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dollars that cities and coun- ties in the state of California spent caring for and housing these thousands of homeless pets. I have a message to anyone


looking for a special breed. There are breed rescuers of every kind: German shep- herd, cocker spaniel, chihua- hua ... whatever breed you’re looking for, you can find a special group that rescues that breed. And most shel- ters have purebreds in those shelters. Keep in mind, the people


who breed pups don’t really care about dogs. And peo- ple who buy from pet stores don’t really care about dogs either. Don’t breed or buy while shelter pets die. Vivian Dunbar San Ysidro


SDG&E Somehow Won I appreciate the San Diego Reader for running a story (News Ticker, “Dirty Gas Dream to Come True in Carlsbad,” December 2, SDReader.com) on a decision from a state appeals court on the Carlsbad Energy Center, thus bringing the concerns about this project to the attention of consumers. The decision by the Cali-


fornia First District Court of Appeals to allow the Carls- bad Energy Center to move ahead with construction is deeply concerning. We can’t afford a new costly and long lasting gas-fired power plant, especially when cheaper and safer clean energy options are available. Clean energy proposals weren’t even given a chance to compete before CPUC approved the project. California has always been a leader in clean technology, so


I would have expected the CPUC as well as the court to have a more forward looking viewpoint towards renewable energy.


SDG&E somehow


squeaked out a win on this one, but I hope this isn’t over yet. We deserve fair consid- eration of clean energy pro- posals that protect our pock- etbook, our health, and our environment. Stephen Van Dien Carlsbad


Amateur Historian Some errors were let through in the latest installment of Unforgettable: Long Ago San Diego, the one about a series of would be conquerors of Mexico who set out from the southwest United States in the 1850s (“Let’s Invade Mexico! Outbreaks of Fili- buster Fever,” December 1). To begin with, “rastaurador,” “Negrette,” and “Melendres”


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are misspellings of restaura- dor, Negrete, and Meléndrez. In addition, restaurador does not mean “renewer” (renova- dor), rather “restorer.” The town of Tijuana was not called “Tia Juana” by Mexi- cans, but by Americans, dur- ing the following century. Presumably, some of


these errors come from the sources, in which case the errors remain uncaught due to a lack of knowledge that an amateur historian of San Diego would like to have. Below, more errors are


noted. But factual errors are not all I would change about this article. The writer provided deep


character studies of the for- eign protagonists, which is fair because they were the creators of these events. But he should have done the same for at least one of the Mexican actors, Meléndrez. In this article, every one


of the Mexicans is a stick fig- ure, just a name who makes a declaration here and wages a battle there. Nor does the writer offer any explana- tion about the conditions in Mexico that attracted these marauders. I also suggest that this


writer make more frequent use of sources less than 30/40 years old, so as to avoid mistakes by former histo- rians and, of course, to also include newly discovered information.


Unforgettable: Long Ago


San Diego has been in the same hands for many years now. In 2016, the rules of Spanish spelling are still unlearned, Hispanic names are unlearned, knowledge by which one could recognize errors in quaint American sources. One Mexican defender


was called “Colonel Fran- cisco Negrette.” Negrete is a Spanish surname which is not rare, and Spanish spelling does not allow tt. A Latino American would not have a name ending in ette unless that name’s origin was, say, French or Italian. Another point of fact about his name is that his surname was really del Castillo Negrete. And that is a single surname, admit- tedly an unusually long one among the Spanish. Another Mexican defender


was called “Melendres.” While it’s true that in Mexico some surnames are spelled with s in place of the histori- cally correct z, and vice versa, in this man’s case, the name was spelled Meléndrez. Here’s a factual error: the


use of the word anyway in “Yáñez wanted the execution of Raousset to ‘send notice to all would-be filibusters that Mexico would not allow intervention under any con- ditions.’ William A. Walker (1824–1860) went anyway.” As your writer himself writes — giving dates to the day! —


Walker invaded Mexico the year before Raousset’s execu- tion. Indeed, as the writer himself records, Walker fled back into the U.S. three months before the execution! Here’s a half-truth: “By age


21, Walker had degrees in law and medicine and had a legal practice at Marysville, Cali- fornia”. At age 21 — in 1845 — this American, Walker, was not practicing law in northern California. The United States did not annex California from Mexico until the Mexican War, 1846-1848. The Gold Rush started in 1848! The writer’s own source,


Scroggs, tells us (this is online) that Walker arrived in California in June 1850. Marysville was founded the same year. Here’s a loose end: “The


filibusters left La Paz with both governors and all the public records.” By the end of the article, the fate of the public records was left hang- ing. A historian, of all people, should think of that tidbit and want to give the answer. There’s this offhanded


introduction: “Guadalupe Melendres: a local ‘bandit,’ Walker wrote, who ‘refused to be liberated’ by the Ameri- can regime.” Certainly, it is Walker, not the writer, who is defaming Meléndrez, and who got the man’s name wrong. Unfortunately, not one word is devoted to


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