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San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
You're a little bit off in your estimations, johnny. In 2003, contributions to DB plans exceeded 100 billion as oppose to less than 50 billion in preceeding years. In 1981 about 80% of those eligible were covered by a DB plan. Even though that percentage dropped to about 40% by 2003, I wouldn't say that "Corporate America does not have the DB pension plan anymore". As for "not any employee that has been hired within the last 15 years", that is simply not true either. I personally know that a couple of small companies a few readers might have heard of,HP and IBM, didn't freeze their plans until 2006. In fact as recently as 2004, almost 63% of fortune 1000 companies, thats almost 630 if you can't do the math, still had DB plans. Of those 1000 companies, only about 70 had frozen or terminated their plans and only about 25 had closed plans to new hires. Less than 100 out of the Fortune 1000. That number has changed in the last couple of years, but they didn't disapear "years even decades ago". I know that is must be really inconvenient for you to use factual information, what with you being a lawyer and all.— March 25, 2009 11:33 a.m.
Two Nobel Economists Denounce Geithner Plan for Lining Wall Street Pockets
So you think Sanders is going?? Do you mean you think he's going to resign, or get booted out of office. Because I'm pretty sure JW was reffering to johnnyboy's prediction that Sanders would lose the election. vegasboy has become the jim cramer of these blogs: if you go with the opposite of what he says, you're probably a winner.— March 25, 2009 10:35 a.m.
San Diego tribute bands: 40 Ounces to Freedom (Sublime), Dust N’ Bones (Guns N’ Roses), Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin)
Josh, Maybe you put it more succinctly than I did. I said he was a joke, which compared to the people I mentioned, he was. Or to use your words, he sucked.— March 25, 2009 10:29 a.m.
Escorts & Engagements
# 181 Sexy nude women need to look natural. That's not sexy.— March 24, 2009 11:32 p.m.
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antigeekess, It's not about the big boobs, at least for me. If you look, most of Vargas' paintings and drawings, most of his girls are all shall we say, extremely voluptuous. For a while, back in the 40's or 50's I think, he worked for some movie studios doing paintings of their stars like jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, who were quite voluptuous in their own right I might add. Anyway, to me it's about them being sexy and erotic with out being explicit. Since I'm not 13 yrs old anymore, given the choice of a book of Vargas paintings or one full of penthouse or hustler centerfolds, I'd take Vargas everytime. Kinda of a less is more thing. As for real vs fake and that whole gravity thing, let me say this. If I want a bag full of saline, I'll make a water ballon. I like the real thing. My girl friend is 42 and in the 15 years we've been together, I think she looks as good now as when we first got together. In fact, i've known her since she was 15 or 16 when I was dating her sister. Being the tease that she was, on more than one occasion she flashed her boobs at me, which of course today she totally denies. But I think, even with the "gravity effect", she looks better now. I guess it's that whole grown woman vs the young girl thing.— March 24, 2009 11:26 p.m.
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Josh, unfortunately, I don't have a vcr anymore. I thought it might have been the RS top 100, but it's not. Alot of the covers in their list are the same, Sticky Fingers, Hotel California, Blind Faith and of course Candy-O. And I'm pretty sure the program had Sgt Pepper as their best also. But in this show they talked to Henry Diltz about a cover he shot for the first CSN album, the one where they are sitting in on a beat up couch in front of some old house. I think the story was they were driving around, saw it and Diltz snapped a few pics. They all liked the shots and went back to shoot some more a day or two later and the house was gone, torn down. Anyway that wasn't in the RS list so it wasn't the same list. BTW, my own personal favorite, the Doors Morrison Hotel, also a Diltz pic, didn't even make the RS list.— March 24, 2009 10:53 p.m.
San Diego tribute bands: 40 Ounces to Freedom (Sublime), Dust N’ Bones (Guns N’ Roses), Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin)
surfpuppy, I hope the dripping sarcasm coming thru is intentional. Because unless you were a teen who liked new kids on the block, marky mark was a joke. Rap at that time, 90-94, was NWA, Public Enemy, Dre, Ice Cube, Ice T etc. You really comparing markyboy to them?? By the way one of the few topics off limmits in interviews, besides the "alleged" affair with Madonna, is his rap "career. he refuses to talk about it and is said to have walked out of interviews over it.— March 24, 2009 1:14 p.m.
Del Mar Un-Fairgrounds
#5 I agree completely. I have a friend who used to live in Burlingame, about 3 blocks from the Amtrack station. I used to visit her quite frequently. When I was there, we would walk or bike around Burlingame, but 75% of every place else we went , we used the train. Concerts, ball games, shopping in town, touristy stuff like fisherman's wharf, you name it the train was the easiest way to get there or at least within walking/biking difference. Even just going into town for dinner, we took the train. The only downside was that the last Amtrack left for Burlingame around 11pm. That was an easy fix; if we wanted to stay later, we just got a hotel room and took the train in the morning. We even found a couple of places that gave us a discount if we told them we missed the last train and only need a room till the next morning. No traffic, no parking hassles, no tickets for expired meters.It was only way to go. We live in south OC now and it is a royal pain going to the fair or the races. I no longer have family in Encinitas, so we can't come down early and go from there. And even if I still had family there, it would be easier to walk down to the coaster station and ride it in to Del Mar than to drive, even just from Encinitas. San Diego needs to get a clue from someplace that knows what they are doing. Build a station and people will come.— March 24, 2009 11:45 a.m.
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Aaaaah Candy-O. Good album, great cover. I had to go into the library and pull my copy off the shelf for a refreshing look. By the way,Robinson didn't marry her, they just dated briefly. There was a progam several years ago on the best album covers, the top 100 I think ( I still have it on vhs, so i guess it's been quite a while). If I remember correctly, Robinson staged the shot at a Ferrari dealer to give Vargas the idea of what they were looking for on the cover. The model was provided by their record company and coincidentally, or maybe not so much, her name is .............yeah you guessed it, Candy. How cool is that.— March 24, 2009 10:46 a.m.
Owner of Plane that Crashed in Montana Appears to Have San Diego Connections
The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Speculation over the crash of a single-engine turboprop plane into a cemetery shifted to ice on the wings Monday after it became less likely that overloading was to blame, given that half of the 14 people on board were small children.— March 23, 2009 7:39 p.m.