Ms. Taitz seems to have lost yet another challenge to her claims regarding the citizenship of Pres. Obama. This time, she was filing suit on behalf of “two electoral college electors and three minor presidential candidates.” Judging from the article it must have been highly entertaining and I wish I could have been there to watch things unfold.
Rather than resurrecting last years immensely entertaining thread, I have started a new one. I hope this is not a violation of board rules and/or protocol.
I am so glad to have left Sacramento in my rear-view mirror. Rush Limbaugh, Richard(?) Reed, and idiots like this make it embarrassing to mention where I’m from. For a traditionally blue state, I sure was surrounded by the reddest and wretchedest of the red.
Why is that?
You know, I’ve heard her name before but never paid any attention to her. I just read her Wikipedia page. She is certifiable koo koo for Cocoa Puffs.
Most of the communities that make up the greater Sac area are red, red, red - much like “living behind the Orange curtain” in Southern California, as a SoCal friend put it. Not just conservative/right in political theory… well, put it this way; I sometimes amused myself in traffic by counting cars that didn’t have some variation of IMPEACH OBAMA bumper stickers. Ass-end extremism everwhere you looked, and in most social and business situations, if the talk turned to politics you either shut up or left because the overwhelming trope was bright-red right.
My slowly evolved understanding is that Sacramento is a distant suburb of Topeka.
Living for a couple of years now among people who can have reasonably rational political discussions - from both sides - has only confirmed just how crazy and tilted my former hometown is. So being a cradle of right-wing nuttery is no surprise.
So how do they feel about Sac town’s mayor? (I can probably guess.)
http://www.cityofsacramento.org/mayor/aboutTheMayor/
Sacramento split fairly evenly between Dems and Repubs in 2012. But that might reflect demographics: 34.5% white, 27% hispanic, 18% asian (2010 census). The white people are probably much more skewed to the right.
In this Sacramento Bee article, the graphic shows the metro area solidly blue. And of course Davis, right next door, is also blue. Plus they have really great bike paths.
Orly is not getting a lot of media attention these days. I think her five minutes of fame is over.
Sacramento suburb dweller checking in. Sacramento City is fairly blue. Sacramento County tends more red. The suburbs include rural farming areas and upper middle class commuter communities, while the city is urban. It’s really no different than most urban/rural divides. As blue as the state is, there are some deeply red areas in the sparsely populated northern areas.
Some areas are changing. My House Representative flipped from red to blue this election. I think it’s swapping a kneejerk Republican for someone I expect to be a kneejerk Democrat.
Another Sactown area resident checking in. While the city and county seem to be trending fairly blue, the hinterlands of El Dorado and Placer counties are hotbeds of red. A friend of mine who lives in Placerville calls a lot of his neighbors “inbreds” due to their political leaning.
And, as NitroPress states, when you are at a social event you kinda assess how safe it is to discuss politcs before stating your views, because people assume you are red.
My grandfather lived in Sacramento. He retired and did a lot of volunteer work for the local SPCA; used to run their used book sale. He was also incredibly racist, like a happy Archie Bunker. I don’t know what his politics were. But he used to live right next to the bike path that went along the American River. One year when we were visiting he borrowed a couple bikes from the neighbors and we rode the whole length of the path.
Yeah, we lived in the Citrus Heights-Roseville axis and I know it was far redder there than downtown Sacramento, which tends to be late-20s through early-40s singles and couples.
Davis is interesting. It wants to be Berkeley when it grows up, and the demographic is split between 20-somethings still in their UC Davis hoodies who just can’t bring themselves to leave, and successive generations of older UCD alums who didn’t and now live in $750k houses, trying to reconcile their bicycle days with the two Mercedes. So you have a wealthy elite trying to preserve the quaint little college town by suppressing everything that might interfere with their college-days memory of it.
Hands-down the funniest large-scale shen I know of happened there. One April Fool’s Day, a huge sign appeared on a large vacant tract. Utterly professional. Utterly convincing. It announced a new Wal*Mart to be built.
Nuclear does not begin to describe the citizenry’s response. This is a town that would run Nordstrom out of town.
[QUOTE=snowthx;15861820And, as NitroPress states, when you are at a social event you kinda assess how safe it is to discuss politcs before stating your views, because people assume you are red.[/QUOTE]
I know there were better circles, but for some reason we were always in those where anyone could shoot off, loudly and without warning or provocation, in red rhetoric, and gets nods and smiles; hint that you might have voted D-m-cr-t once in your life and the room would turn cold on you. Un-fuggin-believable.
I was in by-god Texas one day (really, just one day) and the bowlegged good ol boy we were there to see managed to (1) indicate he was as red as they come and (2) make a passing comment of approval of Obama. So I can say that my little corner of California was probably the reddest place I’ve ever been… and to return to topic, I am unsurprised that so many loudmouthed asshole redsters come from there.
G’riddance.
I think your statistical sample of Texas is a tad small.
It’s one greater than any professedly conservative type being able to say something neutral-nice about That Damned Kenyan I ran into living in Sacramento. If in statistical terms, I ran into one such on a 12-hour visit to Texas and none in many years in Sac…
Don’t get me wrong, though. I’ve been to Texas twice and have yet to see a sundown there. Flew in and out, same day, both times. By choice.
Well she’ll always have her dentistry and black belt to fall back on
Back to the OP.
Was Oily Taint allowed to present any arguments/evidence or did the judge decide a priori athat it was going to be thrown out and decided to humiliate her for a while?
From the look of the article, the case is not over. What she lost was a bid to get a restraining order to stop the counting of the electoral votes, so that the President would not be officially elected until the results of the case were final.
FYI, you’re using sample size and statistics the wrong way.
It doesn’t matter how many thousands or millions of samples you take in California if your sample size in Texas is too small.
Also, patterns of behavior near home and the types of social interactions you encounter will necessarily be different from those you observe on a trip. Statistically, you would want the situations to be as otherwise similar as possible for a meaningful comparison.
For a clarifying example, say I’ve only been in France for 2 hours on a flight layover and 30% of the people I saw there (say 90 out of 300 seen) were midgets. But I’ve only ever personally seen 5 midgets anywhere else in the world. Therefore, France must be peopled with more midgets per capita than anywhere else in the world…or maybe I should have taken a more meaningful sampling by living in France as a native for a period of months or years.
From the article linked in the OP:
*“Why do you keep filing these lawsuits when they keep getting rejected?” England asked at one point. Taitz responded by comparing herself to Thurgood Marshall and his persistence in filing suits to fight segregation.
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Humor alert, Bob.
One would not expect to find a reasonable conservative in the middle of Takes-us given the inability to find one in the middle of California.