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Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Officials express doubt with dispensary set for debate

funkmasterizzy — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:16:51 -0000

This is the first time I've heard the argument that pot shouldn't be legal because it equates to a welfare or liberal/socialist state. You are one confused neo-conservative.

I also think people consider pot's negative effects due to smoking are ill founded. Dispensories sell medical pot in many different forms including baked goods, soft drinks, oils, chocolate, and butter. It doesn't have to be smoked and a person would probably do better (or at least smell better) to consume it in another fasion. If I am not mistaken, synthetic THC is available in prescription pill form as well but taking straight from the plant is a direct protest of the pharmacutical industry.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Report submitted on Hollister pot shop idea

funkmasterizzy — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:10:34 -0000

Marijuana use isn't just prevalent in the criminal element, it is prevalent among respectable productive citizens as well just as is alcohol. If you don't believe me, go to the city council and push them to make manditory weekly drug tests for all government and public services employees and manditory termination for anyone who fails. Betcha you'd find a ton of resistance. Most users don't get caught because they use (like their alcohol) responsibly.

If you want to play the slippery slope gateway game, play it the other way and get the government to ban alcohol. Oh yeah, they already tried that.

There is a reason why more than 50% of CA voters sided to legalize medical marijuana.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Judge allows rejected dispensary to stay open

funkmasterizzy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:12:24 -0000

FYI: The summarized history of marijuana becoming illegal. It's actually kind of amusing in a dark and sad way. Whether you are for it or against it, you should know how it came to be.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/W...

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Editorial: Council should respect law, reject pot dispensary

funkmasterizzy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:10:45 -0000

FYI: The summariezed history of marijuana becoming illegal.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/W...

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Judge allows rejected dispensary to stay open

funkmasterizzy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:55:54 -0000

Cancer issues related to pot are only a concern if you smoke it regularly. But dispensories offer THC in many forms including in baked goods, in butter, chocolate, oil and bottled drinks. Other issues as to the effects of pot are no worse than nicotine and alcohol.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Betabel flea market under construction near SJB

funkmasterizzy — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:08:45 -0000

This is nice.

Though I really like our Farmer's Market, one thing missing from our Farmer's Market that I've seen at other towns Farmer's Market is a beer and wine area. This outdoor market will have one.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | HPD uses messaging to reach residents

funkmasterizzy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:51:28 -0000

I don't think our tax money is paying for this. I think it is a free service provided by NIXLE. I think it's a good idea. That way they can inform you when they are responding to a call an you can get off the streets and sidewalks and you can reduce the risk of getting wrecked into. I've been noticing some of the local officers driving around town on off hours... Holy cow are they bad drivers! Do bad patrol car habits translate to bad personal car habits because they know there is no way they will get a ticket in town?

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Letters: Obama tells the terrorists when we're leaving

funkmasterizzy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:38:26 -0000

Dang! Except for the voting for Obama part, I could have wrote this myself. =) Well done!

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Editorial: Supes should seek fixes for rodeo, market project

funkmasterizzy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:28:29 -0000

I would think it would be because Robert Rodriguez wants to run his own business off of his own property. So assuming who ever owns Bolado would want to run a flee market off their property and just add rodeo dates for their already existing facility, I think nobody would stop them.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Area CHP officers honored for rescue

funkmasterizzy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:35:25 -0000

Well done officers!

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | City irons out details in plans for Leatherback site

funkmasterizzy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:43:21 -0000

I've been to the Mi Pueblo grocery stores in San Jose and they are pretty awesome. The shopping experiance is on par with Nob Hill and Safeway but with a definatively Hispanic theme and selection. Even the restaurant food they serve from the deli there is very good and I've always seen long lines when I've been there around lunch time. Not supporting Mi Pueblo coming to town is like not supporting Target because we have a Rite-Aid and a K-mart or not supporting Lowe's because we have an Ace and a True Value.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Affordable project planned along San Juan Road

funkmasterizzy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:22:44 -0000

I like that. How about putting the Mi Pueblo store on the westside. I've been to the Mi Pueblo stores in San Jose and they are remarkable. The grocery and cooked food from there deli is excellent in quality and value. I can understand that local stores would object to Mi Pueblo. But quite frankly, it is like rejecting Target because he have a Right Aid and a K-mart or rejecting Low's because we have an Ace and a True Value.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Affordable project planned along San Juan Road

funkmasterizzy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:31:51 -0000

LOL!

