I am glad that the state wide leadership has noticed my enthusiasm for California to become sovereign from voters who lack the maturity and discipline to discriminate change from throwing a Molotov cocktail at the United States federal government. They may deserve to endure thier folly being governed by Donald Trump as President of The United States, but California does not.

To my best knowlege, San Diego's participation is new to the California National Party. To borrow a phrase from the U.S. Navy (sic), that would make us plank holders in this endevor. There is plenty of work for us to do, but I want to do it with consent of the CNP members in San Diego: I invite everyone in San Diego in support of an independent California republic to ask questions, dissent or discuss my appointment and goals in the comment section below this blog post.

I do see my position becoming subordinate to a county wide organization following the incumbent model of how political parties are prescribed to operate by state law. We will have to set up county-wide officers, have regular meetings and perform regular functions like any other political party recognized by the California Secretary of State. That's not what I say is best for the CNP locally, it is a matter of law.

To start with, I propose that the following be the two goals for San Diego:

Voter Registration The CNP has to be a either a printed choice on a voter registration form or a pull-down option on the on-line registration form. We must get 50,000 of us counted by the Secrectary of State.

Multi-Lingual Presentations to People in Our Community Nuestro condad tiene mas migrantes como residentes que la mayoría de los otros condados. El pluralismo es el futuro por California. Tenemos que invitir y educar todos en el pueblo que todos residentes tienen que participar en ese movimiento por formar un republica donde ellos pueden obtener derechos y ciudadanía a diferencia de Los EUA que tiene un sistema de negligencia en lugar de un sistema funcional y humanitario de imigración. Tenemos que communicar con el pueblo en muchas lenguas; tendremos que contratar a muchas personas con habilidades lingüísticas.

I have come to believe that effective activism occurs when many are willing to inconvenience themselves for a goal. I ask you to inconvenience yourself for a long time. I ask you to live inside your commitment, to remember what you saw or realized about the United States that brought you to us over-and-over until we are independent of the USA.

Let us begin.

I'm having a case of déjà vu. The most pertent passages from that previous experience are:

and

Listeners of this podcast are left with the out-dated views about working for the minimum wage of a connoissuer of fine blazer pocket hankies as opposed to current realities of working at minimum wage. To think the best of The Voice of San Diego would be to think that they would cover the debate about minimum wage with some balance in spite of the low propensity of the working poor to sponsor VOSD. I look forward to an occasion when VOSD gives an educated, well spoken advocate for San Diego's working poor to contradict Jason Roe's sophistry.

update

...all of this bluster because human eyes have to analyze a URL

Namaste from Tierra Baja Way.

The San Diego Music Thing is right around the corner. Running the weekend of November 11-14, the event hosts music biz seminars by day and music showcases by night. But you don't have to be an insider to attend. In fact, this year there are massive shows that we put together that we think you'll love, including the Saturday showcase in the parking lot behind the Observatory San Diego (aka The North Park Theatre). This one features

This showcase is 21+ and runs from 2pm-10pm on Saturday, November 14.

Ticketing to the event might seem complicated, but it is rather very simple. You can (1) buy a badge which includes the conference and every showcase, (2) buy single day passes that include conference and showcases by day, or (3) buy individual showcase passes. Whichever you choose, all of the ticketing options are laid out here.

Maybe it has something to do with 16 pounds of anxious poodle tugging at my hand in the vet's office, but I only read what is wrong with the Padres, not a plan for a pennant.

Shoddy Local Broadcast Journalism, The San Diego Edition

San Diego broadcasters gained speed in the downhill slide of the quality of local television jounalism last week. Maybe they had a three-day weekend on thier mind.

First in the docket is KNSD, our NBC affiliate. If you have the misfortune that I do of watching this station closely, you'll find that KNSD's prohibitionist bent has continued by griviously damaging a physician's reputation by repeating a whispering campaign on thier website. Very few of those who commented on the site are impressed or give the report credence. All that is clear is that someone was deseperate to publish any damn thing.

Next, KFMB put just a little less effort in to disseminating a specious report from a biased source by putting it in to the screen crawl one morning:

Only with a little research, one could find out how biased the report is and how it's been refuted by other sources. It would appear that someone had Labor Day weekend on their mind early one morning and didn't have time for that.

Cameras that are part of facial recognition systems can be set up anywyhere, run by the SDPD or any Tom, Dick or Harry. Have a problem with bad drunks in your bar? An active facial recognition recording anyone's face will help you enforce the sign saying We Reserve The Right to Refuse Service to Anyone by your front door. But that is the benign use.

