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Gen. Ripper posted:(Aside from Orange County, that place can die in hellfire.) Gen. Ripper posted:you may wonder how this state is so liberal.  Birthplace of SWATAlso CA jails/prisons are the stuff of 1980s HBO movies.
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Classic Twisty posted:What's so great about California Its political acumen!  Its grand  And its beautiful beaches! 
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Ardennes posted:the traffic reminds me how much living in LA sucks.  etalian posted:Yeah LA is really huge at 503 sq miles due to how the city aggressively annexed surrounding areas over the years. redscare posted:part of the reason why 70% of the budget goes to pay for police and firefighter salaries and benefits All Of The Dicks posted:Oakland Glass of Milk posted:The prison unions pretty much own the Democrats along with teacher unions, so the prison system is ridiculous.
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The Warszawa posted:Jerry Brown is in open defiance of a Supreme Court ruling that the California prisons are flouting the Eighth Amendment, to the point where he has been reprimanded yet again by the federal courts. It's getting into full-on-the-South-refusing-to-desegregate territory. The only solution at hand is to start releasing people. Hes a politician. Not likely to happen. Obdicut posted:those on the 'left' side being very closely tied to unions, and the prison union (and some related unions) is extremely powerful in California, Theres a variety of books on the prison-industrial complex that explains their power (shockingly, its money!) if youre interested. The one I linked up-thread is pretty short. Rude. posted:My cousin lives in San Diego and she just graduated with bachelors in visual arts. Her favorite book is Atlas Shrugged Best Friends posted:If stupid residential water use wasn't a thing all over California, including Southern California, this might have more impact. The whole thing is highlighted by the fact that municipal water is more expensive in Seattle than LA. Something is wrong with the valuation-to-waste mechanism.
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UberJew posted:This is exactly what the SCOTUS ordered that he do in 2011. Let's be clear here this is not business as usual; politicians have done unpopular things when required to by law before, his current defiance is in fact exceptionally assholish even for a governor. I disagree with the "exceptionally" part. I would say it is predictable. The Governator himself did a 180 regarding a high-prfile prison issue when the Prison Industry barked at him. Brown wont release prison_money_units until he is leaving for good, or the feds are literally hauling him away for some kind of PR-constructed anti-CA tribunal (which is the only way it would happen).
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Armani posted:What about Dr. Drew? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUKo3QUzn9Y
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Armani posted:Fantastic music link aside - any reason to distrust Drew? Excuse all the crappy second rate Time links. I dont want to dig through the forest of folders to find my old effortpost material. quote:Pinsky reportedly accepted the six-figure sum over the course of two months in 1999 for extolling the virtues of the antidepressant “in settings where it did not appear that [he] was speaking for GSK,” according to the Justice Department. Also the typical "Here take this drug I make money pushing, sure it can cause anxiety and seizures, and sure it is no more effective than a placebo, but COME ON MAN DO IT $$$$$$". http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/drug-information/DR600283/DSECTION=side-effects http://au.businessinsider.com/14-documents-from-glaxosmithklines-3-billion-drug-marketing-scandal-that-will-disgust-you-2012-7 quote:GlaxoSmithKline paid $3 billion to end an investigation by the Department of Justice into its illegal marketing of the antidepressants