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November 17, 2013 at 8:14 AM in reply to: OT: The “Radical” Gay Agenda in California Public Schools #768062
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ParticipantAre you kidding me? You are worried about a homework assignment about how “Mary & Kate” adopt a daughter??? Dude, there are much, much, much, much bigger problems in our schools and world to worry about. Wow. I think it’s actually GOOD thing to teach tolerance in schools.
How about worrying about something that really matters like teachers pay and job stability to be based on student performance?
ParticipantI miss how cheap tickets are to Aztec football. I live in Seattle now and it costs $100 just to get upper deck nosebleed seats at UW Husky games! Although Pac 12 football is a lot more exciting and and it feels so much more like a college football atmosphere with a sold out on gorgeous on campus football stadium vs. 3/4’s empty ancient Qualcomm.
Aztec basketball is the REAL DEAL though. Aztec hoop home games are THE BEST entertainment period in all of SD County HANDS DOWN (and that includes Charger games). If you haven’t made a Aztec hoops game you must. Viejas arena has that real raucous on campus college atmosphere. Aztec football just can’t seem to get over the hump of mediocrity the way Aztec hoops has.
ParticipantI have never been a fan of Temecula/Murrieta. To me it is another poster child for sterile, generic, cookie cutter, over master planned suburbia. The same chain restaurants, the same chain stores, the same car culture, boring uninteresting generic people, the same tract homes as anywhere generic suburban America. The only part I like of that whole region is the small street of old Town Temecula. Wine County is OK too. If you dropped someone blindfolded in Temecula/Murrieta and took off the blindflold, they wouldn’t know the difference from any other generic suburb like Phoenix or Dallas or wherever. It’s just so generic and BLAH I could personally never live up there.
To me a lot of inland North County SD is not much better. Places like downtown Encinitas & Cardiff by the Sea around the hwy 1 are cool, but outside of that it’s pretty blah too.
Participanthttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324448104578618681599902640.html?mod=hp_opinion
Here is an opinion piece in the WSJ from Shelby Steele that really nails it all. He is a black scholar at Stanford and very articulate. Would love to see this guy debate Al Sharpton.
ParticipantAlso, in terms of racial profiling…90% of black homicides in this county come at the hands of other blacks. Is that due to racial profiling?
Blacks are 13% of the U.S. population and commit a disproportionate amount crimes such as robbery, aggravated assault and property crimes. Is that due to racial profiling? Is the elevated high school dropout rate for blacks due to racial profiling? Is the fact that 75% black households growing up without their fathers due to racial profiling?
My point is that racial profiling is a bad, bad thing, but it’s not really the main issue at all.
Everybody wants to see the black community make great strides and improvements. And obviously racial profiling happens in society and it is a horrible, horrible demeaning thing to happen to a person. But my point is people like Al Sharpton and the mainstream media seem come out of the woodwork and go nuts about something like this when they are nowhere to be seen with the bigger issues. Why isn’t Al Sharpton doing demonstrations and getting black celebrities out in force regarding the thousands of black on black murders? The George Zimmermans of the world are not the issue in the black community! Non blacks murdering blacks because of racial profiling is a TINY PERCENTAGE. A rounding error. This stuff gets every one off focus of the real issues and then the REAL problems never get addressed.
I also really tire of the liberal far left political correctness on racial issues (and for the record I am liberal on most social issues and fiscally conservative). I think liberals can be some of the worst racists of all, being racists of low expectations of a person ability to think for themselves & pull themselves up. The whole “victim ” mentality crap. They never want to hurt anyone’s feelings or step on anyone’s toes, so they perpetuate mis-truths just to be politically correct, and therefore progress is never made because the truth is never told. They fail to put much of the blame on the *personal responsibility* of the black community and continue to perpetuate the myth that “white racism” is to blame for everything. They fail to tell the truth that much of someones situation in life comes from the *personal decisions* they make and the *personal actions* they take. And no amount of Government funding is going to solve that. If you commit a crime that is a *personal decision* you make on your own, and you own that decision, that is NOBODY ELSES FAULT!
When you blame everything on “white racism”, it takes away the other parties personal responsibility and personal accountability. Any failure in your life you can just easily blame on white racism. “I committed this crime and abandoned my kids because of white racism”. “I’m in this situation in life because of white racism.” Of course none of it had anything at all to do with my personal decisions in life or own self discipline.
