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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:44 am
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:TPRJones wrote:Such dubious practices have piled up a crushing amount of pension debt, which California residents—and their children—will <s>somehow have to repay</s> move out of the state to avoid repaying.
Fixed.
State bailout from the feds, and nothing will get fixed.
Call their bluff. Encourage every other state to go in the red and get similar treatment. Ponies for all. Fuck that. Unicorns for all.
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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:29 pm
by GORDON
California cancels a tax break used by businesses in their state.
Retroactively.
Five years retroactively.
And charges interest on all the delinquent bills they created.
http://www.foxnews.com/politic....estnews
Another good day for the Texas state business recruiting department.
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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:56 pm
by Malcolm
Retroactive taxes? That's different from extortion how?
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 1:15 pm
by TPRJones
Taxes are extortion anyway. This is just more blatant about it.
"Going backward in time and changing the rules innocent taxpayers relied upon violates the very essence of the rule of law."
Nah, the modern essence of the rule of law is to grow government tax bases as much as possible. I'd classify this is a groundbreaking advance of the modern essence of the rule of law.
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:06 pm
by Leisher
They want to make red light camera tickets like parking tickets.
That means you cannot fight them, and they'd be mandatory to pay.
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:28 pm
by Malcolm
Supporters of the bill, however, argued that the objective is not to punish drivers, but to stop motorists from running red lights.
“Last year in California, probably 600 pedestrians were killed in traffic accidents,” said David Grant, of California Walks, an organization that advocates for safer walking communities. “Half those people would be alive today if we actually enforced the laws we’ve got.”
Less than 40 percent of red light camera photos result in citations, Grant said.
“The current system just doesn’t work,” Grant said.
Other than your last sentence, everything you said is full of shit. Don't even play that is for the protection of pedestrians or saving lives, you fucking lying bastard who deserves to have a nest full of angry wasps shoved up his rectum. If your goal is less death from traffic violations, I think you can find something that tops 600 deaths a year that people aren't fined $500 each for.
Grant said that the problem is running red lights and committing “rolling stops.”
Interesting, because most of my traffic problems come from excessive placement of stop signs and too many traffic signals not properly timed to handle the flow of traffic they see on a daily basis. Funny how the problem is always, "The people aren't following the rules," instead of, "These rules are fucking retarded."
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:33 pm
by Leisher
Funny how the problem is always, "The people aren't following the rules," instead of, "These rules are fucking retarded."
I could not agree more.
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 1:34 pm
by Malcolm
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 1:27 pm
by Malcolm
[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... transit-st
rike/2013/10/20/4a0700ea-39e6-11e3-b0e7-716179a2c2c7_story.html]Transit strike in the People's Republic of San Francisco[/url]. How that worker's paradise has any job-related ills is beyond me.
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 1:32 pm
by Leisher
Put all other stuff aside, and explain to me how a parent is responsible for their child, BY LAW, until the age of 18, yet this is ok to do without the parent's permission.
It makes no sense.
(Although, I do encourage birth control for kids.)
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 1:16 pm
by Malcolm
California, highest teacher salaries in the country, lowest reading and math scores.
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:23 pm
by Paul
The results suck, but there are more factors than the teachers in test scores.
A large portion of the Los Angeles community come from cultures where education is not a high priority, but having a lot of kids is. Often the parents don't speak English, which makes things even more difficult.
Teachers can only work with what they have.
When you hear the stories about the brilliant principals who turned a school around, the part they usually skip in the story is when they got rid of the bad kids and setup magnet programs to get the good kids.
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 10:18 pm
by TPRJones
While everything you say is true, Paul, there are some real shit teachers out there as well. About 20% are total shit through and through, and another 75% had potential at one time but the system has beaten it out of them. Leaving only 5% as being worth a damn.
I don't blame the teachers for that, though. That's just long-term government management at work.
Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 2:20 pm
by Malcolm
Serial rapist set for release. Don't worry, though...
Doctors there recently concluded he was fit for release...
Oh, so he's ready to put back into society now. I'm sure he's paid his debt.
He admitted raping and assaulting about 40 women between 1971 and 1982, when he was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Police believe the number of victims to be closer to 100.
That's 0.4 years per rape. Unless you believe the 100 number. But hey, I'm sure he learned his lesson.
Released on parole in 1990, he was arrested two months later for a new attack and returned to prison until 1996...
Awesome legal system this country has.
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 3:24 pm
by Malcolm
Union of teachers bitching. Which is usually a good sign.
Judge Rolf M. Treu ruled, in effect, that it was too easy for teachers to gain strong job protections and too difficult to dismiss those who performed poorly in the classroom.
The union immediately responds.
"This decision today is an attack on teachers, which is a socially acceptable way to attack children,” said Alex Caputo-Pearl, the president-elect of the Los Angeles teachers union. Instead of providing for smaller classes or more counselors, “you attack teacher and student rights.”
What a fucking tool.
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 1:31 pm
by Malcolm
Psychotic bill would make smoking illegal unless you're 21.
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 1:46 pm
by Malcolm
A bit of a drought could be in store.
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:27 pm
by GORDON
Anasazi.
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 1:26 pm
by Malcolm
Fast food restrictions had no effect on public obesity.
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 2:12 pm
by TPRJones
"We never said this ordinance was the silver bullet" to solving the obesity problem, said Gwen Flynn of the Community Health Councils. "As long as we can make sure people have more options, that's the important thing."
Emphasis added. Stupidity included in original.
How in the world does limiting the number of restaurants lead to more options? Retarded much?
All this sort of law really leads to is more money spent on gas to drive somewhere else for food.