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Changes of fortune

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Viewing Main St. from a coffee shop, say the one next to Bob Hart Square c. 2006, the special characters that stood out on the sidewalk were chunky fellows in designer California casual attire and cellphones glued to their ears as their mouths made real estate deals. Today, looking out the window of a new coffee shop near the Art Kananger Center the special characters on the sidewalk are the homeless pushing babycarts bearing all the person's worldly goods and someone barrelling down the street on a mountain bike spouting off because she's off her medication for Tourette's Syndrome.

Pimlico Kid does housing economics again ... wrong

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Friday, 3 February 2012

The Pimlico Kid is so lame all he can think about is the sweet pasture that lies ahead at taxpayers' expense after he leaves Congress. In the following letter to his constituents he limps along in the shadow of -- of all people -- the President, whose wife the Kid insulted by preferring to attend the Preakness with lobbyists to attending a UC Merced graduation featuring the First Lady as commencement speaker.
And, of course, he lied about the whole thing, claiming he couldn't make the event due to family commitments. The Kid finished dead last by 50 lengths in that contest.

The immoral, idiotic obscenity just keeps going on

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

Mayor Stan Thurston, who heard about the report from his aviation business partner, agreed it's difficult to find a job in Merced. He said there are jobs available, but people don't have the right training. As an example, he pointed to the high number of agriculture-based jobs in the county with few people qualified to work them.

"...it ain't."

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Monday, 23 January 2012

"I know what you're thinking about," said Tweedledum; "but it isn't so, nohow."
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't.
That's logic." -- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

 We found it necessary to consult this primary text in logic to attempt to "parse" (even to robustly and proactively parse") the following statement from the desk of our very own White Queen, Dianne Feinstein, senior US Senator for California:

Pimlico Kid just a citizen now

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Saturday, 21 January 2012

"I don't have a conflict of interest - I'm a citizen who is talking to my old colleagues." -- Rep. Dennis Cqrdoza, Annapolis, Merced, Atwater, etc. Jan. 20, 2012, Sacramento Bee 
 
1-21-12
Sacramento Bee
Rep. Dennis Cardoza enters online gambling fray in Sacramento…Torey Van Oot, Capitol Alert…1-20-12
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/01/e.html

Anxieties of Kron the Investor

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 12 January 2012

At last, the efficiencies of the free market system are being appliedpublically, openly and thoroughly to water, leaving only one question of any importance: what will win, capitalism or water?
Badlands Journal editorial board
 
1-10-12
Water Risk in Supply Chains Draws Investor Scrutiny
By Peter S. Green -
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-10/water-risk-in-supply-chains-draws-investor-scrutiny.html

D-D-D-Duh-Dry December Drives Drums of Drought

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wednesday, 11 January 2012

1-11-12
Merced Sun-Star
Dry January raises concern over drought in northern California…Matt Weiser
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2012/01/11/v-print/2186343/dry-january-raises-concern-over.html
The dreaded D-word – "drought" – is back on the tongues of many Californians now that a dry December has crawled into a dry January.

A Review of Frank Bardacke's Trampling out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers.

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Monday, 9 January 2012

 
I left Yuma AZ one cool, spring morning in 1993 after listening to a local newspaperwoman describe the scene surrounding the Bruce Church v. United Farm Workers trial during which Cesar Chavez died. On my way out I stopped by the town's great historical site, the Yuma Territorial Penitentiary, and did my penance to the history we all live on this harsh and painful border before a mug shot of Ricardo Flores Magon, father of the Mexican Revolution and one-time inmate.
 

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