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SBD
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 Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 6:55 am Post subject: WE JUST HAD AN EARTHQUAKE!! |
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I am in San Diego and it seemed like a pretty strong one but I just checked the USGS website and it was strong because it was centered so close to me in Chula Vista. I did notice a swarm of earthquakes that just keep rumbling north east of here. Check this out!!
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Location Date Time Magnitude
11.8 mi SE of Chula Vista, CA
(ID 14181056) Sep 2 2005 23:53:51 PDT 3.9
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Maps of Recent Significant Events
Location Date Time Magnitude
0.7 mi S of Obsidian Butte, CA (ID 14179736) Sep 1 2005 18:27:19 PDT 5.1
0.6 mi NNE of Obsidian Butte, CA (ID 14179292) Sep 1 2005 06:50:20 PDT 4.4
2.5 mi ENE of Obsidian Butte, CA (ID 14178248) Aug 31 2005 16:32:11 PDT 4.5
3.3 mi ENE of Obsidian Butte, CA (ID 14178236) Aug 31 2005 16:27:32 PDT 4.3
1.2 mi ENE of Obsidian Butte, CA (ID 14178212) Aug 31 2005 16:07:16 PDT 4.1
1.5 mi E of Obsidian Butte, CA (ID 14178188) Aug 31 2005 15:50:24 PDT 4.5
0.8 mi SSE of Obsidian Butte, CA (ID 14178184) Aug 31 2005 15:47:44 PDT 4.6
9.9 mi SSW of Olancha, CA (ID 14169456) Aug 5 2005 22:40:32 PDT 4.2
These are just the Big ones, here is the list of all the quakes
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/quakes_all.html
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Then we wonder why we have Earthquakes!!
| Quote: | Judge Blocks Soledad Cross
Another court battle is shaping up over the cross at the Mt. Soledad war memorial. A Superior Court judge Friday issued a temporary restraining order which prevents the city for now from transferring the cross to the federal government despite overwhelming approval by voters to do in July.
Judge Patricia Yim Cowett questioned the constitutionality of Proposition A. The measure called for the city to hand the cross over to the federal government to be part of a national veterans memorial. Cowett told the lawyers to return to court Oct. 3 to present their arguments. She ruled that "the transfer is again an unconstitutional preference of the Christian religion to the exclusion of other religions and non-religious beliefs," in violation of the state constitution.
James McElroy, the attorney for Philip Paulson, the atheist who sued more than a decade ago to have the cross removed, said the judge ruled in his client's favor on the three key issues: two potential breaches of the state constitution and one of the federal constitution. City Attorney Michael Aguirre and several council members had warned before the vote that Proposition A would not stand up to a legal challenge. Aguirre said he would pursue an appeal in the case as the city's attorney if instructed to do so.
Proposition A was passed in July by nearly 76 percent of San Diego voters, easily surpassing the two-thirds approval required. Just days before the July election, Cowett had ruled that the measure needed more than a simple majority to pass because the city charter requires a two-thirds approval for any change to the use of park land. The cross was built in 1954 to honor Korean War veterans. Granite walls bearing memorial plaques honoring all veterans were erected around it in 2000. The proposition was the third time since 1992 that San Diego voters were asked to authorize a transfer of the cross from city-owned land. |
This is the same judge that changed the rules 5 days before the election requiring a 2/3 majority for the vote to pass. How can she make a ruling on the way the proposition was to pass, only to claim later it was illegal to even be on the ballot. The people of San Diego own the land, not the judge or her atheist friends and if the people decide they want to give it to the Federal Government through the democratic process, then it trumps any judge's ruling. Remember its' by the people and for the people, the word judge is not present in that statement.
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Time to invest in that future beachfront land in Needles SBD. Shakin and Bakin in So Cal.
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