Month: April 2015

  • President Obama’s Remarks – 2015 White House Correspondents’ Dinner (C-SPAN)

    President Obama’s Remarks – 2015 White House Correspondents’ Dinner (C-SPAN)

    Via NPR – here are eight Obama jokes that stood out from the 2015 White House Correspondents Dinner: 1. The “Bucket” List: Obama said he’s asked, ” ‘Do you have a bucket list?’ I say, well I have something that rhymes with bucket.” Immigration executive action? “Bucket!” he deadpanned. Stricter climate rules. “Bucket!” 2. Those Grey…

  • When Clubmember Everett Kaukonen Integrated the Cape

    When Clubmember Everett Kaukonen Integrated the Cape

    Pictured: Anne Marie and Everett Kaukonen together with Nancy & Stewart Witt at the 2015 Roosevelt Dinner In 1963, a major San Diego employer was General Dynamics Astronautics, with the primary facility located in Kearny Mesa along the eastern side of Highway 163. The product was the Atlas rocket, a vehicle with two missions of…

  • Apr 26 – Monthly Meeting – Medical Marijuana – The Current State of Policy and Access in San Diego

    Apr 26 – Monthly Meeting – Medical Marijuana – The Current State of Policy and Access in San Diego

    Join us as we learn more about the current state of medical marijuana regulation in California, and how marijuana access is being implemented in San Diego City, as well as the current state of medical marijuana collective licensing in City Council District 2. Our round table presentation will include patient advocates, legal experts and a…

  • Apr 15 – Fight for 15! Livable Wages and Union Rights for All

    Apr 15 – Fight for 15! Livable Wages and Union Rights for All

    Today’s the day. All across San Diego (and the nation) there will be demonstrations to Fight for 15. Check out details of the main event at SDSU. Download a flyer here. In the wealthiest country in the world working people are campaigning to get (almost) enough money to live on. The San Diego Free Press describes the events…

  • Republicans Aren’t Clowning Around, These are Their Real 2016 Election Candidates

    Republicans Aren’t Clowning Around, These are Their Real 2016 Election Candidates

    National Republicans are realistically going to do very little between now and November 2016. Instead, says the Guardian’s Jeb Lund, you have lots of would-be presidential clowns: there’s Chris Christie, a man whose main appeal is being a bully to public servants, Mike Huckabee, who’s hoping to capture the vast army of Beyoncé haters, Texas’s…

  • Award Winning Documentary – Sustain San Diego

    Award Winning Documentary – Sustain San Diego

    Clubmember Andrew Waltz together with Lisa Bruhn are producers of Sustain San Diego a short documentary highlighting some of San Diego’s sustainable infrastructure efforts. The filmmakers participated in the OneDayinSanDiego.org documentary project (part of OneDayOnEarth.org) and were recently given a Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (LAIFF) Award. You can watch their film below. San Diego! Why…