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Affordable project planned along San Juan Road

funkmasterizzy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:54:30 -0000

So I am told.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Affordable project planned along San Juan Road

funkmasterizzy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:10:29 -0000

If the City wants to run their riverside park trail all the way to Bridge road, they better stop stacking that neighborhood with low income housing or people will be too scared to go to the end of the trail.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | CHP completes investigation of Woods' accident

funkmasterizzy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:45:06 -0000

Funny how the CHP were able to complete and comment on an accident involving a lone driver in just a few weeks, but the SO and HPD haven't done so in accidents involving their own patrol cars. How are those investigations going anyway? Or is it still none of our business?

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | City gets grant for drunk-driving enforcement

funkmasterizzy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:31:34 -0000

That all depends on your definition of minuscule. I looked up the articles from a couple years ago.

http://www.freelancenews.com/opinion/230433-ove...

http://www.freelancenews.com/news/230772-county....

http://www.freelancenews.com/news/230073-city-p...

A couple things I noticed... In one article, HPD officer overtime pay was around $140k. With only a few officers making ~25%+ of their base salaries on overtime alone (in 2006 dollars). In another article, our favorite ex-deputy Mikey Rodrigues pulled in significant overtime during his tenure. Were they just volunteering for overtime more or were they just doing significantly more work than everyone else? The ones listed work 500+ hours of overtime or over 12 full time weeks in addition to the regular load. And how does that fit into correct overtime management?

I figure it is way unfair to compare that to today, but I am hella curious about the new numbers considering how much the city and county will have to be watching dollars due to the economic meltdown we are experiancing.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | City gets grant for drunk-driving enforcement

funkmasterizzy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:17:57 -0000

I understand that but that's just one grant to handle OT for one specific task, and OT is at least X1.5 rate of pay, that is not efficient and accessive overtime should be avoided because it lowers the performance of the staff and therefore the safety of the citizens.

I wonder how HPD did this year in terms of overtime dollars spent. Perhaps the Freelance should refresh their analysis of City and County overtime pay they did a couple years ago. I'd have to look it back up but I thought I remembered HPD coming in at $300k+ in overtime dollars and it was a minority of people who were doing the sandbagging.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | City gets grant for drunk-driving enforcement

funkmasterizzy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:34:50 -0000

Isn't $71k just about the price tag for one full time officer for a full year?

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Marty: Big government and taxis � an object lesson

funkmasterizzy — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:03:05 -0000

I wrote this on another related article:

I ride the bus to Gilroy to catch Caltrain to work regularly and it is a regularly packed bus. Many times there aren't enough bike racks or none at all, or there is standing room only. Check out the 5:30 returning bus from Gilroy Caltrain Station, especially on a Wed when some sort of scheduling conflict forces the use of a much smaller bus. And since I've been riding for about 10 years, in total I've brought most of my income home with me (when not out of town buying things that I can't get in Hollister for a good price) and paid my taxes here on something over half a million dollars by my self. And many of the riders make well over what I make. So the buses should be looked at also in terms of what they bring in and out. Most residents don't wake up early or get home late enough to see the populated buses coming and going from Caltrain and Gavilan. So at least for out of town commuting, there is a lot of usage.

I can't defend local routes or dial-a-ride which is when most of the residents see the buses empty or with one or two riders. But I will say this; most people who choose the option to ride public transportation do it for two reasons. One is because that's all they can afford. The other is because it is economically sound personally to utilize public transportation. But to think the cabs are going to get this huge influx of business because dial-a-ride isn't competing with them is wrong because people plainly won't be able to afford to cab as much. I don't know how much an in town ride is in Hollister, but up in the Silicon Valley a short in town Hollisteresque ride is somewhere between 5 and 15 dollars in each direction. That won't work for most people around here.

