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Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #181: Thanks for the comment Don. Also, as I mentioned in post #142, San Diego is one of the largest, if not the largest naval station in the world. We have nuclear powered carriers and submarines homeported, visiting, coming and going continuously in San Diego. Our U.S. Navy has an excellent history, going back to the USS Nautilus in 1954, of nuclear power reliability and safety that civilians must now take advantage of to guarantee our own power supply for our long-term future needs. Building nuclear power plants along our coast also gives San Diego the opportunity to build desalination plants to guarantee a clean source of increasingly desperately needed clean water supplies for San Diego's long-term future. But we still have far too many politicians and electorate devolving back to Neanderthals, which is why San Diego have so many, increasingly out of control problems today, no one is thinking or planning and things get more out of control just like with the Neanderthals who became extinct except for those who are making a comeback in GEICO ads.— August 17, 2008 4:05 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #180: Don, the main difference between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens is that Neanderthals didn’t have the ability to think and plan ahead. San Diego has been electing Neanderthals and the classic consequences are the 2003 Murphy Firestorms and the 2007 Sanders Firestorms where San Diego is the only county in Southern California that failed to plan ahead, twice, they failed to coordinate firefighting, failed to organize all the firefighting districts in San Diego. So the rest of Southern California, the Southern California Multi-Agency Coordination Group even failed to invite San Diego representatives to coordinating meetings because there was no single coordinating agency to represent San Diego to participate in organizing emergency mutual aid, dispatching firefighters, engines, aircraft and other resources. You don’t get anymore Neanderthal than San Diego politicians and the San Diego electorate that elects the likes of Murphy and Sanders who use firestorms for photo-ops but have proven to have no leadership, thinking and planning abilities at all, hence the criminally negligent failures to protect lives and property in 2003, and again in 2007. And the NORC culture still prevails about the loss of life and property, as long as it was someone else's life and property that is.— August 17, 2008 3:57 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #177: There you go again Don, setting me up into the invective mode. And to also keep from being accused of saying the same thing over and over again I’ll respond to your comment by restating a new version of Donna Frye’s City Hall characterization published in her National Geographic interview "Let me tell you, dirty water, dirty politics, it all comes from the same source" by stating more succinctly the fact that America’s Finest City is now known as America’s Political Cesspool. But then I noticed that you avoid excessive invective by distancing yourself by about a thousand miles from our City Hall Dungheap, with our Bubba the Hutt mayor sitting on top of the pile, so you wouldn’t risk being downwind. By the way, how much lower are your utility rates in Colorado, just in case your new state has a better way of doing things that we might learn from, if we can ever evolve beyond our Neanderthal mentality that is? And do your politicians and judges know and practice the definitions of honor, integrity, morals and ethics so they could come to San Diego and give seminars to our politicians and judges?— August 17, 2008 11:40 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #174: Indeed Don, it's especially too bad that Professor Wilson's research on human behavior keeps coming up with the same grim conclusions for democracy and mankind. I gave the "Solutions to San Diego's Sempra and Power/Water Supply Problems" back in my post #142, but the fact that San Diego voters keep electing the likes of Golding, Murphy and Sanders proves again what Wilson concludes "Catastrophes engineered by our own species are simply out of the range of human capacity for planning and action" is all too true once again in San Diego. And we are allowing ourselves to be lead over the "precipice" once again due to the self destructive DNA in homo sapiens that never evolved far enough to overcome the neanderthal failure mode.— August 17, 2008 3:40 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
QUESTION: Where the hell is our outrage? (Lee Iacocca, “Where Have All the Leaders Gone”) ANSWER: Catastrophes engineered by our own species are simply out of the range of human capacity for planning and action. It doesn't matter that that evolutionary process may be leading an entire species to the precipice. Human beings have a hard time reasoning why they should care what might come about years hence. (Edward O. Wilson, Harvard evolutionary biologist) ULTIMATE TRUTH: Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you thought. Make time for what matters --- Family (Randy Pausch, “The Last Lecture”)— August 16, 2008 11:08 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
P.S. Response to post #153: EUREKA! It appears I finally got some people to be outraged at last, and even though it was directed at me it’s a beginning. So I’ll keep trying to build on that, even though it takes invective to get a point over as you yourself do sometimes when you really get wound up fighting back against the roots of San Diego evil like Moores and Davies. Again, sorry if you were discommoded in any way by anything I said that you disagreed with, but we are both forced to use invective to incur outrage to wake up the NORCers who find it far more comfortable to look the other way, away from the crashing and burning of San Diego than fight back against corruption themselves. However I guess it's far more fun to reminisce about Elvis than fight back against Sempra because the track record of failure to protect the ratepayers and taxpayers of San Diego is too miserable to reminisce about.— August 15, 2008 8:53 p.m.
