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Union-Tribune's New Buyout Program Suggests the Company May Be Bought Out Soon, and May Be in Cash Flow Squeeze
Response to post #40: “Can you imagine we could have a VP who believes in teaching creationism in the public schools?” Doesn’t matter Don, Palin is a Trophy VP dream come true for McCain to go with his Trophy second wife. It has been observed that the Hillary PUMAs are going to deliver their "vagina vote" to Palin while Bill who dearly wishes he’d thought of someone like Palin for his VP will deliver his pecker vote. Meanwhile, since this blog was originally dedicated to the latest U-T events, Kittle has been going through his personal collection of Der Sturmer archives to upgrade them for his anti-Obama Rantitorials, in addition to his never-ending Anti-Aguirre Rantitorials, so he can fire up the U-T Establishment Racist vote as an update of the Copley La Jolla Gentleman's Agreement era. I hate to be the one to tell you this Don, but it has apparently been discovered that Goebbels is Kittle’s patron saint, which is why Kittle goosesteps around his office all day long listening to Wagner on his iPod so he doesn’t have to communicate with anyone in the real world.— September 1, 2008 2:50 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 #35: Somehow that doesn't make me feel any better at all Don, because I live in San Diego where we have far too many republicans who are brain-dead and vote for Firestorm Sanders while the democrats go PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) or whatever the political insanity of the moment offers them to self-destruct. So right now, I just hope that the democrats don't screw a sure thing up again, more than they did in 2000 and 2004. People should be mad as hell at McCain-Bush, but the democrats have a hideous track record at self-destruction (e.g. Clinton, Gore, Kerry), always more than ready, willing and disabled to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory over and over and over again. And with brain-dead republicans spread across America who are just as brain-dead as San Diego republicans, the democrats keep proving they can at least be brain-deader when it comes to failing to get out the vote, and party disunity.— August 31, 2008 3:44 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 #28: "But the local press (primarily the U-T, but also TV) made that failed mayor out to be a hero, and a naive citizenry apparently bought into it." I rest my case, the U-T still has power over the brain-dead/naive minds of far too many San Diegans. It's as if San Diegans have a death wish, or want to watch firestorms destroying other people and property on TV for entertainment, or both. Only in a democracy can We The People actually vote to kill themselves by electing and re-electing puppeticians like Sanders, Murphy and Golding. It's really not looking so good for the survival of the human race if San Diego voters truly represent our failure to evolve with enough intelligence to keep from making ourselves extinct.— August 31, 2008 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 #18: The U-T’s failure is symptomatic of the failure of San Diego. As you report continuously the U-T establishment, enabled by their politicians and judges, has plundered everything they could get their hands on while the electorate watched and did nothing, looked the other way, aided and abetted the sacking of San Diego. It’s as simple as that, the elections of Golding, Murphy and Sanders empowered the establishment to loot the treasury creating conditions for firestorms that have destroyed far too many lives and far too much property, proving that not enough San Diegans have really cared about San Diego for a very long time. You can't get more violent than electing politicians who allow firestorms to destroy lives and property twice in this century so far, yet we allow those politicians and judges to continue in office, whose actions and inactions destroy lives and property with impunity, never having to accept responsibility or be held accountable.— August 31, 2008 5:03 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 #16: "Have a happy weekend."!( Thank god for college football or I would be left without a diversion from you and Dr. Doom: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/magazine/17pess…— August 30, 2008 11:25 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 #14: Don, “Scam Diego” has become an excellent archive for a far future archeological dig in San Diego by some much more intelligent lifeform that lands here to find out what happened. It appears that there is much more to come on the evolving “One big worry: the PBGC is like the San Diego pension fund: liabilities swamp assets” scenario. So Stay Tuned to Don Bauder’s “Scam Diego” everyone because it has become one of the best Blogs in America, focusing on the decline and fall of 92101 and becoming one of the many concluding chapters documenting the Golden Age of American Civilization.— August 30, 2008 3:42 a.m.
