Strange Surge In California Points To More GOP Voter Fraud. It turns out that thousands of Democrats have been re-registered as Republicans without their permission.

Statewide, Republican voter registration in California is in decline. Thirty percent of voters are now listed as Republican as opposed to 32% in 2008. It was awfully suspicious, then, when GOP registrations in Riverside County jumped by 35,000 this year, seemingly giving them an advantage of 51,000 voters over Democrats. It turns out that thousands of Democrats have been re-registered as Republicans without their permission.

A Republican voter outreach program named ‘The Golden [...]

Officer causes a woman’s right eye to explode by shooting a high-speed pepper spray from 12 inches away. Officer has been placed on administrative leave.

KTLA News11:58 a.m. PDT, April 27, 2012

BEAUMONT, Calif. (KTLA) — A Beaumont police officer accused of permanently blinding a woman with pepper spray pleaded not guilty on Thursday to four felony charges.

A Riverside County grand jury last week indicted officer Enoch Clark on charges of assault with great bodily injury and other felonies.

On February 21, Clark sprayed pepper spray in the face of Monique Christina Hernandez, 32, while he tried to [...]

Quote of the day from Brazil Finance Minister

  Brazil vows to protect manufacturing

“Brazil’s finance minister has vowed to hold down the value of the real and enact new measures to protect domestic industries, in an attempt to revive the country’s slumping economic growth.
“We don’t want to lose our manufacturing sector,” Guido Mantega told the Financial Times in an interview. “Brazil is not merely an exporter of commodities.“We are not going to just sit by and watch while [...]

California local government is chasing a 16 year old boy for his parents’ old welfare debts

Sign On San Diego
December 4, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO — In 2008, when Jamie Hartley was 16 years old, her family was overpaid a total of $766 in welfare benefits.

But now Riverside County is demanding that Hartley repay the debt and it intends to “intercept” her next state income tax refund to get the money.

California welfare regulations for years have allowed, and even required, counties to go after minors for the debts of [...]

Strange lights in the sky reported in California, Nevada, and Arizona. Witnesses report seeing an orange light in the sky turning into a green ball with a tail.

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Residents in and around the Southland reported seeing a series of strange lights up in the sky Wednesday night.

Viewers described shooting lights with many colors and even a tail.

The first reports came from Riverside County around 7 p.m. Wednesday. Within a half hour, several Orange County residents also reported seeing the lights. After about an hour, reports were coming from all over the [...]

THIEVES STEAL MORE THAN 60 FIRE HYDRANTS, MANHOLE COVERS

RIVERSIDE — Water agency officials hope that rewards offered Friday will flush out whoever stole more than 60 fire hydrants, manhole covers and other pieces of utility equipment throughout Riverside County.

The Eastern and Western municipal water districts are each offering $500 for tips that lead to the arrest and conviction of the thieves, whose actions are not only costing the [...]

SoCal Looks to Secede from California

RIVERSIDE (CBS) — Is the state of California about to go “South”?

Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone apparently thinks so, after proposing that the county lead a campaign for as many as 13 Southern California counties to secede from the state.

Stone said in a statement late Thursday that Riverside, Imperial, San Diego, Orange, San Bernardino, Kings, Kern, Fresno, Tulare, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa and Mono counties should form [...]

Feds to use helicopters to exterminate wild pigs in CA county

When it comes to controlling the spread of feral pigs in San Diego County, the public hunting effort isn’t doing the job.

That has led federal agencies to launch an ambitious program that will use cage traps, corral traps, federal hunters with guns and dogs and even shooting from helicopters to exterminate the area’s population of wild swine. Officials see the pigs as a threat to fragile ecosystems [...]

Pre crisis to now: how the crisis has impacted my life

by Subprime JD

I’m 28 years as of this post. Growing up I had the luxury of having a good business man as a father who made good money. In 1991 he was making nearly 40k per month from one restaurant alone. Fast forward to 2011, and three restaurants will be lucky to earn 15k a pop. Growing up money worries were NEVER EVER an issue. We [...]

Sign of the times:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/777796–armed-robber-nets-6-from-11-people

“THERMAL-They say crime doesn’t pay. For one robber in California, it did — but not much.

Authorities in Riverside County say a woman with a gun robbed 11 customers at a market and got away with $6.”