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Romney gossip
I didn't think there were any movie theatres in DM. Maybe they mean Cinepolis in Carmel Valley?— November 22, 2012 8:34 p.m.
Romney gossip
He's a good husband taking his wife to see that Twilight movie - I'm assuming that Twilight wouldn't be the first choice of too many guys.— November 22, 2012 8:33 p.m.
Hispanic vote calls shots in San Diego
I think the GOP screwed up with it's handling of illegal immigration. One side of the GOP (business leaders relying on cheap labor) made sure that immigration laws haven't been enforced for the last 30 years - thus letting a lot of illegal immigrants into the U.S.. . Eventually many of those illegal immigrants got amnesty (86) and are now legal citizens; more recent illegal immigrants have had children who are now legal citizens. The other side of the GOP made a lot of noise and statements that offended recent immigrants (including legal children of illegal immigrants and prior illegal immigrants now legal due to amnesty) and helped push them away from GOP.— November 21, 2012 8:30 a.m.
Did Sanders trade his DeMaio support for chamber job?
How much does anyone's endorsement really affect (effect? I can never figure that grammar out) any election? I would think for major elections endorsements are pretty far below party affiliation, political positions, likeability, and advertisement spending in terms of changing outcome.— November 10, 2012 7:15 p.m.
Lou Schooler and John Schooler's dubious schemes
Pretty sad state of affairs I guess.— November 5, 2012 9:03 p.m.
Lou Schooler and John Schooler's dubious schemes
Thank you. From a lay persons' perspective it seems to me that in most cases the courts try to do the right thing. It's just in some cases it may be complicated to figure out what the right thing really is. But this case seems pretty simple to me. Lie orally then tell the truth in writing - there's still a big lie in there.— November 5, 2012 2:42 p.m.
Lou Schooler and John Schooler's dubious schemes
"I don't know about the time thing, but I read the fine print of everything I sign...and I ask questions. " Totally irrelevant as to whether or not fraud was committed.— November 5, 2012 7:44 a.m.
Lou Schooler and John Schooler's dubious schemes
"I read the fine print of everything I sign...and I ask questions." Well, that is certainly good advice in theory. However, I find your claim difficult to believe unless you really have extreme amounts of free time. You really read and understand EVERYTHING you read and sign? Thanks to sleazy lawyers and stupid or corrupt judges ,we are all inundated with pages of fine print in all aspects of life. Wading between the important fine-print vs. the non-important "boiler-plate" fine-print is not easy except for an extremely skilled expert.— November 5, 2012 7:43 a.m.
Lou Schooler and John Schooler's dubious schemes
“If a literate, competent adult is given a document that in readable and comprehensive prose says X (X might be, ‘this is a risky investment’) and the person who hands it to him tells him, orally, not-X (‘this is a safe investment’), our literate competent adult cannot maintain an action of fraud.” This quote troubles me. This seems to imply to me that it's OK to lie to someone as long as you tell them the truth in the fine print somewhere. I disagree with this position from the panel - I do not think it's reasonable. Nobody has time to read all the fine print in all the complex documents we are given - let alone to fully understand all their implications. Fine print should only clarify details and what happens in unusual situations. Fine print should NEVER completely contradict anything that's said orally or in large print. If it does then, in my view, fraud HAS beeen committed.— November 1, 2012 6:46 a.m.
Local law school has one of worst employment records
I think the parallels to housing are pretty strong and the solutions I would recommend are similar. Big flaws in the logic used to jusity all the loans and federal programs. Cause vs. correlation flaw in logic. In both cases the basic reasoning is "X is good. (X = home ownership or more education). Therefore more of X is even better. Therefore, we should do whatever we can to encourage more X. Therefore the federal government should provide or facilitate easy loans to people so they can afford more of X.". At the same time, as has been discussed often in these forums, the financial sector has not been properly regulated to prevent excessive risk-taking at big financial firms. And the student loans have these weird exceptions (e.g. no loan forgiveness at personal bankcrupty) which also encourage the financial firms, and schools, to take short term risks. All these policies have clearly created bubbles in student loans and tuition. The only question now is do we have a catastrophic crash or a more controlled crash. We really should stop adding fuel to the bubble now. I would do the following: - Remove loan forgiveness exception for bankruptcy - doesn't seem fair. - Gradually start raising interest rates for federal student loan programs. Eventually phase out federal student loan programs. - Start putting pressure on universities to lower or at least freeze tuition rates (threaten federal research grant loss if necessary) - Start investigating trading in student-loan based securities. Based on the housing scandal, it's pretty much a sure thing that there are some risky and/or deceptive practices.— October 22, 2012 9:15 a.m.