Canadian Newspaper Company Looking at Union-Tribune; Would Take Advantage of Strong "Loonie"
Response to posts #12 & 14: You bring up very good points Visduh, but the reality is that there are still enough brain-dead establishment sycophants subscribing to the U-T and marching to the “Ballot Recommendation” orders to get candidates like Sanders re-elected. That is the major problem that has perpetuated the continuous decline and fall of the San Diego economy under Golding, Murphy and now under Sanders, with firestorms being the worst case scenario consequence of their failures to provide and coordinate fire resources, because they are never even held responsible and accountable for the death and destruction they cause as long as the Establishment controls the courts. You are most correct about apathy, which Don has also pointed out many times. The reality is that the quantity and quality of water flowing from our faucets is constantly threatened because of apathy. Any San Diegan who does not have at least a kitchen sink filtration system for their drinking and cooking water is at grave risk today because politicians won’t be held responsible and accountable for public health and safety failures as long as the Establishment rules. You are also most correct about the democrats. It is the democrats who have enabled the republicans to get away with destruction of the American way of life at local, state and federal levels. The bottom line today is that the democrats are just as great a threat to American Democracy as the republicans. The Reader must do more than “honest reporting,” you must motivate their readers to take actions to end the era of Establishment rule over San Diego before time runs out to keep San Diego-Tijuana from becoming a third world city-state.— August 26, 2008 4:16 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #224: "As you an see, however, there has been plenty of controversy --- But is the controversy over? ---" Never-ending, do nothing but argue "controversy" is a root cause problem we must overcome in our society today if we are going to prevent further destruction of the San Diego economy by predatory Sempra executives, and we don’t have time on our side at all anymore. Sempra executives, like politicians, are never held accountable for their threats and actions against ratepayers and families in San Diego, and that is the second greatest problem because Sempra executive bloodsuckers are always protected by the establishment courts and CPUC while the families of San Diego suffer the consequences of their failures at increasingly unacceptable, out of control levels. So we’re screwed and as unacceptable consequences have continued to prove since the 2000 San Diego Energy Crisis, there is no way to stop Sempra executives like Felsinger from continuing to destroy the future of San Diego.— August 26, 2008 3:48 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #216: I submit a better reference because the subjects of: 1. Eliminating fossil fuel burning power plants as soon as possible, and 2. Building power plants combined with desalination plants that will guarantee clean water supply for San Diego and California as soon as possible are much too important to let go of because we continue to accelerate toward too many Tipping Points because existing solutions being implemented are not nearly adequate and timely enough to get the job done in time to prevent unacceptable environmental, health, safety, economic and social breakdowns from getting too far out of control. Hopefully the “National Geographic” is not considered an incendiary political source, so I recommend reading: “Powering the Future” National Geographic August 2005 Cover Story, pages 2-31: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0508/featur… (I strongly urge you to read the actual cover story in a personal or library copy of August 2005 National Geographic because there is far more information, especially graphics to compare the choices.) Needless to say, the ongoing Spinrise, rate increase and many other never-ending controversies keep proving the paramount cultural failure of Sempra executives that care more for their own personal wealth than the people they serve. And the courts and CPUC continue to enable Sempra executives to do their bloodsucking best to perpetuate personal avarice while threatening the economy of San Diego.— August 25, 2008 2:22 p.m.
Canadian Newspaper Company Looking at Union-Tribune; Would Take Advantage of Strong "Loonie"
Response to post #9: One would think that The Establishment would want to continue controlling the U-T Loonie Bin Rantitorials so they can at least continue to give marching orders to their brain-dead constituency, especially those who tend to lose their concentration and might forget who to vote for, so they can perpetuate their majority with a list of puppeticians that can be cut out of the paper and taken into the voting booth. I’ll bet many of them actually try to slip the “Ballot Recommendations” into ballot box instead of the ballot, which is why there are monitors in polling places stationed at the ballot boxes by the Republican Party. How else could someone like Bubba the Hutt Sanders have been re-elected after the disaster of his first term where he proved to be as corrupt as Murphy, thus Firestorm Sanders followed in the footsteps of Firestorm Murphy.— August 25, 2008 1:20 p.m.