CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 09/05/2015

Planned Parenthood Needs More Body Parts to Sell: Demands END of School Abstinence Programs By Stephen Frank on Sep 04, 2015 07:50 pm This is a conflict of interest. Planned Parenthood needs abortions and baby body parts to sell. Abstinence programs in schools teach kids to not have sex till married, or at least not till in a committed relationship—the more abstinence, the fewer body parts to sell. So, as a money making organization you need to change […] Read More and Comment: Planned Parenthood Needs More Body Parts to Sell: Demands END of School Abstinence Programs Moody’s: California’s state and local pension costs rising in face of limited reform options By Stephen Frank on Sep 04, 2015 07:47 pm CalPERS has decided to move billions from equities (stocks) into treasury notes. This is safer in a volatile market. Except, the treasuries will lower the returns on investments, enlarging the unfunded liability from over $750 billion (using Federal criteria)—since treasuries pay 1-2%–and the pension system needs a 7.5% return. Even at the high level CalPERS […] Read More and Comment: Moody’s: California’s state and local pension costs rising in face of limited reform options Sell Stock in Applebees/IHOP owner—DineEquity—Moving HQ From Missouri to Glendale By Stephen Frank on Sep 04, 2015 07:45 pm For years I have been saying that if I were on a Board of Directors and the CEO suggested we move our business or headquarters to California, they should be fired. California has the highest rents, taxes, worst roads, bad government schools and a government that decides your wage rates, working conditions and if in […] Read More and Comment: Sell Stock in Applebees/IHOP owner—DineEquity—Moving HQ From Missouri to Glendale Report: Half of schools cut cafeteria staff as kids abandon Obama menus By Stephen Frank on Sep 04, 2015 07:43 pm Michelle Obama is killing off low paid cafeteria workers. How? By forcing schools to serve inedible food, food, kids do not want to eat. This also affects equipment and services government schools use for feeding students. Want to enlarge the waste in trash cans? Serve the “Best of Michelle” “The financial threat to school food […] Read More and Comment: Report: Half of schools cut cafeteria staff as kids abandon Obama menus LA Times Downsizing Again—Newspaper as Thin as Toilet Paper By Stephen Frank on Sep 04, 2015 07:41 pm Have you seen a copy of the LA Times lately? Most subscribe to it by habit. Many read a couple of stories and have not notice how few pages are printed and how small the size of the paper has become. Now we find that reporters are leaving—before the next round of buyouts. Like the […] Read More and Comment: LA Times Downsizing Again—Newspaper as Thin as Toilet Paper Street vending supports big industry in LA, despite being illegal By Stephen Frank on Sep 04, 2015 07:40 pm My hometown of Simi Valley has lots of restaurants. Per County regulations the Health Department has to inspect them and place a letter grade sign in the window of the show. The local Chipotle has a sign with an “A” in its window. Three weeks ago this well regulated fast food place had 16 reported […] Read More and Comment: Street vending supports big industry in LA, despite being illegal Rent in San Fran, Oakland, Sacramento and Fresno Up 14-23% in One Year By Stephen Frank on Sep 04, 2015 07:38 pm In the past year rents in San Fran have gone up 14%. Oakland rents were up 23%, Fresno rents jumped 17% and Sacramento, home of government, the rents have gone up 21%–all in just a year. Did anyone have their wages or salary go up by that much, plus enough to cover the taxes on […] Read More and Comment: Rent in San Fran, Oakland, Sacramento and Fresno Up 14-23% in One Year ACLU Demands to Set Policies for LAPD—Who Needs Government? By Stephen Frank on Sep 04, 2015 07:36 pm When you have the ACLU around you do not need a city council, Mayor, Police Chief, Police Commission or three million citizens setting policy for cops. All you need are attorneys who’s job it is to protect criminals and allow more victims. LAPD has started putting cops on the streets wearing body camera’s. the ACLU […] Read More and Comment: ACLU Demands to Set Policies for LAPD—Who Needs Government? Feds Spend $236,517 for Cellphone Game to Teach 11-Year-Old Kenyans How to Use Condoms By Stephen Frank on Sep 04, 2015 07:33 pm Does anybody believe that 11 year old Kenyan kids, using their cellphones, are not smart enough, or have not been taught how to use a condom? Even if true, is it the role of a single mother, barely able to pay for shoes for her kids in Loomis, to be taxed for this purpose? I […] Read More and Comment: Feds Spend $236,517 for Cellphone Game to Teach 11-Year-Old Kenyans How to Use Condoms CA Pension giants out of sync with alternative investments By Stephen Frank on Sep 04, 2015 07:31 pm CalSTRS, using Federal accounting criteria, has unfunded liabilities north of $170 billion. CalPERS is over $750 billion. Both need a return on equity of at least 7.5% to not increase the fiscal problem. We all know that the stock market has been VERY volatile. On Friday it went down another almost 300 points. Now these […] Read More and Comment: CA Pension giants out of sync with alternative investments   In Case You Missed It: San Francisco Elementary School Adopts ‘Gender-Neutral’ Bathrooms California Attorney General Trying To Scare Conservative Groups Into Silence Massive Fish Farm Proposed Off San Diego’s Coast Los Angeles to Spend Street Fixing $$ on Bikes—as part of “Public” Transportation How Microsoft’s data case could unravel the US tech industry