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Canadian Newspaper Company Looking at Union-Tribune; Would Take Advantage of Strong "Loonie"
Priceless! U-T Editorials should be referred to as “The Loonie Bin” But the sad reality is that San Diego U-T “The Loonie Bin” Editorials have created a leadership vacuum to serve the purposes of the The U-T Establishment which has the motto: Of The Establishment, By The Establishment and For The Establishment. So The Establishment continues to dictate the future of San Diego to suit their own purpose of maximizing their avarice regardless of how many People die and property burn in San Diego Firestorms which have become iconic representing the current era of crashing and burning San Diego. Like it or not, regardless of the current state of the U-T, The Establishment still rules San Diego through “The Loonie Bin” and their phalanx of corrupt judges who overrule social, political and economic progress in San Diego until the San Diego electorate decides to fight back and restore democracy in San Diego, first by taking back our courts to support the fundamental American concept of Freedom and Justice For All once again. http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edit…— August 25, 2008 4:05 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #215: Agreed, far too many things are threatening, and devastating our welfare and future. It's the age-old story of the Establishment vs. the People where the vast majority of people watch helplessly while others argue endlessly and defeat each other’s efforts to accomplish anything that will make the right things happen in time. As of today the Bloodsuckers you write about control the playing field, the game and our future while the courts keep giving them the ball and all the money they can steal. And our local, state and federal governments keep making the wrong things happen while the people are shoved over the precipice into a whole new economy that offers far fewer opportunities and far less wealth for the vast majority of people.— August 22, 2008 3:12 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #211: Are you saying that reliable energy supply is not an extremely important requirement for the economic future of San Diego?— August 21, 2008 12:34 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to posts #208 & 209: Don, we have had nuclear powered U.S. Navy carriers and subs in San Diego for many decades with no major problems. The reality is that we are at a tipping point where our economic future is in unacceptable jeopardy for reliable power and clean water and the time to act is past due. It’s time to stop this endless arguing with people who deny reality or kiss our economy and clean water supply goodbye forever because the culture of corruption in San Diego has used up all the surplus we may have had in this era of rapidly diminishing resources and globalization. Lamar Alexander has a plan that must be taken seriously http://www.lamaralexander.com/index.cfm?Fuseactio… The bottom line to all this today, that is much more important than Spinrise and City Hall, is that history and current events prove the future is hopeless without positive action leadership like that of our Founding Fathers. We just don’t have the right leadership culture in America today to protect what the Founding Fathers created anymore. All I can say that is truly positive today is Thank God for the American Military and our public safety personnel who still maintain highest cultural values of Honor and Integrity, at increasing risk to their lives, and they have protected us from ourselves and all those who threaten our way of life continuously since the Revolutionary War. Their dedication and sacrifices are what enabled every good thing that has happened in American history, and in spite of the failures of the vast majority of our political, economic and social leaders. It cannot be overly emphasized that the dominant NORC culture today continues to surrender without a fight, negating the concept “Of The People, By The People and For The People.”— August 21, 2008 11:58 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #203: “If this goes all the way back to primitive societies, we're in real trouble. The corruption is in our genes.” That summarizes it about as succinctly as you can Don. Add to that the dominant character traits of avarice and lust for power leading to inevitable failures in leadership along with never-ending failures by the peoples themselves to deal with protecting our own future, setting ourselves up for decline and fall every time. So as things stand in San Diego today, the cultural failures at City Hall, Sempra, by the Establishment, our Politicians and Judges at all levels of government along with the overwhelming majority being NORCers who prefer to watch, argue and do nothing, we are doing it to us again. We are truly the most self-destructive species on earth and haven’t evolved since the first structured group of people with a hierarchy because we keep defaulting to the mob mode. There simply is no long-term positive solution without intellectual and political leadership that makes the right things happen for everyone in society, and history proves this to be the ultimate impossible dream over and over again.— August 21, 2008 2:31 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #199: "Things haven't changed." Actually Don, things haven't changed since about 3000 BC when people started living in very large groups, in structured societies with hierarchies. Today in San Diego, hierarchies with the likes of Sanders and Felsinger as “leaders” have put us in the self-destruct mode with one major consequence of their failures in leadership and social responsibility being firestorms with deaths and destruction, along with energy crises, public safety and many other social breakdown problems. San Diego has far too many “leaders” like Sanders and Felsinger who are ready, willing and able to sell out the future of San Diego to satisfy short term lusts for power and wealth at the expense of the citizens. Again, what most enables this over the precipice scenario is the fact that our judges have sold out democracy to money and politics and sold out the Rule of Law, but this is a failure mode problem with all courts throughout America today per former Justice Sandra O’Connor. Accelerating all these causes of decay is the fact that our intellectual leadership has failed to meet the challenges of change, due to failures in character, morals and economics, causing failures in government, education, societies and religions. However, at the bottom of our real world hierarchy (in a true democracy We The People should have been at the top) is the NORC culture that refuses to fight back even though we were the best educated people with the been opportunities in history.