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Re: Governor proposes insurance policy fees to pay for fire services

jskdn — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:17:59 -0000

It's not a fee, it's a tax if you try to apply in to all fire insurance. You could conceivably charge insurance fees to those owning buildings serviced by Cal Fire but not the state as a whole. There has to be a nexus between the person being charged the fee and receiving something the fee pay for. Most people already pay taxes for the fire protection in their cities and aren't served by Cal Fire.

Re: Fees loom for industries' greenhouse gas emissions

jskdn — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:42:40 -0000

$36 million divided by 175 employees equals $205,000 per employee. I would assume some portion of those employees are support staff. How about a list of the current employees and what they are being paid?

Re: Mentally ill detainees' treatment at hospitals worries advocates

jskdn — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:44:25 -0000

They aren't being shackled to their bed as mental patients but rather as prisoners and so it is wrong to expect that laws applying to the former should apply equally to the latter. And the fact that the advocates are pressing immigration officials instead of using the courts as they freely do so often is probably an indicator of that.

Re: Pool of teachers being depleted

jskdn — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:16:57 -0000

There will be no problem getting adequate numbers of teachers if the obstacles of the government education bureaucracy and generally worthless ed schools are removed. We want smart people who can adapt and learn effective teaching strategies, not the stream of those indoctrinated with the ideologies of liberal studies programs. These people should be hired in the spring and take and intensive summer program to help them get ready for the classroom. The remainder of their credentialing process ought to come after they are in the classroom and be very relevant to the actual job. Most current professors in ed schools should be fired. And teachers ought to be paid by performance, not years on the job and often useless ed credits. That means a newer teacher that performs well won't have to wait years to work up the union salary schedule. And no tenure.

Re: Capitol Weekly: News analysis: What next?

jskdn — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:20:49 -0000

So the leaders who sequestered themselves away to do the last budget and formulate these rejected propositions and going to do a redux? Perhaps they ought to instead put the budget choices, there's as well as specific ideas formulated by others, on a website and ask the general public as well as the usual suspects to weigh in, with the LAO as referee and bean counter. We've had the opportunity to vote no so lets see if there is something a majority can agree to vote yes on.

Re: Border security officials meet in San Diego

jskdn — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:57:22 -0000

That would be along with the stimulus funds being used to hire illegal immigrants as a result of removing the requirement that contractors use E-Verify, showing how little the politicians care about all those legal citizens that are out of work or the public dislike of illegal immigration. Diane Feinstein is currently pushing for ag-jobs amnesty in a big way.

Re: Here we go again

jskdn — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:12:50 -0000

If only we could have an honest immigration debate in this country. Unfortunately newspaper after newspaper, including this one, simply suppress the voices of those they disagree with. While the comments features are filled with those that oppose illegal immigration and want the laws against it enforced, the people who run editorial pages make sure that no one is allowed to write regularly who could represents such views and challenge their own. The reason is simple; these editors know their immigration agenda isn't shared by the American people and just as tyrannical governments all over the world understand, suppressing the dissemination of ideas works for preserving power. That doesn't keep it from being evil.

Re: Capitol Weekly: To guide a budget through, a little improvisation is key

jskdn — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:54:20 -0000

Isn't it fantastic that the legislature having just passed a budget filled with gimmicks and borrowing, with guaranteed huge deficits down the line, decided to obligate the state to $11.2 billion in greater future spending obligations. So let's not hear any more excuses about voter created mandates for spending.

Re: Capitol Weekly: Pension spikes: Lavish retirement pay is drawing closer scrutiny

jskdn — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:11:42 -0000

Basing pension on highest years salaries makes no financial sense. It defies the notion of the time value of money. Pensions should be based on the average lifetime compensation adjusted to compensate for the time the each year's pension contributions had to accumulate value in the pension fund. Social Security bases pensions on average adjusted lifetime earnings.

Re: Steelhead strategy roils local waters

jskdn — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:15:17 -0000

Are there no estimates of the increased amount of water that would be required to run into the sea so that steelhead could swim up these tributaries? What would it cost to replace it by shipping it in from someplace else in dollars and energy including the greenhouse gas emissions from that energy.

Re: Immigration reform and fear factor

jskdn — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:11:16 -0000

"Why not be honest and just admit what frightens" you advocates and apologists for mass and illegal immigration writing in newspapers about having an open debate on the topic? Why don't you just admit that your arguments are neither convincing nor honest and that if we were allowed to write aside you in newspapers so that readers could compare the arguments and counter arguments, you would be seen as the fools and charlatans you are.

Re: Con: Constitutional convention as useful as magic beans

jskdn — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:42:11 -0000

The printed edition did have a pro-con exchange but the website opinion page didn't include the pro. It can be found at http://www3.signonsandiego.....

Coupal is correct that the backers of this have been disproportionately liberal. Good government types are often government is good types. Coupal is also correct that the selection of delegates is the key. Selecting delegates at random allows for the most representative body possible. But if they are the most representative, how come the backers are defining what they can do? They are saying trust these people except for where we don't trust them. I say create this body and let it decide how it will approach reform for California, what it will produce in what time frame and what form to present it to the voters for ratification.

Re: ACORN official respond to video sting - SignOnSanDiego.com

jskdn — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:06:37 -0000

"the organization is "furious" that hidden cameras filmed employees of the community-organizing group, and he called such actions "immoral if not illegal."

Yeah, that's what was immoral and illegal about all this!

