I'm going to dinner with the "Governator" tonite...

Anyone got any questions you'd like me to ask him?

Ask him how many combat medals he got making movies. Or are combat medals for girlie men?

why he let Enron et al off the hook with the money they stole from Cawleefahhnya.

DDQM

or any movie where he has another baby?

maybe twins2: where arhnold and devito get pregnant with twins

after they'd left. And how he thought he'd been brought up in a Socialist regime.

he said the DNC reminded him of the movie True Lies?

pay for services today. Borrow and spend...the repub plan.

about in Terminator 2, if they threw the cybernetic arm and the computer chip in the molten steel, then the terminator would've never been created, then Kyle Reese never would've come back and impregnated Sarah Conner, then John Conner never would've been born so the first terminator never would've come back, so the arm and the chip and John Conner would cease to exist.

how stupid you sound using Girlie Man? And how much you make people dislike you? Do you know your acting sucked too?

of the best steroids and explosives money can buy.

Corporations hold property much longer and are able to transfer control easily without an outright transfer of title which would trigger the new, higher assessed value. Individuals have less control over how they transfer ownership, much less WHEN they transfer ownership. If you have to move, you have to buy a new house. So, as I understand it, many very large very wealthy corporations pay property taxes on million dollar properties based on ancient (1980s) valuations that are a fraction of the real value, while a family making 70,000 dollars a year pays property taxes based on a valuation of 600K, which is what they had to pay for the 1100 sq foot house they moved into last year.

Ask the governor if that's an accurate characterization of how unfair property tax is in CA and if he thinks something should be done about it (why should the people struggling the most bear the biggest burden?).

(2) Ask the governor what it is about TX that he admires so much that he wants to rebuild CA in its image. In the Gov' debates he said that that's what CA should do.

(3) Ask him why he wants to re-privatize the energy markets when it worked out so poorly last time.

(4) Ask him why he cut off funding for the SoS's efforts to fix the problem with unauditable e-voting. Ask him how he feels about the Atty Gen's suit against Diebold.

(5) Aks him if he believes that FDR was right: that you cant have a strong, safe American unless its citizens are doing the best they can possibly do.

If so, get a tiny videocamera or microphone that you can attach to yourself, or have someone who's also coming bring one of those things, then start flirting with him, and catch him trying to do something raunchy to you. And then you're a hero to democracy. And if you're male, well... try and incite him to do something raunchy to someone else if you think the previous plan won't work.

And my penis might get in the way too...

but congratulations on getting there. I'd ask him something about how he's going to stop pro-choice baby-killers and faggots. Or if you're of reasonable rank, then don't do anything until you're powerful enough to sabotage something major.

That last post was good...I was thinking of questions that WONT get me kicked out of the party...see they still think im a REpublican.

how'd you land that?

ask him if his father ever got to chill with the fuhrer.

is a big Campaign contributor for the RNC in Cali...and they had an extra spot, so im going. I think its a good way to go undercover, dont oyu think?

how many people at the dinner?

including me. they said they wanted some college age people their with their opinions.

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we're on the same level you and I. You go to college in Cali too?

Why the increase in Community College fees and reduced admissions to UCs after CC? Why should these students take the brunt of the cuts?

After my doctorate work is done (if I even do it) Ill be in the hole for about 56k dollars...

my grad work is prob gonna cost about half that. what are you getting a doctorate in?

Recent college grads buying their first house are the people paying the highest property taxes. The more recently you bought your house in a market with inflating prices, the higher your tax relative to your neighbor who might have bought their house years or decades past. And, if your a first time house buyer who can reasonably expect to only make more money year over year, you're never poorer than you are that year. But when you make a little money, you move and get saddled with a new recent tax valuation.

The only people the current code helps are really old, rich people and corporations who never sell their property.

It's hard to get ahead if you're unfailry burdened by taxes like that. There's got to be a better way to assess taxes.

