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- A retired Orange County employee, and moderate Republican. The editor seriously does not know OBNO's identity as did not the former editor, but his point of view is obviously interesting and valued.
![Federal law prescribes that Social Security recipients shall receive an annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) if the cost of living goes up. Specifically, the 3rd quarter of the current […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/social_security.png "Social Security Raise in 2010 – Yes or No?")
![Two scoops are better than one, at least if you are a public employee… Those whipping up public angst about the pay, benefits and pensions government employees receive are on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Double-Dip-Pensions.jpg "Taxpayers Well Served by Public Sector Double Dippers")
![Governor Schwarzenegger should be happy about the pending rain… Predictably the T.V. and radio media are reporting in an increasingly alarmist tone that the first significant storm (possibly 2) of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Arnold-Schwarzenegger-loves-water.jpg "Welcome the Forecast Rain")
![A few months ago The Register announced that it would no longer have employees doing newspaper home delivery but instead would contract with the Los Angeles Times to do it. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Newspaper-Delivery-Boy.jpg "Farewell O.C. Register newspaper carrier")
![A philosophy of contracting out, or privatizing, government services is often espoused by people who think government inefficiency is rampant and that the private sector could provide services better and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Privatized-security-guards.jpg "A privatization nightmare")
![In my post of October 3 (“Is the OC Register trying to shift its retirement costs to taxpayers?”) I wrote about the irony of The Register’s parent company, Freedom Communications, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Freedom-Porn.png "O.C. Register’s parent won’t share its porno")
![We all know that for years the State Legislature and various Governors have used accounting tricks and budgeting gimmicks to produce the annual State budget in what is then billed as […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Sacramento-Train-Wreck.jpg "Could lawsuits eroding state budget turn into another train wreck?")
![An article in the Saturday, October 3 Business section of the Register (“Freedom tries to keep bankruptcy documents secret”) reports that the Register’s parent company, Freedom Communications, has run into […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/taxpayers-screwed.jpg "Is the O.C. Register trying to shift its retirement costs to taxpayers?")
![David Letterman announced on his CBS TV show Thursday night that he has had sex with women who work for him on his show. He and some media are portraying […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/David-Letterman-is-a-pervert.jpg "CBS Should Fire Letterman")
![When hurricane Katrina devastated our gulf coast and especially New Orleans in August of 2005 there was an outcry from the liberal media and leading Democrats accusing President Bush of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Will Samoa become President Obama’s New Orleans?")
![In the Great Depression of the 1930’s many people lost their life savings when their banks failed and closed. To prevent that from ever happening again Congress enacted the Federal […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/FDIC-Know-Your-Limits.jpg "Federal insurance of your bank savings secure?")
![The Pew Research Center is described as a nonpartisan fact tank that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world through public opinion polling. In […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Mexican-immigrants.jpg "Many more in Mexico want to come here")
![Picture Courtesy of the O.C. Register Back in August I posted this story about The City of Tustin’s budget priorities. No one commented, and the City’s budget policy did not […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Tustin-child-hit-by-car-2.jpg "I Told You So – Tustin school child hit in crosswalk")
![Picture courtesy of the AP Thursday morning KNX Radio news reported on an incident on Wednesday at the border with Mexico in which several vehicles tried to run through a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Mexican-Border-Shooting-on-Sep.-22.jpg "Excessive force at the border – is that possible?")
She couldn’t condemn khan, rafiei or Kim but she wants you to condemn Pulido. Muy rico. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1938288386808688&id=1267537805528996 https://voiceofoc.org/2026/05/political-action-committee/ (Does Ada…
Hack agrees re Villaragoisa. https://www.thetruthoc.com/p/antonio-villaraigosa-is-everything
It's all great to be in favor of alternatives to fossil fuels, less pollution, green energy and the like. Who…
I get the sense last night that all the other candidates sensed Becerra was the elephant in the room. Villaragoisa…
I haven't visited this blog in a while but I see you still have the same troll. Tiresome. I hope…
The Haughey guy is director of California RCV Coalition, Inc. https://www.calrcv.org/people
Some background on California RCV Coalition, Inc., an ngo that backed DGI and others lobbying Irvine for rcv at last…
Oh shit. I agree with oh myopic booby one. He is the only path to victory for the Democratic party.
Retired Federal Judge Lynne Riddle has spent years scrutinizing the fiscal stewardship and other practices of the Orange County Board…
Funny story I haven’t been able to tell yet - I was somehow included in the small DPOC group that…