Don’t prejudge — this really will not be as bad as it looks. Admittedly, that may be a relatively low hurdle to clear.
While you’re reading the OC Pride-occasioned reporting on LGBT OC by our cousins at the Weekly — and you really should, especially the first-person perspectives of local LGBT notables, which are quite well done — take a moment to enjoy this sexy ad from our more distant cousins in Thailand:
Impressed? We knew that you would be! Soaky was just inserted there to throw you off the scent. Here’s the source for a story on the ad, which (as you might guess) is for an extremely effective push-up bra. Meanwhile, Soaky also wants you to read this story, from our second cousin once-removed at the Weekly Brandon Ferguson, in which Asmb. Sharon Quirk-Silva again suffers the burdens (in the URL itself!) of being the only member of the County’s state legislative of whom anyone has any better expectations than this.
This … is your Weekend Open Thread. Talk about the above, or anything else you wish, within broad (and this week slightly broader) bounds of decency and decorum. (But be careful out there this weekend: Pride goeth before a fall!) The Dearthwatch will appear, as is its habit, sometime later today … or so.
Oh — there it is!
No two ways around it: this week sucked for the local blogosphere. As it’s clear that Alexa does keep some sort of six-month ranking, one wonders if the blurgh you see here has anything to do with our just having passed the six-month anniversary of the shelving of FFFF. The Register continues to rebound, leading me to suspect that everyone is missing a story out there about their having done something to loosen the bonds of the paywall. But that is the sheerest speculation. Maybe it’s that people got their rebates from non-compliant health insurance companies required by Obamacare — and they’re spending the money on Register subscriptions!
UPDATE: Doubt was expressed as to whether this was the one and only true Weekend Open Thread. Well, if it wasn’t, do you think that you’d see … this?
Get ready to ogle!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKT1V6bbDEU
When aren’t you ready to ogle, skally? Hope you enjoyed this video as much.
I put the KU video up to wash your vid out of my skally skull.
That Diamond video made skally feel like a creepy-ass.
I know that I’m going to look a little closer at the waitresses/waiters at the Thai restaurant.
Dearthwatch is up.
What about the new Santa Ana’ s city manager salary and benefits packet? According to LA Times: “Only the city manager in tiny Indian Wells is listed as having a higher salary and benefits package at $677,172, according to the state controller’s office, which most recently released data for 2011. That paycheck included a severance payout to the city manager, who was stepping down.
In Santa Ana, Cavazos will earn a base salary of $315,000, the same basic salary he made as the chief executive in Phoenix, which has a population of 1.47 million. Santa Ana has a population of about 330,000.
With benefits, the city expects to pay Cavazos $558,625 in the first year of his contract, with the figure dropping to $515,000 in his second and third year, according to a report prepared for the City Council.”
The Voice of OC has a good article and discussion:
http://www.voiceofoc.org/oc_central/article_cdd16034-ffab-11e2-b804-0019bb2963f4.html
At least this is not happening in Anaheim, no yet….
No way VOC has a good discussion about anything. That’s where the OJB rejects blather about crazy s**t.
There are interesting commenters at the VOC . Stanley/From the Exile, new aka “Subcomandante” habitats there and is not as obnoxious as he used to be.They do not have a moderator in their discussions, and people like LTpar are unchallenged unless other commenters, like Beelzebub steps in.
What do you think about the cost of hiring the new city manager?
I spoke too early about Stanly no longer being obnoxious, in the VOC:
“Ryan Cantor is propaganda shill bolshevik who metastasized from the OrangeJuiceBlog.com published by the communist Vern Nelson and Zionist Greg Diamond #256598 (the “OPPRESSORS”) whose objectives to bring the Anaheim on a level of the Detroit.”
Is he really running for office? Being obnoxious is acceptable in the VOC rules of conduct.
