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Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #113: The only "ending" for this utility greed-driven era that is acceptable is to make sure SuperBloodsuckers like Felsinger and Peevey are never allowed to run Sempra and the CPUC ever again. I don't think so because the Sacramento version of democracy is a total failure. However, if the electorate should actually wake up and get outraged enough to replace the entire legislature, and congress, then maybe it would end, but the NORCers will never wake up in time to save themselves at the rate things are crashing and burning. So everyone just keep singing together "Always look on the bright side of life" while Felsinger, Peevey and the legislature continue to crucify the ratepayers with corrupt court granted imperial impunity.— August 8, 2008 2:20 a.m.
Recession Hitting San Diego's Superrich; Some Socialites Wearing the Same Gown Twice; Jewel Ball Doesn't Sell Out
As Eric Idle of Monty Python sings while nailed to the cross "Always look on the bright side of life." The good news for Nordstroms is that they won't have to take as many returned dresses back the day after they are worn at the Jewel Ball. And San Deigo's SuperBloodsucker class has a lot more La Jollans to look down upon.— August 7, 2008 12:16 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #111: Don, please don't hold your breath on that one, it ain't never going to happen until NORCers wake up and fight back, and that cultural change appears to run contrary to human nature because most people never look ahead as savings stats prove, and it's not getting any easier. So Felsinger's lust for personal avarice regardless of Firestorm class consequences to their San Diego ratepayers is a root cause of the ongoing decline and fall of San Diego. Sempra refuses to build plants that provide long term low cost power because it won't maximize bloodsucker profits, which also means we'll never be able to have enough affordable desalination plants to prevent major water shortages as a permanent way of life. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown made an interesting observation reported in the L.A. Times this morning, it takes 40 years to really accomplish a permanent change for the better. But, as current events keep proving it takes only a few short years to really screw things up over and over again as proven by Sempra and all the other Firestorm Class SuperBloodsuckers that San Diego in overabundance.— August 7, 2008 12:09 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #109: Thanks for confirming that Don, the CPUC seems to have forgotten that fact ever since Peevey took over as California’s Fleecer-In-Chief at about the same time that Sempra shyster Steve Baum took over as Sempra’s Chief Fleecing Officer. Baum was Felsinger's role model and mentor, so nothing changed in the culture of fleecing at Sempra/SDG&E. Baum was a worst case scenario cause of the 2000 San Diego Energy Crisis and Felsinger has shown no signs of doing any better for the interests of the people of San Diego that SDG&E fleeces for Sempra. Lee Iacocca’s new book “Where Have All The Leaders Gone?” exposes the destructive scenario of America’s culture of leadership failure that is destroying opportunities and the American Way of Life, and obviously includes Sempra “leaders” like Baum and Felsinger. Since 2000 alone San Diego has had more than its fair share of SuperBloodsuckers like Felsinger, Baum, Sanders, Murphy, Moores, Dynes, McMillan, Manchester, Brom and far too many many more et als as economic, political and social leaders who have been destroying San Diego’s quality of life.— August 7, 2008 2:17 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
response to 95: You must remember first of all that SDG&E is a regulated monopoly that must keep rates as low as possible and service quality as high as necessary to meet the needs of its ratepayers and support positive growth and quality of life for the communities they serve. But SDG&E is owned and controlled by Sempra, whose executives like Felsinger has as his paramount motivation his overarching lust to satisfy his personal avarice with basically no sense of responsibility and accountability to the community that SDG&E serves. Thus SDG&E and Sempra are two economic entities that are diametrically opposed as far as serving the best economic interests and quality of life for all San Diego families is concerned. The bottom line is that Sempra under the likes of Don Felsinger is why San Diego is so severely threatened economically, in addition to the corrupt and destructive practices that Don Bauder exposes almost daily of our political, judicial and business bloodsuckers community that controls the future of San Diego with no sense of responsibility or accountability at all other than the satisfaction of their personal avarice. It’s an economic fact of life. So as long as San Diegans continue in the NORC mode, and continue to fail to fight back for our own interests, then we shall be forever screwed by the bloodsuckers.— August 6, 2008 3:36 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #79: Back to Sempra/SDG&E if it's OK, there is still a lot to be uncovered about totally unacceptable cultural values of Sempra Chairman and CEO Don Felsinger to explain his failures to serve the interests of the ratepayers and San Diego families by his SDG&E subsidiary. Felsinger is the typical San Diego bloodsucker executive you expose in every column Don, he accepts no responsibility and accountability for his failures to serve families and ratepayers of San Diego honestly, especially his failure to provide for reliable long-term electric service at lowest possible cost. Risk to San Diego families and ratepayers has been out of control since the scenario that led to the 2000 San Diego Energy Crisis, which we are still suffering the consequences of today due to the failure in leadership cultural role model set by Felsinger and his predecessors like Steve