You are really, really stupid if you think for a second that there is even one person in here that is jealous
that they don't live in that libtard shithole state.
[h=1]I live at the corner of Needles and Diarrhea[/h]
It’s hard enough to get clean when you have a home; imagine how difficult it is when you live in a tent. (Jessica Christian/S.F. Examiner)
By Broke-Ass Stuart on March 30, 2017 1:00 am
I live at the corner of Needles and Diarrhea. OK, those aren’t the real names of the streets in my SoMa/Mission neighborhood, but if our thoroughfares were christened after the things most prevalent on them, there’d be a Syringe Street, Poop Place and Smashed Window Way.
I’ve lived in the area for five years now, and while needles, feces and broken car windows have always been common, the past year or so has seen a major spike. Well, at least the needles and the broken windows. The poop is as constant as the Northern Star. That’s because we have an immensely concentrated amount of homeless encampments, and while the authorities shift them around every couple weeks, this does nothing to alleviate any of the actual issues.
Needles are so common that yesterday I saw a woman casually talking with a syringe tucked behind her ear, as if it was a cigarette or a pencil.
So why is there suddenly a spike in used needles littering our streets? There’s a few reasons. The first is that, for a number of years, we had a near epidemic of doctors overprescribing highly addictive opioids, like OxyContin. While the authorities have cracked down on people’s abilities to get their hands on these drugs, they didn’t take to treating these peoples’ addictions with the same gusto. Many of them turned to street drugs, like heroin, to get their fix.
Happening simultaneously, the legalization of marijuana in many states has taken a major bite out of the profits of drug cartels, so they’ve turned to flooding our streets with cheap heroin and meth instead. Think about that for a second: Simply legalizing weed had the ability to do what decades of the “War on Drugs” wasn’t able to do. Isn’t it time to start the process of at least decriminalizing hard drugs?
This perfect storm of suddenly having a bunch of opioid addicts without a supply, and market flooded with cheap heroin, has caused a smack epidemic on our streets. At the moment, heroin use is at a 20-year high, and junk-related deaths have grown five-fold since the year 2000. Those of you constantly yammering on about how “the market will regulate itself” should probably just go fuck yourselves.
The obvious question is: How do we fix this?
On a grand scale, we need to shift the national conversation to treating addiction and mental illness like diseases, not just poor decisions. But that’s not going to happen while Donny is in office. Luckily, there are things that can be done on a local level.
The first step is honestly tackling homelessness. It’s hard enough to get clean when you have a home; imagine how difficult it is when you live in a tent. I’d like to implore the billionaires who made their fortunes off this city, while seeing poor and middle-class people flounder, to use their wealth to end homelessness. Recently, Marc Benioff and some other billionaires became involved in a private-public partnership to end family homelessness in San Francisco. Let’s take it a step further and have them end it completely.
But while we’re holding our breath for that, we can start getting more services to the people in the encampments. They need 24-hour bathroom access, and at these bathrooms, they need needle receptacles. We can also attach needle receptacles to trashcans in the surrounding areas. On top of this, we should bulk up our Homeless Outreach Teams. This, and similar programs, should be given more money and resources to battle disease and malnourishment at the encampments, while providing more needle exchange opportunities as well as Narcan, the drug that reverses opioid overdoses. The HOT teams are already doing great work, but if we want to see any changes, we need to support them as much as possible. This could even include creating a mobile addiction treatment unit of sorts that visits the encampments.
We live in one of the finest cities in the world, not a Charles Dickens novel. Let’s start acting like it and get our houseless neighbors the help they need.
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Packing up and moving out: People are leaving California in droves, including some High Desert residents
By Rene Ray De La Cruz
Staff Writer
Posted Feb 3, 2018 at 7:00 AMUpdated Feb 5, 2018 at 2:40 PM
VICTORVILLE — Billy Joel’s classic tune “Movin’ Out” could be an appropriate theme song for the many individuals in the High Desert and California who have packed up and relocated to places like Oregon, Michigan, Arizona, Texas and Idaho.
The Golden State continues to rank No. 1 as the state that has waved goodbye to more residents, about 143,000 last year, than welcomed those who have moved here, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report.
And despite the state losing 3.5 million people to other states from 2010 to 2015, many demographic experts said there is no mass exodus from California.
But this story is not so much about the amount of Californians leaving, but about why so many longtime High Desert residents have moved out of the Victor Valley.
Mike and Velvet Ambuski from Hesperia are among those who have relocated because they wanted to live in an area with less crime, better jobs, friendlier people, improved services, less traffic and a more politically conservative atmosphere.
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February 17, 2018
The Ambuskis began their relocation road trip two weeks ago when they drove from California to Velvet’s home state of Michigan, a move Mike Ambuski calls, “One of the best things we’ve ever done.”
A former employee at Rancho Motor Company in Victorville, Ambuski, 40, began his new job Monday as parts manager at a Chevy dealership in Ithaca, just a few miles from the home of Velvet’s mother.
“California is just getting too expensive and the crime in the High Desert is getting worse by the day,” He said. “I think the last straw for us is when (Gov.) Jerry Brown came out with his new fuel taxes and car registration fees.”
A California native who is experiencing his first winter in Michigan, Ambuski said he’s amazed by the culture of Michigan, where “people are nice,” “no one looks at you weird when you wave to them” and everyone is quick to help their neighbor.
“The weather hasn’t been that bad,” he said Thursday, while the high temperature of the day hovered near 20 degrees. “As long as the wind doesn’t blow, we’re good.”
Realtor Karen Sanchez, whose parents recently moved to Texas because the political climate in California “infringed on their personal rights,” said there is a “steady flow” of people moving out and moving into the High Desert and California.
