June 2012

Gone campin’ – Open Thread for the Weekend

June 29, 2012 by Staff

Here at OB Rag central, there’s no one left as we’ve all gone camping.

But we’ve left an OPEN THREAD – so readers can speak their minds and express their thoughts – someone will be monitoring comments to let newbies in. Just add your comments at the bottom here and we’ll see you next week.

And don’t forget – the good folks over at San Diego Free Press are still in town, so use this weekend to check them out.

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A Call for Moderation During OB’s “Marshmallow Wars” on July 4th

June 29, 2012 by Frank Gormlie

Every July 4th for the last upteen years, OBceans and their friends mass on the beach during the fireworks. And as soon as the explosions and bright stars are gone, they open up on each other with marshmallows, as part of the annual tradition that began 29 years ago. It ‘s part of our culture now.

And yet each year, the marshmallows wars seem to grow and include more and more of OB’s seafront. Last year, for example, revelers took the fighting onto Newport Avenue, down the street, up Abbott, over to the Pier.

And the mess was incredible. The same thing happened the year before, with notable stains of black marshmallow goo on the Veterans’ Memorial Rock and Park. Community volunteers – not enough – emerged over the next several days to clean off the junk. But hey! enough is enough!

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The City’s Plan for Sunset Cliffs Erosion: Install Pipes Through Cliffs, Install Drains at Base, and Dye Hillsides

June 29, 2012 by Frank Gormlie

The City of San Diego has unfurled its plan to stem erosion of the Sunset Cliffs. In essence, the plan calls for pipes to be drilled through the cliffs, drains installed at the base of the cliffs, and to dye and texture surrounding hill and cliffsides so they appear “natural”.

The plan, presented by city associate civil engineer Paul Jacob, was given to a community meeting on June 20th, attended by about 30 concerned citizens at the Jim Howard Hall at Robb Field. Martin Jones Westlin wrote up a report for the Peninsula Beacon, published a week later.

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Morning After Mess: Surfrider Needs Your Help Cleaning Up Our Beaches on July 5th

June 29, 2012 by Source

From Surfline

The San Diego County Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation will be hosting this year’s Morning After Mess on Thursday, July 5th from 9:00 am to 11:00 am, meeting at four coastal San Diego County locations to clean up after July 4th holiday crowds and festivities: the Ocean Beach Pier, Belmont Park in Mission Beach, the end of Pacific Beach Drive, and the South Harbor Jetty in Oceanside.

It’s a regrettable reality, but while summer weekends and holidays bring tourists and visitors to San Diego’s world-class beaches, those visitors and tourists often leave mountains of litter and garbage in their wake. Few holidays generate more garbage or trash on our beaches than the Independence Day holiday on the 4th of July. Last year, the Morning After Mess cleanup recovered 1,025 pounds of trash, as well as 255 pounds of recyclable material.

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Dissecting the Supreme Court’s “Obamacare” Decision

June 28, 2012 by Andy Cohen

In writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts is careful to note that upholding the act is not the same as endorsing it.

The Supreme Court today upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the signature legislative accomplishment of the Obama Administration in a 5-4 decision, a majority that included conservative Chief Justice John Roberts. This is a big day for the Obama Administration, and for Democrats nationwide. This was the day that the Affordable Care Act—an imperfect law with definite shortcomings, but a good start toward healthcare reform nonetheless—was ratified as the law of the land once and for all.

Since day one Republicans have assaulted the Act as unconstitutional on several grounds, spreading lies and misinformation about the Act in a propaganda campaign to ensure public opinion is squarely against it. Lies such as calling it a “government takeover of healthcare,” or excoriating the “death panels” that the law supposedly contained, or that those who already had insurance through their employer were going to lose it, or railing about the trillions of dollars it will add to the budget deficit.

None of those things are even remotely true. In fact, they’re all demonstrably false, but that hasn’t stopped the right wing from passing it all off as gospel.

