Better numbers for the donor state (from each, to each)

Del's right: I was dazzled enough by the first site I came to comparing Homeland Security figures that I didn't look at it critically or go looking for a better presentation. The Federation of American Scientists has a

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I am El Sobrante: Spanish place names

So, due to issues of time zones and having an flist that takes several hours to read if I read it all (not that the flist has that many members, but its members are that prolific -- mostly the rss feeds from news organizations and I must admit I mostly only skim the headlines and it still takes forever), by the time I found Jo's Kentish Village game there were already 219 comments on it and I thought I better not (and I'm late already anyway but I don't want to go, which I will explain later when I come back).

So, I decided to name myself. I am not so much El Sobrante because I spent most of my childhood there but because it means "the leftover" because it was a corner between two Spanish land grants and I think that is cool. When I lived there, it was populated by factory workers and it had just been integrated by a Communist Party initiative (which is why we lived there). There was a bankrupt dairy farm across the street and a movie theater down on the San Pablo Dam Road (and a branch of Fry's, yes that Fry's, which was a grocery store chain at the time). On the roads leading up into the hills there were truck farms and a pig farm. If you went down the Dam Road a bit there were oil refineries. It was windy all winter and white-hot in the summer. Lots of grass fires. People tended to commute to Emeryville, Oakland, Richmond, Port Chicago to work, and the fire trucks came from Pinole. I think the police came from Richmond: the bookmobile certainly did. There was a lady down on the Dam Road who did ironing, and her house had a big horseshoe driveway and lots of prickly pears. If you walked up past Hillview School and kept going you'd be in Tilden Park right up behind the University of California.

Something El Sobrante has now that it didn't have when I was growing up is a sikh temple. There's an organization of El Sobrante Greens. Another thing it has is Save El Sobrante which appears to be an organization which wants to preserve the sprawly suburban character of the place? They don't want mixed-use, town-center type of development, but they do want development -- I think? It looks like they are opposed to land-use planning on principle. They have a bad link to some Santa Cruz right-wing thing.

What Spanish place name belongs to you?