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Americana from Copley Library Will Be Auctioned in New York
The ongoing sale of artifacts from the crashing and burning of the Copley empire appears to run parallel to the decline and fall of the San Diego. Seems to be something Greco-Roman and/or Wagnerian about all this. Don, this is an opportunity for you and your colleagues to write an Old Globe play or Symphony Hall musical to immortalize the 20th century history of the Rise and Fall of Copley San Diego.— January 18, 2010 3:59 a.m.
U-T Cites Improvement, May Hire 25 Part-Timers
Response to post #10: I guess you just proved my point: "--- things haven’t changed much ---" The Establishment still rules the U-T, and the SDGOP version of Enron by the Sea still drowns San Diegans further and further into the sewerwater of the corrupt SDGOP politics of betrayal against the people of San Diego for the benefit of the bloodsuckers. The culture of betrayal just keeps being perpetuated by a never-ending succession of sycophant U-T/SDGOP Mayors: Golding to Murphy to Sanders— January 16, 2010 1:09 p.m.
U-T Cites Improvement, May Hire 25 Part-Timers
This mornings edition tends to show that things haven’t changed much when it comes to covering up for “Flim-Flam Man” Sanders. The front page featured a “major” story on restoring the Balboa Park Plaza to the 1915 plaza state and getting rid of the parking. I agree with restoring the plaza for 2015, but why was it put on the Front Page when there was a much more important story of Sanders continued betrayal of San Diegans stuck back in the Our Region section on “City’s first outsourcing move has foreign flavor.” San Diegans desperately need the computer support jobs that that Flim-Flam and the SDGOP continue to “outsource” to India and Communist China. But then after all, Sanders is a republican puppetician first and foremost, and loyalty to San Diegans is certainly not on his priority list, except to shovel more taxpayer monies to bloodsuckers like Spanos, McMillan et al. members of the Establishment. I wonder if the U-T really has changed that much. I was happy to read the "25 Part-Timers" might be hired back though, and hope it is a sign of the recovery of print news.— January 16, 2010 11:17 a.m.
USD's Partnoy Asks Panel Why FBI Mortgage Warning Ignored
Don, just ran across a very interesting article relevant to this discussion, posted by David Corn on Mother Jones: "Thank You, Wall Street. May We Have Another?" http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/financial…— January 15, 2010 5:23 a.m.
USD's Partnoy Asks Panel Why FBI Mortgage Warning Ignored
As if the consequences of failure to heed the FBI Mortgage Warning isn't hideous enough, on Dec 8, 2009 Reuters published another FBI warning that is even graver: BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - "Corruption, whether in the form of crooked officials, financial fraudsters or even philandering sports stars, is tearing at the fabric of U.S. society and is the country's No. 1 criminal threat, a senior FBI agent said on Tuesday." And we in San Diego most certainly have our own personal crooked officials and financial fraudsters like Sanders, Dumanis, Spanos, leaders of the San Diego Republican Party and all the others you expose daily, but no one really cares in San Diego because our brains are rotting from Sanders-Dumanis sewerwater. Since you exposed the fact that SD's Drinking Water is the 9th Worst of Major Cities, one has to wonder if we should even wash our hands in San Diego sewerwater, a fact that crooked officials like Sanders, Dumanis and SDGOP powers that be keep covering up.— January 15, 2010 4:41 a.m.
SD's Drinking Water 9th Worst of Major Cities
Response to post #33: "--- He --- touted the corporate welfare projects such as the expansion of the convention center and $500 million to $750 million of public money for the Chargers. Didn't anybody notice that?" As the title of your column states Don: "SD's Drinking Water 9th Worst of Major Cities" which explains why San Diego republican voters have a zombie mentality. The greatest tragedy for San Diego and future generations is that republican voters can't read and think at the same time, they vote like they are turkeys while TV and drinking Sanders' sewerwater have turned them into zombies.— January 15, 2010 4:20 a.m.
SD's Drinking Water 9th Worst of Major Cities
Response to post #30: "SewerWater" Sanders certainly didn't disappoint those of us who expected more of the same Annual Litany of Lies and Betrayals in his speech yesterday. Corrupt and incompetent republicans like Sanders, Dumanis, Schwarzenegger and Bush have most certainly led San Diego, California and America onto the road to hell already in the 21st century, accelerating poverty, violence, disease and failed quality of life for all except the richest republicans who control their own personal puppeticians like "Kick Everyone In Wheelchairs Down The Qualcomm Stairs" Spanos owns Sanders and Dumanis. How soon do you expect bankruptcy to be beyond Mayor Sewerwater's control? Enron by the Sea is already deeply submerged under sewerwater and sinking faster every day.— January 14, 2010 12:26 p.m.
SD's Drinking Water 9th Worst of Major Cities
Don’t miss Mayor “SewerWater” Sanders 5th Annual Litany of Lies and Betrayals today proving Donna is still right about "Let me tell you, dirty water, dirty politics, it all comes from the same source" and the fact that Mayor SewerWater is the “source.” Mayor SewerWater should have banners featuring the most appropriate City slogan for Enron by the Sea that he has perpetuated: “Never Drink or Wash Hands in San Diego Water” and boil all the rest before using on anything else. Obviously, he has been most successful at what was preached by his and the SDGOP's role models: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”— January 13, 2010 12:10 p.m.
SD's Drinking Water 9th Worst of Major Cities
Response to post #22 As the newest republican role model says, Ya Bethcha. You can see her on Fox tonight if you want to keep up with her deranged rants. As for the sewage in the water "exceeding federal health guidelines and health standards for 10 chemicals, plus 20 pollutants and a specific violation for Coliform bacteria" it is now most obvious after electing 3 republican mayors in a row and Dumanis et al. that the sewage has been frying a lot of San Diego republican voter brains for a long time. Or as Donna Frye stated it so well in July 2006 National Geographic: ""Let me tell you, dirty water, dirty politics, it all comes from the same source." And now we have to drink sewage thanks to Sanders, Dumanis, Murphy and the San Diego republican party. I don't think I'll drink to that.— January 12, 2010 12:26 p.m.
SD's Drinking Water 9th Worst of Major Cities
Response to post #19: In that case Don you're right again about the zombie mentality of San Diegans. We are brain-dead stupid because of the sewer grade water our corrupt republican political establishment is fleecing us into paying for. May God save our children from puppeticians like Dumanis and Sanders because their legacy to our children is one of betrayal.— January 11, 2010 1:05 p.m.