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May New Home Sales Plunge; West Worst. Wall Street Stunned
"tea bagger": third millennium carpetbagger?— June 23, 2010 10:45 p.m.
Gen. McChrystal, Rolling Stone, and a Supreme Court Interpretation of the Patriot Act
RE #3: Bets are that there's some money to be made if McChrystal writes a book. Personally, I'd like to see his critique of Dupuy's A GENIUS FOR WAR, but I doubt it would get him on Oprah. There does seem to be a lot of former general and flag officers involved with the Shaw Group. It's kind of interesting how Shaw Group does not appear implicated in the Gulf of Mexico mess, but maybe deep sea isn't their thing.— June 23, 2010 10:40 p.m.
Gen. McChrystal, Rolling Stone, and a Supreme Court Interpretation of the Patriot Act
RE #2: It remains to be seen how many of McChrystal's staff and subordinate commanders decide to retire with him. Perhaps the current state of the economy will convince them to stay until all have their 20 years in. Senior military commanders need to understand the gonzo journalist's need to be famous in print... especially if the multi-starred tabloid target is wearing a West Point ring.— June 23, 2010 10:05 p.m.
May New Home Sales Plunge; West Worst. Wall Street Stunned
As for DJIA, 10300 or so is comfortably in that sideways range for the rest of the year that I had been hoping for. My conditional DJIA magnet is 10100-10650 if BP stays BP for the rest of the year. Of course, the double-dip thing if it does happen may lower that range considerably... just in time for the elections!— June 23, 2010 10:32 a.m.
May New Home Sales Plunge; West Worst. Wall Street Stunned
Stunning. Time will tell if this is symptomatic of a double-dip in Q3/Q4.— June 23, 2010 9:59 a.m.
Today's News: San Diego City Council to Forgive $$$,$$$$,$$$ in Redevelopment Loans & Interest after 2009?
NB: For the 2PM afternoon session that includes Item 203, see the agenda with meetid=715. The 10AM morning agenda which does not include Item 203 is meetid=716. Unfortunately, this is the agenda that is available for public viewing, not the afternoon session with meetid=715.— June 22, 2010 5:22 p.m.
Bypassing Adulthood in San Diego
RE #14: The coed cuties only want me for my mind. That, and some wicked back massage techniques as stress reduction while prepping them for mid-terms and finals.— June 22, 2010 9:37 a.m.
Army sergeant comes back to San Diego from Afghanistan
RE #53: 2/3 wasn't in existence for 30+ years. During the RIF years immediately after Vietnam and not until Afghanistan and Iraq in this millennium, there was only most of the reinforced battalion 1/3 at Fort Myer, VA in the Regular Army, with A/1/3 at Ft. Leslie J. McNair in downtown DC (often in Revolutionary War battledress); 3/3 hung around until the mid-1990s as a Reserve round-out battalion of the round-out brigade in the 6th Infantry Division. With only one evac wave lifting out live casualties as rumored above, I'd agree on calling 2/3 being "badly mauled" and not "wiped out to the last man" before it was inactivated in 1970 or so, well before the end of that Conflict; 2/3 appears to have resurfaced in 2001 as part of a Stryker Brigade Combat Team, reportedly earning a 7th Presidential Unit Citation in 2008. I'd probably have to travel to the Old Guard Museum at Ft. Myer to find out if 2/3's 6th was for a mauling in Vietnam, and exactly where in Vietnam that mauling took place. The unofficial rumor I was given in 1976 as part of a verbal unit history in "new man" training was that 2/3 was in the company of a South Vietnamese regiment that refused to enter the valley where 2/3 supposedly bought it.— June 21, 2010 2:30 p.m.
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I would recommend the FREE TO US CITIZEN courses offered at FEMA's Emergency Management Institute, specifically EMI's online 7-course Professional Development Series (PDS). PDS certification covers Exercise Design (IS-139), Fundamentals of Emergency Management (IS-230), Emergency Planning (IS-235), Leadership & Influence (IS-240), Decision Making & Problem Solving (IS-241), Effective Communication (IS-242), and Developing & Managing Volunteers (IS-244). http://training.fema.gov/IS/searchIS.asp?keywords… JOB SEARCH HINT: EMI PDS certification could be a factor for employers to reduce insurance costs through better on-site emergency preparedness by employees AND JOB APPLICANTS. Did I mention that EMI PDS certification is FREE? PDS appears to be FEMA's version of Army OCS for churning out 90-day wonders as emergency managers/volunteer organizers, but on a much faster basis, and at much lower cost than the above alleged "'How To Be a Corporate Douche Bag' BS"... The choice is yours. Get certified. Be a local hero in a disaster. Your neighbors just may appreciate it someday.— June 21, 2010 1:29 p.m.
Auditor Spanks San Dieguito H.S. over Bond Disclosures
It is unfortunate but true that many public meetings of local legislative bodies are held before empty rooms, with little or no participation by members of the press or general public. It even more unfortunate that those local legislative bodies are populated by people having no skills when it comes to understanding financial statements, are poor communicators to the public of what they do understand, or are simply enthralled by the attention they receive from special interests that don't want full disclosure of financial arrangements being made by those legislative bodies in the first place.— June 21, 2010 12:27 p.m.