Now that it’s about 100 days until the midterm elections, the silly season kicked into high gear over the weekend. The usual finger pointing, slamming policies, and claiming the GOP doesn’t like the little guy tactics were employed by Democrats. The current bull’s-eye target is unemployment benefits. Some unemployed America’s are entering the final 99 weeks they are able to …
New Relations Or Sign Of Victory?
New York City’s latest $100 million project in the wings is a thirteen story Muslim Mosque that would loom proudly in the vicinity of Ground Zero, actually replacing a building that was ruined during the horrific attack. The justifications for this latest round of sheer stupidity and indecency toward the families of some three-thousand 9/11 victims murdered in cold blood …
Recount Day Two: San Diego and Riverside county updates now show Vargas still +22 votes in SD 40
Update [9:50 pm, July 20, 2010] … San Diego county just chimed-in with their numbers on Day 2 of the Juan Vargas-Mary Salas recount. They examined 16 more precincts today. Net Result… Juan Vargas is still + 22 votes ahead of Mary Salas district-wide in SD 40. Salas added 3 new votes in San Diego, but had 1 disqualified. Vargas …
U.S. relaxes PTSD/TBI treatment for war veterans
President Obama said that the Department of Veterans Affairs will begin the process of making it easier for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to get the treatment and benefits they need. “Just as we have a solemn responsibility to train and equip our troops before we send them into harm’s way, we have a solemn responsibility to provide …
Call The Right Racists To Defend Obama
That was the strategy folks like Spencer Ackerman discussed on the JournoList during the Jeremiah Wright scandal in the spring of 2008, according to an article in the Daily Caller. (That’s the formerly secret online group for liberal journalists and their friends that ex-Postie David Weigel belonged to.) Here’s Ackerman in the Daily Caller article: “If the right forces us …
Overheard Downtown This Afternoon
At lunch this afternoon my guest and I happened to sit next to what I presume to be a couple of Democrat legislative staff. The conversation: how hard State Senate President Darrell Steinberg had fought to make sure Vargas lost to Salas in the 40th State Senate District, and what the ramifications would be when Vargas is sworn in. IF …
Recount Day One…Salas Loses 1 Vote in San Diego Registrar’s Report of Senate Dist. 40 Hand count
Update [2:00 a.m.], Tuesday, July 20 Late Monday night, Riverside County posted recount results for 5 precincts within that county. The net result is a gain of 1 vote for Mary Salas in our neighbor county. * * * Day 1 of the 40th state senate recount is over in San Diego county. Juan Vargas began the day leading by …
Tea Party gets a caucus in the House of Representatives
The Tea Party movement received a boost from Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) when she sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) petitioning her support with the formation of a House Tea Party Caucus. It took only one day to get approval from the Speaker and now the Tea Party movement has found a voice inside the beltway. The …
The Court Party and The Country Party
(This is the beginning of a post at a blog called A Brief History, by Mike Kennedy, a retired thoracic surgeon and perpetual Renaissance man, with interests in medicine, science, history, boating and politics. I also contribute to the blog from time to time. The blog’s title refers to Kennedy’s fascinating book, A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine. …
Public Employees: Bell Tolls for Thee
When the LA Times turns against you it might be time to reconsider your strategy. I’m not going to add much commentary to this, it essentially speaks for itself, but to summarize: Population: 37,000 Salaries: City Manager $790,000 (with a $95,000 increase per year) Police Chief $450,000 Assistant City Manager $375,000 Mayor $100,000 Councilman $100,000 Councilwoman $100,000 Councilman $100,000 Councilman …
I Sure Am Getting Sick Of All this
One of my favorite film comedies is the 1968 hit, Support Your Local Sheriff, with the affable James Garner. In one series of scenes, several hired gunslingers in a row try to gun Garner (the sheriff) down unsuccessfully. One bright, chipper morning, when Garner sees yet another gunman coming, he says in frustration and annoyance, “I sure am getting sick …
Mexico claims racism is on the rise in the U.S.
In a new El Universal, a Mexico City newspaper article, editors claim America is now racial profiling Latinos by encouraging law enforcement officers to enforce illegal immigration laws within U.S. borders. The July, 14 article begins by detailing a letter that has been circulating the blogs and law enforcement agencies. “This Monday, an unidentified group calling itself ‘Citizens concerned for …
Viewers Guide— Salas v. Vargas Recount Starts next Monday (July 19th) in Kearny mesa
Everything the public knows about Recounts is Wrong. There is almost no chance of a missed precinct or a math error erasing any part of Juan Vargas’ 22-vote lead over Mary Salas in Senate district 40. The recount will go through the motions, but no one expects to find that kind of flub. No, sportsfans, The Real Game involves votes …
I Told You I Didn’t Trust Him
Scott Brown, along with two other Republican senators broke ranks and voted for that big turkey financial reform bill. Some 533 new regulations will now start to strangle what’s left of our financial institutions. But then, Chris Dodd says that (like the health care bill) we will not understand everything this new law accomplishes until it is enacted. I’ll just …
From get-go, Petco Park study is bogus
This is a bogus study, from a group that quite likely is PAID to provide bogus studies. If I get the time, I’ll later run through some of the fatuous assumptions they used to reach their fatuous conclusions. This preordained result “consulting” is standard practice in politics. We’ve seen this with compromised actuaries providing skewed data to help approve foolish …
Strategic Omission From Ballpark Story?
That’s what San Diego Reader biz blogger Don Bauder claims about today’s San Diego Union-Tribune article on a study about the downtown ballpark. The study by the San Diego Economic Development Corp. said the city of San Diego was getting a far higher return on investment in the ballpark than originally estimated. Through sales, property and hotel occupancy taxes, the …
Move Over, Arizona: Illegal Immigrant Advocates Target Escondido
The story is in the North County Times. A North County-based coalition of pro-illegal immigrant advocates called El Grupo has issued a “travel advisory” against the city of Escondido. El Grupo says that says people who visit Escondido should be aware of their rights in case they become the targets of a “campaign of fear” by Escondido city officials against …
GOP Senators DeMint & Vitter move to block Arizona lawsuit
In a bold move by a stagnated GOP party, two Senators hope to block President Obama’s federal lawsuit against Arizona with a procedural movement. Senators Jim DeMint (R- S.C.) and David Vitter (R-LA) said they will attempt to attach the Arizona lawsuit, legal language to small-business legislation set to be debated on the Senate floor next week. The two Republicans …
Obama’s hubris drives his drop in polls
President Obama’s popularity continues to head south. Explanations abound. Here’s mine. Obama’s problem is that, as the quintessential central planner, he had every confidence he could “make it all work” — what Nobel Economist Friedrich Hayek called “the fatal conceit.” Obama made scores of performance promises, and delivered on almost none of them — while screwing things up royally because …
New Jersey court to give illegals DUI test in home language
In an effort to thwart law enforcement in the state from arresting those who don’t speak English during DUI stops, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled officers must bring non-English speakers into the station and translate the breathalyzer process for them in a language they understand. The result of the added dog-and-pony show for non-English speakers could lead to law …
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