Comment Archives: Last 30 Days
Re: “The Kreayshawn Myth”
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Re: “New Century Chamber Orchestra's Incendiary Spark”
the photograph deserves its attribution.
Re: “NLRB Rules in Favor of Oakland Airport Workers”
Same ol, same ol with NLRB. I've been there done that, it's a three ring circus with no hope for a fair forum. In fact, I think most employers know they will lose but have to go through the motions. I'm sure if they could they would jail most employers based on the lies and half-truths presented by the employees and their ambulance-chaser attorneys, that is until they ran out of employers to jail or intimidate. Hang tough CMC & Alimson and I'm sure the battle you are going through is being closely monitored by other employers at the Port of Oakland. The Port of Oakland is no prize and if you want an example look at the Jack London Square ghost town thanks to the mis-management of the Port of Oakland.
Re: “Different Pets for Different Folks”
Too bad that you list East Bay Vivarium as a source for pet rats. If you look at their website, the only way they list rats is as feeders for reptiles. There are at least two rescue groups in the bay area that are better choices if you love rats: http://www.rattieratz.com/ and http://www.northstarrescue.org/
Re: “Rent Prices Soar in Oakland”
El Sobrante, Pinole, Tara Hills and Hilltop are beautiful neighborhoods with much
less crime than Oakland, near BART, and much much cheaper.
Re: “Corrections for the Week of June 5, 2013”
You keep letting Fire Fighters slide by while focusing on cops. Fire fighters rescue kittens and risk their lives in illegal grow houses. But that should not exempt them from a hard look at what we pay them, any more than we should exempt non-sworn maintenance people, parks and rec, clerks, and especially managers in all departments.
Re: “Rich, Black, Flunking”
I am a 2010 black male high school graduate who did crappy in a middle class predominately white but mixed High School; then did good in an even more mixed Community College (graduated with an Associate Degree) and then transferred straight to a diverse and somewhat prestigious University and am on my way to graduating with honors with a BS degree and then going to grad school. Here are my reasons why I did crappy in High School and then excelled afterwards:
1. If you try hard and do well then your reward is to be enrolled in Honors/AP courses that have zero to very little black students, where you will have a harder time fitting in (which is HUGE deal in high school).
2. Too much exposure to a victim mentality. As a black kid, I was exposed to so many ppl saying "aint no white man gonna hire us", "yeah, they racist, they dont even give us a chance", "blacks have to work 10000000x harder", etc. Even though some of this may be true to an extent, this is VERY discouraging once you hear this over and over and over again from all these different sources and makes you not even want to bother getting good grades to be [supposedly] treated like garbage in the corporate world.
3. African American youth culture DOES NOT value education. They see the actual academic content as something white and irrelevant; WHICH IS TRUE since almost all course content are about whites (and to a lesser extent: asians) so whites&asians could relate to the content MUCH easier since they see their own faces. Plus, black culture in general is just much more laid back
4. Social expectations of Black people. It's been proven that when somebody is expected to behave in a certain way then they're more likely to fulill that role. And let's be real, society's expectations of blacks are very low and awful.
5. Adult College Grad rates by race are different: Even though my town was solidly middle class (and the census put all race's median household incomes at around the same), the black adult college grad rate was still somewhat lower than the white adult grad rate. I honestly had no clue that AP classes even existed in HS since my parents were not college grads and they couldn't guide me along the way and show me the benefit of taking them (like graduating quicker). **It would be interesting to see the educational attainment by race in Shaker Heights; sometimes there are disparities within towns**
I also agree with his points about:
- Mistrust in school system (my parents mistrusted all of the school systems that I attended so I developed subconscious negative feelings towards it and refused to dedicate so much time towards something that had no respect for me)
- Black Americans being more likely to come from an unstable home
Re: “Pet Care Through the Years”
I too am allergic to dogs and extremely allergic to cats. This doctor should be ss considerate of prpple as she is of pets.
Re: “Sausages and Beer on the Waterfront: Brotzeit Lokal Opens Next Week”
Please make sure to have some vegetarian options!
Re: “Getting Your Hands Dirty at Hang Ten Boiler”
Love!!
Re: “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks”
hey arbed, there are 2 condoms but only one picture. one condom has DNA the other doesn't.
"The same forensic teams found DNA thought to belong to the WikiLeaks boss on another condom, which was submitted by the second alleged victim."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-22…
and moreover, the film does not attempt to litigate the entire case. it simply makes the point that the sweden allegations are a matter to be decided in a court of law in swedem not in the court of public opinion and DEFINATELY not in the court of psychotic Assange supporters which you appear to be becuase you are trolling every review of this film with the same boring post about the DNA.
i doubt you even saw the film, you just read the "transcript" (which by the way ommitted every single on of bradley manning's words which are displayed as text on screen and not spoken- Assange has basically written manning out of the story, which is very telling and very pathetic).
Re: “New Century Chamber Orchestra's Incendiary Spark”
The music is fantastic, the price is a bargain and the total experience of the season's performances is the best kept secret on the music scene in the Bay Area. Please, see at least one performance and you'll be hooked. The NCCO is a treasure.
Re: “Privatizing UC Instruction”
The private sector never sleeps in its attempts to steal from the public treasury. Let the UC syste4m develop its own on line program. Say NO to private so-called educational companies raiding the treasury.
Re: “Wednesday Must Reads: Oakland City Unions Schedule Strike Vote; NorCal Farms Struggle to Meet Demand for Rabbits”
The small print to the misc unions' statement explains that 27% is the sum of the furloughs plus the foregone annual cost of living increases that in the past were automatically given. Does the 27% also include an additional contribution they now make to their pensions?
So other than the furloughs and possible increase in pension contributions, the rest of the 27% was not a pay cut but a loss of expected raises.
I wouldn't be so sure that most of the wages paid to misc City employees is spent in Oakland. I could see that a disproportionate number of misc employees do live in Oakland and are the highest wage earners in their extended families, thus having a greater effect on poverty than say job training programs. But that's conjecture.
Re: “Privatizing UC Instruction”
On line education with accreditation is the essential element missing from without the system. The best educators can offer their services to many more students than brick and mortar can. The competition for students time and monies will do the system good and probably put a break on the unbelievable inflation costs of college degrees.
Re: “Five Dog-Friendly Bars and Restaurants in the East Bay”
In addition to Beer Revolution, the patio next door at the Olde Depot is dog friendly as you can get a beer from one of the 39 taps plus delicious vegan pub food.
Re: “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks”
But seriously.
Why do journalists continue to call Assange "enigmatic?" In every interview I've seen where he is not under attack, he is plainspoken and upfront.
Here's a recent example. (Questions in Spanish, but you don't need Spanish to understand his answers.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ7mH81ryeg
Re: “Oakland Officials Withhold Air Pollution Plan”
Plant more trees please.
Re: “NLRB Rules in Favor of Oakland Airport Workers”
“Same claims, different forum,” said Foster. (In other words, same ol' same ol' breaking the law/ retaliation/ intimidation against workers. Let's remember who's doing what here.)