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CoronitaParticipant[quote=ocrenter][quote=flu]For folks that are interested in writing to your congressman, but aren’t sure what to write, here’s a tip/sample letter…
Enough said…
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Dude, you need to mail this letter to that Hernandez clown. That’s powerful, flu, you should be proud.[/quote]
Tonight, I think my kid learned 2 things the hard way.
1. Life isn’t fair….
2. What a lawyer does….
Hopefully, she won’t follow in my footsteps and become a useless enginerd….
Interestingly the CA teachers association backed this racist bill….
CoronitaParticipant[quote=paramount]To be honest flu, thanks to you I’ve done very well with phot. Thanks.[/quote]
Did you not listen to me and decide to short it ? Lol
CoronitaParticipantFor folks that are interested in writing to your congressman, but aren’t sure what to write, here’s a tip/sample letter…
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Enough said…
CoronitaParticipant[quote=ocrenter][quote=AN]
I think in honor of this bill, I’ll change my kid’s last name to Hernandez, just to make a mockery of this ridiculous “law”….Please sign the petition, and get your significant other and all of your family members and relatives to sign… I wonder if on the application, you check the Hispanic box. Would they be able to tell? Maybe that’s one way around it. You can very well have a Chinese dad and a Mexican mom and you just happen to identify yourself more with your Hispanic heritage. That way, you don’t have to go through the hassle of changing your name :-).[/quote]
Hey, there’s a little known community of Cantonese immigrants in Mexicali, these immigrants to the US are considered “Hispanics.” I have had some encounters with them throughout the years, to see these guys speaking Spanish and needing Spanish translators is a real trip.
I think my daughter just became one of these Hispanic Cantonese from Mexicali… hehe[/quote]
Lol.. The Congressman should have just passed a law requiring every asian applicant to change their last name, and then all the sudden, problem solved.
FWIW: 3 senator some of you folks should know about..
Senator Carol Liu (D)
http://sd25.senate.ca.gov/Senator Ted Lieu (D)
http://sd28.senate.ca.gov/Senator Leland Yee (D)
http://sd08.senate.ca.gov/Some of you folks in their districts better be doing everything you can to make sure these 3 punks lose their jobs next election…. all voted yes because…well let’s not go there…Make sure their mistake will be a career ending move…permanently…
(Ted Lieu, you are definitely going down for this. You’re district includes Beverly Hills, Redondo Beach, Palos Verdes, Manhattan Beach, West Hollywood, Torrance, Pacific Palisades, Venice, Brentwood…Dumbass..Good luck getting any backing there…. See Ya!)
…Even if they now are back-peddling.. Because of the shit storm they are now getting…
Not that I advocate preferential treatment of any race or ethnicity. But they definitely deserve to lose their jobs for voting something that directly attacks any one specific ethnicity…
Good riddance…
http://sd28.senate.ca.gov/news/2014-02-27-sens-lieu-yee-and-liu-ask-hernandez-hold-sca-5More time needed to study impacts, reach out to affected communities
SACRAMENTO – Sens. Ted Lieu, D-Redondo Beach; Leland Yee, D-San Francisco/San Mateo; and Carol Liu, D- La Cañada/Flintridge) have called upon Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina, to hold SCA 5 to provide more time to discuss the potential impacts the bill will have on the Chinese, Asian Pacific Islander and other affected communities. Yee, Lieu and Liu released the following joint statement:
“As lifelong advocates for the Chinese American and other API communities, we would never support a policy that we believed would negatively impact our children. Prior to this vote, we heard no opposition to this bill. However, in the past few weeks, we have heard from thousands of people throughout California concerned about SCA 5. As a result, we have asked Sen. Hernandez to hold SCA 5 until he has an opportunity to meet with affected communities and attempt to build a consensus.”
SCA 5 is authored by Hernandez. If passed, the bill would place an initiative on the November Ballot that would remove all references to public education from Proposition 209, which amended the state constitution to prohibit state government institutions from considering race, sex or ethnicity in the areas of public employment, public contracting or public education.
– See more at: http://sd28.senate.ca.gov/news/2014-02-27-sens-lieu-yee-and-liu-ask-hernandez-hold-sca-5#sthash.IFNiUukd.dpuf
CoronitaParticipantI think I’m going to try to brag more about how much I suck. Maybe if I do that, it might actually be contrarian to what actually happens. So far, the other way around definitely seems to be contrarian for me..
CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]i guess what im thinking is, at 20 years remaining, at 4 percent, it’s basically like a cheap mortgage, without the tax deduction. Even over the last 10 years since sshe started th eloan, 300.00 means a lot less to us ina month than it did a decade ago. i’d be pretty surprised if the trend didn’t continue. an extra 300 a month isnt really going to give a lot more flexibility overall…[/quote]
ding ding ding….
