Posted on 01/01/2011 8:01:31 AM PST by drpix
Californians will welcome 725 new laws on Jan. 1. Here's a glance at some of the laws taking effect when you ring in the new year:
■SB 782 prevents landlords from evicting tenants who are victims of domestic or sexual abuse or stalking.
■AB 715 makes a change to the California Green Building Standards code. The change will require new California buildings to be energy efficient.
■SB 1399 allows California to medically parole state prison inmates with physical incapacitating conditions and ultimately shifts some of the cost of care to the federal government.
■AB 97 bans the use of trans-fats in food facilities.
(Excerpt) Read more at lamesa.patch.com ...
"Let's also talk about creating a campaign around reducing not the crime but the fear of crime...Let's talk about that. If we, as a goal, decide that we want more people to just stop being afraid, because they're perhaps afraid of much more than they have reason to be afraid of, perhaps we can start to change the discussion about what we need to do about fear because we won't have so many people worried about the bogeyman."
“New laws are always ‘a good idea’ until the first time you have to enforce them.” - Unknown
More people and companies leaving by the hour.
It’s getting to be where the border will need to run from South Padre Island, Texas to Vancouver, British Columbia
“border wall” that is
Guess people and jobs ain’t fleeing the state fast enough for ‘em.
Here’s another speaker willing to ask for more Gov’t: (surprised anyone?)
“So is there a way for us to talk about not left versus right, not nanny state versus Robocop state, but getting the government on the side of the people who are tying to solve the problems, who need a partner to solve those problems well? Is that a rhetorical strategy that can then let us talk to ordinary people about the results that we want (safe, healthy communities, et cetera) and the strategies get there (public-private community partnerships) that doesn’t put on the side of frankly discredited ideas of government largesse, which actually never had?”
-Van Jones
Executive Director,
The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Post War Reconstruction Strategies
Personally,I think that two hundred years of making laws ought to mean they're about done,and should be going back getting rid of old laws that are stupid and anti-American.
That will incentivize investors to buy properties for rental.... not!
No kidding. We have so many laws that we don't know what to do with them all. If every legislative body in the country took a year off, no one would notice.
Is this crazy talk or what? Coming from an ex San Francisco DA, I’m not suprised. Her job in S-F was probably more about “Social Justice” than prosecuting actual criminal acts.
Excellent analogy. The sad part was that I was able to picture other women as I read it.
They continue to ‘Get something done’. Things will noy get better until we elect people to get a lot of somethings undone.
Everyone want to speak of “individual freedom” but a “free individual” is what scares the hell out of of them...then the laws come out!
Everyone want to speak of “individual freedom” but a “free individual” is what scares the hell out of of them...then the laws come out!
I predict an epidemic of physically incapacitated prisoners coming up.
I have an uncle serving life without parole in a CA prison. Considering all the schemes he's hatched to try to get out, I have no doubt whatsoever that he'll be working on becoming "incapacitated" ASAP so he can get out. That should scare anyone.
Apart from true crimes such as murder, robbery, et al, every law should have a 10-year shelf life. After that, it has to be revoted on or allowed to die a peaceful death.
All of the real estate on the market and no one wants to buy them up for rentals anymore because the law is stacked against the landlord. Now its really stacked against the landlord in California..I guess they haven't noticed all the businesses and people leaving the land of fruits and nuts..
Last one out, burn the place down!
Bloggers oughta learn how to spell or get outa the business.
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