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No thanks to heaven for 7-Eleven beer and wine sales
Without liquor licenses, how will Chaldeans find work?— September 9, 2016 10:18 a.m.
Beloved Egg Nazi
One could ask. Is the word "nazi" more or less offensive than the swastika symbol? Mel Brooks, a Jew, predominately featured the swatika in many of films. Was that disrespectful? Using it in humor? No. Sometimes we have to make fun of the past. People are getting way too PC with pseudo-censoring of once commonplace objects; nazi history, the Confederate flag. As if forgetting history is something good? We know that "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it."— September 7, 2016 8:36 p.m.
Mystery stunt plane over I.B.
Those crazy kids and their flying machines.— September 6, 2016 8:27 p.m.
One year to replace Clairemont grocery store
"Several neighbors said they were thrilled at the prospect of no longer having a recycling center, one remarking, “Do you know how much riff-raff that will get rid of? That’s a huge issue.” Bingo!— September 4, 2016 7:04 p.m.
Local money men Robert Snigaroff, Neil Hokanson, Ross Starr bearish on future
I have returned from a vacation on the east coast visiting friends and my 93 year old uncle. My uncle has been investing since the 1950's and did very well in energy stocks. He's pretty much wound down his investing but still like to talk shop. He said these days with the dismal returns on low risk investments, and the crazy side-ways stock market, his advice is to put your cash under the mattress.— September 3, 2016 7:23 p.m.
No Encinitas home for Mom or Pop
Okay, back to the topic. California real estate, particularly on the coast, is extremely valuable these days. These landlords kick out the local businesses because they are less predictable. A 20 year lease with Panera Bread or Chipotle is more desirable than mom and pops. Encinitas and Leucadia are going to gut each other from within because they have sold out to the highest of the upper class. These are no beach communities anymore, they are the enclaves of thousands of "millionaires next door."— August 27, 2016 7:37 p.m.
No Encinitas home for Mom or Pop
I have returned from a 20 day odyssey on the east coast. First thing that got me was all the smoking! California is light-years ahead in the regard. Then the fat people. I started feeling like there is a large population of Americans who only eat at AM/PM, Jack In The Box or 7/11. The county fair in Crawford County Pennsylvania, perhaps the biggest county fair on the east coast, crowned this beauty as "Queen of the Fair." Well when you celebrate this as "winning" and worthy of a fairest of the fair award, it pretty much sums up American's problem with "Political Correctness" and the denial, if not acceptance of obesity. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2016/a…— August 27, 2016 7:23 p.m.
Encinitas Kentucky Fried Chicken flies the coop
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2016/a…— August 22, 2016 8:59 p.m.
Encinitas Kentucky Fried Chicken flies the coop
Mayor Gaspar. Was she reincarnated from a goose or a hornbill? Sorry, I don't like her politics. So I'm taking the liberty of doing a "Trumpism."— August 22, 2016 8:50 p.m.
County unemployment rate keeps rising
I've been in Philadelphia for a couple weeks. There are a lot of homeless here too. Panhandlers are driving me crazy. Cisco is laying off a massive amount of U.S. workers while recruiting in India. Uber says they are going to deploy self-driving cars in Pittsburgh soon. If this technology is quickly adopted, we are going to have a massive unemployment problem with drivers and delivery logistics. I also noted how many immigrants I encountered. I used Uber and they all could barely understand English. I think there is a fundamental problem with our economy. We are trying to prop up our economy with immigration rather than innovation. America is on a very dangerous road. We cannot keep flooding our country with immigrants expecting cheap labor to raise our GDP. In Germany, Syrian "refugees" are refusing to take job offer because they claim they are "guests" of Merkel. I have never been so alarmed at the station in "progress" our country finds itself. In some things what Trump has pointed out are a true concern. But we need leadership that can do more than scare people, we certainly need to re-examine why we are flooding our country with people while automation will eliminate 20% of the labor in the next 15 years.— August 19, 2016 9:41 p.m.