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Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #153: Thanks Don, I was just trying to follow in the footsteps of my two role models, Don Bauder and Lee Iacocca. But the NORCers just want silence so they can continue to look the other way and ignore the bloodsucker caused disasters you keep reporting in progress. They wish to ignore the paramount fact that far too many corporate execs like Felsinger put avarice before America regardless of consequences to families and ratepayers of San Diego. 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. Sorry if I upset the NORCers, but that's what I aim to do.— August 15, 2008 11:18 a.m.
San Diego officially in recession
Response to post #6: Actually even some of the shareholders seem to be forgotten all too often when the boards are packed with fellow bloodsuckers. It seems like we have a new saying, live by the capitalism, die by the capitalism. Who would have predicted that Wall Street would betray the U.S.A., risking our economic and social destruction by selling out American Democracy to Communist Democracy merely for the sake of maximizing avarice?— August 15, 2008 11:07 a.m.
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Response to post #147: Don't you ever have any good news Don!? Isn't capitalism wonderful:) We never hold corporate and government executives responsible and accountable for their failures in leadership until it is too late, and that is the Achilles’ Heel of Capitalist Democracy, even when failures due to avarice cause deaths of a USMC helicopter crew and innocent civilians burn to death in San Diego firestorms NORC. How about starting with that as a theme for the Reader to focus on, at least as a response to Lee Iacocca’s “Where Have All The Leaders Gone?” You can start a new Don Bauder column on “Lessons In Leadership” that your readers can use to judge criminally negligent leaders before the consequences lead to deaths of more innocent people. Or maybe you could at least condemn the likes of Felsinger, Peevey and Baum to some sort of Wagnerian form of Hell for caring more about their own avarice than public safety, again.— August 15, 2008 2:59 a.m.
San Diego officially in recession
Response to post #4: "At some point, we won't have merely a recession: the downturn will be deeper and last longer." Or as the old metaphor goes “I don't think we are in Kansas anymore,” I sure hope you warn us before we go off the cliff Don because “longer” is here. The fact is that it no longer takes some overrated, typically erroneous economic computer model to tell us that we are in a lot of trouble this time at all, especially when the “assumptions” of the 20th century no longer apply in the 21st century. The new variables must take into account the reality that China has imported our jobs while we have imported the Chinese form of Bloodsucker government. Not exactly a quid pro quo, more like a lose-lose scenario of our failures to take the responsibilities of democracy seriously when the avaricious capitalists on Main Street and Wall Street turned into terrorists.— August 15, 2008 2:42 a.m.
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Regarding posts #143 & 144: The first priority is to do something about Felsinger and Peevey because they are the root causes of all our utility problems today.— August 14, 2008 1:04 p.m.
San Diego officially in recession
Response to post #2: Thank you Don, this column must be gravely regarded. A little historical perspective on why things are so bad and getting worse faster today. America’s greatness peaked out with the “giant leap for mankind” man on the moon in 1969. Johnson and Nixon began the decline and fall phase of American Democracy during the same time period by selling out America to the military-industrial complex that Ike had gravely feared could happen. Nixon also started the era of selling out American opportunities to the Communist Chinese. Then in 1987 the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster blew up not only astronauts but also our space program that hasn’t recovered since, which began our precipitous slide from being the premier world leader that The Greatest Generation had produced for America during and after WWII. Avarice made American Capitalism a success during and after WWII, and today out of control avarice regardless of future consequences is destroying America with the continuous sellout of formerly American opportunities to China. Of most immediate concern, the out of control avarice of the Bloodsucker Establishment sold America out during the oil crisis of 1973 by refusing to design and build hybrid, electric and fuel cell cars after it became clear that Mideast political instabilities would most certainly upset the balance of power around the world from then on, a failure in leadership that continued even after climate changes started causing rapidly increasing firestorms, glacial meltdowns, increasing worldwide poverty, starvation and terrorism. And today we still have not started down the path of protecting our long-term future because the Bloodsucker Establishment puppeticians like Sanders and Bloodsucker controlled San Diego courts packed with puppetjudges that continuously overrule Aguirre and the best interests of We The People regardless of increasingly out of control economic and social instabilities in San Diego. One more outrageous out of control consequence was reported on the U-T Front Page this morning documenting the need to spend at least $10 BILLION a year for California prisons because our education system is a total failure extending from preschool through our high schools and throughout our university system because of political destruction. Thus we have entered the age of indenturement and incarceration and still NORC dominates our cultural values.