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Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
Don, maybe the ultimate solution is to build electric power transmission lines all over the place to make it totally useless and uglier than ever before just to prove that things can get worse.— September 5, 2008 3:25 a.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
Response to post #16 Re "Speaking as a longtime alien archeologist": Fred, imagine digging up the city dump and wondering why we buried so damned many plastic bags. We really must perform at least one humane act to be remembered by, by filling plastic bags full of Don's columns and blogs to explain what really happened so they'll run for their lives and quarantine Earth in fear of the stupidity plague that might still be loose in the environment.— September 4, 2008 12:45 p.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
Response to post #10: Well, I guess as of today we shall have to wait until Nov. 4 to see if NORC is true or not, and the democrats had better damn well make sure it is not true or else If NORC is true then future alien archeologists shall dig up and find the only thing we did that was truly worthwhile was our classical music.— September 4, 2008 11:24 a.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
Response to post #2: Re: “But it is one of the more corrupt cities in the U.S.” Doesn’t really matter anymore Don, in the overall grand scheme of things that are truly most important corruption has dominated events in all civilizations that have failed before ours for 5000 years proving that corruption and our other self-destructive failure modes such as war and poverty are a way of life for the human race. What really matters far more importantly today is that we now have a whole new set of challenges for humanity that are already out of control with climate change events such as glacial melt, drought, wildfires and storms, and their impacts will have far more unacceptable consequences and impacts on our lives in this century. Don Bauder’s column alone keeps proving that our corrupt legislative and judicial processes are totally unable to even begin to deal with these new events as we continue to burn gasoline and waste water as if there were no consequences that should really motivate us into immediate actions to protect the future even for Gen Y and all generations that may yet survive our failures today. As of last night “Drill Baby Drill!” is our newest motto, and the democratic party is brain-dead in the water overwhelmed by disunity once again.— September 4, 2008 4:28 a.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
Re: “This $2 billion gift in such a short time frame is a perversion of the initiative process. It is a scam. San Diego has never met a developer it doesn’t like.” Imagine that, another U-T Establishment “scam” against We The People of San Diego. Using the initiative/hoax process to scam We The People has become far too easy, and seems to prove that we all have corruption and greed genes wired into our DNA which it is why it is so easy to scam Diegans. Once again, our latest civilization is proving to be no different than all the failed civilizations before us, and we can expect the same results as a result of our wired in ability to self-destruct.— September 3, 2008 12:19 p.m.
Union-Tribune Employees Camp Out All Night in Lobby To Be First in Line To Get Buyout Forms
Response to post #10: OK, next question, the way things are going can the new owners, editors and managers be expected to be even more dishonorable and immoral than the ones you had to work for that have gotten even worse since you retired?— September 3, 2008 11:04 a.m.
Union-Tribune Employees Camp Out All Night in Lobby To Be First in Line To Get Buyout Forms
Don, for many years you have been exposing dishonorable and immoral practices of U-T owners, editors and managers. One wonders why anyone would want to work for such a corporation at all, especially when the U-T has corrupted San Diego politics so hellaciously with consequences of death and destruction. But then, I must also ask why do We The People put up with a culture of dishonor and immorality that runs our federal, state and local governments that have caused so much death and destruction. The truth is that We The People and the Fourth Estate have created the worst governments in the history of civilization and we can expect the same consequences that have occurred so many times before.— September 3, 2008 6:31 a.m.
Union-Tribune's New Buyout Program Suggests the Company May Be Bought Out Soon, and May Be in Cash Flow Squeeze
Response to post #45: "I thought my country could never sink so low." You got that right Don. I started the political part of my life as an “I Like Ike” republican, and I now realize beyond all doubt that after Ike left office things started going down the long road to hell just like Ike predicted in his 1961 Farewell Address to the Nation. Ever since Ike left office republican party leaders have taught me to hate their never-ending lies and U-T Editorials, while the democratic party leaders have taught me that they are not only felony stupid but they are the number one reason that the republicans have been so successful at getting away with destroying American Democracy and the American Way of Life, the most recent examples being the 2000 and 2004 elections along with eight years of total failure by the entire U.S. Congress and Supreme Court to protect American Democracy and American Families. And the way things have gone so far during this new century the republicans may still be able to fool most of the people most of the time at least one more time as we shall see on November 4 as long as the democrats continue on their path of self-destruction. At this point, the only thing to do is pray God Bless America and save us from ourselves.— September 2, 2008 12:13 p.m.
Union-Tribune's New Buyout Program Suggests the Company May Be Bought Out Soon, and May Be in Cash Flow Squeeze
Response to post #44: “It was in either 1984 or Brave New World in which the leadership always had a war going for social control purposes.” Actually McCain seems to have come up with another way to divert attention from the failing GOP wars, failing GOP economy, escalating poverty, etc. with a whole new campaign slogan: “ELECT THE ALASKA STATE BIMBO VPOTUS” Alaska is the first state to have a bimbo as a state symbol, something Nevada wanted to do but was too busy promoting “What Happens In Vegas Stays In Vegas” as their state motto first. Word is that Bill Clinton gave McCain the idea to nominate Palin as his VP because Bill actually wanted to replace VP Gore with Lewinsky to make his affair easier to explain, and since McCain is an expert in bimbos the GOP talking heads are all fighting for TV face time to pronounce McCain’s first presidential decision “As Brilliant As Any Decision Bush Ever Made.” Stay tuned for more Roman Coliseum type activities at the GOP Convention this week programmed to keep our minds off GOP wars, the economy and poverty. Much better than “1984” and “Brave New World” ever imagined.— September 2, 2008 2:10 a.m.
Union-Tribune's New Buyout Program Suggests the Company May Be Bought Out Soon, and May Be in Cash Flow Squeeze
Response to post #42: I agree Don, we must all get very, very serious about any possible continuation of the Neocon Reich, because the consequences of continued democratic failure to take complete control for the White House and Congress in 2008 presents the gravest threat to American Democracy since WWII, as even Ike warned us. I’m sure you have studied the History of Civilizations, there have been about 31 counting ours per Arnold Toynbee’s count and 30 have failed mainly due to two most hideous of humanity destroying reasons, War and Poverty. Guess what we have because of the Neocons today, both War and an accelerating rate of poverty. The number one Neocon poverty control method is to put as many of the increasing numbers of poor in prisons as quickly as possible, while the wealthy Neocons themselves are granted Get Out Of Jail Free entitlements by our Court system today because they can afford to bribe the courts and get away with the same crimes the poor go to jail for. The second Neocon poverty control method is sending the poor off to fight Neocon wars, Korea, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Iraq with Iran next in line if the Neocons can pull it off in the next few months, unless McCain wins then it is a sure thing we’ll get wars without end creating conditions for the end of the American Civilization if the Neocons continue toward achieving their ultimate goal of Neocon Empire.— September 1, 2008 10:56 a.m.