DBD 6.27.08 Congrats! Edition

by TwistNHook on Jun 27, 2008 7:50 AM PDT

Congrats to all the NCAA men's basketball players drafted into the NBA yesterday. Lots of Pac10 players. And a special congratulations to Ryan Anderson (who went to Yellow Fever's beloved Nets) and Devon Hardin (who went to the Sonics).

Here's a SFGate article on it. For the Dubs fans amongst us, they took some dude in the 1st round named Anthony Randolph.

via imgs.sfgate.com

Check out the SBN Dubs blogger, Golden State Of Mind for more information.

If you didn't see it in the thread yesterday, Cal is resupplying the tree sitters. A little. It is controversial, but I, for one, think it is a positive thing.

I definitely think that the tree-sitters are done for. For the first 18 months, they come and go as they pleased. Now, they are stuck up there. It's really only a matter of time. We already saw two come down.

New Jersey view on Anderson. It pales in comparison to this article from the Boston Herald. That article talks about both Anderson and Hardin's draft parties.

"It feels like 100 pounds has been lifted off of my body." The 6-foot-10 Anderson, who is the first Cal player to be selected in the first round since guard Ed Gray in 1997 (22nd to Atlanta), felt he had a good workout and interview with the Nets earlier this month. Scouts told him that he would have to work on his strength, quickness and defense, but there was no question about his ability to shoot. During a remarkable sophomore season at Cal, Anderson hit 41 percent of his 3-point attempts (64-for-156) and was an 87 percent free throw shooter. He also averaged 9.9 rebounds per game.

While Anderson’s wait was relatively short, former Cal teammate DeVon Hardin’s emotions were on hold from the time the last few picks of the first round were announced. The suspense finally ended when Seattle chose the center with the 20th selection of the second round (50th overall).

Hardin, who held his draft party at a downtown Oakland restaurant, then immediately hugged former Bears teammate and current Boston Celtic Leon Powe as his emotions bubbled to the surface.

Also, Derek Trucks is coming to town at the end of July. He's a great guitarist and you should check him out.

Congrats to all the people drafted yesterday. And especially our beloved UC Cal Golden Bears! Go Bears!

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A most ingenious paradox

I just noticed that the disclaimer at the end of these fanposts suggests both that Twist’sNHook’s opinions are not his own, and in fact that they are twice as important as his own.
Someone’s got some explaining to do.

by joffle on Jun 27, 2008 8:57 AM PDT 0 recs

To understand this paradox is to know TwistNHook

Really, when you meet the guy, it makes perfect sense. Trust me.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jun 27, 2008 9:01 AM PDT up 0 recs

Well, the first can be easily answered. I am a rogue apart from my other 4 friends. They refuse to acknowledge me as part of the CGB opinion.

As to whether my own opinion can be twice as important as my opinion, well, I’ll leave that question for the historians to decide. Yes. The historians.

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by TwistNHook on Jun 27, 2008 9:02 AM PDT up 0 recs

Interesting article in the Daily Planet. Since Cal did something good for the tree-sitters, it is the most stunningly reasonable piece of journalism to come out of that paper. They can’t rail and scream like normal.

But czech this out:

The decision by the tree-sitters to accept water from campus police disappointed some of their supporters on the ground, in part because a decision hadn’t been reached collectively.
"They’re trying to divide us," said one

See, this re-supply is having positive effects already. Splintering the supporters. I love how the ground support is upset that they couldn’t have a voice as to whether to accept the water. Its not them up there. Shows how self-absorbed they truly are. “Ok, yeah, they accepted water because they are thirsty up in the trees, BUT THEY DIDNT LISTEN TO ME FIRST?

“

"Save The Oaks: Overthrow Capitalism" said Dumpster Muffin sanguinely

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by TwistNHook on Jun 27, 2008 9:31 AM PDT 0 recs

The University should go all

“evil white man” on the treesitters and give them smallpox infected water. That’ll bring them down. Hey, it worked against the savage Indians, didn’t it?

by oaktownmario on Jun 27, 2008 10:47 AM PDT up 0 recs

Rodgers & Asomugha reference

In this SI article, it is mentioned that Asomugha wants to be a color commentator and that Culpepper turned down an offer to be Rodgers’ backup.

by HydroTech on Jun 27, 2008 11:46 AM PDT 0 recs

The Register of Actions at Domain Web now says this:

06/26/08 Order Shortening Time Reservation Set for dept: 512 date: 07/01/2008 time: 10:00 AM

06/27/08 Objections of The Regents of the University of California Filed

06/27/08 Response Summary of June 27 Filings & Relief Sought Therein Filed

06/27/08 Response to June 18th Order in anticipation of the Court’s Intended Issuance of Peremptory Writ File

06/27/08 Motion to Modify Preliminary Injunction Filed by The Regents of the University of California

06/27/08 Motion to Modify Preliminary Injunction Hearing Confirmed for 07/22/2008 10:00 AM D- 512

Nothing scanned in yet. I doubt they’ll be scanned in before Monday, but hey, who knows?

