From a distance, the ocean near Scripps Pier off La Jolla, California, appeared to be the site of a catastrophic oil spill on Tuesday. Initially, Robert Monroe thought it was a red tide.

But it was neither.

Making a long, dark cloud in the shallow water off San Diego County was a massive school of Northern anchovies the likes of which has not been seen hugging the coast in more than 30 years.

Monroe, a communications officer with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, saw the unusual sight and raced to the pier with a GoPro camera, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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COOL! Love to see the oceans appearing to be healthier! Really amazing pictures at the link!

SAN DIEGO — Engine maker Pratt & Whitney is leaving Southern California, which will eliminate 530 jobs as defense spending contracts and the company consolidates its operations.

The defense contractor announced Thursday that it plans to close its AeroPower facility in San Diego over the next two years, U-T San Diego reported (bit.ly ).

AeroPower makes auxiliary power units for military and commercial airplanes. The units are engines used mainly to provide electricity and air conditioning to aircraft on the ground, and to start a plane’s main engines.

Read more here: fresnobee.com

Tom Cantor we feel your pain, that’s why Kaili Joy Gray presents you with a “scientifically accurate” picture of Jesus riding a Velociraptor.

Attention civil rights activists! Your fierce and courageous devotion to fighting against injustice is sorely needed in the horribly oppressive town of San Diego, which has, sadly, turned into 1950s Alabama. No, there are no segregated drinking fountains. No, there have been no lynchings. No, there is no tired lady who would just like to have her seat on the bus, goddamnit. But there is a heinous, oppressive evil afoot, and we are not talking about former Mayor Bob Grabass Filner. We are talking about — trigger warning for atrocious atrocities of atrociousness — this:

The president of a museum which teaches that dinosaurs walked the Earth at the same time as humans said this week that San Diego was “like Selma, Alabama in the 1950s” because his ministry was denied a seat on the local museum council.

“I’m afraid we are being opposed for nothing more than the old prejudice against God,” [museum President Tom] Cantor lamented.

Oh, the humanity!

Read More At Wonkette

Top image is a picture of Tom Cantor from the Raw Story article on this

Monday marked the first time in California that officials notified the public of a statewide Amber Alert through their cellphones, a California Highway Patrol official said.

It differed from phone to phone, but sometime between late Monday and early Tuesday many mobile phones across Southern California received an Amber Alert related to two missing children in San Diego.

James Lee DiMaggio is suspected of killing Christina Anderson, 44, of Lakeside and kidnapping one or both of her children: Hannah Anderson, 16, and Ethan Anderson, 8.

Christina Anderson’s body was found Sunday night in the burning rubble of a house in the rural community of Boulevard in eastern San Diego County, authorities said.

More: California Issues First Cellphone Amber Alert, Opt-Out Available

Tim Lambesis, lead singer for the heavy metal band As I Lay Dying, was arrested in California on Tuesday on charges that he sought the help of an undercover detective to have his estranged wife killed, police said.

Lambesis was taken into custody in Oceanside, near San Diego, said San Diego County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Jan Caldwell.

Police had previously learned Lambesis was looking for someone to carry out the killing, Caldwell said.

“The information came to us late last week. We acted quickly on it. I believe that we averted a great tragedy,” she said.

Caldwell said the ongoing investigation prevented her from disclosing any details about why Lambesis might have wanted to have his wife killed or how police first learned about what they described as his murder plan.

Lambesis’ wife, Meggan, filed papers in San Diego Superior Court in September 2012 seeking a dissolution of marriage, according to an online court database.

More: Heavy Metal Singer Tim Lambesis Arrested in Murder-for-Hire Plot

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Roger Hedgecock, former San Diego mayor and current right wing talk show host, equated teaching about race with “hatred of white people,” claimed “hatred of white people has now become an epidemic in this country”, that the California public school curriculum was “anti-white” while blaming President Obama for “racial tensions” that “are at an all-time high in my lifetime.” Hedgecock made these comments on Feb. 4, 2013, on San Diego station KFMB-AM, which features white talk show hosts for 100% of their programming, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Hedgecock started out by resurrecting a story from 2012 about a Portland school principal, Verenice Gutierrez, who was involved in programs to help educators understand white privilege in order to “change their teaching practices to boost their minority students’ performance.” Hedgecock called this “hatred of white people.”

