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For Obama Sunrise a “poster child” for renewable-energy strategy
Response to Comment #10 & 11: Very well stated position statement gardenparty, and I thank you for your excellent efforts on behalf of the planet. I know your area well and you are truly living in a paradise that is well worth saving, while providing you with the ultimate refuge if society falls apart completely. The fact is that we can argue thoughtful, dedicated and expert positions until we turn blue but the reality is that all of our politicians have failed us completely with just the current wars and economic meltdowns, whereas saving the planet is not yet a high enough priority in this time of great uncertainty when increasing numbers of people are just trying to survive what is happening today. Also well said: “--- blame --- falls squarely on the shoulders of the citizens of California” and America for failing the tests of Democracy is correct; as Pogo said: “We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Us.” And it doesn’t help that politicians that the minority of those eligible to vote keep electing to represent us in Sacramento, San Diego, etc. are deconstructing our education and social protection systems as we trade words between us. Democracy and Rule of Law have damned near returned full circle back to conditions in 6th century BC Athens when Solon tried to come up with the first Democracy to save us from ourselves and political, economic and moral decline. Our founding fathers, and millions of military heroes and patriots who sacrificed everything to protect us ever since, would most certainly barf all over us if they saw what we did to the Democracy they risked everything to protect. Pray that Obama, our great black and white hope, is able to at least bottom out the current decline and fall of yet another Democracy due to failures by We The People.— May 29, 2009 1:14 p.m.
For Obama Sunrise a “poster child” for renewable-energy strategy
Response to Comment #7: gardenparty, I must admit that your response represents the dominant conventional wisdom that will make eliminating fossil fuel generation plants impossible before ongoing climate changes continue to raise atmospheric carbon dioxide to earth changing levels, producing higher global temperatures that will result in reducing our quality of life to unacceptable levels. But the root cause is that we keep electing republican and democratic politicians at federal, state and local levels who keep proving they are totally incapable of making the right things happen to protect quality of life for future generations because special interests like fossil fuel industries and the military-industrial complex still control too much of the campaign funding for far too many incompetent politicians in both parties who enabled our current economic, environmental, education and social problems to be as unacceptably bad as they are today. The reality is that our only hope is that President Obama can change American politics in time to produce and protect an acceptable quality of life for future generations, including the generation that currently reads The Reader. Good Luck to Us.— May 29, 2009 3:16 a.m.
For Obama Sunrise a “poster child” for renewable-energy strategy
Response to Comment #3 gardenparty, all good questions. The paramount fact is that we have no other power generator design that will even begin to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to levels that future human beings will find acceptable to live in, well before the end of this century. Another key fact of life documented in historical geology and evolutionary biology texts is that temperature changes, like those occurring under present carbon dioxide levels will severely threaten the survival at least a major percentage of the human race before the end of this century if we do not start doing the best we can today. The inescapable fact today is that the only existing power plant design that can even begin to generate enough power to significantly reduce the existing atmospheric carbon dioxide pollution level is nuclear fission. I would much prefer fusion energy but our scientific community has been sidetracked by fossil fuel special interests for over 50 years and we can no longer afford to wait for the required discovery that will allow us to build fusion generators instead of fission plants with the required urgency we face today. “How do you propose getting around it???” and “where do propose to get the money to build these plants???”: It really depends on how soon people realize the severely unacceptable consequences our present climate changes are producing to demand the right solutions for eliminating fossil fuel generation, and also begin providing enough water to maintain our quality of life in San Diego. We have no option but to act today. “exactly where along the California coast would you have them built???”: Begin by converting and upgrading existing coastal power plant sites in South Bay, Encina and San Onofre.— May 28, 2009 1:10 p.m.
For Obama Sunrise a “poster child” for renewable-energy strategy
Climate changes have made transmission lines an increasing fire and safety threat that utility executives do not want to spend the money to provide power systems protection, maintenance and inspection to prevent. They simply want to maximize their profits for Sempra at the expense of SDG&E customers’ business costs, life and property by shutting down systems and transferring financially unacceptable losses to their customers regardless of consequences.— May 28, 2009 12:02 p.m.
For Obama Sunrise a “poster child” for renewable-energy strategy
The ultimate solution is nuclear power, fission today then fusion ASAP, built jointly with desalination plants along the coast for desperately needed clean water supplies to continue our quality of life in San Diego. We have had safe nuclear power submarines in San Diego continuously for decades so safety is not an issue at all. All other solutions are obsolete and a waste of precious time, money and resources that we do not have the luxury of using up anymore, especially considering the urgency to eliminate fossil fuel burning plants now. Human nature has proven throughout the history of civilization to be too short sighted, and we are now failing to do anything serious about saving a habitable planet for our future generations, while the greedy take advantage of that human fallibility and continue to pollute our atmosphere and waste increasingly limited resources to maximize short term profits regardless of how unacceptable the consequences shall be beyond their own lifetime. Time is running out and unacceptable decisions continue to be perpetuated by avaricious special interests that control far too many politicians in Washington, California and San Diego. That’s why the world economy is in extremis today, and wars never end.— May 27, 2009 12:50 p.m.
