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BTW, it would be great if you could post something with an address/PO Box for us to send some money. We all owe it to you.

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Thank you so much, Rich, for maintaining this site! You’ve been awesome to all of us. 🙂

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[quote=joec]Article in UT about this today:
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jul/18/tp-rape-ad-case-moves-forward/%5B/quote%5D

One step closer to justice! I wish the felony identity theft charges hadn’t been reduced to misdemeanors, though. This woman needs to go away for a long, long time. She is scary.

BTW, I wonder if people would be less sympathetic if it were a man who did all of these things.

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Agree with you on that, Brian.

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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=CA renter]Great video, and very sad, too. I especially liked the interview with the retired cop; it was good to hear his perspective.

Time to end the war on drugs and reverse the privatization of prisons.[/quote]

Too much money at stake, on both sides of the equation, for that to happen.[/quote]

That always seem to be the problem, doesn’t it? :

[CA renter]

The Gambler

“Every gambler knows
That the secret to survivin’
Is knowin’ what to throw away
And knowin’ what to keep
‘Cause every hand’s a winner
And every hand’s a loser
And the best that you can hope for
Is to die in your sleep”

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/kennyrogers/thegambler.html

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[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=CA renter]Not the pistol plan. It’s ugly, leaves a mess for your loved ones, and can often fail…with horrible results.

Better to go with the opiate plan, or just a ton of sleep meds. Peaceful, painless, and fairly clean and easy for your loved ones to deal with.[/quote]

not mutually exclusive. i visualize handcuffing myself to a bed, taking a bunch of drugs and shooting myself.

maybe it’s justa fnatasy. maybe it’s way harder to do than i imagine.

there’s probably no particularly good day to die.

the decline is so gradual?

family friend had bad sudden turn of events has inhome care. lost her spunkiness…

maybe you become not spunky enought o kill yourself?[/quote]

Everybody I talk to says that they’ll find someway to end it when it gets too bad.

But, in reality, I’ve heard of nobody doing it.

Ok. Where will you get the opiates?

I think that if people really were serious about a humane way of ending life, euthanasia would be legal in this country.[/quote]

While many don’t do it, others certainly do. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in this country, and I believe that many of the cases (probably not the majority) are because people are trying to quickly end an long, miserable, humiliating, depressing road to death.

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/suicide/statistics/leading_causes.html

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Great video, and very sad, too. I especially liked the interview with the retired cop; it was good to hear his perspective.

Time to end the war on drugs and reverse the privatization of prisons.

[CA renter]

Not the pistol plan. It’s ugly, leaves a mess for your loved ones, and can often fail…with horrible results.

Better to go with the opiate plan, or just a ton of sleep meds. Peaceful, painless, and fairly clean and easy for your loved ones to deal with.

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Yes, very common.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]Why are eucalyptus so bad? Sure branches break and they she’d mulch and leaves like crazy but if you have room and they’re out of the way what’s the problem?[/quote]

It’s not just the branches. Whole trees can easily fall. They’re very susceptible to termite damage, and after a number of years, they can be entirely hollowed out. A little wind, and the entire thing comes down.

Happened to my MIL when her neighbor’s tree fell down and took out part of my MIL’s roof, part of a wall, and tore down power lines…which caused a fire that the neighbor managed to put out (thankfully), and cut off power to a number of houses for blocks around.

And what UCGal said, too. They have very combustible oils that can explode when they catch fire.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Tree are useless if they are eucalyptus trees. They will cost you a lot of money over time.[/quote]

Not useless. While eucalyptus trees have their issues, they are fast-growing, provide shade and wind breaks, are used in medicines, perfumes, and antiseptic cleaning solutions. 🙂

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[quote=FlyerInHi]I agree that trees can grow in San Diego.

There are beautiful trees in San Diego, but few whole streets like in LA. Generally speaking, the upscale neighborhoods of LA have nicer trees.[/quote]

The neighborhood we used to live in here in SD County had trees lining the streets, just like in LA. This was told to me by our neighbor who was an original occupant. When I asked what happened to all the trees (only about 4-5 trees were left, including the one in front of our house and the one across the street), he smiled and said: We all cut them down because the leaves were so dirty. Since then, I’ve heard this excuse from many others who’ve cut down beautiful, mature trees. It’s disgusting.

In general, the fewer trees there are in a neighborhood, the worse that neighborhood is. Look at the “good” communities here (or in LA, though the difference in less stark), and you’ll see a higher-than-average number of large, mature trees.

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[quote=barnaby33]

And before anyone stands on the “but they are illegal” dogma, well I would be more sympathetic to that argument if Boehner would let immigration reform come up for a vote. But by blocking reform, all goodwill I have for the “illegal” argument evaporates.

So you only respect laws that are up for change? Going all Hobby Lobby on us?

They are illegal. Being here without documents is breaking the law. A set of laws we’ve had for a long time, though sadly not well enforced.

The situation is Central America is as complex as here and the coyotes who sell passage are feeding off of a change in policy and the violence is driving more people to leave.

I’d be a lot more open to immigration “reform” ie letting in more people as long as the birth rates in all of our population donor countries were brought down to replacement rates.

We are a nation of former immigrants. However we’re over capacity and so is everyone else. How does admitting large groups of low skilled people because their countries are unstable make the world better? Why is it that because a century ago America was filled with immigrants this must always be so?
Josh[/quote]

Good post, Josh.

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[quote=Rhett]
I’m not a gardening/landscape expert nor do I play one on TV, but our soil is a great deal different than that in Pasadena/LA. You simply cannot grow trees like that here. The only trees that do grow well here are eucalyptus, and I think we know all the negatives that come with them.

I want to echo something that Barneby said – San Diego’s environment is classified as “coastal arid desert”. Our natural color is brown, and the only reason we have green things around here is irrigation. If we don’t get a few El Nino winters or an abnormally wet winter like 2004-5, we are about to run into a big world of trouble when it comes to water.

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Yes, we are in big trouble if we don’t get some rain. People in the weather community had been thinking that conditions were setting up for an El Nino this winter, but they’ve started to back off on that. Let’s hope their initial forecasts were right.

But it’s not so much that good trees don’t grow here — there are plenty of beautiful trees in different neighborhoods that prove they can grow here — it’s the people who cut them down that are the problem. I’ve seen absolutely glorious, mature trees murdered because people thought it obstructed their views, or because they thought the leaves were “dirty.”

And trees are one of the best things for our environment. Some believe that the deforestation of our planet is largely responsible for global warming (of the possible man-made causes of global warming).

…

“By most accounts, deforestation in tropical rainforests adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than the sum total of cars and trucks on the world’s roads.”

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deforestation-and-global-warming/

and

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation-overview/

…

Many trees require very little water and, once established, need almost no additional irrigation at all. They keep the ground and air cooler, keep the soil moist, remove pollutants and greenhouse gasses from the air, and they are aesthetically pleasing. Some studies show that trees and nature have a very positive effect on people’s psychological well-being.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-nature-resets-our-minds-and-bodies/274455/

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