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Florida Man Shot Outside Rosarito Beach Bakery
RE types of expatriate Americans living in Mexico: I do not practice the old Yaqui ways (or maybe I do in my own way, with my own ally), but it has been said that a Yaqui man of wisdom is one who can sit in a comfortable place and see the connections between every single thing, knowing that those connections between everything are real things in and of themselves. The Refried One seems to be in a comfortable place now, and he seems to see what is there in what there is. May you live long and prosper in your own comfortable way... as you should after wrestling all night with one who would have spun you away.— November 14, 2010 2:14 a.m.
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I think Maggie has this perception of the SAN DIEGO READER (formerly SAN DIEGO WEEKLY READER) as some sort of all-seeing deity that has unlimited resources to follow every story everywhere on the planet until it is nothing but a huge link farm. Unfortunately, I think her prayers are misplaced, and her assumptions regarding who has been responding to her comments appear to be based on what others may see as mild, uninformed paranoia. It is either that, or she is lapsing in her usage of the personal pronoun "you." I personally have a full plate writing as I do already, as I suspect most of the other writers here do, paid or unpaid. I am an idiot for taking on more, but that's just me. When any paid writers have asked if they could write on any topic that I may have blogged about, my answer has always been for them to go ahead and do so. I believe Maggie understands her opportunity here to blog-post what she may about Mexico, and if she chooses to do so, then at least some Reader readers will read it, whether they leave comments or not. I do not use comment counts to satisfy my ego; I just keep blogging because I feel being silent is not the right thing to do. She also seems very aware that she may actually submit stories as a stringer; whether she does or does not remains to be seen. Certainly we are not stopping her from setting up a nom de guerre sockpuppet account to publish as a blogger if she fears reprisals as a stringer. If Maggie believes that we are served by her silence about Mexico, then so be it. Otherwise, she could be doing something that is more than just a monetary benefit to herself but a social awareness benefit to people north and south of the border. I don't know all that much about Mexican law; maybe it is a country where there is no inalienable right of free speech, free press, and free association. That is an internal matter for the Mexican people to decide. As for the Mexican side of my family, my ancestors gave up on Mexico over ninety years ago and left never to return, never looking back, during the revolutions that make the current drug cartel problems look like some sort of picnic in the park. People who know of the actual extraordinarily bloody history of presidential succession in late 19th-century/ early 20th-century Mexico will know what I am saying here. That was when the still un-Americanized sons of Mexico knew how to throw a REAL fiesta.— November 13, 2010 9:53 p.m.
Sempra To Increase Alternative Energy Generation in Kern County
See also: http://www.zacks.com/research/get_news.php?id=316… This is an Imperial Valley facility that also has not been built yet and probably still needs state regulatory approval via CPUC— November 13, 2010 9:37 a.m.
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Sleep on. Just don't expect to get paid for it.— November 13, 2010 2:54 a.m.
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RE "You're so cool, why didn't you report on the journalists protest down here? Gee, I guess that wasn't a priority": See? Nobody else has written anything that I know of about any journalism protest in Mexico. You just reported something we north of the border that we have yet to hear of, at least not yet through the Reader. Maybe it is your destiny to be that reporter. Maybe it is your destiny to get paid for it. I don't know if you will or you won't; what will be from your choices is what will be. My complaint is that if the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE goes out of business, then the Reader is in no way ready to fill the gap for local news. The Reader needs more stringer reporters, not less, and if anyone have something to offer, then that person should submit articles for publication. Since nothing I have ever submitted before was found acceptable, I write bog posts. I'm not going to let poverty stop me from writing what I can back up with facts, because in America, I have the right to do that, and the Reader puts up with me. You can see my comments on that as part of the record here at the Reader, or not; the choice again is yours: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/financial-c… As for getting ripped off by others, I notice that the quality of my blog posts is good enough that energy industry investor-analyst web sites have started to either link to my SDG&E and Sempra Energy blog posts here or just copy part or all of my SDG&E and Sempra Energy blog posts here on their own sites. As far as I am concerned, that is a matter for the Reader to deal with, not me. I imagine that it is a tolerable practice for the Reader, as any industry acknowledgment of my writing is a plus for the advertisers who actually pay to be included in the on-line edition. Those are issues that are beyond me, as I AM NOT A PAID READER STAFF MEMBER, just some joker with a computer and some basic research skills. Try it. You just might like it.— November 13, 2010 2:26 a.m.
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Nobody is asking you to rip off anybody else's work. Be ethical and submit your own, and if it is accepted for publication, CHA-CHING... you get paid. I've never been paid to blog about anything here. I do it because I can. If somebody in Mexico chooses to re-write what I've written and can make money on it, then he or she is free to do it. For all of the effort you have expended in the last couple of hours while I was napping, you COULD have written up something for submission, but you made your choice, and it is now part of the record here. Personally, I don't cross the border anymore, and nobody south of the border misses my business. I'm not your competition; write what you will, be objective, and inform us. Otherwise, everybody who reads things at the Reader on-line gets to see what's going on here and can make their own judgments if your volume of comments add or take away from the discussion.— November 13, 2010 1:58 a.m.
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Nobody is required to write movie reviews to get paid as a stringer, but one who has been doing movie reviews at the Reader for ages just wrote his last column, and it does appear that the position is now open. Take your best shot or ignore the opportunity; it is your choice.— November 13, 2010 1:48 a.m.
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RE "Wow you get a hundred bucks for this plus twenty five for the pic you took from Frontera and you are two days late with the story ? ... I need to get in on this racket I tell you": I repeat: It looks like we have a new stringer to write stories.— November 13, 2010 1:38 a.m.
Tijuana Kentucky Fried Chicken Stops Accepting U.S. Dollars
Thanks for the news. I had emailed somebody in Mexico about other businesses refusing dollars but have not heard anything back yet. Personally, I don't visit Mexico anymore. I'm pretty sure nobody down there misses my business, and I have no use for pesos north of the border.— November 12, 2010 11:14 p.m.
Florida Man Shot Outside Rosarito Beach Bakery
All right! We have a new stringer to write stories! Can you do movie reviews too? Maybe there's an opening...— November 12, 2010 11:06 p.m.