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Posted on October 23 at 6:06 p.m.
Its well known that many drivers simply travel too fast along Cliff. On foggy days, a solid 30% or so of them don't even have their headlights on.
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Posted on October 2 at 4:02 p.m.
Why are the authorities so powerless to get someone like this in jail, from the very first incident? Isn't protecting the public at large far more important than walking around on eggshells concerned about his civil liberties? He's a nut and should have been under arrest and subject to police surveillance from the day a woman reported his attack, proven or not at the time. Stop giving animals the benefit of the doubt.
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Posted on September 23 at 3:25 p.m.
Oh, Mickey P, you're so fine! Oh, Mickey P, you nearly blow my mind!
Does everything that happens in Tiny Town have to turn into a big debate over nothing?
If even half of the energy put into the comments sections of the Indy and the Noozhawk were converted to electricity, we wouldn't have a need for solar power.
The firemen are heroes, the CHP are heroes, the city police and sheriff deputies are heroes, our troops are heroes . . .
Everybody happy now?
Posted on September 7 at 12:01 p.m.
Whether you're on the Right or the Left, I think most of us can agree on the following:
-Public opinion surveys show a majority want health care reform of some kind and most are not opposed to a public option.
-One of the benchmarks for grading any health care system is access to care. Rationing now occurs in the form of insurers denying care.
-Anyone with even the best health care insurance is at risk of financial insolvency if they become seriously ill.
-Tort reform should be enacted for the sake of reducing costs throughout our society, including health care.
-For-profit health care seems destined to continually result in high costs, poor value and a very inefficient system.
-Both the Democrats and the Republicans are far too controlled by corporate interests and in many ways no longer serve the people honestly or effectively.
-Campaign finance reform is the only place to start to bring good representation back to our political system.
-Medicare generally works very well and the real reason it and Social Security are insolvent is primarily due to government "borrowing" funds from them, a practice that should be stopped.
-Spending enormous amounts of money on "end of life care" is usually a bad idea and too expensive with little benefit.
-Unnecessary and expensive tests are a significant driver of runaway costs in our health care system.
-A single payer system or a blend of public and private health care will ultimately be adopted in the U.S. and serve us better than the system we have now.
-Big pharma and health insurance companies cannot be trusted and require regulation and strong oversight.
My point is that to debate health care in an informed and adult manner it would appear necessary to keep party affiliations out of the discussions over the fundamental challenges and questions at the heart of this issue. Anyone agree or disagree on this approach?
Posted on September 7 at 11:33 a.m.
The current health care "debate" is nothing less than a litmus test for the way our government, the media, special interest groups and ordinary citizens handle decision-making. Are we collectively capable of having an open, honest and well informed discussion of the real choices before us (not to mention benefiting from examples set by other nations)?
Or will this degenerate into yet another disingenuous lie-fest full of nonsensical bullcrap. I think you know where I'm putting my money! One consolation is that this inflection point in U.S. history provides a good excuse to re-watch the film 'Idiocracy' (2006). Hooray for stupidity!
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Posted on August 30 at 1:17 a.m.
Why are we not investigating the GOP and RNC and former Bush-Cheney administration officials about the voter caging system they used to hack the vote in 2000 and 2004? Ultimately is not ensuring electoral integrity just as important as the moral imperative to not torture?
Posted on August 30 at 1:11 a.m.
Between Medicare, Medicaid and the VA, not to mention our prison population (highest per capita incarceration rate in the world), we're already providing socialized medical care for over 40 million people, or more than almost any other nation on Earth. And we're still arguing over whether the TAXPAYER, the people paying for all this, should ALSO enjoy the benefits of a taxation-subsidized, single payer health care system? What am I missing here?
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Posted on August 28 at 9:18 a.m.
If this dude ever actually does get his license, will the local authorities issue an alert of some kind through the media to warn the public?
Posted on August 18 at 12:15 p.m.
According to many, the three best clothing optional beaches on the West Coast are Vancouver's Wreck Beach, Torrey Pines' Black's Beach and our own More Mesa. Having been to each of them I can attest that they are not only the finest CO beaches, but are among the prettiest and most relaxing beaches of any kind.
Unfortunately, there is again talk of despoiling the wonderful meadow that provides access to More Mesa. To help stop this unnecessary development of one of the few parts of our coastline still in its natural state, contact the More Mesa Preservation Coalition at www.moremesa.org and moremesa@mindspring.com
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Posted on October 23 at 6:11 p.m.
Developers just aren't welcome here which is why so many people choose to live on the Central Coast, including rich, retired developers who have despoiled other places.
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