California (again)

[3rdnlng]

5 hours ago, KD in CA said:

 

Downtown/Market Street/Union Sq., etc. is awful and as advertised.  It's like the whole Tenderloin slum moves south for the day.   Ironically, rich capitalists like the head of Salesforce are now taking on the challenge of fixing it since the government liberals have no answers.

 

That said, you really don't see that crap (literally and figuratively) in most of the city.   The Mission has always been sketchy, but even there it seems to be different than what they permit in the downtown sewer.

 

And of course, there are no cops here.   Still amazes me when compared to NYC where you see them everywhere, all the time.

After Dirty Harry cleared out the real criminals there wasn't much need of cops anymore.

[Azalin]

6 hours ago, LABillzFan said:

 

Hmmm...I wonder why. 

 

Oh, wait. No I don't. Austin is known as THE new hotspot for CA liberals who think their ideology works if they can just elect the right people to implement it.

 

 

Spot on - couldn't agree with you more. There's still a lot here to like, but the city is definitely heading in down that path. A lot of the locals are beginning to wake up, so maybe the genie isn't completely out of the bottle yet.

[IDBillzFan]

1 hour ago, Azalin said:

 

Spot on - couldn't agree with you more. There's still a lot here to like, but the city is definitely heading in down that path. A lot of the locals are beginning to wake up, so maybe the genie isn't completely out of the bottle yet.

 

It's too late. They're like a new virus whose purpose is to turn you from red to blue. You think you can contain it, but you can't. We saw it happen to Colorado that's turned hippie-dippie blue. Texas is a much tougher test, and while I'm not one to think a state will be so fed up that they'll turn to bloodshed, if that WERE to happen one day, it'll start in Texas.

[Buffalo_Gal]

 

That twitter thread is a very interesting read!! 

[Deranged Rhino]

2 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

That twitter thread is a very interesting read!! 

 

Rosie is very, very good at digging. 

[Chef Jim]

On 5/9/2019 at 8:32 AM, Azalin said:

 

I'm not used to hearing Austin referred to as "low-tax". Texas may have no state income tax, but Austin's property taxes are the highest in the state. It's the most expensive place to live in Texas, and it's getting more so all the time.

 

Just because they're rich doesn't mean they're not stupid.  And you know they likely bought the biggest home in Austin.  

On 5/9/2019 at 9:32 AM, KD in CA said:

 

Downtown/Market Street/Union Sq., etc. is awful and as advertised.  It's like the whole Tenderloin slum moves south for the day.   Ironically, rich capitalists like the head of Salesforce are now taking on the challenge of fixing it since the government liberals have no answers.

 

That said, you really don't see that crap (literally and figuratively) in most of the city.   The Mission has always been sketchy, but even there it seems to be different than what they permit in the downtown sewer.

 

And of course, there are no cops here.   Still amazes me when compared to NYC where you see them everywhere, all the time.

 

I lived in the Bay area for almost 10 years and 4 in the city and I can't even tell you what a SFPD patrol car looks like.  

[DC Tom]

1 hour ago, Chef Jim said:

 

Just because they're rich doesn't mean they're not stupid.  And you know they likely bought the biggest home in Austin.  

 

I lived in the Bay area for almost 10 years and 4 in the city and I can't even tell you what a SFPD patrol car looks like.  

 

[Chef Jim]

14 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

 

Well that's just ***** gay! 

Wait that's not SFPD.  That's a Sheriff's patrol car.   

Edited May 10, 2019 by Chef Jim

[3rdnlng]

The SFPD doesn't go on "patrol", they go on "sashay".

[/dev/null]

On 5/9/2019 at 12:32 PM, KD in CA said:

 

Downtown/Market Street/Union Sq., etc. is awful and as advertised.  It's like the whole Tenderloin slum moves south for the day.   Ironically, rich capitalists like the head of Salesforce are now taking on the challenge of fixing it since the government liberals have no answers.

 

That said, you really don't see that crap (literally and figuratively) in most of the city.   The Mission has always been sketchy, but even there it seems to be different than what they permit in the downtown sewer.

 

And of course, there are no cops here.   Still amazes me when compared to NYC where you see them everywhere, all the time.

 

SFPD has better things to do than patrol the city, like raid the home of journalists

 

https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/san-francisco-police-raid-home-of-journalist-to-find-leak-in-adachi-death/

 

See how Trump has declared war on journalism!

[B-Man]

2 hours ago, /dev/null said:

 

SFPD has better things to do than patrol the city, like raid the home of journalists

 

https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/san-francisco-police-raid-home-of-journalist-to-find-leak-in-adachi-death/

 

See how Trump has declared war on journalism!

 

 

 

More on this story:

 

LIBERAL FASCISM: San Francisco police raid home of journalist to find who leaked Adachi report.