Paxil and Wellbutrin, and the diabetes drug Avandia. The payment—the largest ever in drug marketing—is accompanied by criminal convictions for the company. http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/18/new-research-on-the-antidepressant-versus-placebo-debate/ quote:However, Krystal adds, just under a quarter of patients did not respond well to drug treatment and in fact did worse on antidepressants than did patients who were given a placebo. Big money if youre a pusher though. http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/16/report-whos-taking-mental-health-drugs-in-america/ quote:More than 1 in 5 American adults now takes at least one type of medication to treat a psychological disorder, a 22% rise since 2001, according to new statistics released by Medco Health Solutions, which monitors drug trends in insurance claims. The data don't necessarily mean that we are overmedicated. Indeed, the World Health Organization estimates that slightly more than a quarter of Americans suffer from mental illness in any given year. Keep redefining "normal" until the pills run out! Hire a hoard of Dr Drews to sell your poo poo... You know what is convenient about stress-inducing shows like Dr Drews Advice Hour?: http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/03/study-how-chronic-stress-can-lead-to-depression/ quote:Study: How Chronic Stress Can Lead to Depression Anyway, back to Drew - like most whitecoats on the pharma payroll he is an unremitting and unapologetic piece of poo poo: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/how-dr-drew-sold-his-cred-to-big-pharma/259473/ quote:How Dr. Drew Sold His Cred to Big Pharma quote:n Dr. Drew’s case, the Justice Department isn’t the first to point out that he’s been taking money from pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers. In January, while researching conflicts of interest caused by pharmaceutical payments, Slate.com discovered that Pinsky had taken $115,000 from Janssen Pharmaceuticals. When the news went public, Janssen was the first to defend Pinsky, stating that the money was for a program “aimed at educating teens, parents, and educators about the prevalence and serious risks of teen prescription drug abuse in the U.S. …” And Alison Rudnick, a spokesperson for CNN’s Headline News network, home of the show Dr. Drew, emailed Slate.com to confirm that, if appropriate, “Dr. Drew would provide an on-air disclaimer if he were to do a story involving Janssen Pharmaceuticals.” Be that as it may, there was no such disclaimer last week when the subject of the Dr. Drew show was gastric bypass surgery — even though the Los Angeles Times had an article in December questioning the propriety of Pinsky’s role as a spokesperson for 1-800-GET-THIN, a lap-band surgery marketing firm (a source at Headline News says that the lap-band deal had elapsed by the time the gastric bypass show aired, so no disclosure was necessary). Theres a bunch of really disturbing exposes on the ways pharma uses disgraced doctors to "educate" both the public and other doctors using a bunch of researched manipulation techniques to get their pills in your body. Report Details Drug Company’s Close Ties With Disgraced Doctor (Midei) http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/read-report-details-drug-companys-close-ties-with-disgraced-doctor Disgraced FDA Official Goes Back to Big Pharma (Gottlieb) http://www.alternet.org/story/72513/disgraced_fda_official_goes_back_to_big_pharma Big Pharma buys off the Senate http://www.salon.com/2013/01/25/big_pharma_buys_off_the_senate/ Back to Drew - plus all of his sex advice was: "Well I have daughters and ... I dont approve of what you are saying... " (e: wow today was typo day. must be time for my pills.) FRINGE fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Jun 30, 2013 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:A bright chancellor at one of the SoCal community colleges (I forget which) proposed a solution: raise the prices on the most popular courses to cut down demand. No, seriously. 
