OB Rag

I ain’t gonna piss in no jar
You know Foghorn Leghorn wouldn’t pee in no jar. You
know Patrick Henry didn’t “Give
me liberty or give me a urine sample.”
~Mojo Nixon, I Ain’t Gonna Piss in No Jar

Florida’s Republican Governor Rick Scott has decreed through executive order that drug tests will be mandatory for all state workers.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta, gotta, gotta to get away…

We’d been meaning to get to the desert to see the flowers and both our schedules and the weather cooperated nicely today. After a light breakfast and our morning work on the Rag, we piled our provisions in the car and headed east. We took I-8 through the mountains and into the desert and under a sky peppered with high clouds we headed north on S-2.

Potential effects of shutdown

National Parks —- Likely to be closed.
Social Security —- Checks will be mailed out, although new claims may not be processed.
Border Patrol —- Deemed an essential service and will continue.
Air travel —- Air traffic control is essential; flights should not be affected.
IRS —- This agency will shut down in the middle of tax season. Tax refund checks won’t be issued.
Military —- Thousands of military members based in San Diego could go without pay temporarily federal officials said Wednesday.

Editor: Here is a rather fluff piece on Bo-Beau – the former Thee Bungalow – the Cohn family restaurant on…

Two of the three young men who were videotaped in the process of vandalizing Newport Avenue business storefront windows last January 25th have pleaded “guilty” to felony vandalism. (Come inside to one of our initial reports on the vandalism along Newport.)

Jonathan Ford Gurr – a Pacific Beach resident – and James Alfred Dorman IV, arrested in early March, each pleaded “guilty” to one count of felony vandalism, so reports writer Neal Putnam of San Diego Community News Group.

In 1985, John Thompson was convicted of murder in Louisiana. Having already been convicted in a separate armed robbery case, he opted not to testify on his own behalf in his murder trial. He was sentenced to death and spent 18 years in prison—14 of them isolated on death row—and watched as seven executions were planned for him. Several weeks before an execution scheduled for May 1999, Thompson’s private investigators learned that prosecutors had failed to turn over evidence that would have cleared him at his robbery trial.

By Dave Maass / San Diego City Beat

As Congressmember Bob Filner prepares for the next leg of his political career, a potential run for San Diego mayor, we thought it time to tie off one of the loose ends of his last campaign.

On election night, Filner was accosted by an angry mob of Tea Party supporters of his Republican opponent, Nick Popaditch.

by John Lawrence / Will Blog For Food / April 6, 2011

We have seen the flaws in the ointment with Japan’s nuclear catastrophe.

There are so many advantages to solar energy production, and only one disadvantage – the government won’t set up the right incentive structure.

Paul LePage, the recently elected Tea Party governor of Maine, decided a few weeks ago that a mural in the…

Between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m., April 5th, a white Nissan Sentra parked on the 4900 block of Coronado Avenue suffered…

Originally posted May 9, 2009

It’s readily apparent that at least in one little corner of Ocean Beach, the recession hasn’t really hit – the corner of Newport Ave and Bacon Street, you see the lines end of people waiting to get into Hodad’s – OB’s famous hamburger joint.

It’s 12:30 lunch time, and the crowd waits patiently to sit down and chomp into the delicious drippy, beef and bun wonder named by CNN as one of the top five burgers in the nation. …

by Ethan A. Huff / NaturalNews.com /April 04, 2011 Alternative health practitioners in North Carolina (NC) and their patients need your…