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Romney/Ryan and the New Padres Owners
According to what I read a couple of weeks ago, NYT I believe it was, Fowler has the controlling interest. Remember, he already was part of the previous minority group so he alraedy had a stake. I believe Lefty's share is 1%, at least that is what I have read.— August 25, 2012 8:14 p.m.
San Diego had surplus power even during recent heat wave
I know this will fall on deaf ears, but I'll do it once anyway. Electricity added to the grid from an external source is a commodity. It makes no difference where it comes from. It can be from an outside supplier or it can come from a residential or commercial installation within the system. Any utility, in fact any industry, that purchases an outside commodity, regardless of what it is, will pay less to purchase it than they sell it for. It's a business and they are in business to make a profit. Like it or not, that's just the way the world goes round. Period. It literally took an act of Congress for users to even receive any compensation for electricity returned to the grid. There is absolutely no way Congress would ever take similar action on the rates paid back, It just won't happen. Here's my personal view. As a consumer, solar is not just about how how many bucks I can save/get back. We installed solar years before rebates were a part of the conversation, let alone payments for excess power. Sometimes you do things not for the money, but for the greater good. As Isobel said, "It's what freakin' Jesus would do". Remove your own personal greed from the equation and look at the big picture. Think global, act local. BTW, why the second party references to your own work??— August 24, 2012 11:27 a.m.
UCSD's Gary Jacobson and Keith T. Poole predict political peace
I've only had rabbit 2 ways, fried, like fried chicken, with a good country gravy and in a rabbit jambalaya. Fried rabbit is like fried chicken in that really you can only do just so much with it; it can be rather pedestrian. But rabbit jambalaya is very good. If you didn't know it was rabbit, you wouldn't be able tell what it was for sure, only that it was a little different and very tasty. Though I suppose if you don't like creole food, then you wouldn't like it.— August 24, 2012 11:06 a.m.
UCSD's Gary Jacobson and Keith T. Poole predict political peace
Pheasant is much too common place now days. There are the uninformed who still consider it to be exotic or a delicacy, but really it's not. It's one of the more commonly hunted birds in certain areas of the country. It is estimated that 1.5 million birds were bagged in the 2011 season in South Dakota alone. Pheasant has been widely hunted there for over 50 years. Back in the early 60's it was common for 2-3 million birds per season to be taken. Don't you just hate it when the proletariat begin to encroach upon the elitist upper crust? BTW, instead of morels, try using chantorels some time. I know, purists will say too fruity, but really, they work. Or you could really step it up and try using truffles. You don't have to go all French to enjoy them. There are some really good ones that come out of the pacific northwest. A couple of years ago, some friends of ours found some that came from a Xmas tree farm of all places. There are a couple of places in Portland that you can get them from quite reasonably priced.— August 24, 2012 10:49 a.m.
UCSD's Gary Jacobson and Keith T. Poole predict political peace
potatoes are pretty easy to grow, too. and for a little variety, I'm sure there will be plenty of rock doves, too. if it's still there, Curly Jones in Norwalk used to have fried rabbit on the menu. we used to stop on the way back from SD at the one that was in Corona. mmmmm good. come to think of it, maybe we'll just head to Wyoming, it's just easier.— August 23, 2012 10:08 p.m.
Locker Room Talk May Get Her Job — but Not With Padres
"Obviously I used to watch her and the teams games back in the 1980's" Well late 80's since she only played '85-86. I started watching probably around 75 or so when the IVA started. We also started watching UCLA around then and that's also around the time I started playing beach VB. The somewhere around the mid 80's, there was Team Cup Volleyball League, it was started by the same guy who started the ABA, who also just happened to be a member of the 1964 U.S. Olympic team. ALL of the best players played in it., Eric Sato, Steve Timmons, Karch, Sinjin Smith, Randy Stoklos, Mike Dodd, Tim Hovland. Pretty much all the top US players, indoor and beach, played. They played in the Forum on Tues and Thurs and you could get it on Prime Ticket, if you remember that. They only played in September, because of not wanting to conflict with all of the amateur teams and schedules, so we went to a lot of the matches. I think the league was around for about 10 yrs or so and if you like VB it was very cool.— August 23, 2012 7:52 p.m.
