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7:17:40 AM  #  

If you have kids in San Diego, then you need to check out this web site brought to you because of Megan's law: http://www.sandiego.gov/police/newsflash/sexoffender.shtml
5:39:21 PM  #  

...you take a walk around it and you see shopping carts littering the sidewalks. I live in the Carmel Valley area of San Diego, which is pretty affluent. Why this started happening here about three or four years ago is beyond me. The funny thing is the carts are never far from the actual store?? Don't these people have a car? If not, are they really pushing home that much that they need a cart? Come on people!!
5:36:51 PM  #  

Last week I went to see "Meet the Fockers" at a movie theater in Mission Valley here in San Diego. I heard the movie was great, maybe even funnier than the first so I was excited to go check it out. My excitement severely dropped when I saw (and heard) at least four small infant babies being brought into the theater by their parents! So I prayed and hoped they would not cry… I was wrong. Not only did one or more of them cry during most of the movie but I swear that they all were crying at one time at one point! This pretty much ruined the movie for me.

I don't know about "most" parents, but when I had my kids, I did not step foot into a movie theater for many years unless we got a grandparent to watch our kids for us. It is totally beyond me why anyone would want to go take an infant or small child to a movie that is rated PG-13 or higher. Heck, kids should only be in G movies and babies should never be there!

Leave your baby at home and wait for the movie to come out on DVD or video! If you can't afford a babysitter, than this is cheaper anyway. I even said something to the parents down the row from me and they still did not take their baby out of the theater so it would stop bothering everyone around them. This is just another example of why I really don't like going out to the movies any more… I just can't take the ever increasing rudeness of the people that go.

1:55:28 PM  #  

Quake Shakes San Diego. An earthquake hit San Diego Tuesday with enough force to make more than a few San Diegans nervous. Where I work, some people actually stood up and exclaimed "... what was that?". I wonder... if a tornado hit the building they would be asking the same question. Then a bunch of people ran to the window as to try to witness massive distruction. FUNNY!
7:24:30 PM  #  

If this is how Pardee Homes "saves" the habitat in San Diego, I would hate to see what it looks like when they aren't trying!

Picture taken near the beginning of the west end of hwy 56 in San Diego (Carmel Valley)

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9:19:11 AM  #  

Regardless on how you feel about the Vons strike... read on. This week I just could not believe my ears! For fear of retaliation when the strike is over, I only go into the Vons, which I have been shopping at for over six years, to get my prescriptions filled. The first day I was there, the strikers were telling the customers that the pharmacy was closed! Not cool. It gets worse, much worse.

The next time I went in, a few of the pharmacy assistants came back to work to help the pharmacist (who was all alone the first time went in). After talking to her for a few minutes, I learned a few very disturbing things:

• All the people that work in the pharmacy are in the union, even though they are on a different contract, they are ruled by the same people.
• The pharmacists that decided the break the picket line and provide medicine to people like myself have to pay $100 per day fine!
• The assistant that spoke to had two choices, if she wanted to help the pharmacist, she either pay the $100 per day fine or sign away all her rights in the union. This means she cannot vote and they will not help her in any way during this period. Since she does not make all the much money and has a student loan bills to pay, she chose the latter. In addition, she might have to pay $200+ to get back into the union when this is all over! Huh?

I cannot believe any reasonable person would even think of denying any fellow American access to medication that in many cases is necessary for the health of that person. Well, this is that the union is doing. It seems with the fining of the pharmacy workers, they are discouraging them to work to provide this care. This is just unacceptable and should not be tolerated!

If I could afford it, I wish I could go purchase every worker at the pharmacy at the Vons where I live (there are only two pharmacies in my area) a dinner at Outback Steak House or something like that… just to show them that I care and appreciate everything they are doing for us.

Grocery Strike Talks. Nov. 10 - For the first time since contract talks broke off a month ago, striking workers and supermarket officials are meeting with a mediator.

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6:44:54 PM  #  

Only two years after the worst tragedy in the history of the United States, I'm amazed of the lack of "prime time" television coverage given to this day. There is only one sixty minute show looking at the current state of a few topics. NBC actually cancelled a thirty minutes show it was going to do! Thirty minutes? Only sixty minutes? That's all the networks are willing to give up when all they are showing are repeats anyway? This deeply saddens me.

I remember all too well that day… I sat in front of the television for almost two days in a state of shock… numb and confused that something like this happed to over 3,000 innocent fellow Americans. Unfortunately, like the day that JFK died or Columbia blew up on liftoff, it will be etched in my mind forever. But unlike other recent events, this one we can never forget! What worries me is that we already are.

If it were up to me, this would be a holiday. All Americans would take the day off and remember those who died. Those who helped people to survive. Those who made a difference. Then, we would collectively work on how to prevent this from happening again… how ever that might be. We can never fall asleep at the wheel again!

10:56:37 AM  #  

Today our local NBC affiliate decided (for some strange reason) that the lead story of the day would be about the Evangelist Billy Graham holding a four-day mission at Qualcomm Stadium. The segment showed mission goers delighted that they get to hear this great man speak. Isn’t this the same man who said that if we listen to musicians like Ozzy Osbourne we would go to hell? Isn’t this the same man that said that if he does not get six million dollars by a certain date he was going to die?

Enough said!

6:21:15 PM  #  

2/27/2003...
 

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10:34:40 PM  #  

9:52:30 AM  #  

Another grueling major voting period is finally over. The biggest relief is that all those misleading and negative television commercials are gone! Why do you choose to spend so much time tearing down the other candidates? Why can’t you talk about what you are going to do for us? Why can’t you talk about the issues? Why can’t you talk about the plans you have to fix what’s wrong with San Diego, California or America?

 

Instead you just focus on the negative. Are you being a good example (role model) to other Americans? I think not. If you think these types of tactics will deter me from voting… you are wrong! I will make sure I vote… just not for anyone who chooses to participate in this type of negative campaigning!!

 

So I hope you think about this next year. The numbers of people who think like me are growing! Any you wonder why most of us hate politicians!

10:37:08 AM  #  

Dr. Blackbourne (who bares a striking resemblance to Yoda) took the stand on the second day of the Westerfield trial. During his testimony, he seemed to not really give the answer we all have been waiting for… how Danielle Van Dam was murdered. If he were a little greener, I could imagine him saying in my head the following things…

• “Cloud your minds with doubt, I will.”
• “Weather charts? Meditate on that I will do.”
• “I know the time of death, but no real evidence I have.”
• “You must find your own answers, young jurors.”

4:28:45 PM  #