Hillcrest, San Diego, California Politics...Protests...and More.

 

“44 Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and true to our founding documents.

So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.”

— President Barack Obama

Thanks to everyone for making it happen!

Did you know he’s Irish?

Mad about Proposition 8??? >>> The musical <<< + Mormon businesses to consider boycotting.

 

Thirty+ years ago (11/27/78), SF Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were killed in City Hall. Here’s a look at the event that rocked the city and the legacies the two men left behind.

---

 

“This is a farewell kiss, you dog.” ...with shoe #1. Reason for shoe #2... “This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.”

— Journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi who threw his shoes at George Bush

 

(Bush’s) brilliant exit strategy that maintains his rock solid record of placing personal goals and business interests ahead of those of the country.

JOHN KOWALCZYK
Poway

(from March 27, 2006 San Diego Union-Tribune letters to the editor)

“Where would the Bush administration be without terrorism? Like the Cold War before it, the ‘war on terror’ is a conveniently sweeping rationale for all manner of irrational governance, such as the outrageous $2.77-trillion budget the president proposed to Congress.”

— Robert Scheer

"As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”

— former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld