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Local law school has one of worst employment records
I will disagree with your comment in one small sense. I don't believe that Bush was in the pocket of defense/aerospace. I personally think he was just too damned stupid. I believe in that sense, he just did what he was told to do, probably mostly by Dickhead Cheney. I will never vbelieve that Bush had/has the cognitive skills to understand a lot of what he was doing and that he was just blindly following along acting as if he were the "great decider". Just my opinion. Opinions vary.— October 18, 2012 10:22 a.m.
UCAN: Misspelled Accounts Add Up
OK. Since your comment was directed to me, I didn't understand it as I did not address the issue of reopening San O in my previous comment. I agree that San O should not be reopened. I protested it's opening before construction was even completed. My reference to the "law" was to simply point out that in terms of an investigation into whether rates should be rolled back or not, it's up to the CPUC in some sense as to WHEN to look into it, but not IF they should look into it. The law requires them to do so once the plant has been offline for 9 months. That comes as of October 31st, 9 months after Unit 3 was shut down after the leak was detected; Unit 2 was taken down on Jan. 9th for "planned" maintenance. The commission can investigate and determine whether or not to immediately remove all costs related to San O from the ratepayers and look into refunding San O costs collected since January. As I said in my previous comment, let's see whether or not the three most recent appointees are truly "fed up" enough to do the right thing. If ANY of them vote in favor of SCE, then we will fave seen their "true colors". However, that said, that the CPUC is the final authority on if or when San O reopens. I would have to guess that probably lies with the NRC, which of course brings into play a whole new set of influences, influences that are probably considerably more powerful than those in Ca.— October 18, 2012 10:15 a.m.
UCAN: Misspelled Accounts Add Up
I'm not sure that I understand the point of this comment. Please explain.— October 18, 2012 8:23 a.m.
Local law school has one of worst employment records
Don Bauder, FYI, Romney has said he would send Congress a bill on Day One that cuts non-security discretionary spending by 5 percent across the board; that includes the Department of Education. Taking it one step further, he has promised he would “either consolidate with another agency, or perhaps make it (the DoE)a heck of a lot smaller". And despite his recent claims of support for the Pell Grant program, Romney has also said he supports the Ryan budget – which would cut Pell Grants by over 40% next year alone, eliminating aid for more than 1 million students. On September 19th, Univision quoted Romney as saying: "And so the best thing I can do is not to [say], "Hey, I'll loan you more money." I don't want to overwhelm you with debts. I want you to make sure you can pay back the debts you've already got and that will happen with good jobs." Here's an interesting story in today's LAT: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1018-stud…— October 18, 2012 8:22 a.m.
UCAN: Misspelled Accounts Add Up
Actually, next week the commission will vote on whether or not to open the proposed investigation. Let's see if these three most recently appointed commissioners are actually fed up enough to vote together and get the ball rolling now. I would also like to point out that state law requires the commission to open an investigation if a plant remains out of service for nine months, to determine if a rate rollback is warranted.— October 17, 2012 6:51 p.m.
Local law school has one of worst employment records
Yeah, I thought so. The award was the giveaway. I knew the name, but I did have to look at his CBA page to get the name of the law school.— October 17, 2012 2:10 p.m.
Haiku - A - Day
An elevator to space is the way to go? A platform 1.5 km in the air, sending robots up and down from the platform on tethers is a far cry from the Kármán line. Oh, and by the way, the space elevator as proposed is for moving cargo into space, not people. The cargo would be for cargo transport to the people who are already up there and got there by, you know, rockets.— October 17, 2012 10:03 a.m.
Local law school has one of worst employment records
You must be talking about Shawn McMillan. He is the lawyer who won the case against OC social services where they took the woman's daughters away from her and the social workers refused to allow the mother to have them back after the court said she could have them. Western Sierra law School. if I remember correctly.— October 17, 2012 9:38 a.m.
Lawsuit filed to block construction of new stadium for Padres' AAA team
Today, Branch Rickey, Pacific Coast League president, announced that the sale of the Tucson Padres Triple-A team to MountainStar Sports Group in El Paso has been completed. There may be some doubt in the minds of some as to where they will play in 2 years, but they are no longer owned by Moorad— October 11, 2012 10:38 p.m.
Gamblers Grab Low-Priced SD Homes
That's not gambling A few months ago, an investor named Bill McMachen spent about $4.7 million to purchase all of the 627 foreclosed properties, all at once and for one price, in Macomb County in Michigan, which is near the Detroit area, if I remember the article correctly. That's a gambler. Then about 2 months ago, an LLC and spent $34 million, in cash, to buy 275 foreclosure houses across the Phoenix metro area. Whomever is in that LLC, they are whales.— October 11, 2012 10:44 a.m.