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Semi-Quincentennial Open Thread, and Concert Saturday featuring Charles Ives!

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By Vern Nelson Verified
| Orange Juice Blog
I always liked, about the United States of America (MY country), that we celebrate our birthday on July 4. NOT the day we (and the French) defeated the British. NOT the day we finally worked out our Constitution, or chose our first President. But the day we DECLARED we were INDEPENDENT. And worked out all the details later. It was like we were the first nation that consisted of an act of WILL, or IMAGINATION.
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AB 1821: Blanca Pacheco’s Pro-Secrecy Bait & Switch.

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By Vern Nelson Verified
| Orange Juice Blog
Let’s see, what do we know about Asm. Blanca Pacheco’s anti-transparency bill AB 1821 that we didn’t know when we wrote about it on Wednesday? Well, a lot, actually. On Wednesday we chewed out the Assembly Democrats – apparently ALL of em across the spectrum – for passing this CPRA-kneecapping monstrosity. But as it turns out, the bill we’re looking at now (and on Wednesday) is NOT the same one Democrats passed in May. Here’s how it works, apparently, with Blanca Pacheco’s bills.
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AB 1821’s “Malicious Intent” – California Democrats aim to hamstring the Public Records Act.

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By Vern Nelson Verified
| Orange Juice Blog
“God DAMN, that bastard Trump and his flying monkeys just NEVER STOP pushing us down,” you‘d probably respond, if I told you your government is on the verge of making it WAY harder for you to get information from them, and making you pay through the nose for it, especially if that secretive government claims your “intent” in asking for that information is somehow “malicious.” Well, hold your horses: it’s not Trump at all this time, this is our friendly California Democrats that we just keep...
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