I’m being punished. I tried to save the world with my eco-friendly, carbon neutral Lincoln Aviator and clever plan to increase the sales of carbon credits by letting those of us that have them drive in the HOV lane – and now I’m paying the price for my efforts.

It appears that those hyper-capitalists at LiveNeutral.org have sold my name to the environmental community as a good prospect for them. And now Casa Battin is junk mail central. Ugh.

It was bad enough that they made a 300% profit on my carbon credit, but this….this is just mean.

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I’m being punished. I tried to save the world with my eco-friendly, carbon neutral Lincoln Aviator and clever plan to increase the sales of carbon credits by letting those of us that have them drive in the HOV lane – and now I’m paying the price for my efforts.

It appears that those hyper-capitalists at LiveNeutral.org have sold my name to the environmental community as a good prospect for them. And now Casa Battin is junk mail central. Ugh.

It was bad enough that they made a 300% profit on my carbon credit, but this….this is just mean.

We’re up to our ears drowning in solicitations from my fellow eco-warriors pitching their efforts to save the world, if only I’d become a member of their group. (Special Introductory Offer!)

And reading their mail, it’s clear the Earth is dying – the skies are dark, the oceans polluted, the Sequoias are almost gone, we can’t breathe and the earth is sick with fever….. and for some reason it all seems to be President Bush’s fault. Go figure.

There is some irony here though. … Read More

Today Governor Schwarzenegger continued on his "I don’t mean what I say" Tour by announcing to a national meeting of the Log Cabin (Gay) Republicans that he would oppose a ballot measure that may appear on the November ballot to place into the State Constitution a definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman.

This from the Governor who has vetoed (twice) legislation to sanction homosexual marriage in California.

At best, we have another "off the cuff" remark from the Governor that his staff will have to "spin back into the bottle" or at the worst, you can add another log to the "what I said on the campaign trail doesn’t matter now" fire.

I’ve reached out to his Communications Director for some clarification, but he’s been silent (for the whole ten minutes since I e-mailed him)…

Oh, ironically, Schwarzenegger was at the event representing Republican Presidential hopeful John McCain. A few weeks ago McCain stated publicly that he supports the initiative to ban gay marriage. I’m sure that McCain appreciated this "gift" from Arnold…… Read More

This just in. The memo from pollster John Nienstedt regarding a recent City Attorney race survey says it all in the headline: "It is looking more like a two-horse race between City Attorney Mike Aguirre and Superior Court Judge Jan Goldsmith."

Once again, the bottom line is simple. For those not happy with Democrat Aguirre, well, fellow Dem Scott Peters and Republican Brian Maienschein are serving an opposite purpose, if they are not from an alternate universe. The GOP-endorsed Goldsmith is the contender with viability, not to mention a lack of baggage from the San Diego pension-debacle.

Some excerpts:

Competitive Edge Research & Communication, Inc., conducted a poll on behalf of the Republican Party of San Diego County among 506 randomly selected likely June voters residing in the City of San Diego. The poll was fielded March 20-24 (excluding Easter Sunday). The data was appropriately weighted to reflect known parameters within the likely June electorate. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.4%.

The results demonstrate that San Diego Superior Court Judge Jan Goldsmith continues to be City Attorney Mike… Read More

Yesterday on party-line votes, once again Democrats killed reasonable efforts to explore and expanded use of nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels. Ignoring the proven safety statistics of modern Nuclear Power Plants, and in blatant disregard for their own global warming hysteria, turned down a massive power alternative that has a significantly lower impact on the amount of man-made CFC’s that are emitted into the atmosphere.

Last week I was chatting with Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, who has been the champion in the legislature for looking at the expansion of the use of nuclear power in California. He told me about how he had been tapped by Boalt School of Law at Cal to prepare a "scholarly paper" on this whole topic. He said that it would soon be published, and I asked him to let me know once it was, so I could share it with FR readers. Well, the piece is now online! Below is a brief introduction to the piece penned by DeVore, with the a link over to his article, "Relative Risk: Global Warming and Imported Fossil Fuels vs. Nuclear Power."… Read More

Yesterday on party-line votes, once again Democrats killed reasonable efforts to explore and expanded use of nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels. Ignoring the proven safety statistics of modern Nuclear Power Plants, and in blatant disregard for their own global warming hysteria, turned down a massive power alternative that has a significantly lower impact on the amount of man-made CFC’s that are emitted into the atmosphere.

Last week I was chatting with Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, who has been the champion in the legislature for looking at the expansion of the use of nuclear power in California. He told me about how he had been tapped by Boalt School of Law at Cal to prepare a "scholarly paper" on this whole topic. He said that it would soon be published, and I asked him to let me know once it was, so I could share it with FR readers. Well, the piece is now online! Below is a brief introduction to the piece penned by DeVore, with the a link over to his article, "Relative Risk: Global Warming and Imported Fossil Fuels vs. Nuclear Power."… Read More

This spot will be up on cable in AD 64 in a few days.

It discusses the public record of Assembly candidate Brian Nestande.

I am working for businesswoman Kelly McCarty.… Read More

Or at least our fiscally challenged Democrats do. Today, on a party-line vote, Democrats in the Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee voted to create a new state holiday. And what is the momentous person or event we are clamoring to honor? You guessed it: Election Day. That’s right folks, the same Democrats who have managed to spend this state into a $16 Billion deficit now want State employees to take another day off. The State of California, which already offers its employees 13 state recognized holidays, would like to make it an even 14.

The measure advanced today under the presumption that if we could just give State Employees the day off, we could help eliminate that pesky low voter turnout. While I guess it is possible that low voter turnout is the result of not enough time off, I can’t help but wonder if Californians are not just fed up with bloated and unresponsive government. It could also be that Californians are just culturally different than most of the nation and just don’t rate voting as one of the most important things in their lives, or it could be any of another of the millions of reasons people don’t… Read More