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Encinitas City Council Candidate Tony Kranz Accused of “Attack”
RE http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/01/tw… : It would seem that the Logan Jenkins at the U-T is capable of exercising the same right of free expression as others so passionately claiming that right here. We appear to have reached a stage of equality for all.— November 2, 2010 8:54 a.m.
An Early Holiday Season Arrives With Unlimited CCDC Bailout
RE "To the extent that FITCH RATINGS is able to identify those concerns by making comments available here, I am sure that those comments will be helpful and informative in the course of the elections being held through November 2": I meant "helpful and informative" to natural persons with the capacity for casting a vote. I have no financial interest in what happens in bond markets except as to the effect of ratings agency acts and omissions that may be reflected in number of decades we have to keep paying interest on the same City of San Diego debt.— November 2, 2010 12:36 a.m.
An Early Holiday Season Arrives With Unlimited CCDC Bailout
There may be concerns regarding statements made in this blog post regarding FITCH RATINGS and how rating factors are applied to credit ratings. I am awaiting mention of specific concerns, so that I may respond by making appropriate corrections and/or clarifications to my above blog post; otherwise, I believe that my interpretation of factors that may result in positive or negative ratings treatment is supported by materials provided to CITY COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO for training in debt servicing, as those documents have been made available to the public via agenda item supporting documents by CITY CLERK. To the extent that FITCH RATINGS is able to identify those concerns by making comments available here, I am sure that those comments will be helpful and informative in the course of the elections being held through November 2.— November 1, 2010 11:24 p.m.
Fox Blasts Prop. 24, Doesn't Reveal Big Donation to Defeat It
And here I was thinking that there was no activity in this economy...— November 1, 2010 3:49 p.m.
Would Spelling Lessons Affect the Library?
If we wait around for a vote to volunteer and mitigate things that we both see and understand are totally FUBARed, then we end up wasting time when the law already says that we can mitigate public nuisances in the public interest without necessarily waiting around for permission to do it, regardless of anybody's union contract or other legal-sounding theory that would cost us the federal reimbursement of a legitimate all-hazard response to impending (or existing and declared) crises. I am not arguing that the entire city council is a public nuisance; that would be going too far because it would cost much money and many lives to stage a coup. Instead, it is clear that the results of some to many acts of that city council ARE public nuisances and may therefore be at least subject to our own voluntary mitigation, especially when it is foreseeable that the acts and omissions by civic leaders lead to some level of hell for the people of San Diego. If we aren't allowed that, then there may be a good argument in Superior Court that lawful process has been prevented from being carried out and thus lawlessness exists in the County of San Diego. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/encanto-gas…— November 1, 2010 4:12 a.m.
Would Spelling Lessons Affect the Library?
There are ideas in this comment thread that deserve not to die. While Urban Corps may have problems in the consistency of service delivery due to spotty management and supervision, its usage to augment local city crews in relatively mundane tasks shows that there are alternatives to having city crews do the work alone at much higher cost. There are many points to consider, but the most important to consider right now is that we are the people of California, and we have sovereign rights as the people of California. In the past decade the people of California have removed a sitting governor for perceived political negligence of the needs of the people, and we did do this while the state commander-in-chief of the militia had California National Guard units serving overseas in combat zones, something that triggers the possible use of all kinds of wartime authority under the Military and Veterans Code. We recently amended our state constitution several times, and while some of those amendments are being challenged all the way to the nation's highest court, they are the law as far as our state's highest court has let them stand here now. After all, it is our court. In short, the theme here is that the people of California are a lawful source of sovereign authority over any part of the state where we choose to exercise sovereign power. It is impossibly inconsistent to insist that we do what is necessary to destroy California as a benefit to the people because there is no benefit in that at all; therefore, we must do what is necessary to save the state or any part of it when any and all of California seems determined to walk off a cliff. We have that power. This is not a radical revolutionary theory but the natural conclusion of the United States Department of Homeland Security's National Response Framework as a comprehensive, all-hazard approach to emergency management, and comprehensive emergency management by objectives is the guiding principle in planning, preparing, mitigating, responding and recovering from disasters and risks of all possible emergency incidents under the National Incident Management System and Incident Command System usage of resources to get those objectives accomplished. Under DHS/FEMA's National Response Framework, NIMS/ICS is active at all times and does not require a national state of emergency to be used in any level of response. We have the power when we choose to use it under NRF NIMS/ICS authority. Our city council regularly makes continuing declarations of this crisis and that crisis but does relatively little about them. We have the power by virtue of municipal neglect on the part of civic leaders. [continued below]— November 1, 2010 4:10 a.m.
