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SDG&E to install 2-way meter readers
Response to post #10: That was the era when people actually protested and made things better by doing it. The Spirit that made America great is dead because politicians, lawyers and judges have become so corrupt, so We The People turned into lemmings. Even Michael Shames doesn't even bother to use the power of UCAN to join forces with Aguirre and fight back against the political, judicial and U-T/Davies establishment corruption that is destroying the future of San Diego more than all other problems combined. That's where consumer activism is needed most today.— March 28, 2008 11:24 a.m.
SDG&E to install 2-way meter readers
Response to post #10: Unfortunately for the human race we are losing the climate change tipping points races because academic science turned into a tenured welfare state after we won WWII. It has made me ashamed to admit that I am a Cal graduate when parasites like Dr. Stangelove Dynes are the role models.— March 28, 2008 2:52 a.m.
SDG&E to install 2-way meter readers
Response to post #8: Don, I agree, that's why I emphasize Imperative #1: Michael Shames must form a coalition with Aguirre, Frye, Francis, you and The Reader to make the right things happen. The worst case ongoing scenario is that the world scientific community has failed to have enough credibility because of the "subject to further research" tenured welfare mentality that took them until 2008 to even come up with a consensus before they can even begin to make the right things happen. And the worst case reality is that it is still too easy for the fossil fuel interests to buy off the White House, Congress and judges. If we think Aguirre has problems locally, they are nothing like the scientific credibility problems the AAAS and the scientific community has. And it doesn’t help that our University of California still makes holocaust hydrogen bombs for profit, and has just sold out what is left of their scientific integrity to BP oil for $500 Million. UC's motto appears to be that it is easier and more profitable to blow up the world than it is to fix it. The bottom line is that today there is no credible leadership in America to make all the right institutions work together. The QUEST section in U-T today had an excellent article on SIO’s Ralph Keeling who is correctly championing a “Manhatten Project” but the rest of the world scientific community still have their heads in the sand, to put it politely.— March 27, 2008 3:01 p.m.
SDG&E to install 2-way meter readers
Response to post #6: I sincerely hope you are right Don because we are in a whole new era. Back to the subject of SDG&E, they have actually come a long way since the era when good old boys and sycophants tyrannized from the top floor of the Electric Building. That era pretty much ended after the 2000 energy crisis after a lawyer became CEO/COB and screwed up everything, enabled by a brain-dead governor and a corrupt CPUC. As you did at the U-T Don, I had to suffer through decades of incompetent management, but I really got lucky and my last decade was the best professional assignment of my career, supported by an emerging new breed of role model class managers. Michael Shames is going to have to work much harder to keep up with the likes of Michael Niggli because Niggli is one of the best engineers in the industry who rose to the top as an excellent example of the new breed. However, there is still room for major improvement with a sense of urgency because this new Tipping Point Age with an accelerating carbon dioxide Keeling curve which coincides with the accelerating “hockey stick” global temperature curve requires a whole new long term thinking culture dedicated to eliminating fossil fuel burning by building combination nuclear power and desalination plants along the coast to guarantee both lowest cost energy and abundantly available clean water to meet San Diego's increasingly desperate requirements.— March 27, 2008 12:29 p.m.
SDG&E to install 2-way meter readers
Response to post #4: Don, pardon me but "25 to 40 percent of the take" is a definition for rapacious, seems most greedy, more than a little arbitrary and just plain legalized larceny throughout the justice system. Are lawyers required to provide itemized lists of all their "expenses" for independent auditing because $5 million is a heck of a lot of money even in this age of federal waterfalls that spillover $Billion bills daily? Yes, I grant you that every business and government group in San Diego that you keep exposing seem to be ripping off citizens and taxpayers, and it’s time to fight back with forces that are much more organized and effective than we have protecting us today because the bloodsuckers are winning. If Michael Shames is as honest as you say he is, I would expect that he must join with Aguirre, Frye, Francis, you and The Reader to champion and protect the citizens and taxpayers of San Diego against the forces of cronyism, greed, corrupt politics and justice that are sucking the lifeblood out of San Diego.— March 27, 2008 2:27 a.m.
SDG&E to install 2-way meter readers
Gad, America's courts are corrupted by money and politics according to former Supreme Court Justice O'Connor, and of course San Diego's corrupt and cronyistic political establishment corrupts all of our puppeticians such as Sanders and Murphy (also a former judge on the corrupt Greer court), and the bottom line remains that the courts are so corrupt in San Diego that death and destruction are now a permanent part of life in "America's Finest City" --- a little known price we pay instead of having the public safety resources we need to protect us from the consequences of corrupt courts, politicians and totalitarianism. I am astounded that it costs lawyers $5 million to try a case, unless that includes paying off the judges to go for $40 million (minus $5 million) instead of the $120 million they stole from residential ratepayers to subsidize the "large commercial users." Don, what else can go wrong!— March 26, 2008 2:44 p.m.
SDG&E to install 2-way meter readers
Interesting that you should mention Michael Shames, because with “friends” like UCAN's Michael Shames San Diegans don’t need any more enemies like John Davies et al. who you exposed in “Brash Cash”. During a seven-year period City officials maintained a sewer rate structure that overcharged City of San Diego residents resulting in more than $120 million in overcharges to San Diego households from 1998 to 2004 and lower rates for large commercial users of the system. So Shames sued the city and sold out the residential ratepayers by settling for a mere $40 million instead of the $120 million we were overcharged. But that’s just part of the betrayal, $5 million out of the $40 million went to Michael Shames and friends for “attorney fees.” Isn’t our San Diego justice system just great, they even give UCAN $5 million to betray San Diego along with the rest of the corrupt and cronyistic political establishment?! As usual, everyone wins but the citizens of San Diego, and the courts just keep enabling larceny of taxpayer funds with consequencse such as firestorms that get out of control killing 27 citizens, destroying 25% of San Diego and counting because the city refuses to spend the money instead on decent fire and police resources.— March 26, 2008 1:12 p.m.
Why plummeting dollar hurts you
Don, the problems that enalbled this situation go far beyond just Wall Street and Main Street. Our federal, state and local legislative and judicial branches are corrupted, seemingly beyond redemption, by money and politics. One of the worst case scenarios today are the presidential election campaigns, which involve three U.S. senators who participate in a leaderless congress with a 67% disapproval rating, so they have only proven so far that they can't lead in congress anymore than they can be expected to lead the nation. Thus you need to add Plummeting Legislative and Judicial Institutions to Plummeting Dollar. We’ll need to consider the entire spectrum of institutional failures in America before we can even begin to deal with the dollar.— March 26, 2008 4:47 a.m.
Peters Hustles to Hustings; Long-Delayed 2005 Audit Delayed Again
Back to the original Blog: Speaking of volcanoes and politics as usual, is Peters some new version of Pompey puppeting for Davies’ Optimates? Political corruption never changes, especially when aristocratic power and wealth are allowed to overrule the will of the people as they do in San Diego today.— March 15, 2008 4:59 a.m.
Peters Hustles to Hustings; Long-Delayed 2005 Audit Delayed Again
Response to post #13: "Another bubble?" A bubble, or a volcano, that is the question?— March 15, 2008 4:20 a.m.