{"id":10303,"date":"2009-10-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-19T23:40:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T23:40:24","slug":"october-19-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/20\/october-19-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"October 19 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I (Brian) love the Wire, so I really enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/10\/white-house-the-wire-what-omar-has-on-obama\/\">this CalBuzz lesson to President Obama using Omar Little<\/a>. Oh, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/oct\/19\/campaign-cash-bilbray-re-election-rivals-tops-1-mi\/?local%20news\">Brian Bilbray leads in cash in CA-50<\/a>, but three democratic challengers for the seat aren&#8217;t doing too bad for themselves in the money department. Two-time challenger Francine Busby leads the Dems with $233,000. If she really wants to be competitive this time around she will need to make more of an effort to reach out beyond her base in Escondido.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/10\/1-billion-expansion-of-lax-expected-to-win-approval-today.html\">LAX Commissioners are expected to approve expansion plans<\/a>. The first new gates will open up in 2012, with the project expected to be completed the following year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/ourregion\/story\/2264066.html?mi_rss=Our%2520Region\">new federal policy<\/a> to not pursue medical marijuana users and distributers that adhere to state law has the biggest impact right here in California. We have the most permissive medical marijuana regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2009\/10\/obama-harbors-secret-agenda-to-bankrupt-us-sneak-in-socialism-say-republicans-.html\">This is hilarious<\/a>. &nbsp;A side conspiracy to the Birthers is that Obama is secretly trying to bankrupt the US in order to, umm, bring about the rise of Kenya? Indonesia? That part isn&#8217;t clear, but it must be true. Just don&#8217;t pay any notice to the fact that it was Bush who approved the bank bailout.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1009\/28440.html\">Our Governor&#8217;s name has been bandied about for the MPAA gig<\/a>, after former Rep. Dan Glickman announced he&#8217;ll be stepping down in 2010. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I (Brian) love the Wire, so I really enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/10\/white-house-the-wire-what-omar-has-on-obama\/\">this CalBuzz lesson to President Obama using Omar Little<\/a>. Oh, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/oct\/19\/campaign-cash-bilbray-re-election-rivals-tops-1-mi\/?local%20news\">Brian Bilbray leads in cash in CA-50<\/a>, but three democratic challengers for the seat aren&#8217;t doing too bad for themselves in the money department. Two-time challenger Francine Busby leads the Dems with $233,000. If she really wants to be competitive this time around she will need to make more of an effort to reach out beyond her base in Escondido.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/10\/1-billion-expansion-of-lax-expected-to-win-approval-today.html\">LAX Commissioners are expected to approve expansion plans<\/a>. The first new gates will open up in 2012, with the project expected to be completed the following year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/ourregion\/story\/2264066.html?mi_rss=Our%2520Region\">new federal policy<\/a> to not pursue medical marijuana users and distributers that adhere to state law has the biggest impact right here in California. We have the most permissive medical marijuana regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2009\/10\/obama-harbors-secret-agenda-to-bankrupt-us-sneak-in-socialism-say-republicans-.html\">This is hilarious<\/a>. &nbsp;A side conspiracy to the Birthers is that Obama is secretly trying to bankrupt the US in order to, umm, bring about the rise of Kenya? Indonesia? That part isn&#8217;t clear, but it must be true. Just don&#8217;t pay any notice to the fact that it was Bush who approved the bank bailout.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1009\/28440.html\">Our Governor&#8217;s name has been bandied about for the MPAA gig<\/a>, after former Rep. Dan Glickman announced he&#8217;ll be stepping down in 2010. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Gb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}