{"id":10539,"date":"2009-11-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-20T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:56:00","slug":"november-19-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/20\/november-19-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"November 19 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"265\" align=right><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fqfsLG6Kuz0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object>\u2022 While many of us are frequently miffed at Rep. Cardoza, he does deserve some credit for the takedown of Rep. Foxx&#8217;s ridiculous claims that it was Republicans who passed the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. See the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/ourregion\/story\/2336194.html?mi_rss=Our%2520Region\">The UC fee hikes went final<\/a>. A sad day for the Master Plan. While it&#8217;s not necessarily the fault of the regents, the questions about how to pay for higher education in California seems increasingly likely to be answered as &#8220;the student pays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Yay for Carly Fiorina! She got the endorsement of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=51946\">Sen. Jim Inhofe<\/a>, you know the guy who runs around denying climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Good News\/Bad News from LA County: <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/11\/overall-number-of-hate-crimes-drop-in-la-county-but-crimes-against-gays-increase-new-report-says.html\">Hate Crimes overall are down<\/a>, but hate crimes against the LGBT community are up.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=51990\">Mayor Gavin Newsom is a little peeved with the SF press<\/a>. SF press dutifully reports it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 John Garamendi got his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=51980\">committee assignement<\/a>: Science &#038; Technology and Transportation &#038; Infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/11\/deep-thoughts-who-validates-the-validators\/\">Fun times with web video<\/a> from CalBuzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"265\" align=right><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fqfsLG6Kuz0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fqfsLG6Kuz0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><\/embed><\/object>\u2022 While many of us are frequently miffed at Rep. Cardoza, he does deserve some credit for the takedown of Rep. Foxx&#8217;s ridiculous claims that it was Republicans who passed the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. See the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/ourregion\/story\/2336194.html?mi_rss=Our%2520Region\">The UC fee hikes went final<\/a>. A sad day for the Master Plan. While it&#8217;s not necessarily the fault of the regents, the questions about how to pay for higher education in California seems increasingly likely to be answered as &#8220;the student pays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Yay for Carly Fiorina! She got the endorsement of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=51946\">Sen. Jim Inhofe<\/a>, you know the guy who runs around denying climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Good News\/Bad News from LA County: <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/11\/overall-number-of-hate-crimes-drop-in-la-county-but-crimes-against-gays-increase-new-report-says.html\">Hate Crimes overall are down<\/a>, but hate crimes against the LGBT community are up.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=51990\">Mayor Gavin Newsom is a little peeved with the SF press<\/a>. SF press dutifully reports it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 John Garamendi got his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=51980\">committee assignement<\/a>: Science &#038; Technology and Transportation &#038; Infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/11\/deep-thoughts-who-validates-the-validators\/\">Fun times with web video<\/a> from CalBuzz.<\/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":[1153],"class_list":["post-10539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1153"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2JZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539","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=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}