Councilman Greig Smith said he and other city officials would travel to Canada, Japan, Israel, France, Germany and Spain as part of a fact-finding mission waged by the city's Bureau of Sanitation. They will also visit Bakersfield.The purpose of the trip is to explore plans to convert garbage into energy. They might want to look a little closer to home: Burbank has been doing this for several years already.
"No person shall be a citizen of the United States unless he is a non-Hispanic white of the European race, in whom there is no ascertainable trace of Negro blood, nor more than one-eighth Mongolian, Asian, Asia Minor, Middle Eastern, Semitic, Near Eastern, American Indian, Malay or other non-European or non-white blood, provided that Hispanic whites, defined as anyone with an Hispanic ancestor, may be citizens if, in addition to meeting the aforesaid ascertainable trace and percentage tests, they are in appearance indistinguishable from Americans whose ancestral home is in the British Isles or Northwestern Europe. Only citizens shall have the right and privilege to reside permanently in the United States."Howie Klein, the Huffington Post blogger, raises concerns that Johnson's connections to dedicated Ron Paul activists could help bolster him in the June 3 election. He may have a point: Johnson's campaign website has meet-ups with Ron Paul groups to help him spray paint "Bill Johnson for Judge" banners. I have seen two of them hanging on fences this week, one in West Covina, and one in Pasadena.
"Everyone's done it like this," Núñez said of previous legislative leaders. "The difference is there are some in politics who want to judge me in a certain manner.Funny how it is the most privileged in society who are the quickest to say they have been ill-treated because of their, gender, race, religion, etc.
"Because of the fact I am Mexican, they think I have to sleep under a cactus and eat from taco stands."
"We have returned to Iowa with a majority of delegates elected by the American people, and you have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in America," Mr. Obama said, standing in front of a moonlit Capitol in Des Moines.
But
even as Mr. Obama moved closer to making history as the first black
presidential nominee, he stopped short of declaring victory in the
Democratic race, part of a calibrated effort in the remaining weeks of
the contest to avoid appearing disrespectful to Mrs. Clinton and
alienating her supporters. Instead, he offered her lavish praise.
The conventional wisdom is that Clinton will continue to claim she has a chance at the nomination until the end of the month, when a Democratic party committee decides whether to allow the delegates from Michigan and Florida to be seated at the convention. But considering those states were punished by the party itself for holding their primaries early without permission, and that Obama did not actively campaign there and was not even on the ballot in Michigan, those delegates are nearly assured to be forced to stay put and watch the August convention from their living room couches.
Once that decision is made Clinton will likely capitulate. But until then Obama will continue to proceed delicately, avoiding outright declarations of victory while wooing Clinton supporters behind the scenes.
That jibes with what USC professor Kareem Crayton told me on May 7:
Whatever support Obama will get from Clinton superdelegates will not happen in a wholesale fashion, and will be timed so as not to be embarrassing to the Clinton campaign.
I suspect there will be an orchestrated transition in the next few weeks from a hard-fought primary to a transition of support for the nominee.