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At Last, True Thai
Oops, the email bounced. Naomi, how can I send you inappropriate pictures when you give me a bad address...you tease!— March 27, 2009 2:14 a.m.
San Diego tribute bands: 40 Ounces to Freedom (Sublime), Dust N’ Bones (Guns N’ Roses), Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin)
Yo, Spliffy, I'ze all rightin and shytt 'cuz Satan he done took ova my keybode an be makin me do it. Ain't no thang...— March 27, 2009 12:57 a.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
Hey, JW... Where's my invitation to Donovan's? I'm hurt! (*sniff) Here I thought we were best buddies, but now you're two-timing me with Don Bauder, of all people. Humph!— March 27, 2009 12:46 a.m.
At Last, True Thai
Naomi, I've sent you an email with inappropriate pictures of myself riding a pink tank down Wenceslas square. I'm considering entering a new line of work...emergency dishwasher. Teaming up with you, I'll go to the restaurants you favorably review just as the tsunami of customers hits. They'll pay any price to have my professional dish washing skills on site. We'll make a killing, Naomi! I'm looking forward to your reply...but if you don't like my dish washing proposal, then be sure to have a good look at the email I forwarded you from my business associates in Nigeria. Best, fred— March 27, 2009 12:44 a.m.
San Diego tribute bands: 40 Ounces to Freedom (Sublime), Dust N’ Bones (Guns N’ Roses), Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin)
SpliffAdamz writes a lot of stupid annoying bulls***, but that still makes him a writer. Case closed. Mark W. WAS a rapper, just an annoying and stupid rapper, like SpliffAdamz is an annoying and stupid writer. The difference is that Mark W. parleyed that annoyingly lightweight rap song ("Feel it, feel it!") into a highly successful acting career, while SpliffAdamz is just a loser with a loose keyboard who would rather pick pointless fights over minutia than write something interesting. Spliff, please go roll yourself a fatty and calm the f*** down, or go to your Pentecostal congregation and roll on the floor while rapping in tongues.— March 26, 2009 8:28 a.m.
High-Dollar Doctor
Just how much money does it take to "motivate" people? Research shows that after a certain point, the extra money means nothing. That point is well under a million dollars. This nonsense has to stop. It's time for a maximum wage for those who work for the public. If you can't live on $100k, then it's time to scale back your lifestyle, not demand yet anther raise paid by the rest of us who are all cutting back in these hard times.— March 26, 2009 7:04 a.m.
Shed a Tear: Top Hedge Fund Managers' Average Pay Dropped 48% Last Year -- to $464 Million
SDXpat is one smart cookie. I couldn't agree more.— March 26, 2009 7 a.m.
Dog Eat Dog...Or, Prisoner
Josh, I think Margery just schooled you. A brief search on Google would have saved you some embarrassment. Even I knew that dogs regularly die from racing the Iditarod. And what's with the joke that if a prisoner is mauled he sues everyone? Have you ever known anyone who's endured prison? It's no joke. I don't think you'd last five minutes in there before you were beat lifeless. The USA has the shameful reputation of maintaining the worst prisons in the entire industrialized world. Remember, over 800,000 of those prisoners have been convicted of nothing more than possession of marijuana...the same "crime" that our last three Presidents have admitted. When their sentence is up, the torture continues. They're out of luck when it comes to jobs, housing, or education. It's even worse for sex offenders who are now subject to monitoring so intrusive and unreasonable that it defeats the entire purpose. This includes teenagers who are labeled as violent predators because they took a picture of themselves on their phone and sent it to a friend...or a teen who received oral sex from another teen, and was then sentenced to ten years as a sex offender under Georgia's sodomy laws. Josh, you are employing a simplistic and hysterical approach to law-enforcement and corrections that is not much short of fascism. Your knee jerk approval of ALL police action and automatic assumption that ALL accused are guilty is really pitiful and moronic. You're smarter than that. Do some damn research already! With loving kindness, Your pal, Fred— March 26, 2009 6:54 a.m.
Pull Gun on Cop -- Collect $325,000!
I've read about this case, and Josh, the facts I saw were entirely different. In fact, there is significant evidence that we don't have a problem with criminals getting off...something like 95% of Federal prosecutions end with a conviction. Instead, what we've got is a system where too many innocent people get railroaded by dishonest cops and unaccountable prosecutors. The Innocence Project has used DNA testing to exonerate dozens of death-row prisoners. People who were wrongly convicted based on faulty evidence, manufactured evidence, paid prison informants, and outright prosecutorial misconduct. In addition, the police have been encouraged to believe that they are at war. Hence, they behave as if "civilian" casualties are just collateral damage... regrettable but not avoidable. The ongoing militarization of our police is very dangerous for our society. The fact that they are frequently above the law themselves, and take real pleasure in beating anyone who dares question their authority, is bad enough. Then they throw you in jail too...or worse, just kill you. I've personally seen San Diego police deliberately escalate situations. Not once, but several times. It gives them an excuse to act macho and maybe beat someone down. When this is combined with SDPD's well-known steroid abuse problems, we've got to question all these shootings and whether they are justified. Josh, there are many people who automatically blame the police for every mistake. As a former member of the Crime Commission, I don't believe I'm in that category. But you seem to automatically believe the cops are infallible. They are NOT. In fact, given their heroic consumption of steroids and alcohol (there is NO random testing for steroids here, the POA blocked it), our local police are becoming less dependable by the day. Recheck your facts. I believe you'll find that in this case they don't substantiate your conclusions. The dead man did NOT "scuffle" with the officers. He hadn't even left his vehicle when he was shot, and there is NO evidence that he was reaching for anything...not even a fake gun. Those were lies fabricated by the officers covering up for their mistakes. The guy was killed by trigger-happy law enforcement. The award, given the facts of the case, is actually very modest.— March 26, 2009 6:35 a.m.
UCSD pays for trans-species project.
Vanishes, you make good points. If what you say is true, then it's sad that none of this made it into the article, which seemed to focus on the freak show value while ignoring the human/computer interface innovations you describe. My apologies. fred— March 26, 2009 6:20 a.m.