What about:

UC Rules!
Oak Tree Drools!

I think i’m going to set up a news site mocking BDP on the domain www.berkeleydailyidiot.com. Shouldn’t be too hard to do, is it worth it?

http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-07-24/article/30692?headline=Mayor-Reveals-New-UC-Letter-to-Angry-Audience-at-Post-Meeting-Press-Conference

Berkeley Daily Planet??
More like Berkeley GAYly Planet.
...Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

This ones even better

http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-07-24/article/30694?headline=Secret-UC-Berkeley-Letter-to-Council-Subverts-Democratic-Decision-Making

History will absolve UC Berkeley just at it has absolved Fidel Castro.

That’ll confuse the crap out of them.

A huge thank you to those B4Cal supporters that showed up at our daytime meetings with Berkeley Council members, as well as those that spoke up at last night’s open session of the Council preceding the closed session in which they decided to not appeal Judge Miller’s decisions.

While this is great news, we must continue to send letters to newspapers and Council members, applauding the decision and continue to promote our organization’s role in nurturing a more amicable dialog between the City and the University. The Oaks supporters and the Panoramic Hill supporters will be busy sending out their letters and opinions, trying to delay the initiation of construction of the SAHPC, as well as looking at interrupting the next phases of safety retrofit for Memorial Stadium.

“didn’t they claim to own poland too?”

I also claim that this newspaper is more biased than Fox News and an embarrassment to American journalism. Does that make it true? The day after the June 18th ruling was indeed your finest hour, such spin I had not seen since the great writings of Joseph Gerbils.

Your understanding of history is embarrassing because you have it completely backwards. Poland was once a part of Germany but it became a sovereign country just as the U.S. was a part of the British Empire and Kuwait was a part of Iraq. Things change as history moves on, in spite of how much people like you don’t want it to.

The land on which Memorial stadium was built once belonged to the City, but it was purchased legally and it no longer does. It was Hitler that said he would completely ignore Poland’s legal rights and take the land back by force, ignoring the devastating consequences to the Polish people.

Many decades later the terminally idle of Berkeley are completely ignoring the legal rights of the students and taking back the grove by force, regardless of the cost to the students.

Did the rule of law stop Hitler from acting out his selfish and evil desires… no. Will the rule of law stop the trespassers in the trees? If Hitler has taught us anything, the answer is also no.

Antonio Rossman speaks. It’s short and in my opinion completely inane.

As predicted, Judge Miller’s decision enabled the University to "find" their way out of it, with minimal environmental commitments. (Those promises about stadium use etc should be recorded as were the UC commitments when they acquired the blind school for Clark Kerr.) I am a bit surprised that she (to use your phrase) sliced and diced the costs; that is her discretion and proves as does her final order that she really believed that UC won the case as originally decided.

At least this time other plaintiffs still control the destiny of the litigation, in contrast to the unfortunate LRDP outcome. They will need to file an appeal this coming week and simultaneously seek a writ of supersedeas and immediate stay from the Court of Appeal. This can easily be done by competent counsel; it’s been done before on one day’s notice. The immediate stay should be easy, to preserve the status quo while the Court evaluates the claims for the writ (equivalent of a preliminary injunction). The potential appellants have a roadmap and in my view should follow it. Not only can they force reconsideration of the project; they could obtain all their costs and potential fees as well.

The City of Berkeley presents a sad example when it comes to litigation against UC. If you are going to war you resolve to complete the task; now not unlike Viet Nam and Iraq they are forced into a distasteful withdrawal because of poor foresight, planning, and resolve. Of course the comparison breaks down because the former were mistakes ab initio and post hoc, but in the stadium case there are several outcomes still possible much better for the university the city and the community.

You don’t bring a case like this without expecting that your victory will need to come on appeal.

I bolded a few notes in there.

1. Is he taking a swipe at Volker and Co. there? They’ve already screwed up their attempt to appeal somewhat.

2. The comment about war reveals their true motives (which we knew already). This isn’t about saving trees or remembering fallen war heroes. It is about power, plain and simple. In their view, UC has too much and they want to do what they can to stop it. I wonder if Rossman thinks about that any time he cashes his check from Boalt for being a guest lecturer.

CaliSeth’s favorite newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle has some insight into the question of 20 days or not 20 days. They say “yes.”

The appeal notice, filed Thursday and received by UC attorneys today, extends the injunction to a 20-day period that begins today, said Charles Olson, the lead attorney for UC in the case.

Whether the injunction will be extended beyond 20 days is up to the state Court of Appeal, Olson said.

The campus is preparing to move forward with the long-stalled project as soon as the injunction is lifted, UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said today. “We’ll be ready to go immediately..”

I like the way spokestud Mogs talks here. Immediately. That’s a kwality jib!

So, we were anticipating this 20 days thing. Moves us to mid-August. Frustrating, but not fatal. I think that without the City, the plaintiffs cannot get the injunction. So, it’s pretty much mid-August. What’s 20 days from now?

It would have made more sense for the plaintiffs to file on Tuesday, but I guess they wanted to have their appeal in to try to force the City’s hand. Saves us about 5 days.