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Fed Comes to Market's Rescue
Exactly what do you think Obama can do to pick up his game? He really has no hope of getting any meaningfull legislation passed, in terms of helping the economy. The GOP will block anything that could be construed as helpful to Obama's re-election chances. They only care about keeping him from having a second term and how that affects the country is of absolutely no concern to them. The dimwitt governor of Az is talking about moving up their primaries because she thinks the country needs to focus on their problems in the primaries, or some stupid reason like that. The other primary states ahead of Arizona have already said if that happens, they will move theirs up., too. The first primary could be as early as December. The race is already full on my friend, just not every one knows it and Obama is already lagging behind. IMHO, the 2012 election will be decided by people like me, the independants. The sad part is, if the election were held next week, I wouldn't be voting to keep Obama in office, I'd be voting to keep some other lunatic out of office. And that's absolutely NOT the scenario I want to be in, but it's looking increasingly likely it will be. Let me ask you this surfpuppy619. Isn't it the epitome of narcissism when the vast majority think you're not doing your job and some else could do it better when all the while you continue to think that you're the best man for the job? Or maybe it just stupidity.— August 12, 2011 2:18 p.m.
Fed Comes to Market's Rescue
I was watching something on cable last night, I don't remember which show, and the reporter spoke of several Democratic members of Congress who had made thinly veiled comments suggesting they were beginning to wonder if they made a mistake in supporting Obama during the 2008 primary and maybe Hillary might have been the better choice after all. It's bad enough when the Republican's stated goal is to prevent Obama from bein elected and at least 60% of the country disapproves of the job he's doing. But how much worse can it get when it's starts being reported that members of his own party are beginning to think they should have chosen his adversary in the primary instead. At some point the question has to be asked: Do the Democrats have a prayer of getting Obama reelected and if not will someone from the DNC have the balls to tell an incumbent President that he can't win and he needs to step aside. Granted, the Democratic party isn't nearly as fractured as it was in 1968 when LBJ decided not to run. And although the public wasn't made aware of his own concerns for his health, he was acutely aware of the fact that he probably wouldn't beat either McCarthy or Kennedy in his own party. If things continue opn there President course, will Obama suffer the fate of Jimmy Carter, or will he bow out with grace and at least give the country a chance by letting the Democrats field a candidate that might actually have a chance if winning next November.— August 12, 2011 9:44 a.m.
Lafayette Hotel
Re-read that description, surfpuppy619. It's bar scenes, interiors, meaning interior scenes in addition to bar scenes. My wife is pretty sure the crash and burn bar scene is from the bar there, but she is absolutely adamant that scenes of maverick and goose in their rooms are from the hotel. She swears we have stayed there and the rooms in the movie are poolside rooms at the Lafayette. Me, not so sure, but I just go with the flow.— August 12, 2011 9:17 a.m.
Fed Comes to Market's Rescue
The only chance Obama has of being re-elected is if the republicans go off the deepend with their nominee, which at this point is not seeming to br that much out of the question. IMO the only reason he ran for the US Senate was to gain visibilty for a presidential campaign. I think he was under the impression that 7 yrs as a state senator was sufficient experince to run the country. I did not support him or vote for him then, and his perforance thusfar has given me no reason to change my mind now. I supported, campaigned and voted for Hillary Clinton in the primary.Despite what other say about her lack of experience, I still feel she was, and is, far more qualified than Obama. He was and still is a political neophyte. There is one thing still conspicuously missing from Obama's actions, one thing that I still believe Hillary Clinton still has more of than Obama: BALLS. I think Obama's performance thus far has shown he has none; he hasn't once stood up once and said, either literally or figuratively I am the President and this BS stops now. And because he hasn't, everyone, not just his political opponents but the whole world knows he can be pushed around. If he had any balls, he would do an LBJ impression and not even run for re-election. I don't normally express my own opinions on politics with such specificity online, but there they are. So if you disagree, have at it. I'm always ready.— August 10, 2011 2:05 p.m.
Will Southern Cal Newspapers Combine?
I assume you mean since naval aviation abandoned San Diego. The Navy still has a pretty large presence in San Diego if I'm correct. Not as much as when I was down there as a kid, in the 50's-70's,for sure but Navy is still there. And I think NASNI still has quite a few sqandrons based there. And it really wasn't the Navy, you can blame BRAC for that. BTW, the Marines were actually at Miramar before the Navy was. It wasn't until after WWII that MCAS El Toro opened and the Navy took control of Miramar. My late uncle was a Navy fighter pilot and was stationed in San Diego at one time. I don't really no much of the details, but he was at Miramar for a while. He deployed on the Constellation a couple of times. He was flying from the Constellation he was shot down in early 1971.— August 10, 2011 11:35 a.m.
Will Southern Cal Newspapers Combine?
Rollover is about 30 yrs old, so I don't know aboout renting it, but it's easy to find on the internet. I have heard KK talk about his brother before. I think he was in SD while he was in the Navy. But I agree with Don Bauder. Not a good time to be in commercial RE right now. We have a friend who works @ CBRE corp office in Santa Monica. I may shoot her an email and see what she says aboput him. If he's been there 30 some yrs, he must be decent at what he does.— August 9, 2011 9:40 a.m.
Will Southern Cal Newspapers Combine?
China has to export. Their own economy doesn't consume enough to be self supporting at the levels the Chinese gov't wants. And if China tries to unload what has been reported to be more than $1trillion in US debt, the only thing they woould be doing is shootng themselves in the foot because the shrinking the value of the dollar would only hurt the value of their own reserves. They'll keep on buying US debt because it's still the best alternative.— August 8, 2011 7:06 p.m.
Will Southern Cal Newspapers Combine?
surfpuppy619 try and find a copy of a Kris Kristofferson/Jane Fonda movie called Rollover. Replace the Arabs in the plot with the Chinese and there's your doomsday scenario.— August 8, 2011 6:55 p.m.
Candye Kane Booted From Blues Fest Over Porn Past
"It does seem weird the promoter is bringin up the sexual orinetation thingy-I highly dounbt anyone cares-even in AL." I don't know, surfpuppy619. Alabama's pretty much in the middle of that great fundamentalist christian stonghold know as the bible belt. I would think that possibly the younger generation is more "tolerant", if that's the right word, but I don't know about the older folks. Alabama is predominently Protestant with Baptist be the largest group and alternative lifestyles don't seem to fit too well with their religious docterine. Besides, any place that would name a professional baseball team The Biscuits, well, that's just too much for even a middle of the road guy like me to overlook.— August 8, 2011 6:43 p.m.
Candye Kane Booted From Blues Fest Over Porn Past
The first time we ever saw Candye was at Dick's in probably '94 or '95. Been fans ever since. We're probably going to be out in Palm Springs over Thanksgivng, so we're looking forward to La Quinta Blues and Brews.— August 8, 2011 1:15 p.m.