I really like what Bill Cosby has to say on the status of Black America and what needs to be done to improve it. He has been one of the most interesting voices on this topic IMO. He is big on personal responsibility and accountability, and not the whole bleeding heart liberal denial game. And it’s not stuff Al Sharpton would likely agree with, at least publicly.
ParticipantAll I know is the jury sat in that courtroom for weeks and heard every bit of evidence in person, looked the defendant in the eyes for weeks, and scrutinized every bit of evidence with excruciating detail. No one posting on this message board or Obama did that. And based on what they had they found GZ not guilty. Everything else is pure speculation and guess work.
ParticipantUnions came about originally in the early 20th century to protect workers that were getting abused. The problem is unions went on to become the abusers. Heavily unionized industries have difficulty competing in a global marketplace. They get so bloated and inflexible companies can’t be nimble enough to compete.
I had an experience in college working part time in two hotels, one was unionized one was not. The unionized hotel was older and not updated, felt stodgy and stuck in the past, workers didn’t hustle, they did the minimum to get by. Poor & lazy workers could not be fired so they remained on the job, damaging the employee culture. It just had a very negative feel about it.
On the other hand, the NON union hotel was an awesome place to work. It was beautiful and newly updated. People had much more positive attitudes and hustled a lot more to create a better guest experience. Workers would go above & beyond what they had to do if asked because it felt like a team environment. Lazy workers could be fired if they didn’t perform, thus preserving the positive work culture. This company also had a philosophy of taking care of it’s employees. And it was the top hotel in the entire city.
There is definitely a balance, there needs to be protection for workers on they will be exploited. But the last 30 years unions have got out of control and greedy and have taken companies down, and taken entire U.S. industries down (automobile industry). They can be kind of like the mafia in non “right to work” states too forcing workers to pay union dues. And then using those dues to fund campaigns of union friendly politicians. Kind of like in Sicily where the mafia forces business to pay “protection money”.
Also many public sector unions are horrible and corrupt. Former CA Governor Gray Davis got elected by being in the pocket of the California prison unions and other public sector unions, and thus he rewarded them right after his election with ridiculous unsustainable pay and pension packages that have helped make California’s finances be on a crazy roller coaster. And also made CA public sector employees by far the highest paid in the U.S. Much of the CA legislature is under the thumbs of public sector unions. I really believe it should be illegal for public sector unions to contribute to political campaigns. That creates so much corruption and cronyism.
ParticipantI’m not sure what unions played directly in the city of Detroit’s BK. But unions (and the inflexibility they caused) were a BIG part of reducing the U.S. auto industries ability to compete with Japan. If the auto industry in Michigan were run like Silicon Valley with NO unions, things may have turned out very different. Silicon Valley has NO unions and this is a big reason why the U.S. is still #1 in much of high tech and still makes some of the best high tech products and software. The U.S. certainly does not make the best cars and has not for 25-30 years.
Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=paramount]Obama enters the discussion, no doubt in part to deflect attention from Benghazi and other issues.[/quote]
Paramount: While I don’t disagree that Obama & Co. are undoubtedly welcoming this as a distraction, I will personally say that I found his remarks very sincere and made in the spirit of unity.
Given the off-the-cuff nature of the remarks, it was even more impressive. I don’t have much love for the man, especially due to his policies, but he was a national leader in that speech.[/quote]
I think a lot of what Obama said in his recent speech was more BS and blame shifting. Saying “that he could have been TM 35 years ago”. And that he’s been racially profiled. Continues to ignore the fact that a jury of 6 believed that TM jumped Zimmerman, pounded his head in the concrete to the point where GZ shot him in self defense. THAT IS WHAT A JURY OF 6 CONCLUDED! End of story. End of speculation. There is ZERO proof of any racial profiling. ZERO. Would have Obama 35 years ago also jumped someone and pounded their head in the concrete? I highly doubt it. Those comments to me continue to follow the black leaderships long history of shifting of blame for their behavior off themselves on to someone else.
