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no problems, the money can be found in the clouds, it's all just numbers, we're just borrowing from ourselves to pay ourselves, it never has to be repaid, you guys don't understand balance sheets..........

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[h=1]California adopts curriculum requiring all public schools to teach LGBTQ history[/h]


what history? Why? Need for job applications? History of a guy like Dafinch sucking meat?

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Yep, thought I recognized the street squatter taking a bathroom break outside the courthouse before being denied on a frivolous civil claim.
 
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[ The wonderful fruits of liberalism... ]

California woman claims homeless man dumped bucket of hot feces on her head



By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News



Left Behind: Homeless Crisis in Los Angeles

In the summer of 2019, Fox News embarked on an ambitious project to chronicle the toll progressive policies has had on the homeless crisis in four west coast cities: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. In each city, we saw a lack of safety, sanitation, and civility. Residents, the homeless and advocates say they've lost faith in their elected officials' ability to solve the issue. Most of the cities have thrown hundreds of millions of dollars at the problem only to watch it get worse. This is what we saw in Los Angeles.




A California woman claims she was assaulted by a homeless man who pulled her out of her car, dragged her into the middle of the street and poured a bucket of hot feces on her head.
Heidi Van Tassel said that the disgusting incident took place near the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Tassel said she was getting into her car when a man, who appeared to be homeless, attacked her.




"It was diarrhea. I was soaked, and it was coming off my eyelashes and into my eyes," Van Tassel said. "Paramedics who came to treat me said there was so much of it on me, that it looked like the man was saving it up for a month."
"It was diarrhea. I was soaked, and it was coming off my eyelashes and into my eyes."
— Heidi Van Tassel
She added that the feces got inside her car as well.
"He just kept pouring it and splattering it all over me," she told NBC4.
OAKLAND'S HOMELESS STATS SOAR AS PRESSURE GROWS FROM RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES FOR A SOLUTION
Van Tassel was rushed to Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital and tested for infectious diseases caused by contact with feces — something she will have to do every three months.
The man who attacked her was identified in court records as Jere Blessings, a transient with "schizophrenia and psychotic disorders."
Blessings was charged with battery and taken to jail.
Van Tassel, though, said Blessings would be better off under psychiatric care.
"He doesn't need jail time," she said. "He needs mental health care. I have empathy for him because he needs help."
Attacks where a homeless person is the primary suspect have been growing across the Los Angeles area. Data from the Los Angeles Police Department shows that the number of arrests of homeless people so far in 2019 is 6,677, up from 4,763 in 2017. The number of violent assault cases also went up to 2,496 in 2019 from 1,763 in 2017.

California accounts for most of the country's homeless population. Despite throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at the problem, the number of homeless in Los Angeles County has risen for the third time in four years. The most recent count released in July by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority shows that there are nearly 60,000 homeless people living without permanent shelter on any given night. In the city of Los Angeles, the number of homeless in 2019 jumped 16 percent to 36,000 while the number of chronically homeless – those who have been living on the streets for more than a year – rose 17 percent.
Following the attack, Van Tassel said she repeatedly called the Los Angeles Police Department for information on the case but that her calls went unanswered.

"It's so traumatic. The PTSD that I'm dealing with is beyond anything that I've ever felt," she said. "There needs to be some kind of help for the victims of these crimes."
Calls to the LAPD for comment by Fox News were not immediately returned.
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"It was diarrhoea. Hot liquid. I was soaked, and it was coming off my eyelashes and into my eyes," Van Tassel said.
"Paramedics who came to treat me said there was so much of it on me, that it looked like the man was saving it up for a month."
Van Tassel was rushed to Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital after the grotesque attack, where she was tested for infectious diseases caused by contact with feces.[FONT=&quot]'It was diarrhea. Hot liquid.'[/FONT]
She'll need to be retested every three months.
"It was all inside my car because it was so much. He just kept pouring it and splattering it all over me," she said.

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well done, CA...

San Francisco Loses Major Convention, Oracle's OpenWorld, to Las Vegas

Following several years in which San Francisco's convention bureau has been decrying the visible homelessness and drug use on downtown streets as major potential deterrents for organizers of lucrative professional conventions, the city is losing one of its longstanding mainstays, Oracle's OpenWorld.

The San Francisco Travel Association (SFTA) confirmed the news in an email to its members Tuesday, saying that Oracle had made the "difficult decision" to relocate next year's OpenWorld conference to Las Vegas based on attendee feedback about how expensive hotel rooms are here. Also, they cited "poor street conditions," as CNBC reports.

Instead, in 2020 and the following two years, OpenWorld will be centered at Caesars Forum in Vegas. The SFTA estimates that the impact of the move will be $64 million in lost revenue to the city.

The news follows on 2018's headlines about the departure of "a major medical association" based in Chicago that decided to move its convention out of San Francisco after 2023, costing the city an estimated $40 million in lost revenue from its 15,000 attendees.

SFTA president and CEO Joe D’Alessandro told the Chronicle at the time that this was "the first time that we have had an out-and-out cancellation over the [homeless] issue, and this is a group that has been coming here every three or four years since the 1980s."

D'Allesandro added, "There was a time when the biggest obstacle to having a convention here was that it can be expensive, but now we have this new factor."

OpenWorld typically brings 60,000 Oracle customers and partners to the city over five days in September, and it's been doing so every year since it launched in 1996. The conference also includes a concert with big-name performers, and this year it was at the Chase Center and featured John Mayer and Flo Rida.

This move marks a major milestone in that Oracle is a Bay Area-based company that for two decades has been bringing customers to its home turf for its convention.

