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San Diego Spends Less Per Capita on Fire Protection Than Orange and Los Angeles Counties
Don, this is a worst-case example of the consequences of Union-Tribune establishment thefts of taxpayer funds from the citizens of San Diego, resulting in hellaciously preventable deaths and burning of 25% of San Diego County. Hell, U-T puppeticians are so focused on larceny of public funds that they don't even care about getting the fire departments throughout the county to coordinate the firefighting resources that we already have at our disposal most effectively. Yet not enough citizens seem to care enough about their own safety to kick corrupt establishment puppeticians like Sanders out of office. So the era of Golding-Murphy-Sanders U-T establishment corrupt politicians continue with no end in sight as death and destruction gets further out of control.— July 12, 2008 1:46 a.m.
SDGE Should Push Rooftop Solar Program, Says City Attorney, Noting Utility's Lagging Response to State Clean Energy Mandates
Lee Iacocca defines our current failed society as good as anyone: "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. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, 'Stay the course' Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America , not the damned 'Titanic." We're screwed, and we did it to ourselves. Nuclear power and desalination imperatives are almost hopeless under the current social, political and economic breakdown conditions. We have no leaders, just an entire population of lemmings going over the cliff, or to China and India to get our old jobs back! So just keep sending us your water from Colorado Don.— July 9, 2008 1:46 a.m.
SDGE Should Push Rooftop Solar Program, Says City Attorney, Noting Utility's Lagging Response to State Clean Energy Mandates
Even more important than solar, which much be pushed as you recommend, is the immediate imperative for building non-fossil fuel burning power plants such as nuclear combined with desalination to guarantee clean water and energy into the long term future. Unfortunately, Washington politicians still aren't serious about doing anything about climate changes which we are already experiencing with deadly and costly firestorms. And clean water supplies are in grave jeopardy. Again, NORC dominates our society.— July 8, 2008 4:42 p.m.
It's Official, If a Bit Silly: We Have a Bear Market. More Disturbing: General Motors Could Go Bankrupt, Says Analyst
Response to post #53: RE "Kittle's large profile in the community probably hinders circulation" If that is true, is Kittle Copley's son or social partner or what? Copley must at least let Kittle out of his basement cage for his Nero toga parties in the penthouse to watch and celebrate the San Diego firestorms that they caused. The editorial board has destroyed the U-T, but there are obviously a lot of readers who still believe in the "Ballot Recommendations" that gives the establishment the real power over San Diego making San Diego as bankrupt as GM because of the shared cultural values of egregious greed and brain-dead stupid incompetence that dominate all politicians in Washington also.— July 8, 2008 1:55 a.m.
It's Official, If a Bit Silly: We Have a Bear Market. More Disturbing: General Motors Could Go Bankrupt, Says Analyst
Response to post #43: "I don't think Fumber is Kittle. Their views are similar but they express them quite differently." Think about it Don, didn't they keep the deranged Kittle caged in the basement with a keeper who did the rewrites/translations for him while you were there? “Their views are similar” because Fumber is Kittle for sure, he just doesn't get rewrites for rants he posts on The Reader. Anyone who has caused as much destruction of San Diego as Kittle has can only stay employed at the U-T because the establishment uses him to cover-up their larceny of taxpayer funds that have created the budget deficit.— July 7, 2008 12:35 p.m.
It's Official, If a Bit Silly: We Have a Bear Market. More Disturbing: General Motors Could Go Bankrupt, Says Analyst
Response to post #31: What you say just proves once again that “business moguls” are so incredibly greedy for fast track profits that they are short sighted enough to make the same mistakes that the Easter Island royalty did. And every one of elected representatives in Congress and judges on our courts aid and abet this grand larceny “theft from the naïve.” Republican politicians look the other way to support their voracious appetites for special interest corruption while the democrats watch and do nothing while they allow the American middle class to crash and burn. We really live in the age of NORC, especially in San Diego voting for the perpetuation of city hall corruption. I have to believe that your friend “Fumber” that you give so much recognition to is none other than Bob Kittle whose deranged rant editorials have been the anti-Declaration of Independence for San Diego delivering us full circle back into the hands of U-T establishlment aristocracy to provide them with an unlimited supply of indentured servants once again. And the "naive" San Diego electorate keeps voting for their own destruction, making it far too easy for the corrupt and greedy.— July 7, 2008 1:55 a.m.
