Posted: 01 Sep 2015 11:02 AM PDT
By Doug Porter
We’re supposed to have been reassured that San Diego was on its way to solving the problems with police officers who break bad. Yet there is mounting evidence that it’s business as usual behind the ‘blue curtain’ in local law enforcement. Mayor Kevin Faulconer appointed a new chief of police before he was even sworn in and a voluntary audit by way of the Justice Department’s office of Community Oriented Policing made recommendations for reform. Chief Zimmerman assured the City Council not long ago that new training procedures were addressing the concerns raised by the audit.When the Union-Tribune editorial board is taking the department to task and lawsuits begin to pile up, you might have a problem if you are the San Diego Police Department. This problem isn’t constrained by the city limits, as legal actions and court settlements point to the County Sheriff’s Department having it’s own issues with use of force. [Read more...]
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Posted: 01 Sep 2015 11:02 AM PDT
By Doug Porter We’re supposed to have been reassured that San Diego was on its way to solving the problems with police officers who break bad. Yet there is mounting evidence that it’s business as usual behind the ‘blue curtain’ in local law enforcement. Mayor Kevin Faulconer appointed a new chief of police before he was even sworn in and a voluntary audit by way of the Justice Department’s office of Community Oriented Policing made recommendations for reform. Chief Zimmerman assured the City Council not long ago that new training procedures were addressing the concerns raised by the audit.When the Union-Tribune editorial board is taking the department to task and lawsuits begin to pile up, you might have a problem if you are the San Diego Police Department. This problem isn’t constrained by the city limits, as legal actions and court settlements point to the County Sheriff’s Department having it’s own issues with use of force. [Read more...]
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Posted: 01 Sep 2015 04:35 AM PDT
Senior Policy Advisor convicted of conspiring to bomb a San Diego abortion clinic in 1988By Joan McCarter / Daily Kos The group behind the falsified videos attacking Planned Parenthood calls itself a "group of citizen journalists," but is of course not actually journalists. What the so-called Center for Medical Progress really is is a group of committed anti-abortion activists with close ties to "some of the country's hardest-line anti-abortion extremists," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group's leader and one of the actors in the videos is David Daleiden, "who was previously the director of research for Live Action News." Live Action also produced falsified Planned Parenthood videos, in a failed effort to bring the organization down. But it's the board members of CMP that have the strongest ties to extremist groups. [Read more...] |
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Posted: 01 Sep 2015 04:34 AM PDT
By John Lawrence It has come to my attention that some of my conservative friends think that the American Constitution was chiseled in stone. Well, no, actually unlike the Ten Commandments whichwere written in stone, the American Constitution was written on parchment. I have a lot of respect for the Founding Fathers who came up with this document based on the best Enlightenment thinking at the time with the help of French philosophes such as Montesquieu who believed in the separation of powers and checks and balances. Unfortunately, the Founders didn't heed the advice of the Marquis de Condorcet who came up with a better voting system than majority rule. Condorcet and my other friends, Voltaire and Rousseau are entombed in the basement of the Pantheon in Paris where I visited them a while back and thanked them for their efforts in getting the fledgling United States off the ground. But speaking of being "written in stone", did God really hand Moses two tablets or did Moses have a little workshop up on the mountaintop where he meticulously chiseled out the Ten Commandments? If Moses had handed them out on a piece of paper to his constituents, they would have laughed in his face so he had to make them believe that they were inviolable because they came directly from a Higher Power. [Read more...]
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Posted: 01 Sep 2015 04:16 AM PDT
By John P. Anderson As the Airbnb debate continues in San Diego, I found it interesting to receive a warning letter from my previous apartment manager, Torrey Pines Property Management this week informing tenants that using sites like Airbnb is not allowed in the buildings they manage. I contacted Torrey Pines and was informed that this is a proactive measure to avoid issues in future, not in response to issues that have occurred. Good for them for taking a proactive, informative approach to the issue. [Read more...]
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