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Chargers Stadium, Affordable or Not
A late night TV host (I can't remember who) once made a joke about how LA will never get another team because it's more valuable to the NFL to have the perpetual threat of "we can always move to LA" hanging over the head of every NFL city. Maybe it's not such a joke.— September 13, 2012 6:50 p.m.
Chargers Stadium, Affordable or Not
The one thing that doesn't make sense - when Spanos rehired AJ & Norv it seemed like part of a grand plan to move up to L.A. Why would Spanos give those guys yet another chance? One more year with AJ & Norv will complete the fall from NFL elite to mediocrity. Then, they can move up to L.A., blow out the whole mgmt, coaching crew, and start fresh with a whole new group in L.A.— September 12, 2012 9:08 p.m.
Chargers Stadium, Affordable or Not
I'm thinking many of the signers of the amazing sycophant-fest "Thank You John Moores" full page ad in the 9/2 U-T may be on the Chargers stadium cheerleading squad as well.— September 12, 2012 8:31 p.m.
Officially, Papa Doug DOES Buy NC Times
Charles Foster Kane: You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars *next* year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years. Wonder what Papa called his sled...— September 11, 2012 2:41 p.m.
More San Diego Convention Center Lies
I think there's difference between teachers per se vs. the teachers union. I think the vast majority of the thousands of CA public teachers are very hard working, intelligent, and dedicated, and these teachers greatly help a lot of people. I think the teacher's union doesn't help anyone except teachers. And at that, the union hurts the best teachers by insisting on the typical union rules that turn many of us against unions: seniority-based rather than merit-based pay and layoff priority systems, near impossibility of firing bad employees, etc.— September 8, 2012 4:25 p.m.
More San Diego Convention Center Lies
Im with SurfPuppy. Public employee unions help exactly one class: The class of public employees. They hurt EVERYONE outside that class.— September 8, 2012 8:45 a.m.
Paul Ryan the runner
This bothers me quite a bit. It says a lot of Ryan's character. A marathon race time isn't all that important in the overall scheme of things - so why would he lie about it? This is possibly indicative that Ryan is pathological liar.— September 7, 2012 8:16 p.m.
More San Diego Convention Center Lies
"I wish labor unions did control City Hall. We have one helluva better city." Sorry but that is a ridiculous comment. The labor unions should not control city hall. Bankers should not control city hall. Developers should not control city hall. The people of San Diego should control city hall and the representatives in city hall should be acting on behalf of the overall best interests of ALL San Diegans - not just whatever special interest group is controlling them.— September 6, 2012 2:01 p.m.
Heart Check and Life Score Clinic didn't work so well
I'm starting to look into these types of tests somewhat as a preventative measure. I'm not a doctor nor do I have any other professional or technical expertise in this area. But I think it's fair to say that USUALLY cancers and some of the other serious diseases can be treated and cured if they are caught at an early stage and USUALLY lead to fairly quick deaths if they aren't caught until an advanced stage. I agree that the particular subject of this article seems to have pulled some snake-oil salesman techniques. I may wish to stay away from Heart Check - and look for similar sales techniques at other places. But overall the scan concept - if it truly does detect some early tumors and diseases - seems like it may be well worth it. If I can spend $2000 and there is even a 1% chance that the test detects an early stage cancer I would say that's money well spent. I'm really not going to inherently trust anyone on this one. I question whether the real scam may be insurance companies' refusal to cover any part of these tests. Is the insurance companies motivation ethical - either purely medical concerns (possible side effects from the scans) or complete lack of cost effectiveness of the scans? Or is the insurance companies' and medical industries' stance based on the fact that the money spent for these tests would be coming out of the insurance companies' pockets today - as opposed to money possibly coming from another insurance company or medicare years down the road?— September 3, 2012 4:59 p.m.
Wall Street's High-Speed Gambling
This is all speculation on my part, but I think possibly the largest error in judgement Alan Greenspan may have made is placing too much faith in Wall Street and the financial industry to honor the second part of Galt's pledge "nor ask another man to live for mine". The thinking was that great financial firms would self-regulate and never take risks that could potentially require taxpayer bailouts - because that would require having the government use force to ask other men to sacrifice for the financial firms - gravely immoral by the Rand code (at least my understanding of it). Of course, this is all my own spin on things and maybe I'm not understanding or remembering the philosophy correctly - it's been a long time since I've read AS, Fountainhead, and Anthem. But to me, I think at times the financial industry looks less like a Rand hero - who attains wealth by industriusness (sp?) and without using the force of the governement and looks more like a Rand villian - who attains wealth and power by manipulation and the force of government.— August 24, 2012 8:45 p.m.