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Cardoza resigns: Good riddance

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 16 August 2012

We don't know how you fell but we loathe people who blame their children in front of others for their own failures, and we despise Dennis Cardoza for blaming his children in front of the entire national media (or whoever would be interested in anything this fat, little slimebag did) for quitting his congressional seat before his term expired to take a job with the Manatt firm of bottom-feeding lobbyists for more money, The job was no doubt arranged for Cardoza by Tony "Honest Graft" Coelho, an old friend of the firm dating back to the days when Ol' Honest ran the Democratic Congressional Ca

It's been hot back East

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Friday, 10 August 2012

Tt was not so long ago when Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, the Cowgirl Chancellor of UC Merced, in deference to finance, insurance and real estate profiteers using the campus as the anchor tenant for the absurdly destructive building boom, said she refused to use the term "global warming," and, induer administration orders and using the "best science," called it "climate change" instead.

One question for the Adam family and the DA

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Since Candace Adam-Medefind took control of Healthy House, how much public funding for the non-profit has ended up in the campaign coffers of Adam Gray, son of Ms. Adam-Medefind and the Democratic Party candidate for state Assembly in the 21st district? The employees claim she is paying her husband, former Chairman of the Merced County Democratic Central Committee Mark Medefind for janitorial and PR services to Healthy House. Medefind claims he has donated his time to the non-profit. Is she diverting funds from Healthy House to him to work on his stepson's campaign?

Boondoggle, thy name is high speed rail

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Monday, 6 August 2012

The drooling lunacy of high speed rail "planning" goes on. Would it be possible to find anywhere along even the allegedly rural route of the San Joaquin Valley, where more disruption and possibly more heavy equipment could be employed than in changing the vast underpass of Highwy 99 through the center of one of the valley's moe substantial burgs, Fresno (population 943,000)?
One of America's favorite old expressions, culled from bitter experience with the 19th century barony of finance, insurance and real estate, is, "This is no way to build a railroad."

The Stockton conturbation

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Monday, 6 August 2012

Stockton CA is making news ever since it declared it wouls seek bankruptcy protection a few weeks ago. Assured Guaranty, the  Burmuda based insurance company that insures Stockton's bonds against default is livid because the city is "stiffing bondholders to give preferential treatment to employees and CalPERS.
The company called that 'a contortion of the bankruptcy rocess.'" Sacramento Bee, Aug. 3, 2010.

America the beautiful

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Friday, 27 July 2012

 
 

 

7-27-12

Associated PressTurf painting spreads as drought ravages lawns

Green acres: Intrepid homeowners weary of lawns browned by drought break out turf paint
By Rick Callahan, Associated Press |

ILWU still knows how to fight

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wednesday, 25 July 2012

 

Badlands Journal has followed the Longview longshoremen's strike because Longview, OR, 45 miles from the Pacific port of Portland, resembles Stockton, CA, also an ILWU port on a river and 75 miles from the Golden Gate. We also follow the ILWU in general because the union has had a huge influence on political, economic and cultural life in Northern California and is one of the leaders of the Occupy Movement today.

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