Group 2008 October

Downtown San Diego archive for October, 2008

Clawgate: Developer Ally UT Goes into Major Damage Control for Golden Boy Gloria

Wow, this race is getting exciting! I have a hard time getting into politics unless there is some serious scandal ...

Memories

I just checked online to see when the movie, "Wizard of Oz", was made. It appears the release was in ...

Gloria's Hit Piece: "No Backroom Deals", Backfires

So by now, everyone has seen the not so subtle hit piece from Camp Gloria that shows a devil shaking ...

Gloria Camp: Anything To Win

When Hillary was running for President I wanted to get behind her. I wanted her to give me a reason ...

Money

Well, the USA election process is underway and it appears that people are heeding the advice to get out and ...

Gloria' People Tearing Down All Whitburn's Signs

As an official S Dub (Stephen Whitburn supporter) I pay close attention to the signage. I noticed that Gloria's people ...

Looks Like the GOP May Have Managed to Buy the City Attorney's Race

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=d5ac10b1-8f0a-4e7d-9678-29c8c9b88e8b According to the latest surveyusa poll, Goldsmith is up by about 10 points. So I guess their strategy of ...

The Building Industry's Voter Guide: Who Not to Vote For

http://www.biasandiego.org/pdfs/BIAvoterguidenov08.pdf http://www.biasandiego.org/politicselections/candidateballotmeasures.php Here it is people. No suprises here. they want: Jan Goldsmith: City Attorney, April Boling: Dist 7, Todd ...

Aguirre : The People's Choice

So I keep seeing this theme emerge in the media. They keep doing stories on how this or that candidate ...

Just stuff

This is not a good year for San Diego sports fans. The only place that looks good is USD football. ...

Jan Goldsmith: Who's Behind Him and Why?

Growing up in San Diego I have learned to be suspicious of everything, and when I saw how fast Jan ...

Politics & the economy

"Election Day Could Become 'Nightmare'". This quote is compliments of an AP story, usurped by AOL. It smacks of irresponible ...

Homeless

This is the last one, but I cannot resist commenting on the fashions worn by Craig Sager. The paisley purple ...

Politics

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should ...

Music

Have you ever looked up song lyrics and found that you had been singing it wrong? In talking with a ...

Various & sundry

My sense of fashion was assaulted again! I thought & hoped that the baseball playoffs would be on Fox, but ...

Why I am voting No on Proposition B

Proposition B is entitled "THE PORT OF SAN DIEGO MARINE FREIGHT PRESERVATION AND BAYFRONT REDEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE" (all caps in original) ...

San Diego Politics

It is nearly 1 AM. Sitting at my computer because 3 attempts to go to sleep have failed. The reason ...

Politics in San Diego

No sports report today. The continuing saga of San Diego politics is just plain ridiculous. First, the former president of ...

Laundry!!!!

Well, the division series' are now set. Dodgers vs. Phillies and Red Sox vs. Devil Rays. Not what I expected ...

Football & Food

No politics today! I am not happy with the way the baseball post season is going. The dreaded Dodgers swept ...

BailOut

Well, ole "W" bullied enough to get his way and our Congressional representatives (definition: standing or acting for another especially ...

Baseball and noisy neighbors

Baseball post season is now in full swing. The dreaded Dodgers have a 2-0 lead over the Cubs. Chicagoans have ...