The Phoenix Coyotes NHL hockey team is now that league's version of the Montreal Expos, as the club has gone bankrupt and will now be managed by commissioner Gary Bettman and his office until a new buyer can be found. The Coyotes have reportedly lost $90 million total over the past three seasons.
Erstwhile Research in Motion supremo Jim Balsillie is said to be interested in moving the team back to Canada. It was originally the Winnipeg Jets before it went under new ownership and headed to Arizona.
The owner of the Coyotes is Swift Transporting founder Jerry Moyes, who has given donations to the campaigns of failed presidential candidate John McCain as well as Crazy Caucus members John Shadegg and Jim Inhofe. He has also donated $5,000 in 2008 to a lobbying firm for the trucking industry.
Moyes' fortunes have reportedly been hard hit by the downturn in the economy and high gasoline costs, according to ESPN. Getting a good sale price for his hockey side would be tough, given how Forbes has called it, "one of hockey's greatest disasters."
Bettman would like to keep the club in Phoenix due to his obsession with the American market and he and Balsillie are thought to not see eye to eye generally anyway.
An economics blogger at the rightwing Ludwig Von Mises Institute had harsh words for the situation that both the Coyotes and the NHL finds itself:
"Bettman is "dealing with the situation" by simply throwing more money down the hole. He doesn't want to admit that the NHL's artificial-boom-fueled expansion and reliance on government-funded arenas was a poor business strategy. The NHL is the sports equivalent of the Fed; it's been printing worthless money in the form of new franchises for decades. Consider this: From 1978 to 2008, the National Football League and Major League Baseball increased their total "output" of regular season games by about 15%; during that same time, the NHL increased output 81%. Somehow, baseball and football remain more popular and profitable despite a slower growth rate. Some would say there's a lesson here."
The blogger is essentially right, as other NHL outfits are on an economic precipice, even after breaking the players union a while back.
McCain has whored himself to pro sports franchises, the owner of the New York Jets, Woody Johnson, raising $7.5 million for his presidential campaign last May 7th as one instance. Johnson is an Arizona native.
For more info on the Coyotes finances, see Mike Savino's blog here.
That old GOP economic magic strikes again.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
What's the Deal With Arianna's Last Name?
Feminism propounds that women are not appendages to men, but rather independent and unique individuals unto themselves who deserve respect and the opportunities men have historically enjoyed. Little to disagree with there.
Nonetheless, for all the feminist folderol on Huffington Post, the woman whose name adorns the site has made a curious choice in keeping the surname of her gay ex-husband, former Republican Congressman and perpetual empty suit Michael Huffington. WTF?
Arianna, as most of you know, was the daughter of a Greek journalist and was largely educated in the UK. She then married Huffington and attached herself to the Newt Gingrich Contract on America crowd, causing me to call her "Zsa Zsa Gabor with a Phd."
But once the whole GOP "revolution" turned into the same old repressive bullshit of a time long gone by, replete with corruption that was little more than just the looting of the national treasury, she bolted both the yellow elephants and Huffington. Yet, she didn't revert back to the last name she was born with, Stassinopoulos.
She had basically retrenched her life and certainly using the name her father and mother had given her would have been symbolic of that. Plus it would have been an announcement that she wasn't just going to float in the wake of a man (who was a boob to boot) and would plot her own course.
Of course, it has long been a tradition in Hollywood where actors and actresses with uncommon surnames (or, God fobid, those indicating a Jewish background) to take new identities to ease their viability as a public consummable.
However, these are more forward thinking times and such stragems are no longer necessary. Plus you now have a situation where the vapid Debbie Matanepoulos, is arguably the leading celebrity Greek-American. Well, unless you want to say Telly Savalas, but does anyone even remember him?
It is ironic that not only does the supposed feminist Arianna continue to go by her husband's last name, but she has even named her putatively progressive site after a man who was a conservative oil millionaire. Sorry if I think that's screwy.
Nonetheless, for all the feminist folderol on Huffington Post, the woman whose name adorns the site has made a curious choice in keeping the surname of her gay ex-husband, former Republican Congressman and perpetual empty suit Michael Huffington. WTF?
Arianna, as most of you know, was the daughter of a Greek journalist and was largely educated in the UK. She then married Huffington and attached herself to the Newt Gingrich Contract on America crowd, causing me to call her "Zsa Zsa Gabor with a Phd."
But once the whole GOP "revolution" turned into the same old repressive bullshit of a time long gone by, replete with corruption that was little more than just the looting of the national treasury, she bolted both the yellow elephants and Huffington. Yet, she didn't revert back to the last name she was born with, Stassinopoulos.
She had basically retrenched her life and certainly using the name her father and mother had given her would have been symbolic of that. Plus it would have been an announcement that she wasn't just going to float in the wake of a man (who was a boob to boot) and would plot her own course.
Of course, it has long been a tradition in Hollywood where actors and actresses with uncommon surnames (or, God fobid, those indicating a Jewish background) to take new identities to ease their viability as a public consummable.
However, these are more forward thinking times and such stragems are no longer necessary. Plus you now have a situation where the vapid Debbie Matanepoulos, is arguably the leading celebrity Greek-American. Well, unless you want to say Telly Savalas, but does anyone even remember him?
It is ironic that not only does the supposed feminist Arianna continue to go by her husband's last name, but she has even named her putatively progressive site after a man who was a conservative oil millionaire. Sorry if I think that's screwy.
Tales Too Ticklish to Tell
Lost amid all the celebrity gossip on Huffington Post were these important news items:
FBI Hires Convicted Con Man to Infiltrate Islamic Mosques in Southern California. Said Con Man Then Swindles Taxpayers, the FBI Itself and Various Civilians.