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Response to post 24: Thank you SurfPuppy619. The saddest thing about all this is that humans haven't learned a damned thing about how to get along since before Moses, and even with all the educational information we have been provided by TV for over 50 years we still fail to get along. To this point, the newest National Geographic published last week has a Special Report on "The Global Food Crisis - The End of Plenty - Our hot and hungry world could face a perpetual food crisis" with highlighted statements such as "A surging population to eight Billion by 2025 is the major driver of increased food demand," "We've been consuming more food than farmers have been producing for most of the past decade" and “In an era of tightening food supplies and rising prices, global warming could push the planet beyond its limits." Either science produces some crucial discoveries that we can implement ASAP like nuclear fusion power plants along with desalination, a green revolution and higher food productivity, and population control that is more humane than the never-ending wars because of cultural dominance by such destructive values as hate, greed and power that we have always been experiencing throughout the history of civilization, humanity is well and truly screwed. And politics like the Copleys produced just made things worse, good riddance to that era.— May 17, 2009 12:24 p.m.
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Response to posts #16 thru 22: The “Gentleman's Agreement” in La Jolla, aka “The La Jolla Covenant” is documented in the San Diego Jewish Journal column "The End of Covenant" by Sue Garson http://www.sdjewishjournal.com/stories/jewishnews… There is also at least one book that documents the subject, by Mary Ellen Stratthaus "Flaw In The Jewel: Housing Discrimination Against Jews in La Jolla, California," published in 1996 by the American Jewish Historical Society. The Copley Press was based in La Jolla and published by the Copley family since 1928, and the Copley family has dominated San Diego and La Jolla political, social and economic life ever since. The Copley family most certainly had to know about the La Jolla Covenant, as well as other “Gentleman’s Agreements” throughout San Diego as a fact of life. Interesting that the Copleys employed many investigative reporters during their ownership who all had to know about the “La Jolla Covenant” since it should have been part of their job to know about facts of life in San Diego and La Jolla like the La Jolla Covenant, especially since La Jolla, and San Diego real estate was a major business topic while the covenant existed. But what the Copley reporters and columnists were allowed to do with that information over all these decades has yet to be documented apparently, thus making it most interesting to note read “Since the alleged agreement was unspoken, it was not a subject of cocktail conversation and isn't to this day.”— May 17, 2009 10:25 a.m.
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Response to post #12: Don, I really hate to disagree with the Master, BUT conspicuously displayed in the bottom right hand corner of lead-in page 27 there is a picture of Alec and Sam Gores with the caption: “Alec, on left, is the billionaire brother to Tom Gores. He divorced his wife Lisa after her 2000 affair with Tom.” That is lowest level sensationalism and, I believe your standards of professional investigative reporting are higher than that. That’s sort of like calling the Copleys of “Gentleman’s Agreement” infamy founders of the nazi right wing of the San Diego Republican Party. But then UCSD didn’t take long to bow to the powers that be and force the Father of Molecular Biology Linus Pauling to leave UCSD because he had the audacity to be a humanitarian for which he received one of his two Nobel Prizes, but San Diego Republicans hate his kind of people, and the hideous irony is that UCSD is now most famous for molecular biology. All this most certainly explains the yellow journalism style that dominated U-T Editorials for far too many years. But, back to my original question, aren’t the Gores working with David Black who is the head of Black Press, the Akron Beacon Journal and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin? Doesn’t that association suggest anything to you about the future of the U-T?— May 16, 2009 12:30 p.m.
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Re: Bauder Blog statement: “Everyone should read Matt Potter's superb cover story in this week's Reader” Don, I think you could have done a much more thorough job of investigative reporting on the Gores family. Potter basically trashed the Gores family as if they were a bunch of new era carpetbagger immigrants while forgetting the historical fact that many successful American immigrant families like the Kennedy family have closets full of skeletons including Joe’s business deals with the Nazis before WWII, along with Prescott Bush et al. that is. And don’t ever forget the Copley-La Jolla “Gentleman’s Agreement” to exclude Jews from living in La Jolla for decades after the Holocaust, until UCSD founders forced them to cease and desist. Could you enlighten us on the Gores family investments in other newspapers that might give some additional indication of what their intentions might be?— May 15, 2009 1:46 p.m.
Bauder Back, but Infirm; Expects to Resume Blog Posts, Write Columns Unless Condition Questionable
Get Well Quick Don, San Diego still needs you to save us from our political stupidity. No one knows more about the "skeletons" in San Diego's political closets than you do and we still have a ways to go to purge republican party corruption from the system so we can get started with the job of purging democratic incompetence next and begin the San Diego recovery at last.— May 13, 2009 2:43 p.m.