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A.H. Belo, Initially Considered Candidate To Buy Copley, Reports Big Loss, Layoffs
Response to post #35: Wow Don, you go from Wagner to Gilbert & Sullivan and both seem to have a familiar theme about the failure modes of mankind, which has provided a terrific career for you because we never, never, ever learn. American politicians in fact have devolved from Homo sapiens back to Neanderthal before anyone realized they turned into SFBs (S*** For Brains), but that also explains a lot of the blather on the 24/7 cable channels that have hired SFBs to interpret it all ad nauseum. It appears that the FOWG (Fat Old White Guy) SFBs have also been joined by female FOWG (---- Gals) SFBs in congress like California’s own Pelosi, Davis, Boxer and Feinstein failing every hope anyone might have naively had that women could do a better job. NORC enables Cashocracy by FOWG SFBs more than any other factor.— July 31, 2008 11:58 a.m.
A.H. Belo, Initially Considered Candidate To Buy Copley, Reports Big Loss, Layoffs
Response to post #30: Very well stated as usual Fred, you brought back some thoughts about what I learned in PoliSci 120 and Hans J. Morgenthau's textbook, too bad we have since proven beyond all doubt to be doomed to repeating the political-economic disasters of history and becoming the source of our own extinction. Sadly, our ivory tower academicians have proven to be totally removed from the real world for far too long, they are just actors in a play about the past as we sink further into our decline and fall phases. I met Brian when McCain came here to support him even though Brian admitted he had already sold his soul to Bush, and again during a debate he lost with Susan Davis. Since those good old days of 2000 both Brian and Susan have proven to be worst case scenario examples of the failure of leadership in America today in both political parties. Response to post #31: Indeed Don, the most wonderful HMS Pinafore and other Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas could most easily be updated to apply to us today, but they are much better left as is. We never learn.— July 31, 2008 2:45 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #4: Don, looking at your list, the future for San Diego and California is screwed as far as preventing unacceptable climate change consequences, providing enough clean water, maintaining public health for a population that is already too large, providing enough agricultural products/food for our families and quality of life because even though we are the best educated people in history we still can’t think, plan and protect the future for our children. Response to post #8: Well said Bob, your “General Motors” comparison is most appropriate considering basically every corporation in the auto industry wishes they made or produced more hybrid cars than they are today even though oil has been increasingly problematic for decades. Say goodbye to good old GM as we knew it making their trucks and SUVs to maximize profits for far too long while we also say goodbye to quality of life in San Diego, California, everywhere. So Lee Iacocca’s “Where Have All the Leaders Gone?” documents reasons for our going from being merely a threatened species to becoming extinct much sooner than we thought: http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp…— July 31, 2008 2:02 a.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Response to post #2: Two questions Don, #1 – Why have California’s consumer advocates and the democratic legislature allowed Peevey to continue his policy of fleecing ratepayers with out of control utility rates for all these years since Davis was kicked out of office? #2 – Why don’t our advocates and the legislature attack our rapidly escalating climate change and clean water problems by legislating and fast tracking the building of non-fossil fuel burning nuclear power plants combined with desalination plants along our coast instead of forcing the utilities to build unacceptably vulnerable and problematic transmission lines all over the countryside across the state so they can tie into global warming producing fossil fuel burning plants while we run out of clean water? We really must get our priorities straight and force these issues through the legislature with a sense of urgency or face never-ending skyrocketing energy costs, power supply failures and climate change consequences like out of control firestorms along with failing clean water supplies that continue to destroy our agriculture industry and quality of life?— July 30, 2008 3:39 p.m.
Sempra spins Sunrise Powerlink in the Union-Tribune
Regulated utilities in California are a worst case scenario since Michael R. Peevey was appointed President of the California Public Utilities Commission by Governor Gray Davis on December 31, 2002, after originally being appointed to the CPUC by Governor Davis in March 2002. The good news, we can only hope, is that his term expires December 31, 2008. Governor Davis’s criminal stupidity was one of the root causes of the California and San Diego Energy Crisis of 2000, which he made even worse by appointing Mr. Peevey who had been President of Edison International and Southern California Edison Company, and a senior executive there beginning from 1984 to 1995. Governor Davis could not possibly have appointed anyone as President of the CPUC who was more corrupt than Peevey. Gray Davis was most deservedly kicked out of the Governorship by the electorate, but Michael Peevey still remains as a root cause of all California and San Diego electric utility ratepayer problems today. The fact is that until Michael Peevey is replaced by someone who is not just another worst case scenario corruption role model there is very little anyone can do to save the ratepayers from regulated public utilities in California. Sadly, there has been no effective outrage from ratepayers and the electorate to make the right things happen, not even to remove Peevey after Davis was kicked out of office for his part in the Energy Crisis. So no changes can be expected even when his term expires because No One Really Cares, yet.— July 30, 2008 12:40 p.m.
