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Naysayer
"What a shame that we cannot have better people on these boards..." Agreed... and there is still the need to have informed people in the public at large just to keep the board members honest. After all, I was one of the vast majority in Southeast San Diego whose only contact with my local redevelopment agency was receiving those colorful postcards from Carolyn Smith's outfit every few months or so...— September 9, 2008 2:10 p.m.
Slippery SEDC bonus requests underneath City Council radar
I am contemptuous of myself for not having discovered stevia earlier. Right now, I'm darn close to my old Army weight. Since I started using stevia, a cup of coffee is worth a scant teaspoon of sugar, mostly for that unique sugar flavor. Back when a cup of joe was worth three heaping tablespoons to me, I weighed 255 pounds. Anything that can get a no-exercising keyboarder like me to drop over 50 pounds without dieting or otherwise changing my eating habits can't be a bad thing!— September 9, 2008 1:27 p.m.
We'll See No More of Giants
The experience of wandering through the bookstore is part of the reason I became a shelver at the County Law Library for awhile, decades later... Chuck once found a Calculus III text I needed at USD, retailing for about $75 on campus in the early 90s. He let it go for $7.50 and threw in the study guide for good measure. Later, his was the one place I knew I would find a copy of Tom Apostol's Calculus...— September 9, 2008 9:22 a.m.
Slippery SEDC bonus requests underneath City Council radar
Response to off-line comment: A former client for accounting tutoring referred to me as a "dolt" for concluding the "overtime, temporary, bonus" budget line was a single item. Her interpretation was that it was three items reported as a single statistic. I thanked her for making my point as I put another drop of stevia in my coffee. It's hard for outsiders to analyze the performance efficiency of a firm when too many different activities are summarized by a single statistic. A good accountant or accounting technician writes financial reports that are useful for analysis, not less useful or in this case, useless for revealing what went on (and still goes on?) at SEDC. When I asked her how any outsider could make any judgment about SEDC's management of temporary employees, or its payment of overtime, or what percentage of the budget was purely for bonuses from the "overtime, temporary, bonus" number reported according to Shapiro, she just shook her head, laughed and said "... but you're still a dolt!" (Sigh)— September 9, 2008 9:02 a.m.
Slippery SEDC bonus requests underneath City Council radar
Responding to #2: It would seem that any corporate president who spends more than a decade in office has too much time on her or his hands... or are those cookie crumbs?— September 8, 2008 1:58 p.m.
Extremism in the defense of politics
Hmmm... it's kind of a virtual conversation of sorts among people with an interest in what the US DOJ calls parallel justice for victims. Anyways, a lot of what's discussed gets posted as blogs anyways! We just need to keep bouncing around the same general ideas here until they start sticking to a few more interested minds...— September 8, 2008 1:52 p.m.
Extremism in the defense of politics
In my neighborhood, there is talk over morning coffee of "no" on every incumbent up for re-election, especially if the office holder had anything to do with the lack of a state budget out of the legislature. Wasn't it Machiavelli who said a prince was essentially done for after having lost even the appearence of propriety?— September 8, 2008 10:02 a.m.
It's Official: Federal Government Seizes Fannie and Freddie. Will Reform Come Next?
The fact that the DJIA is up 3 digits this morning tells me that either nobody was counting on Fannie/Freddie dividends in the stocking this holiday season, or that smart people swapped their stock for Fannie/Freddie debt, knowing eventually that the taxpayers would make good on them when those bonds matured. If none of the above, then maybe NORGAS because of this giant JANFU being too big for anybody in her or his right mind being able to comprehend it all.— September 8, 2008 9:49 a.m.
Naysayer
Your welcome, Fred. As I see it, this city needs battalions of eyes watching all of our little boards, commissions, and other local legislative bodies that do the work we otherwise elected our councilmembers and state legislators to do... even though they don't. We may provide a service to readers by pointing things in public out that make the smell-o-meter jump a few degrees, but the few of us who do our "afflict the comfortable" blogs while attempting to comfort the afflicted can only see so much. A better service is to get many more of us doing the same thing. It's is, after all, for the benefit of all of us to be an informed electorate...— September 8, 2008 9:42 a.m.
Blogging keeps you from being hired and gets you fired
There is a fundamental relationship of employment to slavery. America is not the place it was in the 50s or even later, when most people could be assured of holding the same job or being promoted within the same company until retirement. Any employer-interviewer who raises any issue of the interviewee's blogging has just exposed her or his company as the kind of place that employees are itching to discuss with others outside of the control of their employer. One solution is to be rather good at what one does and become an independent contractor. Other than that, one should remember that the freedom of speech, press and expression in general applies to the right to mouth off on the Internet, not the price one may have to pay for the contents of one's expression.— September 5, 2008 11:04 a.m.