I cant afford a house in Cali when I graduate, and I sure as hell am not going to rent for all my life...

...and probably has to do with the ridiculous amount of risk mortgage lenders are willing to take on thanks to the fact that the Federal government is the insurer of what should be the riskiest loans for banks (Fannie Mae loans). Therefore, they're willing to push the risk farther up into the middle of the market and lend ridiculous amounts to average income people. If you aren't willing to take on the risk, you don't get a house.

The tax issue is something else. It's the way the government shifts the tax burden off rich people by taking advantage of inflating home prices for middle class people.

If the government adjusted valuations at regular intervals so that property tax always reflects current valuations, and if they made sure that business property was taxed at least as aggressively as residential property, there would be one of two results:

(1) the state would get more revenue, because a lot of property escaping fair taxation would be captured. With that extra money, the state could do way more stuff, which would make society wealthier, healthier and better educated. Hopefully, that would result in better paying jobs, and more opportunities for people. Now, if the state invested in public transportation, housing prices could go down because it would broaden the geographic area within which there would be competition for homes.

(2) The state could try to get by with the same amount of revenue from property tax, and by apportioning it more fairly, property tax would drop for lower and middle income homeowners, thanks to all the new revenue from the rich and from business property. In theory, some of that new money might be used to drive up house prices even more, since people will have even more discretionary income.

But, the point isn't to do this for housing prices. The point is that the property tax burden is apportioned in a way that is ridiculously unfair with new home buyers (who have low incomes) paying the greatest property taxes, while corporations and long-time residents might pay lower property taxes than your average first time home buyer!

If the state needs more revenue, this seems like a great place to start since it's so inequitable.

ask him whatever happened to the sick and dying prisoners that he was going to give clemency to.

...have your cover blown before you're able to make the most of it.

In fact, I hope you haven't given away too much already.

From now on, when DU'ers are on top-secret missions, lie about dates, times, relationships until AFTER the mission is completed.

i shoulda PMed him.

They are going to find out my identity sometime. I dont have to sign a loyalty pledge when I get in, but Ive been told I'll be frisked for weapons.

he's so down on "girly men" when he is so obviously one.Body builders do nothing but preen in front of mirrors and worry about how their butt looks, he's more feminine than me.

Gosh, I don't know enough to know what to ask. The only questions I want to have answered are offensive. Like what about that Bustamonte law suit. Or what happened in his hotel meeting with the energy executives. And something about a guy in San Francisco who he's trying to get on some board to try and push electronic voting. I'm a dummy. Just remember to bring bleach for afterwards. Think of him as an actor, and you'll do just fine. :)

foreign nationals are not elligable to run...

We know they're trying to change that rule. Maybe you can get a look on his face, or some body language...

what happened in that meeting he had with Ken Lay in May, 2001. I would LOVE to know. :grr:

Blue dress shirt or red dress shirt?

If they had their way...

From what I understand, the original movie had Arnold's bed pushed right next to roomie Lou's.
Then, Schwarzenegger purchased the rights and all extant copies of the original film.
After it was re-issued, the said scene was missing. What happened?



No one wants their Terminator to be a girlie-man
or anything like that.

Is Ken Lay as nice in person as he appears on TV?

You might want to ask why he considers retarded kids "waste and fraud" and millionaire loopholes for yacht taxes "important for the economy."

i'm begging you!

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2004/09/02/state1516EDT0076.DTL

who writes his brillllliant speeches

Photo by Robert Mapplethorpe. More info here: www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/w_m/wm3.5.html

weight lifting for prison inmates. Would that include steroids? So we have big buffed up, hyped up parolees?

ORRRR mightn't it be better to devote our resources to their education, job training, drug and alcohol rehab, and job creation???????!

Nah, the issue appears to be that parolees not be girlie men.

I'm sure that'll go over real well. Tell him you read about it in Rush Limbaugh's WSJ column, cos you just Luuuuuv the WSJ.

How was dinner?

physically disappearing.