A San Diego nonprofit is pushing to create “safe villages” for the homeless

These safe villages would be campgrounds or parking lots with toilets, showers, tents, cottages, pallet homes, and other types of temporary housing. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Not a substitute for permanent housing, but better than impromptu encampments for both the homeless people and the surrounding communities.

This article needs comment from actual homeless people. Sadly, they are not hard to find

Fire that damaged home of California politicians was arson, authorities conclude

Investigators made an arson determination in the fire that damaged the home of two Democratic Party leaders — San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher and former state legislator Lorena Gonzalez. NBCNews

Garden

I saw these houses

I saw this car, which just needs a paint job and it’s road-ready.

Fully loaded

I saw this truck walking Minnie near Lake Murray this morning.

This is a better photo of Himalayan Cuisine in La Mesa, where we had dinner

Great food, beautiful dining room—particularly the ceiling. Forget I shared the other photo.

We had dinner at Himalayan Cuisine in La Mesa. Great food, plenty of leftovers, beautiful dining room—look at that ceiling!

Some thoughts on the California recall election

The official party line from the Democrats is vote NO on the recall, then stop. Sign the back and mail it in.
That’s the party line from the San Diego Democrats, at least. I suspect it came down from the state.
I may deviate from party line and vote for Angelyne in part two because mandatory bubble baths.
Because the recall election is a shitshow, we could end up with Newsom getting 49+% of the vote and Elder getting 18% and Elder getting sworn in as governor in October.
If you have any elective medical procedures on the to-do list for this year, get ’em done now. Because we could have a Republican governor in October, and a few weeks after that, hospitals will over capacity, canceling elective procedures, and lining up the refrigerated trucks on the street to hold the excess dead bodies.
You think that last bit is hyperbole? That’s what’s going on in Texas and Florida, where Republicans are anti-mask and vax mandates because ‘MURRICA.

‘Community Character’ Concerns Are a Veil – a Thin One [Al Abdallah, COO, Urban League of San Diego County/Voice of San Diego]

[Groups] behind the most recent efforts to ostensibly protect “community character” – like those in Kensington, Talmadge, and El Cerrito – have something obvious in common. These are the same communities that used redlining to shut out families of color decades ago.