By Sudarsan Raghavan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
This article happens to hold interest for me because of the book I am reading. I remember reading a book in 2001 that gave me an idea of what the Saudi Royal Family is dealing with in Saudi Arabia and within the family. They have been attempting to buy off the radical Islamists for years. It doesn't seem like the new rehabilitation program is keeping them completely safe.
I don't believe that this piece of shit is reformed either. Eating pork and converting to Christianity doesn't mean that he's not still a very dangerous terrorist. Anybody who thinks that there is no such thing as a dangerous Christian terrorists isn't paying attention.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
I call bullshit
Deficit May Prove Stumbling Block for U.S. Senate Health Plan
By Laura Litvan and Kristin Jensen
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg)
Senate panel OKs $636 billion Pentagon budget, with $128 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan wars Thu Sep 10, 7:13 PM
By Andrew Taylor, The Associated Press
Here is a low estimate of the savings from Medicare for all.
"One estimate of the savings we often see in articles on Medicare for All is $350-400 billion annually."
And Rachel and Bernie compare Acorn and Defense contractor crimes.
By Laura Litvan and Kristin Jensen
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg)
Senate panel OKs $636 billion Pentagon budget, with $128 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan wars Thu Sep 10, 7:13 PM
By Andrew Taylor, The Associated Press
Here is a low estimate of the savings from Medicare for all.
"One estimate of the savings we often see in articles on Medicare for All is $350-400 billion annually."
And Rachel and Bernie compare Acorn and Defense contractor crimes.
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I gave up on the Black Swan. I wasn't learning anything, and I was getting increasingly irritated and bored. I already understand that random shit happens. One of my best friends has a life that her other friends have described as "a Fellini movie." I also understand that "experts" in certain fields don't know shit.
I decided to read something I became interested in after listening toSibel Edmonds/Peter B. Collins interviewing Peter Lance. See, good reporters don't claim to be experts, just curious and interested in getting the truth out there.
Monday, October 05, 2009
The video stores are closing
So it looks like Netflix is the gonna be the only game in town for me. Fuck cable, I don't want to pay to watch more damn ads.
I'm glad I bought a new monitor. I can't stand to not do anything and the damn stitches need air or they won't heal. So I can see the monitor when I'm parked on the bed and take the bandage off.
The movie is in German and the family is Turkish. I'm so busy watching the English subtitles I can barley tell when they switch from German to Turkish.
I'm glad I bought a new monitor. I can't stand to not do anything and the damn stitches need air or they won't heal. So I can see the monitor when I'm parked on the bed and take the bandage off.
The movie is in German and the family is Turkish. I'm so busy watching the English subtitles I can barley tell when they switch from German to Turkish.
Education vs. prisons in California
Jeez, what a report We spend more on prisons in California than we spend on ALL of the education system.
The NPR report goes on about how California Correctional Peace Officers Association has increased labor costs of running the prisons.
What the fuck do you expect when most of the unions in the US have been decimated by business? Businesses leaving the country and businesses intimidating or firing groups who may want to form a union.
Thank you "Three strikes law."
Thank you "tough on crime" rhetoric spouting politicians. You managed to gin up the fear in people enough to really create animals who are jammed in like sardines and ready to explode at anyone of a different race in prison.
Thank you federal "war on drugs"
I can think of so many other factors, but why? It is what it is.
The NPR report goes on about how California Correctional Peace Officers Association has increased labor costs of running the prisons.
What the fuck do you expect when most of the unions in the US have been decimated by business? Businesses leaving the country and businesses intimidating or firing groups who may want to form a union.
Thank you "Three strikes law."
Thank you "tough on crime" rhetoric spouting politicians. You managed to gin up the fear in people enough to really create animals who are jammed in like sardines and ready to explode at anyone of a different race in prison.
Thank you federal "war on drugs"
I can think of so many other factors, but why? It is what it is.
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Welcome for whom?
Welcome sounds of construction ring in Rancho Penasquitos
By Roger Showley
Union-Tribune Staff Writer
2:00 a.m. October 2, 2009
With construction virtually at a standstill in San Diego County, a Florida-based firm officially started construction yesterday on a 368-unit apartment project in Rancho Peñasquitos that will generate hundreds of jobs over the next two years and replace an outmoded experimental metal housing complex.
The project is called Cresta Bella Apartments and is a development of Atlantic & Pacific Management, a company that owns and manages about 18,000 apartments and condo complexes on the two coasts.
“Real estate's in our blood,” company chairman Alan Cohen said. “This is something that I've been focused on for 45 years.”
