Thursday, June 3, 2010

canary in a coal mine...

shih-tzu in a storm drain...
I've always maintained that cats are smarter than dogs..hell, a fly is smarter than a dog, but now I got the proof positive I've been seeking in a dog named Sable. You see, Sable has been trained by her sadistic owners to sniff sewage for a living. The idea is to use Sable to detect the presence of human waste in storm drains and channels...the City Creeks dept wants to use her skills to confirm the presence or absence of people doodoo in the areas around Laguna Channel...well, duh, the creek is used by people all the time..just drive past the work line and notice all the folks there, the day labor line..there's a few port-a-potties and it's a known homeless campout..where else are they gonna go?? Plus, campers dump in storm drains at night...the source is right in front of creek gal Jill's eyes! Why does she need a dog to tell her what is obvious? and dogs spend most of their lives sniffing asses anyway so now they are connoisseurs?? It's one thing to have sewage overflowing from a manhole into a creek or storm drain, but absent such a scenerio, any waste found has been deposited by individual action and needs to be addressed by enforcing the laws..you can't take a dump in the creeks!! so clean up the junk around the creek/channels and problem solved. but remember, all kinds of wild animals use the creeks upstream..birds, bears, skunks, possum, coyotes..there is no such thing as a pure water creek but nature provides the means to clean the creeks to acceptable levels with sedimentation, aeration, microbial action and sunlight... if people keep dumping fertilizers, pesticides and shopping carts in our creeks, maybe we should breed illegal aliens to sniff out those pollutants!!
Now, dogs are the last species to prevent water pollution. They are a major hazard to beaches...harassing marine mammals and crapping on the shoreline...for some reason, dogs have become more important than law-abiding citizens like me. They can run off leash, bite people, and violate the Marine Mammal Protection Act with impunity! I don't blame the dogs as much as their stupid-ass owners who feed the poor things rich gourmet food, keep them cooped up all day, spoil them then take them to the beach to crap..see, the beach is the dog's toilet...just ask Summerlanders who are knee deep in dogshit "landmines" at the once beautiful Summerland Beach...even Hillary Hauser of Heal the Ocean is slightly concerned...she once claimed that dogs were not an issue in ocean pollution until her neighborhood beach at Lookout Park started to stink....she's trying to get more plastic bag stations at area beaches...still, you can't force people to use them and many won't..others have suggested banning domestic dogs from the beaches all together...wild dogs like coyotes are ok as they have better diets and don't make a mess...it's true!
if we could move the domestic pampered lapdogs from the beach to the storm drains, I'd support that....so I won't condemn Sable...all I ask is that she lead her pack someplace where the sun don't shine....

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

creep show...

the Devil and the deep blue sea
I love election time! People crawl out of the woodwork to support their candidates, give tons of money, sling mud and lies, and generally act like I want them to for they support my psychological profiles. I especially like the rightwing factions because they are soooo desperate and very entertaining to watch and make fun of..the last city council race was full of baloney but somehow, Mike Self and Frank Hotchkiss got elected...Mike has been a councilmember for about six months and she's always complaining about things and I think the job is getting to her...check this picture out..Mike looks evil, little and drained and tired and I don't think she'll last much longer..probably didn't realize the workload involved..but being on the council is not like having a nonprofit..you have to really work!
is Dr. Dan Queer??
while it's true that Dr. Dan delivered a lot of babies over the years, they all turned out to be devil worshippers!! and does this man look sane? no, he looks evil!! do you want him as supervisor looking out for special wealthy interests?? He got $25000 from an out-of-towner named Steven G Blank who sits on the board of the useless tax-exempt nonprofit the Audubon Society and wrote a weird book called "the Four Steps to Epiphany" about business solutions with a couple of old queer looking dudes on the cover? are Dr. Dan and Steve Blank gay lovers?? who knows!! all Dan will says is "he's a very nice man" ...hmmmm, sounds fishy to me...
and in Carp, we got Measure J, the Venoco Oil Initiative with all sorts of weirdos that I've never seen in Carp suddenly showing up on TV and in the paper..vote for Measure J..no no Don't Vote for Measure J..save our town!! the Gulf spill and Greka aren't gonna help this at all!
the election will soon be upon us..vote your conscience..if you have one

