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SD's Drinking Water 9th Worst of Major Cities
Responses to posts #10, 15 & 6: Don, your columns have now exposed Bonnie Dumanis as San Diego Public Enemy #1 for leading a rapidly escalating number of SD GOP attacks against citizens civil rights, the Rule of Law, public health and safety, etc. o Dumanis and SD GOP attacks against the civil rights of harmless older female democratic fundraisers using 6 cruisers, a helicopter and a dog. http://www3.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/04/a… o Dumanis and SD GOP attacks against San Diego courts (more proof of why former Justice O’Connor issued an extraordinary, widely disseminated opinion/grave warning about political attacks against the Rule of Law in America today) http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edit… o Dumanis and SD GOP politicians’ attacks against the health and safety of SD children and families by enabling political corruption to make “SD's Drinking Water 9th Worst of Major Cities” exceeding federal health guidelines and health standards for 10 chemicals, plus 20 pollutants and a specific violation for Coliform bacteria. Your columns are proving that Dumanis and the SD GOP are out of control, and the second greatest threat to San Diego families behind bin Laden and the al-Qaeda. Dumanis must be recalled ASAP.— January 10, 2010 6:41 a.m.
SD's Drinking Water 9th Worst of Major Cities
Shouldn't Bonnie Dumanis be arrested by the FBI and charged with enabling political corruption that causes unsafe water to be supplied to San Diego children and families?— January 9, 2010 12:16 p.m.
Taxpayer-Financed Stadiums Bring "Municipal Woes," says NY Times
Response to post #60: The worst part is that the San Diego Republican Party controls Republican San Diego judges who literally get away with murder. The bottom line is that we can't do a thing about getting rid of corrupt republican Federal, State and Local puppeticians until we restore the Rule of Law, which former Justice O'Connor was so gravely concerned about after she retired that she took the incredibly unprecedented step of publishing a widely disseminated opinion in Parade magazine to try to get everyone's attention because far too many Americans are blindly following the deranged teachings neocons like Limbaugh, Palin et al. http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edit… The latest GOP strategy in Washington is to overthrow democratic legislation by taking it before their corrupt majority on the Supreme Court, like the majority allowed Bush to get into office in the first place. Corruption by Greer, Murphy, Dumanis et al. shall never end as long as the SD GOP Rule mindless republicans who vote for whoever they are instructed to vote for like zombies in the "Night of the Living Dead." As things go in San Diego, there is only one Voice that speaks out for We The People and that is the Reader. Time for the Reader to take protecting the future for its readers to a higher level.— January 4, 2010 12:36 p.m.
Taxpayer-Financed Stadiums Bring "Municipal Woes," says NY Times
Response to post #54: "The patriots who gave us the American Revolution and Constitution did just that." Interesting coincidence about your comment on the Constitution Don, this morning Logan Jenkins' column addressed that very subject. His column featured Bonnie Dumanis (who as a former Neocon judge tried to overthrow the Rule of Law as often as she could for political purposes) and now as San Diego's Neocon DA she is still trying to overthrow the Constitution that millions of American Patriots have given their lives to defend. I recommend that you check Jenkins' column out and seriously consider a Feature Blog and Reader Cover story on the subject of San Diego Republican Puppeticians who try to overthrow the Constitution and destroy future quality of life for all San Diegans, thus creating Enron By The Sea that is sinking into the SD Republican Party sewer faster every day: http://www3.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/04/a…— January 4, 2010 11:26 a.m.
Taxpayer-Financed Stadiums Bring "Municipal Woes," says NY Times
P.S. to post #51: Actually Don, we must recognize that the establishment we are fighting against in San Diego is part of the neocon mass movement. Just as we fought against nazi, fascist and communist mass movements in the 20th century, we must now fight against neocons and terrorists in the 21st century. Thus we first need to fully understand what we are really fighting against and how to fight back, a subject discussed in a post-9/11 “Philosophy Now” magazine article “The True Believer Revisited” by Tim Madigan: http://web.archive.org/web/20080108123743/www.phi… One focus proposed by Dr Madigan in this article is: “The best way to fight is to encourage individualism, contrary thinking and a disinclination to follow blindly the teachings of any leaders, no matter how seemingly benign.” No one loves greed, corruption and scamming fellow human beings more than the neocons, and the San Diego republican establishment.— January 2, 2010 4:56 a.m.
