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Palace coup? Filner could be locked out
There hasn't been a more bizarre and unbelievable series of women trotted out than those we are seeing in San Diego. Not even close. I hope accuser number whatever is able to resolve her financial problems. Which she has a history of. Everything is turned on its head: 30-something PR mavens are shrieking "condemn him" yet conspire with women who call themselves "feminazis," a term created by America's #1 misogynist, Limbaugh. Hooters, long held in contempt by feminists, and the playground of Glenn Beck and his ilk, AND with female defendants represented by Allred, is mocking a mayor with a lifetime history of fighting for womens' rights. It is the season of the witch - the big, ugly, tea-partying, sleazy-smiling, broom-carrying witch. Hang in there, Mayor Bob Filner. You've done nothing perverted, nothing dishonest, nothing violent, nothing sick, psychotic, or sociopathic - you just didn't know what the crazy, self-interested, manipulative, half-cooked, sun-stroked, land-hungry, dollar-driven denizens and their sycophants who think they rule, or want to rule, this town without a legitimate news organization of any kind were capable of doing.— August 15, 2013 5:43 p.m.
Was Filner's office bugged by long distance microphone?
Oh yeah. But always a student of human behavior. As a chem/physics scientist, I'm always interested in how things work. The rat pack is a case study and they always take the bait.— August 13, 2013 6:22 p.m.
Was Filner's office bugged by long distance microphone?
I nominate, for the present players (UT, Ch 10, KUSI, Fox5, CW6, and the Neverland Boys and Girls) in the scandalicious frenzy: Zappa's "I'm the Slime." Zappa wrote that pre-Internet, so alter a few words for the Neverland Boys and Girls' blogs, and you've got the perfect tune.— August 13, 2013 4:30 p.m.
Was Filner's office bugged by long distance microphone?
There's only one thing remaining for Fletcher to switch, his gender identity. Lots of potential votes there. If Filner had sought affection and dates from guys only, he'd probably be in fine shape. That'd be untouchable by the PC squads after him for trying to engage with older women.— August 13, 2013 4:20 p.m.
Was Filner's office bugged by long distance microphone?
monaghan, Friday, Aug 9, was an amazing day to observe the snarks and heavy breathers smell blood, go into a frenzy, and then slink home disappointed. Neverland Leader Lewis tweeted out the first message about Boxer's letter, and all the quivering rat pack noses went on full alert. Hanging on Ch 10 sleaze-bag Mike Rozzen's every tweet, you could see how deeply Lewis et al. hoped for something authentically bad to emerge. But it hasn't, and it didn't. The breathlessness over Boxer's, Cole's, and Emerald's letters was just about the two flaky CNN "exclusive" opportunists that Ch 10 rehashed. At the end of the day, disappointed but ever hopeful of something that would live up to his dark fantasy about the timing of Boxer/Cole/Emerald, Leader Lewis said "I think something happened. They heard something jarring. Check the words they're using 'disturbing new evidence' 'crystal clear'"... with his little mouse-face sycophant chiming in: "sounds like evidence like sexts, voice mails or recordings"... And Leader Lewis intones: "that's what makes it so frightening. what have they heard?" Frightening!!! Lock your doors, kids. At the end of the day, Leader Lewis told everyone to chill and go home, and hipster Dave said, like all 49-year-old men who live with their girlfriends say, "you're not the boss of us." Yep. Graduate from 10th grade, boys. They are all invested in someone claiming Filner did something, anything, more than be mildly inappropriate, clumsy, needy, clueless, overly familiar, uncivil, abrasive, etc. The boys and girls of Neverland need a monster to slay. If they grow up, they could be really dangerous. I don't know why they are such grim, mean, vicious, boring little prudish freaks.— August 13, 2013 1:02 p.m.
Was Filner's office bugged by long distance microphone?
Diogenes, Please note that the codefendant in M Burke's Queen Palm injury suit was West Coast Arborists. That's because they were contracted by the City for the West Washington Mission Hill MAD to do tree maintenance "above and beyond what the City provides." The City cannot legally reduce tree-trimming efforts because an assessment district exists. The Park & Rec-run assessment districts collecting property owner monies claim to be exceeding City services, which they must claim in order to be called special benefits, but all of the contractors, including WCA, barely do anything and there is zero oversight. All of the contractors view the assessment district contracts as honeypots. They can get away with doing very little for a lot of money. The UT and other so-called news outlets would never mention this in any of the stories, because it truly reveals the lack of anything remotely "special" about the "benefits" of San Diego's many assessment districts.— August 13, 2013 12:13 p.m.
Downtown San Diego Partnership hires high-profile civic attorney to address illegal use of PBID funds
This is good information and good reporting, and anyone who understands state law knows DSDP is spending assessments illegitimately. Briggs, however, has little credibility at this point. His retort that " to enlist the help of a lawyer" is "telling" is laughable, given his recent histrionics. Come on, Briggs, just say it again: "If it isn't illegal, it should be." Hugs and kisses.— August 12, 2013 3:49 p.m.
Was Filner's office bugged by long distance microphone?
Otto, Taxpayers did not pay Filner's way to the Iranian pro-democracy annual event. Get a grip on reality, if not the facts.— August 10, 2013 6:54 p.m.
Transparency lags as GOP fundraisers fan out for anti-Filner drive
What a smack-ass team! Wouldn't want to be in the same room with any of them: Carly Fiorina/John Boehner loser-advisor Freelove, Sanders flack Laing, and ...Boling...her name is enough to make me flinch. Useless PR toadies, jumping on the next-new bandwagon. It's what PR flacks do, lacking a substantive education in anything real or worthwhile.— August 8, 2013 11:41 a.m.
Who's investigating Filner? It's who's NOT investigating him
Don and PL: worry not, Internet dating lives! If you need to learn how to do it, the latest Filner "victim" is ready to help (personal consult at a hefty price, but her blog is free). Eldonna (I feel like a first-name basis is appropriate after reading her advice column), an experienced Internet dater, explains the pitfalls. On July 2, 2013, she added a comment on a very old (2011) War on Terror blog about [Nigerian scams in military dating][1]; she posted a comment linking to *her* 2011 blog. So, prior to appearing on CNN as the latest Filner victim, Eldonna was searching the Internet looking for places to repost her old online self-promotions. What a coincidence that she's going to be releasing a book soon, on empowerment. How serendipitous that she looked in the "trash" on her cell phone and found the old Filner voicemail so that she could get on CNN, prior to her book release. My advice to Eldonna: don't give your cell number to men whom you don't want calling you. Here's the comment Eldonna posted July 2, 2013 (must read: her promotional blog link - it explains everything you might need to know...about her): *Eldonna Lewis Fernandez said... I have been contacted by hundreds of romance scammers on Facebook. I've had the high ranking military profiles as well. I had to laugh, the profile said the guy was a graduate of Westpoint and an Army General but the profile had an Air Force Colonel's photo. Here is a blog post I wrote about romance scams in general with many examples of the text. Apparently I have kept severl women from getting taken in by these scams. http://imagepower.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/romanc… [1]: http://tinyurl.com/myoj85p— August 8, 2013 9:07 a.m.