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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?")
If we're talking about Dan C, he has never seemed "happy."
Yes, I know that's the impulse but you gotta know what the Guatemalan hill folk know: you get poisoned and…
If it touches me first, all bets are off.
You're absolutely right that California should adopt it statewide -- and should already have done so. And you're absolutely right…
If I were Fiona ma or Rob Bonta I’d be scared.
RCV should be adopted statewide so cities and counties don’t have to do it piecemeal. It saves money, discourages negative…
My advice to Mr. Moore, who seems like an eminently reasonable man is the same as I always give Vern.…
Great article on Ranked Choice Voting Josh! I wholeheartedly agree. I want more control with my vote. We only have…
Young Kim on broadcast tv going hard against Calvert and aligning herself closely with Trump. Might win her the primary…
Content being a Pink Toad? I guess it depends on an amphibian's level of sef-awareness. The lower, the happier. In…