A Desperate Schwartzenegger Turns To Speed Cameras To Balance Budget

Bravo, Arnie.  Bravo. Way to sell out the entire state in a desperate bid to cover up your own massive financial bungling. Apparently Governor Blackforest (literal translation, as it turns out!) wants to spend an as yet undisclosed sum the state doesn't have in a bid to retrofit five hundred cameras in California designed to snap photos ...

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California Traffic Cameras Having Serious Problems

It's a "bad day LA" for the traffic cameras, even if neither of the problems today are located in Los Angeles.  Instead we're looking at camera systems in Santa Ana and Santa Maria. The camera system in Santa Maria, or so I'm told, is being completely pulled out as it wasn't--get this!--making enough revenue.  The company ...

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A Whole Slew Of Traffic Cameras Going In Nationwide

Now, normally, in these sections I might bring up a new city or two, in the case of neighbors, that's getting in the traffic cameras, and lead in a discussion on people's reaction to these Orwellian monitors.  But today's a bit different--we always like to mix it up around here.  But anyway, here's the deal--seems ...

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Pictures From Space–The California Wildfire

This'll just KILL you, folks--by now you've probably heard about the huge California wildfire that's only about five percent contained and looking to make a run on Los Angeles.  Well, here's the most unbelievable and most horrifying detail about it all. It can be SEEN FROM SPACE. Over one hundred thousand acres in size, pictures from Nasa's ...

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