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Medicare broken, Social Security broken, SEC broken
The world needs a long time out from external overstimulations, to be followed by a quiet, grassroots examination of the societies we really want. Anything less is chasing symptoms, in my estimation.— April 10, 2008 9:31 a.m.
Charleton Heston and Guns
From my background as a very junior aikido (martial art) student, I know how guns take the skill and discipline out of murder, and no guns (or bombs) is a worthy goal. But I believe war and murder are only symptoms of a deeper social problem. Some years back Richard Bach, in "one" of his books, suggested a future in which those of the warrior spirit were enticed by capitalist rewards to mock, non-lethal (except for accidents), spectator-oriented wars. That is a solution, we need many. We need lives that honor the human potential, as George Leonard, one of my gurus, called it.— April 9, 2008 6:52 a.m.
Charleton Heston and Guns
Second Amendment absolutists, those who try to get the liberal goat by challenging "what part of 'shall not be infringed' do you not understand," need to understand that in our legal system, there is no such thing as an absolute right. The Constitution is about diffusing power, and the assertion of an absolute right to gun ownership strikes me as a power needing diffusion. However, give the man his due: his early support of civil rights in general is impressive. As to Mr. Heston's body of films, only "Touch of Evil" impresses me.— April 8, 2008 12:21 p.m.
San Diego’s secret missile-testing sites
In the mid-1970s I bicycled quite a bit around Poway. Starting on the east side of town, I went west, followed two-lane Pomerado Road (unchanged from its days as US 395) south, and went up Beeler Canyon Road. I saw something I believed to be a set of rocket engine static launch support equipment: tanks of hydrogen and helium, pipe, and iron framework. I don't remember seeing an oxygen tank. What amazed me is how new it all looked. I pressed on past the gate you mentioned, which was open. Up the road to the mesa, with a building at a t-intersection, surrounded by barbed wire but obviously abandoned. I saw someone but was left alone.— April 4, 2008 10:17 a.m.
Teach Your Children Well (or they'll kill)
Well, what led to this? Did they just come to school, murder in their hearts, for no reason? Maybe; however, we need some context here.— April 4, 2008 8:57 a.m.
San Diego plays big role in Field of schemes
Response to post #13: I used to have a condo on the Oakland waterfront from 2002 to 2005. In three and a half years, the only time I was nervous for my safety and that of my wife was the night the Raiders lost the Super Bowl and some pissed-off teens were out looting a couple of miles off. To me, it's a sin that the Raiders grew fat off the city of Oakland and the county of Alameda, when the schools were in receivership, and the infrastructure (except East Bay Municipal Utilities District, cutting-edge on things like seismic upgrade) went to seed.— April 4, 2008 8 a.m.
San Diego plays big role in Field of schemes
We should make three changes in law. First, ban public financing of stadiums. It is unnecessary. Second, subject public financing of infrastructure that supports a stadium to a public vote, 55 percent voting yes. If it's good enough for a school bond, it's good enough here. Last, ban monopolistic practices such as non-overlapping territories.— April 3, 2008 9:14 a.m.
Stunner: JP Morgan Buys Bear Stearns for $2 a Share. Earlier in Last Year, It Sold for $159. Federal Reserve To Subsidize Purchase
Thanks for the tip. M2 is 7.6 trillion dollars as of 3 March 2008, the latest date posted.— March 17, 2008 9:11 a.m.
Stunner: JP Morgan Buys Bear Stearns for $2 a Share. Earlier in Last Year, It Sold for $159. Federal Reserve To Subsidize Purchase
I would rather have the Federal Reserve court inflation than allow deflation and bank failures, though only in the short term, and followed by contraction as soon as possible. Don, do you know what total money supply (M1/M2) is? I used to get this from the LA Times but haven't subscribed lately.— March 17, 2008 7:54 a.m.
Why Financial Reform of Near-Bankrupt City May Be Impossible: Aguirre Jeered Yesterday by Business, Labor Moochers
I believe out-of-control public salaries are due in large part to the cost of housing, as a company can move to someplace cheaper, and a city can't. I hope California's cost of housing declines the point where outlandish salaries are unnecessary. By the way, the SF Chronicle reported Vallejo has not found a new economic engine to replace the naval shipyard that closed in 1996.— March 13, 2008 9:41 a.m.