— August 20, 2008 1:07 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #195: “--- how else will we get the pols behind bars? The judges will never put them there” ANSWER: As you know better than I Don, the truth is that if the judges put the pols behind bars they would have to put themselves behind bars for the same reasons. This Spinrise scenario never ends, the latest chapter was updated in the U-T this morning which reported on Sempra’s never-ending lies to the CPUC, one of Felsinger’s cultural values as Chief Fleecing Officer. Kind of reminds us of the days when Peevey was SCE CEO and he lied to the CPUC about corrupt accounting practices that eliminated SCE from taking over SDG&E. The culture never changes, especially since Peevey was then given control of the CPUC from that brain-dead Gov. Davis. But the thought comes up, could this CPUC “investigation” actually be some kind of payback by Peevey to Sempra executives who are still hanging around from the Tom Page days that he still holds a grudge against?— August 20, 2008 12:20 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #192: My answer is an overwhelming Hell No. I love our zoo, and I wouldn't want the world's best collection of animals to have to live with the failures of humanity. Back to Spinrise and Sempra, this is one of the most important blogs you have ever had because Sempra has a major impact on the economic success or failure of San Diego. And the 2000 San Diego Energy Crisis proved that Sempra executives do not give a damn about San Diego when it comes to their choices between satisfying their personal lusts for power and greed or the good of the community. This is why I keep going into the subjects of evolutionary biology, the nature/character of man, and most importantly the lessons of history. Thus I have focused on Don Felsinger and his megalomaniac personality, because as CEO/COB he is the #1 executive at Sempra who defines and is the role model for their culture, and when he fails to support San Diego families then San Diego goes into the failure mode. To put it as succinctly as I can, Felsinger has failed the tests of personal integrity and morals, and like most corporate CEO/COBs who thrive on avarice Felsinger believes that the rules of society that apply to normal people do not apply to him. To protect his lusts he has a phalanx of lawyers, an archaic CPUC culture and court judges to exempt him from public oversight so he can get away with actions that most frequently have consequences detrimental to the economic future of San Diego ratepayers. Come to think of it, Mayor Sanders is very similar to Felsinger, which makes the future of San Diego for all families extremely problematic when we have two megalomaniacs like them taking actions that have the potential to destroy our community. For example, failures in leadership at Sempra cause energy and economic crises and our mayors have caused firestorms to get out of control with totally unacceptable consequences in both cases. The bottom line is that we live in an age where individual avarice can destroy the community, but historically this is not a new fact of life at all. San Diego thrived most wonderfully during the post WWII era when we enjoyed the legacy provided us by the Greatest Generation. But sometime between the Viet Nam War and the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster the San Diego establishment and their puppeticians led San Diego into an age of decay. So the question you asked really should be, are we going to continue to let the likes of Baum, Felsinger, Murphy and Sanders continue to destroy San Diego or make their kind an extinct species in San Diego that will be displayed as future exhibits in the San Diego Natural History Museum and/or the Museum of Man?— August 19, 2008 2:07 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #189 &190: Another way to look at it is that San Diego politicians have proven that increased brain size makes no difference when the brain that "evolves?" is dysfunctional. All Homo sapiens history proves is that brain size is no improvement since chaos has been the most frequent consequence when intellectual and political leadership fails repeatedly to think, plan and act to head off threats in time to prevent various economic, social and political tipping points from toppling. So today, one more time, the increasing disparity of fortune and equality between the rich and the poor is producing one more worst-case scenario. And NORCers are enabling these failures even though we are supposedly better educated than ever before and having had better opportunities than ever before up until the recent declines that is, so San Diego politicians and Sempra executives’ avarice accelerate the decline of San Diego as NORCers watch and do nothing to fight back in time to even save themselves. We are giving gives evolution a bad reputation.— August 18, 2008 11:06 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #185: So here we are, continuing to devolve and argue ad nauseam without thinking and planning ahead while politicians continue to burn more people and property and Sempra executives keep maximizing their profits by selling out the future of San Diego, as we go over the precipice of history as Homo erectus/neanderthalensis v.21c. At least you get to enjoy the evolving lifestyle of apres-ski living in Colorado while those of us you left behind in San Diego continuing to suck up what is left of your Colorado river and build transmission lines all around you to get your fossil fuel burning power. It's Ride of the Valkyries listening time.— August 18, 2008 2:25 a.m.