The Coast News, July 13, 2012

JULY 13, 2012
COMMENTARY
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catch, and put you in prison
and seize your property for
growing pot.
Furthermore, Justice
Roberts is right. The U.S. government
encourages all kinds
of virtuous behavior through
the tax code. You can get married,
or pay higher taxes. Buy a
house, have children, invest in a
retirement account, even raise
cattle (my personal favorite) or
pay higher taxes.
PARKS
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Cooper was impressed with
the city staff. Chiefly, when
they were open to the commission’s
suggestions and
doing what they could to
accomplish the community’s
recommendations.
“I believe the staff did a
wonderful job putting together
their parks and recreation
activities in Carlsbad and I
think we are one of the leaders
in those areas,” said
Cooper, adding how his experience
with the city staff was
a positive one.
For Cooper, now it’s time
to pass the torch to someone
else in the community which
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vinaigrette. The crispy
capers were a first for me
and combined with the
bacon and the sprouts, they
blew me away. I will be back
to try every other item on
the bar snacks menu.
The dinner menu is
equally enticing and the
starters include several
items from the bar snacks
menu along with the local
sweet corn soup brought
over from Blue Ribbon. They
also feature a trio of
“Meatmen” sausage, which
is quite simply the best in
town. Look for a column
devoted to those sausage
makers soon.
Due to my column size
restrictions, I’m going to
highlight three entrees that
should not be missed. The
porcini crusted Pacific cod
with mushroom gravy, potato
puree and an onion-mushroom
medley is quite simply
the best piece of fish I’ve
had in recent memory. It
combines every item on my
culinary brilliance checklist
and at $22 will make my
And buying health insurance
is an intolerable offense
against liberty?
Ask Rush Limbaugh who
pays for his Viagra. Answer: his
employer-provided health
insurance company. Only
impoverished people, deadbeats
and fools go without it.
And guess what? You’re
already paying for their medical
expenses when time and
chance happeneth to them. As
it happeneth to everybody,
even right-wing Supreme Court
justices who think it’s clever to
will allow them to make an
impact in their town, too.
On the flipside,
Hazeltine said receiving his
department’s proclamation
for their “Parks and
Recreation Month” in July
gives them an opportunity to
be acknowledged while
reminding residents of the
good in Carlsbad. This
includes their recreational
facilities and amenities available
to everyone.
“We have an expansive
trail system because we are
all about health and fitness
these days,” said Hazeltine,
adding how the city has 40
miles of developed trails. “We
have all kinds of opportunities
to get outdoors and into
value column for sure this
year.
I’m a bit obsessed with
steak frites and their center
cut hangar steak with a
Béarnaise compound butter,
placed on top of duck fat
fries so the juices can run
over the fries made me very
happy. The Berkshire pork
porchetta is another winner;
just trust me on that one.
It’s a simple dessert list
with their popular Blue
Ribbon butterscotch pudding
included. They have a
nice selection of beer on tap
compare an inessential food
like broccoli to a universal
human need like health care.
You can eat your vegetables
or not; it’s entirely up to
you.
But you can’t not get sick
or hurt. And moral considerations
aside, the rest of us can’t
risk letting you lie down and
die on the road. After all, it
might be communicable. So
there’s no non-participation in
the health care system. Even if
they drag you in feet-first, there
you are.
the open space of our trails.”
Over the years, Hazeltine
said, the city council has
made a great emphasis and
priority on parks and recreation
programming.
Just last month, the
groundbreaking ceremony for
the future site of Alga Norte
Community Park in Carlsbad
was a day for celebration.
More than 30 acres large, the
future park will boast pools,
ball fields, a skate park, a dog
park, and other amenities.
“In this day and age
where lots of cities are struggling
with how to maintain
their existing facilities, here
we are breaking ground on
developing new facilities,”
Hazeltine said.
including my current
favorite Palm from Belgium.
The full menu, location and
hours can be found at craftsmantavern.com
and I highly
suggest you check it out.
Lick the Plate can now be heard on
KPRi, 102.1 FM Monday-Friday
during the 7pm hour.
