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BBG Communications greases senator's palm
An' us old folk too.— September 19, 2015 7:52 p.m.
Supes want San Onofre waste dump removed
I'm in sackcloth and ashes.— September 19, 2015 7:51 p.m.
Qualcomm layoffs begin
I CONSIDER all news to be rumor; I did not proclaim that "all news is rumor". In fact I consider everything provisional, especially my own ideas. Please be careful, in your reporting, to quote your sources accurately, and not jump to contusions based on "facts" not in evidence. Otherwise, some schmuck might believe that you are spreading rumors and slandering, nay, libeling, your source. You'll hear from my liarywers in the morning. ~(;>) Best, Tw PS: Somebody might correct a beisbol score; misteaks happen. True, the report might be accurate in the sense that the ump made a bad call, so the reporting could simultaneously be correct but the information reported wrong.— September 19, 2015 7:46 p.m.
San Diego's poverty rate 15.7 percent
I am a highly "mixed" "breed." No petty-greed. Records, records? I don' need no stinkin' RECORDS! (While that statement is a take-off on a famous quote, since it isn't accurate, all I can say is "apologies to whoever wrote the line in "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" movie, one which should be required understanding for all young people out to seek their fortune.)— September 19, 2015 7:31 p.m.
Supes want San Onofre waste dump removed
Nor sea-level rise, nor Tsunami, nor combinations of these with storm surges and high tides. "Piffle," say the experts--HIGHLY unlikely. And, of course they are right--the odds are very small. But do we want to pull the handle? At what elevation was the waste stored at Fuk u shima? At what elevation is the waste stored at San Onofre? What is the "certified" useful life of the containers vs the toxic life of the waste? Too many questions, yes, but only a sample.— September 19, 2015 2:36 p.m.
Supes want San Onofre waste dump removed
I looked at the site on the satellite map (Google has it fogged out), and it looks like some of the evidence may still be there. After almost half a century! I have no idea what present-day engineers are like, but judging from some of the recent public works I've seen, I'm worried. In those days some of the "engineers" didn't even have degrees, but today I imagine that they have at least a BS. But even so, some engineers, especially "civil" engineers, operate a lot of the time on "best practices" and intuition, and eschew analysis as much as they can. I was driving along 805 today, and saw the new "straw wattles" (net tubes filled with straw) placed on the new freeway slopes (for "erosion control"), a ludicrous waste of the taxpayers' money--nothing but window-dressing. Drainage? Look at where the flooding occurs. When these silly things got started, a CalTrans engineer's wife "owned" the company so the true owner couldn't get nailed for conflict of interest. Best, Tw— September 19, 2015 2:29 p.m.
County unemployment rate back down to 5.1 percent
What about the "middle" 9.9 percent?— September 19, 2015 2:15 p.m.
San Diego's poverty rate 15.7 percent
Some of my ancestors, as Will Rogers once put it, "met the boat." The boat(s) of Eastern Hemisphere refugees who landed here starting about 500 years ago. If all of "my people" want all of those refugees to go back where they came from, leaving only "pure" Native Americans, about an eighth of me would have to stay here and the rest of me sent back to wherever my Eastern Hemisphere antecedents came from. Something of a "Shylock" conundrum, eh?— September 18, 2015 10:51 p.m.
Qualcomm layoffs begin
As long as you strongly qualify the quote and your statement as well as follow up, that's a perfectly valid practice. In fact, I consider all news to be rumor.— September 18, 2015 10:40 p.m.
Supes want San Onofre waste dump removed
Footnote for previous post: *We came very close to having our own new “bay” created right here in “River City.” The “engineers” who did the grading plans for the Torrey Science Park (why is that ironic?) designed a drainage plan for the site that was supposed to turn runoff around more than 180 degrees via a “lined ditch” and dump it into a canyon just above the Gulf General Atomics facility at the bottom of the hill. A rain came and the resulting runoff breached the “ditch” and cut a small Grand Canyon of a gully down the hillside. At the top of the “mesa” where the post near-disaster meeting of the City of San Diego “engineers” and the real engineers and scientists from General Atomics was held, one of the latter pointed at the alluvium that was spread out over the paved yard in front of a large steel building, illustrating where the flow of water went, and said, “If that water had gotten into that building, there would be a large bay where we’re standing now.” There were enough chemicals stored in that building that would go unstable upon contact with water to have created a very large explosion. I suspect the man was not exaggerating, but even if he was, the circle of destruction would have been very great. Good thing it was a light rain, eh?— September 18, 2015 10:31 p.m.