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Gambling hypocrisy: Padres protested wagering facility near Petco
The gaslamp district needs a casino. Vote for Sandra O'connor as our next mayor.— February 16, 2013 11:55 a.m.
San Diego Hospice euthanized
San Diego Hospice euthanized Did this Hospice received money from the foundation that Sandra O'connor husband started.— February 16, 2013 11:52 a.m.
Remodel starts on Ocean Beach’s Apple Tree Market
Always bad produce at Apple Tree but plenty of beer. Fit ocean beach well.— January 8, 2013 7:13 p.m.
San Diego rude taxi drivers
Viewing of the transit security tapes for bus,trolley, train and cab should be in the hands of independent Federal officials, not the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System. One requirement for work as a Federal overseer is that one be transit dependent. A passenger who has a complaint or incident could request it be viewed or reviewed by the Federal overseers. The money Feds would save on cutting back on empty buses, trains , trolleys and cabs that a local official would never report could be transferred to transit vehicles that security videos show have standing room only: increase revenue-decrease cost.. Eliminate wasteful spending on MTS and NCTD complaint bureaus for cab, trolley, bus and train. Plus, it would cut down on pickpockets who harvest San Diego.— October 27, 2012 1:02 p.m.
San Diego Restaurants to Try at Least Once
What about price-plate-exceptionaly value?...these were Mitt Roomey reviews...— October 23, 2012 11:50 a.m.
Aqualung at 40...You Poor Old Sod
Disc one is a pleasure to listen too with the flute and quitar. Ignore side two— October 21, 2012 1:16 p.m.
Ocean Beach’s Portugalia for Sale
Numerous establishment are closing all over town. Only don bauder hasn't seen that.— October 16, 2012 6:52 p.m.
Ocean Beach Pier Jump Goes Unpunished
OCEAN BEACH (OB)2006 http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/ocean-beach… Ocean Beach is just a drive by for commercial airlines and the San Diego police. Baghdad car patrol. The cops don't even stop to eat in OB. Coffee and donuts while steering and peering at the freaks. "Taxi driver" in black and whites.. No visual police street presents in OB, except, perhaps presents for that same group of “taxi drivers" constantly congregating outside two local stores laden with bottled beer and liquor for sale. Street present are the crusty winos. Cardboard mats, cardboard colored beer bags, cardboard colored clothing, cardboard colored hair, skin, sand and lovers. Fashion by ‘ beersun&wind’. Toothless mouths squirt saliva and alcoholic juiced slang when probing for spare change and romance. The OB library always has more people working behind the counter then public available 1hr computers. Two bus lines the #35 and 923 with brake happy chauffeurs tram the noisy sailors, reading students, silent workers, seniors with their bus pass hanging around their neck and smelly circus freaks in and out of town. The corner of Cable and Newport Ave looks like the greyhounded public transit center of OB. Peoples market is the spiritual center of OB. The juice there is a $1 cup of organic COFFEE made with filtered water, sweetened with amber avocado honey and chalky soymilk. The pier is the wild habitat center of OB. Pelicans perching on the railings for discarded fish heads, whales and dolphins for sightings and the surfers tubing through the pier’s concrete pilings for danger. There are more liquor stores owned by Arabs in Ocean Beach then African Americans. The lone New York Jewish woman rides her 1958 bike with big tires around town, the fenders rattle. The gentile women have trucks or SUVs, arms tattooed from wrist to shoulder, wear flip-flops, wool caps and totes big dogs on chains. If as you kneel and pet; the dog sniffs and likes you, well the gentile ladies pick out and buy themselves flowers at OB's farmer market every Wednesday. The gods blessed Ocean Beach with good air quality, a Mediterranean climate, a wicked riptide and no senior center. The beach has more trash left on it then any in the states. If the Surfrider’s foundation didn't volunteer to clean up the beach the morning after July 4th Ocean Beach would be closed. Yet, millions are spent by the city on earthmovers shifting piles of seaweed and sand around the beach. Disrupting the morning calm while eschewing the trash bobbing on the edge of our world.— October 9, 2012 6:03 p.m.
Hillcrest’s Pernicano's and Casa di Baffi Restaurants... "Abandoned"?
I live in that part of town. There are numerous vacant business structures where fifth and fourth ave crosses university. (UNION BANK) Didn't Mr. Pernicano let the city turn the parking lot into a paid lot. There are six hamburger joints within walking distance of Pernicano's and Casa di Baffi restaurants maybe they could turn it into an IN AND OUT burger joint.— October 4, 2012 10:13 a.m.
Ocean Beach Sex Crimes Prompt Frustration at Meeting
OCEAN BEACH (OB)2006 Ocean Beach is just a drive by for commercial airlines and the San Diego police. Baghdad car patrol. The cops don't even stop to eat in OB. Coffee and donuts while steering and peering at the freaks. "Taxi driver" in black and whites.. No visual police street presents in OB, except, perhaps presents for that same group of “taxi drivers" constantly congregating outside two local stores laden with bottled beer and liquor for sale. Street present are the crusty winos. Cardboard mats, cardboard colored beer bags, cardboard colored clothing, cardboard colored hair, skin, sand and lovers. Fashion by ‘ beersun&wind’. Toothless mouths squirt saliva and alcoholic juiced slang when probing for spare change and romance. The OB library always has more people working behind the counter then public available 1hr computers. Two bus lines the #35 and 923 with brake happy chauffeurs tram the noisy sailors, reading students, silent workers, seniors with their bus pass hanging around their neck and smelly circus freaks in and out of town. The corner of Cable and Newport Ave looks like the greyhounded public transit center of OB. Peoples market is the spiritual center of OB. The juice there is a $1 cup of organic COFFEE made with filtered water, sweetened with amber avocado honey and chalky soymilk. The pier is the wild habitat center of OB. Pelicans perching on the railings for discarded fish heads, whales and dolphins for sightings and the surfers tubing through the pier’s concrete pilings for danger. There are more liquor stores owned by Arabs in Ocean Beach then African Americans. The lone New York Jewish woman rides her 1958 bike with big tires around town, the fenders rattle. The gentile women have trucks or SUVs, arms tattooed from wrist to shoulder, wear flip-flops, wool caps and totes big dogs on chains. If as you kneel and pet; the dog sniffs and likes you, well the gentile ladies pick out and buy themselves flowers at OB's farmer market every Wednesday. The gods blessed Ocean Beach with good air quality, a Mediterranean climate, a wicked riptide and no senior center. The beach has more trash left on it then any in the states. If the Surfrider’s foundation didn't volunteer to clean up the beach the morning after July 4th Ocean Beach would be closed. Yet, millions are spent by the city on earthmovers shifting piles of seaweed and sand around the beach. Disrupting the morning calm while eschewing the trash bobbing on the edge of our world. Ocean beach has one street (Newport Ave) with bars, big hamburgers, Mexican food and that street leads to the entrance to the wino’s hood: the beach, the fire pits, the pier, the public bathrooms and the cliffs. . and Ocean Beach has one street (Sunset Cliffs) with all its’ community active churches feeding the forgotten and that street leads one out of town.— September 27, 2012 3:15 p.m.