ParticipantThe other thing is the racial make up of this country has changed dramatically over the past 20,30, 40+ years. But the old relics and dinosaurs of the civil rights past like Sharpton, Jackson, NAACP, liberal media haven’t realized this. They still see the U.S. in the lens of a 1950’s white majority vs. a black minority and try to jump on and exploit any conflict issues that involve whites & blacks (Duke Lacrosse incident, Zimmerman, etc..). The fact is blacks aren’t even the largest minority anymore. Hispanics are 18%, blacks 13% and Asians 6% of the population. Whites are now only a little over 60% of the U.S. population and that continues to change rapidly. We also have a black president (or should I say “white-black”) and a black attorney general.
ParticipantAnd about all this nonsense about “we need a discussion on race in this country”…what another giant load of liberal drivel! The only discussion that needs to happen is within the black community. 90% of black murders victims are committed by other blacks. Blacks are 13% of the U.S. population but commit 50%+ of the murders in the U.S. The black arrest rate for most offenses—including robbery, aggravated assault and property crimes—is typically two to three times their representation in the population. The George Zimmerman’s of the world are not the problem folks!
This case is just a giant smoke screen for Al Sharpton, NAACP and the liberal media once again to distract everyone from the real issue, which is personal responsibility in the black community. Why isn’t the NAACP “demonstrating” when thousands of blacks get gunned down by other blacks every year in U.S. cities? 75% of black households are fatherless, why isn’t the NAACP and AL Sharpton talking about that? If your going to make babies how about sticking around and raising the kids? Instead of this endless shifting the blame off yourself on to “white racism” or the “American criminal justice system”.
Civil-rights leaders today choose to keep the focus on white racism instead of personal responsibility, but their predecessors knew better. A quote from MLK below:
“Do you know that Negroes are 10 percent of the population of St. Louis and are responsible for 58% of its crimes? We’ve got to face that. And we’ve got to do something about our moral standards,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told a congregation in 1961
“We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world, too. We can’t keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves.”ParticipantFirst of all, the liberal media handling of this was a total disgrace assuming guilt before GZ had his trail & whipping up all this emotion. Also, Obama’s comment that if he had a son he would look like TM alluded to a assumption of GZ guilt before he had his trial and all the facts came in. Talk about jumping to conclusions, and this is the president of the U.S.! Way to be a leader and divide the country Barack!
The justice system in America works on EVIDENCE not EMOTION and SPECULATION. All this knee jerk liberal horseshit that “if TM was white it wouldn’t have happened” or this or that…is all BS speculation. There is NO evidence to support any of that crap. All that matters in the end is if the jury thought GZ acted in self-defense. That is IT. That is ALL that matters. None of this conjecture garbage about racial profiling this or that. The jury members sat in that courtroom through every bit of that trial, the prosecution helped pick them, and they thought long and hard and made a decision BASED ON THE EVIDENCE. End of story.
ParticipantNOLO Press has good California lease templates. The have a Landlording in CA handbook.
Did you finance or buy with cash? From late 2008 to late 2012 I found cash-on-cash returns (including loan amortization) could easily be 15% annualized with 20% down 4.25% loans on San Diego condo rentals. That’s just the return solely based on rental income. Of course if you count the appreciation we have had the last few years, if you sold condos bought 2-3 years ago right now you are looking at 100% annualized cash-on-cash returns, counting the Capital Gain from appreciation + return from rents. And to think there were some on this forum that argued passionately against buying condos for buy and hold back in those days from late 2008 to late 2011 when the pickin’s were the best.
ParticipantI know I’m getting off the topic of “South of the Border”. But I like SE Asia a lot better for a warm weather, low cost vacation or retirement area. Yes it is crazy far away and that is a deal breaker for many. But what I love about places like Thailand and Malaysia is there is pretty much NO violent crime! Many regions of SE Asia are still very poor 3rd world-ish developing areas (like Mexico and Latin America), but a huge difference is it’s SO much safer and less violent. When I was in Thailand recently I had absolutely zero fear of violent crime anywhere I went. Even a lot of western women travel alone in SE Asia and I never hear of any issues.
On the contrary, I hear so many horror stories of Mexico and Central/ South America. My sister had a friend who was raped on the beach in Mexico by locals. Another acquaintance had a friend who took a cab in Colombia to never return. And another guy told me about some tourist he knew being robbed at gun point in Brazil. All stuff you never hear happening in SE Asia.
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