“It will boost minorities performance to teach them, in essence, hatred of white people, which is basically what she said,” is how Hedgecock characterized it.

Hedgecock then presented what was supposed to be a scary list of the “hatred of white people” training for teachers involving Gutierrez, including an exercise “to examine a news article and discuss the white privilege it conveys… A week-long seminar called ‘coaching for educational equity’…that focuses on race and how it affects life… She also serves on an administrative committee that focuses on ‘systemic racism.’

“…This stuff is going on in every school, every public school,” Hedgecock warned.

After relating a news story about a deranged murderer who said his shooting spree was prompted by his racist attitudes toward white people, beliefs he developed while an anthropology major in college, Hedgecock said, “Where do people get these notions? They get them in taxpayer-supported schools. Hatred of white people has now become an epidemic in this country.

“It is now informing polical decisions that are made. When President Obama told the editorial staff at the San Francisco Chronicle during the 2008 campaign that the bitter clingers, people in Pennsylvania, and he was talking about white people, who cling to their guns and their bible, were the problem he was having.

“No one has more racially divided this country since John C. Calhoun, than Barack Obama…

“No one in this country believes that we are better off in race relations, that there is less racial tension in this country today, because of Barack Obama’s election. Racial tensions are at an all-time high in my lifetime and I lived through the 50s…

“I lived through Rosa Parks, I lived through Martin Luther King, Jr. The consensus was at that time among white people that those civil rights efforts were in the noblest tradition in the American republic…

“Do you have a feeling that all this stuff in the schools, teaching hatred of white privilege, is bringing us closer together? Is bringing us past racism?

Referring to a story about a review of the school system in Texas, Hedgecock concluded, “You should see the curriculum we have. It is as anti-American, anti-West and anti-white as you could imagine.”

Hate Group Leader to Serve as California State Judge
by Leah Nelson
June 20, 2012

In a 2011 fundraising letter for USJF, Kreep suggested that the president is a ‘stealth jihadist,’ Marxist, and ‘strident enemy of America,’ who ‘is working to destroy our sovereign republic.’

Gary Kreep, a longtime antigovernment activist, ‘birther’ and hate group leader who uses anti-Obama rhetoric as a proxy for anti-Muslim hate, has emerged victorious in a tight race for a seat on San Diego’s Superior Court, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.

Gary Kreep

Kreep, who received the San Diego County Bar Association’s lowest rating of ‘lacking qualifications,’ beat opponent Garland Peed, a deputy district attorney of 27 years who received the county bar association’s highest rating and who was supported by local police unions and sitting judges.

The San Diego Superior Court is part of the state’s trial court system, which handles a wide variety of cases, including civil lawsuits and felony criminal cases. Kreep will serve a six-year term and earn an annual salary of $178,789.

Continue reading at SPLC.

Related:

Lawyer Who Filed Birther Case Against Obama Poised For Superior Court

Gary Kreep leads highly endorsed Dep. DA Garland Peed by 1,500 votes, with 1,000 left to count. U.S. Supreme Court denied Kreep a hearing on Obama case in June.
by Julie Pendray
June 20, 2012

It appears Gary Kreep is about to make history.

Just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court denied him a hearing on his birth certificate case against President Obama, it looks like the conservative constitutional attorney will land a seat on the Superior Court bench in San Diego county.

Voters countywide have given him a lead of 1,569 votes over highly endorsed longtime Deputy District Attorney Garland Peed, with 1,000 ballots countywide still to be counted. His lead is less than 1 percent.

Peed was endorsed by many the Superior Court judges and had been given a high qualification ranking by the San Diego County Bar Association. The Bar Association gave Kreep a low ranking, noting that his opinions were swayed too much by his religious beliefs.

Kreep heads up the U.S. Justice Foundation, a conservative political group based in Ramona, which has nationwide support.

