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San Diego Padres???

Haven’t a clue how they’ll do this year, but this is a fun turn of events for the team.

"Hypocrisy….

…thy name is Gore”.

I am still of the opinion the upcoming presidential election will be Gore’s to win, but that doesn’t mean I approve of that outcome. Still, if it’s a choice between Hillary and Al, I guess I’d prefer Al. Either way, if he runs. the infighting within Democratic circles will be quite the spectacle!!!

All I have to say is Mr. Gore better not screw up my theory about his election chances by not walking the walk on self sacrifice and global warming!!!

UPDATE: It seems one guy only talks the talk, while the other walks the walk . The Crawford ranch belonging to the arch-enemy of all things green, G W Bush, is a model of modern eco-friendly technology. Note, this has been known since 2001, so Gore had six years to catch up and modernize but chose not to…

And, as if the huge amount of energy consumption didn’t reflect bad enough on Gore, it seems the “carbon offsets” he is buying are from his own firm, Generation Investment Management. So, in essence, he is paying himself for those so-called Carbon Credits. That’s a rather “Convenient” arrangement, don’t you think???

Hat Tip: Insta-P

The Appearance Of This Map Can Only Mean One Thing…

… I’m off to San Diego for another gig with Rare Form.

Bass Players Rule!

I Don't Get It….

… something about chickens, meat, and monkeys.

Hat Tip: V the K.

Norv Turner Is The Chargers New Head Coach…

Here is his record as head coach in the NFL:

| Reg. Season | Playoffs |
+———-+————–+———-+
| Year TM | W L T | W L |
+———-+————–+———-+
| 1994 was | 3 13 0 | 0 0 |
| 1995 was | 6 10 0 | 0 0 |
| 1996 was | 9 7 0 | 0 0 |
| 1997 was | 8 7 1 | 0 0 |
| 1998 was | 6 10 0 | 0 0 |
| 1999 was | 10 6 0 | 1 1 |
| 2000 was | 7 6 0 | 0 0 |
| 2004 oak | 5 11 0 | 0 0 |
| 2005 oak | 4 12 0 | 0 0 |
+———-+————–+———-+
| TOTALS | 58 82 1 | 1 1 |
+———-+————–+———-+

58 wins vs 82 loses during eight seasons as a head coach. Nothing else needs to be said. 🙁

PS. Something else does need to be said.

The hiring of Norv Turner tells me my theory is correct – The Chargers ownership is more concerned with moving out of San Diego than they are with winning.

The last few years of winning was not what the Chargers front office had intended. You see, they are in a fight with San Diego to get a new stadium built. But they want San Diego to pay for it, which it can’t due to the citys decade long history of fiscal mismanagement. So the Chrargers will have to relocate to another city, probably LA, to get what they want.

Why is winning counter to the goal of getting a new stadium? Simple. It all has to do with skyboxes, i.e. party-rooms for the rich and famous (have nothing against the rich and famous, I would like to be one someday). In a new stadium, much of the profits are made from sales of the expnsive sky boxes, and less on general attendence. Old stadiums don’t have as many of the skyboxes, and the ones they have are not as lavish as those in newer stadiums. Thus the team playing in those stadiums relies on general ticket sales to make money. You might say: “Well, the Chargers have been a winner the last few years, so they should be making money and should be happy”. Ah, but here’s the rub. Skybox tickets are sold as season long passes, and are sold before the season begins. So a team playing in a new stadium, because they have many many more presold skyboxes, makes a lot more money than a team playing in an older staduim, reguardless of the quality placed on the field. And since the skyboxes sell well before the season begins, the profits role in even if the team turns out to have a crappy season. Why do you think the Arizona Cardinals still have the same owners for all these losing seasons. $$$$$$$$$$$. And in the eyes of the Chargers ownership, even though they have been winning and attendence is selling out, they are losing money because they could have made so much more money if they were playing in a new, modern facility.

The whole thing is tragic and funny. The family that owns the team, the Spanos’s, are the head of a huge construction firm, and could get the financing and build a stadium on the cheap.

Newt G. and Al G. – Are They Using The Same Playbook? UPDATE!

I blogged last year that the upcoming Presidential election is Al Gores to lose. Thanks to this article about Newt Gingrich, I now know just how he’s going to do it. Al Gore is going to run a very traditional campaign for the office… traditional for Presidents Washington through Van Buren.