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

the Good Ship Lollipop...

and other war fantasies...
so on Memorial Day, the fantasy News-Press has some front page propaganda about the wonderful Iraq invasion...or as some people like to call it the Iraq Liberation...see, I thought we attacked and invaded Iraq and blew apart and maimed little boys and girls and men and women and animals in Bush's mistaken attempt to prove Iraq had weapons of mass destruction..no weapons of mass destruction were found, so Bush, the commander in chief, and his chicken-hawk staff Cheney and Rumsfeld fucked up and Obama's not much better. I thought the pictures of our troops scaring poor folks in Iraq, going house to house looking for terrorists and acting more like terrorists than terrorists was common knowledge. There's nothing heroic about killing children... I thought we Americans were smart enough now to stay out of other peoples' business unless directly threatened, but I guess I was wrong. To set me straight, all I need do is watch a YouTube video by an Iraq veteran's (radio communicator??) mom and all will be well understood...an Irag vet's mom..this is the same bull that Dr. Laura used to pull when she wrote for the News-Press, pretending she was Shirley Temple, and we all know what a corrupt piece of crap she and her son Derryk's disservice to the country turned out to be...I mean, really, why lie when you can tell the truth?? the truth will set you free while lies will cheapen and hurt America. Our military is here to protect and serve America, not abuse poor countries!!
cost of freedom..cost of war
Cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq - $390,000 (Congressional Research Service)
Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq - $9 billion of US taxpayers' money and $549.7 milion in spare parts shipped in 2004 to US contractors. Also, per ABC News, 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47 rifles.
Missing - $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces. (Per CBS News on Dec 6, 2007.)
Mismanaged & Wasted in Iraq - $10 billion, per Feb 2007 Congressional hearings
Halliburton Overcharges Classified by the Pentagon as Unreasonable and Unsupported - $1.4 billion
Amount paid to KBR, a former Halliburton division, to supply U.S. military in Iraq with food, fuel, housing and other items -
Iraqi Civilians Killed, Estimated - A UN issued report dated Sept 20, 2006 stating that Iraqi civilian casualties have been significantly under-reported. Casualties are reported at 50,000 to over 100,000, but may be much higher. Some informed estimates place Iraqi civilian casualities at over 600,000.
U.S. Troop Casualties - 4,397 US troops; 98% male. 91% non-officers; 82% active duty, 11% National Guard; 74% Caucasian, 9% African-American, 11% Latino. 19% killed by non-hostile causes. 54% of US casualties were under 25 years old. 72% were from the US Army ...

Now, the mom and her son were simply following the Bush Doctrine of attacking countries that scare them, but Bush is out now and hiding in Texas..the Iraq war was a disaster and the veterans will tell you that..the honest ones, anyway...and the wars continue to impact soldiers and families..they are long expensive wild goose chases..if we want to get rid of the Taliban, then we should go in and take care of business NOW, not a little bit here and there.. but our military commanders are more concerned about gays in the ranks than winning!!
and Israel continues its racist policies backed by the USA: May 31) -- An Israeli attack on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, which killed at least nine pro-Palestinian activists, has been met with protests and condemnations from around the world.The Israeli naval operation, which took place in international waters some 75 miles off the Gazan coast about 3 a.m. today, sparked a severe diplomatic crisis with its former ally Turkey, home to many of the activists. The six-vessel-strong convoy had intended to deliver about 10,000 tons of aid to Gaza, which has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt since the Islamist movement Hamas took power there in 2007...pathetic
children will fall, into the streets
with love in their eyes, but no shoes on their feet
our bunker bombs, will kill them all..
in a heartbeat....
attacking Iraq didn't protect me or my freedom one little bit...but soldiers will always do their duty...
and right wing propaganda machines like the News-Press will try to bullshit readers with feel-good stories about wars, but we have nothing to be proud of as far as Iraq is concerned...nothing...a big nothing..and an ignorant America is a dangerous and weak America....