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Scott Kessler works with FBI investigating Marco Li Mandri
Response to post #20: Don, FYI: One more Strong Mayor Death occurred today as a result of "Nero" Sanders' lust for fire since his 2007 Firestorm deaths exposed him for what he really is. As your Blog keeps proving almost daily, "Nero" Sanders' greatest legacy continues to be the destruction of quality of life for all San Diego families so that the GOP can satisfy their most maniacal dreams (nightmares for everyone else who lives here) of power and avarice regardless of how much death, destruction, disease they cause: "Fatal Fire Highlights Brownout Issue: Union President" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35951419— March 19, 2010 3:57 p.m.
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Response to post #9: You're right, the costs of living escalated by San Diego Republican Establishment corruption that you expose almost every day should be enough to keep most retirees from moving here. Sure looks like I caused a lot of radical right wingers to rise up and defend the corrupt republican establishment against my charge: "GOP voters are now exposed for all to see as totally subservient to the interests of the richest and most “socially developed” GOP Aristocracy while they promote their 1st GOP Commandment that the poor and the weak must be multiplied, neglected and exploited, forced to fend for themselves even if this means suffering and death, classical Social Darwinism." Too bad there aren't more voters around to fight back against San Diego Establishment corruption like you do. But that explains why we have three corrupt Puppet-Mayors in a row with more still to come until Scam Diego sinks into the cesspool of republican corruption.— March 4, 2010 12:46 p.m.
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Response to posts 2 & 3 Rocket_J_Squirrel admitted on another post: "I was just released from the "Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Room" at CMH (County Mental Health - on Rosecrans St.) this morning.." I can only assume that PistolPete is your roommate. I used the rhetoric preferred by your TeaBagger culture so that you would understand and it appears to have worked.— March 3, 2010 2:31 p.m.
Mayor Sanders joins Marco LiMandri against conflict charges
Awesome investigative reporting again Don. So the San Diego Cesspool of GOP Establishment corruption continues to get larger and deeper due to the new GOP culture of Social Darwinism where the San Diego GOP Establishment wealthy get richer and richer at the expense of the taxpayers, while the poor multiply, are neglected and exploited, and forced to fend for ourselves. Maybe an earthquake will cause a cesspool tsunami that will drown San Diego politicians in their own sewage.— March 3, 2010 1:45 p.m.
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Unfortunately Don, the La Jolla GOP culture of Gentlemen’s Agreement hate is back again. And today they have turned UCSD into a KKK cultural haven of racial hatred enabled by the arrogant, indolent and incompetent Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, destroying California's educational advantage of the last century. But throughout America, as well as in San Diego there has been a major increase in reports of GOP’s paramount culture of KKK type Social Darwinism today. For instance, over the last week or so senate republicans all hid behind Senator Bunning while he made every effort to block unemployment benefits for Americans in greatest need due to economic betrayals of America during this entire new century, continuing from the era of Bush-Cheney-GOP Autocracy in Washington. And the new GOP-KKK Tea Party is the American version of Qaeda that is their worst case scenario of Social Darwinism to start this new century. GOP voters are now exposed for all to see as totally subservient to the interests of the richest and most “socially developed” GOP Aristocracy while they promote their 1st GOP Commandment that the poor and the weak must be multiplied, neglected and exploited, forced to fend for themselves even if this means suffering and death, classical Social Darwinism. And San Diego's string of GOP Establishment Puppet-Mayors Golding, Murphy and Sanders use Herbert Spencer as their role model— March 3, 2010 1:26 p.m.
U.S. has too much debt
Response to post #34: Interesting History of economics lesson, especially the Bottom Line: "We institutionalized greed and gluttony in the name of "economics." I like reading your blog because it stimulates my thinking about what is really going on, and most of all I keep looking for a better idea to get us off of this path of self-destruction we are on so our grandchildren can have more to look forward to and enjoy than our generation was privileged to experience. I agree wholeheartedly that "The voters must take the blame ultimately" because making sure our Democracy works is our greatest responsibility as citizens, and we have allowed both political parties to betray Democracy to the point where Washington is in chaos today while American voters are allowing them to get away with their threats to Democracy at our peril. The real hell of it is that our universities and religions that were supposed to teach us how to live responsibly and morally have failed, but I'll reading and looking for a better idea to help us save us from ourselves.— March 1, 2010 11:40 a.m.
U.S. has too much debt
Don, this is most certainly one of your most important blogs, i.e. highlighting "Too Much Debt, Too Few Jobs" but great investigative reporters like yourself just keep proving that most of us do not really care to think about protecting ourselves from unacceptable consequences of our actions. These consequences are due to our excessive cultural desires to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, and excessive desire for wealth or power. Universities and religions have failed to motivate us to learn from and apply the lessons of history, especially the paramount imperative of morality to prevent the hellacious consequences of greed that we keep experiencing over and over again.— February 28, 2010 11:46 a.m.
U.S. has too much debt
Response to post #10: Focus especially on the President Eisenhower's concluding comment: “We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and all the other criminal Neocons have proved every grave warning Ike gave us to be true. You might want to reread "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" because the Neocons are fooling far too many people into political, economic and social chaos once again. No one knew better about the realities of that fact than former General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower who saved the world from the role models the Neocons use today. Too many voters in America are willing to raise the "We Surrender" White Flag without a fight, like the Chargers did in their last game, and San Diego voters have been doing for decades. "Too Much Debt, Too Few Jobs" are just two of the totally unacceptable consequences we are experiencing because of this.— February 26, 2010 10:48 a.m.
U.S. has too much debt
Response to post #9: You might consider focusing on the fact that Sanders' threats to public health and safety are the worst case scenario threats all of our families are experiencing with far too many, increasing deaths, pollution, and violence so far under Sanders who has even exceeded the threat legacy passed on by Murphy. This is a situation that continues to get totally unacceptable as Sanders and the Establishment keep fooling far too many idiot San Diego voters all of the time.— February 26, 2010 10:39 a.m.
U.S. has too much debt
Response to post #8: One of the problems we have is that good people give far too much of the benefit of the doubt to really bad people, frequently until it is too late. Think about the fact that Bush had command of the CIA, FBI and U.S. Armed Forces for eight years and never killed bin Laden even though he bombed terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan and Pakistan with impunity for eight years. We are told that bin Laden was an outcast, but we have been told eight years, and counting, of total lies and propaganda and I do not believe a word that Neocons like Bush, Cheney et al. have dumped on us until we are suffocating in it. You can believe what you wish, it's a free country, but you had better start accepting the absolute fact that Neocons have been doing their best to take away our freedoms for over eight years, including using the Supreme Court to overthrow the Rule of Law, the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution.— February 26, 2010 10:34 a.m.