Another option that could help cut the current waste is to contract the local taxis to do dial-a-ride service and subsidize the taxis to some small degree. That way you would get people picked up by cars and not buses which should lower operating costs, the taxis would no longer have to compete with dial-a-ride and so they with see a spike in business because of comparable pricing, lift the burden from county transit, add 24 hour service instead of daytime only, and the buses could concentrate on what they do well: the service to out of town. That may be a good step in reducing (though not by much) unfair wasteful government intervention into the free market and force private taxi companies to compete in rates for government contracts.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Does transit pickup service compete with taxicabs?

funkmasterizzy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:20:44 -0000

I ride the bus to Gilroy to catch Caltrain regulary and it is a regularly packed bus. Many times there aren't enough bike racks or none at all, or there is standing room only. Check out the 5:30 returning bus from Gilroy Caltrain Station, especially on a Wed when some sort of scheduling conflict forces the use of a much smaller bus. And since I've been riding for about 10 years, in totally I've brought most of my income home with me (when not out of town buying things that I can't get in Hollister for a good price) and paid my taxes here on something over half a million dollars by my self. And many of the riders make well over what I make. So the buses should be looked at also in terms of what they bring in and out. Most residents don't wake up early or get home late enough to see the populated busses coming and going from Caltrain and Gavilan. So at least for out of town commuting, there is a lot of usage.

I can't defend local routes or dial-a-ride which is when most of the residents see the busses empty or with one or two riders. But I will say this, most people who choose the option to ride public transportation do it for two reasons. One is because that's all they can afford. The other is because it is economically sound personally to utilize public transportation. But to think the cabs are going to get this huge influx of business because dial-a-ride isn't competing with them is wrong because people plainly won't be able to afford to cab as much. I don't know how much an in town ride is in Hollister, but up in the Silicon Valley a short in town Hollisteresque ride is somewhere between 5 and 15 dollars in each direction. That won't work for most people around here.

Another option that could help cut the current waste is to contract the local taxis to do dial-a-ride service and subsidize the taxis to some small degree. That way you would get people picked up by cars and not busses which should lower operating costs, the taxis would no longer have to compete with dial-a-ride and so they with see a spike in business and lift the burdon from county transit and add 24 hour service instead of daytime only, and the busses could concentrate on what they do well: the service to out of town. That may be a good step in reducing (though not by much) unfair wastefull government intervention into the free market and force private taxi companies to compete in rates for government contracts.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | K&S facade loans win council approval in 3-2 vote

funkmasterizzy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:28:44 -0000

This is a lesson in unintended consiquences.

This was a program to help struggling businesses to afford facelifts that would improve thier appearance and therefore improve the overall ambiance of our business community. But it appears that it was written in a mannar that it is basically open to any business that can come up with the 1/3 and stick around for 5 years. And when you have free money available, most likely it is the savvey or connected that will utilize it first (See: government). I don't blame the Klaur's for applying for it, because most of us would stand in line for free money too. And descriminating against them because they have money is just as disgusting as descriminating against them because they don't.

However, it doesn't settle well with my stomach that RDA money is being blown like that and I am reminded about the $20 million RDA bond they approved ("Not that we would need the money, but that we would have it just in case"). It might not have been money from the bond, but it could have been so it might not have just been money coming back from the state that we paid into, but free money we gave to the Klaurs that we are going to be paying interest on.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | K&S facade loans win council approval in 3-2 vote

funkmasterizzy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:52:47 -0000

This imposter likes to steal names. You are not the real thing so please don't accept comments from me unless you see my name is verified by disqus.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Updated: County resident in wreck listed as critical

funkmasterizzy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:40:57 -0000

Absolutely.

Re: HollisterFreelance.com | Editorial: County should fast track solar farm project

funkmasterizzy — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:17 -0000

Didn't they eminent domain the orchards downtown and plow them under for the bypass? Yes sir, they've already included our back yard garden.