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Mayor Dave posted:I can't help feeling like the prison industry in California is akin to the defense industry in America Its a long uphill battle too. http://www.vice.com/read/whos-getting-rich-off-the-prison-industrial-complex quote:The Vanguard Group and Fidelity Investments are America’s top two 401(k) providers. They are also two of the private prison industry’s biggest investors. So people that are actually anti-prison-complex are (unknowingly) tricked into supporting it via their own retirement funds. Yet another strategic trick of the "privatize it" crowd regarding retirement. Which has helped (neo-slavery, same as the old slavery): http://www.globalresearch.ca/profit-driven-prison-industrial-complex-the-economics-of-incarceration-in-the-usa/29109 http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289 http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-pentagon-and-slave-labor-in-u-s-prisons/25376 quote:The number of people imprisoned under state and federal custody increased 772% percent between 1970 and 2009, largely due to the incredible influence private corporations wield against the American legal system. quote:Prisoners earning 23 cents an hour in U.S. federal prisons are manufacturing high-tech electronic components for Patriot Advanced Capability 3 missiles, launchers for TOW (Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided) anti-tank missiles, and other guided missile systems. And there is the Old Enemy (propaganda): http://www.publiceye.org/defendingjustice/overview/herzing_pic.html quote:The media have played a pivotal role in cementing who and what we understand as "criminal," what suitable responses are to "criminal" acts, as well as creating and amplifying feelings of fear and vulnerability among their audiences.7 According to a 1996 ABC News poll, for instance, 76% of the public said they develop their opinions about crime as a result of news stories, while only 22% based their opinions on information gained through personal experience. quote:Despite the fact that prisons are incredibly detrimental both to the communities from which prisoners come and the communities in which prisons are located, they continue to be pawned off on poor communities as economic miracles. Public officials often portray prisons as "clean industries" and promise hundreds of good jobs to economically desperate towns. Sense? http://www.truth-out.org/progressive-picks/item/16003-the-prison-industrial-complex-the-pac-man-that-destroys-lives quote:Most people don't realize that it costs, let's say $25,000 a year, to pay for the imprisonment of one person for a year (and that figure varies of course) and a lot more for solitary confinement. Many people are in prison because they couldn't find jobs in their neighborhood except selling drugs. Why not just find them a job that pays at least $25,000 a year and help rebuild communities instead of perpetuating the selling of drugs to feed the prison-industrial complex?
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Also - its going to get worse before/if it gets better. https://www.rutherford.org/publicat...ustrial_complex quote:Yet while providing security, housing, food, medical care, etc., for six million Americans is a hardship for cash-strapped states, to profit-hungry corporations such as Corrections Corp of America (CCA) and GEO Group, the leaders in the partnership corrections industry, it’s a $70 billion gold mine. Thus, with an eye toward increasing its bottom line, CCA has floated a proposal to prison officials in 48 states offering to buy and manage public prisons at a substantial cost savings to the states. In exchange, and here’s the kicker, the prisons would have to contain at least 1,000 beds and states would have agree to maintain a 90% occupancy rate in the privately run prisons for at least 20 years.
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UberJew posted:In order to stop that sort of thing from happening again it became an unofficial policy (hell maybe it was official at the time, but at least today it isn't in the DOM) to encourage racial division amongst inmate populations through selective enforcement and thus were born the modern prison gangs.
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All Of The Dicks posted:Fresno can't go on being Fresno forever. 
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I am OK posted:Nightly track maintenance
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How is a genre of music (stripped of all lyrics) possibly "racist" to begin with?
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sincx posted:That is a bit extreme, but the SEIU needs to be careful and not overplay their hand. They're disliked enough already. If this goes on for another week, watch for a "Right to Work" [FOR INMATES] proposition in 2014. 
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Kyrie eleison posted:All this talk of the increasing lack of security amongst Bart employees; wasn't there a lot of rabble a while ago about disbanding the Bart police? Yes, this sounds familiar. (With sound: watch?v=kLjYhdCf_YA ) (Six views of the incident: watch?v=rSN5WF9qD3g ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2LDw5l_yMI Different day, different victim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rAlaNyZCH8 How to handle an angry drunk guy (if youre a BART cop) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-2DFPFJIM8 Speaking of those little darlings, I love how the prison "guards" pull the "tough on crime" bullshit and then stories like this always come out: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/04/local/la-me-prison-guards-20110204 quote:Prison employees, roughly half of whom are unionized guards, are the main source of smuggled phones that inmates use to run drugs and other crimes, according to legislative analysts who examined the problem last year. The rightwing will lock onto the word "union" and ignore the rest. "Unions are giving inmates illegal contraband!" Ah well. http://www.policynook.com/index/2012/9/25/california-prison-guard-union-the-toughest-beast-in-the-stat.html quote:The California correctional officers’ union (CCPOA) has been guarding more than just prison inmates. As one of the most influential special interest groups in the state, it has secured and steadfastly held onto some of the highest salaries and benefits awarded to state employees.
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SirPablo posted:Build tube tracks, run it under the surface of the ocean.  
