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San Diego is not overbuilt in housing
Response to post #8: Let us pray that the rest of the world will hold itself together until America restructures itself for the new era of globalization. The egregiously destructive greed of Wall Street and Washington that has metastasized throughout America is taking a hideous toll and we are paying the price for our failures in morals and ethics. You might be interested in knowing that Warren Buffett will answer email questions this coming Monday morning at 3am PST March 3, live for three hours from Omaha on CNBC's “Squawk Box” http://www.cnbc.com/id/23359277— March 1, 2008 3:55 a.m.
Real Estate Developers Lining Pols' Pockets for 2008 Elections
Response to post #8: Don, I have always appreciated the excellent investigative reporting you and the Reader have done to expose the out of control corruption of San Diego government that has resulted in hellaciously out of control public safety failures and threats. The Union-Tribune has been abusing their power of the press by producing the most destructive governments in San Diego history. The Reader is the only San Diego journal that uses their power of the press to protect and defend San Diego families by exposing the Davies/U-T forces of destruction. The Reader is the best way we have to “clean up the local judiciary,” lobbyists and their puppeticians. You are doing the citizens a very great favor with your campaign to make the right things happen and I Thank You Very Much.— March 1, 2008 3:34 a.m.
Real Estate Developers Lining Pols' Pockets for 2008 Elections
Response to post #6: That's an excellent idea Don. The paramount problem, and highest priority for making the right things happen, as former Justice O'Conner defined "We must decrease the influence of money and politics on judges" has made it almost impossible to fight back so far considering the hellaciously successful attacks by San Diego’s most corrupt forces against Aguirre for daring to try to champion the people of San Diego. That's why I keep trying so hard to get The Reader to take the lead and champion your readers along with Aguirre, Frye and Francis by taking the fight directly against those who are most corrupt, and most responsible for the hellaciously out of control public saftey consequences we are experiencing. Right now, we only have The Reader to force accountability. We at least need a continuous series of "Brash Cash" exposes of the most powerful corrupt lobbyists, judges and politicians like Davies, Murphy and Sanders.— February 29, 2008 1:33 p.m.
Real Estate Developers Lining Pols' Pockets for 2008 Elections
Don, the pervasive judicial corruption throughout America and San Diego that you and former Justice O’Conner have exposed really appears to be the #1 threat to American Democracy today. Corrupt judges who don’t perform their balance of power function in accordance with the U.S. Constitution, corrupt judges who negate laws and favor exclusivity of the rich and powerful over the rest of society threaten San Diego with massive social instability/chaos as the CPI website information indicates . Until we put destructively corrupt judges such as Dick Murphy in jail San Diego will continue to decline and fall back to the era described in the latest Reader cover story “When Ira Clifton Copley of Aurora, Illinois, first saw San Diego --- in 1891, it was a dingy town on the southern fringe of California, a quick stopover on runs to the Mexican border, a bordello-filled paradise for Pacific Fleet sailors, a dead end for the railroad ---“ As long as San Diego puppeticians are controlled by the likes of “Davies --- one of the most powerful people in San Diego, particularly in the selection of judges” they threaten all San Diego families. And considering the hellaciously destructive public safety consequences we are experiencing today because of pension corruption, judges are Public Enemy #1 in San Diego for allowing it to continue out of control.— February 29, 2008 12:48 p.m.
San Diego is not overbuilt in housing
Response to post #4: Actually it's god help America time right now!— February 29, 2008 4:09 a.m.
Real Estate Developers Lining Pols' Pockets for 2008 Elections
Response to post #2: Talk about Open Sesame, CPI's “Follow the Money” opens the lid over the San Diego political cesspool. But it was most interesting that John Davies doesn’t seem to have contributed anything under his own name to the 2008 election. Current realities make it appear that CPI champions need their own champion like The Reader to chronicle their work loud and clear, along with the work of Aguirre, Frye and Francis in every issue during this election year so that everyone knows they are out there to help us and what they are doing to make the right things happen so we can support them to help us. One root cause of our problems needs eradication though, at the conclusion of “Brash Cash” you wrote ‘San Diegans for City Hall Reform Committee had $36,826.42 in cash. On January 31 of this year, it said its new mission is promoting “accountability, checks and balances in city government.” “That’s a joke — like saying war is peace and black is white. What they want is checks written to themselves and the balances in their checking account,” harrumphs Steve Erie, --- This is the best little town that money can buy.”’ Further toward identifying the root cause, in your “Brash Cash” post #2 you stated “Davies ---is one of the most powerful people in San Diego, particularly in the selection of judges.” Right now it appears that corrupt San Diego judges are defeating all efforts of all honest people in San Diego to end corruption and produce a “fair economy in which economic opportunities are accessible to all and no one who works lives in poverty.” The reality is that when it comes to producing corrupt mayors and judges that San Diego voters are held in check-mate by Davies et al. because we have now had three corrupt mayors in a row with no way to stop Sanders from continuing to destroy San Diego. QUESTION: What do we do to eradicate corrupt judges that are enabling corrupt lobbyists like Davies and corrupt puppeticians like Sanders to destroy San Diego?— February 29, 2008 4:06 a.m.
