to live like the one percent. Just live here!










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The once golden state
Posted on: 2021-09-13 08:10:49   By: Anonymous
 
This is a pretty good article on our once great state, when our politicians actually did good things for the entire state, but not anymore. Is it because of the elite, the million and billionaires? The Liberals, The Dem/ socialist?
I know it's not the Republicans fault, the Dem/Socialist have been in power here too long and look what it's done to this state.

California once was run by conservatives and mostly centrist Democrats.

True paleo-liberal governors like Pat Brown greatly expanded the welfare state. But they also believed in pushing integration and building freeways, dams, aqueducts and power plants, while preventing forest fires, directing the mentally ill into state hospitals, and ensuring that the state enhanced the housing, timber, oil and gas, nuclear and agricultural industries.

So, why would anyone deliberately destroy that heritage
Why allow California to have the highest aggregate basket of income, sales, property and capital gains taxes in the nation, the highest gas and power prices in the continental United States, and nearly the worst schools and infrastructure? California also has the country’s largest populations of homeless, welfare recipients and undocumented immigrants

Remember that the left wing of the Democratic Party became hyper-wealthy through globalization and the tech revolution. Coastal universities such as Caltech, Stanford, UC Berkeley, USC, and UCLA became global nexuses of millions who flocked to California to learn business, engineering, science, math and the professions.

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University endowments were no longer measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars but in the billions.

Hollywood and professional sports now had a lucrative worldwide audience of billions.

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The market capitalization of Silicon Valley was to be measured in the trillions of dollars, as the world bought iPhones, iPads and MacBooks to do Google searches, tweet and use Facebook. The result was the greatest concentration of wealth in such a small space in the history of civilization.

Within 40 years, California had created a new plutocracy of Eloi, whose wealth exempted them from all worries about the mundane problems of the distant and despised Morlock others.

The wealthier the long thin line from San Diego to Berkeley grew, the more the overseers felt they were nearing Utopia, at least in their own lives.

The new Democratic Party liked to redistribute money for the poor and so obeyed the orders from the rich. But they ignored old-fashioned infrastructure that once had allowed the middle class to drive quickly and safely, ensured them water during droughts, curbed their forest fires, and allowed their children to leave school competitively educated.

The current California recall election is a choice between Gavin Newsom, who embodies the woke, old-boy privilege of the Bay Area, and an alternative direction.

Reaction, not prevention, was the new mantra. Govs. Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom failed to thin out forests, build water storage and allow affordable housing.

When those problems exploded, they reacted by citing climate change or some other bogeyman as the culprit rather than government dereliction. They preferred utopian high-speed rail solutions to pragmatic problem-solving. And they ensured that none of their crackpot ideas ever affected themselves.

Why worry about affordable housing and electricity for the masses when all the right people had the means to live in the right ZIP codes without much worry about turning on the air conditioning or heat, since there were rarely any scorching days or frigid nights in coastal paradise?

Why worry about immigration when labor became even cheaper?

Larry Elder calls out 'media hypocrisy' in California recall electionVideo
Why worry that California public schools had sunk near the bottom of state ranks, when there were more prestigious prep schools than ever on the coast?

And why worry about producing lumber for houses, irrigated crops for food, or oil for gasoline, when the right Californians would always have the money to import their hardwood floors, arugula and fuel from grubby others far away who would make or grow what was needed?

Yet ideas eventually have consequences. Soon, even the left-wing paradise on the coast would be infected by the anarchy the rich had created for less important people elsewhere.

The homeless did not just camp on the streets of Fresno, but in Venice Beach and on Market Street in San Francisco.

Fires began to smoke out not just the brush of the inland foothills, but near-saintly Lake Tahoe, home to the right skiers and the chosen shore owners.

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Thieves even smashed the windows of Bay Area BMWs and Volvos.

The current California recall election is a choice between Gavin Newsom, who embodies the woke, old-boy privilege of the Bay Area, and an alternative direction. Newsom is the epitome of the virtue-signaling elite who patronize the poor and drive out the despised middle class

Gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder did not give us the current California. Indeed, he spent most of his life warning us where Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom and the rarified society of the coastal corridor was taking the state.

A careening California is heading for a colossal train wreck. Voters will have to pick between the incompetent engineer snoring at the wheel or the private passenger who rushes into cab to get the engine back on track.

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    Re: The once golden state
    Posted on: 2021-09-13 08:47:27   By: Anonymous
     
    I don't really understand what this '40 year' stuff has to do with Newsome. Sounds like we should be blaming Regan.

    And "Thieves even smashed the windows of Bay Area BMWs and Volvos." Well, yeah... rich people's cars make better targets than rusty old F150s in Yuba City.

    I just feel like this is another biased view of someone who doesn't like the way things are in CA. Cool. They are fully entitled to their view.

    I just think the majority of the state disagrees with them.

    Yep. Homelessness in the Bay Area (And elsewhere) is a problem. But as someone go goes down monthly, I can say it's MUCH MUCH MUCH better than it was 24 months ago, for example.

    I just don't get it why someone wants to try and project Florida values onto California. Nobody is over there trying to raise their minimum wage or enact sensible gun control laws.

    To each their own. That's what's great about America. Don't just listen to the loudest voice in the room.

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      Re: The once golden state
      Posted on: 2021-09-13 09:22:58   By: Anonymous
       
      Our Governor's name is Newsom, not Newsome. Obviously you're a Socialist not even knowing how to spell your Governor's name but thinks he's great
      The above comment was Dem leadership has brought CA down the toilet.
      CA is now the least educated state in the Union for adults 25 years and older, and you're proving it.

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        Re: The once golden state
        Posted on: 2021-09-13 09:27:43   By: Anonymous
         
        If that's true, our county is responsible for more than our fair share of that statistic.