During the first 50 sum-odd years of our national history, it was considered unbecoming for a candidate to show ambition for the Presidency. Of coarse, with the exceptions of Washington, Adams, and maybe Jackson, most were ambitious men who wanted the top prize – they were just not supposed to acknowledge their lofty ambitions. This ambition was something that was to be kept close to the vest, shared only with those intimates who also ran in political circles. That didn’t stop candidates from acting behind the scenes to diminish support or damage the reputation of their opponents. Thomas Jefferson practically invented the first Presidential “swift boat” campaign by funding and utilizing journalist Thomas Calendar to spread rumors and innuendo against competitor and sitting President John Adams. William Harrison, who was running against Martin Van Buren, was the first candidate to campaigning openly for the office. It’s been all down hill ever since.

Back to the present. Enter Al Gore. While Hillary and Obama and Edwards trade barbs this summer, Alie G. will be on his high profile (and highly polluting) whirlwind Global Warming Concert Tour, getting the kind of positive publicity that all the current candidates could only dream of. When the time is right and a candidate emerges as the probable front runner, Al will make his move and jump into the fray. He will easily be able to justify his unconventional actions by saying the public is demanding that he run. If the front runner is either Obama or Edwards, they will look like light weights when compared to Gore. If it’s Hillary, she has the weight of the yes vote to go to war with Iraq, which Gore will pummel her with to sink her chances of getting the nomination next spring. Al Gore will be able to unify the Democratic party behind him, which given the divide between the socio-cons and the fiscal-cons, is something I don’t see any of the current hundreds of GOP candidates being able to do within their party. It’s too daunting a task, even for Gingrich if he decides to run. This election is Gores.

UPDATE: More good press for Gore.

Hat Tip: Myself and Insta-P.

The Libby Trial??? UPDATE.

I haven’t followed it very closely, but did notice the lack of interest from the MSM, especially since Libby and attorneys have nixed the idea of calling either Libby or Cheney to the stand. To me this could mean two things.

Either:

A) Libby’s team of attorneys have enough confidence in the case as it stands now, that they don’t feel the need to bring either guy to the stand, or

B) Libby’s case is teetering on the edge, and they fear putting either him or Cheney on the stand would do more harm than good.

Anyway, at Althouse, the trial is the subject at hand. One commenter, sbw, has marvelously managed to condense the long, drawn-out afair into one long but neat paragraph:

in the end, the whole enchilada appears to be that Joe Wilson, a State Department has-been so obsessed by his own vanity that he outed his own wife and who a year earlier said uranium was sought by Iraq in Africa before he said it was not sought by Iraq, was used as a cheap, throwaway dirty trick by the Kerry campaign to dupe lazy pseudojournalists from the NYTimes, Newsweek, WaPo, Time, and NBC, which led Senate Democratic politics-is-a-dirty-game-players like Chuck Schumer, to push for a rabid, unfettered special prosecutor like Fitzgerald, who, in a previous life bested by attorney Scooter Libby, then broke all the DOJ rules in fruitless a hunt to bring down Dick Cheney, and whose investigation immunized the wrong people and didn’t follow up the simplest leads that would have lead to Richard Armitage, the original leaker of non-covert operative Valarie Plame Wilson’s identity, who likely leaked Plame’s relationship to several journalists because of a turf war with the CIA, an organization that, like State, also has leaked like a sieve whenever the bureaucrats disagreed with the administration, and that, like State, has yet to be held accountable by the equally irresponsible Department of Justice.

Impressive and Nicely Done!

UPDATE: Here’s the long version of all that’s wrong with this trial.

They're BAAAAAAAACK!

Insurgent Squirrels!!!

Michael Vick should check and see if some squirrels are available to smuggle his stash onto him next flight home.

KFPT – RIP.

It looks like the local Air America affiliate is going Bye Bye. I’m not a fan of the style of most of the on-air… er… talent, as they seem to co-opt the worst techniques used by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, and simply insert lefty propaganda in place of that spewed by the right. Randi Rhodes is nothing if not the left wing equivalent of Michael Savage!!! But I did appreciate hearing the left POV, when it was presented in a coherent and rational manner, and I give credit to Ed Schultz and Al (STOP STARING AT ME!!! ) Franken for those rare moments. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen most of the time. Instead, most of the hosts went on and on about dumb psychopathic Bush, or the “Shooter” (Cheney), or druggie Limbaugh. And it didn’t take long to hear someone making fun of the Mormon religion once Romney stepped into the race. So, now the only two talk radio stations in town are right leaning KMJ which features one good local guy and the tired acts Limbaugh and Hannity, and the goofy, commie, third-worldly, paranoid conspiracy theorists over at KFCF. The programing may be completely bizarre most of the time, but I have to say; much of it was better that the stuff on Air America.

It's On!!!!……. Crap!

There goes my summer!