The Arizona-to-OC circuit seems to be a profitable one for city executives! does anyone know if Ex Anaheim CMgr Bob Wiegenroth (Wasn’t he from there, too?) returned (or had to!) the UN-solicited $27K ‘Moving Expenses” that the “masters of the Universe” foisted on him? I doubt it, but I haven’t been paying attention. Did he even last a year in Anaheim? I wonder if the SanTana folks will be similarly generous? If so, should we start a pool for his return date?
*How cool is it that Stanley will be running in the 34th Greg? He needs to fill up those
campaign coffers….pretty soon. Ya think Wyland can beat Harkey? How can our man Joe beat Michelle when she has all the money in the western world? Exciting times…how bout that Jim Silva? Think he can win?
Let’s just say that Stanley’s running in the 34th redefines cool, which I think is ambiguous enough. I’m glad that he has a hobby.
Sure Wyland can beat Harkey; the district is as much SD as OC. I haven’t checked the fundraising numbers, though.
How can Carchio win? Steel and Mansoor destroy each other and he and Moreno make the final. Doesn’t mean that he would beat Moreno.
I haven’t seen where Silva has entered the CD-34 race, but he probably matches up better with Solorio than does Nguyen, presuming that the latter is going to have trouble with the CalOptima scandal.
greg,
you are a champion of the repressed, the unrepresented, the disenfranchised, the people that do my yard work. you champion the rights of those whose rights need to be championed, so please, answer me this…
where in the constitution does it provide and/or give people the right to drive fifty miles per hour in the fast lane on the freeway, thus denying me my right to go eighty. this is why the entire 405 should be a giant toll lane
50 mph in the fast lane? Well, normally I don’t believe in capital punishment, but….
P.S. “Champion of the oppressed.” “Champion of the repressed” would be someone else — depending on the sort of repression you have in mind. (I won’t speculate.)
growing up white in orange county, one can easily argue that I am very repressed
Is this part of Obama’s efforts to lure support from the Congress?:
“The Obama administration and congressional Republicans have found something to agree on: Town councils should be allowed to open their meetings with a Christian prayer.”
Inge, where are you?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-court-prayer-20130809,0,6470966.story
A follow-up to the abortion debate in Chile, fuelled by the rape of an 11 years old and the statement of the president saying how mature the girl is by accepting her pregnancy. Note that Chile is very conservative in religious terms, and the Catholic Church is very influential.
“Last month, a group of protesters entered Santiago’s main cathedral after a pro-choice march and disrupted a mass. Since then, political and religious figures, activists and protesters have weighed in on the nature of the incident — and come to very different conclusions.
Religious authorities and conservative political figures have condemned the incident while protesters and activists describe it as a defensive blow against a Church with a long history of perpetuating unjust treatment of women, gays and other oppressed groups.
Journalist Víctor Hugo Robles, known as “El Che de los gays,” was present at the incident and described it as a response against a powerful and oppressive institution.
“At the heart of the protest was discontent transformed into screaming for justice in front of an abusive Church that got a taste of its own medicine” he wrote in a column. “A murderous Church that killed heretics, jews, women, protestants and dissident Catholics. An anti-scientific Church that burned at the stake witches, abortionists, women who aborted, prostitutes and sodomites. A conquering and evangelizing Church that robbed and destroyed the riches of pre-Columbian cultures, killing and torturing native peoples. A rich and powerful Church that speaks in the name of Jesus the carpenter.”
http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/human-rights-a-law/26574-abortion-debate-church-protest-divide-chileans
Sorry Vern
I already re-posted with a minor addition…chingado, it is not Pisco Times yet…
Ricardo, do you know who has an authentic Pisco Sour here in south county?
I’ve only had the Peruvian concoction in Peru, which you probably find sub-standard in comparison to the Chilean recipe, but I’d like to taste what the controversy is all about.
Where should I go?
There are no Chilean restaurants/bars in OC. I could not tell the difference between the Peruvian and Chilean mix. Last month the OC Register had this review : “Pisco Sour is the new king of summer cocktails. This South American drink has long and disputed history.The cocktail is served at Haven Gastropub in downtown Orange”. Oro Pisco is used, which sounds Peruvian.
