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San Diego Unemployment Rate for June Leaps to 5.9 Percent; County Lost Jobs Over Last 12 Months
Reponse to post #4: Yes, the U-T has most certainly raised the level of "sh*t" far beyond what the NYT has, or as Donna Frye is quoted most eloquently in the July 2006 National Geographic: "Let me tell you, dirty water, dirty politics, it all comes from the same source." Too bad I can't find another source of U-T comics and local ads for my wife so I can eliminate the need to have U-T sh*t delivered on my doorstep every morning.— July 26, 2008 4:16 a.m.
Union-Tribune is up for sale, company tells employees
Response to post #36: Welcome back from Santa Fe, it appears to be a beautiful place and I look forward to viewing Georgia O'Keefe's paintings and sources of inspiration there someday. On a much less enjoyable subject, even the U-T's Pulitzer for documenting their own up close and personal knowledge of Cunningham's corruption was bogus because the U-T knew the entire time he was a most arrogantly corrupt congressman, a pimp and many other U-T sewer grade cultural values including total disregard for ethics and integrity for a decade before he got so out of control reckless that even the GOP had to finally disown him. So the U-T covered up for Cunningham's outrageous behavior for a decade while they watched him and did nothing, but kept getting him re-elected until they finally outed him to get the bogus Pulitzer. Thus Cunningham really is a poster child icon for U-T politics of corruption, greed and hate.— July 26, 2008 3:51 a.m.
Union-Tribune is up for sale, company tells employees
Never forget that it was Karin Winner and Bob Kittle who betrayed Goldsborough and Morgan and the entire journalism industry. The U-T has in fact destroyed America's Finest City, constantly threatening every family in San Diego on the consequences of their deranged rant editorials that produce the San Diego Establishment culture of greed, corruption and hate as their final legacy during this final phase of their decline and fall. In spite of their betrayal of every citizen in San Diego, even this morning they still barfed up yet one more in a never-ending series of vomitorials against Aguirre because the U-T establishment lives in constant fear that Aguirre will continue to be the one person in city hall that works for the people of San Diego and may actually, along with Frye, restore integrity if they cannot overthrow him with their latest corrupt sycophant judge who carries on the corrupt judicial tradition of Greer and Murphy. Having said that, it must be recognized that the U-T still influences enough braindead voters to elect and re-elect three most corrupt mayors in a row, the worst three in a row in American history even though they are destroying jobs, justice, public safety, health and quality of life with hellacious (firestorm grade) judicially granted impunity.— July 25, 2008 12:50 p.m.
Union-Tribune is up for sale, company tells employees
Welcome back Don, the tide of bad news must have come back in. As of today, The Reader and community newspapers like the Peninsula Beacon are our best options left today to join together and restore the lost integrity of San Diego print journalism. Can you make something like that happen, or is Ben Franklin's tradition about to become dead and buried because far too few people really care to read, think and act for our own survival anymore?— July 25, 2008 3:21 a.m.
San Diego Unemployment Rate for June Leaps to 5.9 Percent; County Lost Jobs Over Last 12 Months
Very Well Said Fred_Williams, "getting out on the streets and taking back this town" is the right way. The last time we tried that was during the Viet Nam War against communism, but the tragic irony of that is that we let down our guard and allowed Wall Street and Washington to sell America out to communist china. We are losing our democracy because far too many fail to think about doing something about all the things that are going wrong and far too many fail to vote at all to continue American Democracy. So now all of the elected representatives we send to Washington are like Susan Davis, Boxer and Feinstein who sit on their asses and accomplish absolutely nothing but enable our democracy to be be hijacked while our greatness is being replaced by mediocrity and failure. So now the unemployed and underemployed are growing in numbers once again, but this time America no longer has a manufacturing economy to bail ourselves out with because Wall Street and Washington chose to enable socialism to overthrow American Capitalist Democracy.— July 25, 2008 3:07 a.m.