March 3, 2014 at 7:23 PM in reply to: OT: Universal Choice in Education Can Work, and what is a good Teacher worth? #771457CoronitaParticipant[quote=ucodegen][quote=spdrun]Yecch. I’d sooner take a turbo-4 than a gorilla V8.[/quote]
Really? I guess you are not too much into the real ‘specs’. The Miata cylinder block is cast iron and is generally a two bolt main cap on the crank bearing. The corvette engine is a LS block, which is an aluminum block with 4 to 6 bolt mains, two of them being cross bolts for each main cap. Because the LS engine is an aluminum block is why there is very little weight difference between the two.Because of the two bolt main, there is a limit to how much you can boost the original 4 cyl before having crank/main problems, not to mention head gasket problems because of aluminum head vs cast iron block while under boost(different coefficients of thermal expansion). To even get close to an LS3, you will be over-stressing the Miata block and will sacrifice reliability.
–BTW, turbo Miatas come at around 170hp (nearly 250 if you want to risk parts), the LS blocks start above 300hp and run into the high 400s.If you are doing autocross, it is better to have instant horsepower instead of time delayed as in a turbo engine (boost has to build up).
BTW: The actual gas mileage on the newer Vettes, is around 28mpg on the highway. The T56 trans has a double overdrive which drops the rotation speed of the engine to just above idle at highway speeds (approx 1700 at 75mph – depending upon rear axle ratio).[/quote]
I think the weight difference is about 200lbs for the V8 conversion versus a stock 4 cylinder without all the extras of the turbo… For an autocross, turbos I don’t think really help on the miata, because the lag from the spool up and the extra weight from the extra add ons (turbo, intercooler, yada yada yada) would offset any gain from a stock miate running with lighter weight….
The key to a miata in an autocross (I’m learning) is keeping the momentum… (I generally suck at things right now, still learning)…..
The V8 would be rocking on a long track like chuckwalla, though I would think I’d want to run a full cage when/if I ever decide to do that in a miata…
But quite frankly $43k for a V8 conversion (minus the $3-5k for the donor miata car) is kinda steep, unless you attempt to do it yourself… Not to mention dealing with CARB in california if you want to run it on the street….
And if you don’t want to run it on the street, you might as well stick a motorcycle engine in it instead, like
Anyway… I went with the reduce weight option..First..Well, since I generally suck still at the driving part… Well, that and it’s cheaper to rip stuff out than put stuff in…
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2.5pound Li-Fe motorcycle battery…
[img_assist|nid=17925|title=m5|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=159|height=211]heh heh….Also need to lose the extra 15 weight on myself too…
CoronitaParticipant[quote=harvey]But who will speak for the dumb kids?
CAR to the rescue![/quote]
It isn’t about dumb kids… You know the sad part of this is… Most “genius” kids either flunk out because they never bother to try or they end up like Mark Z and Bill Gates and drop out on their own because they have a better use of their time. So this really isn’t about “smart kids”.
It’s really about folks who paid their dues, put in a lot of time and effort to further themselves….And simply being denied opportunity because of their ethnicity in the interest of filling quotas…
Put in another way, it would be like the NBA having a policy that says that since asians make up 13-14% of the California population, asians are disproportionately under-represented on the LA Lakers and LA Clippers…
As a result, there should be quotas that specifically recruit asians and fill 13% of the starters on the LA Lakers and LA Clippers.. As a result, there should be a law that restrict the number of african americans that are on the LA Lakers and LA Clippers so that the percentage of african americans on the LA Lakers and LA Clippers is similar to the % of population in CA that are african americans….. irrespective of how good they may be..Simply because they are african americans and there are “too many of them” on the NBA teams…it doesn’t matter if they have “talent” or achieved great athleticism through “hard work”….
Of course the if someone did propose such a ridiculous racist/discriminatory policy, of course all hell would break lose.
So, again…….Double standards anyone?????
It would be a pretty funny spoof on the daily show if we had an SCA-NBA bill…
March 3, 2014 at 3:00 PM in reply to: OT: Universal Choice in Education Can Work, and what is a good Teacher worth? #771439CoronitaParticipant[quote=SK in CV][quote=spdrun]Hey, what’s wrong with owning a Miata? The pre-2006 cars were one of the best light sports cars ever built, bulletproof engines, and highly modifiable.[/quote]
they are pretty cute. I kinda wish they came in a men’s model.[/quote]
They do….
CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]
i guess the question is, do i really really believe inflations gonna hit hard sometime in the next decade?[/quote]you betcha
CoronitaParticipantWhy not spend and wait until the government bails you out?
Seems to be the going trend…
March 3, 2014 at 9:02 AM in reply to: OT: Universal Choice in Education Can Work, and what is a good Teacher worth? #771420CoronitaParticipant[quote=svelte]I’m going to go out on a limb and make some guesses about you, paramount.
– You were educated at a Midwestern Christian college
– Your children are homeschooled
– You actually don’t live in Temecula but in that ultra-Christian region between Fallbrook and Rainbow, probably along the 76
– You used to own a MiataBased on your posts and non-posts, those are my predictions.[/quote]
Miata?
CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]Be the best in a crappy school![/quote]
true…CoronitaParticipantActually here’s the wrinkle. I’ve been looking at all the demographics of the student body at both the Cal State system and the UC system with a few others… And if you factor in BOTH the Cal State and UC system, hispanics aren’t really severely underrepresented at all.. Just the UC system…. So the bill is flawed to begin with…It’s a not a general “problem” across all colleges in the state…
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