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Lockout Fallout
The Las Vegas “Locos will hold open player tryouts at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas on Saturday, April 9; ================\ Im there!— March 16, 2011 9:57 p.m.
Are American Engineers in Short Supply?
The newly minted lawyers will be trained in the use of the law to continue the economic rape of the lower and middle classes. ============ Law is so over saturated that less than 50% of all graduating law students do not find work as lawyers. In fact that numbers was a few years ago, it may be 60-75% today. The University of Michigan, a top 10 law school, were allowing on campus interviews for firms that were outsourcing legal work to India-and their jobs required the law grads of UM- a top 10 law school-to move to Inida to supervise. Now you know we are in toruble when that happens.— March 16, 2011 9:49 p.m.
Are American Engineers in Short Supply?
We're doomed.— March 16, 2011 9:44 p.m.
San Diegan Gets Only Probation for Stashing Funds Offshore
Roger got a sweetheart deal, the misdemeanor was even dismissed under PC 1204.3, so he has a clean record now. If I was Roger I would not have done the plea deal and gone to trial, batter up!— March 16, 2011 5:53 p.m.
San Diegan Gets Only Probation for Stashing Funds Offshore
Interesting to note that the whistle-blower, Bradley Birkenfeld, who spilled the whole story of UBS hidden American accounts was convicted and sentenced to 40 months in jail ======================== Of course, that is how it works in a Banana Republic, the connected ones don't face liability and are not held accountable at all. BTW did you catch the "60 Minutes" segment on Birkenfeld????— March 16, 2011 5:51 p.m.
Are American Engineers in Short Supply?
But will it be abolished, with Wall Street and corporations controlling Congress? ============= If the H-1B visa scam is not dealt with-along with the rest of the idiotic labor policy we have in this nation-we are going to go bankrupt, which is the path we have been on the last 25 years. We are at the end of the rope, and just as San Diego and this state are upside down from numerous bad economic decisions and policy, so is the nation. I give the USA 10, 15 years max if we stay on our current path before the system implodes and chaos and anarchy take over. I give our state 3-4 more years max.— March 15, 2011 11:07 p.m.
Many Jobs Are More Dangerous Than Police, Firefighting
You can't have it both ways - you either reward these people for doing dangerous jobs, ============= We went through this already-the jobs are not dangerous, especially compared to the top 10. Graveyard shift at a 7-11 is 100 times more dangerous than cop, and that is the truth and can be proven up. with long hours, ==== They work the same hours as everyone else, a 40 hour work week for cop, 56 for FF, of which half is sleeping, cooking and working out. that are physically demanding, ============= Actually they are not physically demanding, at least half of a cops time is report writing, while sitting down, not to mention the same for patrol. or you accept sub-standard service when you are in need of assistance. =========== We already have substandard service, it cannot get much worse. Maybe a Ride-Along would change your mind. ================ I can guarantee you I know as much or more about cop work than you do.— March 15, 2011 10:59 p.m.
Many Jobs Are More Dangerous Than Police, Firefighting
Are roofers trained at a Roofing Academy? Police & Fire are highly trained. =========== The academy, in most cases, is 100% fully paid for by the agency, at FULL compensation. As Ponzi pointed out the trades have to go through a 4 year apprenticeship which includes 16 hours per month of classroom time (not compensated, unlike cop or ff) and of course 40 hours per week of on the job training. The skill stes are really very similar. I would state with 100% convcition the trades are FAR MORE physically demanding jobs. Cop and FF are GED jobs, nothing more. Cop/FF is neither a technical nor difficult job, and the vast majority of the people who can pass the 10th grade reading test, the very low level physical agility test and have a clean background (of which most are clean) could competently do the job. I strongly feel if the two jobs were filled by 100% objective civil service testing the make up of the jobs would eb 180 degrees different (these jobs are hired 100% subjectively now due to the so called "oral interview" resulting in huge amounts of nepotism and cronyism hires, not to mention the rubber stamp green light passes former military applicants receive).— March 15, 2011 10:54 p.m.
San Diego DA Bonnie Dumanis to Run for Mayor
Have you lived in San Diego very long? Women have served as mayor of San Diego; Maureen O'Connor, ============== Looking back over my quarter of a century here in San Diego, Mayor Mo is by FAR the best Mayor in my time period......at least that is my opinion. I think the worst is Sanders. I never cared for Golding, and she was in office when the pension bungles occurred, but Sanders is just a slimey, liar, dirtbag to me......— March 15, 2011 10:43 p.m.
San Diegan Gets Only Probation for Stashing Funds Offshore
The idiots that run the CA State Bar are a bunch of low life, pondscum, dirtbags that have no business being in charge of regulating lawyers-and it starts at the top, the CA Supreme Court who oversee the State Bar. They allow those dirtbags to engage in so much misconduct it boogles the mind. The more misconduct they get away with the more brazen they are in doing more. And it starts at the top. Yes, I am talkiing about YOU former State Bar President Sheldon Sloan-Head Clown Extraordinaire!!— March 15, 2011 10:39 p.m.