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Leperflesh posted:(But, what does this say about the worst CA papers, like The San Francisco Examiner
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SporkOfTruth posted:Come on, our union reps have always been the more radical types, particularly after the last big leadership election where the less radical elements got thrown out for being ineffective and lovely negotiators. I'll take the rhetoric if it means they'll stick it to the Regents and the UCOP during the bargaining. Shear Modulus posted:I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't been paying enough attention to the President search, but what's even the rationale for hiring Napolitano? Is she really the best rainmaker that was available? Or do they think that her association with a huge bloated security agency will confuse Brown enough to want to give her a giant portion out of the budget? quote:Los Alamos National Laboratory (or LANL; previously known at various times as Project Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is one of two laboratories in the United States where classified work towards the design of nuclear weapons is undertaken. The other, since 1952, is Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. http://www.spot.us/pitches/337-investors-club-how-the-uc-regents-spin-public-funds-into-private-profit quote:Several very wealthy, politically powerful men are fixtures on the regent's investment committee, including Richard C. Blum (Wall Streeter, war contractor, and husband of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein), and Paul Wachter (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s long-time business partner and financial advisor). The probability of conflicts of interest inside this committee—as it moves billions of dollars between public and private companies and investment banks—is enormous. While some of this mammoth cash exchange takes place in the sunlight of the public eye, much of it is done behind closed doors, and the regents decline to disclose the names and activities of many of their private equity investment partners. "Dark pool" investments of this type are not available to ordinary investors--you have to know someone who manages them--like Messrs. Blum or Wachter. http://www.alternet.org/education/uc-regents-using-public-research-private-gain quote:Universities Selling Out Important Research to Corporate Overseers FRINGE fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Jul 18, 2013 |
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SporkOfTruth posted:I'm not sure what you're insinuating about LLNL, because not everything they do is for pew-pew MIC purposes.
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Ardennes posted:I think I will use "the" in front of every highway name until I die, it is too ingrained in my brain at this point to stop. Ardennes posted:You must properly honor the great 405, for it controls life and death. Leperflesh posted:but northern Californians (and especially in the Bay Area) omit it.
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FCKGW posted:Hell, I might even say that Orange County is the best thing about this whole state. You know what they say, "As goes the OC, so goes the nation" 
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Illuminado posted:It feels weird to read this and be in neither SF or SoCal.
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Keyser S0ze posted:Real Estate Investment Firms A friend of mine was complaining about this recently: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2013/jan/25/big-investment-firm-continues-to-buy-homes-in/?print=1 quote:Invitation Homes, an arm of the international private equity giant the Blackstone Group, has purchased 23 homes in Ventura County through Wednesday, bringing its total number of purchases to 139 since it began snapping up distressed homes and converting them to rentals late last summer.
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Leperflesh posted:I'm not gonna go all free market capitalism rah rah on you or anything, but if rent is too high, adding units to the market should help to lower rents. They are removing houses from potential homeowners indefinitely, and taking enough property under their control that they will be able to influence the rental rates on top of limiting the available entry-level houses for some time. There is little entry-level home construction as-is, and rental rates for the no-options crowd are still rising. That is why investment companies are getting involved. Theres poor people to fleece. I mean "investments" to be made.
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Miss-Bomarc posted:they can just sit on empty units forever instead of having to sell them at the market price, which guarantees that whatever *does* go on the market will go for prices that make 2005 look reasonable. 
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Leperflesh posted:it still leaves a huge gap between the majority (which are owner-occupied) quote:Blackstone has spent more than $2.5 billion on 16,000 homes to manage as rentals, deploying capital from the $13.3 billion fund it raised last year, said Jonathan Gray, global head of real estate for the world’s largest private equity firm. That’s up from $1 billion of homes owned in October, when Blackstone Chairman Stephen Schwarzman said the company was spending $100 million a week on houses.