San Diego Unemployment Rate for June Leaps to 5.9 Percent; County Lost Jobs Over Last 12 Months
Since Mr. Bauder appears to be on a very well deserved vacation, I’ll make an attempt to fill the humungous void his absence has created. Unemployment is a consequence of the facts that Don reported in his previous column about Wall Street Socialism, along with Paul B. Farrell’s Market Watch column: “11 reasons America's a new socialist economy - How free market ideology backfired, sabotaging capitalistic democracy.” However, the ongoing decline and fall of American Capitalist Democracy was produced by fact that the United States of America has come full circle from taxation without representation in the 18th century to taxation without representation again in the 21st century. We The People have a bad habit of electing people to a leaderless House and Senate that is now populated entirely by the corrupt and/or the incompetent because only a minority of eligible citizens care enough to vote anymore. The last eight years have proven that personal responsibility, accountability and democracy aren’t really that important to We The People anymore. Locally, another reason for local unemployment problems is that San Diego politics has descended to the sewer level where the Union-Tribune should tell the truth at last and add “Corruption And Greed R Us” as their true motto on the masthead. After all, U-T politics made the quintessentially most corrupt Duke Cunningham and Judge Greer Court possible, producing failures of the Rule of Law as reported by former Justice O’Connor’s opinion published recently, that places American Democracy in grave jeopardy at all levels of government. Having said that, I’m sure everyone is eager for Don Bauder’s return.— July 24, 2008 1:22 p.m.
More Wall Street Socialism: SEC Wants to Thwart Short Selling of Fannie, Freddie, Brokerage Stocks
Response to post #31: Whatever, our entire economy is "in the toilet" for many reasons, for far too long as documented by Bauder, Farrell et al. America has been drunk with stupidity, hellacioiusly corrupted by greed, submissively allowing the Neocon Communists to "think" and tell us what is good for us since 2001. We screwed ourselves with the most egregious culture of lust and licentiousness since the fall of the Roman Empire, while the U.S. Congress and Supreme Court enabled American Democracy to degenerate into Neocon Communism. We The People stopped expecting anything of our politicians at all levels of government, and they stopped giving a damn about anyone but satisfying their own lusts as a result. Duke Cunningham turns out to be America's quintessential 21st century politician.— July 24, 2008 3:03 a.m.
More Wall Street Socialism: SEC Wants to Thwart Short Selling of Fannie, Freddie, Brokerage Stocks
Response to post #29: OK Don, since you don’t appear to want to respond to my post #29, I offer the following supporting documentation to my criticism: “11 reasons America's a new socialist economy - How free market ideology backfired, sabotaging capitalistic democracy” By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch, July 22, 2008 http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/eleven-reas… Includes Reason #4. “Deregulation creating new socialist housing system --- We lost 85-year-old Bear Sterns and $32 billion IndyMac. Lehman's iffy. And 90 banks. With the virtual takeover of Freddie and Fanny, Wall Street's grand experiment with free-market ideology is backfiring, having socialized the housing market. They have nobody to blame but their self-centered greed.” Sorry about that Don, but the No One Really Cares culture of enablement has screwed us far more than enough and putting lipstick on pigs has got to stop now that both government and private enterprise have proven to be totally incompetent and greedy while the public no longer demands competence, integrity and accountability from corrupt businessmen, courts, politicians, educators, etc. anymore even as it destroys capitalist democracy.— July 23, 2008 1:02 p.m.
More Wall Street Socialism: SEC Wants to Thwart Short Selling of Fannie, Freddie, Brokerage Stocks
Response to post #24: “Yes, these are among the reasons why I am not opposed to a Fannie/Freddie bailout, as repugnant as the idea is.” Don, I can’t believe you said that it’s cool to borrow money we shouldn’t have had to borrow in the first place, enabling more corrupt Main Street and Wall Street practices, paying off the interest by printing more lead certificates while good paying taxpayer jobs are disappearing faster than you can say No One Really Cares About Anything Anymore (except those who spent their time sending ½ million complaints to the FCC because they were forced to view a boob during the Super Bowl, too bad elections don’t get the same attention). I think you just put lipstick on a pig Don. American Capitalist Democracy may be the best political economy there ever was, but socially what we are proving is that the human race can go from making itself an endangered species to becoming an extinct species due to total failures of all of our social, political, economic, educational, religious and scientific institutions. Of course we can’t blame all of this on our elected republicans because our elected democrats did nothing but watch while their heads were up their asses.— July 22, 2008 2:01 p.m.
More Wall Street Socialism: SEC Wants to Thwart Short Selling of Fannie, Freddie, Brokerage Stocks
Response to post #20: Did you ever interview Steve Baum like you did Peevey? Baum really was the one who made everything go to hell for the customers of SDG&E, but then he was also a lawyer so it was no surprise. On the other hand, the last time Americans fought back en masse for their rights and their future was WWII, and the legacy from the sacrifices by The Greatest Generation was trashed by our NORC generations that followed. So keep sending us your Colorado water so we can continue to pour it on firestorms now that Sanders was re-elected by the Kittle/Braindead electorate.— July 18, 2008 11:05 a.m.