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Copley Selling Casa del Zorro in Borrego, Wants Sale by End of Year
Response to post #17: Let’s see now, correct me if I’m wrong here but wasn’t Copley the biggest newspaper owner-publisher in San Diego when the Gentleman’s Agreement was a dominant cultural value in La Jolla, didn’t Copley dominate the San Diego establishment that included La Jolla real estate and social leaders, etc.? And we’re supposed to believe that it is possible that Copley and his investigative reporters never wondered why Jewish people were excluded from living in La Jolla for decades after the Holocaust was ended in Germany?— December 28, 2007 3:55 a.m.
Copley Selling Casa del Zorro in Borrego, Wants Sale by End of Year
Another historical note is that the U-T Editorial Board looks too much like the Ministry For Enlightenment and Propaganda for very good reason. Copley enabled the La Jolla Gentleman’s Agreement (portrayed in the 1947 film about a journalist played by La Jolla native son Gregory Peck) to continue for decades after the end of the Holocaust until UCSD Founders forced them to stop this most heinous practice so UCSD could hire some to the world’s greatest scientists who didn’t want to be excluded from living in nearby La Jolla.— December 27, 2007 2:18 p.m.
Copley Selling Casa del Zorro in Borrego, Wants Sale by End of Year
Don, my greatest newspaper wish for San Diego is for The Reader owners to buy out the U-T so your young constituency will have a chance to have a stronger voice in deciding their own future instead of special interests and their puppeticians. One of the biggest problems in America today is that all of our institutions except our military have failed to meet the expectations of our Founding Fathers, especially including the Fourth Estate where political editorials have produced too many brain-dead readers who vote for “Ballot Recommendations” without thinking. The military are the only institution with heroic and patriotic men and women who still have the same dedication and integrity as those who won the Revolutionary War and created the United States of America. All other institutions today are like the Tories of 1776 who serve special interests instead of Americans and have betrayed the hopes and dreams of our Founding Fathers. My own personal role model is Thomas Jefferson, and my manual of style is the Declaration of Independence. However it must be said that Jefferson pointed out one of the greatest failures in human nature in that document: “---all experience hath shown, that mankind are most disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” That failure is costing all Americans dearly today. Just over a decade later, Publius et al. wrote “The Federalist” to urge the ratification of the Constitution with the strongest argument being that the check and balance system of the Constitution would create a strong government and still protect states’ rights. Today the check and balance system is in a state of chaos, failing America completely. So it’s time for the Fourth Estate to help make the right things happen again, and The Reader can start in San Diego by serving the best interests of your constituency who need the most help because it is their future that is most important today, a future that is in the grave jeopardy that President Eisenhower predicted in his 1961 Farewell Address to the Nation.— December 26, 2007 12:33 p.m.
Copley Selling Casa del Zorro in Borrego, Wants Sale by End of Year
It's time for The Reader to buy out the U-T and fire the U-T Editorial Ministry For Enlightenment and Propaganda that uses the Dur Sturmer manual of style, jack-booting the editor of the deranged rant editorial page out the door first. Their consequences of their "Ballot Recommendations" puppeticians like Murphy and Sanders have caused too many deaths and destruction by firestorms in San Diego that are all too reminiscent of what happened in nazi germany. Then San Diego can truly have a Happy New Year at last.— December 26, 2007 2:57 a.m.
Does U-T Know $128,000 from $20 Million? Obviously Not
P.S. Having said all that, the real truth is that the U-T is not the root cause of our problems, We The People are the problem. There is only one institution in America today that has not failed to live up to the expectations of our Founders, that institution is the Men and Women of the U.S. Military who protect us from the consequences of failures of all other institutions. The moral and financial bankruptcy of the City of San Diego merely mimics the bankruptcy of We The People. On this Christmas Eve we must be most thankful to and pray for the Heroes and Patriots of our U.S. Military more than ever before because we owe them for everything good that we have left.— December 24, 2007 3:29 p.m.
Does U-T Know $128,000 from $20 Million? Obviously Not
Don, as you said in your "A Million Here, A Million There" column reply earlier today: "I do believe the U-T top brass have known for decades that the paper was deliberately slanting and distorting news to influence local politics. The practice is now worse than it has been in some time." The problem is that your post #24 advice above to: "with media that you believe are doing a public service: take the publication, watch the TV, read and contribute to the blog, etc." options haven't worked either to stop the U-T’s politics of corruption for decades. The only thing that will work is for San Diegans to start voting against all U-T “Ballot Recommendations” politicians, but this is a challenge that even the San Diego GOP failed to overcome when they ran Francis against U-T Puppet-Mayor Sanders. Now with the new total of 27 deaths and 4200 homes lost in 2003 and 2007 firestorms as consequences of U-T corruption that don’t seem to have made any difference to voters either one wonders how many more innocent citizens will have to die or lose their property to make enough citizens vote successfully to eliminate all U-T “Ballot Recommendations” puppeticians?— December 24, 2007 1:08 p.m.
Does U-T Know $128,000 from $20 Million? Obviously Not
Don, your continuous documentation of the forces of evil that are destroying our quality of life provides every family in San Diego with more than enough reasons to say The Lord’s Prayer and the The 23rd Psalm on a daily basis to “deliver us from evil.” Merry Christmas, and Vote Against U-T forces of evil in 2008.— December 24, 2007 5:01 a.m.
City Admits Error, To Include Information on Pension Overpayments in Documents
We are still paying a totally unacceptable price for the consequences of the decade of corruption by the Greer court where all the judges looked the other way while corrupt lawyers and judges ran free. The Greer court spawned their own kind Judge Murphy to become a most corrupt Mayor in San Diego history, and now Sanders is being granted impunity by the court for his business as usual corruption that never ends. 24 dead from firestorms over four years is just part of the price. And The Reader readers are paying an outrageous price.— December 6, 2007 10:13 a.m.
U-T Announces Massive Buyout Plan
Response to posts #31 &32: Thanks for your responses Don. So what can we do? You might consider advising your readers on making the right choices for problems they face like what to consider to find a good job, to obtain education and/or training for a better job, to find an affordable place to rent/lease/buy, to deal with increasing costs of living, to find affordable healthcare, to save/invest money, to deal with corrupt government, etc.— December 6, 2007 4:11 a.m.
City Admits Error, To Include Information on Pension Overpayments in Documents
Yes, Frye and Aguirre are right about "The public has a right to know." And the response from corrupt politicians when they are exposed is always something like "Sanders accused them of political motivation." Unfortunately far too many of our judges are corrupt, they protect their own interests and priveleges by siding with the powers that be like Sanders and Moores far too often. So the public never finds out about how corrupt government and corporate leaders are until it is too late, if ever. And the corruption continues while the public feels helpless, and Frye and Aguirre continue to be demonized by the corrupt establishment, and public safety is threatened even further.— December 6, 2007 4:06 a.m.