High tech jobs going out of state as this vacant Intel facility near Sacramento illustrates.
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The Beekeeper meets AI
I had a talk with my father-in-law yesterday and this topic came up. The following happened to him. You get a call from your bank informing you that you are the victim of a fraudulent charge. The person on the phone has a caller ID stating that it’s your bank calling. They have your account…
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There is a lot of talk lately about Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania switching parties to the GOP. This is because he has shown strong support for Israel. Make no mistake about it, Fetterman votes with democrats 90% of the time. Yet there is serious talk of a primary challenge in 2 years. My advice? …
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As stated before in this space, Megan Eisenberger and Brad Ng laid a turd in the punch bowl in regard to prosecuting the K Street shooting here in Sacramento. This blog is taking a look at a different part of the trial, the witnesses. Ng and Eisenberger handed out immunity from prosecution like it was…
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Happy New Year. To those of us in California, I hope you are weathering the storm. It has been a crazy first couple of weeks for the national GOP. Speaker McCarthy has already been a trash fire. Here is my take on things. First off, remember back to when Donald Trump was elected President. First…
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By the time I’ve posted this blog, I will have two weeks until I kiss my state job goodbye. I think on my calendar at work, its marked as Bobby’s Johnny Paycheck Day or some such thing. Oh, Johnny Paycheck is best known for a song he did in the 1970’s called, “Take this job…
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They both got on my naughty list this month for the same thing, redefining marriage. Sorry culturally compromising people but marriage is between a man and woman. God didn’t make Adam and Steve, or Ellen and Eve as Ole Dave Waddell used to opine. When people in a homosexual relationship want to stay together it’s…
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Had a client of mine come in this week; specifically, to chat about his 22-year-old son. This son has had 5 moving violation/accidents in 3 years of driving. The average is about 1 incident per decade by the way. So as you can imagine his insurance is very expensive and the parents have been paying…
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I’ve worked at the agency that is the posterchild of government waste, fraud, and fiduciary abuse for almost two years now. This agency is not only irredeemably broken but it’s so far down the sewer (or rabbit hole) depending on which metaphor you wish to employ that it seems beyond reform. Here is a partial…
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Folks this year in January a new law went into effect, under the old law we had 3 “Toter garbage cans” one for garbage (brown) one for recycling (Green) and one for green waste (light green). The garbage can was serviced every week, with the other cans rotating every other week. The Toter cans were…
