You need to Californicate...
 

Soror 2D91

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Re: Re: Yaaaayyyyy!!!
 

In the Attack of the Machine's Voice:

"English is my primary language..."

"Hasta La Vista, Baby..."

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NOOOO I meant this one...
 

Wait... Here's one better...
 

President Arnold Schwarzenegger?
As Arnold Schwarzenegger launches his political career, it's worth recalling a scene from the film "Demolition Man," which takes place in the year 2026. As Sandra Bullock attempts to bring Sylvester Stallone up to speed on what has happened in the world in the last 30 years, she refers to the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.

Stallone: "Hold it! The Schwarzenegger Library?"

Bullock: "Yes, the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library. Wasn't he an actor?"

Stallone: "Stop! He was President?"

Bullock: "Yes. Even though he was not born in this country, his popularity at the time caused the 61st Amendment…"

I think we are safe from President Schwarzenegger. I seriously don't see a consititutional amendment allowing for foreign-born citizens becoming eligible for the presidency. Just to interject my politics, I don't think it should happen either. It's there for a reason and I think it's a good thing. Plus, amendments are too darn hard to pass. In over 200 years, we only have 27.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/945950.asp

It's GUBNOR Schwarzen...well, you know! ;) :p

I can't believe my home state let this happen. :rolleyes:

On another note, why did 12,291 people vote for Gary Coleman? :eek:

(Soror AKA2D'91 I'm feeling your signature)

That's a dayum shame.

Ok, why you got me choking on my water right about now?

CTFU @ Gary Coleman!!!

Oh geesh, it really must be THAT BAD if Gary Coleman was pulling in votes.:D :eek: :D

Assuming that Gary Coleman voted for himself, that's 12,290 too many votes for him!!! :eek:

It will be interesting to see whether the allegations in this article are true. I am not from Cali and have not followed what is going on there closely so I cannot speak on the veracity of anything in this piece. But I did think it was interesting,.

THIS JUST IN! ARNOLD RESPONDS TO PALAST CHARGES IN "Arnold Unplugged - It's Hasta la Vista to $9 Billion if the Governator is Selected"
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Monday, October 6, 2003
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While the California press is reluctant to challenge the Austrian dumbbell lifter on anything more significant than his palm print on some females' behinds, one reader of our report below confronted Schwarzenegger. Friday, at a staged event in front of the Von's supermarket in Bakersfield, Referring to the disclosure in my column (which would have been well known to the candidate by that time), she shouted, "He's in bed with Kenny Lay, you idiots! It's your money!" There was dead silence for a beat, then came the voice through the loudspeakers, "I suhtunly wasn't in bet wit YOU!"



(While Arnold's proud new boorishness was a hit with the yahoos, the Terminator was stopped dead by his interlocutor's comeback which is simply too brilliant, dead-on accurate, and salacious to repeat on a family website.) Here's what got the man upset:



CALIFORNIA LAY'D BY ARNOLD


According to a series of memoranda our office obtained today, Arnold Schwarzenegger's dalliance with boys in a hotel room just two years ago is every bit as scandalous as his manhandling of women during his career as celebrity he-man.



The wannabe governor has yet to deny that on May 17, 2001, at the Peninsula Hotel in Los Angeles, he had consensual political intercourse with Enron chieftain Kenneth Lay. Also frolicking with Arnold and Ken was convicted stock swindler Mike Milken.



Now, thirty-four pages of internal Enron memoranda have just come through this reporter's fax machine tell all about the tryst between Maria's husband and the corporate con men. It turns out that
Schwarzenegger knowingly joined the hush-hush encounter as part of a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make Enron and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion in illicit profits they carried off.



Here's the story Arnold doesn't want you to hear. The biggest single threat to Ken Lay and the electricity lords is a private lawsuit filed last year under California's unique Civil Code provision 17200, the "Unfair Business Practices Act." This litigation, heading to trial now in Los Angeles, would make the power companies return the $9 billion they filched from California electricity and gas customers.



