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Pinpoint Forecasting, San Diego Style
"How much will he be paid for the forecast?" Oh, somewhere between $5,000 and $500,000...
— August 17, 2010 5:29 p.m.
Irate Judge Now Feels Lerach's Sentence Was Too Lenient
@ Twister: I agree that the course of normal discussion often wanders. I've not seen the Reader delete much of any comments that didn't simply start to get a little too personal and often downright rude. And some of the best twists often happen in the threads of Don's posts.
— August 17, 2010 5:25 p.m.
The Poetess Behind The Veil/edited 8/18/2010
I have a couple of Facebook pals that use Yelp, it looks like some club you join and people meet sometimes. They grade restaurants and bars, and I guess even weeklies.
— August 17, 2010 5:17 p.m.
The Breakfast Club
"I'm saying that if 95% of all forfeiture and or things confiscated by any branch of the Government were put to educating our Youth of all ages, we would be in a far better place, than we are now, with our current situation of schools begging for money alongside the Military and all the other BIG Government programs!" Ah, the funding. Well, I've often proposed that the U.S. end the war on drugs, that's costing them billions per year and it isn't working. Legalizing drugs and taxing them, they would still be cheaper to buy than the illegal ones. Put all of that money into schools, educating kids not to do drugs and teach everything else with the rest. There are lots of creative ideas for funding.
— August 17, 2010 5:12 p.m.
Permit an insolvent city to subsidize a Charger stadium?
"The thing about Fumbler is he would leave for months at a time and then appear with his wild comments, then be gone as fast as he was here." The comments were almost comical, as though he were making them so outrageous that you almost had to laugh them off. I mean, most of the time, the insult made no sense!
— August 17, 2010 5:07 p.m.
The Breakfast Club
The problem with educational utopia is that someone has to pay for it. Schools are cutting back to the quick. There simply isn't enough money for schools at the moment. And the districts do have rules about attending within the district where the student lives. I don't think that these rules are unreasonable. This other side of the argument is every bit as valid as the one where kids just go to school, regardless. It is one thing to say these things - to advocate completely free education, to allow Meicans with proper identification to cross the border and attend U.S. schools. These are noble desires for society. But, as with everything that Government has to offer, these things must be funded. I also believe there is a legal option for children living in Mexico to legally attend U.S. schools, it costs somewhere between $7,000 and 8,000 per year. Regarding Americans attending Mexican schools, they certainly can, and similar rules apply in grade school, in that one should show residency. In middle school and prep school, this is not an issue. I have a friend who was born in the U.S. to gringo parents who took him here to Baja to grow up from age four. He went to all Mexican schools through high school. My eldest son was born in Tijuana and attended Mexican schools through grade 9, when he wished to complete high school in the U.S. because his cousins attended there. It wasn't an issue adjusting - in fact, he found it much easier than schools in Mexico. After he graduated, he joined the U.S. Army for six years and did two tours in Iraq. Upon his return he became a U.S. citizen. He is currently living and working in the U.S. and studying some sort of medical training. I am guessing that the cost of such investments into the future of the U.S. is sometimes more than paid back.
— August 17, 2010 4:28 p.m.
Permit an insolvent city to subsidize a Charger stadium?
@ #135: The only person I know of that was banned was PistolPete because he announced it somewhere else. He didn't care a thing about reinstatement, he knew why he got banned, and I think it amused him in the end. I seriously doubt that the Reader would comment on such occurrences like banning, probably keeping such information between a couple of people only. As wild as they let the comments sometimes get, they are professionals. Everything else is speculation so far as I know. I have noticed the absence of Fumber; that person is bizarre.
— August 17, 2010 4:07 p.m.
The Breakfast Club
@ #65: "Something else you might know, does the USD get fined for "not doing their homework" by not checking to see if their students are legally qualified to attend school and if so, what that fine amount is..." Probably not fined, it would amount to the State fining itself. I do know that in the last decade, Sweetwater and several other disctricts have taken steps to try and verify, including mandating not only residency proof, but that a parent or guardian deliver that proof personally every year. At one time, Sweetwater would employ people to spotcheck residences to ensure compliance, but I doubt if they can afford to do this anymore. California is deep in debt. Most schoolkids who have parents living in Mexico and attend schools in San Diego also have close relatives living in San Diego, so even if they were somehow stopped and refused entry at the border (which, technically, can't be done so long as they have a legal right to enter the U.S.), they can stay with relatives during the week in San Diego and return to Mexico on the weekends and holidays. Many do this.
— August 17, 2010 3:42 p.m.
Get Married (At Least Once)
That's quite odd. If there *was* any actual content there at any point, I would think that the "cache" link would have brought it up. Perhaps they're saving it for publication in this Wednesday's edition. I know that many of the columns are written well in advance...
— August 17, 2010 12:21 a.m.
meanderings of a re-tired mind/bring me some lines homeys
No idea about imbedding video, but I've learned that if you lay down a link you can get it to work by putting a space in front of it and two spaces in back. Don't ask me why, it's a formatting issue, apparently.
— August 16, 2010 11:10 p.m.
