Month: March 2012

Come help us keep pressure on local and federal government to help people out of this financial crisis.

ACCE has a new bill, the Property Value Protection bill they have presented to City Council as something we can do on a local level to help people out of their foreclosure crisis. They will talk about what we can do on a local level. a More speakers to be announced . Come support or tell your story!

1100 3rd Ave. @ B St. march to 401 B St. , San Diego, CA 92101

As the San Diego U-T has removed Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury cartoon from the paper due to the comic’s emphasis this week on women’s reproductive rights, here it is:

Picket Darrel Issa outside Shadowridge Country Club in Vista (1980 Gateway Dr.), where he is featured at a $125/person “Meet the Leaders” cocktail party (630pm) and dinner (730pm) by the Vista Chamber of Commerce.

Picket Darrel Issa

Today – March 13, 2012

5:00pm until 8:00pm

Shadowridge Country Club

Gateway Drive and Shadowridge Drive, Vista CA

We will line the public sidewalks along Gateway Drive, leading up to the Country Club entrance, and at its intersection with the busy Shadowridge Drive.

Bring your sass and creativity — we want to let the Chairman of our House Oversight Committee who held a hearing on contraception and refused to allow any women to testify in the first panel, know that we WILL be heard and seen, despite his best efforts!

Governor Jerry Brown has just appointed Nancy Casady – the general manager of People’s Food Co-op – to the state Board of Food and Agriculture. A Democratic Party member like the governor, Nancy will take up her unpaid position on the Board at the earliest moment as it does not require Senate confirmation.

Casady has been the at her post at the Ocean Beach store since 1996. Before that, she owned Casady Whole Foods Market – which ran from 1988 to 1994. Nancy was also the vice president of the National Cooperative Grocers Association from 2006 to 2009 and was a member of the National Cooperative Development Board from 2009 to 2011.

Since the right-wing and their attendant press refuse to run Doonesbury all week because Gary Trudeau is focusing the strip on women’s reproductive rights, we have decided to run them – all week. Here is Day No. 2.

He’s sitting at the bar, nursing a drink when an attractive lady sits down next to him.
“Do you come here often?” she asks.
“No, this is my first time here.”
“Where have you been?”
“In prison.”
“Why? What did you do?”
“I killed my wife.”
“Oh! That means you’re single?”

After almost two months of on-line dating, my research is over. Although it was an interesting experience, it bore little, if any fruit, and was an expensive project. A little background:

I am a widow of almost three years. I am reasonably attractive – for an old broad -; have not yet begun to show that Alzheimer’s runs in my family; like to cook; like to read; like to write. Still physically active – walk my 11 year old Golden Retriever 1-2 miles a day; like the human touch and miss the hugs and comfort that a man can give me. I am a retired educator – public as well as governmental; have 3 grown daughters and a passel of grandchildren. With all that in mind, I signed up with 3 “on-line dating services” : “Senior People Meet”; “BB People Meet” – Big and Beautiful – and Match.com. I originally signed up for EHarmony.com, but it was too costly and I did not complete the application.

San Diego City staff have recommended that the McMansion-type Burk residence on West Point Loma Boulevard be allowed to be constructed.

This recommendation flies in the face of the Ocean Beach Planning Board’s rejection of the project at their December 2011 Board meeting.

The city Hearing Officer will hear the case on Wednesday, March 14th.

Here is the link to the official staff report and recommendation.

Hundreds rallied in front of the San Onofre nuclear reactors on Sunday, March 11th, in commemoration of the disaster exactly one year ago at the Fukushima plant in Japan. And two speakers from Japan addressed the crowd and expressed appreciation for Americans’ solidarity during the warm afternoon near a cliff just off the Pacific.

Organized by local peace and anti-nuke groups, such as the Peace Resource Center in San Diego, and sponsored by a variety of progressive organizations, the rally was the largest demonstration at the San Onofre nukes in years. Protests against nuclear power were more widespread in the 1980’s, and the site just south of San Clemente has been the target of such protests over the decades.

Hey Gang, for the fourth time in as many months (or at least it seems like it), the Keystone XL Pipeline has been blocked. The Republicans needed 60 votes to pass S.B. 1813, in which they inserted the rider to allow the pipeline. The bill, sponsored by Senator Boxer, was to increase the Federal Transportation Commission’s budget to build roads and increase highway safety. The bill was ostensibly a public works act to help increase employment recovery at the state and local level.

I was sitting at a table at the Barrio Station, in San Diego’s Barrio Logan, next to a Chicana friend of mine, having a good time sipping the tastiest of whiskey sours while she nursed a smooth white wine.

In the background the music that was being sung and played was sounding ever so sublime. Among the selection was De Colores, a song of exquisitely mellow rhythm and rhyme, a song of love and that suited everybody just fine as we represented all the colors of the rainbow and had shown up in a spirit of love for a beautiful and worthy cause – to celebrate an organization that has served the needs of the children in this Barrio with an abundance of love for over 40 years without pause.

In such a festive atmosphere with delightful uplifting corridas filling the air I couldn’t help but drift into a Barrio State of Mind.

Comics about women’s reproductive rights simply not “appropriate”

Doonesbury cartoonist Gary Trudeau takes on Texas’ controversial abortion laws this week, but you won’t see them in our big bold San Diego U-T. U-T editor Jeff Light joins a number of equally feckless editors in places like Kansas City, MO, pulling the strip completely, or providing “replacements.” Father knows best…

In today’s Doonesbury strip, a Texas woman walks into an abortion clinic and is introduced to the shaming room.

UPDATE: Arrest made in OB Hit and Run
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The California Highway Patrol is seeking witnesses to the fatal hit and run that occurred early Sunday morning in Ocean Beach.

Local media reported that a pedestrian was killed early Sunday morning in a hit-and-run incident at Nimitz Boulevard and Sunset Cliffs near the western end of I-8.

The U-T reported that evidence at the collision site indicated that the suspect vehicle may be a 2007 or newer model Toyota Camry, with the crash being reported at 4:28 a.m. according to the CHP.