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Re: “Breaking News: San Jose Dispensary Landlords Threatened with 40 Years in Prison as Feds' Marijuana Crackdown Continues”
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Re: “Art Beat Writers' Society”
4/2013
Art Beat Writers' Society has moved! Join us every Monday night from 7PM to 9:30 PM @ 2434 Telegraph Ave, Oakland!
Re: “Breaking News: San Jose Dispensary Landlords Threatened with 40 Years in Prison as Feds' Marijuana Crackdown Continues”
This extortionist is an imminent threat to our lives and liberties. Strip her of her citizenship and expel her from our country!
Re: “Breaking News: San Jose Dispensary Landlords Threatened with 40 Years in Prison as Feds' Marijuana Crackdown Continues”
Pretty prompt display of the sincerity Obama/Holder invested in their "new and improved" approach to the war on drugs, isn't it? :-(
Re: “Tuesday Must Reads: Oakland Unions Denounce Quan’s Proposal; DeSaulnier Schedules Hearing on Bay Bridge Bolt Scandal”
Craig - I don't think there are any Green Party members on the Oakland City Council; the only Green Party candidate that I know of who ran, Don McLeay, lost to Dan Kalb for District 1.
Re: “Breaking News: San Jose Dispensary Landlords Threatened with 40 Years in Prison as Feds' Marijuana Crackdown Continues”
That Art Academy has followed a long list of tenants going back to Western Digital in the 1980's, its a wired bldg thats what made it attractive. I bet students visit the collective in question. Get a clue Government tool Haag, I've lived in the 95119 zip 26 years and I would rather see all "For Profit" schools go to hell.....the collective better serves the area...and pays more local and state taxes...and Haag...you look smarmy enough to date Kevin Bacons character in Animal House....
Re: “Tuesday Must Reads: Oakland Unions Denounce Quan’s Proposal; DeSaulnier Schedules Hearing on Bay Bridge Bolt Scandal”
"The city is in better financial shape now because of the recovering economy"
A more accurate way of phrasing it would be to say "... is in less terrible financial shape...", but even that would be misleading because the long-term prospects are exactly the same: certain bankruptcy in a few years once retirement/medical benefits for a growing army of retirees overwhelm everything else in the budget...too bad all the Greens on Councils past didn't stretch their definition of "sustainability" to include finances.
Re: “'The Respect State Marijuana Laws Act' Needs Help”
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Re: “Tuesday Must Reads: Oakland Unions Denounce Quan’s Proposal; DeSaulnier Schedules Hearing on Bay Bridge Bolt Scandal”
Sorry, public employee unions, it's time you dealt with the same reality as the people paying your salaries.
Re: “A New Place to Gamble?”
Thanks! This was very helpful.
Re: “A New Place to Gamble?”
Yes I agree that currently the establishments have been running in a quasi legal manor. Tonight I plan on trying to "Change the Times"; Once again I plan on offering to put my Ass on the line all in the name of trying my best to provide a Business Solution that works for everybody. I begin Farmers University Classes in subject of Anti Money Laundering, Client Data Protection etc etc. This semester must be done by Mid July. My Loss Prevention idea for the Cafe will include SAR'S reporting by Casinos of Me in Arrears and I U ME...it's what I personally can bring to the table along with the clout hopefully of F/U and maybe even a Welcome to the Camber and way to Show A Monty Carlo Knight actually working the Night-Shift. By the way the Names' Shawn Clinton Barry Esqr. office located inside the BMR aka Bill McAlley Napa Auto Works.
Felonious as well it might be Infamous of Risk I am going to figure out how to cover...Oh what else I can bring....who can top the Chief Master Sargent of the Pentagons Air Traffic Control or Computer Software distribution...trust me by being asked to find a hole or gap...I am can do kind of Guy.
Sorry to creator of this link, I used it to pander to my own base desires; please let me know if I have injured or offended you in doing so. Thank You Shawn C Barry
Re: “Time to Fight a New 'Sober DUI' Bill”
Many people facing a DUI or DWI still need a strong DUI defense whether its alcohol or weed, and help with the DUI fees involved. Free online resources such as http://www.fightduicharges.com/california/… can help provide local DUI attorneys that will assist with flexible payments to afford the California DUI fees fighting the case.
Re: “Quan's Budget Is Unsustainable”
Yes we have to significantly lower the cost of more cops and fire fiighters before we hire more, not afterwards. We also need to manage them so they do their work efficiently and safely for them and us. That takes political leaders who respect police without putting them on a pedestal. Not an attitude commonly found in Oakland pols who typically treat cops like unneccessary evils.