The $44 million project is on 31 acres west of Interstate 15 on Peñasquitos Road, immediately south of the DoubleTree Golf Resort. It will include 32 buildings, most of which will resemble what the project architect calls a “big house” — a mega-mansion that contains 10 apartments.
The units will range from 850 square feet to more than 1,440 square feet and rent for a projected $1,350 to about $2,200. Thirty-one of the units will be set aside as affordable units available to low- and moderate-income renters under the city of San Diego's inclusionary housing program.
As a measure of how grateful they were at the groundbreaking, officials of Suffolk Construction Co., a Boston-based general contractor with offices in Irvine, heaped praise on the Cohens for choosing them over San Diego's more deep-rooted contractors.
So far this year, only 778 multifamily housing units have been authorized locally, so the AP project represents a nearly 50 percent increase in just one month.
Robert Pinnegar, executive director of the San Diego County Apartment Association, said Cresta Bella was a prime candidate for redevelopment because of its proximity to a freeway, shopping and community services. However, he said, good urban planning would have called for higher building density.
“There was potential to put much more density there and that's kind of sad,” Pinnegar said.
In fact, the Cohens, who have owned the site since 1975, originally proposed to build more than 500 units but backed off when the Rancho Peñasquitos Planning Board voiced concerns about traffic, and the developers realized how difficult it would to change the community plan. The last residents were relocated to other projects earlier this year; the buildings were demolished last month.
“We had numerous offers on our assets and could have sold and cashed out and made a lot of money,” company president Stanley Cohen said. “We're not interested in that. We're interested in long-term operations and building the company up here.”
Many other builders are stymied from proceeding with their projects because of the lack of financing. Cohen said Wells Fargo Bank agreed to back the project, because, he said, “We pay our bills and have a strong balance sheet.”
The Cresta Bella site has a history as old as the community. Its predecessor was Leisure Life Village, a series of 248 single-story homes built in the late 1960s and rented mostly to seniors with federal housing subsidies. The developer was Irvin J. Kahn, who had bought the 14,000-acre Los Peñasquitos Rancho in 1962.
He signed on United States Steel, Rheem Manufacturing Co. of New York and Rohr Corp. of Chula Vista to build an all-metal framing and modular complex. Promoters at the time spoke of it as a “breakthrough” in residential construction.
But Kahn, who died in 1973, had fallen behind in his payments on $180 million borrowed from the Teamsters pension fund. The balance of the development property was sold to Genstar Ltd. of Montreal for $91 million in 1978.
The Cohens bought some of the Kahn holdings in 1975, including Leisure Life, and watched the I-15 corridor develop over the next 30 years.
But the project, while offering affordable housing, was not the most comfortable to live in.
“In the summer it was hot and in the winter it was cold,” Stanley Cohen said.
Dan Barker, a member of the Peñasquitos Planning Board, said the community and neighbors were “anxious to see this redeveloped.”
“There was no issue between the residents and the community,” he said. “It was just that the property was in dire need of redevelopment.”
Fuckers. Those were low income apartments that they tore down. They had grass, trees, a pool, a small amount of units in each building which makes the ability to control roaches easier. I don't know where these guys expect people who actually work in San Diego to live? Do they own calculators? Will they ever figure out that two minimum wage full-time jobs is not enough for one person to live on in this county?
The assholes can't do simple math either.
" I. ELIGIBLE PROJECTS
A. Residential development projects where at least 10 percent of the units are set aside for households with an income at or below 65 percent area median income (AMI) for rental units and at or below 100 percent AMI for for-sale units as set forth in the City’s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance (SDMC Section 142.1304)."
By Roger Showley
Union-Tribune Staff Writer
2:00 a.m. October 2, 2009
With construction virtually at a standstill in San Diego County, a Florida-based firm officially started construction yesterday on a 368-unit apartment project in Rancho Peñasquitos that will generate hundreds of jobs over the next two years and replace an outmoded experimental metal housing complex.
The project is called Cresta Bella Apartments and is a development of Atlantic & Pacific Management, a company that owns and manages about 18,000 apartments and condo complexes on the two coasts.
“Real estate's in our blood,” company chairman Alan Cohen said. “This is something that I've been focused on for 45 years.”
The $44 million project is on 31 acres west of Interstate 15 on Peñasquitos Road, immediately south of the DoubleTree Golf Resort. It will include 32 buildings, most of which will resemble what the project architect calls a “big house” — a mega-mansion that contains 10 apartments.
The units will range from 850 square feet to more than 1,440 square feet and rent for a projected $1,350 to about $2,200. Thirty-one of the units will be set aside as affordable units available to low- and moderate-income renters under the city of San Diego's inclusionary housing program.
