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Sanders Claims City Can Return to Bond Market. Oh? That Will Be Up to Investors. Bond Rating Agencies Suffer from Bad Reputation
Here we go again Don, the U-T editorial board issued another rantitorial this morning that is another classical example of denial of accountability and refusal to accept responsibility for the U-T’s own “Ballot Recommendations” puppetmayors that created the budget crisis. But then what can one expect when rated by the corrupt S&P that created the mortgage crisis.— May 16, 2008 6:20 a.m.
Purported Ethics Commission Pulls Another Slimy One. This Is So Blatant It Could Backfire
Response to post #41: Most unfortunately Don, the fact that political ethics are most certainly at an all time low must be that that there are far too many well educated "low information voters" also. Our American education system is in extremis as documented in the latest CALIFORNIA alumni magazine article: "Wrong Trajectory - America is losing its higher education advantage, with enormous repercussions." by John Aubrey Douglass http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california/200805/free… As documented on your Blog, worst case examples are the rhetoric and actions of Bob Kittle, Mayor Sanders and fumber. They appear to hold frequent meetings in some intellectual black hole somewhere.— May 15, 2008 2:05 p.m.
Purported Ethics Commission Pulls Another Slimy One. This Is So Blatant It Could Backfire
Response to post #36: It appears that as of the election in West Virginia yesterday we have one more problem rearing it's most ugly head in democratic politics in addition to republican politics, as portrayed in "Saturday Night Live's" message From Hillary Clinton: "I Have No Ethical Standards" So in context with this blog "Purported Ethics Commission Pulls Another Slimy One. This Is So Blatant It Could Backfire" we can only hope that slimy ethics begin to backfire big time during this election. Most sadly, it appears that hate is alive and well and metastasizing throughout American politics from the San Diego Union-Tribune establishment to both political parties in Washington DC.— May 14, 2008 2:12 a.m.
Purported Ethics Commission Pulls Another Slimy One. This Is So Blatant It Could Backfire
Republican politicians in San Diego and Washington have proven to have no ethics, and the issue for the rest of us to resolve can the democrats really do any better? Bill Clinton is such a scumbag that his moral and ethical failures made the difference that put Bush into the White House in 2000. Again, voters still didn’t trust the democrats in 2004 so they re-elected Bush and the republicans have now proven that they have produced the worst president in American history. Meanwhile in America’s Third World City of San Diego republicans have now produced the three worst mayors in our history. The Ethics Commission is one of the worst jokes ever produced against the people of San Diego, so the republicans in San Diego and Washington have now proven to have no ethics at all. The question we have to figure out is can democrat politicians do better in this age of decline and fall corruption that Clinton, Bush, Sanders and all of San Diego’s democratic and republican representatives and senators in Washington have failed in so far? So far, the current democratic presidential campaign has not given us any reason for hope, while the republicans have produced a throwaway candidate. And San Diego continues to sink into the U-T cesspool where ethics is defined by antonyms.— May 13, 2008 3:42 a.m.
Purported Ethics Commission Pulls Another Slimy One. This Is So Blatant It Could Backfire
Response to post #30: Actually I was thinking that future historians, should we survive long enough, will consider naming the Clinton and Bush years as Sodom and Gomorrah II in Washington at least.— May 12, 2008 12:23 p.m.
Purported Ethics Commission Pulls Another Slimy One. This Is So Blatant It Could Backfire
Response to post #28: As you said "So many of the editorials, columns and purported news stories are so predictable that it isn't worth reading them." which is most certainly a major reason that thinking people are terminating their newspaper subscriptions. This is especially troubling since our education system is in extremis and democracy needs thinking people to make it work. So the consequence is as Bill Moyers said "We have fallen under the spell of money, faction, and fear, and the great American experience in creating a different future together has been subjugated to individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power ---.” which has provided you with a lifetime of investigative reporting as American Democracy becomes ever more threatened by the corrupt and the braindead.— May 12, 2008 2:46 a.m.
Purported Ethics Commission Pulls Another Slimy One. This Is So Blatant It Could Backfire
Response to post #4: “I didn't read the editorial, and won't” means you lose out on part of the continuing decline and fall of the San Diego Union-Tribune editors who appear to be using Gobbelsian elements of style as their last resort. In his new book “Moyers on Democracy” reviewed by The Nation editor Art Winslow in the L.A. Times Book Review this morning, Moyers testifies: “Democracy in America is a series of narrow escapes, and we may be running out of luck --- We have fallen under the spell of money, faction, and fear, and the great American experience in creating a different future together has been subjugated to individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power ---.” Further, in the context of our discussion, Moyers concludes of the Fourth Estate that by “no stretch of the imagination can we say the dominant institutions of today’s media are guardians of democracy” which Winslow says "reminds us that it is proximity to reality, not to power that should matter in reporting ---." Considering the role of Der Sturmer in the overthrow of German democracy, the U-T seems to be using them as a role model. Their Bloodsucker cartel control of our judicial and legislative branches in San Diego along with their cover-ups of their “Ballot Recommendations” thugs who are looting our treasury make it appear that we are relearning history the hard way. The 2008 elections become all the more important.— May 11, 2008 12:02 p.m.
Purported Ethics Commission Pulls Another Slimy One. This Is So Blatant It Could Backfire
The U-T Editorial this morning "Lessons of Vallejo" hits a new low in Kittle's Deranged Rantitorials, especially in the last two paragraphs including this Goebbelsian class rant: "Yet when it comes time to divvy up limited resources, Democrats take care of public employees first." Let's see now, three Republican San Diego U-T mayors in a row, Golding, Murphy and Sanders have done just exactly what this deranged rant accuses democrats of doing, or did I miss something and all three of them are just disguised as San Diego Bloodsucker Cartel controlled republican puppeticians? You can take it from here Don.— May 10, 2008 1:46 p.m.
Union-Tribune Lays Off Three Who Spearheaded Electronic News, Radio Efforts
Response to post #30: Another hellacious tragedy is that as long as the San Diego Bloodsucker Cartel rules San Diego, destroying the political, social, economic and all other institutions and opportunities for quality of life, our heroic fire and policemen/women are at increasing risk as the Bloodsucker Cartel increases the level of chaos.— May 10, 2008 12:30 p.m.
Union-Tribune Lays Off Three Who Spearheaded Electronic News, Radio Efforts
Response to post #31: For the current destruction of San Diego, creating a new third world city, we can thank Brash Cash Davies, Bloodsucker McMillan, Judge Wellington, Robber Baron Moores, Rantitorial Editor Kittle, Mayor Sanders, DA Dumanis, fired UC President Dynes, Bishop Brom and many other institutional “leaders” from Hell who are creating Hell On Earth in San Diego. Keep up your excellent investigative reporting to expose corruption that is drowning San Diego in sewage.— May 10, 2008 12:24 p.m.