Posts in "Arnold Schwarzenegger"

By Devon Minnema at 12:20PM

Feb 16, 2010

Sacramento's Getting Pretty Desperate

According to a staff editorial in the Sacramento Bee, the Governator has actually proposed selling advertising space on the traffic bill boards meant to alert highway drivers of bad traffic conditions in order to shrink California's approximately $20 billion deficit.

This time the governor wants to sell advertising space on state highway message boards.
The proposal is serious. If approved, existing message boards – the ones used to alert drivers to road hazards ahead or abducted children – would be upgraded with LED technology and converted to colorful commercial grade electronic billboards. The state would lease the billboards to outdoor advertising firms and collect the money upfront to help balance the state budget – as much as $2 billion over 20 years for 500 billboards.

END COMPULSORY EDUCATION

Though the only real hope for American education is privatization, public education isn't going anywhere over night. Jack Batson, a career teacher and former city councilman for Fairfield, CA -- about 20 minutes from the YAL@DHS Chapter -- wrote an excellent editorial for the Vacaville Reporter in light of a coming education reform bill from thegovernator's administration:

So we're going through another "education reform," because "our schools have failed." Well, here we go again.

Pardon the cynicism, but haven't we seen a goodly number of these crusades before? When I first went into teaching in 1971, we were in the midst of the first great convulsion of educational reform. You may remember the books that fueled that long-ago fire: "Why Johnny Can't Read" and "Teaching as a Subversive Activity."

Perhaps John Connor's Metal Friend needs a Tune up

ARNOLD

It’s okay for John Connor fight the evil Cyberdyne’s Skynet with more firepower than most delta force squads, but a regular Joe who is trying to protect his property from criminals must be fingerprinted. This is the new edict from California’s "Governator" Arnold Schwarzenegger. The star of such shoot'em ups as “The Terminator,” “Predator,” "Total Recall," and "True Lies,” now apparently does not trust his own constituents to purchase ammunition. Ammunition dealers in California must now fingerprint all purchasers of handgun ammo and keep a record of their sale for the next 5 years. To make sure you don’t try to skip over the database they have modeled this law after a gun law in which all purchases must be done in person, i.e. no online sales, so supposedly no one can fool the system. On top of this you must also provide photo ID to verify that these are your finger prints. They even were trying to make all dealers selling over 50 rounds a month to be registered with the state, but this provision was stripped in a “compromising” deal. The new law goes into effect in February 2011. This new bill raises many questions, besides the obvious question of "What are you thinking?" Some question I have are, what about current ammo stockpiles. Will they need to be registered? Will police conduct campaigns to search for them and force complience? All I know is that this typically does not end in more liberty nor safety for law abiding citizens.