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April 21, 2012 at 2:27 AM in reply to: OT: Post your favorite pic of your town/neighborhood that you took. #741989
paramount
ParticipantWhy not just improve Amtrak between SD/LA/SF?
Not unlike the Acela; except with high speed diesel and upscale cars?
April 19, 2012 at 12:39 AM in reply to: OT: Post your favorite pic of your town/neighborhood that you took. #741889Participant[quote=Jacarandoso][quote=paramount][quote=Jacarandoso]WAG, Paramount… Below the tree line on the east side of Laguna Mts?[/quote]
Bingo…[/quote]
As I imagined myself standing there trying to figure it out the smell of apple pies hit me over my left shoulder. Would that be right? You were closer to Julian than I-8?[/quote]
Yes, I was about 1/2 way between Julian and Laguna Campground.
Not asked, but I try to visit Laguna Mt. every summer around a new moon for astro photography and general observing.
Highly recommended – and very helpful to keep things in perspective.
April 17, 2012 at 11:01 PM in reply to: OT: Post your favorite pic of your town/neighborhood that you took. #741832Participant[quote=Jacarandoso]WAG, Paramount… Below the tree line on the east side of Laguna Mts?[/quote]
Bingo…
April 17, 2012 at 10:08 PM in reply to: OT: Post your favorite pic of your town/neighborhood that you took. #741829ParticipantWhere in San Diego County is this?
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April 17, 2012 at 9:56 PM in reply to: OT: Post your favorite pic of your town/neighborhood that you took. #741828Participant[img_assist|nid=16095|title=Lift Off – Del Mar|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=799|height=600]
April 17, 2012 at 9:40 PM in reply to: OT: Post your favorite pic of your town/neighborhood that you took. #741827Participant[quote=Jacarandoso][img_assist|nid=16094|title=views|desc=Not my favorite picture and not very good photography but if gives the idea.|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=75]
It was taken in my back yard, looking west, obviously. There was just a dusting of snow. That’s Mt. Helix in the left of the picture. You can sort of see the ocean in middle of the pic and Point Loma would be to the right on a better day better picture.
Mostly just country homes and panoramic views in this area. I could post pic’s of the neighbor’s cows on pasture.[/quote]Now that’s what I’m talking about – great pic! Thanks…
April 17, 2012 at 5:45 PM in reply to: OT: Post your favorite pic of your town/neighborhood that you took. #741820ParticipantAny pics of Dino Park?
Participant[quote=AN]Talking about cars, I find this kinda funny:
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/04/16/bmw-owners-twice-as-likely-to-be-adulterers-as-drivers-of-other/%5B/quote%5DOh just a BMW hater, probably someone who regrets buying 2nd best (Mercedes, Audi, Infiniti, Lexus, etc…)
April 16, 2012 at 9:36 PM in reply to: OT: Post your favorite pic of your town/neighborhood that you took. #741769ParticipantMorgan Hill Temecula
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Participant[quote=walterwhite]I just don’t see anything wortwhile out there.
If you’re looking for a mate you must go out.
Otherwise, why?[/quote]
Maybe you just need a few vacation ideas, for example this summer I’m going on a Bigfoot Expedition.
Participant[quote=svelte]I enjoy traveling for many reasons, but one of the benefits is that I can see my life from almost a third person perspective. When I am out of town, I can ponder my job, home, friends from a very detached viewpoint…it reallly feels like I can contemplate things more objectively.
Don’t know if you remember it, but back in the 90s there was that woman in san Marcos who shot her sons to death because she was mad at her br, their father. That put me into a severe funk I just could not pull out of. I lost interest in darn near everything. My wife talked me into a trip out of state and as soon as we arrived at our destintion I began to feel better. I could look at it from a detached perspective and not become so emotionally attached to it. The whole topic still tugs at my heart and I still think of those boys every time I drive by that house, but that trip really helped me get back on track by seeing things in an almost third person perspective. I realized I had to get on with life.[/quote]
Well said….
Participant[quote=bearishgurl][quote=paramount][quote=CA renter]What “public employee union thugs” are you talking about, paramount?
This debacle is going to line the pockets of PRIVATE contractors, which is where most of the fraud and abuse of taxpayer money occurs.
http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/03/01/2743540/rail-project-will-accept-contractors.html%5B/quote%5D
The dems are pushing this sham project very hard, therefore the union thugs can’t be far behind.
Besides, much of the contract work will be outsourced to China. Including the financing.[/quote]
paramount, are you referring to card-carrying American tradesmen here? Or do the Chinese have unions??[/quote]
If one American unionized skilled worker (obviously not a bureaucrat) touches this project in the next 20 years I’d be in shock.
No, no – only a bunch of parasitic government groupies will likely ever benefit from this sham.
Just take a look at the rail authority board members – political flunkies who end up on these BS boards all the while collecting big paychecks and pensions for a project that will not materialize as mentioned in 3 lifetimes.
Participant[quote=CA renter]What “public employee union thugs” are you talking about, paramount?
This debacle is going to line the pockets of PRIVATE contractors, which is where most of the fraud and abuse of taxpayer money occurs.
http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/03/01/2743540/rail-project-will-accept-contractors.html%5B/quote%5D
The dems are pushing this sham project very hard, therefore the union thugs can’t be far behind.
Besides, much of the contract work will be outsourced to China. Including the financing.
April 13, 2012 at 8:16 PM in reply to: Peter Schiff: Housing prices will go back to 2000 or lower… #741639Participant[quote=FormerSanDiegan]I like the Coast-to-coast guests when it involves Sasquatch, the chupacabra, ghosts, and Alien abductions a lot more than their guests who talek about the economy. But, my guess would be that they are all essentially equally credible.[/quote]
That’s ridiculous, Catherine Austin Fitts – a regular guest on C2C – is very sharp.
Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing[1] Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, and was the president of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., an investment bank and financial software developer.
Fitts has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the Wharton School and studied Mandarin at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She publishes a column, “Mapping the Real Deal,” in Scoop in New Zealand.
I’d say she’s credible.
She also created:
The Popsicle index
The Popsicle Index is a quality of life measurement coined by Catherine Austin Fitts as the percentage of people in a community who believe that a child in their community can safely leave his home, walk to the nearest possible location to buy a popsicle, and walk back home.
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