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Worries near Gillespie Field
I did some of my student flying at Gillespie. Avgas has lead in it. I spread lead all over for what was a hobby? I hope other hobbyists wake up to the consequences of their hobbies. If your hobby sprays lead on someone else children, are we having fun yet? Americans can be disgusting self-centered, immoral, uncaring, shallow, destructive, lacking in any insight...... They had what they called a Revolution. Now they are worse than the British. Native peoples enjoyed this continent for 10,000 years. We ruined it in 200 years and called that "progress." There is very little hope for the bored populace of self-centered polluters. Shame on you! Better wake up or your kids will blame you and rightly they should! Lead causes attention deficit syndrome, lowers IQ, causes criminal behavior, causes cancer, and kills wildlife. You are going to just fly around for a hobby? They should take the lead out of the gas in aviation fuel. The pilots I flew with we big drinkers . We were cool. Not!— April 24, 2015 8:28 a.m.
Worries near Gillespie Field
"Coming to the nuisance" is what they call the defense when someone gets a good deal on a property next to the airport or Freeway, and then spends all of his/her time trying to stop expansion. But you must still examine the circumstances in each case. Painting with too broad a brush is an over generalization error. As such, it is a cognitive distortion. Unlimited growth is not possible on a finite planet. Today to you, tomorrow to you. You don't howl until your ox is being goured. Maybe we need to see that we are the next victims. Empathy is rare.— April 24, 2015 6:53 a.m.
Order in the court, Judge Bencivengo!
Judge sits on a bench (bad joke) - you mean in what Department? - she is in the Federal District Court for the Southern District. The Schwartz Federal Building on Front Street. The clerk accepts complaint for filing, then the judge is assigned by the clerk. Affidavit of prejudice may be filed in state court for any reason. That is called a "preemptory writ." Federal judges can only be challenged for cause. I do not think there is a peremptory challenge I'm federal court. The order of dismissal with prejudice is an order that can be appealed. The Complaint cannot be amended and refiled. If it is dismissed without prejudice, with leave to amend, it could be amended and refiled. If the dismissal was based on improper venue, then it could be refiled in another District. This judge indicated that Aguirre should somehow go to state court. I wonder if there is a state court remedy. I am not familiar with the route of judicial review of PUC orders. Maybe a writ of mandate. .... to review. I had a federal dismissal with prejudice in federal court in Los Angeles. We appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and won. That was a lot of work. I do not know who appointed the judge. Seems like it must have been the Obama administration. I have not heard of her. So I'm assuming it was not Bush. Democrats presumably would be more consumer friendly but Governor Gray Davis appointed Michael Peevey and Governor Brown is his friend. Federal judges are appointed for life I believe. They have much more independence. If there is no adequate state court remedy then the federal court should not dismiss the case. That is reason in and of itself to hear the case on constitutional grounds. The state court system is denying due process by its inadequate procedures and lack of an appropriate appeal process. That is Aguirre argument aleast as I understand it. I hope this information helps. Just attend the hearing to show moral support.— April 16, 2015 10 p.m.
Order in the court, Judge Bencivengo!
The judge will decide if there was a meaningful hearing before the PUC. If there were undisclosed ex parte contacts in Poland with the decision-maker and no hearings into the issue of "prudence, " it would serm to be a no-brainer that the ratepayers were ordained to bailout the utility's shareholders. Phase Three was never had. That involved the critical fault issue or "prudence "(lack thereof). How can an allocation of damages be made without knowing who was at fault. Hint, hint - it was Not the ratepayers. (I should have been a federal judge.) There had been a substitution of alloys that caused vibrations and the tubes fractured. There was no relicensing hearing before the NRC. Edison and Southern California Edison designed the alloy. Their negligence caused the material failure of the metal (alloy). It looks like Edison wants to cover up their fault. Justice and due process demand a full and impartial hearing. Nothing less...— April 16, 2015 6:57 p.m.