Continue reading at the Coronado Patch.

From Source Watch: Gary Kreep on “Political Assassinations”:

Political Assassinations ‘OK’

In October 2001 the conservative online news service WorldNetDaily reported on a paper written by Gary Kreep, the executive director of the group, and Richard D. Ackerman, the then litigation counsel for the organization supporting the lifting of the executive orders 11905 and 12333, signed by President Gerald Ford in 1976, that banned political assassinations.

The report cited an article - not available online - which argued that “the use of violence in defense of the United States should be a right of the leaders of our nation. The right to assassinate a foreign leader is qualified by certain critical factors, including, but not limited to, reasonableness of the force or threat, the interests sought to be protected by the use of violence, and the personal morality of our leaders.

The revival of an ability to defend our nation by assassination of rogue leaders is more than justified given the present threats of biological, chemical and nuclear violence against the United States by foreign states.”

Update:

Superior Court Judge Candidate Has ‘Sincere’ Doubts About Obama’s Citizenship

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A growing number of cities across the United States are making it harder to be homeless.

Philadelphia recently banned outdoor feeding of people in city parks. Denver has begun enforcing a ban on eating and sleeping on property without permission. And this month, lawmakers in Ashland, Ore., will consider strengthening the town’s ban on camping and making noise in public.

And the list goes on: Atlanta, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, Oklahoma City and more than 50 other cities have previously adopted some kind of anti-camping or anti-food-sharing laws, according to the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty.

The ordinances are pitting city officials against homeless advocates. City leaders say they want to improve the lives of homeless people and ensure public safety, while supporters of the homeless argue that such regulations criminalize homelessness and make it harder to live on the nation’s streets.

More

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As temperatures are rising in Southern California, so are tensions over the future of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, also known as SONGS. It’s been nearly four months since the nuclear power plant, located 45 miles north of San Diego, was shuttered after a small amount of radiation leaked into the atmosphere from a recently installed steam-generator tube in the plant’s reactor Unit 3.

It was subsequently discovered that a large number of these tubes, which function like a car radiator and carry hot, pressurized radioactive water, were damaged in Unit 2, the other operating unit at the seaside plant, which is operated by Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and jointly owned with the city of Riverside, Calif.

Jennifer Manfre, a spokeswoman for Southern California Edison, told The Daily Beast that the company has since plugged 510 damaged tubes in Unit 2 and 807 tubes in Unit 3. But investigators with Edison and the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) still haven’t pinpointed the reason for the tubes’ erosion — other than to say it was the result of a vibration.

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LOS ANGELES — By his own admission, Daniel Chong planned to spend April 20 like so many other college students: smoking marijuana with friends to celebrate an unofficial holiday devoted to the drug.

But for Mr. Chong, the celebration ended in a Kafkaesque nightmare inside a San Diego Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell, where he said he was forgotten for four days, without food or water.

To survive, Mr. Chong said he drank his own urine, hallucinated and, at one point, considered how to take his own life. By the time agents found him on the fifth day and called paramedics, he said he thought he could be dead within five minutes.

To survive, Mr. Chong said he drank his own urine, hallucinated and, at one point, considered how to take his own life. By the time agents found him on the fifth day and called paramedics, he said he thought he could be dead within five minutes.

‘By that time, I’d accepted that I would probably die there,’ Mr. Chong, a 23-year-old student at the University of California, San Diego, said Wednesday, three days after his release from the hospital.

A spokeswoman for the D.E.A. said the case was under investigation, but confirmed that Mr. Chong had been ‘accidentally left in one of the cells’ from April 21 until April 25, and that he had not been charged with a crime.

This is completely inexcusable. It’s hard to believe that this wasn’t intentional. Daniel Chong is going to get one hell of a settlement when this case goes to court.

Eugene Iredale, one of Mr. Chong’s lawyers, said he planned to file a claim against the federal government, and, if that is denied, a lawsuit.

“How they failed to realize he was there or ignored him is beyond comprehension,” Mr. Iredale said.

No kidding.