same old story

same old song and dance

technology? Joe can't even master how to drive a car!!!

ok when  I read about Santa Barbara Technology and Industry Association in the News-Press I figured that's the only place I would read about for a few reasons..first of all it's nonprofit, second of all Joe Armendariz is the "executive director"...third of all, the folks who are on the board are also on the boards of the SBCTA and California Center for Public Policy...


hey I wonder if Joe and #69 from the nonprofit Animal Rescue place have rekindled their romance or was it just puppy love..I was gonna try to interview Julia but her Facebook page scared me away...wow..these conservative gals take no prisoners!!

anyway, SBTIA held a dinner at the University Club in SB and gave out some awards...there was a no host bar also..uh oh..you get a bunch of conservatives around no host bar and you know damn well what's gonna happen...but there may be hope in sight..there's a lawmaker in Ireland who came up witha great idea...special permits for drunk drivers!!!

clearly never saw this one coming and neither would other guys playing with a full deck. However, it looks like some people are so in love with alcohol that they're willing to risk large-scale ridicule in their attempts to spread the world about the good things that come with drunk driving. Yes, fellow riders, some wackos in Ireland proposed a law to make driving tipsy legal!

The fantastic law-making idea belongs to Danny Healy-Rae, a councilman in Kerry, southwest Ireland. As Danny declares, it's not necessarily about the booze itself, as these (now dead letter) drunk driving permits would improve the mental health of farmers.

Counselor Danny Healy-Rae suggests that the measure would help with lowering depression and mental illness rates, eventually leading to fewer suicides.

"They're traveling in very minor roads, often on tractors, with very little traffic and it's not right they're being treated the same as the rest of the traveling public and they have never killed anyone.

"The only outlet they have then is to take home a bottle of whiskey and they're falling into depression, and suicide for some of them is the sad way out," Healy-Rae, owner of the Kilgarvan pub in Kerry County, stresses.


ok back to the Santa Barbara Technology and Industry Association which I've never heard of until today..er yesterday...they have about 80 members and have been around since the 1920s??

and they want to promote the free market that they tried to kill with fraud from the likes of Enron and AIG!! hahaha

next they say an emerging market is technology that "tracks personal habits, trends and insights"

now I had to think about that for a minute considering that I'm typing on a computer with gigabytes of stored information on my personal habits, trends and insights...some of course is carefully hidden so's not to embarass anyone and I do mean bare ass..

but seriously....this is just more of these folks hiding behind nonprofits, patting themselves on the back, trying to look important...

but if you track Joe's personal habits and trends well you might ask why they chose him for Executive Director of two overlapping nonprofits...

I don't know..but the world of nonprofits is a strange one indeed...