Offering Solutions

The solution to Escondido’s problems is not their current concept of annexing relatively wealthy areas outside their boundaries.

I can tell you that if they covet Hidden Meadows they will metaphorically find a Goliad-style resistance, as when that community replied to the Mexican demand that they return a loaned canon during the Mexican War. Goliad loaded the canon, pointed it toward

Mexico and flew a flag that said, “Come And Take It!”

 here is a solution to the Escondido problem: Get its school system ranked as highly as is Poway, and affluent people will be attracted to the community!

I lived in Poway under the “old” PUSD, where liberals won one school board majority, conservatives won the next and there were recalls in-between. Education suffered badly, and no one wanted to live in Poway.

Look what happened when the Poway Unified got its act together and went academic in a big way! People moved into Poway and RB just for the school system. PUSD began to compete academically with Torrey Pines, La Jolla, and Coronado in academics – but with lower home prices. Eureka! The time came, more than 20 years ago when Poway family income passed the family income of even Rancho Bernardo – it took years for Poway to end their previously poor reputation and become, really an upscale community.

Escondido COULD do the same. You can’t kick the riff-raff out of Escondido. What you can do is induce the better class to come to displace them.

People will do more to help their children than any other thing you can imagine.

Escondido is a Mess

Escondido has already become, in reputation – Oceanside.

Oceanside has been trying to regain its footing for as long as I can remember – over half a century in San Diego County.

Once you get behind the power curve you expend too much energy just trying to catch the spin. It’s like skiing, DON’T Fall, because you expend 10 times the energy trying to get up that you would have trying to stay upright!

Escondido has fallen, and everything it does is nibbling around the edges of the problem. Short of martial law and demolition, I have no solution. The powers thought they could buy class with the CCA, much like the Czars thought they could by buying Great Art, but not only did the Escondido plan not work culturally, but additionally it costs millions each year to keep the White Elephant.

Now, the answer appears to be a fine hotel. In ten years it will be reduced to the new Mount Vernon Motel for transients.

If ever there was a city begging for revolution, not evolution, it is Escondido.

Filed Under: “Those who ignore history…etc”

(Headline) Obama, like predecessors, has political headaches over health care

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/02/obama-like-predecessors-has-political-headaches-over-health-care/1

Filed Under: Damn! I retired Too Soon!

QUOTE)Defense Secretary Robert Gates sent a letter to lawmakers notifying them of the decision by the Navy, which could see the first women on nuclear submarines next year.

“This is fundamentally a Navy initiative, which they recently briefed to the secretary of defense. (Gates) supports it and he notified Congress of the Navy’s plans,” Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said.

Women account for about 15 percent of the more than 336,000 members of the U.S. Navy and can serve on its surface ships. But critics have argued that submarines are different, pointing to cramped quarters where some crews share beds in shifts — a practice known as “hot bunking.” (UNQUOTE)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61M6LW20100223

Actually, we have always had women on submarines…i could tell you stories…and I have in my memoirs. An entire chapter.

But I’ll tell you one. I was the Engineer on a sub in Hong Kong, and had arranged for my wife to join me there from San Diego. The CO could think of no reason to have me ride the boat to Yokosuka, since it was just a transit, and an uneventful trip so i flew to Tokyo a few days later and joned a very angry Skipper.

It seems my men had smuggled several (I think four) Hong Kong prostitutes aboard and had kept them busy and well sequestered until the boat arrived in Yokosuka.

The problem was immigration. The Japanese are a strongly insular island, and take immigration SERIOUSLY! It became an international incident.  My Sipper was livid — he was catching hell and he wanted to offload it on me.

(I couldn’t stop laughing…I think that upset him the most. He demanded that I find out who was responsible…and at that, neither my men, or I could stop laughing.)

In a week it was all forgotten — except by the Japanese government.

Then there was the time we pulled into Avalon Harbor — the first submarine in five years since submarines were banned for something or other. We were there one night…and submarines were banned for five more years!

I hope the women are ready…submarines have been “men only” for a reason.

Equalized Poverty

The Prime Minister of Newfoundland and Labrador went to Miami  for his heart procedure, and is apparently being questioned as to why he didn’t use the vaunted Canadian healthcare System

“This was my heart, my choice and my health,” Williams said late Monday from his condominium in Sarasota, Fla.

“I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics…”

“…I would’ve been criticized if I had stayed in Canada and had been perceived as jumping a line or a wait list. … I accept that. That’s public life,” he said.

“(But) this is not a unique phenomenon to me. This is something that happens with lots of families throughout this country, so I make no apologies for that.”

Those who can do. Like all socialists systems, the equality is at a low level because it is easier to bring down the rich than raise up the poor.

Equalized poverty, but the liberals would be happy because it is equal. Excep0t, of course for the nomenclature, who shop in special shops…or go abroad for medical care. .

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h0QC7bditrEb3wYz_6_b-gsGGDxA