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City Council Delays Forgiving $288 Million in Loans Owed to City
RE #1: I'm learning by doing. For instance, I now know that any links to supporting documents for City Council docket items are changed by city staffers within a day of blog publication or correction, giving the "page cannot be found" error messages that one will find on the Scott Mercer link above. I did correct it early yesterday, but it's been changed again. So much for open government. Also, I've seemed to have stumbled on something called the San Diego Tourism Marketing District (http://www.sdtmd.org/) from looking at City Council agendas. I bet most people didn't know there was a BID-like entity just for San Diego hotels with 70 or more rooms...— June 25, 2010 11:15 a.m.
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I quit using Microsoft Office years ago when I found Sun's OpenOffice productivity suite available for FREE. http://www.openoffice.org/— June 24, 2010 11:39 a.m.
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Apparently, the San Diego Redevelopment Agency is attempting to operate as a non-profit as well, seeking to have its $288 million in loans originating from federal block grant funds forgiven by the San Diego City Council on July 13... http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/encanto-gas… If it IS a non-profit, then why is it planning on keeping all of that unauthorized interest on the mega-millions in forgiven loans?— June 24, 2010 11:35 a.m.
Doing Europe: Prague, Czech Republic
Off-topic triumphant note to Fred: Prop. 16 failed at the ballot box! We won!!— June 24, 2010 10:42 a.m.
May New Home Sales Plunge; West Worst. Wall Street Stunned
"What will replace it is yet to be seen." I plan on being an instigator...— June 24, 2010 10:35 a.m.
Be prepared for second recession in Calif.
I'm no economist, but I do have training and some experience in systems analysis and design, so I tend to look at markets initially as black boxes, more interested in inputs and outputs than in processes that are hard or practically impossible to observe without having attended the right prep school earlier in life. This is just my thought, but the most important input that our economy is now missing is some long-term goal, where goal-stimulated income from productivity becomes sufficiently large that ordinary people feel we can live with the enormous long-term debt we have piled up lately, for whatever reasons. If we were sufficiently productive, Arizona would not have resorted to the tried-and-true indicator of a weak economy, attempting to kick out the Mexicans, and we could look forward to paying down this debt if not in our lifetimes, then in our children's. Without that goal, we can expect consumer confidence to be as thin and weak as it is now... and unfortunately, the way things are will most likely remain as they are, with no incentive for the artificial persons now tied to politicians in both parties to press for the sort of change in direction that may force them to actually work for a living, or at least work for us rather than against us ordinary folk.— June 24, 2010 9:55 a.m.
May New Home Sales Plunge; West Worst. Wall Street Stunned
Not being at all familiar with F. Hayek on micro-economics, I did a quick worldcat.org search and found HAYEK ON HAYEK: http://www.worldcat.org/title/hayek-on-hayek-an-a… The initial search also turned up some nice book covers featuring Selma. In the meantime, I can plan a trip to SDSU's library or USD's... and there are other interesting Hayek titles, such as CAPITALISM AND THE HISTORIANS and THE ROAD TO SERFDOM...— June 24, 2010 9:34 a.m.
Gen. McChrystal, Rolling Stone, and a Supreme Court Interpretation of the Patriot Act
RE #5: At least with Article 15 non-judicial punishment, there's no federal rap sheet...— June 24, 2010 2:03 a.m.
Market Abhors Cypress Bioscience Deal
The drug BL-1020 was really recently renamed CYP-1020, so an Internet search for CYP-1020 is fruitless. BL-1020 appears to be some sort of ester of a gamma-amino-butyric acid (GABA) used as a GABAergic agonist that concurrently seems to block dopamine and serotonin receptors, producing a more wide-awake treated schizophrenic. While GABA doesn't appear to be well-absorbed into the brain, esterized GABA in the form of BL-1020 (now CYP-1020) clearly showed brain penetration when tagged radioactively... at least in rats. Unaltered GABA itself appears to be important as an indicator of the onset of schizophrenia. I have no clue of what I just wrote means, but I'm not sleepy at all! (should've taken that organic chemistry class...) As for the stock price falling, maybe it's because nobody can find any clinical trial info on CYP-1020 (see above). On the other hand, I did find this: http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/… Idiot's analysis: maybe the sellers have got this one wrong? Retarded idiot's RISKY analysis: time to buy?— June 23, 2010 11:51 p.m.
Jerry’s power play
Hmmm... one would think there was a Point Loma or OB planning group with interest in this... or a coastal commission? Maybe the proposed anti-big-box ordinance should be an anti-big-box/stadium/methane-breathing-power-plant ordinance. I know! Let's build a power plant in La Jolla, so UCSD can study it to death!— June 23, 2010 11:08 p.m.