My Blogging Whereabouts

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I’ve taken down my previous post about Doug Manchester and his split with his wife. My employer has expressed a wish that I not blog on local issues anywhere except the North County Times, and I agree that’s a wise decision. So I won’t be blogging anymore on SD Rostra. However, I’ll still be blogging, and reporting, at the North …

Just What California Needs! Another Push to Raise Taxes!

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Yet another attempt to raise California’s taxes is rearing its head, this time from a group calling itself Think Long California. It’s already getting the usual uncritical reception from a fawning media. (UPDATE II: The LA Times for a change doesn’t fall into this category. It published a fair article on the tax hike proposal, complete with appropriate headline)   …

Climategate 2.0 — More Global Warming Emails Apparently Released

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A second release of the controversial Climategate emails from global warming scientists appears to have  just taken place. The most important question is whether these emails are real and not some hoax. If they’re real, the cover-up of biased global warming scientists has become even flimsier. And the task of their dutiful allies in the mainstream media has become much …

My Response To Jim Sills On John Lynch’s Support of Corporate Welfare

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Since comments to Sills’ last post appear to be closed, I’m placing my reply in its own post. This reply-reply-to-reply format is cumbersome, so I’ve shortened it — hopefully without distorting the meaning. Read the original thread linked above to get everything.  My comments are in boldface. I respect Sills’ spirited defense of alleged conservatives John Lynch and Doug Manchester, …

U-T Must Shill For Chargers, Says John Lynch – UPDATED

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UPDATE: The news in the VOSD story is every bit as bad as I feared. From the story, John Lynch says: He wants that sports page to be an advocate for a new football stadium “and call out those who don’t as obstructionists.” “To my way of thinking,” Lynch said, “that’s a shovel-ready job for thousands.” … “We’d like to …

OWS’s Roots: Downward Mobility In The Regulatory Class

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I’m cheerfully stealing this meme from Patterico, which has an insightful roundup of opinions about the social motivations of the Occupy Wall Street crowd. The trigger for their rage isn’t really the banking industry, but the increasingly bleak job prospects of the lower rung of the would-be regulators and do-gooders. These types did everything dutiful big government left-liberals should do; …

Doug Manchester Interested In SDUT Purchase: VOSD Report

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UPDATE: Credit Where Due Dept: Don Bauder of the San Diego Reader discussed the rumor that Manchester was buying the U-T in a Sept. 29 blog post. Bauder properly called it a “strictly a rumor”, but one worth reporting. I think that was the proper way to handle it. The rumor was widely given credence by local insiders, and journalists …

Another Snuff Video From Global Warming Activists

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UPDATE: The poster of the global warming snuff video was getting hammered in the comments from us evil Koch-funded global warming deniers. So he disabled commenting. Fools like that live in their own isolated enclaves of moonbattery in which burning up skeptics is funny. Exposure to the real world must have chilled his resolve. So I suggest you instead look …

Nancy Pelosi Thanks Me — For What, I Don’t Know

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There has got to be some misunderstanding. I’ve never contributed any cash, not even a fetid dingo kidney, to Democrats. Or for that matter, to Republicans or Libertarians. True, I once registered as a Democrat, but that was many years ago. Yet look at what popped into my inbox earlier this evening from the former Speaker of the House (emphasis …

UPDATE WARNING LIFTED: SD CityBeat Hit By Warning of Malware

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UPDATE: The malware warning was gone when I checked at 2:50. So cruise on over once again to SD CityBeat.` ———————————————————————– Those hipster cats at San Diego CityBeat are having a rough day: Their Web site has been flagged as containing malware. Not only that, but so have other, unrelated CityBeat Web sites across the country, such as in Cincinnati. …

Metropolitan Water District Unfunded Liability Exceeds $600M

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A new story of mine at the North County Times gives the deets: Metropolitan Water District, Southern California’s biggest water wholesaler has accumulated more than $600 million in unfunded liability for retirees since 1999. The analysis comes from a new report issued Tuesday by a local taxpayers’ group, San Diego Taxpayers Educational Foundation. Customers of Metropolitan, or taxpayers, will ultimately …

LA Times Covers For Calif’s High-Speed Train Debacle

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On Oct. 29, the Los Angeles Times published its version of what’s wrong with plans for a high-speed rail system from Northern to Southern California. Was the story about rising cost estimates and unrealistically high ridership estimates? Of course it wasn’t! This is the Los Angeles Times, which is not devoted to facts, but rather its higher goal of indoctrinating …

Occupy Oceanside . . . Filling In The Ellipsis

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The “Occupy” movement came to Oceanside yesterday. And as with all the “Occupy” movements, the question is, what’s their purpose? A brief preview story in the San Diego Union-Tribune provided this tantalizingly elided quote from an Occupy Oceanside press release: “The big banks, multinational corporations and unscrupulous billionaires … have far more influence on the democratic process than ever intended …

Mayoral Debate Fails To Strike Sparks, DeMaio and Dumanis Stay Out, Is Fletcher’s Heart In Pension Reform?

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I really wanted to see the mayoral debate on Wednesday, but my day job kept me until it was too late to go. But from what’s been printed about it, I didn’t miss much. Only two of the top four candidates even showed up — Nathan Fletcher and Bob Filner. Kudos to them for showing up. As for Carl DeMaio …

Deal For Chargers Stadium? Not So Fast!

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Eager to secure his legacy before leaving office, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders is rushing to get a stadium built in downtown San Diego’s East Village for the Chargers. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports: San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders has hired a financial adviser to help city and county officials draft a plan to pay for a Chargers stadium in …

Wrong, SD GOP . . . Sigh

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This is not how Republicans should be making the news . . . From the San Diego Union-Tribune: Twitter accounts of county GOP, chairman yanked A good (old fashioned?) cyber-spat between San Diego County’s Republican and Democratic parties has broken out on — where else? — Twitter. On Wednesday, local Democratic Party Chairman Jess Durfee issued a press release about …