San Diego Continues Losing Jobs; Unemployment Rate in July Was 6.4 Percent, Above Nation's 6.0 Percent
Response to post #4: Don't forget that we are the 12th highest taxed population in America, our schools post notoriously low test scores and violent crime has been out of control for far too many years because of failures in San Diego, Sacramento and Washington political leadership. That's the kind of failure that has caused democracies to fail before, so when we add to failures of Wall Street and Main Street to support American Democracy we are in a failure mode scenario for certain. We can start by making changes locally, like recalling the Establishment's Puppetmayor Sanders, electing Frye as Mayor to replace him ASAP and re-electing Aguirre putting the courts on notice that we are outraged with what is going wrong in San Diego because of the failures in judicial leadership to protect San Diegans from far too many totally unacceptable consequences of corruption that increasingly threaten every family in San Diego. There are a monumental number of problems in America today, but we must at least begin fighting back at the grass roots level here in San Diego and then work our way up the chain of corruption.— August 15, 2008 8:28 p.m.
San Diego Continues Losing Jobs; Unemployment Rate in July Was 6.4 Percent, Above Nation's 6.0 Percent
Response to post #2: Except that actions by the San Diego businessmen and their puppets that you expose ceaselessly have a major negative impact on the local economy because their avarice dominates everything, e.g., the consequences of acts of corruption by Moores, McMillan, Sanders et al. have created so many negative consequences that the San Diego economy is now tanking faster than the national economy in many respects. If we can stop them by supporting actions by Aguirre and Frye more aggressively we can begin turning around some of the home grown damages created by local Bloodsuckers.— August 15, 2008 1:06 p.m.
San Diego Continues Losing Jobs; Unemployment Rate in July Was 6.4 Percent, Above Nation's 6.0 Percent
Re: Transfer of my comment from “Spinrise” #155: “So thanks to the NORCers we have out of control inflation as reported in the news this morning and lost opportunities exported to other countries for the sake of short term profit and immediate gratification of avarice.” This new column provides another of your reality checks of the fact that too few people refuse to fight back and now the consequences of their inaction are documented in this latest column in addition to your "Face Facts" column on Wednesday with Alan Gin's reality check “I see continued weakness through the end of this year and probably through the first half of 2009. There is no sign of a turnaround; the problems could continue beyond that,” in addition to the inflation news in the U-T and L.A. Times this morning. I always wish that you would be successful at waking up the NORCers to take action to protect themselves from the bloodsuckers you expose continuously, then I would not need to blog at all.— August 15, 2008 12:40 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Regarding #154: Thanks for the explanation a2zresource, it's good to have detailed facts of what really happened once in a while, especially if the system actually works. "wheels at the Hall of Justice turn ever so slowly" seems to mean most often that justice is not going to be served, it's just that those who got fleeced or worse ran out of money to pay for justice while too many executives who commit crimes go free because of their infinite corporate resources that allow them to overthrow our system of justice. The fact that 4 Marines had to lose their lives for their country within MCBCP, in addition to firestorm deaths because corporate executives don't have to accept responsibility and accountabilty for tragic consequences of their failures in leadership should make a vast majority of people outraged, but that never seems to be the case, especially when the "wheels at the Hall of Justice turn ever so slowly" that everyone keeps forgetting those who died unnecessarily due to corporate avarice.— August 15, 2008 11:41 a.m.