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SDG&E Leading Nation in Smart Grid Rollout, Like It or Not
RE #2: There is already at least one formal consumer "complaint" to have California's Public Utilities Commission reverse itself regarding the installation of smart meters in the San Francisco region.— October 20, 2010 9:05 a.m.
Mayor a No-Show at Second Community Forum
To the extent that Sanders is viewed as a strong-mayor role model by other local politicians, things cannot be good for ordinary reasonable taxpaying people who sincerely want to know that their municipal governments are RESPONSIBLY effective. Pushing for Sacramento billion-dollar backroom closed-door deals that would have never passed muster in the light of day here is nothing more that saying that the ends justify the means. On that basis alone, clever defense attorneys are probably looking at every felony conviction arrived at while our strong mayor was San Diego's chief of police. Thanks, Mr. Mayor... and thanks to the chief county prosecutor and other politicians who stand with him, in full view of the public or in secret.— October 20, 2010 8:29 a.m.
My Pants were on, so what was the Big Deal?
RE "I assume you're familiar with the experience of watching opera in Italy...": Never been to Italy. Family members went during WWII, but Gen. Patton didn't allow all that much leisure time at the opera. Since we ARE making assumptions, I'm assuming that the performances were being recorded; otherwise, nobody would have said anything about timing your entrance. Perhaps you'll get a credit for adding content on the CD? Amusing how they would call it an audition when it's not an audition. Now, that's pretentious.— October 19, 2010 11:59 p.m.
Judge Permits Channel 10 to Use Videotape of Sanders Deposition in Kessler Case
This could explain the mayoral no-show at at the Clairemont High School community forum. I'd be in hiding too. Remind me to tell you about I once left for DC hoping nobody would notice I was gone, but when I got back, my picture was in everyone's mail box.— October 19, 2010 11:02 p.m.
Mayor a No-Show at Second Community Forum
Perhaps the realization has been made in the strong mayor's tower of power that we aren't that gullible. I keep getting this impression that between the back channel negotiations to Sacramento on the CCDC thing, the drag of pushing Prop. D, the bigger drag of planning for Prop. D's failure, and the KESSLER V. CITY OF SAN DIEGO hearings that are not going his way, hiz honor is kind of caught in the headlights...— October 19, 2010 10:01 p.m.
Tentative Ruling: Judge Won't Throw Out Kessler Suit
RE "We now really have a Political Problem in San Diego, it used to be a Money Problem; that's why voting for another tax will only make solving our BIG Political Problem much harder! Vote NO on Prop D Put Politician's to Work": Passage of Proposition D's half cent sales tax increase is at this point a reward and precedent. Prop. D would reward the local political structure for having lost just about every pre-trial decision in KESSLER V. CITY OF SAN DIEGO. Prop. D would create a precedent out of the flawed and possibly illegal wheeling and dealing that accompanied the state negotiations on the 3-month-late California budget, especially as to the lack of prior public disclosure on the $6 billion CCDC deal. The only proper public apology on that matter from the mayor's office should have been accompanied by a resignation. It makes no sense (once the public wakes up) for city leaders to come at us for a tax increase covering a $70 million budget gap after our strong mayor urges Fletcher in Sacramento to push a new law that gives away $6 billion in future local tax revenues.— October 19, 2010 12:04 p.m.
Erroneous SDG&E/IOU WEBA Assumptions – Part II
From CPUC decision in 2001, regarding California Electricity Crisis of 2000: "Available information suggests that at no time since wholesale energy prices started rising in the summer of 2000, while the utilities were increasingly strident in their claims of worsening financial condition, imminent bankruptcy, and the consequent threat to their ability to fully meet their obligation to serve, did any of their respective holding companies provide an infusion of capital to address the utilities' capital needs as detailed above. We will investigate whether this apparent failure to infuse capital violates the condition in our holding company decisions that the holding company give 'first priority' to the capital needs of its utility subsidiary to meet its obligation to serve."— October 19, 2010 10:26 a.m.
SDG&E Leading Nation in Smart Grid Rollout, Like It or Not
See also "South OC [Orange County] to get smart meters installed beginning 2011" at: http://www.smartmeters.com/the-news/1282-south-oc…— October 19, 2010 10:15 a.m.
Carlsbad's Actis: How a Pyramid Topples
RE "Lastly, the only way to win in 'network marketing' is to chose a stable and successful company with great products and ethical people": MLM is a good way for large to mega-sized corporations to avoid paying employee taxes. Example: Primerica MLM of mortgage, investment and insurance services door to door before subprimality and other related factors resulted in the Crash of 2008. MLM pretty much describes the insurance industry today, as if AIG ever wanted to treat insurance agents as anything other than piecework producers of policies. Even after the insurance industry bailout, one can only imagine just how little anyone selling insurance is actually contributing to the tax base, while everyone else picks up the slack. I know people who made a killing by moving air purifiers during the 2003 and 2007 SDG&E wildfires via MLM... they kept my asthmatic relatives from suffering from the really bad air quality as smoke and ash filled the outdoor air.— October 19, 2010 7:54 a.m.
The Village Pig
RE "If we're gonna eat whatever is dumber and slower than us, better be careful - the population keeps growing, and there's a lot of dumb, slow people out there! McDummy burgers....": Glad you said it first. Ain't the First Amendment grand?— October 18, 2010 6:28 p.m.