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Leperflesh posted:I don't think the word "conspiracy" is accurate or helpful. People working together and using secrecy to further their agenda..? Thats a conspiracy. quote:But there's no loving conspiracy, it's just people with a lot of money recognizing a potentially lucrative investment opportunity. Leperflesh posted:So yeah. Every corporation that sells products is in a conspiracy to extract money from the working classes!
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Leperflesh posted:OK, I apologize. I thought we were talking about the California real estate market. It turns out, we were discussing some kind of "capitalism is theft" just-world political stance or something. That's not what I came to this thread for, so I'll happily drop it. I was pointing out that "conspiracy" is the normal operating practice of the market and that you did not seem to understand that. The ironic things is that you will delinieate the ways that this is true, but then you feel inclined to call it something like "good business" and get upset when it is called "conspiracy". You might end up feeling that both are true, but you do not get to drop the also-true label you dislike.
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cheese posted:Sacramento is not as bad I got that far and thought of this:   http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/12/28/sacramento-tent-city-warning/ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26sacramento.html http://archive2.capradio.org/168039
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Papercut posted:The problem with this is that the native ecosystem of the Inland Empire is chaparral. It's dry, dusty shrubland. It works fine as a front yard, but is no substitute for a lawn. I'm not saying that lawns are right, but telling families in the IE to convert their lawns to native gardens is not going to be too convincing. GIS for "xeriscape" or "xeriscaping" and you will see some attractive area-appropriate landscaping.
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Miss-Bomarc posted:Welcome to the new economy, where fast food service is expected to be a viable career path. http://www.alternet.org/economy/obama-legacy-income-inequality quote:New research from inequality experts Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez has revealed that we now have the biggest gap between the rich and rest of America since economists began tracking data a century ago.
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enraged_camel posted:Marketing, management, business development... I could go on.
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All Of The Dicks posted:Human beings are not a herd, though?
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enraged_camel posted:Have fun wasting money preparing and cooking food for nobody. 
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predicto posted:Stay classy, San Diego! Theres just no point. 
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All of OC is just OC.  "That wasteland" is also acceptable.SoCal/NorCal become kind of common terms once you get near Salinas/Santa Cruz for some reason. (Nortenos/Sorenos stuff?) Its also fine for non-CA people to call everything north of OC and south of San Luis "LA". Its a lost cause to try and explain anything more detailed than that. All you get is "San Diego", "Orange County", and "LA". Everyone is fine with that except for people in OC who really want to not admit to being OC.
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Leperflesh posted:Is it true your cops are all corrupt racists? WampaLord posted:No, but I would argue it's just as good. I'm heading up to SF in a couple weeks so maybe I'll reevaluate after that visit. Leperflesh posted:Disneyland actually sucks (Its like 100,000 pounds per day or something.)withak posted:Due to the standard northern California diet our poo poo, in fact, does not stink.  Kenning posted:Also the tap water is loving delicious. FMguru posted:Why bother spending money on efficiency when your water costs are subsidized Of course that piece of trash Fienstein is involved. http://www.c-win.org/gaming-california-water-system.html http://www.alternet.org/story/144020/how_limousine_liberals%2C_water_oligarchs_and_even_sean_hannity_are_hijacking_our_water_supply http://ecowatch.com/2012/03/01/house-passes-california-water-grab-bill/ quote:A seven-year drought ending in the early 1990s pitted Southern California water contractors, such as the Metropolitan Water District, against agricultural contractors, such as the Kern County Water Agency. Each region made its case to the state, telling why it deserved to receive the water guaranteed by long-standing contracts. In the drought's worst years, urban users got 30% of the draw, while Kern farmers received less than 5%.
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Shbobdb posted:I will say that Oakland is super litigious. (They are fake-est because I was curious and waited one night/morning when I was first there and got zapped by one of the flock of ticket-makers. SURPRISE! There are hoards of currency-collectors but no actual street sweepers. Good thing they faithfully write 70+ dollar tickets 3 nights a week in neighborhoods with no parking.)
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