Pisco Sour Times:
Pisco Times has become sour, not because Dema reminded me of the Pisco Sour cocktail, but because of Cunningham. He is such a sour man, accusing poor Vern of ripping off the church ladies and writing “venomous spiteful posts, and inciting others to gleefully speculate about it…” Isn’t this the same man who does character assassination of anybody who questions his bosses? Isn’t this the man whose McCarthyism keeps dividing a city? ( McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence… The term is also now used more generally to describe reckless, unsubstantiated accusations, as well as demagogic attacks on the character or patriotism of political adversaries .Wikipedia)
He is after our buddies from OCCORD, he keeps picking on Marisol Ramirez, now because she was standing next to the Brown Berets, and apparently carrying a sign saying that “COPS are Zimmerman with a badge”. Here you have this self-appointed caretaker of the American tradition and principles of Democracy attacking Marisol as being far out of the mainstream. His outdated ideological extremism keeps him from understanding the problems and challenges of a modern society. The police should not be used as a force to kill people as it has happened in Anaheim. The city government should not be used to rip off public funds, to shut out the disenfranchised indefinitely.
In this OC Pride Weekend celebration let’s recognize the City of Laguna Beach as the bastion of the LBGT community in OC. Gays, hippies, artists and free thinkers thrived in Laguna for years. “ El Che de los Gays”, lived in Laguna. Had Cunningham known this, he wouldn’t be operating in Anaheim; his version of a civilized and mainstream world would’ve been extinguished already.
Nearly all past four years’ drop in jobless rate traceable to fewer people in workforce. Plus, Obamacare is cutting full-time work.
Puzder –
Leaving aside the already addressed second assertion, I see absolutely no reason to think that your first assertion is true. Who fed you that swill? Give us a link.
According to the survey BLS uses to calculate the unemployment rate, since January, the economy has created 963,000 jobs. Of those jobs, an astounding 97 percent, or 936,000, were part time. As Keith Hall, who ran BLS from 2008-12, recently noted, this number is “really remarkable. I’m not sure that has ever happened over six months before.”
Thanks to you and yours for weakening unions, skally.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recently noted, the official unemployment rate “overstates the health of our labor markets” due to factors such as the labor force “participation rate” and “underemployment.”
In July, 37,000 workers dropped out of the labor force, causing the participation rate to fall to 63.4 percent. The participation rate was last this low in May 1979, during the Jimmy Carter administration.
Can you spell “malaise.”
View “Labor markets stuck near recession low” article at http://epaper.ocregister.com/Olive/Tablet/OrangeCountyRegister/SharedArticle.aspx?href=Orange%2F2013%2F08%2F11&id=Ar07501
From Investors Business Daily:
In the second quarter, the number of workers putting in 30 to 34 hours at their primary job fell by a monthly average of 146,500, or 1.4%, from a year earlier.
By comparison, the number working 25-29 hours per week in their primary job rose by 119,000, or 2.7%.
This oddity has an obvious explanation: ObamaCare’s employer mandate applies only to full-time workers, which the law defines as 30 hours per week.
As the White House and some liberal economists step up denials that the 2010 health law is messing with the work hours of modest-wage workers, these CPS data provide the clearest evidence yet that the employer mandate is having a measurable impact.
Well, if so, I guess we’ll need single-payer then, right?
Yes, we know that was the ultimate goal of BHOcare – but that will not fly here. As many say – there is going to be a hell of a train wreck.
Pfft. My two daughters in their early 20s appreciate being covered on our policy — as do those of us with previous conditions.
there are gays in laguna, and they have such pretty art galleries
This secrecy over what seem like records that Genevieve Huizar ought to be able to have made public doesn’t really bother me for now, because they’re in settlement negotiations regarding the killing of Manual Diaz, but if this evidence doesn’t eventually see the light of day post-settlement (so that we can all assess Rackauckas’s claim quoted here) I will be highly irked. There is a public need to know.
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/08/manuel_diaz_anaheim_police_2.php