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Hey California, the Peafowl Isn’t Your Scape-Bird | Connecting California
Why don’t you simply fly my satisfaction and me to Martha’s Winery?
As a result of we peafowl are bored with being California’s main scapegoat—I imply, scape-bird.
You Californians prefer to fake you’re extra humane and inclusive than the Floridians and Texans you denounce, for his or her cruelty to immigrant neighbors and others who won’t look or sound the identical as they do. However in terms of the way you deal with your blue and feathery neighbors, you Californians are not any higher than Ron DeSantis.
From the San Joaquin to the San Gabriel valleys, property homeowners and municipalities are ordering mass round-ups of my type, with out warrant or possible trigger. Having unlawfully detained my fellow peahens and peacocks, the authorities then search to relocate us—with out offering counsel or a court docket listening to—to farms on the outskirts of your main areas.
Think about being grabbed someday and informed you’re transferring from Pasadena—the leafy hometown I share with this column’s normal creator—to a dusty farm in Kern County, with none alternative within the matter. The horror! It’s sizzling up there, and I’m a cultured, city hen.
You people justify such atrocities by claiming that we’re international invaders—an “invasive species”—as a result of peafowl originated in India. Nevertheless it’s pure disinformation and discrimination to name me non-native. I used to be born and raised proper right here in Los Angeles County, and consultants say I make little or no influence on so-called “native” species.
Certainly, my household has most likely been in California longer than yours. I’m seemingly descended from the peafowl that late-19th-century businessman Fortunate Baldwin dropped at his land in what’s now Arcadia, east of Pasadena. But the state committee that oversees chicken information nonetheless refuses so as to add us to its listing of “naturalized” birds.
So why are you sending us away from the one houses we’ve ever identified?
I used to be born and raised proper right here in Los Angeles County, and consultants say I make little or no influence on so-called ‘native’ species. Certainly, my household has most likely been in California longer than yours.
I prefer to suppose you’re threatened by our magnificence. Should you learn Nextdoor or the newspapers, you’ll discover scare headlines (“Wild Peacocks Terrorize California Metropolis”) and claims that we eat an excessive amount of of the improper stuff (like your flowers) and make an excessive amount of noise (we will get loud). However, heck, so do your youngsters!
Nonetheless, you complain that we dwell on the road and poop on the sidewalks. True—however Californians look the opposite means when their fellow people do the identical issues in lots of metropolis neighborhoods, from L.A.’s Skid Row to San Francisco’s Tenderloin.
Put the general public defecation situation apart, and I’d argue that we’re much better group function fashions than most Californians. We stroll in every single place, sustainably, in our hunt for meals, when you create greenhouse gases with brief drives to the grocery retailer. We’re social creatures—exterior on a regular basis, partaking with our neighbors—when you’re house alone, bingeing Netflix or watching cable information.
And when you’re dividing yourselves along with your political obsessions, we don’t even observe American politics. We’re not pro-Trump or tremendous woke. Certainly, you’re almost definitely to search out us in the course of the street, feathers out—so decelerate and don’t run us over! Because the poet William Blake wrote, “The satisfaction of the peacock is the glory of God.”
You would discover houses for us, however I’m not holding my breath. You’re not precisely dashing to search out houses for the people residing on the streets. However not less than you attempt to feed unhoused folks. Your largest county, Los Angeles, has made it unlawful to provide us meals.
In fact, your technique of ravenous us out received’t work. We had been omnivores and foragers earlier than it was cool, and so we’ll preserve feasting on crops, flowers, seeds, bugs, numerous small reptiles and amphibians, pet meals, cheese, and all of the greens in your backyard.
Nonetheless need to eliminate us? It received’t be simple. We’re wild animals, and onerous to wrangle. And we’re way more loyal to California than most people.
In any case, we don’t need to pay extortionate rents, large mortgages, or your excessive taxes.
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Caitlyn Jenner says she'd 'destroy' Kamala Harris in hypothetical race to be CA gov
SAN FRANCISCO – Caitlyn Jenner, the gold-medal Olympian-turned reality TV personality, is considering another run for Governor of California. This time, she says, if she were to go up against Vice President Kamala Harris, she would “destroy her.”
Jenner, who publicly came out as transgender nearly 10 years ago, made a foray into politics when she ran as a Republican during the recall election that attempted to unseat Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021. Jenner only received one percent of the vote and was not considered a serious candidate.
Jenner posted this week on social media that she’s having conversations with “many people” and hopes to have an announcement soon about whether she will run.
Caitlyn Jenner speaks at the 4th annual Womens March LA: Women Rising at Pershing Square on January 18, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images)
She has also posted in Trumpian-style all caps: “MAKE CA GREAT AGAIN!”
