Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Tuesday
Here's yet another reason to stand up for public employee unions: two LA traffic officers have been creating porn films while on the job. And KNBC is reporting City officials failed to discipline the duo.
Film and television executives who shoot outside LA are finding these productions are often more positive than those locally. The Midwest work ethic of residents in places like Chicago and Pittsburgh was noted by one producer.
Carmen the Clown jumps the shark once again and is now going after sponsorship signs for sports teams inside City parks. Of course, revenue from these signs support youth sports. Bernard Parks had it right when he said "This is ludicrous. We shouldn't have to waste our time with something like this."
Like a battered spouse who can not leave their abuser, the California Democratic Party renewed ties with public employee union.
Labels: california democratic party, carmen trutanich, film industry, ladot, sheriff lee baca
Posted by Michael Higby @ 5/03/2011 12:01:00 AM
12 Comments:
Oh no you didn't just insult the best film crews in the world Higby!
Bad move and very uninformed.
Today will be Villaraigosa’s 7th trip to Washington, D.C. since September. His 2nd trip in six days. He was in Chicago Thursday and Friday for the National Summit on City Design. with all his security detail, staffers etc. As a tax payer of this city I want to know how many people went on City time and on my dime
There are precious few traffic officers I want to watch in an adult video, overweight and cranky are not my first two choices.
Free rarely equals good.
This blog is free, for instance.
Phil Jennerjahn's idiotic views are free.
Red Spot's slander is free.
Joe B's predictable bias in favor of liberal ideas, and predictable bias against Conservative ideas, are free.
Commenting is free, too.
Who values any of this crap?
The lesson: free rarely equals good, this comment, included.
754- there might be a niche for overweight and cranky traffic officers porn. Each to his own - there is no accounting for taste.
More bad news for the fledgling Republican presidential field.
Ireland’s largest bookmaker slashed the odds on President Barack Obama winning reelection from 4-7 to 2-5 thanks to his triumph in hunting down and killing Osama bin Laden.
Paddy Power said the incumbent now has the shortest odds of securing a second term since he took office in January of 2009. Obama now has a 71 percent probability of winning four more years in the White House.
The company recalculated its odds based on scores of bets that rolled in Monday morning after news broke that the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks was no more.
Among GOP contenders, former Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney has the next best odds of winning the 2012 election, at 10-1. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is at 12-1 odds.
Alaska Gov.-turned-TV star Sarah Palin, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Gen. David Petraeus -- who recently accepted a new job as the next head of the CIA -- each are pegged as 16-1 candidates. That is better than former Govs. Tim Pawlenty (Minn.), at 18-1, or Mike Huckabee (Ark.), a 22-1 shot.
Here are the other GOP long-shots, according the Irish bookie (who may not be as familiar with the more provincial political newcomers):
Rep. Michele Bachmann (MN), 28-1
Rep. Ron Paul (TX), 33-1
Former Gov. Jon Huntsman (UT), 33-1
Newt Gingrich (GA), 33-1
Donald Trump, 33-1
Sen. Marco Rubio (FL), 33-1
Gov. Chris Christie (NJ), 50-1
Former Gov. Gary Johnson (NM), 50-1
Rudy Giuliani, 66-1
Former Sen. Rick Santorum (PA), 66-1
Sen. Rand Paul (KY), 66-1
Sen. Scott Brown (MA), 100-1
Rep. Paul Ryan (WI), 100-1
Herman Cain, 125-1
Fred Karger, 150-1
At 1,000-1 odds, the longest shots were Paris Hilton and Laura Bush.
How funny are the odds you post, 1:56!
They're giving odds on people WHO SAID THEY'RE NOT RUNNING UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!
I guess you have to go to PaddyPower.com because you can't find an American charletan to quote.
Say hello to President Gingrich.
Obama
is
a
one
term
pezzident.
DAILY NEWS TALKED ABOUT ALL THE BONUSES RECEIVED BY CITY WORKERS YET THEY STILL WILL ENDORSE ALL THE INCUMBENTS NEXT ELECTION. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT PICTURE? IT'S AN EXAMPLE HOW THE PRESS PLAYS HEAD GAMES WITH THE PUBLIC THEN STABS US IN THE BACK! THIS IS WHY I DON'T LIKE BOTH LA TIMES AND DAILY NEWS THEY ARE IN BED WITH CITY HALL AND THE UNIONS AND HAVE BEEN FOR YEARS. THIS IS WHY NO REAL CARING CANDIDATE CAN WIN AS LONG AS WE HAVE THIS MACHINE IN PLACE.
I didn't go to PaddyPower. It came to me. But since you asked, here are some odds offered by other sources, probably before the OBL mission.
Obama heavy favorite at -125. Gingrich a big longshot at +5000.
http://www.betusa.com/betting/exotics.html
About the same. Obama -200.
http://www.1800-sports.com/presidential-betting-odds.shtml
Obama is a monster favorite at 1/25 in this set of odds following OBL. Gingrich didn't make the cut:
http://www.sbrforum.com/sports-betting/news/2012-presidential-election-betting-osama-bin-laden-death-a-19729/
There will be more odds posted in the next few days and they will all be the same.
There are two ways to interpret odds by those who take bets. Either the odds reflect what the oddsmaker believes the chances are, but more commonly the odds reflect the actions of those willing to put down their money, as opposed to those who just run their mouths on blogs and in bars.
Almost half of the money [for block grants in Council District 9] is going to an architecture firm to design a $1 billion football stadium,” Mueller says, “rather than going to build low-income housing.
THIS THE BEST REASON OF ALL NOT TO VOTE FOR JAN PERRY. INSTEAD OF TAKING CARE OF HER POOR CONSTITUENTS SHE JUST LOVES AEG
Odds have zero to do with the voters' will.
Obama is in trouble not because of the terrorism issue. He's in trouble because of the economy.
Obama killed UBL despite himself, and with the help of years of information cultivated by W. And his not acknowledging W is bad form.
Play silly games with the odds, if you will. It has no reflection on the anger of the voters.
And if he's such a monster favorite, why not place a monster amount on it, or even a small one, say $100, and send it to Higby to post?
Or are you all talk, and no walk?
I don't bet heavy favorites. Too little return. But if the Gingrich for President person wanted to back up their beliefs they'd put down some big bucks on him and end up mega-rich.
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