dire straights

DUI related update:

Tony gets 30 days in the hole for battery....at taxpayer expense!!

so I 'm watching the Mr Wimpy Show AKA Worthen One on One..actually this is one of the funniest shows on TV! these guys are rightwingers to the max and it's funny watching them justify the dying GOP, which they helped kill....

but this show had Mike Stoker as guest...Mike is always fun to watch ramble on about nutty stuff...and he mentions he's a principled guy about every five minutes...really..with friends like Joe Armendariz and Lanny Ebenstein how can you call yourself principled?? and the Greka Oil stint didn't show much in the way of principles..just alot of cover-ups, lies and blaming the left wingers for the multitide of oil spills...Greka leased land from Brooks Firestone and Cowboy Willy and Greka was always spilling oil into creeks, on the land. containment vessels would overflow and the county had to be called in many times at taxpayer expense to invesigate the operations which were deemed incompetent and inadequate...so to clean up their image, Greka hired Stoker as a spokesman, who stood before cameras and claimed a phantom saboteur was responsible for the leaks...in fact, untrained incompetent manangement and operators were the problem....you can't close a valve and expect oil to flow through it...the oil will back up and over and out onto the land!!! Mike made alot of excuses for Greka....and Brooks Firestone is one of the sugar daddies that keeps guys like Mike running (and losing) for office...they don't like regulations that hold them accountable!

so Worthen kept pressing Mike about his plans to run for some office again..when Mike runs he loses alot and keeps blaming Das Williams for his problems...then Worthen asks Mike if he plans to sue Wells Fargo bank...Mike looks surprised and complains about the questions then says he may sue Wells Fargo because they are predatory lenders and he, Mike has principles..he didn't go into any details so the only thing I could get from that was Mike took out a loan he couldn't afford to repay and he's blaming the bank!!

and then Mr. Wimpy asks about Mike's broken rib..apparently Stoker, while stumping for Romney, got into a tussle in New Hampshire with a slippery shower or a Gingrich campaign staffer and wound up with a broken rib and black eye...Mike said he slipped in the shower going for a towel but also said he got in a few punches on the staffer....that was a weird exchange...sounds like booze was involved!!

ok, so we got Mike, Lanny and Joe, the Three Stooges, all members or former members of the Santa Barbara County Taxpayer Association and all with money issues...mishandling their own finances while preaching economic morality...

the SBCTA website was last updated in 2009....it was funny reading the bios of these guys..gee they all appear to be professional and successful and highly accomplished gentlemen...
but we know differently now, don't we... the only link that doesn't work on the website is to Joe's email, so maybe they canned him....
I sounded the warning on these guys a few years ago in the Three Stooges post the day after April Fools Day....I thought it was pretty good.... and prophetic....

http://santabarbaranewspressblogcom.blogspot.com/2009/04/three-stooges.html

and then there's the cozy relationship they have with the News-Press, another loser organization!! and just in time for this post, the News-Press has a story about Mike winning the upcoming election according to a poll of 400 people!!

Mike, Lanny and Joe....Koch Bros material!!!