Every time I see a California plate here, I tell my wife "pretty soon they'll all be here, so then we can go live peacefully on the west coast", of course that's a pipe dream, but she's from California, so she laughs.
The problem with California is not the real Californians, it's all the people that moved there from New York and other east coast areas for collage and never left. My family has been in northern California since the 20's. Many of my friends families since the 1880's, and all very conservative common sense people. The liberal/progressive east coast professors that permiated the UC system in the 50's through the 70's drew all of the progressive from the east coast for the weather and beauty of the state coupled with a mindset that started in the 1890's in the east. It took decades, but they slowly corroded the horse sense of a very independently minded populas. Very sad, some of the best can land in the world has been built over to house morons. My grandfather left for Montana in the 70's because he couldn't take it anymore. I guess I'll go there myself when Colorado implodes.
Selling dead elephant parts for profit is morally repugnant. These are majestic creatures whose killing serves no legitimate purpose. Even if the killing is done by people of color in distant countries (i.e. people who are culturally superior to Americans).
But StemExpress can continue operations because selling dead baby parts for profit is okay. Their headquarters are located at 778 Pacific Street, Placerville, CA 95667 and could easily be shut down by CA legislature.
Those would be the same "culturally superior" individuals that are mutilating/amputating albino children within their own culture for profiteering purposes?
When a species (protected or not) is slaughtered for specific body parts/organs (and typically, but not always, illegally), and the remaining usable meat, hide, etc. is left to waste, it is repugnant.
I have no comment pertaining to the Stem Cell issue. That would be a whole other thread unto itself.
If the dims succeed in overturning TABOR, I'm out.