How ironic: our oil-business president “urged Congress” on Wednesday to end the federal ban on offshore oil drilling. Why? Well, rising oil prices, of course.
The Bush presidency has used “global terrorism” to expand the US government’s powers (at home and abroad) like no administration ever before, so it should come as no surprise that he’d use “rising oil prices” to relax environmental restrictions on his family’s business, so his good ol’ bonesmen can drill for a reported “1 billion barrels” right off the coast of Carlsbadistan.
Two North County congressional representatives said they supported offshore drilling, while mayors of two coastal cities, the California Coastal Commission and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dismissed it as a risky, short-sighted solution to the current energy crisis that ignores more innovative alternatives.
No one would be shocked to know that our “North County” congressional representatives are lacking rational thougth processes, but this is crazy. Oddly, Mayor Bud Lewis is against this. And for that we thank him.
I doubt that even if we had an abundance of oil that it would reduce gas prices,” he said. “I really have misgivings about the feds.”
Don’t we all. For more details of this horror show, click some of the links below.
According to 10news.com 10 more dead birds found around San Diego County, including Carlsbad, have tested positive for the West Nile Virus.
We are finding more evidence of the virus in urban areas rather than rural and mountain areas,” said Gary Erbeck, director of the DEH. “West Nile virus is a preventable disease,” he said. “You should protect yourself by using insect repellent, as well as inspect your backyard each weak for mosquito breeding areas.”
If you find dead birds in your neighborhood you can report them by visiting the county’s www.SDFightTheBite.com website.
No, the Encina Power Station is not throwing a birthday party for big people. They are simply using huge 10 green balloons to show the size of the proposed powerplant that would be the next phase of their continued industrialization of the Agua Hedionda Lagoon, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The new plant would replace three of Encina’s five steam-driven turbines, so the old plant and its stack would remain standing for the foreseeable future. . . . NRG raised a group of green balloons this week to show the location and height of the new plant and its 140-foot-high smokestacks.
. . . The gas-powered plant would consist of a two-part electrical generating system. Gas would be burned to drive a turbine that produces electricity; then heat from that process would drive a steam turbine to produce more power.
Apparently, the new plant could need up to “500,000 gallons of water a day to generate electricity from its steam turbines” and to get this water NRG would like to put in it’s own “desalination plant.” They say they can’t use water from the proposed Poseidon desal because that project has yet to get the proper permits.
When baseball player Dan Giese, 31, retired after six years playing minor league baseball, he moved to Carlsbad and began selling used cars, according to a story on AFP. But that wasn’t the end of his baseball career. This Saturday Giese will get his first major league start as he stands in for Taiwanese hurler Chien-Ming Wang when the Yankees take on the Cincinnati Reds.
In Carlsbad you never know who you’re dealing with.
Now that Carlsbad is a charter city the city council can make up its own rules nearly on the fly. And it didn’t take them long. On Tuesday night they voted to make it even easier for council to pass legislation, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The new quorum rules adopted last night will allow the five-member council to pass legislation with a simple majority of the quorum, with some exceptions. That means that if three members are present, only two votes will be needed for a majority vote. Under the old rules, if only three members were present, all three had to vote in favor of any motion for a measure to pass.
We’ve got to say we like the old rules better on this one. Especially when it comes to voting on changes in Carlsbadistan’s village (where several council members own property).
Carlsbad High surfer Gabe Garcia lead his team to a victory at San Onofre over San Clemente to win the Red Bull Riders Cup National Championship on Sunday, according to a story in the Orange County Register. He also grabbed the title of MVP for the high school surfing event.
But Carlsbad’s Gabe Garcia came through with key rides in the first and second periods and a critical 7.5 in the third on a clean solid right-hander to lift his team to victory. “We put everything we had into it,” Garcia said. “It was a hard game. It was close. And that’s what made it interesting.”
Congrats Gabe, and the rest of the Carlsbad High School surf team for showing the OC what’s up.
Carlsbadistan’sJeff Jarrard, 35, (and his children Kennedy, 6; London, 5; baby Kingston, one month, and Emerson, 16 months) was featured in a San Diego Union-Tribune story on the history, inspiration and other data behind Father’s Day.
Father’s Day lags Mother’s Day in one other way – it became an official holiday 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson’s 1914 order honoring motherhood. . . . The inspiration for Father’s Day came from an original Mr. Mom – William Jackson Smart from Spokane, Wash., who raised six children after his wife died. After hearing a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909, Smart’s daughter encouraged churches to add a Father’s Day observance. The idea caught on, but it wasn’t until 1972 that President Richard Nixon signed it into law.
Happy Father’s Day to all the guys who care, love, and support their families.
There is still time for Carlsbad kids ages 4 to 12 to enter the LegolandS.O.S. (Save Our Seas) Poster Project, as the park has extended the the deadline until 5 pm on July 12, 2008.
The S.O.S. Poster Project is an opportunity for children ages 4 to 12 to creatively explore their ideas for protecting our seas and the creatures who live in them. Children in three age categories (4 to 6, 7 to 9 and 10 to 12) will compete using any two-dimensional medium from crayons and markers to paint, ink, pencil or even LEGO® to illustrate their best idea for protecting our oceans. Contestants may submit posters up to 18 by 24 inches and are encouraged to include a 100-word description of their idea.
Winners of the competition will be announced in July and honored at the grand opening of the new SEA LIFE Aquarium when it opens August 11. All entries should be mailed to S.O.S. Poster Contest, One LEGOLAND Drive, Carlsbad California 92008 or hand delivered to Guest Services at LEGOLAND California by 5 p.m. on July 12. For complete contest rules and regulations, visit www.LEGOLAND.com/poster.
Founder and CEO Will Howard and General Manger Aaron Behle are happy to announce that the Carlsbad-based action sports eyewear company Dragon is going private, escaping from the clutches of Italian eyewear giant Luxotica.
We want to thank Scott Olivet and the rest of the Oakley team for their support over the years and during this transition,” says Howard. “In two very different business plans, we collectively saw an opportunity to allow Dragon to break off and do its own thing in the marketplace.”
“We have restructured Dragon to fully leverage a decade of brand authenticity and capitalize on what we believe is a paradigm shift in the action sports market” said Behle. “We have a unique position with a unique plan. More importantly, we have a young and passionate team with the ability to ‘zig’ while the market ‘zags’ ‘and enjoy ourselves along the way.”
If you’re into BMX this is amazing. If you’re not, it’s probably right up there with the world’s longest fingernails. We’re just glad Carlsbadistan’sKevin Robinson didn’t have to bleed for RedBull and that he pulled it off in NYC. Congrats, K-Rob.
If you have a Carlsbad news story, press release, event, rumor, or scandal that we'd be interested in (and there are a lot of them), please click the link to send them to The Editors.
Or just search the site to see if we've mentioned it before, right here.
How ironic: our oil-business president “urged Congress” on Wednesday to end the federal ban on offshore oil drilling. Why? Well, rising oil prices, of course.
RSS Feed-Posts