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??Affordable?? Housing
Affordability and the lack of it may also be a consequence of the City Council failing to monitor the "residential tax effect" of SDG&E's multiple proposed rate increases on consumers. Under the 1970 electricity franchise ordinance, the City Council does have authority to change the annual franchise fee of 3% of gross receipts to some higher level that will reduce our wildfire threat by speeding up the undergrounding of some 3400 miles of overhead power lines BEFORE SDG&E's estimated completion of that task in 2063. If the City Council is asleep at the wheel, then the voters of San Diego have the franchise right to pass an initiative to modify or even terminate the franchise agreement, putting the whole mess up for bid again.— August 11, 2010 4:05 p.m.
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RE #13: The arguments 60 years ago AND their resolution for racial educational equality had absolutely no impact on American foreign relations, or if those arguments did, then nobody got rich writing about it and so we have no real evidence of it. I declare that the arguments NOW on equating natural marriage with any or all other forms of marriage DO have a foreign relations impact at least to the extent that they may prompt religiously-motivated anti-American terrorism, based previous behaviors of nations sponsoring such terrorism while wanting to acquire nuclear weapons technology and while proclaiming "Death to America." Any attempt for people well-versed in all-hazard emergency management planning and mitigation of hazardous risks of national importance to ignore the above cited risk more or less resembles the current administration's approach to BP before the Deepwater Horizon platform blew up, went under, and gave free oil to people living in the Gulf of Mexico.— August 11, 2010 3:58 p.m.
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RE #5: "Natural marriage" is what has been happening naturally for thousands of years, as a vital procreative process of socially-acceptable form that continues the species and insures inheritance rights. I can only assume Adam and Eve were hitched by God. Mo marriage certificate for them is currently available at the County Public Law Library or from any other source. I have no problem with gay marriage, either. My problem is with the equation of natural marriage with all other forms of marriage in all aspects, when the vast majority of ordinary reasonable people can plainly see that they are not the same in all aspects, legal or otherwise.— August 11, 2010 3:44 p.m.
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RE #4: The denial of rights goes precisely where this blog post is pointed at, where the rights of persons who believe that natural marriage is between one man and one woman are subject to religious persecution by acts of the state. It may be instructive that one side in the debate may not recognize any compelling state interests in the state accounting for natural marriages that naturally produce children as opposed to other forms of marriage that do not.— August 11, 2010 3:39 p.m.
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RE "We are but one group of people. We are all human beings. To classify humans into groups is the equivalent of bigotry" in #3: For taxonomy/biological classification purposes, the above quote may be true, but it has little or nothing to do with the fact that Californians are a select group that voted for a California constitutional amendment, and it is not true that all human beings are Californians who are electors of the state, eligible to vote on California ballot initiatives.— August 11, 2010 3:32 p.m.
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RE #2: Insistence by groups seeking the protection of "language equivalence" more or less prompted the introduction of the term "natural marriage" which corresponds to the term "marriage" that Utah was forced to adhere to before it could be admitted as a state, shortly after outlawing polygamy to gain admission into the Union.— August 11, 2010 3:27 p.m.
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RE #1: I learned in the infantry school to alternate pairs of combat boots from day to day... and use lots of socks.— August 11, 2010 3:04 p.m.
On the Benefits of Recreational Summertime Walking through Death Valley
I plan on inserting myself into this comment thread later, as my time is limited this morning, but I am deeply appreciative of the tone of these comments so far. I forgive nobody as nobody has trespassed upon me and needs to be forgiven, even if I am truly small-minded and bigoted, for the statement of that as The Truth should be of no offense to anyone. I hope that anyone who couldn't handle reading this blog post all the way through finally gets to the part where I utterly destroy myself over several picturesque paragraphs, as they may feel much better thinking of me as carrion for scavenging birds then. I aim to please.— August 10, 2010 10:45 a.m.
Kinder, Gentler SDG&E Proposes 7% Rate Increase RE Uninsured Wildfire Legal Costs
RE #3: Now where is that handy, dandy form designer...— August 9, 2010 7:18 a.m.
What costs $600,000 per day to run?
Now to find out what the daily labor and expendables costs are...— August 7, 2010 4:35 p.m.