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July 2 – 7: Week of Protest of Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks Being Held in San Diego

June 28, 2012 by Source

No to NAFTA on Steroids

Coalition to STOP TPP Announces Week of Protest

and an International Community-Based Conference

From June 30 to July 8, the secret, super-treaty negotiations known as the 13th Round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Negotiations are being held here in San Diego at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel. The Coalition to STOP TPP hereby announces a week with rallies, a march, various other protests, and a week-long international community-based People’s Conference: A Better World Is Possible!

The 11 nations involved in the talks are the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei, Chile, Peru, Mexico, and Canada. Japan has indicated a desire to join. The economic power of this group is more than 40% larger than the 27-nation European Union. The claimed purpose of TPP is to promote development and create jobs. But their reality is different. Though the contents of these negotiations are secret, what is not a secret is that the impacts of the TPP on these Pacific Rim nations, on peasants, on farmers, on workers, on their natural resources, on the environment, will be devastating. Some people describe the TPP as “NAFTA on Steroids.”

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Justice Scalia Must Resign

June 28, 2012 by Source

By E.J. Dionne Jr. / The Washington Post / June 28, 2012

He’d have a lot of things to do. He’s a fine public speaker and teacher. He’d be a heck of a columnist and blogger. But he really seems to aspire to being a politician – and that’s the problem.

So often, Scalia has chosen to ignore the obligation of a Supreme Court justice to be, and appear to be, impartial. He’s turned “judicial restraint” into an oxymoronic phrase. But what he did this week, when the court announced its decision on the Arizona immigration law, should be the end of the line.

Not content with issuing a fiery written dissent, Scalia offered a bench statement questioning President Obama’s decision to allow some immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children to stay. Obama’s move had nothing to do with the case in question. Scalia just wanted you to know where he stood.

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Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act !

June 28, 2012 by Andy Cohen

From San Diego Free Press

In a stunning turn of events, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, the signature legislative accomplishment of the Obama Administration.

In a 5-4 decision (more on that in a minute), the Court upheld the contentious individual mandate, determining that it was indeed constitutional under the commerce clause, justifying the requirement to purchase health insurance as a tax and therefore within the purview of Congress to enact.

Perhaps the most stunning development, however, was how the 5-4 decision came about. It was largely assumed that if the law were to be struck down, it would be along strict party lines with Justice Anthony Kennedy voting with the conservative members of the court. It was also widely thought that if the law were upheld–as it has been–that it would likely be a 6-3 vote with Chief Justice John Roberts joining Kennedy and the liberal members of the court to justify the law.

This is a developing story. Please check back later for updates. Go to San Diego Free Press

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Inside Mexico’s new youth rebellion – the “Soy 132” Movement

June 27, 2012 by Source

By Kent Paterson/ Frontera NorteSur / Originally published on June 21, 2012

Almost from nowhere, the 132 Movement not only succeeded in mobilizing thousands of young people in street protests against one Mexican presidential candidate and media monopolization, but recast Mexico’s elections by thrusting questions of money and politics, economic power and corruption and education and citizenship into the center of the political process.

In Aguascalientes, Mexico, a group of young people passed out leaflets to passerby in the city’s busy downtown. A young woman wore a homemade poster that protested the murders of women in the state of Mexico, while her companions distributed leaflets that flashed a satiric image of former Mexico state governor and current presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto.

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The Starting Line: Pension Proposition Proponents Required to Pay Legal Fees; Filner Scores on MSNBC

June 27, 2012 by Doug Porter

June 27, 2012- You can’t have it both ways… The San Diego City Council yesterday refused to fund legal representation for city employees who may be called to testify in lawsuits challenging the recently approved Proposition B, a measure that seeks to fundamentally restructure the city’s pension system.
San Diego is facing lawsuits from its unions and the state Public Employment Relations Board, who claim officials violated the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act by failing to negotiate terms of the initiative with labor prior to placing it on the ballot.

Filner’s on fire… Congressman (and mayoral candidate) Bob Filner appeared on Rachel Maddow’s NSNBC program last night to talk about veterans’ issues. For the remainder of this article – please go to San Diego Free Press.