It takes real cojones to bring such a suit. Who's the plaintiff taking on the bad guys? Cruz Bustamante, Lieutenant Governor and reluctant leading candidate against Schwarzenegger.



Now follow the action. One month after Cruz brings suit, Enron's Lay calls an emergency secret meeting in L.A. of his political buck-buddies, including Arnold. Their plan, to undercut Davis (according to Enron memos) and "solve" the energy crisis -- that is, make the Bustamante legal threat go away.



How can that be done? Follow the trail with me.



While Bustamante's kicking Enron butt in court, the Davis Administration is simultaneously demanding that George Bush's energy regulators order the $9 billion refund. Don't hold your breath: Bush's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is headed by a guy proposed by … Ken Lay.



But Bush's boys on the commission have a problem. The evidence against the electricity barons is rock solid: fraudulent reporting of sales transactions, megawatt "laundering," fake power delivery scheduling and straight out conspiracy (including meetings in hotel rooms).



So the Bush commissioners cook up a terrific scheme: charge the companies with conspiracy but offer them, behind closed doors, deals in which they have to pay only two cents on each dollar they filched.



Problem: the slap-on-the-wrist refunds won't sail if the Governor of California won't play along. Solution: Re-call the Governor.



New Problem: the guy most likely to replace Davis is not Mr. Musclehead, but Cruz Bustamante, even a bigger threat to the power companies than Davis. Solution: smear Cruz because -- heaven forbid! -- he took donations from Injuns (instead of Ken Lay).



The pay-off? Once Arnold is Governor, he blesses the sweetheart settlements with the power companies. When that happens, Bustamante's court cases are probably lost. There aren't many judges who will let a case go to trial to protect a state if that a governor has already allowed the matter to be "settled" by a regulatory agency.



So think about this. The state of California is in the hole by $8 billion for the coming year. That's chump change next to the $8 TRILLION in deficits and surplus losses planned and incurred by George Bush. Nevertheless, the $8 billion deficit is the hanging rope California's right wing is using to lynch Governor Davis.



Yet only Davis and Bustamante are taking direct action to get back the $9 billion that was vacuumed out of the state by Enron, Reliant, Dynegy, Williams Company and the other Texas bandits who squeezed the state by the bulbs.



But if Arnold is selected, it's 'hasta la vista' to the $9 billion. When the electricity emperors whistle, Arnold comes -- to the Peninsula Hotel or the Governor's mansion. The he-man turns pussycat and curls up in their lap.



I asked Mr. Muscle's PR people to comment on the new Enron memos -- and his strange silence on Bustamante's suit or Davis' petition. But Arnold was too busy shaving off his Hitlerian mustache to respond.



The Enron memos were discovered by the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, Los Angeles,
www.ConsumerWatchdog.org


Greg Palast is author of the New York Times bestseller, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" as well as "Regulation and Democracy" (with Theo MacGregor and Jerrold Oppenheim), the United Nations guide to utility deregulation. Read Palast's commentaries at www.GregPalast.com. Reprints permitted. Contact: media@gregpalast.com.

Believe it. But there's one silver lining -- dirtbag Wardell Connerly got stopped at the pass. Prop. 54 failed and I think that people learned lessons from Prop. 209 -- namely, that Connerly is a sneak and information is valuable.
:rolleyes:

Now as for Gov. Schwanneger (sic), we'll see. I honestly think that Maria Shriver, a Kennedy Democrat, did help her husband's popularity.

I'm gonna pray for my Beloved State. I am not there, but I feel your pain.

Hey, Arnold, may be good for CA. Who's to say, his wife's family may have a STRONG influence that might help the state of California.

Besides the "process" stories on his transition team, has anything emerged on Arnie's policy initiatives in the first 100 days? An AP story said the Dems (who control both legislative chambers) were not really trying to hear the "let's all be boys and get this done" line Arnie was throwing.

Given the state's situation, they'll probably sit back and let him make his proposals--which will probaby be assailed by half the people who just voted for him because I never heard him really talk policy during the campaign (as much as I cared to follow it from the midwest.)


...Arnie as gov. Next thing you know somebody will be telling me the Cubs got a shot at the World Series.