Taxpayer-Financed Stadiums Bring "Municipal Woes," says NY Times
Response to post #40: True, but how about turning up the heat against the corrupt republican establishment with a Front Page Headline class weekly feature spotlighting: "respectable people lined up to oppose it" How about featuring conspicuous cover story weekly interviews and/or op-eds by "respectable people" to discuss problems, causes and solutions (pros and cons) to get more San Diegans involved in supporting "respectable people" to overthrow the corrupt Republican Party establishment and toss out the puppet politicians and judges by replacing our elected and appointed republican establishment controlled officials with "respectable people" to end the republican era of Enron by the Sea corruption at last.— January 2, 2010 3:52 a.m.
Taxpayer-Financed Stadiums Bring "Municipal Woes," says NY Times
Response to post #35: "I agree that the Reader is the only medium consistently fighting establishment corruption in San Diego." Don, in your post #8 you recommended "Opponents to this outrageous scam under discussion should start getting respectable people lined up to oppose it, and to explain to San Diegans that the city is broke." Since the Reader "is the only medium consistently fighting establishment corruption in San Diego" it is also the only forum to accomplish your recommendation. Is the Reader willing to provide active support and an official Fight Back San Diego Forum for this purpose?— December 30, 2009 1:35 p.m.
Taxpayer-Financed Stadiums Bring "Municipal Woes," says NY Times
Response to post #29: As I said in post #28: "The Reader is our only hope." The readers of The Reader are most vulnerable to the consequences of the corrupt politics that rule and destroy San Diego today. In post #3 above, I defined the Judas culture that is destroying San Diego, California and America. If we can't come up with a new culture to fight back against the Judas culture, if we can't come up with a new culture to restore the legacy that Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson gave us along with millions of U.S. Military Heroes and Patriots who sacrificed their lives ever since, then we will lose all that is left of the acceptable quality of life in America we had before the end of the 20th century. The Reader is the only news organization in San Diego that is dedicated to fighting back for all families in San Diego.— December 30, 2009 4:55 a.m.
Taxpayer-Financed Stadiums Bring "Municipal Woes," says NY Times
Response to post #16: "I will have to give it some thought." Please give that some of your most serious thought ever, because even the SDLWV has not had nearly enough clout to accomplish their own goals for far too many years. Sad to say that Rep. Susan Davis used to be their President and she has been one of the most useless congresspersons we have ever had, incompetent at even fighting back against the corrupt Republican Judas Club that still controls Washington even though her party has a majority. It would sure help if UCSD Professor Steve Erie would publish his new book on the crashing and burning of San Diego by the San Diego Republican Judas Club with a sense of urgency so we could have something to rally around. But the saddest reality of all is that UCSD is crashing and burning itself due to the welfare state faculty and administration that have failed beyond belief to protect for the needs of California's future much less San Diego's. Sunday's U-T headline article "Scripps at a crosroads" had a most outrageous quote from a most hallowed Scripps scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan worried about the institution’s ability to thrive ‘“I am sort of discouraged about what is happening to education in this state,” said Ramanathan, who advises the federal government and United Nations on climate matters. “If I were a bright young academic looking for a job, I wouldn’t come here.”’ His statement “If I were a bright young academic looking for a job, I wouldn’t come here” certifies the completion of the fall phase of the decline and fall of the University of California. Don, with all due respect, the #1 fact is that you have provided a great deal of the most excellent investigative reporting about the corrupt San Diego Republican Judas Club for us to rally against for decades and I haven't seen any rallies yet. Indeed, The Reader is our only hope.— December 29, 2009 5:29 a.m.
Taxpayer-Financed Stadiums Bring "Municipal Woes," says NY Times
Response to post #8: Don, who would you put on your list of "respectable people --- to explain to San Diegans that the city is broke" and what forum could accomplish this task in a way to get the attention of enough citizens to fight back to overthrow the "establishment" once and for all time? Right now the "establishment" is getting its way because all those who have been fighting back so far haven't found an effective forum that can counter the scams that are perpetuating Enron by the Sea, and we are most certainly starting to slide down the cliff if I read your grave warnings correctly. Can The Reader provide such a forum? We must resurrect something as effective as the "Declaration of Independence" to make the right things happen again, and The Reader is the only forum available to us today to overthrow the "establishment" that has been destroying San Diego for so long. Would you and the The Reader be willing to assume the role and forum that Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson created?— December 28, 2009 4:32 a.m.