— August 14, 2008 12:58 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Relating to #141: Thanks for your insights a2zresource. The loss of 4 Marines is an outrage that Messrs. Felsinger and his predecessor Baum must be held accountable for. Utility executives have been allowed to escape responsibility and accountability for far too long and the tragic loss of 4 Marines due to power lines is a totally unacceptable and preventable consequence. There have also been far too many fires from overhead power lines that are allowed to run all over the place with inadequate protection that put far too many people continuously in harm’s way even more with the climate changes we are experiencing today. Allowing scumbag lawyers in a court of law blame deaths of innocent people on those people who died because of power line related fires is an outrage to society that must be stopped because that is an attack against our system of justice that is totally unacceptable. It is way past due time for Sempra to build nuclear power plants in San Diego to provide power for our long term future instead of allowing transmission lines to run all over the place to fossil fuel burning plants which have become unacceptable and avoidable. Utility executive greed for easy, short term profits have cost far too many lives and placed our economic and environmental future in unacceptably grave jeopardy. 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. Otherwise the Bloodsucker Establishment will export all of our economic opportunities and any chance for a quality of life future in San Diego to China.— August 14, 2008 2:52 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Actually a hideous problem far worse than Shames has been caused by Felsinger and Co. as also noted in the U-T this morning “Families sue SDG&E over 204 accident that killed 4 Marines.” Dinosaur transmission lines all over the place to maximize short-term profits were again the cause of this hellacious loss of Heroes and Patriots, in addition to deaths in Firestorms. As usual, bloodsucker lawyers blame the deaths on the victims. And again, I wonder what it takes to make people outraged enough to fight back even for their own safety? Meanwhile Felsinger still refuses to build non-fossil fuel power plants in San Diego to eliminate the need for transmission lines all over the place and provide for the long term power needs of San Diego. But the only fact of life today is that out of control rate increases for short-term profits continue to be rubber stamp approved by a corrupt CPUC without end, while Michael Shames follows in Lerach’s footsteps enabled by the continuation of the Greer Court culture of corruption.— August 13, 2008 1:02 p.m.
San Diego officially in recession
Yup Don, “There is no sign of a turnaround; the problems could continue beyond that” indeed. Let’s take a look at: THREE ROOT CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF PROBLEMS IN THE AGE OF SAN DIEGO U-T BLOODSUCKERS 1. CORRUPT COURTS are the most dangerous failure mode of any democracy, and as former Supreme Court Justice Sandra O’Connor documented, far too many judges have sold out their integrity and the Rule of Law to the Cashocracy. The current "sliding downhill" of the San Diego economy documented in this column is proof of this. 2. EDUCATION SYSTEMS DESTROYED BY POLITICS were a grave concern predicted as far back as 1961 by President Eisenhower. The hideous consequence is the rapidly accelerating incarceration of poor people, greater than two million poor today or 1 out of every 100 American adults were incarcerated at the start of 2008. The solution to America’s poverty problem is putting as many of the poor in prisons as fast as corrupt courts can process them. 3. EXPORTING AMERICAN OPPORTUNITIES caused by the total failure of leadership in all American institutions as most recently documented by Lee Iacocca. For example, GM prevented development of electric and fuel cell vehicles so they could maximize short-term truck and SUV profits, turning oil related problems into precipitous economic decline in San Diego and throughout America today where “There is no sign of a turnaround; the problems could continue beyond that.”— August 13, 2008 12:33 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to posts #123 &127: “It's true that Shames has not provided the information we asked for. But he is very busy.” and “You cannot call Shames a winner in this.” FYI Don, U-T Business Headline this morning: “SDG&E raising its rates Sept. 1” THAT’S ANOTHER 7 PERCENT SCREWING FOR RESIDENTIAL RATEPAYERS DON!!! No wonder Shames is “very busy,” he is obviously “very busy” spending his corrupt court awarded $5MILLION larceny for fleecing residential customers out of $80 Million he awarded to his business ratepayer sponsors, after Aguirre exposed him for failing to win a $120 Million settlement against Shame’s business sponsors. So Shames is San Diego’s newest multimillionaire while we get screwed out of 7 PERCENT more. And U-T’s rabid watchdog keeps biting the NORCers in their asses by destroying the San Diego economy along with Shames, Sanders and the rest of the U-T Bloodsucker Establishment. Doesn’t anyone give a damn about anything anymore, because right now Shames is the biggest “winner” in San Diego at the expense of the residential ratepayers "very busy" spending larceny awarded by our corrupt courts.— August 13, 2008 6:33 a.m.