“Prop. 47 made a huge impact in our area and people are feeling uncomfortable and unsafe because crime is going up,” Sanchez said. “It’s unsettling to hear that someone was murdered last night, but in reality, this is still a very safe area compared to many places in California.”
Passed by California voters in Nov 2014, Prop.47 reduces certain drug possession felonies to misdemeanors. It also requires misdemeanor sentencing for petty theft, receiving stolen property and forging/writing bad checks when the amount involved is $950 or less.
San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said in 2017 that violent crime had risen over 20 percent in the High Desert since just a year earlier, the Daily Press reported.
With 33 murders last year in the High Desert, the area’s homicide rate jumped by 11 from the previous year, with Victorville seeing nearly half the homicides, with 15 reported. The city’s total equaled the combined number of homicides reported in the city in 2015 and 2016.
McKenzie and Christine Weisman of Victorville decided to move back to their home state of Oregon after living in the High Desert for years.
“I came back to be with my mother, who is not doing well, just about the same time McKenzie’s company had an opening for him here,” Christine Weisman said. “Kenzie is working at the new Winco that is located between both our parents. We also live in Beaverton, where we had our son, Luke, buried.”
Before leaving, Christine Weisman said the couple had multiple conversations about moving because of the “worsening crime” in the Victor Valley, adding that, “You can only tell your scared kids so many times that gunshots are fireworks. ”
“It seemed like the Sheriff’s helicopter was always flying over our house, with the bullhorn blaring some kind of announcement,” Weisman said. “I think the only things I miss are my friends and the sun.”
Weisman’s said she was “surprised and blessed” when she received a call from a fellow mother who asked her about the “760 area code” on a birthday party invitation her daughter had received.
“I called her back and found out her and her husband both attended Hesperia Christian School,” Weisman said. “We go to the same church with them, our kids go to the same school and we hang out all the time. Crazy how they knew exactly why we wanted to leave the High Desert.”
A retired Sheriff’s deputy, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Daily Press “the increase in crime” in the Victor Valley was one of the main reasons he and his wife moved out of the High Desert.
“My wife couldn’t even go shopping at Winco without being accosted,” he said. “Something has to change when you don’t feel safe in public.”
Another “major trend” are parents moving out of the High Desert to be with their adult children and grandchildren, said Sanchez, who listed several couples who have left their own empty nests.
After 47 years of living in Apple Valley, David Rinne, 55, said he decided to move to Salem, Oregon, the land of streams, pine trees, canyons, wildlife and 10-minute wait times at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Despite revealing that his heart will “always be in the High Desert,” Rinne said he’s heartbroken by the “growing news reports” of shootings, vandalism, theft and crime in the Victor Valley.
“It’s much safer here and people are more respectful and not so wound up,” Rinne said. “People give you a break in traffic, seeing a doctor doesn’t require a lot of waiting, the scenery is beautiful and car registration for any vehicle is set at $86 for two years. It really is a blessing to be here.”
A retired contractor who painted “thousands of homes and businesses” over the decades, Rinne said he hung up his sprayer and brushes when he became disabled. This allowed him and his wife, Mary, the “freedom” to move north when their son Dustin, 29, and his fiance, Brittany moved to Oregon and had their daughter, Kaidynce.
“Dustin is a certified welder and he moved to his fiance’s home state about three years ago because there weren’t any good paying jobs in the High Desert,” Rinne said. “There was nothing holding Mary and I back back so we decided to make the move too. My wife was also determined to be with the new grandbaby.”
Rinne is one of several former residents who said they saved money in their move by selling most of their belongings and purchasing a large storage trailer for under $3,000.
“We took what we needed, loaded our cars onto to the trailer and headed out,” Rinne said. “I think we saved about $1,000 even after we bought new furnishings.”
Rinne said his son, David Jr., 35, and his family are eyeing a move from the High Desert to Idaho for work in the aeronautics industry, adding that his son is “just plain tired of the High Desert.”
“I miss the rock climbing, the weather, our dirt bikes, the proximity to the mountains, the beach and down the hill, but the High Desert just isn’t what it used to be and I don’t believe it was designed to hold so many people,” David Rinne said. “I’m just glad Dustin, his fiance, our granddaughter and the Lord paved the way for all us to move out of California.”
Several people told Sanchez the passing of Prop. 64, the state’s acceptance of cannabis business and California’s liberal leanings are forcing people to pack up and “vote with their feet.
“I’ve had dozens of people tell me they’d leave if they could,” Sanchez said. “We still have people moving here, but the High Desert is experiencing a huge cultural shift.”
Next week, the Daily Press will examine the cultural and economic impact that occurs when longtime residents leave the High Desert.
By Rene Ray De La Cruz
Staff Writer
Posted Feb 3, 2018 at 7:00 AMUpdated Feb 5, 2018 at 2:40 PM
VICTORVILLE — Billy Joel’s classic tune “Movin’ Out” could be an appropriate theme song for the many individuals in the High Desert and California who have packed up and relocated to places like Oregon, Michigan, Arizona, Texas and Idaho.
The Golden State continues to rank No. 1 as the state that has waved goodbye to more residents, about 143,000 last year, than welcomed those who have moved here, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report.
And despite the state losing 3.5 million people to other states from 2010 to 2015, many demographic experts said there is no mass exodus from California.
But this story is not so much about the amount of Californians leaving, but about why so many longtime High Desert residents have moved out of the Victor Valley.
Mike and Velvet Ambuski from Hesperia are among those who have relocated because they wanted to live in an area with less crime, better jobs, friendlier people, improved services, less traffic and a more politically conservative atmosphere.
