Posts Tagged ‘Arnold’
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Sometimes, even shotgun weddings have to end. Like the GM NUMMI deal that got hammered out during the era of “Voluntary” Export Restraints back in the 1980′s. Well, that money-losing fiasco ended last year (along with GM) so we’re on to a new marrriage. This time, Toyota is hooking up with Tesla Motors.
Why? Well, one reason must have something to do with having the California congressional delegation on Toyota’s side the next time people start acting up. Plus, Toyota is good at building cars and Telsa is good at not building cars, so Tesla needs all the help it can get.
Tesla and Toyota just got married in California. But how long will the honeymoon last?
via Mr. Wright
(Is there nothing PhotoShop can’t do? Oh, wait a minute, yes there’s something!)
Obviously Tesla, which has broken many promises over the years, didn’t have a prayer of keeping all its new promises without a whole bunch of help. This will be interesting…
Vaya con Gaia, Toyota.
Tags: 2010, Arnold, california, cars, electric, factory, fremont, Governor, NUMMI, Schwarzenegger, shotgun wedding, Tesla Motors, toyota, workers
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
I bet you’d love to have your very own smoking tent. One that’s large enough to be seen from outer space, right?
Well then you should envy California Governor Arnold Schwazenegger ’cause this beige smoking tent is all his.
As seen from the second floor of Sacramento’s Capitol Building. Click to expand:
Best of all, it’s been excluded from California’s new anti-smoking laws because, well, just because.
And if there’s the occasional flooding in our historic capitol due to all the fake plastic grass that’s been put down, well, that’s all right as well.
Here’s the bird’s eye view:
Happy smoking, Arnie!
Yes, whether it be cigars…
via aindavid
…or marijuana, like back in the day…
Smoking some sweet aparteid weed in South Africa - Pumping Iron, 1977
…happy smoking, Arnold!
Enjoy your tent.
Tags: Arnold, arnold is numero uno, Arnold Schwarzenegger, building, capitol, cigars, fake, flood, flooding, Governor, grass, green, marijuana, numero uno, pot, rain, sacramento, Schwarzenegger, smoking, smoking tent, south africa, tent, weed
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Tomorrow Thursday at 4:00 PM on the steps of San Francisco City Hall will be your chance to see recording artist Moby promoting the funding of domestic violence shelters in California. Read all the deets of this event with Senator Leland Yee below.
Moby, Yee Join Forces to Combat Domestic Violence
Musician and Senator call on Governor to immediately sign bill to restore shelter funding
Who:
Senator Leland Yee, Ph.D.
Moby, recording artist
Tara Shabazz, California Partnership to End Domestic Violence
Emily Murase, San Francisco Department on the Status of Women
Beverly Upton, San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium
Several domestic violence prevention providers
When:
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Where:
City Hall steps
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, California
Rain location: Lobby of Hiram Johnson State Office Building, 455 Golden Gate Avenue
(may enter on McAllister Street)
What:
Award-winning recording artist Moby will join Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) to discuss recent efforts to restore funding to California’s domestic violence shelters. Today, the California Senate approved Yee’s legislation to restore funding that had earlier been eliminated by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Los Angeles).
On Thursday evening, Moby will perform at San Francisco’s Warfield Theatre. Moby plans to donate all the proceeds of his California concerts to the state’s domestic violence shelters. Moby, along with the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, recently established a permanent fund to benefit California shelters.
Senator Yee will present Moby a Senate Resolution for his efforts in establishing the SOS (Support Our Shelters) Fund. Several domestic violence prevention groups will also call on the Governor to immediately sign Yee’s bill to restore $16 million dollars to fund 94 domestic violence shelters and programs throughout the state.
Tags: 15, 2009, Arnold, california, City Hall, domestic violence, dv, funding, leland yee, Moby, money, october, play, San Francisco, schwazenegger, Senator, shelters, women's womens
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
Well this was the scene a few nights back at the Fairmont Hotel, which at the time contained former presidential horndog Bill Clinton, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods, you know, people like that. (Who knows, maybe Barack Obama will be there soon.)
You had the TASER-equipped California Highway Patrol, the Secret Service, all kinds of security blocking pedestrain access to this part of California Street so the V.I.P.s could get to their waiting motorcades.
But what’s this? Biker dude just wanted to go home so he’s not caring about which sidewalk is verbotten. He powered up the block, dodging through all the scaffolding, the CHP, the startled security agents, nothing slowed him down. You might think he’d instead just use the roomy, traffic-free slow lane in the foreground…
Check it:
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I used to think that this guy, Andy, was the bravest cyclist in San Francisco. But now the crown must pass to the new fellow. (In San Francisco, most sidewalks are off-limits to most cyclists, so it would have been a piece of cake to cite and release the biker.)
He probably also drives his ride as slow as he can in front of harried moms in the East Bay – just for kicks, you know?
(Also noteworthy is the name Tonga on the sign advertising our famous $13/drink tiki lounge, the troubled Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar. With a name like that, it deserves to be shut down, or some people might think. What’s next, Kung Fu Tacos on wheels appearing regularlyat Sansome and Jackson?)
Oh well.
Tags: Arnold, bar, bicycle, bike, biker, Bill Clinton, california, chp, code, cyclists, geisha, golf, Governor, illegal, Kung Fu Tacos, Motorcade, Oakland, police, San Francisco, Schwarzenegger, SFPD, sidewalk, tiger, Tonga room, vehicle, woods
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Well, yesterday was a great day for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and UCSF when the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundationgave away a big fat $25,000,000 check for stem cell research up at the Parnassus Campus.
