Anyhow, what did you think of Mr. Reilly’s post?

Walter Moore and Jamiel’s Law would be great. However, so far, he has very little name recognition and traction. That may change under Obama next year.

The city, county and state are all deep in the red this year; I can only imagine what will happen in a real recession with Obama in. LA City was by itself 400 million in the red. This coming year that deficit will grow to over a Billion dollars . And LA City provides virtually no services as it is now. My area really only gets Fire Protection and Trash pick up with not much in the way of Police Protection. I wouldn’t be surprised if all three, the City, County and State, had to file for bankruptcy protection this coming year.

Back to Moore. It’s hard for an anyone but a City Hall insider to win. The game is completely fixed. The Media will not cover him. The Public Employees unions will overwhelm him in spending, and then there is the matter of the LA County Registrar of Voters.

Back when the Valley, Hollywood and San Pedro tried to secede in 2002, the Registrar played a big part. In Hollywood, the Registrar of Voters “consolidated” Hollywood’s eighty precincts with 120 outside of Hollywood, so no one could see how each precinct voted. So all the key precincts of Hollywood and the Valley that the City valued the most showed a yes vote of less than 30% when internal polling and community support were overwhelmingly supportive. Now that Democrat Democracy at work!

“Bueller…Bueller…Bueller….”

10/11/08 post from John Reilly’s blog, “The Long View”:

“The Crystallization of the West and the Election of 2008″

http://www.johnreilly.info/11Oct08.htm

Mr. Reilly has given some real _deep_ thought to the current financial crisis, and its implications for the election and for America’s international relations. I thought you folks here might find them interesting (not to mention informative).

The money paragraph:

“The primary goal of the Fannie Mae Foundation is to support national and local nonprofit organizations working to provide decent and affordable housing in communities throughout the United States. The Foundation plans to make $14 million in grants in 1995. Its solo source of support is Fannie Mae, a congressionally chartered, shareholder-owned corporation and the nation’s largest source of home mortgage funds. The company has committed to provide $1 trillion in targeted lending for 10 million homes by the end of the decade. The targeted lending will serve low- and moderate-income families, minorities, new immigrants, residents of central cities and other underserved areas, and people who have special housing needs.”

source: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1995_May_2/ai_16888514

I just missed by a week the failed launch at Wallops. I was no more than three miles away across the bay with a clear view. I didn’t know then what I do know now – you can schedule your vacation via the NASA Launch Schedule. Not sure how to book passage to Kwajalien, but a lot of the sites are local, like Wallops. All those huge, sky-facing radars and the NASA Museum with the rockets outside should have been a tell-tale, but you never see that advertised along with the crabs, ponies, ‘teagers and sunsets.

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/schedule.html