Related content
High Desert still growing: Some are leaving, but population up 15,000 in last 6 years
February 17, 2018
The Ambuskis began their relocation road trip two weeks ago when they drove from California to Velvet’s home state of Michigan, a move Mike Ambuski calls, “One of the best things we’ve ever done.”
A former employee at Rancho Motor Company in Victorville, Ambuski, 40, began his new job Monday as parts manager at a Chevy dealership in Ithaca, just a few miles from the home of Velvet’s mother.
“California is just getting too expensive and the crime in the High Desert is getting worse by the day,” He said. “I think the last straw for us is when (Gov.) Jerry Brown came out with his new fuel taxes and car registration fees.”
A California native who is experiencing his first winter in Michigan, Ambuski said he’s amazed by the culture of Michigan, where “people are nice,” “no one looks at you weird when you wave to them” and everyone is quick to help their neighbor.
“The weather hasn’t been that bad,” he said Thursday, while the high temperature of the day hovered near 20 degrees. “As long as the wind doesn’t blow, we’re good.”
Realtor Karen Sanchez, whose parents recently moved to Texas because the political climate in California “infringed on their personal rights,” said there is a “steady flow” of people moving out and moving into the High Desert and California.
“Prop. 47 made a huge impact in our area and people are feeling uncomfortable and unsafe because crime is going up,” Sanchez said. “It’s unsettling to hear that someone was murdered last night, but in reality, this is still a very safe area compared to many places in California.”
Passed by California voters in Nov 2014, Prop.47 reduces certain drug possession felonies to misdemeanors. It also requires misdemeanor sentencing for petty theft, receiving stolen property and forging/writing bad checks when the amount involved is $950 or less.
San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said in 2017 that violent crime had risen over 20 percent in the High Desert since just a year earlier, the Daily Press reported.
With 33 murders last year in the High Desert, the area’s homicide rate jumped by 11 from the previous year, with Victorville seeing nearly half the homicides, with 15 reported. The city’s total equaled the combined number of homicides reported in the city in 2015 and 2016.
McKenzie and Christine Weisman of Victorville decided to move back to their home state of Oregon after living in the High Desert for years.
“I came back to be with my mother, who is not doing well, just about the same time McKenzie’s company had an opening for him here,” Christine Weisman said. “Kenzie is working at the new Winco that is located between both our parents. We also live in Beaverton, where we had our son, Luke, buried.”
Before leaving, Christine Weisman said the couple had multiple conversations about moving because of the “worsening crime” in the Victor Valley, adding that, “You can only tell your scared kids so many times that gunshots are fireworks. ”
“It seemed like the Sheriff’s helicopter was always flying over our house, with the bullhorn blaring some kind of announcement,” Weisman said. “I think the only things I miss are my friends and the sun.”
Weisman’s said she was “surprised and blessed” when she received a call from a fellow mother who asked her about the “760 area code” on a birthday party invitation her daughter had received.
“I called her back and found out her and her husband both attended Hesperia Christian School,” Weisman said. “We go to the same church with them, our kids go to the same school and we hang out all the time. Crazy how they knew exactly why we wanted to leave the High Desert.”
A retired Sheriff’s deputy, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Daily Press “the increase in crime” in the Victor Valley was one of the main reasons he and his wife moved out of the High Desert.
“My wife couldn’t even go shopping at Winco without being accosted,” he said. “Something has to change when you don’t feel safe in public.”
Another “major trend” are parents moving out of the High Desert to be with their adult children and grandchildren, said Sanchez, who listed several couples who have left their own empty nests.
After 47 years of living in Apple Valley, David Rinne, 55, said he decided to move to Salem, Oregon, the land of streams, pine trees, canyons, wildlife and 10-minute wait times at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Despite revealing that his heart will “always be in the High Desert,” Rinne said he’s heartbroken by the “growing news reports” of shootings, vandalism, theft and crime in the Victor Valley.
“It’s much safer here and people are more respectful and not so wound up,” Rinne said. “People give you a break in traffic, seeing a doctor doesn’t require a lot of waiting, the scenery is beautiful and car registration for any vehicle is set at $86 for two years. It really is a blessing to be here.”
A retired contractor who painted “thousands of homes and businesses” over the decades, Rinne said he hung up his sprayer and brushes when he became disabled. This allowed him and his wife, Mary, the “freedom” to move north when their son Dustin, 29, and his fiance, Brittany moved to Oregon and had their daughter, Kaidynce.
“Dustin is a certified welder and he moved to his fiance’s home state about three years ago because there weren’t any good paying jobs in the High Desert,” Rinne said. “There was nothing holding Mary and I back back so we decided to make the move too. My wife was also determined to be with the new grandbaby.”
Rinne is one of several former residents who said they saved money in their move by selling most of their belongings and purchasing a large storage trailer for under $3,000.
“We took what we needed, loaded our cars onto to the trailer and headed out,” Rinne said. “I think we saved about $1,000 even after we bought new furnishings.”
Rinne said his son, David Jr., 35, and his family are eyeing a move from the High Desert to Idaho for work in the aeronautics industry, adding that his son is “just plain tired of the High Desert.”
“I miss the rock climbing, the weather, our dirt bikes, the proximity to the mountains, the beach and down the hill, but the High Desert just isn’t what it used to be and I don’t believe it was designed to hold so many people,” David Rinne said. “I’m just glad Dustin, his fiance, our granddaughter and the Lord paved the way for all us to move out of California.”
Several people told Sanchez the passing of Prop. 64, the state’s acceptance of cannabis business and California’s liberal leanings are forcing people to pack up and “vote with their feet.
“I’ve had dozens of people tell me they’d leave if they could,” Sanchez said. “We still have people moving here, but the High Desert is experiencing a huge cultural shift.”
