Horrible system…

Good link. The real interesting part was the last paragraph that mentions:

But any change might be short-lived. To secure the vote of Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria (Santa Barbara County), in February’s budget deal, the Legislature placed an open-primary measure on the June 2010 ballot. If passed, the top two vote-getters in state primaries – even members of the same party – would face each other in the general election.

WTF? How could it possibly be good to have two members of the same party run against each other?

This week, President Barack Obama claimed his version of health care reform was “a core ethical and moral obligation,” beseeching religious leaders to promote his government-run scheme. Questioning the patriotism of opponents, apparently, wasn’t gaining the type of traction advocates of “reform” had hoped.

“I know there’s been a lot of misinformation in this debate and there are some folks out there who are frankly bearing false witness,” Obama said, invoking the frightening specter of the Ten Commandments.

On Team Righteous we have those who meet their moral obligations; on the other squad we must have the minions of Beelzebub — by which, of course, we mean, profit-driven child- killing, mob-inciting insurance companies.

Why wasn’t this multi-denominational group of pastors, rabbis and religious leaders offended that a mere earthly servant was summoning the Good Lord in an effort to pass legislation? Certainly, one of the most grating habits of the Bush administration was how it framed policy positions in moral absolutes.

As CBS News recently reported, Obama has thrown around the name of God even more often than George W. Bush did. Then again, no group couches policy as a moral obligation more than the left. On nearly every question of legislation, there is a pious strawman tugging at the shirtsleeves of the wicked.

I wonder when Waxman will start holding hearings? I won’t hold my breath.

We pick up 25+ seats and it could get much much worse for them

The magic question is how much damage does Comrade Bullshit do before he becomes a lame unicorn…???

Hawaii has widely varied climates. On the east sides of most of the islands, the rains pour down and the climate is jungle/tropics.

On the other side of these mountains, its desert like, Arizona. Much more property available and less dense. They go from 400 inches per year on the wet side to 40/year on the dry.

We honeymooned on the dry side, in Makena on Maui. Lots of ash and dry clay soil, and hot in September. Even the red/gold beaches have a dry feel to them. Over on the other side of the island, it was like rain forest, with white or black beaches and more like FL., with humidity and cool breezes.

wow…so all the denials by the White House that they had ANYTHING to do with these was a lie??? I’m shocked, SHOCKED!

Hove stands for Hawaii Ocean View Estates. It is the LARGEST sub-division in the United States, is built on (essentially) pure lava…and has NO WATER! We drove thru there while we were on the big island and were fascinated. Every single house has a cistern connected to elaborate gutter systems on their house. They try to capture every drop of water.

Strange existence. There are hundreds of miles of roads in this huge sub-division…and they all live this way!

Enjoy!