{"id":2133,"date":"2015-04-20T09:23:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-mountain.com\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2015-04-20T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T22:23:46","slug":"screwmobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/?p=2133","title":{"rendered":"Screwmobile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regarding this $800 million capital bond issue being proposed by Pima
\nCounty guvment and reported in today\u2019s Star: $160 of this capital is supposedly to repair roads. I have but a fleeting notion of finance, but \u201crepair\u201d is normally classified as a maintenance item, which is an expense as opposed to a capital investment. Accountants scream like maniacal banshees when you mix maintenance expense with capital investment. You\u2019re not allowed to used debt to finance expenses. Believe me when they scream, they\u2019re loud. This is basic Accounting 101. Why then are the banshees imitating church mice when it comes to this bond issue?<\/p>\n

________________<\/p>\n

Any one noticed that the Star\u2019 editorial page has shrunk by a half page? There\u2019s no pretense to editorials \u2014 as those reprinted from Bloomberg and the Washington Post. The Star runs columnists in that space and has relegated the half page space for advertising.<\/p>\n

________________<\/p>\n

Department of cutsey-stupid newspaper leads:<\/p>\n

By <\/em>Zack Rosenblatt<\/em><\/a>, Arizona Daily Star<\/em><\/p>\n

April 19, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>\u201cWe\u2019re not so different, you and I.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a line uttered by Dr. Evil in the first \u201cAustin Powers\u201d movie.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably how Bobby Hurley\u2019s first conversation with Sean Miller will go, too.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kidding, of course, but it\u2019s true \u2014 Hurley and Miller are not so different \u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

Such a kidder. Who\u2019s the evil one?<\/p>\n

___________________<\/p>\n

Dear guv doogie:<\/p>\n

Why do you want 200,000 Arizonans to lose their health insurance. Have you no soul?<\/p>\n

Salud,<\/p>\n

Dr. Kildare<\/p>\n

____________________<\/p>\n

Greetings guv doogie:<\/p>\n

Congratulations on your RV tour. Apparently you call it the \u201cOpportunity Express.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I’m proud of the work we’ve done and the path forward we’re paving to a better Arizona,” you say. We don’t see a whole lot of forward motion in your reign so far. You’re about as backward and regressive as a corn cob in the outhouse.<\/p>\n

What on earth can you possibly be proud of? Often opportunity depends on how much you can afford to pay for a university education. In that sense, seems like your RV would be more accurately named the Screwmobile.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Slats Grobnik<\/p>\n

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Regarding this $800 million capital bond issue being proposed by Pima County guvment and reported in today\u2019s Star: $160 of this capital is supposedly to repair roads. I have but a fleeting notion of finance, but \u201crepair\u201d is normally classified as a maintenance item, which is an expense as opposed to a capital investment. Accountants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285,14],"tags":[75,280,286],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumb-ass-governors","category-newspapers","tag-arizona-daily-star","tag-gov-doug-ducey","tag-guv-doogie","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}