Next week, the Daily Press will examine the cultural and economic impact that occurs when longtime residents leave the High Desert.
Nevada sees population boost as people leave California in droves
Tom George6:34 PM, Feb 28, 2018
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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) - With Clark County reaching a population of 2.25 million, more and more people have been moving to Nevada.
The largest group of new Nevadans are coming from California. Look at any DMV around Las Vegas, and you'll see many license plates of people moving from the Golden State.
One of those new Nevadans is Scott Feidman, a musician and comedian who left Los Angeles because it was too expensive. He's planning to drive for Uber and Lyft while he figures out his next move in Las Vegas.
"Hopefully looking to settle into something permanent and really establish myself," he says.
He says the high taxes and cost of living and taxes were his main reasons for leaving California.
And he's not alone. The Bay Area is also experiencing a mass exodus, with so many people leaving that they're running out of U-Haul trucks.
At latest check, the estimate for a rental truck from San Francisco to Las Vegas is around $2,000. But going the other direction, it's only about $120.
But the influx of Californians is also causing the housing market in Las Vegas to become more expensive. "One of the biggest problems we have right now is supply and so can we see more buyers exit California and come to Las Vegas, that's gonna make it even harder to buy a home in Southern Nevada," says Chris Bishop, the president of the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.
But Bishop says home builders are working fast to make up for that demand.
Here's a full list of cost comparisons between Las Vegas, the Bay Area, and Los Angeles:
Las Vegas:
Tom George6:34 PM, Feb 28, 2018
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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) - With Clark County reaching a population of 2.25 million, more and more people have been moving to Nevada.
The largest group of new Nevadans are coming from California. Look at any DMV around Las Vegas, and you'll see many license plates of people moving from the Golden State.
One of those new Nevadans is Scott Feidman, a musician and comedian who left Los Angeles because it was too expensive. He's planning to drive for Uber and Lyft while he figures out his next move in Las Vegas.
"Hopefully looking to settle into something permanent and really establish myself," he says.
He says the high taxes and cost of living and taxes were his main reasons for leaving California.
And he's not alone. The Bay Area is also experiencing a mass exodus, with so many people leaving that they're running out of U-Haul trucks.
At latest check, the estimate for a rental truck from San Francisco to Las Vegas is around $2,000. But going the other direction, it's only about $120.
But the influx of Californians is also causing the housing market in Las Vegas to become more expensive. "One of the biggest problems we have right now is supply and so can we see more buyers exit California and come to Las Vegas, that's gonna make it even harder to buy a home in Southern Nevada," says Chris Bishop, the president of the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.
But Bishop says home builders are working fast to make up for that demand.
Here's a full list of cost comparisons between Las Vegas, the Bay Area, and Los Angeles:
Las Vegas:
- Average Home: $249,000
- Average Rent: $1,297
- Lowest gas price: $2.49
- Average home: $923,000
- Average Rent: $3,404
- Lowest gas price: $3.03
- Average home: $636,000
- Average rent: $2,738
- Lowest gas price: $2.99
16 Reasons People Are Leaving California By the Millions
9:30AM EST 3/9/2017 MICHAEL SNYDER
The Golden Gate Bridge in California. (Public Domain)It has been said that "as California goes, so goes the nation." That is why it is such a shame what is happening to that once great state. At one time, California seemed to be the epicenter of the American Dream. Featuring some of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the entire world, the gorgeous weather and booming economy of the state inspired people from all over the world to move to the state. But now people are moving out of the state by the millions because life in California has literally become a nightmare for so many people.
I certainly don't have anything against the state personally. My brother and sister were both born there, and I spent a number of my childhood years in stunning northern California. When I was younger, I would sometimes dream of getting a place on the coast eventually, but for reasons I will discuss below I no longer think that would be advisable.
In fact, if I was living in California today I would be immediately looking for a way to move out of the state unless I specifically felt called to stay. The following are 16 reasons you shouldn't live in California.
1. The entire California coastline is part of the "Ring of Fire" seismic zone that roughly encircles the Pacific Ocean. The San Andreas Fault has been described as a "time bomb", and at some point, there will be a catastrophic earthquake that absolutely devastates the entire region. In fact, a study that was just released says that a "major earthquake" on the San Andreas Fault "is way overdue":
4. The state government in Sacramento seems to go a little bit more insane with each passing session. This time around, they are talking about going to a single-payer health care system for the entire state that would cost California taxpayers $400 billion a year.
6. A lot of money is being made in Silicon Valley these days (at least for now), but poverty is also exploding in the state. In desperation, homeless people are banding together to create large tent cities all over the state, and the L.A. City Council recently asked Governor Jerry Brown "to declare homelessness a statewide emergency."
7. Thanks to unchecked illegal immigration, crime is on the rise in many California cities. The drug war that has been raging for years in Mexico is increasingly spilling over the border, and many families have moved out of the state for this reason alone.
8. California is one of the most litigious states in the entire nation. According to the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, the "lawsuit climate" in California is ranked 47th out of all 50 states.
9. Every year wildfires and mudslides wreak havoc in the state. Erosion is particularly bad along the coast, and I have previously written about how some portions of the California coastline are literally falling into the ocean.
10. California has some of the most ridiculous housing prices in the entire country. Due to a lack of affordable housing, rents have soared to wild extremes in San Francisco, where one poor engineer was actually paying $1,400 a month to live in a closet.
11. All over the state, key infrastructure is literally falling to pieces. Governor Jerry Brown recently issued a list of key projects that needed to be done as soon as possible, and the total price tag for that list was 100 billion dollars. Of course that list didn't even include the Oroville Dam, and we all saw what happened there.