Take a look at Item 24 on Page 14 describing how unregulated use of facial recognition systems are. Nothing in the intervening decade has prohibitted the indescriminate use of facial recognition. You think that's benign? Try this scenario on for size:

Let's say the city sets up cameras alleged to be for security on the last block of Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach

and you go in to The Black. I can't say that I have much regard for the civil liberties of regular customers of the business, but for those who wander in there then leave with a purchase in hand, their face would be profiled by cctv if it were set up there. A bust is a bust for any cop, so putting another profiled face in to a database of potential substance abusers could lead to more arrests related to the possession and/or consumption of mind altering chemicals.

We all have been losing our Fourth Amendment rights for decades, slowly...government has been chiipping away at it. What the City of San Diego through the SDPD is doing is completely consistant with that.

Laslavic might be talking tough, but he's taking a shot at someone who

Anyone who knows anything knows that the league, that the Spanos family is driving this. Laslavic knows this too: Carmen Policy is working in some office building in Carson or near the 405 within a 10 minute drive of either LBG or LAX that has one phone that is a hotline from Mark Davis or one of his minions, Dean Spanos or one of his minions and a third to NFL offices.

This was a cheap slight of hand, but Laz gets to keep his press credential and that is what counts. Gotta keep churning out that local sports content. NFL is easier to produce than high school sports, after all.

Dear Susan,

The substantial part of your reply (the second and third paragraphs) leaves me to think that you are replying about an entirely different piece of legislation; something apart from the Trans Pacific Partnership.

The suggestion that there is anything dynamic in the TPP (as I understand it to be) that you could possibly influence, even if you were Speaker of The House, is wildly different from what I know the legislation to be. Only members of congress can read the text of the agreement in a windowless room - you can't take any notes. The secrecy in which the TPP has been formed precludes any discussion about improving it. Susan, I never learned that you have a photograpic memory, so I doubt that you can discuss it with much substance. I never heard President Obama say how Senator Elizabeth Warren or anyone else was wrong, all Obama does is disagree without making any substantial points on how any TPP oponents are wrong.

The only people who talk substantively about the TPP are the opponents and, as I mentioned to you recently the substance of the TPP could be devastating to working San Diegans.

I keep coming back to the secrecy of the treaty — nothing of any merit that isn't a matter of national security needs to be hidden. That's why you should opose it in any form when you vote on it.

ESPN Is Splitting With Bill Simmons, Who Offers an Uncharacteristic Word Count: Zero - NYTimes.com

The power here goes to those who provide the content: the league, the NFL. The less to learn is that you do not get a press pass if you ask real or tough questions of any franchise or league. This is why so few journalists in San Diego point out that the league could finance new stadia (if we use the measuring stick of how much a family should spend on a mortgage as a comparison, this is not an unreasonable commitment for a business). But talking about how astronomically rich NFL team owners are and how they really are different...the outcome of that could lead to fans storming The Bastille again or something.

It's a pity: to really look at the NFL for what it is, we'd all have to give it up as escapist entertainment and look at it not just at how chews up and spits out players like they are Roman gladiators but also how the league is a parasite in the communities in which they operate.

This is not enough to win a pennant. Damn, this is early to call a season.

The San Diego 350 booth at Earth Day San Diego.

Show up to support a liveable wage in San Diego.

Polluted San Diego sues Monsanto:

This is the petition circulating around San Diego about giving the Chargers a new stadium. The key word in that last sentence is give.

An outfit by the name of Victor Consultants was alleged to be circulating this unofficial peition (that is that it isn't trying to gather signatures to put a plebecite on an official ballot for an election). I looked on the internet for a local listing for that business and found nothing. There is no fictious business name of Victor Consultants in San Diego County, either. Maybe the man who I first saw circulating the petition meant Victory Consultants...I heard what I heard....

The problem with this petition is that it makes absolutley no mention how a $2 billion (2 x 109) edifice would be paid for or who would pay for it. No suggestion that The Spanos family / Chargers or NFL should pay for it, even when they make roughly 5 times that amount each year. Instead, the petitioners suggest that two governments, a campus of the state univesity, and a non-profit organization be responsible for an edifice that would edify the Chargers. Further, it would be an edifice that would be a net loser for the enterprise that would build it and perhaps even the community surrounding it.

I have posted the notices about how much money the league makes each year and how a new stadium would be a money pit to the community over-and-over each time I see a half-formed request to keep the team on Facebook that doesn't suggest that the team or the league pay for something which they can afford better than any other entity and would profit them best. I'm tired of the dumbth, I'm tired of the nebulous insults that I suck as a fan, that San Diego is a rotten pro-sports town. What does that really mean? That I'm a bad person for not giving Welfare to Billionaires©? No, Big Mike and Company - you can't tag me with that and I'm not your chump. I don't love football like that. After all of this, I'm cooling to the game anyway.

Wow.

A personal record for likes on Facebook.

Faulconer’s stadium push is already SAGging