Re: For immigrants, a lecture - SignOnSanDiego.com

jskdn — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:57:10 -0000

"Unlike many Americans who seem to think that some jobs are beneath their dignity"

When the elites say things like this they actually mean they don't want these jobs. There is no job done by an illegal that isn't also being done by legal workers. And those legal worker economic prospect are being undermined by people like Navarrette.

Re: Lesbian's suit over procedure is settled - SignOnSanDiego.com

jskdn — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:45:42 -0000

Tolerance apparently doesn't include tolerance for other people's religious convictions. It's not that this woman couldn't get artificial insemination. She received it. Those doctors refusing offered to help her find someone to do the procedure. It's just that she wanted to be able to force those who object to it on their religious beliefs to do it anyway. Tolerance for liberals is but license for their own choices and oppression for any who disagree with them.

Re: Lesbian's suit over procedure is settled - SignOnSanDiego.com

jskdn — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:03:15 -0000

It wasn't about discriminating against gays in general. There was not sign that said gays will not be given services. This was about one procedure that the doctors felt went against their religious beliefs and they wanted to direct her to a doctor where that wasn't an issue. Next time you hear gays argue for tolerance and rights for themselves, keep this in mind. I know I will.

Re: Protections for forests inadequate, judge rules - SignOnSanDiego.com

jskdn — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:47:28 -0000

Please try reporting on the cumulative litigation record of the Center for Biological Diversity. We should also know the cost of these environmental studies and litigation. These are important points of context.

Re: Capitol Weekly: CalPers offered incentives to inflate pension funds’ value

jskdn — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:41:54 -0000

Thanks ed. That's a great little history lesson. Unfortunately for those of us who warned about and decried the unfairness of the government pensions dwarfing those of the taxpayers who have to pay for them was ignored by the news media.

Re: Capitol Weekly: New committee to focus on Government reform proposals

jskdn — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:53:13 -0000

"The Los Angeles Chamber is reportedly joining forces with the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor to back a change to the state term limits law. Under the new proposal, lawmakers would be allowed to serve 12 years in any house of the Legislature. Current law allows members to serve three two-year terms in the Assembly and two four-year terms in the Senate"

Special interests out to put it to the rest of us with the help of the politicians they buy.

Re: Calif. would lose five seats if census changed - SignOnSanDiego.com

jskdn — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:12:13 -0000

"said Andrew Beveridge, a Queens College sociologist who analyzed the census data. “This is going to disempower immigrants massively.”

As if this weren't a zero-sum game of 435 available seats. Giving representation based upon illegal immigrants takes it away from districts where more of the population is legal. What is really the issue is that it takes power from the radical left agenda of college professors like Andrew Beveridge. In this state doing the same for legislative redistricting would also take power away from the radical left, especially the Latino ethnic caucus. Go look at the Secretary of State's registration data by district and see which party controls those districts that have the fewest voters.

Re: Path to citizenship needed, GOP candidate Whitman says - SignOnSanDiego.com

jskdn — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:08:35 -0000

Sanctuary...we don't need no stinkin' sanctuary: we're legal now thanks to two-faced Meg! Who needs the protection of a sanctuary city when politicians like Whitman are going to bestow the ultimate reward for having broken the law, legal permanent residence? Border enforcement only works when it part of a coherent, comprehensive enforcement regime within the country. Anyone who even slightly understands this issue knows this and when politicians talk border enforcement but see to it that there are ample rewards for being illegally in the country, you would have to be brain dead to think that they really care about controlling illegal immigration.

Re: Path to citizenship needed, GOP candidate Whitman says - SignOnSanDiego.com

jskdn — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:26:49 -0000

You may not like the complexity but the fact remains that the electorate has consistently indicated that it wants immigration limited and is against illegal immigration. If those wishes are to be respected, that means that people who would like to come here will not be able to legally and that to make those laws effective, the government will have to be willing to do effective enforcement. So far the opposite has been true with our government practically inviting illegal immigrants. The message it sends is to just get through the border game and you are almost home free.

Re: Path to citizenship needed, GOP candidate Whitman says - SignOnSanDiego.com

jskdn — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:23:43 -0000

And if she would have been running for governor she would have lost badly, as did Kathleen Brown who as a candidate held that position and saw her huge lead in the polls wiped out as Pete Wilson rode to an easy victory on the back of his support of Prop 187. Of course the evil media never stopped attacking him for that, creating a narrative serving their open-border agenda that support of immigration enforcement hurts a candidate's election prospects, completely opposite of the facts on the ground. However I don't want to downplay the power of a news media that lack an iota of journalistic ethics when it comes to illegal immigration. Propaganda newspapers can hurt candidates just as they hurt our ability to have a government that represents us. Tell it to the enemy. readers.rep@uniontrib.com Not that they care.

Re: Path to citizenship needed, GOP candidate Whitman says - SignOnSanDiego.com

jskdn — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:08:59 -0000

What's the problem with making people be forced to compete with illegal labor in the marketplace? Well people who don't want to have to pay wages in a market limited to legal employees probably find nothing wrong with undermining the economic prospects of our citizens by breaking the law for their own benefit. The heck with the laws or the rights of legal workers: they think if its good for their bottom line, that's all that matters. The same with the ethnic and political groups that see mass illegal immigration as serving their goals of power. However most Americans don't share their and your disregard for their fellow citizens. Now if we could only get a government that represents us instead people like you.

Re: Path to citizenship needed, GOP candidate Whitman says - SignOnSanDiego.com

jskdn — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:00:48 -0000

It did if you share the agenda of those supporting amnesty now. At what point to we admit that the emperors of open borders are buck naked.