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Just a Lo Jack recovery at Michaels
And just think - those people are always all around us, just like the Old West - cops and robbers with guns ... could be your neighbor or the person you pass at the donut shop. Cannot be too safe, especially when out in a public setting.— May 16, 2018 9:27 p.m.
Cate hits up city workers, pays another fine
The only real qualification San Diego politicians and city administrators are required to have is ... sleazebucket-ness. Without enough sleaze, the good ones are filtered out, and the people are always dumped on with whatever slimy, goofy eight-balls are left over. And it's costing the people millions upon millions - money wasted on incompetence, money that should have gone to infrastructure improvements and a higher quality of living. Potholes get deeper. The homeless population grows. Professional sports teams and fans find better stomping grounds in healthier regions. Glaring planning mistakes are made that cause serious business people to relocate. Technology companies turn away. For a city like San Diego to consistently thrive, competent workers are required at every level, not the city workers you see everywhere who spend most of their days driving around in their city vehicles, looking and chatting about what needs to be done by someone else, but real workers who plan and remain organized and complete the work they know they should be doing, the work they're being paid to do.— April 22, 2018 10:18 p.m.
Ace friend seeks Horton Plaza deal
I'm just surprised that these large retailer-based shopping malls still exist. Shopping online eliminates traffic, parking, dealing with strange people, etc. The only thing online shopping doesn't provide is the face to face social aspects of mingling among large groups of people, eating bad food on dirty tables, and the movie theater experience, oh, and walking around, but anyone should be able to walk around near where they live. With the recent closures of several key large retailers, you'd think shopping mall owners would at least take the hint and focus on diminishing the hassles and enhancing the positives of shopping in a mall. Movies and meals should be discounted, parking always free or heavily discounted, etc. Does anyone really expect shopping malls to continue to exist in their current form even twenty years from now?— April 22, 2018 10:01 p.m.
People living in cars and RVs stand up to city
Homelessness is most often caused by inflated real estate prices and rising rents and/or personal bankruptcy due to expenses from major medical care. A lot of the current San Diego homeless are actually following the money, coming from other states, many hoping to get in on the growing housing construction workforce. There are many reasons real estate values outpace normal inflation, the main reason being population levels outgrowing jobs, and combined with lowered banking regulations, we soon get yet another repeat of the housing-fragile-loan bubble that made everyone acknowledge how important it is to float big banking institutions with future tax revenue whenever it becomes obvious that banks control banking regulations in the USA, and these big bank executives are the ones actually orchestrating these feast-famine cycles.— April 22, 2018 5:07 p.m.
Medical Marijuana, Inc., sued
Maybe Llamas committed suicide?— November 7, 2017 11:34 a.m.
Interview with a Balboa Park transient
Everyone has a family, or lack thereof, forced upon them, and most of the people in charge of who gets paid what, and who pays how much of what they get into the system that provides support for people that experience hard times ... have never experienced these types of dysfunctional and disabling family backgrounds. People that successfully overcome the dysfunction that is built into their psyches after having been subjected to decades of repeated embarrassing and humiliating experiences, especially the types of experiences that brainwash people into thinking less of themselves, are rare. Society should be bowing down to help these people, as well as bending over backwards for people in these situations who are not committing criminal acts, and who are doing their best to better their lives, no matter how much or how often it appears that they are failing. To the people making negative comments - I sincerely hope you find yourselves in these exact circumstances, and soon, and for very long periods of time, so that you understand how demeaning it is to struggle at the edge of society, filled with despair on a daily basis. And then you'll become enlightened ... and that's what this life is all about. Cheers to your enlightenment, ignorant haters!— October 24, 2017 4:54 p.m.
Things I loved about being homeless in San Diego
ME TOO!!! Masters in Physics - fatalistic, self-sabotaging behavior, etc. Fitness membership for cleaning up, short sleep periods spread out within the smaller, sedate neighborhoods, and being unable to find a satisfactory and affordable living situation. Searching online for ANY affordable living solution... Everything except the no family nearby, though there is so much violent dysfunction built into my sibling relationships due to being raised in a psychological-hell-environment that it's almost like not having any family. And the church hypocrisy thing seems to be very constant throughout the entire nation, at least in the dozen or so churches I've tried. I still fantasize about how nice it would be to find a decent place that has less problems - noise, people who break the no-smoking rules and smoke in their apartments and constantly having their second-hand smoke fill my own apartment, secure parking and building security - these are major problems in each and every place I've ever lived. I HAVE ACTUALLY GIVEN UP SEARCHING FOR A PLACE. Now I can understand why so many homeless choose life on the streets instead of a "home" - and some places are putting surveillance cameras everywhere - LIKE THAT'S A NON-ISSUE, A-OK FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY DON'T TRUST THE GOVERNMENT...What can these benevolent providers be thinking!?!? On the other hand ... the place I'm currently leaving has a dozen dog-owners who let their dogs relieve themselves on the walls in the hallways and even in the elevator. GROSS!!! A lot of tenants are simply gross and inconsiderate - a vast majority of tenants seem to be that way. It's just not fair to people who want a quiet, secure, clean and calm residence.— August 27, 2017 10:36 p.m.
No Park Wants the Homeless or their Dogs
It's an absolute abomination that immigrants from around the world are being encouraged to come into this area, adding to the population pressures and rising prices, while citizens who are homeless are being kicked around like so much garbage. Most of these destitute citizens have decades of valuable social contribution within them and yet they're simply swept from here to there and back again. Instead of bowing to the almighty corporations, the socially- and politically-empowered citizens should force tax revenue to first go to supporting and enabling the homeless that are here, ready and willing to be of service when treated with respect and genuine compassion. Money that supports importing workers and processing immigrants should be delegated after homeless citizens have been given some first steps out of their hopeless situations. The US, however, is rapidly becoming a colder, more competitive and expensive place to live for everyone, simply because corporations have brainwashed the politically-empowered middle class to ignore the less fortunate US citizens who are filling the streets in every urban area. These politically-powerful are intent on following the corporate propaganda that dictates the importance of corporate profit over everything else. When corporations are allowed to bribe and extort US politicians, democracy no longer exists... and the streets fill with citizens who have become marginalized and disenfranchised by virtue of competition with invisible mega-political giants, colluding corporations that have gone out of control - because the Supreme Court decided that corporations deserve more political power than people. YOU WANT CLEANER PARKS AND LESS HOMELESS? GET THE CITIZENS UNITED RULING REVERSED AND GET A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PASSED THAT SEVERELY RESTRICTS CORPORATE ACCESS AND INFLUENCE OVER US POLITICIANS.— August 16, 2017 8:28 p.m.