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Dog park controversial in Normal Heights
Far more is spent daily on two-legged vermin that are far less deserving than dogs. If we REALLY need to scrimp over the $22,000 involved, then we should start by cutting the billions that go to unions, special interests, illegal aliens, welfare bums, etc. We'll have solved all of our problems long before we get to dog parks.— September 9, 2015 12:55 p.m.
Labor-union trouble at the Navy shipyard in Maine
We need to break the unions and get them out of our pockets. If a given job can be done for $X, why on Earth should we pay $X+n to get it done? And spare me the "You would be working 30 hours a day in a coal mine during a snowstorm at 12 years old and be forced to carry iron beams around for three cents an hour like 500 days of the year without unions" nonsense... those days are LONG gone. I have never been in a union; and yet have managed to make a very good living, good benefits, etc. How is that possible? If you need a group of coercive thugs with the power to shut a business down to keep your job, news flash... you aren't very good at your job.— September 9, 2015 12:53 p.m.
Elvis has left the terminal, the tarmac, the plane...
BOOOO!— September 8, 2015 8:15 p.m.
FastPass border crossing initiative falls flat
"Law-and-order Mexicans are hailing the decision to begin enforcing long-extant customs statutes." How thrilled would they be if the US started to enforce long-extant border statutes?— August 31, 2015 7:41 p.m.
The fight for freedom of street sleep
Heeeere we go again... more "services" attract more homeless, which not only leads to calls for more "services", but also leads to plaintive bleats about how "unfair" it is for the homeless to live under ANY of the rules of society. People sleeping in cars brings trouble, period. Once they get comfy, they tell their friends. Next thing you know, you've got the drunken arguments, the garbage, the used drug paraphernalia, things being stolen... uh-uh. I'm quicker to call the police about someone sleeping ina car than I am for many other things. I don't even really care if they get a ticket or their car towed... just take it down the road away from me. No, it doesn't solve your problem... but that isn't my job. It solves my problem, which is I don't want my neighborhood going to hell.— August 31, 2015 7:39 p.m.
Retire in San Diego! Juuust kidding.
And what, exactly, is wrong with that? How much should he be paying to be able to keep his property? Some people moan that it's "unfair" that one person pays one amount, and their neighbor pays far more. So why can't we make that "fair" by lowering everyone's taxes instead of trying to jack them all up as high as possible? When you grow up, get a job, support a family, and have to pay for this stuff yourself, you quickly realize that the childish fantasy of an endless fountain of free money is just that... a childish fantasy. When the endless amount of money has to come from you, instead of something you grab for free, you change your perspective a little. If only we could require 1040s showing a net contribution to vote. We do not need more takers voting for more loot.— August 27, 2015 2:41 p.m.
Retire in San Diego! Juuust kidding.
...and hundreds of thousands of people would be out on the street, their houses foreclosed, with enormous unforgivable debts hanging over their heads for the rest of their lives. Hopefully, if any such cockamamie idea was ever proposed, enough os us would pick up rifles and clean out the cesspool that is Sacramento, and hopefully the drooling idiots who keep re-electing them, than California could maybe become a halfway-decent state where jobs and working people are applauded instead of punished and Low Speed Trains to Nowhere and non-native invasive fish and weird rodents get laughed at, not billions in funding.— August 27, 2015 2:37 p.m.
Retire in San Diego! Juuust kidding.
No, what "put a dent in public services" is Democrats who spend the money on their social agenda and then cry, "There's no money left!" If we spent for roads, parks, schools (not teacher compensation, but working schools that educate kids), etc. first and let unions, special interests, welfare bums, whiners, and Globull Warming religious fanatics come in last; we'd be fine. California has PLENTY of revenue. We do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. And a spending problem cannot be solved with more money any more than an addict can be helped with more booze or heroin. Sure, having more feels better for a little while, but then the pain comes back worse than ever.— August 27, 2015 2:34 p.m.
A mournful National Dog Day in Ocean Beach
"A black Labrador retriever wearing a red harness, possibly a pit bull mix." Why "possibly a pit bull mix"? Oh, yeah, because that fits into the narrative better. it couldn't have been a Lab mix, it just COULDN'T... it HAD to be a terrible, vicious pit bull!— August 27, 2015 1:03 p.m.
Statewide records for solar generation shattered
What happens when Sacramento decides to tax solar power? And believe me, it's coming... they'll happily mandate that you install a meter and pay, and cheerfully fine you and throw you in a cell if you decide to skip that part.— August 25, 2015 12:52 p.m.