But we also have to get more results out of the millions our city spends or administers on anti-violence, job training, and various other "social" programs.
Have never seen anything from you about the abysmally low performing high cost per trainee job training programs Oakland runs. Maybe one or two of them get decent results. Most of them appear to only succeed in creating internal jobs for job counselors and trainers and administrators.
If we can't get better results out of those programs consider giving the money to OUSD to do the work and see if they can do any better.
Or spend as much of it as legally allowed on restoring Fed cuts to Head Start.
Re: “Lanesplitter Workers Quit in Protest”
A "no-talking" policy? Does sound abusive.
Re: “Unmasking The Art of Living”
A cult according to dictionary is simply a group of people centered around something or someone. Could b good or bad. Lets stop demonizing neutral words & then using them to demonize & slander good groups just because their new or small & non establishment. Its childish & cowardly. Thank u for the comments defending AOL & Shri Shri Ravi Shankar. They have helped many people & harmed none. Nothing is perfect, including skywalker & klim. Grow up & stop trying to use imperfections & honest mistakes to try to tear down & destroy good things u dont understand or fear & therefore hate . Lets stop the childish bigotry & anti pluralistic democracy that still exists to an extent in this supposedly free & pluralistic democracy. Lets finally grow up as a nation & REALLY lead the world in compassion & human rights instead of doing only sometimes to some extent. Skywalker & klim are cowards for slandering & betraying Ravi Shankar & AOL & then hiding behind computers. Shame on you.
Re: “Noncompete Agreements Are Also Nonlegal in California”
What happens when a employer cuts commission of their reps and targets the lone rep who sales the most
Re: “Quan's Budget Is Unsustainable”
Now we have a new mini me real estate bubble and the Mayor and the Council are giddy in their rush to spend the increased revenues on more cops at high cost and restoring cuts that turned out to be only temporary to other city employees.
No, don't tell me that the "rainy day' reserve proves that our elected officials learned anything from the Dot Com and the Great Recession. That reserve goes poof as soon as Jerry Brown wiggles his pinkie.
And even if he lets us keep some of the Redevelopment money in the reserve, a 7.5% rainy day fund ain't much help in the face of the oncoming fiscal hurricane.
Re: “Quan's Budget Is Unsustainable”
The Mayor's proposed budget would be unsustainable after a couple of years even if she were not proposing increased spending on expensive cops and fire.
Her very competent budget office staff prepared the 5 year fiscal projection that shows we're scrogged because nothing has been done to fund all the huge overhanging "structural" obligations re the medical and pension costs of all the general fund employee costs, not just cops and fire; the deferred capital improvements, old pension costs etc.
All the Mayor did in her budget was repeat the mantra we've heard local politicians chant that "we have to start addressing the long term budget problems" but did absolutely nothing to start dealing with them. Nada. Zilch.
For any of our officials to blame the "Great Recession" for the city's problems is disingenuous. It's more a case of the "Great Dot Com and Great Real Estate Bubble" inflating the city's revenues for several years and thus covering up the underlying failure of normal revenue to cover current costs plus fund future retirement and infrastructure costs. Didn't help that just as the bubbles burst the baby boomers started to retire at the hoary age of 50 and 55 allowed by city contract.
Mayor Quan and all of the sitting council members other than the three newbies, signed the police and fire contract a couple of years ago that preserves and protects binding arbitration for cops and fire in all matters of personnel including compensation and discipline. The council agreed that if any of them tried to repeal binding arbitration that the police fire contract was null and void. So the Mayor and the council members can jawbone all day but the police and fire associations are not about to be guilt tripped into any major compensation concessions before they have to. (btw, check out the old PFRS retirement plan and find out whether a reduction in pay for new hires would lower retirement benefits to police and fire retirees of PFRS. I don't know the answer.)
Re: “Coming Soon: SO MANY NEW BARS”
East Bay Spice Company just opened at 2134 Oxford St, in Berkeley...currently serving North Indian street food from 5pm-11pm and unique, spice-centric craft cocktails from 5pm-2am, Monday-Saturday.
Re: “Breaking News: San Jose Dispensary Landlords Threatened with 40 Years in Prison as Feds' Marijuana Crackdown Continues”
DEA thugs , are once again "declaring war", wherever they can seize assets.
I don't think that there is any downside, in their positions with the DEA when they are overly aggressive and violate our rights as citizens, business people or property owners.
We now live in a police state wherein the DEA is the attack dog.