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Einstein, That Clown: Special Relativity Refuted at Bull's Smokin' BBQ
I think you just made my point in spades about pseudo-science. Any physics majors want to tear this one apart? I'm only going to say that it has been a long, LONG time since I've seen the "aether" argument that light cannot travel through the vacuum of space. It was quite popular back in the 14th century, back when a physician was somebody in possession of a bottle of leeches and the height of mathematics was a college-level understanding of accounting. I am pretty sure this is why that period of time is now referred to as the Dark Age. OK, I can't help myself. According to the ourpal .com website, "Everything happens in real time. If you see a flare on the Sun or if the sun suddenly vanishes we will know it immediately and not 8 minutes later for the light or gravity to traverse a distance 93 million miles." I can't find an engineer who is qualified under the Business and Professions Code of California to call herself or himself an engineer AND who will buy that one. Since the perpetrators of the ourpal .com website choose to define words in such a way that the perpetrators at ourpal .com are always "right", the $1000 "challenges" are a joke that cannot be taken seriously. WARNING: the ourpal .com website contends that it has information on "Litigation". Rely upon and/or use AT YOUR OWN RISK.— November 12, 2010 10:53 p.m.
Update San Diego, 11/12/2010
After consulting a cryptographer and passing the above "Update San Diego" blog post through a web-crawling pattern-matching algorithm, I come with the following: "Who says Ron Roberts is a Democrat?" (CITY BEAT) regarding "a group called New Majority" and at least three allegedly Democrat slate mailers that endorsed Republican candidate Ron Roberts for County Board of Supervisor... A quote: "All you need to know is this: Are these people directly trying to dupe voters? No, they’re just donating money to a group that is paying people to dupe voters." http://lastblogonearth.com/2010/10/28/who-says-ro… According to New Majority's website, San Diego founders include "Dieter and Ursula Kuster", who both apparently made contributions as president and/or employee of CA Botana International Inc. This firm appears to make enough money manufacturing and selling cosmetics that both Kusters are able to make political contributions totaling in the tens of thousands of dollars. http://www.manufacturedirections.com/california/s… The algorithm did not return a contribution amount for New Majority endorsements of winning candidate Lorie Zapf for San Diego City Council in District 6. Maybe the algorithm needs an adjustment. http://www.loriezapf.com/supporters I'm not revealing the details of the algorithm used for the same reason CA Botana International doesn't list the ingredients for its high-markup cosmetic products: trade secrets. On the other hand, some of us have already seen FIGHT CLUB. I'm not saying that these "Update San Diego" blog posts are bought and paid for. I'll let Reader readers figure out that one for themselves.— November 12, 2010 7:22 p.m.
Tijuana Kentucky Fried Chicken Stops Accepting U.S. Dollars
Look right above the title. This is a "stringer" article... which means there isn't anything stopping you from doing the story from your point of view and getting paid for it (if acceptable for publication). Or you could just start your own blog here on American economic imperialism in Mexico/ Mexican economic justice denied in America and see who stops by to read it. Have fun... I do!— November 12, 2010 5:02 p.m.
For-Profit College CEOS Rolling in Dough, Including Bridgepoint
Some of the Point Loma Nazarene kids would hang out at our USD dorms (92-94) because we could have beer on campus... but not kegs. Kegs flying off 3rd floor outdoor stairwells was considered to be very uncool, especially among us older transfer students. Waste not, want not...— November 12, 2010 4:40 p.m.
In 8 years, home prices in Otay Ranch went from $320,000 to $750,000 and back
It's good to hear of a neighborhood getting together for something that wasn't prompted by the threat of tragedy.— November 12, 2010 3:35 p.m.
For-Profit College CEOS Rolling in Dough, Including Bridgepoint
Thanks for filling in the gaps in my memory. I tutored heavily at City College for the longest time between 1985 to now. I recall from the 80's and 90's a number of well-intentioned but not top-drawer students seeking elementary education certification starting with transfer classes from City before going on to SDSU. From my earlier times working as an instructional aide in the SD Unified School District, I knew of a tendency for USD School of Education graduates/ teachers with seniority to look out for each other and new USD grads while generally tending to shun the SDSU graduates as to teaching assignments. NU and USIU post-graduate diplomas were looked at as merely ticket-punching ploys for pay raises after leaving SDSU.— November 12, 2010 2:26 p.m.
Channel 10 Airs Mayor's Deposition in Crime Case Tonight
From education and recent experience, I understand how constraining it is to bring a matter to hearing before a Superior Court, especially when the attorneys on the other side are funded by our own monthly utility payments. You are certainly correct to view these comment threads as a place to mention things that would never make it onto the record in Court. Hopefully, this case AND our discussions here will open the eyes of more people to what has happened to San Diego. Apparently from the ballot results for Proposition D, this eye-opening process is already underway. Personally, I enjoy reading what you've had to add to the conversation...— November 12, 2010 9:46 a.m.
LA Times Cites San Diego Public Corruption
Apparently in the pursuit of fraudulent excellence, there is complexity and there is COMPLEXITY. There have been hints of the complexity involved in what happened leading to the Crash of 2008, and my main complaint since then has been the continued lack of transparency in both the financial and insurance sectors, especially where they overlap over real estate mortgages and robo-signers. What precisely did very well-paid auditors of the City of San Diego actually audit? Did any of that very expensive SAP glorified bookkeeping software package help at all? Years after our current mayor took office, we still have no bottom line figure -- much less any line-by-line breakdown -- for all of the contracts, business improvement districts and similar outfits, redevelopment projects and other things which ordinary reasonable taxpaying citizens can look at and say "Wow. I finally understand." We can't understand what nobody will explain to us and what civic leaders fear having explained to themselves as responsible and accountable politicians. The failure of Proposition D was no accident because the electors of San Diego do not understand what it is that our City owes and has going on just over the horizon. The failure of the City of San Diego will be no accident either when our civic leaders "do not understand" the workings of a municipal bankruptcy as long as there is any chance to add retirement credits to their records of future public "service". If the truth does not set us free, then at least we will know what we are in bondage to.— November 12, 2010 9:11 a.m.
Tijuana Kentucky Fried Chicken Stops Accepting U.S. Dollars
Suspicions of well-stuffed money belts walking across the border heading north... Ans what about Caliente's sports books? They can be a bank all on their own!— November 12, 2010 5:44 a.m.
Sempra To Increase Alternative Energy Generation in Kern County
Clarification added to lead: only Kern County has given approval for construction, not CPUC or other state regulators.— November 12, 2010 5:26 a.m.