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City Advertising for Redistricting Support Services
I would take Mr. Bauder's bet if we were flies on the wall, and could be certain how this redistricting plays out. The gang that runs this city is past the ceremony of innocence of winks and nods. As the sage of the age might put it, this redistricting is f###ing golden and they're not giving it away to some outside group. If I were betting, I would bet that the redistricting was decided months ago, perhaps even before they proposed the new seat, and that they also know the cronies they will hire to sanctify the Gerrysander. These crooks aren't idiots, they only fake it on the witness stand.— March 27, 2011 10:29 a.m.
City Advertising for Redistricting Support Services
Time was when fatcats could slice and dice our democracy at no charge to the public, now they are so morbidly obese they can't board the construction crane that formerly took them to the smoke filled room, and must hire someone to do the raping for them at public expense, with the Cuban cigars on expense account. Slice and dice as they will, this city is going Democratic.— March 26, 2011 2:24 p.m.
City Advertising for Redistricting Support Services
Jerry Sanders soliciting gerrymanders?— March 25, 2011 3:17 p.m.
U-T Employees Restive Again -- Understandably
Pay no attention to rumors started by boasting girlfriends, Psycholizard in no way refers to 'Liz and Dick'.— March 25, 2011 3:03 p.m.
U-T Employees Restive Again -- Understandably
Older customers are more set in their ways, and therefore more resistant to advertising. It's easier to start a habit than change a habit, that's why they pitch booze to the young, before they become the stubborn drunk that changes wives far more often than whiskey brands. The newspapers don't need very young readers to sell advertising, they need them to start the habit of reading in their spending years.— March 23, 2011 7:34 p.m.
O’Connor Sisters Battle German Bank Over Heritage House
Holding vacant real estate invites homeless, crack houses, pot farms, and mischief generally. Mendocino is famous for pot cultivation, and the best place to do this is someone else's property. I have no information beyond this, and my remark was intended as a joke to underscore the nuisance of holding foreign vacant property.— March 23, 2011 6:52 p.m.
O’Connor Sisters Battle German Bank Over Heritage House
Keep the title in your right hand until the money is in your left. After that you can get fancy. Defending a foreign bank's title in front of a California jury seems risky regardless of the facts, and with the pot farm undoubtedly on the facility now, the government might seize it. I'll bet the bank tosses the title back at a price. With property taxes and maintenance it must bleed well into the six figures, and thats before the legal fees and bad publicity.— March 23, 2011 4:18 p.m.
U-T Employees Restive Again -- Understandably
Finding younger readers involves finding younger writers, but don't think talented primary school students are going to work for piddling UT pay. They are rhyming the news in rap songs, and drawing comic books, they know where the money is. To know the future, listen to the young.— March 23, 2011 3:32 p.m.
Fed to Release Information on Wall Street Loans during Crisis
I'm puzzled by SP's repeated use of the 'banana republic' metaphor. Firstly bananas are healthy and delicious. Secondly it implies a nation dominated by export. We wish this were so. Finally it implies that the big banks are new and not american, when in fact monetarism, the control of the economy by banks, has been official stated policy for most of the life of the Republic. We called them banana republics because they became slaves of the banana buying corporations. We were slaves of the same type of corporations long before. May I suggest 'Fruitcake Republic'? This rich confection of canned fruits and raw nuts from all over the world clogs our arteries, but truly is a dish {and nation} to die for.— March 23, 2011 2:43 p.m.
Lerach: Don't Blame Public Union Members. Blame Wall Street
Compare unions with their main nemesis, the corporations. Right now corporations want to do the jobs of the public workers, from teachers, to prison guards, to park rangers. The public unions stand in the way. The SCOTUS has now given corporations largely unlimited rights to attempt to elect who they choose, and some on the court seem to believe that the pool of money that is a corporation has the same rights as an individual. Those that nod approvingly at this argument, often go on to argue that unions, which are pools of citizens, not money, have no absolute right to exist. These arguments can't exist together coherently unless you believe that money has more rights than the citizen. Bedrock philosophy for the Republican Party today. Unions must have every right the corporations have. Anecdote proves nothing, but consider Ross Perot. He formed a corporation that did work the government could have done itself. He kept billions for himself. No public worker has ever plundered that much tax money.— March 6, 2011 4 p.m.