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Statistics released under a new measure of poverty on Monday showed more people overall living in poverty in the U.S. by taking into account 21st century costs of living and differences in geography.

The number using the new measure in 2010 was 16 percent of Americans, or 49.1 million, living in poverty — up from 46.2 million using the traditional measure.

Just because California didn’t have an election yesterday, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. There were elections and voting across the country in a number of important races, both on issues and candidates. And it looks like that anti-union, anti-abortion, and right-wing candidates and issues went down to defeat. Here’s a list:

• Anti-Union Law voted out: Ohio voters struck down a law supported by Republican Governor John Kasich that limited bargaining rights for police, firefighters and other state workers as a way for local governments to balance their budgets.

• Mississippi Against “Personhood”: Voters in Mississippi rejected a proposed state amendment that would have limited abortions by defining life as beginning with conception. Plus Mississippi voters rejected the amendment, which would have made Mississippi the first U.S. state to define a fertilized egg as a person, a controversial concept aimed at outlawing abortion, some types of birth control and infertility methods that result in the loss of embryos.

By Mike James / Special to the OB Rag

Last night I ordered a Godfather Pizza for dinner. Lo and behold stuck to the bottom of the box was the following memo.

Top Secret

Operation He Said She Said.

From the offices of Herman Cain for President:

Plan of Action and Talking Points.

1. Deny, Deny, Deny.

Editor: A Tulare County man has been accused of elder abuse and embezzlement of his elderly relatives – Julia and Harry Tuck – who lived in Ocean Beach at 4485 Pescadero Avenue. The article below is somewhat confusing as to whether the Tucks – who have since passed away – are parents or aunt and uncle of the accused.

By Luis Hernandez / Visalia Times-Delta / November 8, 2011

A Tulare man is facing felony charges of grand theft, embezzlement and elder abuse, making him subject to a possible eight-year prison sentence.

Keith Little, 47, entered a not guilty plea to the charges in Tulare County Superior Court in June and is due back in court Dec. 7 for a preliminary hearing. He was released on $100,000 bail.

Editor: Last week we ran an article about an Ocean Beach woman who was arrested when she returned home to find her neighbor’s apartment had a fire and she was refused entrance to her own bottom floor apartment on Cape May. A firefighter had found marijuana in Larissa Danielli’s apartment, and even though she had a medicinal marijuana card, she was still arrested. Since our original report, there was much speculation among commenters. Eventually, Larissa herself came onto the post and left several comments, giving her side of the story. We thought it important enough to place her comments into its own post.

By Larissa Danielli / Comments posted originally on November 7, 2011

I am the woman arrested.

I am the business owner of a DJ company. Upon arriving at the scene, I realized the police had not protected my very EXPENSIVE DJ equipment and were letting it be water damaged.

I repeatedly requested that they move my equipment to a safer place and up off of the floor. The officer refused and I kept repeating my request. He then arrested me for “obstruction of justice.”

In our most recent poll – and with the most participation ever in any poll the OB Rag has ever run – over 80% stated that they agree with views commonly shared by Occupy Wall Street protesters. 399 respondents voted in our poll that ran for one week beginning October 28, 2011. 82% declared that they support the OWS goals.

Only 15% said they disagree. 3% were not sure.

And to top it off, 17.5% said that they have been involved with the Occupy San Diego movement, or 70 respondents. This is astounding! And great!

We’ve been watching, knowing that this moment was about to happen!

Our 2,000,000 hit was from a fan in San Diego clicking in at 11:13 and checking out the article “Filming at Old Townhouse Restaurant begins November 8th.”

Congrats to everyone here at the OB Rag for your hard work and devotion, and congrats to this dedicated reader! We have a t-shirt for you! Contact us at obragblog@gmail.com and we’ll let you know how you can claim your prize.

Filming of a new feature film starts today, November 8th, at OB’s most famous “greasy spoon” – the Old Townhouse Restaurant.

Ted and Kathy Caplaneris’ family restaurant on Newport Avenue has been chosen – once again – as a location in a feature film. The film is being produced by White Night Productions, a locally family owned independent film company. The movie is called “Sports Heaven”.

Attorneys working on behalf of Occupy San Diego will be filing a temporary restraining order against the city of San Diego and the San Diego Police Department in response to the violation of protesters’ First Amendment rights. The attorneys will be holding press conference at 11 am this morning announcing their filing at the Civic Center Plaza.

Demonstrators in San Diego’s version of Occupy Wall Street have been attempting to exercise freedom of speech and assembly rights at the Civic Center Plaza, but have been chased out, have had their tents and belongings confiscated and dozens were arrested by police – 53 in just one sweep at 2 am on October 28th. Protesters believe that the Plaza is a centrally-located public space designed for use by the citizens to gather and express themselves.

A Facebook group calling themselves Make “Wall Street Banks Pay in California” is holding a planning meeting tomorrow night in City Heights and want your voice, your help and your ideas.

When:

Wednesday, November 9 · 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Where:

San Diego Workforce Partnership
3910 University Ave, San Diego, 92105
Free parking behind building

Now today Occupy San Diego is one month old! The first large march and encampment occurred on Friday, October 7th. The very next day, occupiers then moved over to the Civic Center Plaza where they’ve been ever since.

What has OccupySD accomplished in just this one month’s time? Here is our answer for starters:

• For one month now Occupy San Diego has joined the rest of the world in using a tactic begun by Egyptian protesters at the beginning of the “Arab Spring” – occupying public space to draw attention to demands to changes in the social and economic system.

• It has brought a local manifestation of the nation-wide Occupy Wall Street movement to San Diego – brought it here to our little town and created something close-up.

Editor: One century ago, in 1911, the last of the Northern California Yahi Indians was “discovered” near starvation. Given the name “Ishi”, he was brought into the White Man’s world – where he became an oddity and anthropological subject with few real friends among “the aliens” who had decimated his people.

By Espresso / Originally published Sept. 13, 2011

November, 1908: A surveyor team hired by the Oro Light and Power Company, accompanied by guide Merle Apperson traveled to Deer Creek, in the heart of Northern California’s Yana Tribes country. Assuming the country to be uninhabited, the crew went about its business with not a thought of the former occupants.