[VIDEO] Memorial Day Morons: Americans Clueless About Holiday and Reason For It
Posted: May 30, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, History, Mediasphere, U.S. News, War Room | Tags: Arlington National Cemetery, California, Mark Dice, media, Memorial Day, news, San Diego, Veterans, video Leave a comment
Many Americans are clueless about what Memorial Day means and why it is a holiday in the United States. Many think it’s just a three day weekend and an excuse to get drunk. Media analyst Mark Dice talks with beachgoers in San Diego, California about the meaning of this important holiday.
San Diego Police Officer Shot, Suspect Dead
Posted: May 17, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption | Tags: California State Route 163, Jeep, Kearny Mesa, Police officer, San Diego, San Diego Police Department, Sharp Memorial Hospital, SWAT 1 CommentMichelle Moons reports: Shots fired at approximately 8:25 a.m. Sunday morning that sent one San Diego Police Officer to the hospital were met with responding shots fired at the shooting suspect leaving the man dead at the scene.
SDPD officers originally attempted to stop a gray Jeep traveling an estimated 90 miles per hour on Interstate 805 around 7:40 a.m. The vehicle evaded authorities in the chase that ensued, but was later spotted–abandoned. A search of vehicle license records yielded the possibility that the SUV had been used in multiple shootings in the city within the several weeks prior.
A male suspect spotted near the abandoned vehicle ran when officers attempted to approach him. It was then that the suspect produced a gun and fired at the officers, hitting a female officer in the upper tors,o according to a Sunday afternoon statement from the San Diego Police Department. Read the rest of this entry »
LA Desk: Celebrating Dia de Los Muertos
Posted: October 27, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Centro Cultural de la Raza, Cleveland Public Theatre, Day of the Dead, Descanso Gardens, Frida Kahlo, Robert Holguin, San Diego, Yakima Herald-Republic 1 CommentCelebrating Dia de Los Muertos @molaa gala in #LongBeach pic.twitter.com/sxtVkmR8sW
— Robert Holguin (@ABC7Robert) October 26, 2014
[VIDEO] Reason TV: Comic-Con, Flesh, Fantasy, Cosplay, and Self-Expression
Posted: July 30, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: Alter ego, Comic-Con International, Cosplay, Costume, Reason.tv, San Diego, San Diego Comic-Con International, YouTube Leave a commentReason TV ventured to Comic-Con International in San Diego to check out the booming culture of cosplay, in which people dress up as their favorite superheroes, literary figures, or fantasy icons. Why do cosplayers dedicate so much time, money, and energy to their alter egos? Its fun, they say, and its a powerful form of self-expression…(read more)
8 Batmobiles, Ranked
Posted: July 23, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: Batman, Batman Day, Christopher Nolan, Dark Knight, Dark Knight Returns, DC Comics, San Diego, San Diego Comic-Con International 1 CommentFor Popular Mechanics, Andrew Moseman writes:
In advance of San Diego Comic Con, DC Comics has declared today to be “Batman Day,” a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Dark Knight. (Go pick up some discount comics!) We look back on our favorite Batman tech: His sweet cars…(read more)
Note: Obviously, this is not an exhaustive list. Look here for that.
See all 8 here…
Want Fewer Guns on California Streets? Open Carry May Be the Answer
Posted: February 26, 2014 Filed under: Self Defense | Tags: Adam Winkler, California, Concealed carry in the United States, Gun, Gun control, San Diego, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, United States Supreme Court 3 Comments
Very few gun owners want to carry openly displayed guns. The police hassle you, stores refuse to serve you and some people won’t talk to you. Criminals might even target you, seeking to steal your expensive sidearm. (Jerome Favre / Bloomberg / February 22, 2014)
Letting people tote their guns around on their hips sounds dangerous. But think again.
Adam Winkler writes: What’s the best way to minimize the number of guns on California’s streets? That’s the question confronting gun control supporters after this month’s ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals striking down San Diego’s restrictions on carrying handguns in public. That case was brought by gun owners who applied for but were denied permits to carry concealed weapons.
