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POPSOde to the sacred cow: California's Prop. 13 More: challenges to the laws validity have been struck down by the State Supreme Court and politicians caught even breathing Prop 13 revision have been hounded out of office, or threatened with it. The lobby surrounding the Prop 13 movement has a vice grip on the state legislature. So any thought of revision or modification is ignored. But on June 9, 1978 the news was pretty much like it is now. Only now we have 31 years of failure to look at. And we're left scratching our heads.
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POPSvideo: The Beautiful South – "You Keep It All In" Lyrics: You know your problem You keep it all in You know your problem You keep it all in That's right The conversation we had last night When all I wanted to do was Knife you in the heart I kept it all in You know your problem You keep it all in You know your problem You keep it all in Midnight, a husband getting ready to fight A daughter sleeps alone with the light Turned on, she bears but Keeps it all in Just like that murder in '73 Just like that robbery in '62 With all there things that have happened to me I kept it all in Why do you keep on telling me now You know your problem You keep it all in You know your problem You keep it all in That's sweet That conversation we had last week When you gagged and bound me up to my seat You're right, I do I keep it all in
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POPSOakland is 4th greenest city in US (San Fran is #2, Berkeley #7) More: Since there is as yet no official criteria set by the Environmental Protection Agency for determining a city's "greeness", Mother Nature Network considered several key areas to measure the effectiveness of a municipality's efforts at carbon footprint reduction. These included air and water quality, efficient recycling and management of waste, percentage of LEED certified buildings, acres of land devoted to green space, use of renewable energy, and easy access to green products and services.
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POPSCalifornia's most conservative county sucks up the public assistance by the bucket
Assemblywoman Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, chairwoman of a legislative budget conference committee, ordered up a report last winter ranking which of the state's counties send the most tax money per capita to the Capitol, and which ones consume the most in health and other services. It showed that conservative counties - like Modoc, with 49.9 percent Republican registration, the state's highest - generally consumed the most, and liberal counties sent in the most. Marin County was No. 1 in contributions, at $4,793 per person, and San Francisco was No. 3 at $3,578. Modoc was No. 2 in consumption at $2,216 per person, and conservative Tulare was No. 1, with $2,223. "I don't think voters in the conservative counties understand the connection between the service they are receiving and the votes their representatives are making," Evans said…In Modoc, the way it works is that if the cuts being proposed go through, near-catastrophe will reign.
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POPSHundreds of cats rescued from being eaten in China Eating meat is feeling increasingly wrong to me these days. I think of somebody eating my beloved cats or my parrot and I feel heartsick. But what really is the difference between eating a cat and eating a pig, or between eating a parrot and eating a chicken? Denis Leary's routine on the matter is funny ("You're a squirrel? Okay, you're cute, you can go. You're a cow? Get in the truck, you're dinner and a baseball glove!") but not, I think, morally or ethically coherent or justifiable.
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POPSNobody at work seems to understand this "You'll create a centralized mailing list? Great! I'll just keep my own version of the list going, too, for less formal mailings." *deep sigh* Anyone want to place a bet on how soon we get the first data inconsistency because one of us got new information and one of us didn't?
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POPSfilk: "A Day in the Life" with Martians and Triffids! More: I read the news today oh, boy A million germs infecting all the war machines And though the germs were rather small They somehow killed them all Now we can finally go outside to places like the albert hall I'd love to turn you on
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