As for VP Harris, she has not indicated any future plans for when she leaves office. However, a recent poll suggests Harris would have a sizable advantage should she decide to run in 2026. At that point, Newsom cannot run again because of term limits.
If Jenner decides to run and wins, it would mark the nation and state’s first transgender governor.
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Northern California 6-year-old, parents hailed as heroes for saving woman who crashed into canal
LIVE OAK — A six-year-old and her parents are being called heroes by a Northern California community for jumping into a canal to save a 75-year-old woman who drove off the road.
It happened on Larkin Road near Paseo Avenue in the Sutter County community of Live Oak on Monday.
“I just about lost her, but I didn’t,” said Terry Carpenter, husband of the woman who was rescued. “We got more chances.”
Terry said his wife of 33 years, Robin Carpenter, is the love of his life and soulmate. He is grateful he has been granted more time to spend with her after she survived her car crashing off a two-lane road and overturning into a canal.
“She’s doing really well,” Terry said. “No broken bones, praise the Lord.”
It is what some call a miracle that could have had a much different outcome without a family of good Samaritans.
“Her lips were purple,” said Ashley Martin, who helped rescue the woman. “There wasn’t a breath at all. I was scared.”
Martin and her husband, Cyle Johnson, are being hailed heroes by the Live Oak community for jumping into the canal, cutting Robin out of her seat belt and pulling her head above water until first responders arrived.
“She was literally submerged underwater,” Martin said. “She had a back brace on. Apparently, she just had back surgery. So, I grabbed her brace from down below and I flipped her upward just in a quick motion to get her out of that water.”
The couple said the real hero was their six-year-old daughter, Cayleigh Johnson.
“It was scary,” Cayleigh said. “So the car was going like this, and it just went boom, right into the ditch.”
Cayleigh was playing outside and screamed for her parents who were inside the house near the canal.
I spoke with Robin from her hospital bed over the phone who told us she is in a lot of pain but grateful.
“The thing I can remember is I started falling asleep and then I was going over the bump and I went into the ditch and that’s all I remember,” Robin said.
It was a split-second decision for a family who firefighters said helped save a stranger’s life.
“It’s pretty unique that someone would jump in and help somebody that they don’t even know,” said Battalion Chief for Sutter County Fire Richard Epperson.
Robin is hopeful that she will be released from the hospital on Wednesday in time to be home for Thanksgiving.
“She gets Thanksgiving and Christmas now with her family and grandkids,” Martin said.
Terry and Robin are looking forward to eventually meeting the family who helped save Robin’s life. The family expressed the same feelings about meeting the woman they helped when she is out of the hospital.
“I can’t wait for my baby to get home,” Terry said.
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California may exclude Tesla from EV rebate program
California Gov. Gavin Newsom may exclude Tesla and other automakers from an electric vehicle (EV) rebate program if the incoming Trump administration scraps a federal tax credit for electric car purchases.
Newsom proposed creating a new version of the state’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program, which was phased out in 2023 after funding more than 594,000 vehicles and saving more than 456 million gallons of fuel, the governor’s office said in a news release on Monday.
“Consumers continue to prove the skeptics wrong – zero-emission vehicles are here to stay,” Newsom said in a statement. “We’re not turning back on a clean transportation future – we’re going to make it more affordable for people to drive vehicles that don’t pollute.”
The proposed rebates would be funded with money from the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which is funded by polluters under the state’s cap-and-trade program, the governor’s office said. Officials did not say how much the program would cost or save consumers.
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They would also include changes to promote innovation and competition in the zero-emission vehicles market – changes that could prevent automakers like Tesla from qualifying for the rebates.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who relocated Tesla’s corporate headquarters from California to Texas in 2021, responded to the possibility of having Tesla EVs left out of the program.
“Even though Tesla is the only company who manufactures their EVs in California! This is insane,” Musk wrote on X, which he also owns.
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Those buying or leasing Tesla vehicles accounted for about 42% of the state’s rebates, The Associated Press reported, citing data from the California Air Resources Board.
Newsom’s office told Fox Business Digital that the proposal is intended to foster market competition, and any potential market cap is subject to negotiation with the state Legislature.
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“Under a potential market cap, and depending on what the cap is, there’s a possibility that Tesla and other automakers could be excluded,” the governor’s office said. “But that’s again subject to negotiations with the legislature.”
Newsom’s office noted that such market caps have been part of rebate programs since George W. Bush’s administration in 2005.
Federal tax credits for EVs are currently worth up to $7,500 for new zero-emission vehicles. President-elect Trump has previously vowed to end the credit.
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California has surpassed 2 million zero-emission vehicles sold, according to the governor’s office. The state, however, could face a $2 billion budget deficit next year, Reuters reported, citing a non-partisan legislative estimate released last week.
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