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Political P.S. to post #23: In the meantime this year, it really would be a very good idea for every eligible voter to vote in this election, especially if you have any personal economic problems as a result of the way politicians in both parties are running or failing to run Washington, Sacramento and San Diego today. Your future depends on voting more than ever before, that is unless we allow the political parties to use their FOWG “superdelegate” smoke filled rooms to force choices against our best interests again. At least kick the GOB Bush republicans and the Clinton democrats out of office, they have screwed up the last 15 years beyond belief.— February 15, 2008 4:19 a.m.
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Response to post #22: Actually Don, we'll become the latest version of Anasazi before it hits 6 degrees. BTW, 6 deg C = 10.8 deg F, and that's the worldwide average. There will be quite a variation depending on how the climate change tipping points interact around the globe, with tectonic changes, etc. Our scientists at SIO, IPCC, etc. have already proven again most recently that their supercomputer models Suck! and they really don’t have a clue about how to predict the next hundred years. They really don’t know how to do chaos theory programming yet. So right now we're proving Harvard evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson’s conclusion that far-off catastrophes, engineered by our own species, are simply out of the range of human capacity for planning and action one last time.— February 15, 2008 4:17 a.m.
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Response to post #18: Seems like the only dependable things left these days are war, greed, profligacy, exclusion and hate, pollution corruption poverty, larceny, failed institutions and deranged rant U-T editorial columns. Did I forget anything? Your readers need to know what the consequences are if they don't kick every politician over 40 out of government, except maybe Obama because Michelle seems like she would be best first lady we will have had since Eleanor Roosevelt.— February 14, 2008 12:56 p.m.
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Response to post #16: Wired magazine this month features a cover story about 33 things that Suck! Science is one of them and they conclude with "In other words, thanks to evolution, half of all Americans don't believe in evolution. That's the universe for you: impersonal, uncaring, and ironic" which proves that both education and science Suck in America. The truth is that science in America has been a fraud for over 50 years with environmental, poverty and too many other problems for humanity getting worse and worse because the scientists are really as fraudulent, corrupt and greedy as our politicians. The overall reality though is that all of our American institutions have failed. Relative to "Six Degrees" again, Sir John Maddox said the just one degree increase in average temperature will cause major unacceptable problems, so God Help anyone left if we get close to six degrees. That is to say, life on earth will Suck more and more and more unless Under 40 Reader demographics voters change things this year by kicking out all over 40 incumbents in both parties, because politicians Suck more than any other segment of our population.— February 14, 2008 11:18 a.m.
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Response to “Dust Bowl Coming?”: One of your best articles ever Don, thanks for the Wake-Up call. I hope people will at least stop watering their damned useless lawns for openers, until that happens nothing will happen in time to prevent totally unacceptable consequences. A major solution, a solution we are fortunate to have because of our ocean proximity, is to build nuclear power and desalination plants along the coast, but science has failed to do anything about nuclear waste products. The worst problem we have that prevents long-term solutions is that our scientific community especially the University of California has failed us. For over half a century the main thing UC scientists have accomplished for humanity is to produce hydrogen bombs for profit, and most recently they sold out their scientific integrity to BP for $500 Million. But it’s not just UC, most noted scientist Freeman Dyson from Princeton said in 1997: “The main social benefit provided by pure science in esoteric fields is to serve as a welfare program for scientists and engineers.” President Eisenhower’s 1961 Farewell Address predicted this. Sir John Maddox, Editor Emeritus of Nature magazine said: “small armies of scientists wil be required to remove persisting uncertainties and to devise effective strategies for the avoidance of calamity --- the rhetoric of survival is not matched by resolution”. Sadly, absolutely nothing on this order of magnitude is happening because all of Washington DC politicians have failed to protect Americans much less humanity. National Geographic Channel aired a documentary “Six Degrees” this week which is one more set of warnings in addition to yours Don. Thus American science has failed to pass the test of humanity for the last half century, failed to accomplish anything beyond making profits to fund their welfare state and satisfy personal greed like defrocked UC President Dynes has, and now they have no credibility when we need it most. Thanks for trying to save San Diego Don along with Aguirre and Frye, keep it up. That's why it is "Time For Total Political Change" as I noted in post #1.— February 14, 2008 2:56 a.m.
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Time For Total Political Change. Under 40 voters, it’s time to takeover control of your own future. Over 40 lemming voters suck, they have failed to protect your future. The Union-Tribune has made all the wrong things happen. The Reader can make the right things happen.— February 13, 2008 12:14 p.m.
University of San Diego law professor Frank Partnoy slams derivatives
Response to post #31: Don't forget to focus on the death and destruction that the "city's power brokers" have caused. The San Diego Power Broker Era of larceny, death, disease and destruction must be brought to an end this year. It is time for The Reader to become the dominant San Diego journal, time to end Union-Tribune corruption that you, Goldborough and Aguirre have exposed.— February 13, 2008 1:36 a.m.
University of San Diego law professor Frank Partnoy slams derivatives
Don, it was in the April 27, 2005 issue of Voice of San Diego when James Goldsborough wrote a column: “San Diego: What Now?” which defines San Diego’s number one political problem that produced San Diego’s Financial Crises: “city's power brokers --- the ‘downtown business community,’ which is euphemism for ‘Republican Party,’ and The San Diego Union-Tribune, a Republican newspaper, has corrupted city democracy.” Don’t forget one defining hellacious consequence of U-T establishment larceny of public funds was when Mayor Murphy refused to continue leasing a helicopter just before the 2003 firestorm, a helicopter that could have prevented some of the fires from getting out of control in the Scripps Ranch and other areas, and this is just one of far too many failures by U-T puppeticians to provide enough resources for firefighters to save lives, protect themselves and property. Since then San Diego has a lot more helicopters even though the establishment puppets CYA’d each other during the 2003 firestorms that more helicopters wouldn’t have helped.— February 12, 2008 12:15 p.m.
University of San Diego law professor Frank Partnoy slams derivatives
Don, I guess what really motivates me most to fight back as aggressively as I can is that the U-T Establishment, which Goldsborough defined in one of his Voice columns by the way, is that too many San Diegans have lost their lives and are at still at unacceptable risk today because of the wholesale larceny by U-T puppeticians (e.g. Golding, Murphy, Sanders) controlled by the establishment who are enabled by too many judges to steal money from public safety funding to the extent that even police and firemen/women in Harm's Way are at unacceptable risk due to lack of resources. And the worst part is that no one even seems to really care, much less remember the excess 2003 and 2007 firestorm deaths anymore because too much got out of control because of too few resources because of U-T Establishment larceny, and now VOU-TE (formerly VOSD) editors are goosestepping right behind U-T editors.— February 12, 2008 11:16 a.m.
University of San Diego law professor Frank Partnoy slams derivatives
Response to post #24: I appreciate your humble opinion of yourself Don, but nevertheless the point I am making is that Voice has most sadly turned into Voice Of "U-T Establishment Corruption" and forfeited all right to claim to be Voice Of "San Diego" that Barbara Bry had created in the first place back in the founding days when Voice still had integrity. After Barbara left, the new U-T sycophant Voice editorial board joined in jackboot step with the U-T editorial board to write the same deranged rants against Aguirre and anyone who dares to challenge their corrupt establishment demagoguery. It is most hideously ironic that the Voice’s most respected columnist from an international journalism perspective is James Goldsborough who was forced to resign from the U-T by the same corrupt parochial establishment which now controls Voice.— February 12, 2008 1:42 a.m.