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Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to posts #56 57 58: Heck Don, let's face it, corruption has gotten so bad in San Diego that we need consumer protection from UCAN lawyers in addition to Sempra’s executive bloodsuckers, in addition to all the other bloodsuckers you write about. Help! We’re drowning in a tsunami of bloodsucker lawyers, judges, businessmen and the U-T thrown in on top of that pile of you know what. Please Send Help Soon! We can no longer tell the bloodsuckers from the champions, except for champions like Aguirre, Frye and Bauder (I think?). Why is it the more bloodsuckers you expose, the more numerous they get and the more they keep winning and fleecing and destroying San Diego!? Can it be that you are actually producing chapters almost everyday for a book: “How To Fleece San Diegans To Death For Profit With Impunity For Dummies” with chapters like: --- How to get re-elected Mayor after causing out of control firestorm deaths and destruction while repeating the lessons of history by becoming San Diego's very own Nero v.21c --- How to maximize corruption and overthrow the Rule of Law by overruling the City Attorney every time he tries to protect taxpayers and families in San Diego That really ought to be a Best Seller primer for the bloodsucker culture.— August 4, 2008 11:50 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #52: I always appreciate what you and Matt have tried Don, but since Sanders was re-elected it taught us the most important lesson again that we what we are doing is not working and we must try new ways to keep from continuously being screwed as citizens and taxpayers by the corrupt cabal that rules San Diego. As you frequently indicate, the citizens and taxpayers are continuously screwed and there really is no hope for your Gen Y readers the way things keep going. Thus the overwhelming fact of life in San Diego remains that the U-T editorial policy keeps winning and the families of San Diego keep losing to the bloodsuckers. The only other group that wins besides the bloodsuckers is the scumbag court community as noted in posts 53 & 54, San Diego courts are permanently corrupt because their policy is to award $Millions to lawyers who overthrow the Rule of Law along with the court. If The Reader can’t come up with a special edition with the power of the Declaration of Independence your readers, taxpayers, and families in San Diego shall be forever screwed by an aristocratic cashocracy that is as corrupt and destructive today as it was in 1776.— August 4, 2008 3:16 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #50: Don the problem we have is this, NOTHING HAS WORKED SO FAR, so we must try something new now. Even San Diego’s Best Champions like Aguirre and Frye are negated by corrupt courts and continuous Goebbelesque editorials, opinions, political hate propaganda in the Union-Tribune. The most hideous irony is that there is no one doing “Watchdog” investigations of the Union-Tribune itself. The fact is that the U-T owner, the U-T Bloodsucker Establishment and their puppet editorial board are more responsible for all the problems that San Diego has today than any other San Diego entity. We must try something new now, so why not start with a special Bloodsucker Edition featuring reprints of your Best of the Best Investigative Reports on the Worst of the Worst San Diego Bloodsuckers? The Reader must find a way to wake up the NORCs and get us outraged enough about all the corrupt bloodsucker attacks against our American Way of Life and American Democracy that we take overwhelming action at last, like recall Sanders, put Murphy in the same jail cell as Cunningham, expose "Brash Cash" Davies “big bucks cabal" judges who have overthrown the Rule of Law, etc.— August 3, 2008 10:34 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #44: Indeed Don, it's way past due time to take fighting back to protect the people of San Diego from the bloodsuckers to a whole new level. For far too long We The People have been in the watch and do nothing subservient mode while people like Felsinger, Sanders, Moores, McMillan, Davies and the rest of our bloodsucker aristocracy get away with satisfying their personal avarice even at the expense of sacrificing the quality of life of every family in San Diego. The Reader has proven to be the only news source in San Diego that is ready, willing and able to make the right things happen for your readers and the people of San Diego, so let the battle to fight back and eradicate the bloodsuckers begin with special editions of The Reader.