Pentagon Slow to Recover Unearned Millions from Defense Contractor.
Alaska Republican Pleads Guilty to Bribery in Oil Tax Bill Scandal.
Alabama Governor Committed Two Federal Crimes; Media Ignores it.
Film Outs Florida Governor and Closet Case Charlie Crist.
Mexican-American Hate Groups Do Immigration Advocates No Good. Gustavo Arellano Exposes the Pendejos.
Anti-White Hate Songs Popular in Mexico.
The Catholic Church Continues to Move Pedo Priests Around, Unbeknownst to Spanish Parishioners.
Obama Homeland Security Candidate Bullshits the Locals With Bogus Assertions on the L.A. Crime Rate.
So-Called Moderate Minnesotat Governor and Presidential Aspirant Tim Pawlenty Hops on the Homophobe Express.
Media Myths and Falsehoods About the Supreme Court.
Convicted Murderer Has Ties to L.A. Mayor and Possible Future Gubernatorial Candidate Tony Villaraigosa as well as cokehead councilman Mike Hernandez.
Bid to Put More Cops on the Street Turns into a Hustle and Villaraigosa is Mixed Up in it.
Villaraigosa Helped Developer Skirt Environmental Rules.
Bipartisan Corruption in Philadelphia Tax Board.
Republican Convict Pol Greeted "Warmly" in Tennessee Capital.
Pols Gone Wild.
GOP Pol Used Privilege in Attempt to Avoid DUI Ticket After Being Caught Exceeding 100mph.
Do You Have to be Mormon to Get a Job or Run a Business in Idaho? These Folks Say Yes.
Congress Critters Continues to Manipulate Wikipedia.
VD More Popular Than Orrin Hatch in Utah. This is Not a Drill.
Is Mormon Church's Homophobia Strengthening Pro-Gay Cause?
Poll Finds Iowans Hating GOP Bigtime.
Former Republican Alaska Governor Gets Bad News on Discrimination Claim Against Him.
Arlen Specter is Gay! (Satire)
Young People to Republican Homophobia: Epic Fail.
NY Latinos Conservative Socially---and Favor Democrats.
Lack of Affordable Health Care Costing Texas Big.
History Channel Should Know: Republicans Living in the Past.
Texas Republican Pol in Cahoots With Crooks and Yet Calls Himself a Victim.
Michele Bachmann Nominated for A Darwin Award (Satire).
Anti-Gay Evangelist a Tax Cheat. And is His Foundattion a Scam?
New Federal Rule Blamed for Keeping Seattle Condo Buyers Homeless.
Seattle Police Panting Over Gay Porn.
Former DEA Agent Facilitating Crack Cocaine Sales?
FBI Hires Convicted Con Man to Infiltrate Islamic Mosques in Southern California. Said Con Man Then Swindles Taxpayers, the FBI Itself and Various Civilians.
Pentagon Slow to Recover Unearned Millions from Defense Contractor.
Alaska Republican Pleads Guilty to Bribery in Oil Tax Bill Scandal.
Alabama Governor Committed Two Federal Crimes; Media Ignores it.
Film Outs Florida Governor and Closet Case Charlie Crist.
Mexican-American Hate Groups Do Immigration Advocates No Good. Gustavo Arellano Exposes the Pendejos.
Anti-White Hate Songs Popular in Mexico.
The Catholic Church Continues to Move Pedo Priests Around, Unbeknownst to Spanish Parishioners.
Obama Homeland Security Candidate Bullshits the Locals With Bogus Assertions on the L.A. Crime Rate.
So-Called Moderate Minnesotat Governor and Presidential Aspirant Tim Pawlenty Hops on the Homophobe Express.
Media Myths and Falsehoods About the Supreme Court.
Convicted Murderer Has Ties to L.A. Mayor and Possible Future Gubernatorial Candidate Tony Villaraigosa as well as cokehead councilman Mike Hernandez.
Bid to Put More Cops on the Street Turns into a Hustle and Villaraigosa is Mixed Up in it.
Villaraigosa Helped Developer Skirt Environmental Rules.
Bipartisan Corruption in Philadelphia Tax Board.
Republican Convict Pol Greeted "Warmly" in Tennessee Capital.
Pols Gone Wild.
GOP Pol Used Privilege in Attempt to Avoid DUI Ticket After Being Caught Exceeding 100mph.
Do You Have to be Mormon to Get a Job or Run a Business in Idaho? These Folks Say Yes.
Congress Critters Continues to Manipulate Wikipedia.
VD More Popular Than Orrin Hatch in Utah. This is Not a Drill.
Is Mormon Church's Homophobia Strengthening Pro-Gay Cause?
Poll Finds Iowans Hating GOP Bigtime.
Former Republican Alaska Governor Gets Bad News on Discrimination Claim Against Him.
Arlen Specter is Gay! (Satire)
Young People to Republican Homophobia: Epic Fail.
NY Latinos Conservative Socially---and Favor Democrats.
Lack of Affordable Health Care Costing Texas Big.
History Channel Should Know: Republicans Living in the Past.
Texas Republican Pol in Cahoots With Crooks and Yet Calls Himself a Victim.
Michele Bachmann Nominated for A Darwin Award (Satire).
Anti-Gay Evangelist a Tax Cheat. And is His Foundattion a Scam?
New Federal Rule Blamed for Keeping Seattle Condo Buyers Homeless.
Seattle Police Panting Over Gay Porn.
Former DEA Agent Facilitating Crack Cocaine Sales?
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