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I think Ned Colletti made a smart move, effectively replacing J.D. Drew in the lineup and outfield with Luis Gonzalez. Despite Gonzo’s age, Drew’s at LEAST as much of an injury threat. Plus, their numbers are pretty similar, but the Dodgers only have to pay half the amount.

Disgusting. The Lakers just got outworked, and then late they stopped even trying on offense, heaving up three after three.

Friends, Republicans, Conservatives, lend me your ears!

The 2006 federal elections are done, and the time has come for 2008 campaigning to begin. Some candidates have started in earnest, and others will surely soon follow.

The mainstream press will push their agenda on us Republicans, its legions of Democrats in the newsroom informing us poor, dumb sheeple which candidates are viable and which are not.

They will tell us after a few small primaries and caucuses that select candidates have been eliminated, nevermind the lessons of races like 1976 in which the establishment candidate won in Iowa and New Hampshire, but the conservative kept on fighting and made it the closest primary race ever.

We must resist though! We must look at the field and decide on our own who to support, right on through to the final primary! Because if we conservatives do not speak up for ourselves, and instead settle for who is best among the candidates we’re told we’re allowed to support, then we’ve prematurely squelched our own voice in the process.

If you don’t speak up, then you don’t get to complain when the next Republican President fails do meet your standards! Because what do you expect when you cede control over our primary process to Democrats?

Did I say Zito? Silly me. I forgot who the Dodgers’ GM is. Of COURSE we’re going to sign the older player who’s also a former San Francisco Giant. Say hello to Jason Schmidt for three years, ~$45 million.

Greg Maddux is a Padre. I suppose that means the Dodgers will have to enter the Barry Zito derby.

Meanwhile the swelling in Kobe’s ankle is apparently down, and he’ll likely be a game time decision against the slumping Hornets.

Bad news and not as bad as it could be news. Better than all bad I suppose.

Uh oh.

The Lakers’ first unit carried the team to an easy enough win last night, with Kwame Brown actually getting and catching passes from his teammates. But, it came at a cost. Kobe suffered a classic basketball injury: went up for a reverse layup in traffic, came down hard on Jeff Foster’s foot, and tweaked his ankle.

I say tweaked because Gary Vitti (the Lakers’ trainer since forever) let Kobe go back out onto the bench, where #24 worked continuously to keep his ankle loose in case that 20 point lead dropped low enough. It didn’t, so now Lakers fans just have to hope that Kobe’s ready to go for the next game.

Cold is relative. Now that temperatures are dropping to 50 degrees in the morning when I take my walk, I’ve bundled up to the full Kenny McCormick. Two layers of pants, a jacket and a thick coat over my shirt, hood on, and scarf besides.

It’s just not orange thankfully. I don’t need to be attacked by dogs or hit by a car.

Well, I’ve played more of FFXII than I have of some, borrowing my brother’s disc while he’s unable to use it. It’s a start.

The homestand continues despite this being a road game last night. Look, defense! Of course, the Lakers’ offense is looking as high-powered as ever despite holding the collapsing Clips under 90.

The win helps secure first place as the Kings lost and the Suns won. Now it’s the Suns in second, at 9-6 and riding a 6-game win streak to the Lakers’ 11-5.

Gee, though, this 4-0 start in division, 8-3 in conference in the divison could really make a difference for a tiebreaker at the end of the season.

I was enjoying this game, but now I’m ready to toss it out the window. Once you get to the Mustafar mission, forget it. It’s all over. Two independent bugs conspire with the horrific AI to make it pure luck whether you win this one.

Bug one: your people throw themselves into the lava over and over again. This is a problem because the computer’s already cheating, giving you a small number of reinforcements versus the enemy’s infinite reinforcements.

Bug two: the enemy will spontaneously get reinforcements behind you, no where near its command post. I can’t count the number of times I’ve taken a hall only to be shot from out of nowhere. it turns out that at the end of the hall, droids will sometimes get dropped in as reinforcements. Kill the bad guy, then have a bad guy appear behind you to kill you. Wheee…

What shoddy development.