"Save The Oaks: Overthrow Capitalism" said Dumpster Muffin sanguinely

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by TwistNHook on Jun 27, 2008 4:59 PM PDT 0 recs

They are still not posted on domainweb, but GreyBear has provided a link here to some documents that seem to be the university’s mammoth response, apparently gotten by other means?
So have at it, lawyers. It’s Friday night, live a little!

by joffle on Jun 27, 2008 6:35 PM PDT up 0 recs

oh damn

UC’s lawyers are going after it. They deleted the three parts of the SAHPC that altered CMS from the project, deleted the extra events at Memorial Stadium, which is what they needed to do to comply with the June 18 ruling, and ask that the injunction be lifted immediately. it’s a hefty filing, with LOTS of supporting cases. it will take time for the Judge to sift through it all and to give the petitioners time to respond, but it’s pretty clear that UC wants to break ground NOW.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jun 27, 2008 6:56 PM PDT up 0 recs

whoa damn...

They deleted the three parts of the SAHPC that altered CMS from the project, deleted the extra events at Memorial Stadium, which is what they needed to do to comply with the June 18 ruling, and ask that the injunction be lifted immediately.

I’m just getting back from a long day and have a long night ahead of me, but really? Wow. There is nothing more than I would like to see than the injunction being lifted and ground being broken within a month. I’m sure the UC foresaw that they would lose on the issues/alterations which violated whatever they violated and had this planned out months ago.

by HydroTech on Jun 28, 2008 9:11 AM PDT up 0 recs

timeline

the second document listed also notes that had construction begun on the SAHPC begun after the Regents approved it in December 2006, the project would have been completed around the summer of 2009. with 17 months of delay, we’re now looking at the end of 2010.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jun 27, 2008 7:18 PM PDT up 0 recs

read that

we knew that already didn’t we?

The entire project takes about two years to “complete”... but parts of the facility will incrementally come on line. Given the inherent danger of the CMS during an earthquake, the construction will try to move bodies out of the CMS asap. After the first year, you’ll have all the people out… after the second, the rest of the facilities will be ready to go.

I’m not making this up, i read this about a year ago… but can’t remember where.

Dude, Rag… did you read Bronstrom’s letter to the Judge? I was close to tears during some of it… great job by the Nate-dog, superbly argued… and its a trip reading the part about how football subsidies all the non-profitable teams and how important Tedford is (give numbers too). It really sums up the entire case so well. I’m currently reading the letter by Vicky (chief of police).

just as a teaser… check out this exhibit:

LIST OF VIOLATIONS AND ARRESTS AT THE SAHPC PROTEST SITE
The following enforcement actions were taken at the protest site from December 2, 2006, to April 23,2008:

(49) citations issued for trespassing
(13) citations issued for unlawful lodging
(14) arrests for both trespassing and unlawful lodging
(10) arrests for trespassing, unlawful lodging, and resisting arrest
(1) arrest for unlawful lodging, violation of a stay-away order,
(18) arrests for battery upon a peace officer,
(11) arrested for violating a UCB seven day exclusion order
(32) arrested for violating a court order
(1) arrested for threatening the life of a peace officer
(2) arrested for public intoxication
(1) arrested for robbery from a PP-CS employee and attempted battery via urine
(1) arrested for furnishing marijuana
(1) citation issued for disturbing the peace of a UCB professor
(1) arrested for vandalism

by danzig on Jun 27, 2008 8:13 PM PDT up 0 recs

No arrests for turd throwing?

BTW Danzig I would be eternally grateful for you if you could make a fan post or something summarizing those letters and include in your colorful commentary. I can’t read leagalese (everyone specializes in read one specific thing and I picked code) so I would really really appreciate it if you could do that.

In other words, Go Bears!

by royrules22 on Jun 27, 2008 9:39 PM PDT up 0 recs

Sure

but i don’t know if oaktown is also reviewing it.

If he were to take the first 31 page doc, i’ll take the second and third documents… since I’ve already read them. The first doc is the more ‘legal’ of the documents.

The second and third docs are long, but are mostly in lay-form. Plus the 300 page third doc really is repetitive, submitting the same checklist doc over and over again for different people.

What does oaktown think?

by danzig on Jun 27, 2008 11:04 PM PDT up 0 recs

man, that second document is a vicious smackdown

the UCPD section has to be required reading…no legalese knowledge required.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jun 28, 2008 1:37 AM PDT up 0 recs

at first

i go so pissed when i was reading vicky’s letter… i couldn’t imagine what sort of idiots would think this would help their cause OR the trees… then it hit me…

I should be somewhat happy… their actions hurt their cause more than anything we could do… they destroy themselves… they also prove that they really don’t give a damn about the trees…

this helps us.

by danzig on Jun 28, 2008 1:00 PM PDT up 0 recs