california incidents

Basketball title to be stripped from mostly white school after crowd threw tortillas at their mostly hispanic opponents. https://abc7.com/tortillas-taunting-coronado-high-school/10848842/ Person who brought the packs of tortillas to the game insists it wasn't motivated by racism.

Just in time for Juneteenth, another officer involved killing in Southern California. This one might not count because the victim doesn't appear to be African American, although he is a POC. Also, no word on the color of the officer's skin. Developing story. Stay tuned.

Still active https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/breaking-gilroy-garlic-festival-shooting-18793746.amp

Soo, 6.4 earthquake yesterday, 7.1 today. Tomorrow will definitely be 7.8. I mean that's just science.* Hope everyone is okay. Fortunately people in the area have some experience with these things. *This is in no way science.

We had another one of these incidents last year. More Than 1,000 Guns Found in Bel-Air, California Home During Investigation Into Selling, Manufacturing of Weapons https://ktla.com/2019/05/08/hundreds-of-guns-found-after-search-warrant-served-in-bel-air-area-home-lapd

And no end in sight to the damage in what is being called The Wine Country fires. Here in Sacramento, a good 200 miles from the Sonoma area, the skies are clouded over with Smoke. Also some fires in Socal:they had to close Disneyland for a while yesterday....

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/12/oroville-dam-live-update-spillway-is-in-danger-of-failing/ 188,000 people evacuate downstream of the dam on Sunday. There is damage to the main spillway and so water is over flowing the emergency spillway for the first time in the dams history. The worry is...

Bakersfield police shoot pensioner carrying crucifix. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38309192 "California police shot dead a 73-year-old dementia sufferer after reports he might have a gun, only to find he was carrying a crucifix. Bakersfield officials said officers opened fire at...

Body camera footage hasn't been released yet, and it is difficult to determine exactly what is happening, but it doesn't look good. Link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27556097 "A series of drive-by shootings in the Californian city of Santa Barbara has left seven people dead, US police say. The shootings took place near a student campus belonging to the University of California-Santa Barbara. The suspected gunman...

Leland Yee arrested, indicted on a number of charges including arms trafficking. Funny thing, that: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/sb-249-ca-sen-leland-yee-gun-control-bill_n_1752190.html "It is currently illegal in California for manufacturers to sell certain guns with detachable...

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=9130989

Those with unusually long memories will perhaps recall a pepper-spraying incident at the University of California, Davis last year (2011). They Reynoso and Kroll reports, compiled at a cost of around half a million dollars, have finally been released (they were delayed by a suit from the Police...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/02/us/california-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Rebecca Zahau died at the home of her boyfriend, a wealthy businessman, under unusual circumstances. She was found nude, with her hands and feet bound, hanging from a courtyard balcony with a rope around her neck. At the time of Zahau's death, her boyfriend's 6-year-old son was in a coma that...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/25/us/california-racial-bake-sale/index.html You just can't make those people happy.

Local skeptic/atheist group, Backyard Skeptics, are planning on ripping pages out of a Bible in my hometown. http://www.ocregister.com/news/bible-317251-gleason-say.html Personally, I'm opposed. Seems to fall into the "being a dick" category.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39982008/ns/politics-decision_2010/ This happens every once in a while, but I'd hate to be the guy who loses to a dead person.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/california-shooter-glenn-beck-schoolteacher/ Says blah blah blah Beck's tipping him off with TV clues blah blah blah Beck's like a schoolteacher for conspiracies hurl gag choke. However, this guy is a nutjob. Beck obviously isn't doing this, and wouldn't be...

ABC, CBS, CNN cable, MSNBC, USA Today, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, AP, Bloomberg, , and NPR all reported the arrests of these city council members, yet their party affiliation was conspicuously absent. The Orange County Register did print the party affiliation of the corrupt...

San Francisco Chronicle, 7/19/10 A 45-year-old parolee, described by his mother as angry at left-wing politicians, opened fire on California Highway Patrol officers on an Oakland freeway early Sunday and was hit by return fire while wearing body armor, authorities said. The incident started...

Happening now in Montecito, ritzy area near Santa Barbara (which is itself rather ritzy). Several dozen homes already destroyed. It's those winds, those hot and fast Santa Ana winds from the North / Northeast. Currently about 50 miles per hour, higher gusts. No word yet if there are...

Wonder if she saw *this* coming... http://www.nbc11.com/news/14694886/detail.html

http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-06-13jl.html Heh, I thought segregation ended in the 60's.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061110/us_nm/life_pledge_dc It's telling that she equates reciting a loyalty oath like a drone to "America". One of the most values traditions? This girl has a perverted idea of American history if she regards the pledge a "valued tradition".

Clown Is Running for Mayor of Alameda Oct 3, 4:07 PM (ET) ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) - A real clown is running for mayor of Alameda, and even his sister won't vote for him. Kenneth Kahn, 41, a professional joker known as "Kenny the Clown," admits he's running a long-shot campaign for City Hall's top...

http://www.pressbox.co.uk/detailed/Government/Tax-exempt_Money_Purchased_Street_Drugs_from_Drug_Dealer_36626.html In a shocking video-taped confession by Scientology staff member Mike McClaughry, law enforcement officials have learned that the Church of Scientology purchased street drugs from a...

Here in L.A. Wasn't too big in my neighborhood, but did shake me to my feet. I peeked outside to see if the dog felt it with his super dog senses. Alas, he remain sunbathing in the grass without a care. :D

I was listening to radio and I heard this professor (Dr. Thomas M. Bonnicksen) interviewed about the current forest fires. He is a professor of forestry and he was talking about how because of the current environmental laws we have too many trees. If I remembered correctly, he said in this...

From Wired.com How typical! :mad: The lawmakers worry about their privacy, but not the public's.