As a measure of how grateful they were at the groundbreaking, officials of Suffolk Construction Co., a Boston-based general contractor with offices in Irvine, heaped praise on the Cohens for choosing them over San Diego's more deep-rooted contractors.
So far this year, only 778 multifamily housing units have been authorized locally, so the AP project represents a nearly 50 percent increase in just one month.
Robert Pinnegar, executive director of the San Diego County Apartment Association, said Cresta Bella was a prime candidate for redevelopment because of its proximity to a freeway, shopping and community services. However, he said, good urban planning would have called for higher building density.
“There was potential to put much more density there and that's kind of sad,” Pinnegar said.
In fact, the Cohens, who have owned the site since 1975, originally proposed to build more than 500 units but backed off when the Rancho Peñasquitos Planning Board voiced concerns about traffic, and the developers realized how difficult it would to change the community plan. The last residents were relocated to other projects earlier this year; the buildings were demolished last month.
“We had numerous offers on our assets and could have sold and cashed out and made a lot of money,” company president Stanley Cohen said. “We're not interested in that. We're interested in long-term operations and building the company up here.”
Many other builders are stymied from proceeding with their projects because of the lack of financing. Cohen said Wells Fargo Bank agreed to back the project, because, he said, “We pay our bills and have a strong balance sheet.”
The Cresta Bella site has a history as old as the community. Its predecessor was Leisure Life Village, a series of 248 single-story homes built in the late 1960s and rented mostly to seniors with federal housing subsidies. The developer was Irvin J. Kahn, who had bought the 14,000-acre Los Peñasquitos Rancho in 1962.
He signed on United States Steel, Rheem Manufacturing Co. of New York and Rohr Corp. of Chula Vista to build an all-metal framing and modular complex. Promoters at the time spoke of it as a “breakthrough” in residential construction.
But Kahn, who died in 1973, had fallen behind in his payments on $180 million borrowed from the Teamsters pension fund. The balance of the development property was sold to Genstar Ltd. of Montreal for $91 million in 1978.
The Cohens bought some of the Kahn holdings in 1975, including Leisure Life, and watched the I-15 corridor develop over the next 30 years.
But the project, while offering affordable housing, was not the most comfortable to live in.
“In the summer it was hot and in the winter it was cold,” Stanley Cohen said.
Dan Barker, a member of the Peñasquitos Planning Board, said the community and neighbors were “anxious to see this redeveloped.”
“There was no issue between the residents and the community,” he said. “It was just that the property was in dire need of redevelopment.”
Fuckers. Those were low income apartments that they tore down. They had grass, trees, a pool, a small amount of units in each building which makes the ability to control roaches easier. I don't know where these guys expect people who actually work in San Diego to live? Do they own calculators? Will they ever figure out that two minimum wage full-time jobs is not enough for one person to live on in this county?
The assholes can't do simple math either.
" I. ELIGIBLE PROJECTS
A. Residential development projects where at least 10 percent of the units are set aside for households with an income at or below 65 percent area median income (AMI) for rental units and at or below 100 percent AMI for for-sale units as set forth in the City’s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance (SDMC Section 142.1304)."
Saturday, October 03, 2009
CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY - Loved It!!!!!
I really thought that people watching it would not really react because he would be sort of preaching to the choir. With me he was, but I heard laughter, gasps from shock, and murmuring in sympathy.
It didn't leave me depressed, but wondering what I can do to change things. Laying around doing nothing while everyone around me just takes it up the ass from a bunch of rich assholes isn't cutting it for me anymore.
As soon as these damn stitches come out I want to go buy a pitchfork.
Sunday Oct 4, 2009, It's pretty much playing all over San Diego today.
Friday, October 02, 2009
Jon Stewart
Yeah, it's actually kind of nice to see that his snarky reaction wasn't all that different from mine while I was watching CSPAN
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no squirrels today
Instead, some pics I took of some early morning fog the other day. (click for links to some songs I like over at YouTube)
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Late afternoon stories of interest to me
posted October 01, 2009 11:13 am
Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Pipelineistan's Ultimate Opera
The next article caught my eye because I saw a gun show in San Diego advertised for this weekend.
Mexican drug cartels might target U.S. businesses
Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Pipelineistan's Ultimate Opera
The next article caught my eye because I saw a gun show in San Diego advertised for this weekend.
Mexican drug cartels might target U.S. businesses
Poll. 71% say Congress shuts us out on health care debate
But OK, if Amy and Wendell think there still is hope for a public option I'll keep emaiing, calling and making a general nuisance of myself.
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