[Adam Winkler is a professor of law at UCLA School of Law and the author of “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America”. It’s available at Amazon]
San Diego will undoubtedly appeal the decision in the hope of saving its restrictive policy for awarding concealed carry permits. Lawmakers who support gun control might want to consider another option: Rewrite state law to allow people to carry guns openly.
For many in the gun control community, that will seem like a crazy idea. State law bans ordinary civilians from carrying openly displayed firearms. And gun control advocates don’t want to see more gun enthusiasts showing up at Starbucks or the local movie theater with guns hanging on their hips like Gary Cooper in “High Noon.”
Yet if they don’t want too many guns in public, open carry may be the answer.
FBI Seeks ‘Loverspy’ Hacker Who Helped Catch Cheating Partners
Posted: November 7, 2013 Filed under: Law & Justice, Science & Technology, U.S. News | Tags: Computer crime, El Salvador, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Perez-Melara, San Diego, United States, WebWatcher 1 Comment
It’s not just the federal government intercepting your communications. It could be a nosy relative or jealous partner. (Photo Illustration by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not just the federal government intercepting your communications. It could be a nosy relative or jealous partner.
Among the five people added this week to the FBI’s list of “most wanted” cybercriminals is a former San Diego college student who developed an $89 program called “Loverspy” or “Email PI.” Sold online from his apartment, the program was advertised as a way to “catch a cheating lover” by sending the person an electronic greeting card that, if opened, would install malicious software to capture emails and instant messages, even spy on someone using the victim’s own webcam.
Liberalism’s War on Women
Posted: October 23, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Bob Filner, California, California Democratic Party, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Democratic Party, Filner, Freedom Rider, Mayor of San Diego, Planned Parenthood, San Diego, War on Women 1 Comment
Filner pleaded guilty to three counts and will not serve any time in prison. Instead he’ll spend three months at home, receive some counseling and three years on probation. He won’t go into California’s sex offender database.
Daniel Greenfield writes: As Bob Filner, San Diego’s former progressive mayor, pleads guilty to charges stemming from his attacks on women, his essay, “Why I am Pro-Choice” still decorates the website of Planned Parenthood.
A year ago, Filner had appeared at a Planned Parenthood rally while running for mayor of California’s second largest city to accuse his opponent of being part of the ‘war on women’.
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund had sent out a letter saying that “for twenty years, Bob Filner has defended women”. At the rally, attendees were told that he had spent “the last twenty years protecting our rights and the rights of women everywhere.”
But while Filner was protecting women, no one was protecting women from Filner. Filner’s behavior was well known, but not commented on. The California Democratic Party maintained its red wall of silence around the son of a Communist, a Freedom Rider and member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus because he was one of their own.
Even Filner’s disgrace hasn’t changed that. Filner pleaded guilty to three counts and will not serve any time in prison. Instead he’ll spend three months at home, receive some counseling and three years on probation.
He won’t go into California’s 100,000 strong sex offender database; even though if there’s anyone in the entire state who belongs there, it’s him. Filner probably deserves to join the 1 in 375 adults in California on that list more than Donald Honan who was only convicted of indecent exposure. Read the rest of this entry »
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner Resigns: after securing taxpayer-screwing exit deal
Posted: August 23, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Bob Filner, corruption, cowardice, harassment, resignation, San Diego, scandal, sex offender, sexual harassment, therapy Leave a commentOur Postmodern Angst
Posted: August 13, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Bob Filner, California, Filner, Jay-Z, John Steinbeck, Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, San Diego, Victor Davis Hanson Leave a commentIn our unheroic age, victimhood has replaced valiant struggle.

In the globally connected and affluent world of the 21st century, we thankfully have evolved a long way from the elemental poverty, hunger, and ethnic, religious, and racial hatred that were mostly the norm of the world until the last century.
Yet who would know of such progress — and the great sacrifices made to achieve it — from the howls of our postmodern oppressed? In fact, the better life has become, the more victimized modern affluent Westerners seem to act.