Category: Election

Are We Adding More People to the Homeless Population?

 Judi Curry  October 11, 2010  22 Comments on Are We Adding More People to the Homeless Population?

I noticed today, on my way out of Ocean Beach, that the ARCO station has, once again, raised the cost of gasoline over last weeks price. I noticed today, while shopping at Ralphs, the cost of meat has gone up over what it was last week.

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“Yes” on Prop D – or your library and Rec Center will be permanently closed!

 Anna Daniels  October 7, 2010  10 Comments on “Yes” on Prop D – or your library and Rec Center will be permanently closed!

That is pretty much the choice we face in voting thumbs up or down on a five year one half percent sales tax increase on Prop. D in November. Also throw in reduced Fire and Police services, which also concerns us, if D doesn’t pass.

Last month Mayor Sanders announced that the City was facing a $72Million budget deficit in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011. As you all know, yearly and sometimes twice a year budget reductions have been going on for a long time- four years in fact.

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Michael Moore: Eisenhower was right!

 Source  October 6, 2010  21 Comments on Michael Moore: Eisenhower was right!

by Michael Moore / OpenMike blog

So … it turns out President Eisenhower wasn’t making up all that stuff about the military-industrial complex.

That’s what you’ll conclude if you read Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s War.

In fact, after you read Woodward’s book, you’ll split a gut every time you hear a politician or a government teacher talk about “civilian control over the military.”

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Ocean Beach Planning Board Agenda for Oct 6, 2010

 Staff  October 6, 2010  1 Comment on Ocean Beach Planning Board Agenda for Oct 6, 2010

Here is the agenda for the OB Planning Board meeting for Wednesday, October 6, 2010. The meeting will be held at the OB Rec Center at Santa Monica and Ebers, and begins at 6pm.

(Go inside to read the agenda.)

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Mothers Rally Outside DA Dumanis Office to Pressure Her to Support Prop 19 – Marijuana Legalization

 Frank Gormlie  October 5, 2010  1 Comment on Mothers Rally Outside DA Dumanis Office to Pressure Her to Support Prop 19 – Marijuana Legalization

MSNBC has reported that a group of local mothers rallied outside DA Bonnnie Dumanis’ downtown office today to galvanize the district attorney to support Prop 19, the marijuana legalization initiative on November’s ballot. The group, called Moms United to End the War on Drugs, believe that legalization of pot will bring a halt to the waste and violence of this so-called war on drugs.

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Are we there yet? The long road to equality for women…..

 Anna Daniels  September 29, 2010  13 Comments on Are we there yet? The long road to equality for women…..

“Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.” … “What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.” Phyllis Schlafly

“Schlafly’s discussion reveals a paradox. She was able to have it all: family and career. And she did it by fighting those who said they were trying to get it all for her.…” Pia de Solenni

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Obama Will Triumph — So Will America

 Source  September 26, 2010  18 Comments on Obama Will Triumph — So Will America

Editor: Despite the following being nine months old, we thought we’d share it.

By Frank Schaeffer

Before he’d served even one year President Obama lost the support of the easily distracted left and engendered the white hot rage of the hate-filled right. But some of us, from all walks of life and ideological backgrounds — including this white, straight, 57-year-old, former religious right wing agitator, now progressive writer and (given my background as the son of a famous evangelical leader) this unlikely Obama supporter — are sticking with our President.

Why?– because he is succeeding.

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Sarah Palin’s Top 10 Tea Party Mamma Grizzlies (from DC Douglas)

 Patty Jones  September 24, 2010  3 Comments on Sarah Palin’s Top 10 Tea Party Mamma Grizzlies (from DC Douglas)

D.C. Douglas, a veteran character actor and voice over artist, has produced another in a series of comedic political videos. “Sarah Palin’s Top 10 Tea Party Mamma Grizzlies” is a 4 minute voter’s guide to Sarah Palin’s mid-term Tea Party congress candidate picks.

“I find it best to put all your crazy tea bags into one pot so you can get a real taste of Sarah Palin’s political acumen,” says Mr. Douglas.

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Jon Stewart’s ‘Rally to Restore Sanity’ could draw tens of thousands

 Source  September 23, 2010  3 Comments on Jon Stewart’s ‘Rally to Restore Sanity’ could draw tens of thousands

‘The Daily Show’ event is planned as a comical response to Glenn Beck’s recent rally — but politically minded fans are taking it, and Stephen Colbert’s ‘March to Keep Fear Alive,’ seriously. The moment Shawna Riley heard Jon Stewart lay out his plans to hold a “Rally to Restore Sanity” on Oct. 30 on the National Mall, she raced to get online and book her hotel and airline tickets. The 41-year-old owner of an advertising firm, who lives in Marble Falls, Texas, described the event as “one of those we-got-to-be-there moments.”

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10 Terrible Things Republicans Will Try to Do If They Take Over in November

 Source  September 22, 2010  27 Comments on 10 Terrible Things Republicans Will Try to Do If They Take Over in November

Democrats are in trouble come November. If current polling is any indication, Republicans have a good chance of reclaiming a majority in the House of Representatives and perhaps even the Senate (though the Senate is a less likely prospect). That’s not because people are wildly excited about Republicans. In fact, a recent poll shows that registered voters rate the GOP’s performance as worse than the Democrats’. But the enthusiasm gap between the parties gives the GOP an advantage; a nine-point advantage among likely voters, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll .

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California Marijuana Legalization Opposed by Beer Industry – duh!

 Source  September 22, 2010  21 Comments on California Marijuana Legalization Opposed by Beer Industry – duh!

The California Beer & Beverage Distributors is spending money in the state to oppose a marijuana legalization proposition on the ballot in November, according to records filed with the California Secretary of State. The beer sellers are the first competitors of marijuana to officially enter the debate; backers of the initiative are closely watching liquor and wine dealers and the pharmaceutical industry to see if they enter the debate in the remaining weeks.

The opposition to pot among beer makers, however, is not unanimous among the CBBD’s membership. …

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Is this the beginning of the end for Ron Roberts?

 Source  September 15, 2010  0 Comments on Is this the beginning of the end for Ron Roberts?

by Blue San Diego

With November being just two months away, the Ron Roberts saga began its last whimper. I figured County Supervisor Roberts would try to salvage his campaign and ditch his “smoke and mirrors” approach to try to claw back on top to stay in office another four years.

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