OB Rag

WASHINGTON (The Global Edition) — At a jointly held press conference today, Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch announced that they would be organizing “The Million, Billionaires march on Washington.”

After selling their list of demands to the reporters present, Trump spoke up, “There is no ‘affirmative action’ for billionaires. I went to vote, I couldn’t even get a cocktail with it.

The OB Rag has just heard from residents of the apartments at Abbott and Saratoga – they have until January 2, 2013 to move out, as the 10 condo units of Ocean Park Villas will be constructed soon after.

The 10 units will be condos in a 3 story building, 29 feet high, once the existing four buildings are demolished. Three of the buildings are apartments with a total of 15 units, …

In a graphic reminder that not all assaults that occur in Ocean Beach are directed at women, we have a report that two men were assaulted and injured on Newport Avenue Saturday night, November 10th, in what appears to be a racially motivated attack.

A young OBcean named Ross was speaking to a Mexican friend in Hodad’s parking lot around 11:30 pm Saturday night. Ross was speaking in Spanish and had his back up against the brick wall. As they were talking, a man walked by and as he passed, …

Editor: Point Loma High School Alumni are responding to a plea for help from a 2010 graduate, Will Barton, recently injured by a random act of violence.

Will Barton: 2010 graduate of PLHS needs our help

Will Barton was critically wounded on Monday night the 29th of October when a fugitive on a rampage shot him in the head while he was walking to his father’s house after getting off work.

The Ocean Beach Historical Society Presents:

V.O.T.E.— Founders of the People’s 30 ft. Height Limit Initiative

40 Year ANNIVERSARY of the 30 Ft. Height Limit

Wonder what helps keep Ocean Beach a beach town verses Miami? Most people answer is “its activist’s community”. But equally important is the “30-foot Coastal Height Limit Law”, which is celebrating it’s 40th ANNIVERSARY of being voted in as a people’s initiative in 1972.

Editor: The following was sent to us by Gail Powell, an OBcean and occasional contributor here at the Rag. This could be good news – it’s just a rumor now, and we’re trying to track down its validity.

By Gail Powell

This could be GOOD NEWS for OB residents: My niece and I shopped at Apple Tree market,located at 4949 Santa Monica Ave. on Monday, Nov. 12. She saw someone she knew from high school who is employed there. We all started talking and discovered that, according to this unidentified employee of Apple Tree, after the aging store closes in late November, a Foodland Market is coming in.

The election is over and the dust really has finally settled. By the way my candidate lost, but it isn’t easy being Green. The 47% and then some spoke up and now, maybe, just maybe, WE can get to work and do the good things we do well, fix the good things we use to do well, and set aside the bad stuff which has been gnawing at our insides for so long.

WE proved the Koch Brothers, et al. could not buy an election, and Karl Rove is as superfluous as a dead rat on the floor just waiting to be swept up and thrown out with the garbage. WE, with the help of Donald Trump and Ted Nugent, proved that just because you have money and a forum, does not preclude you from being as crazy as a three-dicked goat. WE proved that even FOX News has to concede something to the other side every once and while.

From San Diego Unified

San Diego’s Food Day School Passport Challenge brought nearly 1,000 San Diego Unified School District students, staff and families to three Farmers Markets around the city, with Sunset View Elementary winning the challenge over Rosa Parks, Central, Cherokee Point, Crown Point and Pacific Beach elementary schools. Sunset View received a healthy local food party catered by Chef Andrew Spurgin of Waters Fine Catering.

In a continuing analysis of the historic national election last week, the U-T San Diego has developed an inter-active electoral map.

This after-election pencil-pushing has uncovered President Obama’s best precincts – and they were in San Diego’s urban core: Golden Hill, Logan Heights, Barrio Logan … and Ocean Beach.

Ahh, hope fills the air that I breathe, as I move, light and easy, like a river dancer on a cloud that’s floating in a gentle wind, as Bob Filner becomes my mayor and Barack Obama my president, again.

It’s a nice high I’m in, hallucinogenic, with music, Sam Cooke singing, “It’s been a long, a long time coming, but I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will.”

Oh, it feels so good having a couple of guys in high places who view what people have worked towards for years as earned “benefits” not “entitlements,” and see unions as who they are, “We the People!” Not “bandits.”

This just in: we’re not the Wisconsin of the West. There were some big winners and losers in last week’s election and the principal players themselves have gotten the bulk of the attention. Here are a few of the most noteworthy victors and flops besides the candidates themselves. Let’s start with the triumphs:

1) Labor-Community Alliances:San Diego elected the first genuinely progressive mayor in its history even though the Filner forces were outspent.

To whom it may concern regarding the United States federal elections of 2014, 2016 and beyond:

Allow me to introduce myself to you, the existing (or aspiring!) strategist for the Republican Party. My name is Eric Arnold Garland and I am a White Man. Boy, am I ever – you need sunglasses just to look at my photo!

If I read the news correctly, I fit a profile that is of extreme importance to the GOP, as I embody the archetype that fits your narrative of Real Americans. Just how much should my profile interest you? Are you sitting down?