Read all about it or take a look at the video.
This was Arnold’s first visit ever to UCSF, so Chancellor J. Michael Bishop gave him the business about it. Click to expand:
The stars of the show – Arnie and Mr. Eli Broad
Is that a gold fleur-de-lys ring? Something like that.
Jeff Sheehy, Director for Communications athe UCSF AIDS Research Institute, along with fellow CIRM Independent Citizens Oversight Committee Board Member David Serrano Sewell
Here’s the very steep site today …
and here’s what it will look like come 2010:
And they even had edible chocolate-dipped model stem cells. At the reception a Dr. Peter van Nostrum helpfully explained that the pink sprinkles represent the amino acid lysine:
Good luck, UCSF!
Details after the jump.
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Tags: Arnold, Broad, Edythe, Eli, institute, parnassus, Proposition, research, San Francisco, Schwarzenegger, stem cells, ucsf, university of california
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
California Senator Dianne Feinstein says it’s time for California lawmakers to put a water bond on the November ballot, but outfits like Clean Water Action and the Calfornia Coastkeeper Alliance rallied yesterday in opposition:
“Conservation and fishing groups representing over 180,000 Californians, including the California Coastkeeper Alliance, submitted a petitionto Governor Schwarzenegger and Senator Feinstein today and rallied at events throughout the state, calling for an end to the proposed $9.3 billion water bond, which is based heavily on ineffective and environmentally destructive dams.”
San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano says he doesn’t want to start his term in the Assembly, “telling mothers that their local school district is closing so we can build a dam.” Fair enough.
CoastKeeper Alliance Executive Director Linda Sheehan and daughter Madeleine on the steps of City Hall yesterday:
Dianne’s point of view is expressed here. Of course, the whole thing is a little complex.
There’s still time this week to work out a compromise, it looks like.
Let’s hope.
Tags: Arnold, bond, california, Clean Water Action, Coastkeeper Alliance, Diane, feinstein, Governor, San Francisco, Schwarzenegger, Senator, water
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
State Controller John Chiang, California’s independent fiscal watchdog, is having a thing with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger these days over how much salary to pay state workers during the budget crisis. See Hank Plante’s interview with “heroic” John here.
Our Controller was welcomed like a rock star. Click to expand:
There were a few “Chiang for Governor” signs here and there, but if you ask him if he’s running, he’ll say he’s not:
This crowd of mostly state workers was large and intense. “We can’t survive on $6.55 [an hour].”
Columnist Dan Walters thinks he sees the “fuzzy outline” of a solution.
Let’s hope.
Tags: Arnold, budget, building, civic center, controller, crisis, Governor, john chiang, minimum wage, San Francisco, Schwarzenegger, seiu, state
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
That’s right, Conan the Destroyer has a posse and they’re all rolling on dubs. Check out these 22-inch monsters being used in an official gubernatorial motorcade:
And check out those balancing weights – do you see how much it takes to keep these massive rims rolling true? These wheels are about twice as large as what Vanilla Ice’s Five point-oh Ford Mustang had way back in the 1990′s.
There’s no good reason to have wheels this large on your vehicle. Some think them dangerous. Others don’t like the way they ride. Of course, sometimes you might be like Senator Don Perata and end up with a set of duece dueces because they come with the car, but not usually.
If you want to show off your wheels, why not keep them a little smaller and then load up on some bling bling? Diamond and ruby studded wheels from Asanti only cost $2,000,000 per set – will this be the next trend in fashionable wheels?
Arnold Schwarzenegger might be your role model, but don’t try to copy him with his huge wheels.
Asta la vista, baby.
Tags: 110H, 20, 22, 22-Inch, 24, 26, 285, Arnold, asanti, Asta la vista, baby, cadillac, california, chrome, Conan, Dub, dubs, escalade, inch wheels, inches, Motorcade, p285, p285/45r22, rims, Safe, san franciso, Schwarzenegger, suv, Wheels
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Yesterday’s Day of Action was well-attended.
Paul Chambers from KTVU, Channel 2 strikes a pose and gets down in order to warm up the kids before his live stand up. They were fired up
Tags: 4.8 billion, Arnold, budget cuts, child development, City Hall, day of action, frank chu, high school, ktvu, nbs, Paul Chambers, pink slip, San Francisco, Schwarzenegger, special education, students
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
This is no mere ribbon cutting ceremony to open a new $429 million section of freeway approaching the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge. Oh no.
The last step to opening this short but vital stretch of superslab involved Governor Schwarzenegger, cowboy boots, sunglasses and a big blow torch.
[Update: or welding torch, or cutting torch (based upon the O2 trigger) - Arnie's tool is an oxy-fuel welder of some kind, as commenter Doc helpfully points out. Arnie's sunglasses actually are sunglasses, but you could say that they were being used as goggles. The light coming from chain didn't seem all that bright compared to arc welding or whatever. FYI]
Enjoy your new freeway, San Francisco!
Higher rez version after the jump.
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Tags: 101, Arnold, Arnold Schwarzenegger, blow, blowtorch, bridge, CalTrans, Conan, freeway, Gavin, Newsom, ron dellums, San Francisco, Schwarzenegger, sparks, Terminator, Torch, west approach
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