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Bob Filner, My Kind of Snarly Guy

June 27, 2012 by Ernie McCray

Both candidates for Mayor of San Diego are viewed as fighters, but only one has repeatedly and habitually demonstrated a genuine concern for the people he is elected to serve.

Carl DeMaio and Bob Filner have both been described as “snarly.” Maybe they are but Bob has got a lot of snarling to do to match Carl.

I mean Bob pretty much, from what I’ve seen personally, as a friend of his over the years, only snarls at the likes of the promoters of injustices in our society like the fat cats in high positions and places who spend their lives conniving how to deny us “regular” folks a nice slice of the American Pie, not caring whether we live or die.

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“God Don’t Make Junk.” Conversations with my Evangelical Christian Neighbor

June 27, 2012 by Anna Daniels

City Heights has got religion. A distinctive characteristic of my community is not only the sheer number of religious establishments located here, but the diverse forms that religious expression takes. There are the storefront Evangelical and Pentecostal Christian churches that have sprung up along University and El Cajon Boulevard, with names like La Esposa del Cordero, the Shepherd’s Wife, and signs with the exhortation Pare de Sufrir, to stop suffering.

There are Buddhist temples, botánicas, a mosque, a tiny Russian Orthodox church, and familiar Catholic and Baptist churches as well. Religious services are conducted in Spanish, Creole, Russian, Chinese and Vietnamese, to name just a few of the languages routinely spoken besides English. I do not know if other languages besides Arabic are used at the mosque located adjacent to the Somali neighborhood known as Little Mogadishu. There are also shamans and babaloas living quietly among us.

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A Hard Look At San Diego: The Kafkaesque Process of Trying to Save a Home from Foreclosure

June 27, 2012 by Source

In my last column I began the story of someone I call Jose, and what led to his financial crisis. In this column I look at the Kafkaesque process he went through in his failed attempt to save his home from foreclosure. The experiences I describe here are neither rare nor random. The difficulties Jose and his family encountered in trying to get their bank to re-evaluate their loan were all too representative of the random sample of people I interviewed. The tragic fact is that the delays that Jose’s family encountered were not the result of inefficiency, but rather a deliberate policy to protect banks.

Banks do NOT want foreclosures rapidly resolved because that would bring these properties down to market value, reflecting badly on their bottom lines. Thus families like Jose’s are the deliberate casualties of a war of attrition that banks have waged on the public to protect their economic interests. For the remainder of this article, please go here.

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Did County Supervisor Ron Roberts Do A $1.56 Million End Run Around the General Plan?

June 26, 2012 by Anna Daniels

Originally published at San Diego Free Press

“The process of public engagement [in developing the County of San Diego General Plan] had hundreds of hearings over 10 years…So the implication is that anything that is coming forward now would be inconsistent. It would be amazing if there is going to now be wholesale General Plan amendments.”

San Diego County Planning Commissioner Michael Beck, Nov. 9, 2011 interview with KPBS

Last Wednesday, June 20th, the County Board of Supervisors held a hearing for 137 private property requests that would require amending the County’s new General Plan, …

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OB Ragster Tapped for International Conflict Resolution by State Department

June 26, 2012 by Jack Hamlin

North African & Mideast Conflict Resolution Delegation visits San Diego; Looks for Answers and finds more Questions

Clearly the vetting process at the State Department needs some updating from the Google dartboard they must be currently using, I thought to myself a little over a week ago, last Friday. After all, the last rumor I heard about the OB Rag / San Diego Free Press staffers was we were all under investigation by Homeland Security for our Occupy Movement support. But unlike some other thoughts I have, at least there was a basis for this one.

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A Hard Look at San Diego: The Story of One Latino Family and What Foreclosure has Meant

June 26, 2012 by Gregg Robinson

By J. G. Robinson / San Diego Free Press

As I said in my last column, Latinos in our community have been among the groups most affected by the foreclosure crisis. In the next two columns I tell the story of one Latino family and what foreclosure has meant to it. I found this story moving, and it is one of the strongest indictments I know of the politicians and business people who have done so little to help people facing foreclosure. In this first installment I will look at what led up to the foreclosure for this family, and in the following column I will examine what happened after the foreclosure took place. This is the story of someone I will call Jose.