Baum (a lawyer) who as usual are dedicated first and foremost to personal avarice regardless of consequences to the ratepayers and communities they serve. And they get away with it because of corrupt CPUC President Peevey, corrupt courts and totally incompetent and corrupt politicians in Sacramento. None of these people gives a damn about the economic and social stability that requires long-term low cost energy to meet the needs of the people of San Diego, so the rates shall always be out of control to support their avarice until the courts start honoring their responsibility to the people of San Diego, and California again. This shall never happen the way the out of control consequences of corruption are overwhelming San Diego citizens today. So our legislature, courts and CPUC allow Sempra/SDG&E to fleece the people with impunity regardless of how incompetent utility CEO/COBs are, because they are immune from public responsibility and accountability due to legalized monopoly fleecing.— August 6, 2008 11:33 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to posts #70-74: Gad, I tried to bring a little historical perspective into the discussion, and I got what I deserved. But at least the U-T rantitorial ran true to form this morning by savaging Aguirre again for daring to be the one lawyer in San Diego who serves the families and taxpayers of San Diego instead of the dark ages cashocracy. So now we have deadly and destructive firestorms for the entertainment of "Nero" Sanders, hospitals that kill patients with problems they didn't go into the hospital with, American Bridges Falling Down is the new version of London Bridges Falling Down, we have a whole new breed of flippers for the suckers who are still born every minute that don't have mortgages yet, neither the republicans nor the democrats are helping We The People, while the President is in China kowtowing to his Chinese Communist masters because they own the mortgage to America, American Heroes and Patriots still die for Washington's never-ending failures in leadership, consumer advocate lawyers are like vampires guarding virgins while they protect the bloodsuckers (business ratepayers) instead of the virgins (residential ratepayers), the U-T "Watchdog" continues to look the other way while bloodsuckers fleece in front of its eyes, and no one accepts any responsibility or accountability for larceny of public funds because of an aristocratically corrupt judiciary that is creating a whole new dark age. How much worse does it have to get before the NORCers wake up and fight back? By now this is most obviously a rhetorical question for sure, as Gilda used to say "Never Mind" and "It's Always Something."— August 5, 2008 4:24 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #66: :) LT, as the new old saying goes, with friends like Shames, Sanders, San Diego judges, Sempra and the U-T Bloodsucker Establishment, who needs enemies? They rob us, threaten our lives, destroy our property, screw up our water, crash and burn our future, and overthrow our Democracy just like history keeps telling us that bloodsuckers have always done since people started living in communities. The fact is that we stopped evolving millennia ago when the first homo sapiens bloodsuckerus started raping and pillaging cities, and they have never stopped. From Goths, Visigoths and Vandals to judges, politicians, CEOs and the U-T. All of our institutions have failed us and humanity, and there is no way anyone can fix them as long as our courts continue to overthrow the Rule of Law.— August 5, 2008 3:55 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #63: LT, yes, the facts are that single-family water and sewer customers were screwed by the San Diego City Council that forced us to subsidize bloodsucker business customers for a decade. Shames' attorneys were "awarded" a totally larcenous $5 million of the totally unacceptable $40 million corrupt judicial settlement. The settlement was a mere fraction of the $120 million that Aguirre said in September 2005 should have been credited to residential ratepayers for overcharge corruption against residential customers. There can be no justice when lawyers get $Millions for one case when the vast majority of San Diegans cannot even hope to earn enough to save $1Million in a lifetime of work. This corrupt settlement proved again that justice in San Diego favors the bloodsucker class and whoever has the best lawyers wins, thus San Diego ratepayers are screwed most frequently by the City or SDG&E because of UCAN failures and judicial attacks against Aguirre. The Revolutionary War was fought to end this kind of corruption in America, but the corruption is accelerating out of control again due to corrupt courts throughout American today as former Supreme Justice O’Connor warned in her opinion which documented that cashocracy corruption and judicial overthrow of the Rule of Law throughout America is the greatest threat to American Democracy again today as it was in 1776.— August 4, 2008 5:36 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #60: I hope you publish a book before the election Don, at least including your Best investigative reports on the Worst Bloodsuckers in San Diego. If you could include a special chapter on judges who overrule Aguirre that would be useful in supporting Aguirre's campaign. BTW, is sandiegoreader.com banned in China? Being banned in China should be a most positive accolade for demonstrating highest level of journalistic integrity. It would be a higher honor than the Pulitzer that has been degraded by the U-T's bogus prize for reporting on the most corrupt congressman that U-T ever championed. The real truth was that the U-T watched and did nothing, looking the other way for years until it became obvious he was out of control even more than the GOP could stand. Re a previous comment by you Don: it should have been no surprise to anyone that he was stupid, the navy never promoted him to Captain because they knew it all along.— August 4, 2008 12:45 p.m.