But will there be enough water for One Paseo?
ImJustABill, Upper limits of agriculture depend on water, petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides, tractor farming, soils depletion, loss of farmable land, use of genetic manipulation and many factors. There will not likely be another "green revolution," according to the originator of that concept. Meanwhile, the population will increase and consumption patterns will increase. Drinking water will become harder to.come by. Factory farming leads to epidemics because of viruses while antibiotic-resistant bacteria are breed. The human population could level off and reverse with a one-child policy. That was attempted in China. It is a very unpopular idea. Therefore, nature will precipitously reduce human populations in her own way. The planet wide results are already evident. The Sixth Great Extinction is entirely manmade. There is time to change our ways. But capitalism has its own deterministic end - ruination of the ecosystem. Population collapse will follow. The herd will be thinned one way or the orher. Since JFK, the population more than doubled with climate change and drought. The rate of extinctions is ever-accelerating. No life in tide pools from Baja to Vancouver. Birds and insects are dying. We are next.— April 13, 2015 5:19 p.m.
But will there be enough water for One Paseo?
Failure to curb greenhouse gas emissions will aggravate droughts in the Great Plains and Western United States in terms of both length and severity. Few want to say the droughts are caused by climate change. California has not seen these drought conditions since pre-Columbian times. Think in terms of a thousand years. As we cut back on water usage, thinks will get dustier as we revert back toward desertification. Snow pack is about 10% of normal. Sun Valley in Idaho is going broke - no snow. My nephew was let go from the ski school after 15 years. SANDAG was of the opinion that San Diego will increase its population by two million. This figure needs to be revised downwards in my opinion. If cash crops will be hit hard, where is the money to be made in California with water rationing. If you cannot have a lawn and live in danger of wild fires, people might think twice before moving here. Developments should be put on hold. A moratorium on building in the state until water infrastructure is in place would not be a bad thing.— April 9, 2015 6:12 p.m.
But will there be enough water for One Paseo?
Alfalfa requires 15% of all water in California. 2,500 to 8,000 gallons of water go into a single meat patty in the typical hamburger. Livestock accounts for 14.5% of global total of greenhouse gas emissions. This is more than transportation. By far the worst offenders of greenhouse gases and water consumption are cows and cattle. Where does all this gas come from in dairy cows and beef cattle? Digestive systems (enteric fermentation) , fertilizers, and manure management. Cattle requires the cultivation of soy and corn , both of which require fertilizers. Methane from livestock alone produces about 35% of the total anthropogenic methane emissions on the planet. Methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide are given off by livestock production. Cows and cattle require huge amounts of land and large amounts of water. Eggs and chicken meat do not require such large amounts of water to produce. Cows and cattle remove habitat from wildlife and require deforestation. Transportation systems give off greenhouse gases, but less than livestock. If you want to conserve water, do not eat beef or use dairy products. If you want to reduce greenhouse gases, do not eat beef or use dairy products. Cattle producers require extermination of predators such as bears, bobcats, wolves, and coyotes. Many cattle are grazed on public lands. Annual cost of cleaning up China's air according to the RAND corporation is 160 billion dollars annually; cost of not cleaning up China's air exceeds 500 billion annually. Ted Cruz cheery-picked data (used only satellite data and ignored ground-level data, and picked an especially hot year as a baseline). The best thing you can do for both water conservation, your health and reducing greenhouse gas emissions is to limit dairy and beef consumption. The emerging economies all are switching to beef and dairy consumption. Jerry Brown would not tell you this because it would threaten corporate profits.— April 9, 2015 12:41 p.m.
But will there be enough water for One Paseo?