— August 3, 2008 4:39 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #34: "About 75 years ago, Congressmen were aptly described as the best money could buy." Actually elected representatives have been described this way since the beginning of democracy in 6th century B.C. Athens. That's why fighting back against "Bloodsuckers" has a long tradition of failing due to corrupt politicians and courts that overthrow the rule of law. Most recently the U-T Bloodsucker constituency who re-elected Bush also re-elected Sanders, they are willing to sellout democracy without ever thinking about what they are doing as frequently recorded in the history books. This is why Kittle has been so effective with the U-T constituency who vote the way his "Ballot Recommendations" instruct them to vote and a consequence is that SDG&E continues to fleece customers even if they lie (as paul's post #35 reports).— August 2, 2008 12:24 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #30 & 32: Fred and Don, it appears that I may not have made my main point clear. I have not veered off course but am really addressing the root causes of problems Don addressed in this blog and so many others because these root causes are common denominators that far too many citizens fail to grasp and become outraged about in our docile NORC culture. Specifically, all of the problems I stated in post #29 above apply directly to why SDG&E executives have been able to fleece the ratepayers, enabled by San Diego’s "Cashocracy," "Brash Cash," "big bucks cabal," "Bloodsuckers," etc. as characterized by Don, by controlling our politicians, our judges, the CPUC, etc. I had hoped you would have understood that these root cause reasons are common denominators to the out of control San Diego based corruption exposed by Don in all of his columns and blogs, and I hope I have clarified that now. Fred, I am sorry if I upset you by my response to your request "Anon, please do me a favor. Contact Leibham's campaign ---" but I am in the 53rd district and have more than enough problems with Susan Davis’s failures. Democrats like Davis and republicans like Bilbray are two of the reasons I am registered as a non-partisan, they are two of the many causes of our leaderless and useless congress, reasons why American Democracy is in grave jeopardy. Besides, Leibham is another democrat and a member of the court system so I am most skeptical about him, his campaign rhetoric is all too similar to that of Davis, Bilbray and all of the currently elected failures in American Democracy.— August 2, 2008 2:39 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #24: Don, you have proven NORC, and admitted it even applies to Don Bauder to allow one to focus on G&S, Wagner, Dvorak et al. It is most certainly much more profitable to expose corruption than to do something about it, especially with: San Diego Political Motto: Democracy For Sale San Diego Courts Motto: Corruption 'R' Us Taxpayer Motto (whether we like it or not): UCAN Fleece Us But it's well documented repeatedly in history books that Avarice is the heart and soul of a capitalist democracy and Corruption maximizes profits There shall always be corrupt judges and politicians who continue to guarantee the perpetuation of Cashocracy (formerly Aristocracy). It’s all in the history books, and Don Bauder's columns because NORC.— August 1, 2008 12:48 p.m.
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Response to post #37: So much for my exercise in futility of expressing my outrage at our decaying democracy due to brain-dead and corrupt representatives. NORC triumphs again and always.— August 1, 2008 2:52 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #19: Don, does it ever occur to you while you are enjoying your G&S CDs or DVDs in Colorado that we in California are enjoying drinking up your water and using power from fossil fuel plants polluting your environment? We wish to take this opportunity to thank you for your sacrifices on our behalf, our gluttony is unlimited which you folks in Colorado help make possible to satisfy at your expense. Until California uses up resources from other states there is nothing the state legislature, the CPUC and utilities like SDG&E really have to do to meet our power and water demands within our own state. Besides, we make more profit by delaying decisions and doing nothing for our own long term future, so nuclear power and desalination plants along our own coast can be put off as long a you continue to enjoy G&S. Have a nice day :)— August 1, 2008 2:46 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #16: Don, regardless of what "probably" may involve, the one thing that is guaranteed by our politicized CPUC is that SDG&E will make a profit regardless of how screwed up everything gets. Whether it is because of "state's requirements and figures" or whatever the ratepayers will continue to be fleeced, and fleeced, and screwed, that's not “probably,” guaranteed. Guaranteed along with more unacceptable climate changes because of fossil fuel burning with no major reduction in sight before too many tipping points topple, less clean water, fewer food crops, and increasingly unacceptable quality of life. In California, corrupt Cashocracy paid lawyers and judges will enforce those guarantees, guaranteed.— July 31, 2008 1:06 p.m.