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"Independent" Analyst Swayed National Expert To Soften Position on Appointed Auditor
Steve Francis just tossed his hat in the Mayor ring-and at this point ANYONE is better than KFC Sanders. Lets see how things shape up..... I think Mike Aguirre should run for Mayor.— January 14, 2008 6:10 p.m.
Group Protests Governor's Plan To Cut San Diego Lifeguards
JF never saw a tax he did not like- because he will be a direct beneficiary of it. Here is a idea-why not CUT salaries and benefits 10% across the board for every governement employee in the state-you have not seen that idea floated around have you?????— January 14, 2008 8:25 a.m.
Why the Strong Mayor Idea Won't Work with a Dishonest Mayor
JF January 12, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. Politicians willing to spend $25 million on fire protection rather than on renovating the Balboa Theater. _______________ Yes, what is with spending $25-$26 million on a THEATER renovation during a financial crisis?? Don't get me wrong, I don't think we should spend it on FF pensions either, but someone has their priorities upside down.— January 12, 2008 6:13 p.m.
SEC Won't Pursue Usana Further
Don, how exactly does one set up an offhsore account in Liechtenstein or the Isle of Man ????? Are there companies that do this here in the USA???? I have always thought it would be sort of complex to do something like this......— January 12, 2008 6:07 p.m.
El Cajon Headquarters of Hells Angels Now Shuttered
I've always be a Mongols type of guy.... JUST KIDDING ANGELS!!! Funny, but they had a special on Nat Geo or Discovery yesterday about a Federal Agent who infiltrated the Hells Angels AZ chapter, and the whole undercover op lasted 2 years and cost millions. Really turned out to be problems with the methods the feds used, because all the major charges were dropped. I think the Angels are made out to be worse than they are by the Feds (no, I dont think they're angels, but they're not the gangsters the FBI says they are).— January 11, 2008 11:11 p.m.
SEC Won't Pursue Usana Further
Barry is ZZZZ coolest guy around! I wonder how the defamation lawsuit is going?? That might be a can of worms that Usana does not want opened, because in lawsuits depositions are given under OATH...... Ask Marion Jones or Barry Bonds how these little things can trip you up......— January 11, 2008 11:04 p.m.
Why the Strong Mayor Idea Won't Work with a Dishonest Mayor
I think of Sanders just like I did of Randall Duke Cunningham. At first, like everyone, I NEVER would have thought that there was ANY hanky panky. I just did not think Cunningham could be corrupt. I was proven very wrong with Randall Cunnungham, and I am now thinking Sanders is cut out of the same mold.— January 11, 2008 8:56 a.m.
Countrywide Stock Zooms 55 Percent on Rumor B of A Will Buy It
Too late Don; B of A just made a 4.1 Billion dollar mistake this morning!!!!!! As for how far the sub prime mess will go, all I can tell is what my developer friends told me- that in 2005 and 2006 only 5-15% of their home buyers would qualify for a traditional 20% down fix rate loan on the homes they sold, or 85-95% were using sub prime/exotic loans to finance the homes. That tells me the problem is not big, but HUGE. In any event, I would not gamble any amount of money with that kind of potential liability, and certainly not 4.1 billion for a company teetering on BK.— January 11, 2008 8:53 a.m.
Countrywide Stock Zooms 55 Percent on Rumor B of A Will Buy It
Anonymous / sdblogger January 10, 2008 at 7:09 p.m. The taxpayers are going to be the real losers if Countrywide is sold to B of A. Countrywide is likely shoveling all the rotten loans on Countrywide Savings & Loan, and B of A will likley only buy the mortgage operations but not the S&L. The S&L will likely be seized by the regulators due to insolvency and the taxpayers will have pay off the depositors. ________________________ The government would not allow that-where ever the assets and liabilities end up- at a US BK Trustee or a Federal Bank Regulator, they would not allow all the assets to be siphoned off leaving only the liabilities for taxpayers. You simply cannot take the good and dump the bad. The US Trustee would simply undo all the fraudulent transfers of assets if they filed BK.— January 10, 2008 8:26 p.m.
Why the Strong Mayor Idea Won't Work with a Dishonest Mayor
Colonel Sanders = Lame Duck on his way out. You heard it here first.— January 10, 2008 8:19 p.m.