12. Radiation from the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster continues to cross the ocean and wash up along the California coastline. The impact of this crisis on the health of those living along the west coast could potentially be felt for generations.
13. Illegal drug use in the state is on the rise again, and emergency rooms are being flooded by heroin overdose victims.
14. On top of everything else, it is being reported that Russia is "quietly 'seeding' the U.S. shoreline with nuclear 'mole' missiles." The following comes from retired colonel and former Russian defense ministry spokesman Viktor Baranetz:
15. North Korea is a major nuclear threat as well. It is being reported that the North Koreans are developing an ICBM that could potentially reach the west coast of the United States...
After reading this article, perhaps you have a better understanding why so many people are getting out while they still can.
To me, one of the greatest concerns is the rise in seismic activity that we are seeing all over the world. In my latest book I express my belief that the United States will be greatly affected by this increase in seismic activity, and California is going to get hit harder than just about anywhere else.
Once again, I don't have anything against California or the people who live there. It is such a beautiful place, and it once held so much promise.
Unfortunately that promise has been shattered, and there is a mass exodus out of the state as families flee the horrific nightmare that California is in the process of becoming.
9:30AM EST 3/9/2017 MICHAEL SNYDER
I certainly don't have anything against the state personally. My brother and sister were both born there, and I spent a number of my childhood years in stunning northern California. When I was younger, I would sometimes dream of getting a place on the coast eventually, but for reasons I will discuss below I no longer think that would be advisable.
In fact, if I was living in California today I would be immediately looking for a way to move out of the state unless I specifically felt called to stay. The following are 16 reasons you shouldn't live in California.
1. The entire California coastline is part of the "Ring of Fire" seismic zone that roughly encircles the Pacific Ocean. The San Andreas Fault has been described as a "time bomb", and at some point, there will be a catastrophic earthquake that absolutely devastates the entire region. In fact, a study that was just released says that a "major earthquake" on the San Andreas Fault "is way overdue":
A recently published study reveals new evidence that a major earthquake is way overdue on a 100-mile stretch of the San Andreas Fault from the Antelope Valley to the Tejon Pass and beyond.
Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey released the results of the years-long study warning a major earthquake could strike soon.
2. Out of all 50 states, the state of California has been ranked as the worst state for business for 12 years in a row:Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey released the results of the years-long study warning a major earthquake could strike soon.
In what is sounding like a broken record, California once again ranked dead last in Chief Executive magazine's annual Best and Worst States for Business survey of CEOs—as it has all 12 years the survey has been conducted. Texas, meanwhile, earned the top spot for the 12th straight year.
Among the survey's subcategories, the 513 CEOs from across the nation ranked California 50th in taxation and regulation, 35th in workforce quality and 26th in living environment, which includes cost of living, the education system and state and local attitudes toward business. Notably, California placed worst among the nine states in the Western region in all three categories.
3. California has the highest state income tax rates in the entire nation. For many Americans, the difference between what you would have to pay if you lived in California and what you would have to pay if you lived in Texas could literally buy a car every single year.Among the survey's subcategories, the 513 CEOs from across the nation ranked California 50th in taxation and regulation, 35th in workforce quality and 26th in living environment, which includes cost of living, the education system and state and local attitudes toward business. Notably, California placed worst among the nine states in the Western region in all three categories.
4. The state government in Sacramento seems to go a little bit more insane with each passing session. This time around, they are talking about going to a single-payer health care system for the entire state that would cost California taxpayers $400 billion a year.
On Friday, State Senator Ricardo Lara introduced legislation that would transition California's health care into a single-payer system. (RELATED: Read what a retired colonel said about the real purpose of Obamacare). The system would be very similar to the health care system currently in place in Canada and would cost California taxpayers roughly $40 billion for the first year alone. Given the poor economic climate California has already created for itself, this will no doubt be just one more burden on the people of California, and one step closer towards total bankruptcy.
Micah Weinberg, the president of the Economic Institute at the Bay Area Council, raised concerns over the financial consequences of the proposed legislation. "Where are they going to come up with the $40 billion?" he asked. He went on to suggest that adopting a state level single-payer system is "just not feasible to do as a state."
5. The traffic in the major cities just keeps getting worse and worse. According to USA Today, Los Angeles now has the worst traffic in the entire world, and San Francisco is not far behind.Micah Weinberg, the president of the Economic Institute at the Bay Area Council, raised concerns over the financial consequences of the proposed legislation. "Where are they going to come up with the $40 billion?" he asked. He went on to suggest that adopting a state level single-payer system is "just not feasible to do as a state."
6. A lot of money is being made in Silicon Valley these days (at least for now), but poverty is also exploding in the state. In desperation, homeless people are banding together to create large tent cities all over the state, and the L.A. City Council recently asked Governor Jerry Brown "to declare homelessness a statewide emergency."
7. Thanks to unchecked illegal immigration, crime is on the rise in many California cities. The drug war that has been raging for years in Mexico is increasingly spilling over the border, and many families have moved out of the state for this reason alone.
8. California is one of the most litigious states in the entire nation. According to the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, the "lawsuit climate" in California is ranked 47th out of all 50 states.
9. Every year wildfires and mudslides wreak havoc in the state. Erosion is particularly bad along the coast, and I have previously written about how some portions of the California coastline are literally falling into the ocean.
10. California has some of the most ridiculous housing prices in the entire country. Due to a lack of affordable housing, rents have soared to wild extremes in San Francisco, where one poor engineer was actually paying $1,400 a month to live in a closet.
11. All over the state, key infrastructure is literally falling to pieces. Governor Jerry Brown recently issued a list of key projects that needed to be done as soon as possible, and the total price tag for that list was 100 billion dollars. Of course that list didn't even include the Oroville Dam, and we all saw what happened there.