Encinitas City Council Candidate Tony Kranz Accused of “Attack”
RE "I was the organizer of the event that Roger Ogden was protesting. It was a Town Hall meeting featuring Congressman Bob Filner and radio personality Stacy Taylor": Thank you for your side. As a member of the Old Guard under both Ford and Carter, I had been trained to ignore most protesters with signs, to stand at the ready but take no action against citizens taking a position under the First Amendment. Still, my immediate opinion is that if anyone presented me with a picture of the Commander-in-Chief on my watch with Hitler hair on his upper lip, then perhaps that youngster would have been deserving of a history lesson in enemy identification. Clifford Alexander, the first African-American to be Secretary of the Army, got far better treatment and more respect from any and all of us in the Old Guard, at a time not far removed from Segregation at Fort Myer in Arlington, VA.— October 31, 2010 4:03 p.m.
Encinitas City Council Candidate Tony Kranz Accused of “Attack”
Like I said, no hair pulling or wedgies. It all looks to manufactured to me. As an outsider who has no interest in the local politics except that it may lower San Diego bond ratings and thus raise interest payments with a little electoral craziness, the original article and the cited video don't do anything for me as far as informing me of ISSUES; it's all about personalities. Whether it's a tall tale or not, it has nothing to do with an intelligent analysis of positions, so the people who are interested in fisticuffs can just deal with it themselves. The pending accreditation implosion at Southwestern College is much more entertaining, as is the developers' arguments in Prop. C, or the influence of a new state law as a bailout of CCDC downtown and its effect on the sales tax rate in San Diego's Prop. D. These matters actually involve ISSUES worth time for public debate, something lacking in the one-legged asset kicking contest at the Encinitas Filner rally. If I were still a Republican, I wouldn't be showing up at a Filner rally out of respectful good manners. For me personally, there's nothing going on that's an invite to me back into the Republican Party. As for personalities, I'd vote for the independent Bozo the Clown if he actually had a serious plan that would improve the situation. So far the plans I've heard from the less professional clowns in office are not all that great. Bozo could do better.— October 31, 2010 2:52 p.m.
The San Diego Rescue Mission Opens Its Doors to Just a Few Homeless Women Each Evening
Deeply rooted families are the strength of any community. The roots in San Diego are enriched by the sailors and marines who trained here, a true and honorable cross-section of America for the most part, and who later retired and replanted their family trees here, where we call home. Earlier, one could get a sense of the history of those families all the way back to the 1850s by going to the third floor Pioneer Room at the San Diego County Public Law Library. The Library is closed now for renovations; I hope the successor of the Pioneer Room has as much public access to an amazing collection of books about San Diego as the one I remember and used to read through. It turns out that a lot of early San Diego history was the way it was because of our strategic and somewhat racey location between Tia Juana (the old spelling) and Hollywood. In a world-historical context, that tri-city relationship may be even more important in a post-industrial media-driven world than our strategic WWII location between Washington DC and Tokyo. http://www.digthatcrazyfarout.com/oldtj/TJ_histor… Also see jayallen's amazing collection in his history of San Diego adult theatre..— October 31, 2010 12:56 p.m.
The San Diego Rescue Mission Opens Its Doors to Just a Few Homeless Women Each Evening
The only thing that stops me from living out of my own fighting emplacement dug into an east county hillside is the love and tolerance of many, many relatives living in San Diego county. Back in the day, we had more than a few students sign up just for PE credits at City College's gym, where there was access to showers and a locker. Then and decades before that, there were locker clubs for sailors who couldn't leave base in civilian clothes and who were the market for a place to change, trying to blend in while out on the town and while avoiding that white Shore Patrol van, when downtown San Diego along Broadway and down Fifth was still strip-club Sin City. If only the homeless had some sort of access to that now... I mean to showers and lockers, not necessarily to the strip clubs. I am curious as to how many San Diego homeless actually have extended family roots here, compared to those who have only been here since some bubble burst back east at any time in the last decade or two...— October 31, 2010 11:21 a.m.