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A fresh start (Schwarzenegger brings new approach, hope)
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| November 17, 2003
Posted on 11/17/2003 12:31:58 PM PST by South40
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To: onyx
Granted he's not Ronald Reagan but you ain't see nuthin' yet!
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posted on
11/17/2003 2:27:23 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Thought so myself :-)
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posted on
11/17/2003 2:30:15 PM PST
by
Tamzee
(EARTH FIRST!!! We'll stripmine the other planets later...)
To: goldstategop
I share your sentiments. I know he's going to be successful. It's a historic day for CA, and I'm loving every minute of it.
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posted on
11/17/2003 2:31:14 PM PST
by
onyx
To: LaraCroft
Who is paying for this extravagance when the state is broke? Probably Ahnold himself.
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posted on
11/17/2003 2:33:19 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: RightWhale
The Inaugural was paid for with private funds. No taxpayer dollars where used in today's festivities.
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posted on
11/17/2003 2:36:21 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Who dat?
How much did you pay last year?I paid $179 last year for the Jeep and $459 this year.
Last year I paid $103 for my 1969 Ford truck. This year it was $108. Obviously, the state reamed me on the Jeep. The $5 increase on the truck I can't figure out.
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posted on
11/17/2003 2:46:50 PM PST
by
South40
(My vote helped defeat cruz bustamante; did yours?)
To: Who dat?
Also...
Last year I paid $153 for my Chrysler 300M. This year they want $323. That's not near triple so it makes no sense to me. Sounds somewhat arbitrary, don't you think?
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posted on
11/17/2003 2:50:58 PM PST
by
South40
(My vote helped defeat cruz bustamante; did yours?)
To: South40
Great pic! I wonder if his kids (the young ones) have a grasp on exactly what's happened and what it means to their family
Yeah, they do. It means they have to move to a smaller mansion.
To: ClintonBeGone
Yeah, they do. It means they have to move to a smaller mansion. Shirly you jest.
May I call you Shirley?
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posted on
11/17/2003 3:02:05 PM PST
by
South40
(My vote helped defeat cruz bustamante; did yours?)
To: South40
May I call you Shirley?
Shirley Knott :)
To: South40
Sounds somewhat arbitrary, don't you think? It does, sort of. Id bet theyre charging by symbol somehow.
Insurance companies used to do that for physical auto coverages. They began running into problems with SUVs due to the gazillion trim-levels that are within the same vehicle model.
Take the Ford Explorer for instance. You could have the low-end two wheel-drive Explorer or you could have the top-end Eddie Bauer 4WD V8 Explorer. At one time theyd both be assigned the same symbol because they were both Explorers. The low-end owners essentially paid the same comp/collision rates as people with vehicles that literally cost 2+ times more.
They (insurance companies) ended up going to a split symbol/trim-level system to correct it in about 1999.
I dont know that it is the case with a Jeep Wrangler
its the only thing I can think of off-hand that makes any sense.
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posted on
11/17/2003 3:10:52 PM PST
by
Who dat?
To: Who dat?
The car tax is determined as two percent of the last purchase price of the automobile times an 11-year depreciation schedule. It is important to note that every time the car changes ownership, the depreciation schedule starts over, based on the price paid for the car.
To: ClintonBeGone
The car tax is determined as two percent of the last purchase price of the automobile times an 11-year depreciation schedule. It is important to note that every time the car changes ownership, the depreciation schedule starts over, based on the price paid for the car. I wonder how they deal with a scenario in which I give you money to buy me a car then you sell it to me for $200. Well, its probably a stretch in that case, but I can easily see some old lady buying a Lincoln and selling it to her son for a token amount. Id bet money they have something in place to deal that sort of thing. Theyre not going to sit around while youre paying $4 to register a current model year Lincoln. Or maybe they didnt consider it.
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posted on
11/17/2003 3:32:42 PM PST
by
Who dat?
To: onyx
Hey onyx...I was walking the perimeter of the Capitol this morning before the inaugural and was picked out by KCRA-3 TV for a spot interview. I said all the usual things: "This is a great day for California, a historical day...A day of hope...Look, the sun is breaking out just as the inaugural is starting!...The new Governor deserves our support...Democrats should work with him to get the state moving again..."
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posted on
11/17/2003 3:38:13 PM PST
by
My2Cents
("Well....there you go again...")
To: My2Cents
WOW! KCRA-3 TV knows a smart good-looking fella when they spot one!
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posted on
11/17/2003 4:41:45 PM PST
by
onyx
To: BibChr; My2Cents
Watch for My2Cents on your local news. Ping any other 'locals.'
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posted on
11/17/2003 4:42:51 PM PST
by
onyx
To: Who dat?
I wonder how they deal with a scenario in which I give you money to buy me a car then you sell it to me for $200.
Probably the same way they would deal with that scenario when they levy the sales tax. What that is I dont know, but surely we're not the first two people who have had this discussion.
To: BibChr; EggsAckley; South40; Lazamataz
Ok, so lunch is on Laz, I can hang with that, even if I wasn't invited.
Dudes, it's the symbolism. It's not enough that it isn't as over the top as past ones have been,... that's just same old same old "I'm bad, but I'm not as bad as "insert lame politician here".
Arnold should be a big boy and stop letting the establishment lead him around by his steroitically unenhanced manhood and make some changes in Sacramento.
Thats why I voted for him. Not to have him lead a gray light life where I should be grateful because he is only squandering 375 thousand dollars instead of 1.5 million on a bunch of losers that got us into this mess in the first place, hanger ons that are politically meaningless and the rest who could have financed the whole thing from pocket change but still allowed themselves to be feted in fine style.
I know chamber of commerce paid for one...don't you even care who paid for the rest?
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posted on
11/17/2003 8:32:14 PM PST
by
LaraCroft
(Grrr baby, very very grrrr)
To: South40
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