12. Radiation from the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster continues to cross the ocean and wash up along the California coastline. The impact of this crisis on the health of those living along the west coast could potentially be felt for generations.
13. Illegal drug use in the state is on the rise again, and emergency rooms are being flooded by heroin overdose victims.
14. On top of everything else, it is being reported that Russia is "quietly 'seeding' the U.S. shoreline with nuclear 'mole' missiles." The following comes from retired colonel and former Russian defense ministry spokesman Viktor Baranetz:
What are these mysterious 'asymmetrical responses' that our politicians and generals speak about so often? Maybe it's a myth or a pretty turn of phrase? No! Our asymmetrical response is nuclear warheads that can modify their course and height so that no computer can calculate their trajectory. Or, for example, the Americans are deploying their tanks, airplanes and special forces battalions along the Russian border. And we are quietly "seeding" the U.S. shoreline with nuclear "mole" missiles (they dig themselves in and "sleep" until they are given the command)[...]
Oh, it seems I've said too much. I should hold my tongue.
Hopefully what Baranetz is claiming is not accurate, because if it is even partly true the implications are absolutely staggering.Oh, it seems I've said too much. I should hold my tongue.
15. North Korea is a major nuclear threat as well. It is being reported that the North Koreans are developing an ICBM that could potentially reach the west coast of the United States...
Defense officials have warned that North Korea is on the brink of producing an ICBM that could target the United States. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced in January during his New Year's address that Pyongyang had "entered the final stage of preparations to test-launch" an ICBM that could reach parts of the United States.
16. Someday, a very large earthquake will produce a major tsunami on the west coast. According to the Los Angeles Times, one study found that a magnitude 9.0 earthquake along the Cascadia fault could potentially produce a massive tsunami that would "wash away coastal towns":
If a 9.0 earthquake were to strike along California's sparsely populated north coast, it would have a catastrophic ripple effect.
A giant tsunami created by the quake would wash away coastal towns, destroy U.S. 101 and cause $70 billion in damage over a large swath of the Pacific coast. More than 100 bridges would be lost, power lines toppled and coastal towns isolated. Residents would have as few as 15 minutes notice to flee to higher ground, and as many as 10,000 would perish.
Scientists last year published this grim scenario for a massive rupture along the Cascadia fault system, which runs 700 miles off shore from Northern California to Vancouver Island.
Over the past decade, approximately five million people have moved away from California.A giant tsunami created by the quake would wash away coastal towns, destroy U.S. 101 and cause $70 billion in damage over a large swath of the Pacific coast. More than 100 bridges would be lost, power lines toppled and coastal towns isolated. Residents would have as few as 15 minutes notice to flee to higher ground, and as many as 10,000 would perish.
Scientists last year published this grim scenario for a massive rupture along the Cascadia fault system, which runs 700 miles off shore from Northern California to Vancouver Island.
After reading this article, perhaps you have a better understanding why so many people are getting out while they still can.
To me, one of the greatest concerns is the rise in seismic activity that we are seeing all over the world. In my latest book I express my belief that the United States will be greatly affected by this increase in seismic activity, and California is going to get hit harder than just about anywhere else.
Once again, I don't have anything against California or the people who live there. It is such a beautiful place, and it once held so much promise.
Unfortunately that promise has been shattered, and there is a mass exodus out of the state as families flee the horrific nightmare that California is in the process of becoming.
[h=1]California chaos -- Unchallenged liberalism leaves homelessness, drug abuse, garbage in its wake[/h]
By Tammy Bruce | The Washington Times
[h=4]Not so golden? California faces high-profile problems[/h] Golden State grapples with chronic homelessness, quality of life and opportunity issues.
Liberal policy failure is all around us and destroys lives every day. In California, the destruction of society and individual lives has become so overwhelming, the state’s liberal overseers now spend their time covering up where they can and normalizing the chaos as much as possible.
Since 2013, when now-liberal icon Eric Garcetti was elected mayor of Los Angeles, and the nation had just re-elected Barack Obama as president, Los Angeles’ homeless population skyrocketed 46 percent. During the Obama years, where unchallenged liberalism was pushed and accepted (wrongly) as the new normal, we saw the leftist economic menace rage through the entire nation, destroying businesses and the full-time jobs that went with them.
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In California, the destruction is particularly acute. As the social structure in major cities continues to break down, the state focuses on banning plastic straws, whether to release from prison a mass murderer from the Manson family, while cheering at becoming as sanctuary state.
Just this week, the Los Angeles Times issued an editorial titled, “Los Angeles homeless crisis is a national disgrace.” Actually, it’s not — it’s a California disgrace. The editorial exemplifies the refusal of liberals to not just admit their responsibility to social destruction, but an inability to even relate to reality.
The Times editorial board chided, in part, “Today, a greater and greater proportion of people living on the streets are there because of bad luck or a series of mistakes, or because the economy forgot them — they lost a job or were evicted or fled an abusive marriage just as the housing market was growing increasingly unforgiving.”
They refer to the “economy” as though it’s a mean thing with a life of its own, and simply “forgot” people. There’s no need to consider the actual people in charge of policy and the economy. That lost job, or domestic strife, a mean housing market are all pointed at, as though they were all dropped on earth by Martians.
The other factor is, of course, the social justice issue: “All the great social issues of American society play out in homelessness — inequality, racial injustice, poverty, violence, sexism. …” Never mentioned: idiotic and incompetent liberal leadership that destroys business and jobs; regulations, waste, fraud and abuse that leave human beings on the street because the theory of socialism is all that matters.