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        Re: The once golden state
        Posted on: 2021-09-13 09:54:32   By: Anonymous
         
        I think you're picking on the messenger, and not the message.



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        Re: The once golden state
        Posted on: 2021-09-13 09:57:50   By: Anonymous
         
        I ALSO THINK YOUR DATA IS SUSPECT, PER THE DOE.

        CA - Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2015-2019 33.9%

        TX - Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2015-2019 29.9%

        FL - Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2015-2019 29.9%


        WA - Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2015-2019 272%





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    Re: The once golden state
    Posted on: 2021-09-13 09:01:19   By: Anonymous
     
    If you don't like being in the fifth largest economy in the world, then go to a third-world state like Mississippi.
    If you don't want to get a real education and a real job that makes real money, then move to Mississippi where you can be a sharecropper and work with your hands.
    If you want to live in the past, then move to Mississippi where it still looks like 1930.
    If you want better schools, then repeal Prop. 13.
    If you want better forestry, then fund a stronger Forest Service.
    If you want more water, then ban farming practices like almond growing that sucks the earth dry.
    California is a great state and while I agree that Newsom can be a bit wormy, at least he is not an intellectual Neanderthal like Elder.
    Proud to be a Californian, and along with the majority of this state I will be voting NO on the recall.


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    Re: The once golden state
    Posted on: 2021-09-13 09:03:05   By: Anonymous
     
    Pretty good thought?
    Newsom was elected in 2018 by a wide margin.
    GOP candidates had a chance to make themselves heard then.
    Train wreck called Trump happens. Then covid. CA faired much better than most other states.
    Dotards claim CA citizens and businesses are leaving our state in droves.
    Wrong.
    Watch how many businesses and new citizens in Texas bail when all these GOP reforms take affect.

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      Re: The once golden state
      Posted on: 2021-09-13 09:53:05   By: Anonymous
       
      I know two families who moved to Texas and have moved back in the last 2 years. They got there and said "The cost savings weren't worth the tradeoffs in terms of quality of life."

      Hard to put a price tag on that. And I think you're right... Texas today is like the Taliban.

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    Re: The once golden state
    Posted on: 2021-09-13 12:01:18   By: Anonymous
     
    From Newsmax

    Some early GOP voters who reportedly tried to cast their ballots in the California gubernatorial recall election were told computers showed that they’d already voted, even though they hadn’t.

    ABC affiliate KTLA reported the disturbing episode occurred Saturday at a polling place, where Estelle Bender, 88, of West Hills, California, recounted the computer block — and said she wasn’t alone.

    Bender told the news outlet the block also happened to friends of hers, two others outside the polling place — all of them Republicans — and "the man next to me was arguing the same thing.
    Isn't this beautiful? Governor Newsom win Win WINS I bet Gavin wins in a landslide too!
    My husband works in Livermore, stays four days comes home. He forgot to mail his ballot, so I did for him. Darn if I didn't forget to put his ballot inside the envelope. Looks like Larry lost a vote in Sonora 🤫 and Gavin gained one.







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      Re: The once golden state
      Posted on: 2021-09-13 13:55:01   By: Anonymous
       
      All this shows is that Republicans are trying to vote twice. Stop the steal by making sure dead Republicans don't get to vote and live ones don't get to vote twice.

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No Subject
Posted on: 2021-09-13 08:53:33   By: Anonymous
 
Sniveler I heard you got the jab last night little tender in the back door area this morning ?...

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    Re: anti Sniveler guy
    Posted on: 2021-09-13 09:05:07   By: Anonymous
     
    Why don't you take the dewormer to rid your brain of the Sniveler worm that resides within.

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      Re: anti Sniveler guy
      Posted on: 2021-09-13 09:10:33   By: Anonymous
       
      He's like a bad fart in the living room, just hanging out, trying to be relevant.

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        Re: anti Sniveler guy
        Posted on: 2021-09-13 09:37:55   By: Anonymous
         
        sniveler I have a few dozen chocolate covered worms for you...

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          Re: anti Sniveler guy
          Posted on: 2021-09-13 09:40:47   By: Anonymous
           
          sniveler you should have the farts this morning from getting the jabs last night from the Boys...

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RULES FOR THEE BUT NOT FOR ME, SOUNDS LIKE NEWSOM DOESNT IT?
Posted on: 2021-09-13 09:19:21   By: Anonymous
 

"
President Biden’s executive order mandating COVID-19 vaccines among all federal workers does not apply to members of Congress, the federal court system or their staffers.

Biden’s order Thursday mandating COVID-19 vaccinations among federal workers and contractors drops the option of regular testing and allows only some religious and disability exemptions. The order applies only to employees of the executive branch and does not apply to the legislative or judicial branches of government, the White House confirmed to Fox News

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    Re: RULES FOR THEE BUT NOT FOR ME, SOUNDS LIKE NEWSOM DOESNT IT?
    Posted on: 2021-09-13 09:54:01   By: Anonymous
     
    Right. That's not news. Congress isn't part of the Executive Branch. They are bound by different policies.

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      Re: RULES FOR THEE BUT NOT FOR ME, SOUNDS LIKE NEWSOM DOESNT IT?
      Posted on: 2021-09-13 10:45:53   By: Anonymous
       
      The GQP and their mindless masses are a health threat to the rest of us. We should quarantine states that dont believe in science. Embargo them, no travel, no trade. Ok I know its a pipe dream.

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        Re: RULES FOR THEE BUT NOT FOR ME, SOUNDS LIKE NEWSOM DOESNT IT?
        Posted on: 2021-09-13 10:58:15   By: Anonymous
         
        Eugenics would be a more comprehensive approach. Thirty years old and don't have a college degree? Hmmm.

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