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The Unemployment Insurance (UI) trust fund the California Employment Development Department uses to pay benefits is now “structurally insolvent” a new Legislative Analyst’s Office report states. The report – a reaction to the “May Fund Forecast” released by the EDD last week states quite bluntly that the “temporary” – now about 15 years and not the six or seven years the EDD originally projected – federal surcharge will be used to cover on-going bills before actually paying the $18 billion-dollar federal debt the agency incurred due to gross incompetence during the pandemic.

I’m hoping Dr. Jill becomes the surgeon general, his wife. Joe Biden’s wife. She would never do it, but, yeah, she’s a hell of a doctor. She’s an amazing doctor,” proclaimed actress and co-host of The View Whoopi Goldberg last March. After someone alerted Whoopi to the fact that “Dr. Jill” has a doctor of education (EdD) degree from the University of Delaware and not a medical degree, Goldberg apologized. “I was wrong about his wife. I was wrong, before you start texting and emailing,” she said. Starting with Goldberg’s slip-up in March and ending with Joseph Epstein’s Wall Street...

...The Batavia Police Department in upstate New York on Tuesday joined hundreds of local law enforcement agencies in asking both potential victims and concerned residents to report allegations of unemployment benefit fraud directly to the state's Department of Labor. Police in Avon Lake, Ohio, in Whitman, Massachusetts, and in Evanston, Illinois, say frustrated taxpayers have called or even shown up at the station holding 1099-G tax forms which show someone is fraudulently reporting income in their name. ..

Rapper Nuke Bizzle, whose real name is Fontrell Antonio Baines, 31, “boasted in a YouTube music video about getting rich from committing unemployment benefits fraud,” the Department of Justice said. He was later arrested on suspicion of obtaining California Employment Development Department debit cards that were issued to other people, including those whose identities were stolen. Baines, who’s originally from Memphis, Tennessee, got at least 92 EDD debit cards that had been loaded with more than $1.2 million and mailed to addresses he had access to in Beverly Hills and Koreatown, according to a DOJ news release. Las Vegas police...

Yesterday we discussed the new disorder plaguing white middle class Americans: Empathy Deficit Disorder (EDD). Today I thought I would pursue one of the root causes: Snowflake Syndrome (ϟϟ). The latest outbreak of ϟϟ - at Seattle University, Matteo Ricci College School of Humanities - has been documented by the Daily Caller and, as the saying goes, requires a special kind of stupid. A brief summary: students at the Matteo Ricci School of Humanities took over the Dean’s office and demanded that the Dean be fired and all of their demands (which are ample) be met. Chief among their demands is an order...

It's one of the biggest television cliffhangers since John Ross 'JR' Ewing was shot all those years ago on Dallas. Millions of viewers are less than 24 hours away from finally learning whether Jon Snow is really dead when Game of Thrones returns to our screens. In a simultaneous broadcast with the US, the hit show will air on Sky Atlantic at 2am before being repeated tomorrow for primetime viewers at 9pm. The series is no stranger to killing off its leads, with Sean Bean's Ned Stark beheaded at the end of the very first season.

Had lunch today with a buddy of mine who works as a jobs counselor for EDD/Worksource in California. While waiting for him in the job search room, I noticed that everyone..including the security dude for the office was on the computer entering his resume/job info on the McDonald's jobs site. The office manager was announcing it too on the floor about the 50,000 jobs for McDonald's. Out he comes after washing up and asked him what's the fuss with the McDonald's thing. McDonald's "requested" Worksource to announce it because they are "really hiring". So I asked him, "so what are...

California Unemployment Report Fosters Doubts On Recovery The addition of 28,300 jobs in May mostly represents temporary census positions, adding to fears that the state's climb out of the recession will take longer than expected. Alana Semuels June 18, 2010 California added 28,300 jobs to its payrolls in May, but many were temporary government jobs, adding to fears that the economic recovery will be even more sluggish than originally anticipated. The state added 30,000 federal government jobs in the month, according to the Employment Development Department. Many of them were census jobs. The manufacturing, information and professional and business services...

It's the Holy Grail of reformers and politicians, a seemingly oxymoronic two-word phrase that prompts cynics to sneer and fans the faint hopes of taxpayers: "Government efficiency." From the outset of his administration in fall 2003, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's rhetorical arsenal has consistently featured calls for making California's government leaner, more responsive and more citizen-friendly. ...California's tax collection system has evolved as the state has added taxes to its revenue base.... An amendment in the 1879 state constitution created the Board of Equalization (BOE). Its four elected members (plus the state controller) were charged with "equalizing" property assessments. In the...

Have They, At Last, No Shame ?? It has just come to my attention – via the Associated Press – the Evil Idealogues in the US House of Representatives have voted to fund hurricane relief by making cuts in Medicaid funding ! The House resolution calls for de-funding Medicaid-subsidized purchase of vitally needed erectile disfunction drugs (EDD)– such as Viagra and Cialis !! It was bad enough when they voted to cut off EDD funding for sex offenders , but this is just over the top. Have they, at last, no shame ?? Don’t they realize, without EDD funding there...

QUESTION: Shouldn't we respect the education of our many "Drs." in the issue of the Bible? ANSWER: Yes. IF there is any education associated with their degree.