[poochee]

Senate approves education bill, paves way for stimulus money
By Diana Lambert
Published: Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009 - 10:46 am
Last Modified: Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009 - 2:59 pm

The California State Senate voted Tuesday to pass Senate Bill X5 1, which would make the state more competitive for federal Race to the Top stimulus funds.

http://www.sacbee.com/latest/story/2304911.html

[wacor]

grovel grovel

don't forget the string that is attached. It will drag you down in due time

[ekim68]

Carly's bad voting mea culpa sounds a lot like Meg Whitman's

So did you notice what the first thing did Carly Fiorina did when she announced her run for Senate Wednesday? She took on the I-Didn't-Vote-As-Often-As-I-Shoulda thing that Comrade Marinucci pointed out months ago.

But did you notice how Carly's mea culpa sounded a lot like Meg Whitman's I-Didn't-Vote-As-Often-As-I-Shoulda mea culpa sounded like last week during a public radio interview? (Hey, ninth time's the charm on getting that mea culpa right.)

Compare and contrast, class. We smell a support group forming: Ex-CEOs Who Felt Government Didn't Matter Until They Wanted to Be Part of It.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/...id=50976&tsp=1

[poochee]

Carly Fiorina: A Record Of Failure
August 20, 2009 10:27 am ET

After firing 18,000 employees as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina believes Californians "have serious concerns about job creation."

Failed CEO Of Hewlett-Packard

As CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina laid off 18,000 workers. When reflecting on her tenure, she admitted she wished she had "done them all faster."

Excerpts from: http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/200908200003

[wacor]

Yeah she should have let them keep their jobs.

So they could be on unimployment now after the company went bankrupt

Typical union type babble to whine about the job losses. The company could not sustain itself. I swear some of you would rather the entire ship go down even if it saved a job for the short term.

[LANMaster]

.... This is the "change" in leftist politics. No mud flinging, unless it serves their cause.

[ekim68]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

.... This is the "change" in leftist politics. No mud flinging, unless it serves their cause.

What mud slinging? And, by what media?

[poochee]

Originally Posted by ekim68

What mud slinging? And, by what media?

Her reputation will follow her in California.

[ekim68]

At emotional hearing, panel approves landmark curbs on Southern California fishing

In a move greeted with scattered applause and boos, a state blue-ribbon panel late today voted unanimously to approve landmark fishing restrictions for the Southern California coastline, creating a patchwork of havens for marine life needed to replenish the surrounding seas while leaving some waters open for fishing.

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(About time... )

[poochee]

Originally Posted by ekim68

At emotional hearing, panel approves landmark curbs on Southern California fishing

In a move greeted with scattered applause and boos, a state blue-ribbon panel late today voted unanimously to approve landmark fishing restrictions for the Southern California coastline, creating a patchwork of havens for marine life needed to replenish the surrounding seas while leaving some waters open for fishing.

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(About time... )

[ekim68]

Contrasting views offered of what went wrong with California's job market

Many people responded to a blog entry that looked back at California during the 1950s, when jobs were plentiful, asking what went wrong and how to make things right.

There were a few prescriptions for how to make things better and varied views on what went wrong. Here are highlights of the discussion with screen names used as IDs.

RobinHood1 chalked up the differences to changing times, writing that, "In the 1950's, Western Europe and Japan were still rebuilding from the ruins of World War II. The U.S was the workshop of the world, a role now played by China, which was a rural backwater in the 1950's. We aren't going back to that economic model anytime soon."

Outsourcing was mentioned repeatedly. As Djrohinds noted: "I worked at Pacific Bell for over 20 years before it was taken over by SBC and was re-christened AT&T. In 2007, without warning, the jobs of 10,000 employees were moved to the Israeli-based contracting company Amdocs. The employees had no say. Soon after Amdocs shipped those jobs to India. We are not able to find jobs now while India is becoming an economic power."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/...entry_id=51322

[wacor]

Of course those in CA are having trouble figuring out why they are not what they used to be. What would you expect. The same people wringing their hands are the ones that voted in people with statist and socialist agendas.

Maybe with luck they will wake up one day and realize the damage done. Undoing the damage though requires one to admit they screwed up. I just had a guy come back from a seminar in the midwest that will have significant impact on my industry. The funny part is that the existing methods the authorities promoted basically made one sector of the industry obsolete while promoting another. In a real world they would then make regulatory changes to ban the existing method and return to the older method which there never has been a study finding any problems. Never happen though as that would mean guys having a half million dollar in equipment that would no longer be useful. And that is just for mobilizing one piece of equipment and some contractors have 3-5 so you can do the math.

Regulations drawn up by interest groups are never a good idea but that is what a good deal of the environmental crap out there is.

[LANMaster]

Naaahhhh. Don't you worry, Ahnold (the RINO) Babs & DiFi got it all under control.

[ekim68]

Great whites near shore more often than believed

For years, humans have thought of great white sharks wandering the sea at random, only occasionally venturing close to shore.

We were wrong.

Pacific white sharks spend months near the northern and central California coast between August and February foraging among elephant seals, sea lions and other prey, according to a new study published online Tuesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. The team of 10 California-based researchers determined that these sharks probably pass close to populated beaches and have been spotted as far inland as the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, east of the Golden Gate Bridge.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...110303028.html

[LANMaster]

I've seen them. Not what you want to see when you're sitting on a 6 foot piece of foam, outside the breakline, waiting to catch a swell.