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This is a time lapse video of the Station Fire located in the mountains that surround Los Angeles.
In the night shot it looks like almost the whole mountain rage is on fire. 2 brave firemen lost their lives in this fire. If it was started due to arson I hope the assholes get caught and have their balls placed in a vice.
They still haven’t caught the guy that started the Waterman Canyon fire from a couple of years ago. Sadly at this point they probably won’t either, but I still hold out hope.

Time Lapse Test: Station Fire from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

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Yep, I’m pretty sure I’ve dated this girl too. You know the kind, the one that doesn’t listen to anything and everything is about her. Crazy girlfriends are only good girlfriends for one night as long as they don’t know how to ever reach you again. She thinks she’s so hot you’ll never do any better, but her delirium makes a bullet to the head seem like a good idea. By the way, that’s not a good idea either but you get my point.

Do not introduce them to your friends, do not give them your Twitter, FaceBook or email address. If you’re on MySpace you deserve a stupid girlfriend like this because you haven’t experienced life yet.

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Giant surf at the Wedge (Newport Beach, CA), shot during an epic south swell on July 24 & 25, 2009. Waves sized in excess of 25 feet, created dangerous conditions at this world renowned bodysurfing break. A small number of bodysurfers, bodyboarders and surfers rode the Wedge during the swell. Tragically, one bodysurfer died in the massive surf, despite heroic efforts by Wedge Crew, Point Panics (HI) bodysurfers and Newport Beach lifeguards, to save him. Video: Seabear. Coming soon… the Wedge Documentary

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Live updates from Tehran concerning the Iran Election. These videos really show what it’s like at ground level in Tehran and other parts of Iran.

Both video players below start autoplay so you’ll get audio from both. Turn the audio off which one you don’t want to listen to. Unless you speak Farsi you’ll probably want to watch a the top video player. If you do speak Farsi (I do not) then you can likely watch either video player.

Live video from Tehran when available. Otherwise you’ll see streaming raw footage previously recorded. Tehran is about 11.5 hours ahead of California time. So typically if it daylight in the U.S. it’s night time there.

If you see static give the video a second to load, it’ll be there soon. If you have a blog please link back to this post.

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This chick is the Online Beat Box Champion (whatever that means) and she doesn’t even look bad. Aren’t most beat boxers some greasy headed pimply white kid from suburbia or a ghetto hip hopper form the inner city. Call me naive but that’s all I’ve ever seen. This beat boxing babe doesn’t fit my stereo typical role of a beat box champion. But then again I’m just a cracker from Huntington Beach, CA anyway.

Seriously how do people do this? Not why do they do it? But how? Beatboxing? I’m good at things with my mouth but this is not one of them. If I could beat box anywhere close this (really all I can do is make farting sounds) I’d irritate everyone around me because I’d never stop.

Give props to this babe of the day and what she can do with her mouth. This is INSANE!

Ok so I figured out after I made this post I spelled Beatbox wrong So let me get this right here. She is the Online Beatbox Champion, I wish I could beatbox and aren’t most beatboxers greasy haired white kids and more beatbox yada yada.

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really wanted to stop posting political threads that deal with California politics or Global Warming but Arnold Schwarzenegger won’t let me. Why won’t he let me you ask? Because he continues to lie and use scare tactics in order to trump up votes for Proposition 1a (as well as 1b, 1c, 1d, 1f). Proposition 1a and all the other Propositions are nothing more that new taxes or an extension on his record tax increase he just pushed through with the new budget.

He’s proposed saving desk jockeys and janitors while laying off teachers, firemen and policemen. In other words save those of lesser consequence to the states operation and threaten the public with the loss of those that mean the most. Why save the janitors? Why not institute a rotating bathroom cleaning schedule? If the state workers really want to keep their jobs they’ll clean the bathrooms and take their own trash out. We have to that where I work, why can’t they?

I mentioned the teachers above but really I have no sympathy for them either. They are pushing for a passage of 1a too. If 1a fails then hey get no money from 1b which allows them to rob money from what 1a generates. We allow that to happen then 1a runs short and suddenly we have another shortfall in revenue. It’s a revolving door, he’s done nothing to fix the issue.

