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City Wants Kessler Suit Thrown Out
If Judge Meyer allows the case to go to trial, I predict the City will settle with Kessler right away to protect Gerald "Pudge" Sanders from having to testify. Pudge may have to assert his fifth amendment rights if compelled to testify in order to protect himself from potential jeopardy in the Little Italy affair. His taking the fifth would ruin him politically. The City will avoid this at all costs.— October 13, 2010 11:40 p.m.
Last -Minute Legislature Deal Boosts Chances of Massive Chargers Subsidy
The state legislature has certain Brown Act-like procedures to guarantee that matters such as this get aired publicly before they are adopted in a secret session. Aguirre suspects that this was done without granting the citizenry due process. =========== Aguirre is right, but any lawsuit he files will be steered to a judge who will ignore the law and side with the city in order to obtain an appointment to the appeals court. Any local superior court judge who ruled against the city would face a well-financed challenger in the next election and would likely be out of a job.— October 9, 2010 1:46 p.m.
Last -Minute Legislature Deal Boosts Chances of Massive Chargers Subsidy
Jerry "Tubby" Sanders theme song should be: "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo." It's a shame that San Diegan Frankie Laine died. He could have sung the song at Sanders campaign rallies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEqGgjhTAO0— October 9, 2010 1:39 p.m.
Acme K9 Services: Bruce, I miss you so....
People who knowingly go into areas where dogs are allowed to roam free should do so at their own risk, and should not have any legal recourse if they are bitten.— October 8, 2010 9:50 p.m.
San Diegans Sparse in Forbes 400 List
OK, we need our Reader pal Margo (and Kima!) to get us lowly Reader peeps into this party when it arrvies!!!!!! ========= It takes years of training and grooming to attend a social function of this magnitude. You have to learn all the social graces, including how to break wind correctly in a social setting. You also have to learn how to eat correctly. For example, you can't eat your salad with a pea fork. You need to be trained to tell the difference between a salad fork and a pea fork. It isn't easy, as there are 6 different types of forks at each table setting.— October 5, 2010 10:24 p.m.
San Diegans Sparse in Forbes 400 List
I'm kind of shocked that the owner of the F Street Bookstore chain did not make the Forbes 400.— October 3, 2010 8:22 p.m.
San Diegans Sparse in Forbes 400 List
It looks like Ernest Rady is off the Forbes 400. He traded his business for Wachovia stock and rode Wachovia into the ground.— October 3, 2010 8 p.m.
Pssst! Howd'ya Like to Retire with $300,000 a Year of Taxpayer Moolah
I believe that Nan has reading comprehension problems. I clearly stated in my posting that military retirees and those who serve in combat should receive life time health insurance. Therefore Nan's implication that I would deny benefits to injured veterans is idiotic. When an enlistee leaves the military his or her service should be evaluated to assess the level of risk and danger he or she faced, and only those who were deployed in a combat zone should be entitled to free health care for life.— October 1, 2010 9:54 p.m.
Pssst! Howd'ya Like to Retire with $300,000 a Year of Taxpayer Moolah
I question whether the country can really afford to offer many of the benefits so called "veterans" receive. An 18 year old kid enlists in the Navy for two years primarily because he wants to travel on an aircraft carrier and carouse in the fleshpots of Asia. After only two years of active duty, he is entitled to free health care from the VA for the rest of his life, not to mention almost unlimited benefits for disabilities that may later arise that are not even connected to his military "service". Veterans who serve in combat and careerists who put in 20 years have certainly earned these benefits, but enlistees who only serve a few years and have faced no danger or combat should not automatically receive free health care and disability insurance for the rest of their lives.— October 1, 2010 1:26 p.m.
Pssst! Howd'ya Like to Retire with $300,000 a Year of Taxpayer Moolah
According to another blog: "Abbeylubbers were spirits who haunted the abbeys of 15th century England. They were said to be the cause of drunkenness and debauchery amongst monks. They especially haunted the abbey wine cellars."— October 1, 2010 12:56 p.m.