The Schwarzenegger Family Album

Arnold's baby mama....Mildred Baena

Arnold Sells the Farm

Schwarzenegger Slices Up California

...speak with an Austrian accent and carry a big knife?

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger looks as if he wants to cut more than just the state’s budget.
The governor posted a video to his Twitter account in which he is seen holding and admiring a large hunting knife.
ABC News report HERE

The Failure of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Schwarzenegger presented himself to the public as a can-do action figure who would knock heads in Sacramento and bring sanity to a state that had gone off the tracks during Gray Davis' five years. But on the budget, Schwarzenegger, like Davis before, bet wrong that the economic good times would last and overextended the state's spending programs. For all the hoopla surrounding Schwarzenegger's election in 2003, the Terminator has been a timid governor, much like the man he replaced. Neither the Hollywood superstar nor the career politician had the combination of insight, political skill and grit to deal with the mounting fiscal crisis.
TIME magazine article HERE
more HERE

Pot to the Rescue

In this ad a real marijuana user who smokes real marijuana really wants to pay her fair share in taxes in order to help alleviate California's budget crisis. It's a plea from the Marijuana Policy Project to make legal and tax (heavily) marijuana.
more HERE

Related:
Schwarzenegger On Pot Tax
Some California Stations Reject Ad Calling For Pot Legalization

Schwarzenegger's Big Balls

As California faces a $24 billion deficit and teeters on the edge of insolvency, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg are exchanging gag gifts full of budget symbolism.Last week, after Schwarzenegger called the Senate budget plans "hallucinatory," Steinberg sent the guv a basket of garden-variety mushrooms and a note about the fungus' magical effects. Schwarzenegger returned the favor, giving Steinberg a metal sculpture of bull testicles with a note suggesting the Sacramento Democrat would have to grow a pair to make tough budget decisions, according to sources. There are conflicting reports on the size of the gift. Comparisons range from football (AP) to melon (LA Times).
What kind of melon, the Times did not specify, but it's safe to say the sculpture was large enough.
more HERE

Pleasant Surprise: President Apologizes

After a prolonged period of presidential arrogance and lack of accountability, Barack Obama's apology is refreshing...
President Barack Obama has apologized for a gaffe in which he described his bowling skills as akin to participants in the Special Olympics, a sports program for people with intellectual disabilities.
Obama made the mistake during an interview Thursday night on "The Tonight Show" with host Jay Leno, the first time a sitting U.S. president had been on a late-night U.S. TV talk show.
Talking about living in the White House, Obama said he had been practicing his bowling in the residence's bowling alley and had scored a 129 score out of a possible 300. "It's like -- it was like Special Olympics or something," Obama said.
Soon after the Jay Leno interview, Obama telephoned Special Olympics chairman Tim Shriver to apologize.
more HERE

Related:
Special Olympics Athlete Challenges Obama To Game
Schwarzenegger Defends President's Special Olympics Comment
Networks Grumbling About Another Obama Primetime Speech

Homophobic GOP Dislikes Schwarzenegger

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger opposed Proposition 8 which opposed gay marriage, has openly hoped that courts will now overturn it and has encouraged opponents to "never give up.
In the process, he's ignited a battle within his own party.
Christian conservatives are using him as a foil, to claim that they, not the Republican governor, represent the party base.
more HERE

California Sans Trans...Lard Have Mercy!

California has now become the first state in the U.S. to entirely ban food retailers and restaurants from using trans-fat.

Some cities, like New York City and Philadelphia have already banned trans fats. Cuz it's bad for you...
Trans-fats are partially hydrogenated vegetable oils that are used to extend the shelf life of products and can turn oily foods into semi-solid foods. They're used for frying and usually put into cakes, pastries, hot chocolate drink mixes, processed foods, margarines, and some fast foods.
They've been linked to coronary heart disease, can raise levels of bad cholesterol, have no nutritional benefit, and even a small reduction in consumption can cut heart disease.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said the legislation will represent a "strong step toward creating a healthier future." The new legislation will take effect in 2010. Schwarzenegger will ban the use of trans-fats in oil, shortening and margarine used in spreads or for frying. Those found of violating the new law will be fined between $25 and $1,000.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Americans eat on average about 4.7lbs of trans-fats each year. A 2006 review by the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that by eliminating artificial trans-fats from your food supply could prevent between 6 and 19% of heart attacks and related deaths each year.
AP report HERE

Awkward moment on FoxNews

Brian Kilmeade did not appreciate Geraldo's joke about Arnold Schwarzenegger...
watch it HERE

Schwarzenegger terminates Eastwood

Clint Eastwood says he was surprised at his removal from the California State Parks Board in the wake of his opposition to a toll road. But he says he holds no hard feelings toward Schwarzenegger.

Los Angeles Times article is HERE

Mixed Messages

California celebrity governor Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses John McCain...


California celebrity first lady, effeminate Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Barack Obama...


the story is HERE

California: Governator's Smoking Tent at the Capitol

Raving Republican