Proposition 1a = Vote No!

1a is nothing more than a two year tax extension to an already record breaking tax increase

Proposition 1b = Vote No!

Pays off the teachers union, for their support.

Proposition 1c = Vote No!

If you are an avid lotto player you may like this. But c’mon do you really want to continue paying thru the nose for stuff like this?

Proposition 1d and 1e = Vote No!

Proposition 1d will steal more than $1.6 billion in funding from local programs serving children and families throughout the state. Proposition 1d diverts money from First 5 county commissions to the state General Fund – defunding hundreds of proven community-based programs for children and families in every county.

Of all the propositions, Prop. 1D is most similar to Prop. 1E, in that both proposals would take money from new revenue sources approved by voters and redirect those funds away from programs spelled out in those initiatives. The League said:

Propositions 1D and 1E. On May 19, voters will also be asked to approve the temporary taking of funds from early childhood and mental health programs that were established by two previous initiatives. These are illusory, stopgap measures, and the League opposes these propositions as part of this objectionable package. It is ironic that these initiatives, which did what many consider ?the right thing? by providing a source of funding, now face reductions.

Proposition 1f = Vote No!

Elected Officials’ Salaries. Prevents Pay Increases During Budget Deficit Years. Normally I’d vote for this in a heartbeat BUT this is Abel Maldonado’s deal. Maldonado was the final vote to pass the massive tax increase that was just leveled on the citizen’s of the State of California. What he wants is for us to forget and then during his re-election campaign he will boast about how he saved us with this proposition.

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I just find this pic of my friend funny, she’ll kill me if she ever gets to see this

Sometimes you wonder what goes on in the girls bathroom. Sometimes you wonder what goes on in the girls bathroom when your girl is drunk. Here’s an educational video of what really happens when the women go to powder their nose. Enjoy!

Drunk girl in the bathroom

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From Yahoo

TEHRAN (Reuters) ? Iran failed Friday to register what it said would be the world’s largest sandwich in the Guinness book of World Records after people rushed forward and began eating it — before it was measured.

Event organizers had planned to stuff the 1,500-meter-long sandwich with 700 kg of ostrich meat and 700 kg of chicken, and display it in a park in the capital Tehran.

But as the sandwich was being measured, chaos ensued. The giant snack was gone in minutes, a Reuters witness said, leaving the three Guinness representatives present with a dilemma.

One of the event’s organizers said video footage of the sandwich would be sent to Guinness officials.

“We still think the sandwich will be recorded in the Guinness book because of all the evidence and footage that we will send them,” Parvin Shariati said.

(Writing by Zahra Hosseinian; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

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Nice Job Arnold, thought you were supposed to be the “Governator” and pull us out of the mess that Gray Davis left us in. Sorry but the reality of it is you are no better than he was. Just so you know that takes a lot for me to say because I hated Gray Davis. Now you suck just as bad, now we top the list ONCE AGAIN as one of the states that cannot pay their own way. Don’t blame the economy on this one, this has been a long time coming.

States That Can’t Pay for Themselves

by Prashant Gopal
Wednesday, October 8, 2008provided by

The Golden State, which recently scrambled to fill a $15 billion budget gap, still may not be able to meet its payroll without help.

California is going to Washington, D.C., to ask for $7 billion to cover its budget shortfall. Otherwise it won’t be able to pay for its teachers, cops, firemen, and other essential services. Unfortunately, California won’t be alone. A number of other states are experiencing a huge dive in tax revenue and could be going cap in hand to Uncle Sam alarmingly soon. How bad could it get? The potential cost for all the 31 states facing both major and minor shortfalls could be as much as $53.4 billion.

The data is based on a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released at the end of September and shows the states that have seen the biggest shortfalls in tax revenue in their fiscal 2009 budgets.

California
Budget gap (as a % of the total budget): 22%
Gap: $22.2 billion

Wikipedia: Public Domain

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger warned this week that the state might need to borrow $7 billion from the federal government, if credit markets don’t ease, to pay for salaries and other operating costs. The state, which has been battered by falling home prices and foreclosures, enacted a budget that imposed cuts to the state’s health insurance program for the poor and other social service programs.

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