Don, The day is dawning where people will finally realize that costs cannot be externalized while profits are indefinitely privatized. Pollution cannot be continually dumped into the atmosphere, oceans, injection wells or landfills. Pollution is a "cost." Yet, that never appears on a profit and loss statement. This business model has allowed a false sense of "prosperity." We as a species will pay a very heavy price. A friend of mine wrote a book called "The next Species." Based on opinions by Yale University professors and others, the best case scenario for our species is about three hundred years. That is if we do not have a nuclear war. The current business models do not even consider environmental pollution or exhaustion of resources. Calling this growth or progress is nonsense. Look at Torrey Pines State Reserve. Here is a park that preserved a sliver of nature. Look at Yosemite or Big Sur. Developers would pave over the paradise for money. If we base prosperity on building, soon habitats for animals will vanish. Population and energy usage leave a proportional environmental footprint. Planners never even consider these factors. In 100 years, the earth will not support the human population. We are looking at a precipitous catastrophe. Business as usual is killing us. We must raise people's consciousness about the natural and probable consequences of our non-sustainable practices.— April 8, 2015 9:25 p.m.
But will there be enough water for One Paseo?
Monaghan, You are absolutely right. A temporary moratorium on building has been upheld by courts as not being a "taking of property without due process." Our water and greenhouse gas emissions problems are both long-term. Therefore, urban planning and transportation systems planning are permanent steps. The OPR has issued proposed CEQA Guidelines. One Paseo is not "grandfather in"- Kilroy wants to triple the entitlement! The City Council "exercised it's discretion" without any factual basis whatsoever (except campaign contributions? ). One Paseo is a dinosaur. It represents one last hurrah for the internal combustion, suburban sprawl concept. It is 109% automobile-dependent. If we all had non-polluting little miracle automobiles that did not cost money or pollute, we could eliminate about 36% of the greenhouse emissions causing the drought. But the drought is likely to be permanent in our lifetimes. Making special exemptions to provide more housing without water infrastructure based on automobiles and commuting is a very bad precedent. The new CEQA Guidelines will make suburban mixed'use developments of this magnitude impossible without convenient access to an established network of public transportation. Water infrastructure was proposed in 1981. Those who want to save taxes will strangle development by skimping on necessary infrastructure to support that development. Too late now to mitigate the thirty-year drought by building water infrastructure. We can still meet our greenhouse gas emission standards, but not by building super- dense developments without public transportation.— April 8, 2015 6:35 p.m.
But will there be enough water for One Paseo?
It is time for all neighborhoods in San Diego to stick together when the big developers come to town. Unless you want San Diego to look like Los Angeles, the time to get together is now. Our environment in San Diego is our greatest asset. Smart Growth involves transit-oriented development, that is, building a long public transportation corridors, or in the urban core. The economic and environmental benefits of this type of urban and transportation are planning are proven. California is looking at a thirty year drought, even centuries long. We need water infrastructure before any further development. Changing zoning and community plans to "spot zone" for a particular developer who wants three times it's entitlement under current zoning and community plans is a very bad precedent. For California to meet its greenhouse emissions standards, we must reduce vehicle miles traveled. That means using transit-oriented development principles in urban planning. Climate change caused the drought by diverting the jet streams far to the north. Without water, San Diego is not prepared for more people moving here. Decades ago it was urged that money be spent on water infrastructure. Now we have emergency rationing of water. We also face emergencies according to the Pentagon studies that show the present trend towards population growth into urban centers will bring violence and disorder because there will not be enough water or jobs. Look at Detroit and Baltimore. Tens of thousands cannot afford to keep their water on. California dreamin' is over. I do not care that SANDAG predicted that two million more people were expected to move to San Diego - so we"need" more housing. That is a circular argument refuted by recent water shortages and rapid climate change caused by increasing urban sprawl into suburbs without public transportation infrastructure. I hope that everyone in San Diego realizes the gravity of the water shortages and the environmental disaster we are facing. Insurance companies will no longer insure.coastal properties. That is putting their risk management where the statistics are in underwriting. Politicians fall into two groups: idiots and sold-outs. They run on campaign contributions, not logic. There are a few exceptions.— April 8, 2015 6:09 p.m.