Use brains, stay in California

I find this assertion puzzling. Apparently you consider venture funds pouring into California for tech a GOOD thing, but funds pouring into Texas businesses a BAD thing. I don't understand the difference -- it's private funding. Should you not be railing against venture capital ruining our CA tech industries? Seems to me you are PRAISING this trend as a GOOD thing (which I agree with -- it IS a good thing).
— August 28, 2014 8:01 a.m.

Use brains, stay in California

You ARE correct -- I DID misread it. My apologies.
— August 28, 2014 7:56 a.m.

Use brains, stay in California

Don, it's okay to "doubt that adjusted for cost-of-living, Texas salaries are higher than those in California," but the evidence seems pretty strong that such is the case. Housing costs are a HUGE portion of a person's (especially a FAMILY's) COL. If you have statistics that refute this -- if the COL differential is significantly less than my sources say, please publish how much (with source, of course). Here's more to consider: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the 2012 median household income in California was $57,020. Texas was $51,926. Hence the median Texas household earns 91% of what a California household earns. Surely you understand that the COL differential is bigger than that 9% differential -- housing cost alone more than makes up this differential. Then there's that income tax difference to consider. https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/state…
— August 27, 2014 8:51 p.m.

UCSD = UC Seeking Diversity

NOTE: Here's an aspect of the anti-Prop 209 bill that most will overlook. Included in this new stealth quota system bill is a redress of the longstanding grievance against gender discrimination. It's gone on for generations and continues even today -- ask any liberal. But here's the thing: The bill will require what amounts to discrimination against the gender that is too frequently admitted -- you guessed it -- WOMEN. In 2010 the UC system admitted 95,403 women and only 84,178 men -- a PRIMA FACIE case confirming discrimination. I look forward to the innovative progressive implementation of this solution to gender discrimination. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jan/31/tp-bid…
— March 23, 2014 1:54 p.m.

UCSD = UC Seeking Diversity

Here's an article I wrote in early February on UC affirmative action efforts. There are stats there worth reviewing: "The 2014 California University Jew and Asian Student Admission Quota Act" by Richard Rider A misguided Associated Press "story" says: "In 1995, minority students accounted for 38 percent of high school graduates and 21 percent of those entering as University of California freshmen, Hernandez [a principal proponent of the bill] said. By 2004, they made up 45 percent of high school graduates but 18 percent of incoming UC freshmen, he said, adding the gap is growing." But go look at the official stats of the demographics of 2013 incoming UC freshman: http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_201… (end of the table) So, what's the percentage of incoming freshmen who are white (INCLUDING the vague "other" category)? 28.1% -- well BELOW the percentage of whites in California (42.3%). And BTW, note that this table shows that the percentage of the selectively designated "oppressed" minority admissions is NOT shrinking -- it's remarkably level. The drop they ballyhoo is the ending in 1996 of the disastrous and discriminatory quota system that existed before we passed Prop 209 to make such discrimination illegal. This bill is not about countering white privilege. It's about setting up restrictive DE FACTO quotas for ASIANS -- which constitute a (supposedly evil) disproportionately high 36% of admissions vs. 14.9% of the CA population. Apparently these Asian kids "act white" FAR better than even WHITE kids act white! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Cali… To make the numbers being used to justify the bill favorable, the affirmative action (not quotas, of course) sponsors made the Asians minority part of the "white" majority (which is not a majority). Ipso presto, discrimination abounds!! Such racist dishonesty is breathtaking -- until one realizes that, well, this IS California. It's okay to discriminate against Asians in the Golden State -- just as it was once acceptable to establish informal admission quotas on high-performing Jews at Ivy League colleges a century ago. ---- SAN DIEGO U-T BID TO UNDO BAN ON USING RACE AT SCHOOLS State Senate OKs putting affirmative action on ballot By Associated Press 12:01 a.m.Jan. 31, 2014 To read the article, go to the link: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jan/31/tp-bid…
— March 23, 2014 1:52 p.m.

Proxy war between Paul Jacobs and San Diego contractors in Sac Town

At first it's puzzling why the Jacobs family -- NBA Sacramento Kings co-owners -- would favor a mandated project labor agreement, driving up the cost of the team's new sports arena by $70 million dollars or more. But the answer is obvious -- though the Kings team owners will profit mightily from the new sports arena, it's the hapless Sacramento TAXPAYERS who will pay for most or all of the cost. And the Jacobs family doesn't even LIVE in Sacramento! Well, if any city in California has to be screwed by such foolish extravagance, it's poetic justice that it's our profligate state capital.
— September 10, 2013 12:14 p.m.

Twisted tongue

With great fanfare, legal vulture Gloria Allred has swooped in to San Diego to feast on the carrion that is Bob Filner. Dead meat.
— July 23, 2013 12:38 a.m.

Twisted tongue

Wanna bet?
— July 23, 2013 12:37 a.m.