While out cruising The Village this morning, we saw this Toyota FJ Cruiser parked in someone’s driveway (click the image to see if full size).
The more we looked at it, the more it appeared to be complete farce. Does someone who supports John McCain and Sarah Palin really put the words “Drill here/Bomb There” on the hood of their car? Do they believe that a vote for Obama equals more Osama? Are they actually encouraging people not to vote?
Or is this entire rig designed as subterfuge to make people think that McCain/Palin supporters are total and complete lunatics?
Westfield, the Australian retail property owner that operates the Westfield Plaza Camino Real Mall in Carlsbad has submitted an appeal to the City of Oceanside City Council attempting to reverse their approval of Thomas Enterprises‘ proposed 950,000 square foot mall “on a 92-acre site near Highway 76 between Foussat Road and Mission Avenue,” according to a story in the San Diego Business Journal.
The appeal states that Westfield has substantial concerns about the legal sufficiency of the final environmental impact report certified by the city’s planning commission. . . . It contends that the document does not provide adequate information and understates the impacts of traffic, air quality, noise, water quality and biological resources.
Right. A mall developer is concerned about the “environmental impact” of a competitor’s property. How thoughtful of them. Seems that with an increasingly empty mall in Carlsbad that Westfield would focus a little more attention on building value on their own property rather than trying to stop competition in Oceanside.
MacCase, the Carlsbadistan-based manufacturer of fine coverings for Apple products has just released a case that we’ve been waiting for. It’s leather, vertically oriented, and it can be slung over the shoulder, carried by handle or made into a backpack for easy on-the-go computer action.
The compact case has several storage pockets for accessories and a removable, customized pouch for the MacBook Air Super Drive or AC adapter for the larger MacBook Pro models. . . . The design of the Flight Jacket embodies the minimalism of the MacBook Air and the romanticism of our Premium Leather,” expresses Michael Santoro, Chief Creative Officer at MacCase. “Apple owners looking for a timeless case design with outstanding protection and minimal bulk will find this, and more, in the new Flight Jacket.”
Let’s just say this is exactly what we’ve been looking for.
Just a reminder: tonight (October 23, 2008) at 5:30 at the Dove Library (1775 Dove Lane) all six candidates for Carlsbadistan City Council will be attending their final “candidate forum.” This one sponsored by the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce. Here is how it is going to go down, according to Carlsbad’s Vice-President of Governmental Affairs Michael Bobawal.
Candidates will be seated left to right in alpha order (Arnold, Bernard, Blackburn, Douglas, Kulchin and Rodgers).
Each candidate will be given 90 seconds for an opening statement (starting with Arnold)
The dais will be presented a question and each candidate will have 60 seconds to answer
The first candidate to speak first will be rotated among the panel starting opening and ending closing statements (i.e., Arnold will start with opening statements, Bernard will start with question 1 and Rodgers will start with closing statements)
Each candidate will be given 90 seconds for a closing statement (starting with Rodgers)
All questions, including audience questions, will be business related
The first hour of the program will be televised
We will take a short break to let the camera’s stop rolling and then begin the second hour
The second hour will take questions from the audience
Questions will end around 7:00 p.m. allowing for 30 minutes of meet and greet.
Trust us, even if you don’t care all that much about City politics, these forums are great entertainment purely for spectacle. And since the topic tonight will be all business we’re thinking it’s going to be even more enlightening.
A semi truck hauling shop towels caught fire on Interstate 5 just north of La Costa Avenue in Carlsbadistan on Tuesday morning at 4:30 AM causing traffic to back up for miles.
The incident was further complicated when the big rig began to spill fluid, which officials feared would leak into a nearby lagoon. A hazardous-materials team was sent out, as were officials from the Department of Environmental Quality. Sixty gallons of diesel fuel spilled, some of it possibly making its way into Bataquitos Lagoon.
Eddie Maldonado took a wrong turn in his Honda Accord around 9 PM on Monday night and ended up stuck on the railroad tracks at Grand Ave. in the Village just before a train was approaching, according to a story in the North County Times.
Shortly after 9 p.m., a Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train hit a Honda Civic stuck on the tracks at Grand Avenue, said Cpl. Mark Cook of the sheriff’s rail enforcement team. . . .Carlsbad police officials identified the driver as Eddie Maldonado. They did not have his age or city of residence available.
Maldonado was arrested for suspicion of drunk driving and if that (coupled with having his car hit by a train) wasn’t enough he was also charged with trespassing for driving onto the tracks. The wreck kept both Grand Ave. and Carlsbad Village Drive closed for nearly two hours.
When a house on Alyssum Road in Carlsbad went up in flames on Sunday, October 20, 2008, firefighters were surprised to find 40 pot plants growing in one of the bedrooms.
Firefighters from Encinitas and Carlsbad found a small fire in an upstairs bedroom of the home. They were able to knock it down in about five minutes, but in the process, they stumbled upon 40 to 40 marijuana plants.
While it appears the plants survived the fire, things may not go so well for the occupants of the house as the scene was turned over to “investigators upon the discovery.”
Dan Pittard, president and chief executive officer of Rubio’s, said the company’s board will meet next week to consider the offer, which is subject to Kelly Capital obtaining financing. He declined to comment further. . . . The $5-per-share offer by Kelly Capital, made in a letter dated Wednesday, represented a 26 percent premium on Rubio’s closing price that day of $3.97. Rubio’s shares closed yesterday at $4.28.
The way Rubio’s business has been headed lately, we’d take the money.
Photos that the City of Carlsbad has posted on their website to show what NRG Energy’s proposed new power plants would look like have apparently upset the company, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
We don’t think it’s an accurate characterization of the project,” said Tim Hemig, NRG’s project manager for the Carlsbad Energy Center.
Too bad. We don’t like our icon smoke stack getting competition from smaller, inferior stacks. And we really don’t like turning the lagoon into an industrial wasteland.
Thanks to a 5-0 decision by the Public Utilities Commission we get to keep our 760 area code, but were going to have to dial 10 digits
The new area code will be the third overlay in California, following the 424 area code in Los Angeles and 657 in Orange County. A phase-in period for the new area code is scheduled to begin in May, leading to mandatory use in October 2009.
All new numbers in Carlsbadistan will get the 442. Start programming those phones.
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