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Peevey, supposed to be neutral, pushed secretly for Pio Pico
I agree. He is very 'creative". I just like to tease him because to makes all of these references to urban dictionary entrees, comments on other blogs and such and yet he refers to them basically in the 3rd person by avoiding mentioning that they are his. Remember, think global, act local. Don't just think about the big picture, actually get involved and take action.— March 3, 2013 11:31 a.m.
Peevey, supposed to be neutral, pushed secretly for Pio Pico
Founder, You're VERY fond of your entries in the urban dictionary, aren't you!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!— March 2, 2013 11:36 a.m.
Peevey, supposed to be neutral, pushed secretly for Pio Pico
Anarchy???? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrSXn3JOvAs Or maybe this is more to your taste..... http://www.anarchyinajar.com/ or at least: "whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."— March 2, 2013 8:47 a.m.
San Diegans in their 20s don't make enough for rent
Well, you know what they say. When you can't find an honest job, you can always go into "journalism" LOL— March 1, 2013 5:15 p.m.
Peevey, supposed to be neutral, pushed secretly for Pio Pico
I disagree. I don’t believe at all that it was the utilities pressuring Davis to remove Lynch. I believe he did it all on his own. Lynch took a number of steps that upstaged Davis or down right pissed him off. He was completely surprised when the commission adopted a record electricity rate increase in 2001. In a terse statement, he publicly expressed his frustration that the PUC took months to adopt measures necessary to prepare for the state's energy bond sale, not heeding his call for expediency. And when Davis could not broker a deal, Lynch reached a secret $3.3-billion settlement of a lawsuit by Southern California Edison in 2001 because it was unable to charge its customers the full price of electricity. By ousting Lynch and installing Peevey, Davis was essentially cloning himself at the PUC to make sure he could get whatever he wanted out of the CPUC And not only did Davis yank Lynch as President, he also filled a vacancy on the CPUC with Susan Kenned, who served as Cabinet Secretary and Deputy Chief of Staff in his administration. No, Davis didn’t replace Lynch because he was under pressure from the utilities. He did it as purely a self serving measure.— March 1, 2013 5:12 p.m.
San Diegans in their 20s don't make enough for rent
ok so if you worked only 7 hours a week for a year and a half, that comes out to 546 hours. That's about $1.45 an hour, about .20 under Ca. minimum and .15 under Fed minimum You know the old saying, it's not what you know, it's who you know. As I said above, my parents knew the owner. They were friends with his son, who ran the grocery and his son was one of my buddies since grade school. I also worked off the books, at least until I turned 16 and until then I was under minimum also. I also had the advantage of tips. Many of the people who shopped their knew my parents. Back in the day, it was normal to tip the kids who did carry outs; usually it was a quarter. On a Friday or Sat I could make an extra 4 or 5 dollars in tips. I also had outside interests. Those interests cost money. I was able to work that much because as a HS Senior, I was out of school by 1pm. That let me work a lot of hours and I always had Friday and Saturday nights off. It was a good experience for me. I learned a lot of things that carried over to when I got older and actually had to live in the "real" world.— March 1, 2013 3:19 p.m.
$2.1 million police vehicle purchase approved
Don't forget that the Crown Vic has been a mainstay for taxis for a long time. A couple reasons I can think of for Ford dropping the Crown Vic. They decided to close the plant in Canada where they were being made. One of the reasons for that may be the fact that Crown Vic was really only selling as a fleet vehicle. I think it was sometime in 2008 that it was limited to commercial sales only. According to what someone from Ford said at the time, they thought sales were going to continue to fall because of increasing environmental and mileage requirements. I think emissons and mileage requirements brought about the end of the 440 as well. Not to mention the fact that in 71-72 era it was practically impossible to get insurance for a car with an engine that size and that much HP. And if you could find insurance, it would cost you an arm and both legs. By the time it was disconed in the late 70's it was down to just over 200hp, a far cry from a '71 Cuda 440 6pk that FACTORY rated at 390 hp but in reality was closer to 450hp.— March 1, 2013 12:44 p.m.
Admitted thief asked court's permission to travel to Mexico
javajoe25, it happens all the time. It just depends on how she listed them as to whether or not buyers noticed or cared. Public libraries discard used books quite frequently. Many of them have their own used bookstores and sell them themselves. Many of them also have periodic sales. During the sales apparently many of the books are scooped up by dealers who then sell them online. If you do a search of online book sales, you'd find that books from libraries all across the country are available and are perfectly legit because they are library discards. It's easy to work the system when you know how the system works.— March 1, 2013 9:41 a.m.
International Space Station to soar across San Diego skies
Yeah, I think it's more like 2,300 pounds, not 12,000 pounds. And it may or may not be viewable: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/03/01/spacex-…— March 1, 2013 9:31 a.m.
San Diegans in their 20s don't make enough for rent
Jeff, I started working the summer after I turned 13, 1964. I think I worked about 10 hrs a week and I made $1 per hour. It was a grocery in the neighborhood, my parents knew the owner and I chased carts and did carry outs. I worked there every summer, summers only, until I turned 16. After I turned 16, my parents let me work as many hours as were available, provided I kept my grades up, which I did. I also had to get my own savings account and put at least ½ of what I made in it each and every week. My parent’s held on to my pass book, so once the money went in, it pretty much stayed in. At that point, I think it was around 20 hrs or so and I was making about $1.50 or $1.75, something like that. Once school was out, I was pretty much working at least 30 hrs every week and I got a raise to $2.00 an hour, which was a lot in 1967. I easily made $800 in just that summer and I did spend some of the money. When I left for Berkeley in July of 1968, I had just over 2K in my savings account. Using that calculator, I made just over $30k in today’s money in that year and a half. I also did a little experiment with that calculator. In 1976, the first year after grad school we were both employed full time for the entire year, my wife and I made just under $42k combined. In 2010 dollars, the last full year we worked (we retired in May of 2011), that comes out to just over $165k. That’s about 43% less that we actually made. So I guess in about 34 yrs we increased our incomes about 43% since we first went to work. Puts things in a different perspective— March 1, 2013 9:23 a.m.