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Execute the Imposters
This couple are in the best case a pair of sophisticated media whores and in the worst case two spy-recruits hiding in plain sight. I served with the 3d US Infantry Regiment during the Ford and Carter administrations. I was eligible for a Whitehouse Secret clearence which was never activiated, but I did stand for QRF duty with a day's combat load of M-14 ammo in the WH compound while the rest of the Old Guard was marching up Pennsylvania Avenue as the Carters walked during the '77 inauguration parade. While it's not extremely difficult to get in on a supervised Whitehouse tour, nobody outside the official guest list to a formal state dinner is allowed in who was not vetted and then formally invited via engraved invitation by the President's protocol staff. Civilians watching TMZ-emulating media may think this party-crashing is all pretty cool stuff, but most veterans and others with military minds contemplating national security understand that forcing a safeguard in time of war is punishable by death or as a court-martial may direct (http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/mcm/b…). After all, the Whitehouse is where the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States is quartered. Bets are that every foreign embassy deputy assistant press secretary in DC will be trying to recruit those two as soon as they get done testifying before Congress.— December 1, 2009 12:59 p.m.
SDGE Disconnects Rise to Low Income Households, but at Slower Rate Than Other Utilities
Power consumers are categorized by priority. Lower-income households obviously have a lower consumer priority than many other customers. Bets are that the disconnect rate for the highest-priority consumers hovers right around zero. CPUC's authority to categorize ratepayers is found at Cal. Public Utilities Code section 2771 (search PUC at http://leginfo.ca.gov). The authority includes a liability shield for utilities that cut power to low-priority consumers after CPUC issues an order to allow the cutoff (PUC sect. 2775). Talk to County Supervisor Dianne Jacob for her take on that while she and other stakeholders discuss SDG&E's high-wind power cutoff proposal that the CPUC earlier denied and ordered into mediation.— November 30, 2009 1:13 p.m.
Blackwater OK'd $1 Million Hush Payments to Iraqis: Reports
RE #17: Thanx for the official story. Now how many hijackers went through SDCCD before 9-11? I wonder how many wanna-be mercenaries are taking classes in this town right now, with unemployment above 10%...— November 12, 2009 6:20 p.m.
Blackwater OK'd $1 Million Hush Payments to Iraqis: Reports
RE #5 & #6: I've got nothing firm on Blackwater and Southwestern College except for previous reports of the deal regarding weapons training. At the same time, I became familiar with the San Diego Community College District's ties to the Navy, where SDCCD has maintained rather lucrative contracts to teach courses on naval bases in Great Lakes, Michigan and Orlando, Florida, among other places around the globe. Figuring all of the gyrations that Southwestern went through to get a bond measure passed recently (along with the allegations of misused public funds in the bond approval process), I wouldn't be the least surprised to find some sort of SDCCD-Navy relationship developing between Blackwater of whatever name and Southwestern College.— November 12, 2009 1:35 p.m.
Blackwater OK'd $1 Million Hush Payments to Iraqis: Reports
... and more of these Blackwater government-manipulating secret agents are still getting training here in San Diego in conjunction with Southwestern College?!?— November 11, 2009 8:38 a.m.
Bruce Henderson: no room for a Chargers stadium downtown
"Redevelopment funds were originally for such purposes as affordable housing but were “hijacked” by downtown developers. San Diego 'has the most backward redevelopment program in the whole state.'" This pretty much explains it all.— July 11, 2009 9:49 a.m.
Transformer Taken Down by Parrot
It's amazing that a Fortune 500 corporation with $11 billion in revenues last year can't get those power lines underground any sooner than 2067...— June 26, 2009 8:46 a.m.
San Diego's Hotel Business among Nation's Worst
Gee... it wasn't that long ago that San Diego was considered a real Navy town, complete with vans of Shore Patrol making the rounds of all the naughty spots on and off Broadway downtown... there were probably a dozen places to grab a quick beer and toss a few tips onto the stage... Of course, we've grown up since then. You know, maybe some of those former high rise hotels could be used for vertical farming.— June 26, 2009 8:43 a.m.
San Diego Lead Indicators Rise for Second Month
I recently heard that California's monthly exports dropped by about 25%, either last month or the month before, after many months of smaller declines...— June 25, 2009 12:15 p.m.
Doggy budget
Since the city is just about broke, it is surprising that the people most concerned with preserving Balboa Park aren't lining up with ideas to make that facility more of a cash-generating venture for all of us. After all, look at all of the great things that have happened for San Diego since the clydesdales moved into Seaworld...— June 24, 2009 10:05 a.m.