Fox News reported that 25 percent of the nation’s half million homeless live in California, the largest of any state. Why is California in such trouble? Todd Spitzer of the Orange County (California) Board of Supervisors “blames the problem on two issues: legislation signed by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown over the past several years that has eroded the penalties for drug use, possession and petty crimes to where police often don’t bother making arrests; and the change in a law so that treatment is no longer forced for drug abuse or mental health issues.”
For liberals, social chaos is their friend. They need it to prey on the emotions of others, while then using it as an argument for more government control of our lives.
As if living in those conditions is just another life choice, the ACLU tried to stop Mr. Spitzer’s effort to clean up a homeless camp of 700 people living along a riverbed next to Angels’ Stadium. He prevailed, but so dangerous was the environment, it took hazmat crews to clear out the encampment.
“Trash trucks and contractors in hazmat gear have descended on the camp and so far removed 250 tons of trash, 1,100 pounds of human waste and 5,000 hypodermic needles,” the report said.
The left has a history of working hard to hide their failure, malevolence and destruction of society. Years ago, this column brought to you the effort by San Francisco to move their homeless to an island. Now the story is about how the city spends $30 million trying to clean city streets of hypodermic needles and human feces.
“[An] Investigation reveals a dangerous mix of drug needles, garbage, and feces throughout downtown San Francisco,” reported NBC Bay Area. Their “Investigative Unit photographed nearly a dozen hypodermic needles scattered across one block, a group of preschool students happened to walk by on their way to an afternoon field trip to city hall. ‘We see poop, we see pee, we see needles, and we see trash,’ said teacher Adelita Orellana. ‘Sometimes they ask what is it, and that’s a conversation that’s a little difficult to have with a 2-year old, but we just let them know that those things are full of germs, that they are dangerous, and they should never be touched.”
Congratulations, Democrats!
As Democratic leadership tries to normalize their degradation of society, others have had to adapt. One person created the “Human Wasteland” map that, according to the Daily Caller, “charts all of the locations for human excrement ‘incidents’ reported to the San Francisco police during a given month. The interactive map shows precise locations of the incidents by marking them with poop emojis.”
Having used needles and human waste on your sidewalks isn’t just a disgusting inconvenience, it’s a deadly biological hazard and an indicator of the breakdown of civil society. So the next time a Democrat tells you they know best, laugh and let them know your family deserves better than poo maps, hazmat homeless camps, and little girls having to avoid drug needles on the sidewalk.
This column originally appeared in The Washington Times.
By Tammy Bruce | The Washington Times
[h=4]Not so golden? California faces high-profile problems[/h] Golden State grapples with chronic homelessness, quality of life and opportunity issues.
Liberal policy failure is all around us and destroys lives every day. In California, the destruction of society and individual lives has become so overwhelming, the state’s liberal overseers now spend their time covering up where they can and normalizing the chaos as much as possible.
Since 2013, when now-liberal icon Eric Garcetti was elected mayor of Los Angeles, and the nation had just re-elected Barack Obama as president, Los Angeles’ homeless population skyrocketed 46 percent. During the Obama years, where unchallenged liberalism was pushed and accepted (wrongly) as the new normal, we saw the leftist economic menace rage through the entire nation, destroying businesses and the full-time jobs that went with them.
A Message fromStansberry Research
[h=4]Guess Who's About To Go Bankrupt In America[/h]Man who predicted the collapse of GM, Fannie, and Freddie says the next big bankruptcy is going to catch everyone by surprise.
In California, the destruction is particularly acute. As the social structure in major cities continues to break down, the state focuses on banning plastic straws, whether to release from prison a mass murderer from the Manson family, while cheering at becoming as sanctuary state.
Just this week, the Los Angeles Times issued an editorial titled, “Los Angeles homeless crisis is a national disgrace.” Actually, it’s not — it’s a California disgrace. The editorial exemplifies the refusal of liberals to not just admit their responsibility to social destruction, but an inability to even relate to reality.
The Times editorial board chided, in part, “Today, a greater and greater proportion of people living on the streets are there because of bad luck or a series of mistakes, or because the economy forgot them — they lost a job or were evicted or fled an abusive marriage just as the housing market was growing increasingly unforgiving.”
They refer to the “economy” as though it’s a mean thing with a life of its own, and simply “forgot” people. There’s no need to consider the actual people in charge of policy and the economy. That lost job, or domestic strife, a mean housing market are all pointed at, as though they were all dropped on earth by Martians.
The other factor is, of course, the social justice issue: “All the great social issues of American society play out in homelessness — inequality, racial injustice, poverty, violence, sexism. …” Never mentioned: idiotic and incompetent liberal leadership that destroys business and jobs; regulations, waste, fraud and abuse that leave human beings on the street because the theory of socialism is all that matters.
Fox News reported that 25 percent of the nation’s half million homeless live in California, the largest of any state. Why is California in such trouble? Todd Spitzer of the Orange County (California) Board of Supervisors “blames the problem on two issues: legislation signed by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown over the past several years that has eroded the penalties for drug use, possession and petty crimes to where police often don’t bother making arrests; and the change in a law so that treatment is no longer forced for drug abuse or mental health issues.”
For liberals, social chaos is their friend. They need it to prey on the emotions of others, while then using it as an argument for more government control of our lives.
As if living in those conditions is just another life choice, the ACLU tried to stop Mr. Spitzer’s effort to clean up a homeless camp of 700 people living along a riverbed next to Angels’ Stadium. He prevailed, but so dangerous was the environment, it took hazmat crews to clear out the encampment.
“Trash trucks and contractors in hazmat gear have descended on the camp and so far removed 250 tons of trash, 1,100 pounds of human waste and 5,000 hypodermic needles,” the report said.