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Help Sought in Finding Assailants From Assault on Bacon Street

June 26, 2012 by Staff

The OB Rag has been contacted by friends of an OB man who was violently assaulted on Bacon Street after walking home from Winston’s, one night last weekend. A $500 award has been posted for information.

The victim was walking home around 1:30 – 2am between Niagara and Narragansett. He was savagely attacked by three white males in their 20’s who kicked him repeated in the face. So far, the only description available is 3 white males , with medium height and build, with short haircuts, and one of the three being a bit shorter than the other two.

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Surfrider Promotes Landscaping Program to OB and Pt. Loma Residents – June 28th

June 26, 2012 by Source

Ocean Friendly Garden Party

San Diego, California – Ocean Beach and Point Loma residents have long endured problems of stormwater flooding, an eroding coastline, and polluted beaches from rainwater runoff, but now they can learn firsthand how to mitigate those problems by attending Surfrider Foundation’s Garden Party event at the Ocean Beach Hotel on Thursday, June 28th from 5-8pm.The Ocean Beach Hotel is located at 5080 Newport Ave.

“The event will be a beautiful evening of music, wine, and appetizers, but more importantly we will be introducing local homeowners to our Ocean Friendly Gardens Program” said Susan Krzywicki, Chair of the Ocean Friendly Gardens program.

“Everyone always wants to know why Surfrider is involved in gardening. Well, in nature, everything is connected. An Ocean Friendly Garden can help stop erosion, stop polluted runoff, save water (thereby lowering water bills,) create native habitat for birds and butterflies, and is part of a comprehensive landscaping solution needed for the Ocean Beach and Sunset Cliffs area,” she said.

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Protest at the Citizens Review Board – Tierrasanta Branch Library, Tuesday, June 26th

June 25, 2012 by Staff

A protest is being planned at the next open meeting of San Diego’s Citizens Review Board on Police Practices. A grand jury investigation uncovered major corruption at the Board. (Here is an article on the Grand Jury report.)

Some of the violations included police presence during closed sessions, police harassment, intimidation and bullying of board members who disagreed with police findings.

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Ocean Beach Street Fair 2012 – Vid Slide Show, Chili Cook-Off and Other Winners

June 25, 2012 by Brenda McFarlane

It was sunny, it was busy, it was the best day of the year here in OB!

Pictures of 2012 OB Street Fair

As usual, the fair introduced the new with the best of tradition. Music was hoping with 6 free stages! The Big Main Stage, the 92107 Stage for OB local bands, three other stages featuring roots, rock, alternative and everything in between. This year, the beautiful Electric Ladyland venue also hosted a stage.

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Supreme Court Reverses Anti-Citizens United Ruling From Montana

June 25, 2012 by Frank Gormlie

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down Montana’s century-old limits on corporate political spending, putting an end to the state’s resistance to Citizens United and effectively expanding that controversial ruling to the state and local elections.

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, decided in January 2010, struck down federal limits on campaign spending by corporations and unions as violations of the First Amendment. Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing on behalf of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, reached the bold conclusion that “independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption,” and therefore “[n]o sufficient governmental interest justifies limits on the political speech of nonprofit or for-profit corporations.”

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Gentrification Blues: San Diego’s Lost Dive Bars

June 25, 2012 by Jim Miller

I had an old friend in town recently for a visit, a friend who’d lived in San Diego for many years until leaving for South America before the law could catch up with him. Back in the day, my pal was a real wild man, spending much of his free time scouring San Diego for the next dive bar with its mandatory sordid adventure, so his return to our heavily gentrified city was like watching a bewildered Bukowski re-emerge after being cryogenically frozen for 20 years, stumbling through the streets of downtown, Golden Hill, North Park, City Heights, and the beaches bitterly muttering to himself about chic bistros and expensive craft brews. The statute of limitations was up but his city was gone.

