>Which of these are you responsible for and hold patents for their invention?

TV: Philo Farnsworth, late 1920s, in San Francisco of all places (Farnsworth discovered the key breakthrough which made electronic TV practical)
The permanent magnet loudspeaker: 1919, Jensen & Pridham, Magnavox, Napa, CA (Jensen was a Danish immigrant)
Audio amplifiers: also 1919, in what is now called Silicon Valley, building on DeForest's audion
Audio tape, video tape: Ampex (and Bing Crosby), late 1940s, still in Redwood City (and founded by a emigrant from Russia)
klysrton tube: Varian brothers, 1937, Stanford University
The computer mouse: D. Englebart, 1963, Stanford Research Institute, Palo Alto
The U-2, the SR-71, the stealth fighter: Lockeed Skunk Works, Burbank, CA, adjacent to Burbank airport (Kelly Johnson and Ben Rich)
Plutonium: discovered and first manufactured by Glenn T Seaborg & associates a the Rad Lab above the UC Berkeley campus during the Manhattan Project. I suppose we could go on to consider the Manhattan Project itself, run by Cal Berkeley physics professor Robert Oppenheimer and the current IFE (fusion power) work going on at the Livermore labs.

>The financial condition of many of the cities in California is proof of the lack of responsible leadership in the state.

Since when have pols in any party in any country been responsible?

>This problem is nationwide however California and Washington DC are the hands down leaders of fiscal stupidity.

I would rank Texas and Wisconsin right up there too, perhaps even Illinois. When you refer to the current state of economic shortfalls and the stagnation in Congressional appropriations, then we have to look at the Cheney-Rumsfeld-Bush administration's precipitous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In this case, I agree with you 200% because you don't spend money on such a scale without developing a source of funding -more taxes- to avoid serious financial repercussions down the line, which is exactly what's happening (although it's Obama's fault --- NOT).

>High Speed Rail will be California's downfall if a major earthquake doesn't save America from the mindless leadership of the Golden State.

I agree that high speed rail, in no matter which state, is one of the biggest financial black holes to come down the pike. As for the rest of it, yadda yadda yadda.

>I would love to buy Pacific oceanfront property in Nevada.

Never happen -- look at the geologies of the Sierra Nevada, Coast Range, and plate tectonics. In fact, LA will eventually become a western suburb of SF, not that either city will be around by then.

Limbaugh's Rule #1: never let objective truth spoil your fantasies.