The left has a history of working hard to hide their failure, malevolence and destruction of society. Years ago, this column brought to you the effort by San Francisco to move their homeless to an island. Now the story is about how the city spends $30 million trying to clean city streets of hypodermic needles and human feces.
“[An] Investigation reveals a dangerous mix of drug needles, garbage, and feces throughout downtown San Francisco,” reported NBC Bay Area. Their “Investigative Unit photographed nearly a dozen hypodermic needles scattered across one block, a group of preschool students happened to walk by on their way to an afternoon field trip to city hall. ‘We see poop, we see pee, we see needles, and we see trash,’ said teacher Adelita Orellana. ‘Sometimes they ask what is it, and that’s a conversation that’s a little difficult to have with a 2-year old, but we just let them know that those things are full of germs, that they are dangerous, and they should never be touched.”
Congratulations, Democrats!
As Democratic leadership tries to normalize their degradation of society, others have had to adapt. One person created the “Human Wasteland” map that, according to the Daily Caller, “charts all of the locations for human excrement ‘incidents’ reported to the San Francisco police during a given month. The interactive map shows precise locations of the incidents by marking them with poop emojis.”
Having used needles and human waste on your sidewalks isn’t just a disgusting inconvenience, it’s a deadly biological hazard and an indicator of the breakdown of civil society. So the next time a Democrat tells you they know best, laugh and let them know your family deserves better than poo maps, hazmat homeless camps, and little girls having to avoid drug needles on the sidewalk.
This column originally appeared in The Washington Times.
Nevada sees population boost as people leave California in droves
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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) - With Clark County reaching a population of 2.25 million, more and more people have been moving to Nevada.
The largest group of new Nevadans are coming from California. Look at any DMV around Las Vegas, and you'll see many license plates of people moving from the Golden State.
One of those new Nevadans is Scott Feidman, a musician and comedian who left Los Angeles because it was too expensive. He's planning to drive for Uber and Lyft while he figures out his next move in Las Vegas.
"Hopefully looking to settle into something permanent and really establish myself," he says.
He says the high taxes and cost of living and taxes were his main reasons for leaving California.
And he's not alone. The Bay Area is also experiencing a mass exodus, with so many people leaving that they're running out of U-Haul trucks.
At latest check, the estimate for a rental truck from San Francisco to Las Vegas is around $2,000. But going the other direction, it's only about $120.
But the influx of Californians is also causing the housing market in Las Vegas to become more expensive. "One of the biggest problems we have right now is supply and so can we see more buyers exit California and come to Las Vegas, that's gonna make it even harder to buy a home in Southern Nevada," says Chris Bishop, the president of the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.
But Bishop says home builders are working fast to make up for that demand.
Here's a full list of cost comparisons between Las Vegas, the Bay Area, and Los Angeles:
Las Vegas:
San Francisco / Bay Area:
- Average Home: $249,000
- Average Rent: $1,297
- Lowest gas price: $2.49
Los Angeles:
- Average home: $923,000
- Average Rent: $3,404
- Lowest gas price: $3.03
- Average home: $636,000
- Average rent: $2,738
- Lowest gas price: $2.99
Ugh! and they're bringing their politics with them.
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California:
The state that actually has maps to help you avoid sidewalks splattered with human poop and urine.
If California represents the future I want no part of it.
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California:
The state that actually has maps to help you avoid sidewalks splattered with human poop and urine.
If California represents the future I want no part of it.
Human Wasteland Map Plots All of San Francisco's Poop - Thrillist
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San Francisco Is A Literal S***hole, Public Defecation Map Reveals - The Daily Caller
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(Human) Wasteland - MochiMachine
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It maps human waste reports made to 311 in San Francisco from DataSF. Here are some great articles you can read that address the problem of homelessness and lack of resources for the homeless in San Francisco:.
San Francisco Requires Poop Maps To Help Pedestrians Avoid Human Waste | Daily Wire
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Dec 29, 2016 · For those who have maintained that San Francisco is full of . . . whatever, there is now living proof. How much poop is there on the streets of the City by the Bay? Would you believe there is ...
This San Francisco Poop Map Proves the City Has a Major Problem - Hornet
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Oct 13, 2017 · Called “(Human) Wasteland,” the San Francisco poop map is a project that takes all the “human waste reports” made to 311 in the city and maps them in a few ways. It was reportedly ...
San Francisco poop map: real thing or a rumor? - The Mercury News
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Feb 28, 2018 · In November 2014, web developer Jennifer Wong won a hack week contest at her job with Human Wasteland, an interactive map that plotted locations of feces reported to San Francisco's ...
Human Wasteland - Wikipedia
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(Human) Wasteland is a map based visualization project created by Software Engineer Jennifer Wong. The map visualizes reports of human waste reported to 311 in San Francisco, CA.
A Map of San Francisco's Public Sidewalk Poop Problem - CityLab
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Oct 8, 2015 · San Francisco wasn't always this dirty. To show just how much human waste has accumulated there over time, self-titled “data explorer” William Mees made an even more comprehensive map of these ...
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San Francisco has just published an online map so that pedestrians and drivers can track human feces on the city's streets. There is so much of it that a map has been created for pedestrians and drivers ...
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Oct 5, 2015 · With all the outcry in recent months over the human waste on San Francisco's streets, you might wonder whether the problem has actually gotten stinkier over the past few years as certain ...
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The Deplorables.
Leave it to the commies to ruin the state with the richest natural resources & turn it into another Detroit wasteland. Will the lost sheep ever figure out the obvious pattern of failure
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Leave it to the commies to ruin the state with the richest natural resources & turn it into another Detroit wasteland. Will the lost sheep ever figure out the obvious pattern of failure
http://bit.ly/2HVqRsf@POTUS
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