David Boylan is founder of Artichoke
Creative and Artichoke Apparel, an
Encinitas based marketing firm and
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david@artichoke-creative.com or
(858) 395-6905.
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NEW BOARD HONORED
The Assistance League Rancho San Dieguito celebrated its members and new leaders at its
June Installation Luncheon saluting new board members, from left, back row, Wendy Morris,
Pat Talmon, Robin Lappin, Kathy O'Leary, Kat Denlinger, Pat Moran and Catherine Campbell
and, from left, seated, Valerie Thatcher, Joyce Bressler, Marian Kelly and Sara Woollard.
Courtesy photo
And somebody’s got to pay
for it.
It follows that the
minority’s distinction between
“activity” and “inactivity” with
regard to health insurance is
not merely specious legalistic
jargon. Frankly, it’s downright
adolescent.
Justice Scalia may increasingly
resemble a small, volcanic
Caribbean nation — eat your
vegetables,Tony — but even he
is not an island.We’re all in this
together.
Previous to Obamacare,
the United States has had the
most inefficient health care
finance in the advanced world,
spending by far the highest
percentage of its GDP on
health care while getting worse
results. Most western countries
spend a fraction of what we do
on health care and their citizens
are demonstrably healthier.
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to use the Embraer-170 and the
Embraer-190; the first of their
E-170s fleet flew into Carlsbad
last week. The twin-engine E-
170 has the capacity to carry 72
passengers.
Willie Vasquez, airport
manager for McClellan-
Palomar Airport said the new
addition to the airport brings a
new level of service to the community
of Carlsbad, of North
County.
The airport bases over 60
jet operations, jets about the
same size or slightly larger than
the E-170.
Vasquez said that
Ending the perennial
war between hospital bureaucrats
and number crunchers at
insurance companies and government
agencies over who’s
going to pay for indigent care
should begin to change that.
Meanwhile, now that
Obamacare has passed constitutional
muster, it’s time for the
wise and judicious American
public to get off their lazy keisters,
ignore the hysteria and
learn what’s in the law and
what’s not.
I recently took a brief
online quiz sponsored by the
Kaiser Foundation
(http://healthreform.kff.org/Qui
zzes/Health-Reform-
Quiz.aspx). I hope you won’t
think I’m bragging by saying I
got a perfect score. It’s my job
to know the basics. Apparently,
most Americans don’t.The percentage
of citizens ignorant of
even the new law’s most basic
McClellan-Palomar Airport did
about 140,000 operations last
year. In 1998, they were doing
298,000 operations but that
tapered off due to the economy
and costs associated with flying.
Vallas had this to say
about entering the airline business:
“If you start acting like an
airline, instead of a secondclass
bus operation, there’s no
stopping it.”
Vasquez is hoping that
with the addition of the new
airline to the airport, it will
attract other airlines to do the
same.
“What we do is aviation,”
Vasquez said.“So anything that
increases the aviation that’s
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provisions was shocking.
Granted, the White House
has done a terrible marketing
job. But no, there’s no new government-run
insurance company.
If you’ve already got a policy
you like, keep it. No, small
businesses with fewer than 50
employees need not provide
insurance; but, yes, they get tax
credits if they do. No, undocumented
immigrants aren’t eligible
for help.
Many of you have mistakenly
trusted carnival barkers
like Limbaugh and Sarah Palin.
Now that Obamacare’s the
law, ignorance is no longer an
excuse.
Arkansas Times columnist
Gene Lyons is a National
Magazine Award winner and coauthor
of “The Hunting of the
President” (St. Martin’s Press,
2000). You can email Lyons at
eugenelyons2@yahoo.com.
what we are here to do is to foster
aviation. And what better
way than to accept a new airline
into the airport,” he said.
California Pacific is also
looking to hire about 110 new
employees.
Vallas who wasn’t able to
discuss pricing rates of flights
due to Department of
Transportation restrictions,
described it only as “competitive.”
In addition to the competitive
rates,he said,travelers will
save two-and-a-half to three
hours of travel time because of
the airport’s location; and many
dollars on parking (all-day
parking at McClellan-Palomar
Airport is $5.)