A.H. Belo, Initially Considered Candidate To Buy Copley, Reports Big Loss, Layoffs
Response to post #29: It now seems like American Cashocracy has taken it's natural course to produce American SFBocracy. The fact is that neither the democratic nor the republican politicians even bother to think anymore, they are products of a failed education system destroyed by Cashocracy, producing SFBocracy and a NORC electorate causing Iacocca to emphasize "Where the hell is our outrage?"— July 30, 2008 11:14 a.m.
A.H. Belo, Initially Considered Candidate To Buy Copley, Reports Big Loss, Layoffs
Response to post #23: Yes Fred, theoretically the next “test” is Nov. 4 but We The People keep failing tests because too few care to even bother to vote and as the re-election of Sanders proves "cashocracy" gives the advantage to S*** For Brains (SFB) puppeticians. Thus our latest form of democracy has devolved to a people with brains need not apply state since far too many legislators and judges in Washington, Sacramento and San Diego keep proving with SFB majorities comprised of both republicans and democrats. As Lee Iacocca said far better than I have “Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car.” That’s the state of American Democracy today.— July 30, 2008 3:30 a.m.
A.H. Belo, Initially Considered Candidate To Buy Copley, Reports Big Loss, Layoffs
Response to post #13: Thanks for the references Fred, the "Economist" is first rate and Wikipedia is an OK first approximation reference source which even they caveat that we still need to crosscheck facts presented on their site, and most everything else, along with CNN, MSNBC and networks, is pretty superficial (except Don Bauder of course). But the most wonderful and satisfying thing by far about www is that we can Google with our minds in a relatively short period of time until we feel we really have information we need to draw most conclusions with. That's truly the best of all worlds for infonerds like myself who believe learning and understanding is a never-ending occupation. But even with all that vast treasury of knowledge at my immediate fingertips I still cannot for the life of me comprehend why any self respecting democracy would re-elect criminally stupid bastards like our Manchurian Candidate President (with his "1984" culture) along with our S*** For Brains U.S. Congress, except that The Aristocracy has actually overthrown American Democracy already and we still fail to overcome our NORC mentality to figure it out.— July 29, 2008 2:21 p.m.
A.H. Belo, Initially Considered Candidate To Buy Copley, Reports Big Loss, Layoffs
Response to post #10: Thanks Don, I appreciate your efforts but considering all the newspaper horror stories you are exposing, it is time for extreme action if there is to be any future at all for a credible daily newspaper in San Diego. Right now that appears not to be a possibility because most aristocrats like those who control San Diego politics and justice such as the Copleys, Manchesters, McMillans, Moores et al. have one overarching cultural value, to satisfy their own avarice regardless of the consequences to democracy. As an extreme example and proof that history keeps repeating the scenario of aristocracy overthrowing democracy, George Bush is doing it again but with the new consequence that with this iteration George Bush is actually a leader who is selling America out to communist china by mortgaging America to a point where we are destined to default with his suicidal printing of lead certificates for money and acts of destructive greed practiced by leaders of all our other institutions. So maybe it doesn’t matter that newspapers die while the newest media achieve Bush’s dream of making Orwell’s “1984” come true with the aid of a brain-dead congress and NORC populace while Bush proves he really is America’s “Manchurian Candidate.”— July 29, 2008 2:06 a.m.
A.H. Belo, Initially Considered Candidate To Buy Copley, Reports Big Loss, Layoffs
Response to post #6: There must be some kind of a decay sequence for Democracy going on today Don, first the education system fails to educate people to care about protecting democracy, then people stop thinking about corrupt politicians and judges that are overthrowing our democracy, so people stopped paying money for newspapers that require them to actually read and think, and converted to brain-dead "other media" entertainment phase that anesthetizes what is left of our brains. The Reader appears to be the only print media left standing in San Diego with any significant print media readership, so the question is does The Reader care enough to use what remains of the power of the press in San Diego to champion the restoration of Democracy at least in San Diego, or do we continue to repeat the historical precedent of default back to Aristocracy that they tried to get George Washington to become King of in the first place?— July 28, 2008 1:07 p.m.