Jump to content

California (again)

\GoBillsInDallas/
 Share

Recommended Posts

Chef Jim Hall of Famer

Chef Jim

Posted
Posted
20 hours ago, SoCal Deek said:

You’ll love it in PS. Always tons going on and dozens of restaurants to try. (Somebody tried opening a Buffalo based sports bar about a year ago but it never got off the ground.)

 

Thanks for the advice but I don’t need any advice. I’ve lived in CA for nearly 40 years and 30 have been in SoCal with PS our favorite weekend getaway. ?

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Replies 2.3k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

Deranged Rhino
Deranged Rhino
Chef Jim
Chef Jim

I was up in San Francisco for Christmas and I know all too well what it’s like up there. And I was shocked that it’s gotten worse.  Not so much the City. The City has been a shithole forever.  But the

Keukasmallies
Keukasmallies

I just invented Rule 9:  Place SectionC3 on ignore.

Posted Images

B-Man Hall of Famer

B-Man

Posted
Posted

California Mulls Crackdown On Online Higher Ed. 

 

“The goal of the legislative package, bill sponsors say, is to make colleges put student success before profit — and to ensure that fewer students are saddled with debt and low-paying jobs.”

 

 

Reading the fine print on this one, it seems like it’s mostly about protecting California schools from out-of-state competition.

 

 

.

 
Link to comment
Share on other sites
3rdnlng Hall of Famer

3rdnlng

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, Chef Jim said:

 

Thanks for the advice but I don’t need any advice. I’ve lived in CA for nearly 40 years and 30 have been in SoCal with PS our favorite weekend getaway. ?

Just think, retiring in Palm Springs gives you the opportunity to have Bakersfield as your favorite weekend getaway place.

  • Haha (+1) 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
IDBillzFan Hall of Famer

IDBillzFan

Posted
Posted
42 minutes ago, B-Man said:

California Mulls Crackdown On Online Higher Ed. 

 

“The goal of the legislative package, bill sponsors say, is to make colleges put student success before profit — and to ensure that fewer students are saddled with debt and low-paying jobs.”

 

 

Reading the fine print on this one, it seems like it’s mostly about protecting California schools from out-of-state competition.

 

One of the trends in CA (as in other states) is to deny acceptance to state schools by CA residents because out-of-state tuition is much higher than in-state. A lot of really smart CA kids are boxed out of Stanford, UCLA, USC, etc in favor of out-of-state students, so it's no wonder they want to keep out-of-state options to a minimum.

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Koko78 All Pro

Koko78

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, B-Man said:

Gavin Newsom Pardons Convicted Felons to Shield Them From Deportation

FTA:

 

 

Before we get into the details, take a look at this LA Times headline.

In a Rebuke to President Trump, Gov. Newsom Pardons Refugees Facing Deportation

Talk about whitewashing. Maybe mentioning they are felons in the headline would be prudent? Just a thought.

 

Pretty sure the pardons aren't going to work. Immigration law has a quite different set of rules.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Dante All Pro

Dante

Posted
Posted
On 5/12/2019 at 8:55 AM, LABillzFan said:

 

Carrying on the Kamala Harris legacy of raiding homes for personal gain.

 

T-minute 8 days 'til we're wheels up. Feels like an eternity.

Like Mueller did? Raiding a child porn distributor to get leverage on whomever Asimov was connected to? Of course. Why else would this degenerate let go? He even got all his porn filming gear back.

https://www.dangerous.com/48192/robert-mueller-let-a-prolific-child-porn-collector-with-a-famous-dad-walk-free/

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Dante All Pro

Dante

Posted
Posted
On 5/13/2019 at 8:35 AM, LABillzFan said:

 

One of the trends in CA (as in other states) is to deny acceptance to state schools by CA residents because out-of-state tuition is much higher than in-state. A lot of really smart CA kids are boxed out of Stanford, UCLA, USC, etc in favor of out-of-state students, so it's no wonder they want to keep out-of-state options to a minimum.

 

 

So you mean kids coming from outside of Cali pay much more?

I know tuition was cheaper in Cali for our son compared to going out of state. BUT for most students, it was almost impossible to get done in 4 years. When we went to orientation before he started the students that gave us the tour chuckled when we thought he would be out in 4 years. They said almost everyone took 5 or 6 years. That was Sonoma State. I don't know if thats common throughout California. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
IDBillzFan Hall of Famer

IDBillzFan

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, Dante said:

So you mean kids coming from outside of Cali pay much more?