Never has a stout middle-aged man seemed so distraught to be in a room full of beautiful young women as my companion was when confronted with the new gang populating the renovated Waterfront Bar and Grill or the cocktail lounge that replaced the bar with no name and the crooked pool tables. “What happened, Miller?” He kept saying to me as he shook his head disapprovingly. “Look at this! What the hell happened?”

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Koch Brothers Unveil Hush-Hush Project Themis at Carlsbad Confab

June 25, 2012 by Doug Porter

From San Diego Free Press
While a small group of protesters rallied in downtown San Diego to protest the Koch confab in Carlsbad, Charles and David Koch, who tied as the fourth richest Americans on the 2012 Forbes list, were holding their secret reception and biannual fundraiser in Carlsbad.
The Koch event, billed as “Path to Freedom 2012” completely took over the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort where rooms start at $1,250 a night. Security was tight, but not so tight that a reporter from Buzzfeed wasn’t prevented from sneaking in by trekking across the golf course.

The only major breach of security at a Koch confab was in 2011, when advance notice of a Koch confab at the enclave of Rancho Mirage in the California desert led to raucous demonstrations outside the event.

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Error Code 451

June 25, 2012 by Source

There are some places we are not allowed to go on the internet. Sometimes when censorship is imposed by the government the error message should be Error Code 451. This is the idea of Google’s Tim Bray.

The number 451 refers to Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Since we all have read this text.

What?

You haven’t read it?

Drop everything and run to the library before it is too late! To give you a taste here are some quotes from the book. …

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Supreme Court allows racial profiling in Arizona – San Diego Labor Council holds protest today

June 25, 2012 by Staff

The Supreme Court ruled today on Arizona’s controversial SB 1070 immigration law, allowing the worst part of the law that institutes racial profiling to continue.

Join us this morning to rally against this decision:

San Diego County Administration Building

11 a.m.

June 25, 2012

1600 Pacific Highway, San Diego CA 92101

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OB Street Fair 2012 – Random Photo Gallery

June 24, 2012 by Staff

Doug Porter wandered through the OB Street Fair yesterday, Saturday, June 23rd, and took dozens of random photos of the people, the kids, the bands, the vendors and their booths.

Here they are, randomly.

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San Diego Free Press Annouces Location of Secret Koch Brothers’ Confab – Park Hyatt Aviara Resort

June 23, 2012 by Staff

The San Diego Free Press – our sister online publication – has just announced the location of the secret Koch brothers’ confab this weekend in the San Diego area.

It’s the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort up in Carlsbad. Here’s the report:

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Stop the Secret Power Plant Deal in University City!

June 23, 2012 by Anna Daniels

What happens when you combine strong mayor Jerry Sanders with a Canadian firm’s desire to build an 800 MW gas-fired power plant in San Diego? You get a secret plan that is being fast tracked through the City Council with the intent of a November ballot measure to enable passage. You also get “business as usual” at City Hall. Hear more about the proposal and what you can do on Monday, June 25, 6pm at the University Community Planning Group meeting, Forum Hall, UTC Mall (above Wells Fargo Bank).

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An Interview with Foreclosure Fighter Michael T. Pines

June 23, 2012 by Source

By Carolyn Zellander / Special to San Diego Free Press

Following is an interview Michael T. Pines, a Carlsbad attorney who made national headlines for advising clients to “occupy” foreclosed homes.
Michael T. Pines was one of the first few attorneys with in-depth knowledge of the truth surrounding the near collapse of our economy caused by Wall Street. Michael has been painted (in some circles) as that crazy, foreclosure lawyer who needs to be in a mental institution, or worse, jail, especially by those in powerful positions.

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A Hard Look at Impact from San Diego’s Foreclosure Crisis

June 23, 2012 by Source

By J. G. Robinson / Special to San Diego Free Press

This is the first column I will write for the San Diego Free Press, so let me introduce myself. I am an activist, a sociologist, a college professor, a San Diego resident for over 25 years, and I will be looking at San Diego through all of these perspectives. The academic in me means that I have a gut level commitment to the importance of data, reason, and a complex notion of truth. I do not believe that advocacy is merely yelling louder or not admitting the truths held by people with whom I disagree.

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