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Pinpoint Forecasting, San Diego Style
"How much will he be paid for the forecast?" Oh, somewhere between $5,000 and $500,000...— August 17, 2010 5:29 p.m.
Irate Judge Now Feels Lerach's Sentence Was Too Lenient
@ Twister: I agree that the course of normal discussion often wanders. I've not seen the Reader delete much of any comments that didn't simply start to get a little too personal and often downright rude. And some of the best twists often happen in the threads of Don's posts.— August 17, 2010 5:25 p.m.
The Poetess Behind The Veil/edited 8/18/2010
I have a couple of Facebook pals that use Yelp, it looks like some club you join and people meet sometimes. They grade restaurants and bars, and I guess even weeklies.— August 17, 2010 5:17 p.m.
The Breakfast Club
"I'm saying that if 95% of all forfeiture and or things confiscated by any branch of the Government were put to educating our Youth of all ages, we would be in a far better place, than we are now, with our current situation of schools begging for money alongside the Military and all the other BIG Government programs!" Ah, the funding. Well, I've often proposed that the U.S. end the war on drugs, that's costing them billions per year and it isn't working. Legalizing drugs and taxing them, they would still be cheaper to buy than the illegal ones. Put all of that money into schools, educating kids not to do drugs and teach everything else with the rest. There are lots of creative ideas for funding.— August 17, 2010 5:12 p.m.
Permit an insolvent city to subsidize a Charger stadium?
"The thing about Fumbler is he would leave for months at a time and then appear with his wild comments, then be gone as fast as he was here." The comments were almost comical, as though he were making them so outrageous that you almost had to laugh them off. I mean, most of the time, the insult made no sense!— August 17, 2010 5:07 p.m.
The Breakfast Club
The problem with educational utopia is that someone has to pay for it. Schools are cutting back to the quick. There simply isn't enough money for schools at the moment. And the districts do have rules about attending within the district where the student lives. I don't think that these rules are unreasonable. This other side of the argument is every bit as valid as the one where kids just go to school, regardless. It is one thing to say these things - to advocate completely free education, to allow Meicans with proper identification to cross the border and attend U.S. schools. These are noble desires for society. But, as with everything that Government has to offer, these things must be funded. I also believe there is a legal option for children living in Mexico to legally attend U.S. schools, it costs somewhere between $7,000 and 8,000 per year. Regarding Americans attending Mexican schools, they certainly can, and similar rules apply in grade school, in that one should show residency. In middle school and prep school, this is not an issue. I have a friend who was born in the U.S. to gringo parents who took him here to Baja to grow up from age four. He went to all Mexican schools through high school. My eldest son was born in Tijuana and attended Mexican schools through grade 9, when he wished to complete high school in the U.S. because his cousins attended there. It wasn't an issue adjusting - in fact, he found it much easier than schools in Mexico. After he graduated, he joined the U.S. Army for six years and did two tours in Iraq. Upon his return he became a U.S. citizen. He is currently living and working in the U.S. and studying some sort of medical training. I am guessing that the cost of such investments into the future of the U.S. is sometimes more than paid back.— August 17, 2010 4:28 p.m.
Permit an insolvent city to subsidize a Charger stadium?
@ #135: The only person I know of that was banned was PistolPete because he announced it somewhere else. He didn't care a thing about reinstatement, he knew why he got banned, and I think it amused him in the end. I seriously doubt that the Reader would comment on such occurrences like banning, probably keeping such information between a couple of people only. As wild as they let the comments sometimes get, they are professionals. Everything else is speculation so far as I know. I have noticed the absence of Fumber; that person is bizarre.— August 17, 2010 4:07 p.m.
The Breakfast Club
@ #65: "Something else you might know, does the USD get fined for "not doing their homework" by not checking to see if their students are legally qualified to attend school and if so, what that fine amount is..." Probably not fined, it would amount to the State fining itself. I do know that in the last decade, Sweetwater and several other disctricts have taken steps to try and verify, including mandating not only residency proof, but that a parent or guardian deliver that proof personally every year. At one time, Sweetwater would employ people to spotcheck residences to ensure compliance, but I doubt if they can afford to do this anymore. California is deep in debt. Most schoolkids who have parents living in Mexico and attend schools in San Diego also have close relatives living in San Diego, so even if they were somehow stopped and refused entry at the border (which, technically, can't be done so long as they have a legal right to enter the U.S.), they can stay with relatives during the week in San Diego and return to Mexico on the weekends and holidays. Many do this.— August 17, 2010 3:42 p.m.
Get Married (At Least Once)
That's quite odd. If there *was* any actual content there at any point, I would think that the "cache" link would have brought it up. Perhaps they're saving it for publication in this Wednesday's edition. I know that many of the columns are written well in advance...— August 17, 2010 12:21 a.m.
meanderings of a re-tired mind/bring me some lines homeys
No idea about imbedding video, but I've learned that if you lay down a link you can get it to work by putting a space in front of it and two spaces in back. Don't ask me why, it's a formatting issue, apparently.— August 16, 2010 11:10 p.m.