Caesar's Forum, which does not open until next year, will boast a 550,000 square foot conference center and "the two largest ballrooms in the world," according to its website. Oracle said that Las Vegas's "vast amenities are tailor-made for hosting large-scale events, and we look forward to bringing the industry’s most comprehensive technology and developer conference to America’s premier hospitality destination."
 
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San Francisco Loses Major Convention, Oracle's OpenWorld, to Las Vegas

Following several years in which San Francisco's convention bureau has been decrying the visible homelessness and drug use on downtown streets as major potential deterrents for organizers of lucrative professional conventions, the city is losing one of its longstanding mainstays, Oracle's OpenWorld.

The San Francisco Travel Association (SFTA) confirmed the news in an email to its members Tuesday, saying that Oracle had made the "difficult decision" to relocate next year's OpenWorld conference to Las Vegas based on attendee feedback about how expensive hotel rooms are here. Also, they cited "poor street conditions," as CNBC reports.

Instead, in 2020 and the following two years, OpenWorld will be centered at Caesars Forum in Vegas. The SFTA estimates that the impact of the move will be $64 million in lost revenue to the city.

The news follows on 2018's headlines about the departure of "a major medical association" based in Chicago that decided to move its convention out of San Francisco after 2023, costing the city an estimated $40 million in lost revenue from its 15,000 attendees.

SFTA president and CEO Joe D’Alessandro told the Chronicle at the time that this was "the first time that we have had an out-and-out cancellation over the [homeless] issue, and this is a group that has been coming here every three or four years since the 1980s."

D'Allesandro added, "There was a time when the biggest obstacle to having a convention here was that it can be expensive, but now we have this new factor."

OpenWorld typically brings 60,000 Oracle customers and partners to the city over five days in September, and it's been doing so every year since it launched in 1996. The conference also includes a concert with big-name performers, and this year it was at the Chase Center and featured John Mayer and Flo Rida.

This move marks a major milestone in that Oracle is a Bay Area-based company that for two decades has been bringing customers to its home turf for its convention.

Caesar's Forum, which does not open until next year, will boast a 550,000 square foot conference center and "the two largest ballrooms in the world," according to its website. Oracle said that Las Vegas's "vast amenities are tailor-made for hosting large-scale events, and we look forward to bringing the industry’s most comprehensive technology and developer conference to America’s premier hospitality destination."

"Also, they cited "poor street conditions," as CNBC reports."

In other words, "We didn't want people to have to walk in human shit to get in the door"


 

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Bay Area exodus is accelerating as California adopts ‘harsh new policies’




662 businesses with 765 campuses have left California since January 2018 .... wow


can you imagine living in a state where the #2 (TWO) reason for leaving is too many homeless people? wtf!?!? I get #1, cost of housing/living, but #2 homelessness? what a place

Two years in a row, California is losing more residents than it is gaining. In 2018, 38,000 more people left the Golden State than entered, according to the U.S. census.
A recent Edelman Trust Barometer survey found 53% of residents and 63% of millennials were considering leaving because of the high cost of living. California used to be a middle-class paradise, with affordable education, a dynamic economy and known as a technological and medical leader. Home prices and salaries were in sync with each other.
It is the middle class and retirees that are leaving the state. California is becoming a state of the rich, the poor and the transient population. In San Francisco, the epicenter of high-tech startups is losing people. San Francisco is second only to New York, and ahead of Los Angeles and Chicago. Losing more than 28,000 people in the second quarter of 2019, California’s losses for 2019, will blow 2018’s losses away.

Even the wealthiest Californians are leaving. Many are newly minted millionaires thanks to public offerings of companies such as Lyft, Uber and Slack, because they aren’t excited about sharing their windfalls to state taxes, so they are looking elsewhere.

What are the key issues that are driving people away? The cost and availability of housing is the No. 1 reason, with 72% of survey respondents naming it as the biggest challenge.

Coming in at 62% is homelessness. The homeless crisis isn’t getting solved, and recent state laws have made it nearly impossible to do anything to help this group. The simple answer has been to build shelters for them.

So where is everyone going? Phoenix is the No. 1 spot on the list of metro areas. Las Vegas, Austin, and Dallas are next in line. Why there? They offer lower state income taxes.

There are nine states with no state income tax: Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming. Given our predilection for gentle weather, some of these states are less desirable than others.

Something has got to change. State legislators have passed laws that actually impede any progress to build additional affordable workforce housing; that put rent controls in place that discourage building rental units and that provide protection but no solutions for the homeless or the unending influx of noncitizens into the state.

I urge everyone to be prepared to stand up for your rights by voting and hold those representatives accountable.

Democrats hold a super majority in both houses, with 61 of 80 seats in the Assembly, and 29 of 40 in the Senate.

The Democrats have been the majority in both houses since 1970. That’s a long continuous time to be able to fix things in the state. Good intentioned words alone don’t make things right if the policies aren’t making things better.
 

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[FONT=&quot] John Dennis, a Republican who is running to challenge Pelosi, tweeted “Cleanup in Aisle 3! Thank you Nancy Pelosi,” as he shared a photo of the man from a different angle.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]He added: “I publicly warned in 2018 that if we let people violate our streets the homeless problem would get worse. The answer: Arrest, then offer a choice. Jail or rehab. Just got this photo. A homeless man defecating in our local Safeway.”[/FONT]
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Cleanup in Aisle 3! Thank you Nancy Pelosi.

I publicly warned in 2018 that if we let people violate our streets the homeless problem would get worse.

The answer: Arrest, then offer a choice. Jail or rehab.

Just got this photo. A homeless man defecating in our local Safeway.






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