 

Two weeks prior, Carmody said that he was interviewed by police officers about where he obtained his information, but refused to disclose his source. Today, Carmody said that police and FBI agents executed a search warrant on his Richmond District home and Western Addition office.

 

They confiscated his cell phones, computers and a copy of the police report from within his office safe.

 

“They have completely shut down my business,” said Carmody, who has operated as an independent stringer for Bay Area and national television stations, including Fox News, CNBC and CBS Evening news.

 

Carmody accused police of “intimidation” to “make me break my [journalistic] ethics.”

 

“I’m refusing to give up my source,” he said.

 

 

 

 

On the one hand, there’s no legal right to refuse a subpoena to name a source. On the other, if Bill Barr were sending FBI agents to raid journalists’ homes in search of leakers, we’d be told that the Fourth Reich had descended on America.

 

 

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[IDBillzFan]

2 hours ago, /dev/null said:

 

SFPD has better things to do than patrol the city, like raid the home of journalists

 

https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/san-francisco-police-raid-home-of-journalist-to-find-leak-in-adachi-death/

 

See how Trump has declared war on journalism!

 

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.

[DC Tom]

Just now, LABillzFan said:

 

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

 

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.  

[IDBillzFan]

28 minutes ago, 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.  

 

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.

 

[Chef Jim]

19 minutes ago, 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.

 

 

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. 

[SoCal Deek]

32 minutes ago, 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. 

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.)

[DC Tom]

1 hour ago, LABillzFan said:

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.

 

 

Of course.  Because when the entire world economy almost collapses because low-income homebuyers are overborrowing from banks pushing no-doc loans at no risk to themselves and at the encouragement of the government that can't be bothered to enforce the lending and homebuying regulations on the books, clearly the solution is to make it more difficult for the small business owner.

 

My legitimate happiness for you is, sadly, tempered by the belief that you're escape is temporary.  The issues are national, CA's merely the leading edge of it.  The only positive thing I can say about the bull#### of the past 15 years is that it's going to look positively blissful compared to the bull#### we're going to have foisted on us in the next 15.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

5 hours ago, DC Tom said:

 

Of course.  Because when the entire world economy almost collapses because low-income homebuyers are overborrowing from banks pushing no-doc loans at no risk to themselves and at the encouragement of the government that can't be bothered to enforce the lending and homebuying regulations on the books, clearly the solution is to make it more difficult for the small business owner.

 

My legitimate happiness for you is, sadly, tempered by the belief that you're escape is temporary.  The issues are national, CA's merely the leading edge of it.  The only positive thing I can say about the bull#### of the past 15 years is that it's going to look positively blissful compared to the bull#### we're going to have foisted on us in the next 15.

 

Down in flames.

[IDBillzFan]

1 hour ago, Joe in Winslow said:

 

Down in flames.

 

On the bright side, look up Idaho's gun laws. If we're going down, we're going down fighting.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

21 minutes ago, LABillzFan said:

 

On the bright side, look up Idaho's gun laws. If we're going down, we're going down fighting.

 

Gonna love moving to the backwoods of Maine and arming up.

[Chef Jim]

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. ?

[SoCal Deek]

26 minutes 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. ?

I have a vacation home in PS. Enjoy!

[B-Man]

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.

 

 

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[3rdnlng]

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.

[B-Man]

THINK OF IT AS A PREVIEW OF THE GREEN NEW DEAL: 

 

California May Go Dark This Summer, and Most Aren’t Ready.

 

 

 

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[IDBillzFan]

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.

 

 

[B-Man]

 California Has the Highest Poverty Rate in America. Why?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[3rdnlng]

38 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 California Has the Highest Poverty Rate in America. Why?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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From your link:

 

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” - Milton Friedman

 

This quote is right on the money and personifies the Liberal way.

[DC Tom]

On 5/13/2019 at 11:25 AM, B-Man said:

THINK OF IT AS A PREVIEW OF THE GREEN NEW DEAL: 

 

California May Go Dark This Summer, and Most Aren’t Ready.

 

 

 

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I can't blame PG&E for this, not after the beating they took for causing the Camp fire.  Californians, you want PG&E to be responsible for fire prevention?  This is it.  Deal with it.

[B-Man]

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.

 

 

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[Koko78]

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.

[Dante]

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/

[Dante]

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. 

[IDBillzFan]

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.

[Nanker]

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.

 

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! 

[Koko78]

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

[Buffalo_Gal]

 

[DC Tom]

34 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

 

 

What high-speed rail project?  CA doesn't have a high-speed rail project.  They have a high-speed rail budget.

[3rdnlng]

They've started it:

 

 

 

[Deranged Rhino]