Real Estate Developers Lining Pols' Pockets for 2008 Elections
At least their "contributions" provide us with a list of who the most corrupt politicians in San Diego are. You might start a follow the special interest money list for us to refer to for each election, it would be a counterpart to the U-T's "Ballot Recommendations" which also provides a list of the most corrupt politicians in San Diego. Just read that for the first time in U.S. history more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison. The way things are going today it seems that number would double if we put all the corrupt politicians, judges and special interests who corrupted them in jail also. Too bad our courts are so corrupt that will never happen even though Justice O'Conner exposed the out of control judicial corruption throughout America from Washington to San Diego.— February 28, 2008 1:11 p.m.
San Diego is not overbuilt in housing
Response to post #2: What worries me most right now is that Bush held a special news conference a couple hours ago to proclaim that he believes the country is not headed into a recession. I really can't remember the last time Bush was right about anything truly important anymore because he has been so hideously wrong so many times. And it sure didn't help the stock market when it sold off after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced there could be some bank failures about the same time that Bush made his "forecast". Is there some kind of a shell game going on here?— February 28, 2008 12:16 p.m.
San Diego is not overbuilt in housing
Re "Normally, consumers pull the U.S. out of a recession." The difference today is that we exported far too much our manufacturing, expertise and jobs to Asia, so there are far fewer consumers producing goods and far too many as a percentage of total jobs producing services. So the debt bomb has exploded, which is at least better than a nuclear bomb. Too bad we couldn’t even keep housing construction growing by building 1000 square foot and smaller dwellings like we used to live in, and the Davies/U-T totalitarian larceny has bankrupt our ability to start a miniWPA to upgrade our rotting infrastructure in the meantime. But that’s what happens with a political leadership vacuum controlled by the money and politics Mob that continue to suck the lifeblood out of a community like a bunch of vampires. There goes Wealth of a Nation, Land of Opportunity, etc. It's only the bogus stats that are keeping us from defining reality today as some hideous combo of recession, inflation, stagflation, whatever, it’s bad right now. Thank God for the U.S. Navy. Especially since too many tech, biotech and telecom opportunities have gone to China and India, giving a whole new meaning to Go West Young Man. Pretty soon San Diego-Tijuana will look like one continuous supervillage. Thanks for ruining my week again with another reality check-update Don, I think I’ll go off in a corner somewhere and study Matt Potter’s cover story history lesson for the week while I’m waiting for Erie’s book to come out.— February 28, 2008 3:26 a.m.
William F. Buckley Dead at 82; In San Diego, He Complained of the Wine's Quality
Response to post #6: Those were most interesting times to be alive Don now that you bring up memories of John Kenneth Galbraith along with Bill Buckley. Ironically I have never forgotten good old Senator Everett Dirksen's comment on porkbarrel spending "a million here, a million there, and pretty soon you've talking real money" on the Huntley-Brinkley Show, and the time when they had TV cameras outside his home recording the marching lobbyists going in and out of his house with brownbags, allegedly. But then they were also the nightmare not fun at all days of Viet Nam produced and directed by two of our previous democrat followed by republican worst case presidents combo Johnson and Nixon, so nothing has really changed with our extension of manifest destiny to “promote and defend democracy throughout the world” to this date. And I still remember Ike warning us about the M-I-G complex (his original draft included Government but it wasn’t PC enough to remain in the final address) and we sure are learning a hard lesson for ignoring that, and now we have former Supreme O’Conner warning us about money and politics corrupting judges through America. Don, is this the decline part, or have we entered the fall phase yet? One thing for sure, if San Diegans don’t pay attention to Don Bauder and The Reader and the Davies/U-T totalitarian state is allowed to continue it won’t be long before the fall state in San Diego. Can’t wait for Erie’s “history” book on that one, to add to my Will and Ariel Durant collection, beside my Hans J. Morgenthau textbook on international relations that all seem to keep repeating.— February 28, 2008 2:54 a.m.