It's Official, If a Bit Silly: We Have a Bear Market. More Disturbing: General Motors Could Go Bankrupt, Says Analyst
Response to post #20: “Pretty grim” is a great way of saying we are into economic declines that considering the population and disappearance of middle class opportunities means the Land of Opportunity as we were most privileged to experience it is dead and we are truly going where America since WWII has not gone before into the new age of the consequences of outrageous greed and corruption, and gross negligence and incompetence by all of our institutional leaders, especially including all of our politicians, academicians, judges and their special interests who have failed the test of American Democracy. At this point, Obama is a wish and a prayer at best, but best of all he appears to be far different from the fat old white guys who screwed everything up in Washington, Sacramento and San Diego and destroyed the American Dream to satisfy their own lusts for conspicuous consumption. But besides Obama, we must have an entirely new leadership and total rededication of both of our political parties to the restoration of American Democracy and building a new American Dream. I don’t know of anyone who represents me today, except Donna Frye and Mike Aguirre, who is willing to save America from the FOWGs because the latest re-election of FOWG Sanders and overthrow of Prop. C by the most corrupt establishment in San Diego history proves we have a most brain-dead NORC electorate in San Diego looking the other way while the corrupt establishment continues to commit grand larceny of taxpayer funds. Again, if Gen Y doesn’t organize to fight for their own future, the only guarantee is that they will have no future anything like the legacy of The Greatest Generation that we were privileged to experience. I am glad our generation fought back in the 60s and 70s, but most angered that we totally failed to leave an acceptable legacy for future generations. In the meantime, while the Great Don Bauder can’t define any possibilities for optimism, Washington, Wall Street and academia continue to spin economic indicators into B.S. while the NORC monster continues to watch and do nothing to save America.— July 6, 2008 2:47 a.m.
It's Official, If a Bit Silly: We Have a Bear Market. More Disturbing: General Motors Could Go Bankrupt, Says Analyst
Response to post #13: RE “The study of economics encourages consumption and debt. --- We need production, not consumption” is a great simple summary. Obviously we need to improve our education system that has been deconstructed by republican and democratic politicians for their special interests to the point where it is now in extremis. People just don’t understand what is happening, except those whose lives have been ruined already that is. Second and more importantly, we must first have a new breed of leadership in all American institutions because the overwhelming problems we have today throughout our American social, political and economic systems prove we really have absolutely no leadership with enough honor, integrity and intellectual capacity to actually take the lead and get the right things done to turn things around. Plus the fact that far too few eligible voters even care enough to vote so NORC dominates our national psyche. I still don't see anyone like FDR on the national political scene yet. QUESTION: How many more failures must occur before the “D” word Depression comes into play because the outsourcing of the Land of Opportunity has already resulted in hideous unemployment, family financial ruin, increasingly out of control corruption and public safety problems, and federal, state and local legislative bodies that are doing far more harm than good?— July 5, 2008 4:24 a.m.
It's Official, If a Bit Silly: We Have a Bear Market. More Disturbing: General Motors Could Go Bankrupt, Says Analyst
Response to post #8: Don, I want to carry over what you said in another blog: "I haven't given up on optimistic futures. I do believe the United States is in for a long period of sub-par economic performance. But economics isn't everything" There was a saying that went something like: “As G.M. goes, so goes America.” Add that to what you said above “economics isn't everything” and remember that 1929 began “a long period of sub-par economic performance” also. QUESTION: What must we do to get back on course as the “The Land of Opportunity” to provide enough jobs for everyone who wants to work because we have a lot more people today than in 1929 and we have to make a very major restructuring of the American economy to turn this new “long period of sub-par economic performance” around?— July 4, 2008 2:57 a.m.
It's Official, If a Bit Silly: We Have a Bear Market. More Disturbing: General Motors Could Go Bankrupt, Says Analyst
Response to post #6: Looks like GM management and San Diego politicians have a lot more in common everyday. Management incompetence plus government corruption already means "the US is finished as a world power" but many are still in the blind optimism stage of denial.— July 3, 2008 3:42 a.m.