 

About 50% more for undergraduate and 100% more for graduate.

 

Lots of CA parents are pissed because the bar is high to begin with. To clear the bar but get rejected because you're a CA resident is making them insane.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Nanker Hall of Famer

Nanker

Posted
Posted
On 5/12/2019 at 11:56 AM, DC Tom said:

 

I'm legitimately happy for you.

 

Most days, it seems the only way I'm getting away from this ***** is to put a bullet in my head.  

Take a deep breath and live... please. 

 

On 5/12/2019 at 12:44 PM, LABillzFan said:

 

I appreciate that. If I haven't mentioned it here yet, the reality of a mass exodus from CA was never more evident than when we tried to hire a moving company and an estate sale person. They're all crushed with work, needed us to move quickly to confirm, and all insist they've never seen so many people leaving as they do right now.

 

For what it's worth, our intent was to rent for a year, but we found a beautiful house on 5+ acres, which meant we had to unexpectedly and quickly dig in for a mortgage. Many of you probably know this, but if you haven't tried to qualify for a mortgage as a small-business owner in the past 14 years, nothing you remember is the same. We have great credit, a smaller mortgage and lower payment than we've been making for years, little business debt...no one cares. It's about liquidity tests and checkboxes.

 

Congrats on the sale and move. 

We retired two years ago. We built a house on The Cape and it was ready by the time we got here. Closed on the Princeton house on a Monday and closed on the new house that Thursday. 

 

Thing is, with the closing dates being so close together we decided to apply for a mortgage just in case the sale of our old house got delayed. What an unbelievable hassle. They ask for more documentation than a Special Council. Everything had to be explained, documented, and verified. We even had to get our banks to get us photocopies of some large checks with all the signatures on them. 

 

So, my wife retired on the 4th of the month. She could have chosen any date though. So about two days later our lender drops a bomb on us that my wife would be required to get a letter from her employer confirming that she still worked there. :wallbash:

 

Luckily the sale and closing went through okay and we didn’t need a mortgage on the new house. But it was tense for several days. 

 

On 5/12/2019 at 1:06 PM, Chef Jim said:

 

We just bought our retirement home in Palm Springs!  ?

 

Well actually it’s a income property. It’s the model of a new phase of a gated community. They are leasing it from us for about $2k a month. Easy cash flow for the next 18-24 months. After that we sell, rent to the public or move in. Pretty much a win win win. 

Congrats on that. Sounds like a good move. 

On 5/13/2019 at 11:22 AM, 3rdnlng said:

Just think, retiring in Palm Springs gives you the opportunity to have Bakersfield as your favorite weekend getaway place.

Temecula baby! 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Koko78 All Pro

Koko78

Posted
Posted
On 5/15/2019 at 1:26 PM, Koko78 said:

Pretty sure the pardons aren't going to work. Immigration law has a quite different set of rules.

 

Here's an example:

 

Zazueta, a lawful permanent resident, pled guilty in Iowa state court in 2009 to possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance (crack cocaine). The court deferred judgment and placed Zazueta on 4 years’ probation. Months later, an Iowa jury found Zazueta guilty of second degree robbery. The court revoked the deferred judgment and probation and sentenced Zazueta to a term not to exceed ten years. The robbery conviction was vacated in 2016 due to ineffective assistance of counsel and the charges were dismissed in 2017. Zazueta then moved to vacate his controlled substance conviction and reinstate the deferred judgment. The state court reinstated the deferred judgment, vacated and set aside the probation revocation and conviction, allowed the withdrawal of the guilty plea, and dismissed the case. The court emphasized that Zazueta had been “rehabilitated” such that “[c]ontinuing probation would serve no rehabilitative purpose.”

 

Zazueta then moved to terminate pending removal proceedings, arguing he no longer had a “conviction” for immigration purposes. The Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that the 2009 deferred judgment still constituted a “conviction” for immigration purposes.

 

The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agrees with the BIA. The state court made it clear that its vacatur was grounded in rehabilitative reasons, not any infirmity in the controlled-substance charge:

 

Zazueta v. Barr

2019 WL 847540 (8th Cir., 2/22/19)

http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/19/02/181074P.pdf

Link to comment
Share on other sites
 Share
Go to topic listing
×
×
  • Create New...