Month: November 2024

By Geoff Page

The Dog Beach fencing project, described here in The Rag four years ago, is finally underway. The work of drilling holes in the sand and placing 4×4 wood posts is almost complete.

The posts are four feet high and close together, perhaps ten feet apart. The existing “fence” was much shorter but ran along the same paths. The word “fence” is a bit confusing. There is an existing east/west path, on the south side of the Dog Beach dunes, that borders the wetland area.

Pt Loma-OB Monthly

The holiday season is just around the corner, and here are some of the ways Point Loma and Ocean Beach will celebrate.

• Liberty Station ice rink: The Rady Children’s Ice Rink will be open from Thursday, Nov. 21, through Sunday, Jan. 5, outdoors in the Central Promenade at Liberty Station, Point Loma. Normal hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily but are modified on opening day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and for other events. $20 for adults and $15 for children 12 and younger and military members. Tickets include skate rentals and helmets. rchicerink.org

• Liberty Station tree lighting: Liberty Station’s 88-foot decorated Norfolk pine tree will be lighted, along with live entertainment, firetruck rides, photos with Santa Claus and a showing of the movie “The Grinch” between 5 and 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 29, in the North Promenade. Free. bit.ly/40yK8bx

• Ocean Beach holiday tree: The annual tradition, dubbed the “crooked tree” because it typically leans to one side, will be on the beach at the end of Newport Avenue from Tuesday, Dec. 3, to Friday, Jan. 3. obcommunityfoundation.org/community-events/tree

City hosts community webinar on Monday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m, Nov.18

San Diego leaders Thursday asked for public input on several coastal resilience projects as the threat of rising seas could shape the future of the city’s coast.

San Diego recently released a draft Coastal Resilience Master Plan with multiple projects for public review.

“Our shorelines are increasingly vulnerable, and the Coastal Resilience Master Plan will implement the most cost-efficient, natural solutions for long-term viability,” said Council President Pro Tem and Environment Committee Chair Joe LaCava. “Backed by science and community input, these projects are designed to adapt our shoreline from the effects of sea level rise while protecting our coastal neighborhoods.”

by Danielle Dawson / Fox5News / Nov 14, 2024

Regional planners are revisiting a proposed connection between San Diego International Airport and public transit through a new San Diego Metropolitan Transit System Trolley alignment.

The renewed interest in a potential Trolley link comes after the region’s planning agency, the San Diego Association of Governments, went back into the modeling process for the long-discussed project in February over discussions with federal transit regulators.

Ah… the good life.

By Michael Moore / November 15, 2024

I couldn’t help but think as I tried to fall asleep the night of the election last week, after we were assaulted with the news that Trump had somehow won — Trump who wailed for four years that the 2020 election was “Rigged!” “Stolen!” and claiming that he, “Trump!”, was “The legitimately elected President!”, that Biden had an “inside operator” who “fixed the whole thing” to ensure Trump would lose.

I haven’t been able to sleep for over a week now, pissed off that that guy the Dems hired to steal the election again from Trump… HAD FAILED TO DO HIS JOB! WHERE WAS HE?! We learned from Trump that DEMS STEAL ELECTIONS!! WHY WASN’T THIS ONE STOLEN FOR HARRIS?! CAN’T THE DEMOCRATS DO ANYTHING RIGHT??!! I mean, we gave the Harris campaign nearly TWO BILLION DOLLARS! For two billion bucks we couldn’t even get a decent rigging using Hunter’s new laptop? ARRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!

Ok. Too soon. But am I at least allowed to make the case that if Trump was indeed the real winner in 2020, then by law he’s already been elected twice — in 2016 and 2020 as he’s said over a thousand times! So, per the Constitution, no president can be elected a third time! Right?

Here are a few more of the facts that we can confirm are correct but you won’t see much trumpeting of them in the mainstream media:

Nationwide, Kamala Harris won the following:

• all Independent voters,
• all Moderate voters,
• all Women voters,
• Black voters,
• Latino voters,

High mountains in San Diego County — such as Mt. Laguna, which sits at 6,000 feet — received their first snow dusting over the weekend. Here’s the view next to the Mt. Laguna Lodge at 6:45 this morning, Monday, Nov. 18.

Frank Gormlie, editor here at OB Rag, is having a book-signing event with his new book, The May 1970 Rebellion, at La Playa Books in Point Loma on Saturday, November 23rd.

The book-signing will be from 2 to 4 pm at La Playa, located at 1026 Rosecrans Street, San Diego, CA 92106-3019 — their phone is (619) 226-2601. As it’s a weekend, parking should be relatively easy.

The book covers the May 1970 student upheaval caused by President Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia and the subsequent repression. Currently, it’s in an ebook mode — and the paperback version Print on Demand (POD) is also available at Amazon and at Barnes & Noble. (The paperback is in two volumes.)

by Ernie McCray

Come on America.
You vote for, perhaps, the most loathsome
excuse of a human being
ever born in the Milky Way,
then have the nerves
to talk a lot of bullshit
about how Kamala Harris
gave the election way.

Stop it, I say.
You’re way the hell off base,
as this election
was, aside from being laced
with strong traces
of sexism,
mostly about race.