San Diego Wants to Extend Red Light Camera Ticketing, Bid Document Reveals
"If you paid the fine, you paid the fine. If you didn't pay the fine, you were pretty much able to get away with it," Paul Koretz of the Los Angeles City Council told ABC News. Las year a ruling by a Los Angeles Superior court judgesaid that says red light violations -- snapped by photo -- are not enforceable because there is no live witness to testify against an alleged offender (a.k.a. driver) and no police officer is on-site to make a driver sign any promise to appear in court. The L.A. Superior Court alsodecided the court will not notify the DMV of any "pre-conviction" pertaining to unpaid camera tickets -- which would or could lead to holds placed on California driver's licenses and vehicle registration renewals. To me that pretty much says yeah, they're unenforceable. Btw, Pasadena just voted last month to shut they're cameras. LA voted on it last year— August 23, 2012 7:25 p.m.
Stone Temple Pilots
Haven't seen STP in a long long time. The last tme we saw Wieland was with Velvet Revolver so that's what probably 4 yrs ago?— August 23, 2012 7:10 p.m.
Locker Room Talk May Get Her Job — but Not With Padres
Yeah I think everyone who follows Cal FB remembers John Tuggle. Not a big guy probably around 6'1'' or 6'2'' and maybe 220. he was said to have been able to bench 435.I think he was the rushing leader his last 2 yrs. He was actually the last pick, 12th round, 335th by the Giants But I think what most people remember is obviously the cancer but also that he has an award named for him: the Lombardi committee created the 'John Tuggle Award' for overcoming extreme adversity, dealing with overwhelming challenges and yet still succeeding. It was also cool that the Giants paid his whole contract, even when he couldn't play and continued to pay his insurance until he died. I barely follow HSFB down here at all, so I don’t know about anything about Norcal and honestly don’t remember Carnell. According to the archive he only had 130 yds rushing. and was gone after 1 season. It’s not all that common for somebody is great in HS to be a dud in college. I’m guessing he wasn’t even recruited by USC and I can give you 2 pretty good reasons why. 1- Charles White, 1976-1979, Heisman Trophy winner(among other awards) in 1979. 2-Marcus Allen, 1978-1981, Heisman Trophy winner(among other awards) in 1981, college football HOF 2000, pro football HoF 2003. Yeah, I’m thinking Coach Robinson did pretty well with what he had. And I don’t know that Cal sucked back then. They won the Pac10 in ‘75 with Chuck Muncie and finished in the top 25. The problem was when Mike white left for the NFL after the ’77 season, they promoted the bozo from OC to HC. He had decent teams in ’78 and ’79 when he still had some of White’s recruits, but once he was on his own at Cal, he sucked.— August 23, 2012 7:05 p.m.
Locker Room Talk May Get Her Job — but Not With Padres
If you know indoor, at least So Cal indoor, then you know the Sato's. Up here, they are pretty much legendary and they are basically VB royalty at Samohi and SMC. Never figured out the whole UCSB to SDSU transfer by Liane. She was in SB one day and then she was gone so she had to sit the whole '84 season. One of her older brothers was on the men's team at the same time and she had been recruited by SDSU, but who knows; she's never said why she left UCSB. Her younger brother, Eric, was on the Seoul and Barcelona teams, gold in Seoul and bronze in Barcelona. Their oldest brother Gary was an asst on the men's team for both games so there were 3 siblings in the same sport 2 Olympics in a row. How cool is that. They were all setters, but Eric was easily the best. Karch says he's the best defensive players he's ever see. Scott played for the men’s team at SDSU, but I'm not sure where he is now. Glenn was an asst coach at USC and I think he's a teacher now. Eric was a private girl’s high school coach in San Diego for a long time. Won some State titles and sent some good players to college. He left a couple of years ago to start his own VB school. Gary was back as an asst coach for the men's Olympic team again this year. One of his kids has played on the junior national team for a couple of years now. Liane, Eric and Gary were inducted into Santa Monica College's Sports Hall of Fame last year and I read recently that Liane is going into the SDSU HoF this fall. As for being a powerhouse, yeah I think not so much. They had a title and a runner up about 30 yrs ago, but Pepperdine has probably had 1/2 dozen of each and put more players on the National teams than any other school. But the real volleyball powerhouse has ALWAYS been UCLA. Men's team has 19 championships and 6 runner-ups, has made all but 3 tournaments since 1970 and has winningest volleyball coach in the history of the NCAA. And the women have made the final 4 12 times, won 4 titles and have been runner-up 4 times. That's a Powerhouse program!!! BTW Don't forget that Rudy Suwara's first coaching job came as a UCLA Assistant Coach BTW2 Rudy Suwara's brother Ernie, 1964 Olympic team MVP, 4 time All-American and played on national championship teams in 1965 and 1967 at....UCLA. BTW3nephew Bill played at UCLA on 2 National Championship teams— August 23, 2012 4:32 p.m.