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San Diego is not overbuilt in housing
Response to post #30: Don you are providing Great reality checks on economics, but the #1 problem today is the corruption of our federal, state and San Diego executive, legislative and judicial branches of our governments by special interests. Specifically here in San Diego our current political, economic and social problems are caused to a great degree by the tyranny and avarice of the Davie/U-T interests that have proven for decades that they are ready, willing and able to sacrifice the lives and wealth of everyone else in San Diego to increase their own personal wealth and power. “Now, the Hangover” is a great general lesson, but now it is time for the counterattack against the most destructive forces in San Diego that that still control and threaten our future. The Reader is the only journal in San Diego that can make the right things happen during the election this year or we shall not be able to even begin a recovery. We need your help more than ever before to end this era of corruption and destruction of San Diego by Davies/U-T.— March 5, 2008 5:04 a.m.
Aguirre To Announce Wednesday That He Will Run for Second Term
Response to post #17: Re "The League of Women Voters under Norma Damashek is trying to shed light on judge elections in San Diego." Will you and the Reader pass on the "light" that SDLWV is "shedding" so we can all fight back against judges like the one you referred to in your post #15 above? Who was the judge in post #15, and was he/she a judge who was put on the court to serve the interests of Davies/U-T? The people of San Diego must know who the San Diego judges are that former Justice O'Connor warned us about as being "influenced by money and politics"! And we need the help of the Reader to start emptying the cesspool of government corruption in San Diego before the next election.— March 5, 2008 4:49 a.m.
Aguirre To Announce Wednesday That He Will Run for Second Term
Response to post #8: Well then, if Ms. Damashek really is "one of the fiercest battlers of San Diego corruption going these days" then she ought to get together with Francis, Aguirre and Frye to fight back against the U-T and courts as their paramount priority, and overthrow the "ruling class" at last. However, I realize that Davis/U-T and the courts are the greatest threats to the rule of law as former Justice O'Connor put it, so they need the Reader to use your Freedom of the Press as the Founders intended to expose both Davies U-T and judges who are enabling the destruction of San Diego to go on forever.— March 4, 2008 3:03 p.m.
San Diego is not overbuilt in housing
Response to post #25: Don, as your columns and Blogs keep proving you have so many "shingles" on your "roof" that you can afford to lose a lot before anyone notices. I'm sure Warren has lost some by now also, and you are his counterpart in San Diego/Colorado. I feel as long as I can read what you, Warren Buffett and Jonathan Clements have to say at least once a week I'll be able to survive as well as anyone. Experts like Dr. Floyd Bloom at the Scripps Research Department of Neuropharmacology might be able to tell us if Warren's salt diet is the best way to go for maintaining the brain. Interesting that after his three hour interview on CNBC yesterday morning Warren "corrected" his earlier admission of salt on his hamburgers to really admit that he puts hamburgers on his salt, so there may be something for both of us to learn here. But then Warren has also lived on an Nebraska diet his whole life, so there may be more to his brain maintenance than salt. I found it interesting that Warren correctly exposed ethanol as an incredibly bogus political and scientific idea because the amount of carbon dioxide emissions produced to grow corn negate most environmental advantages to burning ethanol. However his son is a very wealthy Nebraska corn farmer who disagrees with him.— March 4, 2008 12:47 p.m.
Aguirre To Announce Wednesday That He Will Run for Second Term
Response to post #5: Mike is going to continue to have to fight the fire breathing Davies dragons in an impossible dream as long as the courts remain "influenced" by money and politics that threaten the rule of law. In this mornings U-T San Diego column "Mayor to continue choosing auditor" there was a quote "Norma Damashek, president of the local League of Women Voters, complained that mayoral involvement in auditor selection is a 'standing invitation to corruption and abuse, the last thing this city needs.'" Too late, the corruption already exists in case the SDLWV hasn't noticed. San Diego is screwed as of today, hopefully the voters will wake up in time, especially the Reader's young voters who still have a chance to solve the problems created by the older generations who voted like lemmings for whatever the U-T "Ballot Recommendations" told them to vote for.— March 4, 2008 12:16 p.m.
San Diego is not overbuilt in housing
Response to post #24: Hmmm, Buffett is 77 and has an incredible brain for details, common sense and decisions, so maybe salt is good for the brain. Need to check that theory out with Edelman's Neurosciences Institute.— March 4, 2008 2:28 a.m.
Aguirre To Announce Wednesday That He Will Run for Second Term
Response to post #2: Would a special Reader cover graphic depicting Aguirre to the rescue of San Diego from the ruling establishment dark forces be possible? Like using a flamethrower to fight back against Davies/U-T tyranny and avarice, sending them back into fires of hell where they come from, or something Wagnerian.— March 4, 2008 2:11 a.m.
Municipal Bond Market Chaotic as City Council Looks at 2005 Financial Report
---- And the Davies corruption machine continues full speed ahead, to hell with the consequences to the people of San Diego as long as the courts continue to grant them impunity to maintain their ruling class lifestyle of tyranny and avarice at the expense of San Diego taxpayers and citizens. Think the U-T will admit their motto: "America's Future Third World City, Coming Soon!"?— March 3, 2008 12:32 p.m.
San Diego is not overbuilt in housing
Response to post #22: Watched Buffett on CNBC this morning, and he said "by a 'common sense definition' the U.S. economy is already in a recession, current conditions are 'nothing like' the downturn of 1973 and 1974, he's waiting for when stocks become 'very cheap,' best opportunities he sees right now are in bonds rather than stocks, and each generation will live better than the one before it." In perspective, he actually made me feel better about most things, however he did confirm my concern for something that should be obvious to everyone, that this is an era of decreasing natural resources plus increasing population and competition for resources. And he did worry me about one thing, he uses too much salt on his food.— March 3, 2008 12:20 p.m.
San Diego Unemployment Rises to 5.1 Percent in January; County Loses 26,200 Jobs
Response to post #6: Thus the only conclusion all this is leading to is that the Davies forces are destroying America's Finest City so they can produce a 21st century version of slave labor to satisfy their lusts for tyranny and avarice by turning San Diego into America's Third World Village.— March 3, 2008 3:05 a.m.