burning out his fuse up here alone
"A Falcon 9 rocket and dozens of satellites rumbled away from Vandenberg Space Force Base, providing an early morning wakeup alarm for holiday shoppers on a clear but especially chilly Saturday morning.
what sights I'm seeing in the December sky!
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas!!
District elections are stupid, yet the City of Carpinteria sent me a map to draw up new districts for the 2022 elections...
now, the reason I say district elections are stupid is sometimes dummies get elected who otherwise couldn't be elected..the Santa Barbara City council has one such district-elected hombre in Oscar Guttierez...Oscar was in the news recently for allegedly suggesting old and disabled folks should not be allowed to live in fire-prone areas because it's hard to evacuate them..just think, you own home in the hills and Oscar sends the Mexican Mafia over to roust you out of your house and onto the street
“ Gutierrez asked if they could enact an ordinance to prevent old, sick and disabled people from living in the SB foothills to develop more housing in high fire areas.”
not in America, amigo
Carp is too small for districts but being a good, responsible citizen, I filled out the mapping tool anyway
simple enough
fire away!!
the News-Press, Independent and even Edhat have columns with tips about keeping your dogs safe during the holidays, so I thought I'd give it a shot...
LAYERING: when you're out walking your dog in December, think about the weather! it can be cold in the morning and hot in the afternoon, so it's important to layer up..
then, strip down to the halter top and let the sun kiss your skin
When Black Friday comes
I'll be on that hill...
You know I will
hey it's Bernie Sanders, looks like he's in town for the holidays
hey Bernie!
Well lots going on and most of it doesn't even concern me...but I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving! I went to the beach and then the eucalyptus grove down the road..it's a small one but plenty of monarch butterflies, though no clusters..I guess they are headed for Goleta and Pacific Grove to roost...and now I am sick of hearing the nativists demonize eucalyptus trees...obviously the bees, butterflies and birds love the eucs and so do I...any dead tree can be removed, but no tree should be chopped down for a bogus non-native status conferred upon it by morons
South Dakota: the SD Supreme Court outlawed "recreational marijuana" but left medical pot alone and that's what California should do..maybe Gov Kristi is smarter than I gave her credit for
but it looks like smooth sailing until the New Year so let's all try to pursue happiness!!
although that's not legally enforceable
got me so blind I can't see
I was reading about the Charlie Munger/ UCSB dorm issues and I remembered that one time I met this chick at the Olive Mill Bistro bar.. I went in for a beer and enjoyed the soothing sounds of the Jock McKaba Band doing Santana songs...next thing I know I'm flirting with this Debbie gal, pretty, wholesome with nice tits...next thing I know I'm kissing her then following her to her UCSB dorm! I guess she was a student
next thing I know we're in bed, we still had our clothes on...I was trying to get into her panties as I looked out the window into the beautiful night..but she said "no"
then she says she wants to date, maybe go out a few times...I looked at her quizzically, my home run turned into a lousy single then I got up and told her not to invite strange men to her dorm because some guys aren't as nice as I am, or words to that effect..I said maybe I'd call her and she said she'd like that
but I never did.. maybe I should have..maybe we'd marry and have kids but that feeling passed like a Corvette smokin' a Prius
the moral of the story is you got to have windows
I'm looking for a hard headed woman
I've been watching Caltrans endless, horrific construction of a third lane on Highway 101...they've buried so much concrete and re-bar below the highway I wonder if there's any dirt left
but I like this chick from CT...always carries a tape measure with such care and beauty
measure twice, cut once
No one lives any nearer than town.
No one will come any nearer than that.
In the night...in the dark.
I'm surprised anyone would want to stay at Bellosguardo, aka the Clark Estate in Santa Barbara what-with the stench of dead bodies wafting through the air from the Bird Refuge.....drag it or drain it and you will find corpses I bet from hundreds of years ago to recent unsolved murders...
some say Bellosguardo means 'Beautiful Lookout' in Italian but you and I know it means Hill House
I read the stories, first in the Independent then the always-spooked News-Press about the state of the estate..the whole shebang is interesting because the place is such a mystery...copper barons and uppity daughters and art and old money, scandal, murder, insanity, suicide..what more could you ask for?
perhaps it is haunted by the ghost of Huguette... Huguette Clark was a musician, an artist and preferred speaking French... et Je parle un peu francais aussi!
but the Indie and New-Press were both griping about the goings-on at the mansion...parties, no accountability to the public being that it's a non-profit which is to say it's a scam...ex-mayor Helene's boyfriend is holed up there and it appears he's not leaving...
why should he? he's getting paid to live there and do nothing except throw parties for rich Democrats!!! if I was the caretaker I wouldn't want the public in there either, the ruddy-bummed bastards
but what I'd do for Thanksgiving at Bellosguardo after they drain the lake and build a cement pond, is invite all my family and friends and roast some ducks smothered with cherry sauce...boil some turnips and sweet potatoes and fresh creamery butter with goblets of red and white wine..and for dessert, pumpkin and blueberry pies with vanilla ice cream...then after dinner, brandy and cigars on the veranda as we watch the sunset in silence...
against the wood and stone of Hill House
Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance
nice storm last week!
but once, I headed up to Pendola hot springs one warm windy night in my old VW, the full moon shining bright...an owl flew in my window and landed between the door and my seat...startled, I pulled over, got my little green military shovel and coaxed it out...the big yellow eyes looked at me and it flew away
"Nature spoke constantly to Native Americans and they lived by its pulse and power, its cadence and dominion. The moon—the full moon—was a lyrical beacon of the natural order of things, a marker of time, and of the seasons of the year during which the First People held their big hunts, speared sturgeon, picked wild fruit, harvested corn, cached for winter, and hoped for spring. The moon, the sun, the seasons, were their clocks, the keepers of time."
I've always loved the relationship between the moon and Indigenous People...
the Cree call the October moon the Migrating Moon...
and so shall I
how high can you fly??
well, the News-Press is not known for its investigative reporting and this "analysis" is really silly as I've outlined in red...Wendy and Nipper are still waiting for Traitor Trump to be reinstated as president..well, maybe this piece by Errand-boy Eringer will help
code name: peregrine
NEWS-PRESS EXCLUSIVE/ANALYSIS: Digging deeper into Afghanistanby Robert Eringer October 3, 2021 0 comment (whoa, exclusive analysis)
Editor’s note: Department of Defense sources, who are deeply involved with continued efforts to evacuate Americans from Afghanistan, told the News-Press that the number of evacuated people is much lower than the official number released by the U.S. government. They talked exclusively to News-Press columnist Robert Eringer, but they can’t be identified because of their concerns about possible political retribution. (ie, Deep Throat)
This column contains an analysis expressed by Mr. Eringer, a longtime author with vast experience in investigative journalism. That analysis is in addition to the comments expressed by the authoritative sources. (authoritative sources like Bugs bunny?)
"The result, as we now know, was a failure of catastrophic proportions. (Excuse us if we do not use the word “non-success” — an Orwellian newspeak so fashionable among Biden administration spokespersons in the wake of a rash of policy failures.) (fake news)
“There was no orderly exit,” continued our source, “because it was all based on a fallacy along with massive political and policy miscalculations.” (huh??)
Which brings us to the real Big Lie: The U.S. government announcing that it evacuated 127,000 persons. (a take on the Big Lie by Traitor Trump)
The government did not. This was a big fat bold-faced lie, according to two authoritative military sources directly involved with evacuation efforts.
"big fat bold-faced lie"
whatever that means
Missin' the signs you should be readin' That's the things you'll later be needin' I believe in love
had I known that Kristi Noem was gonna be in town I woulda put on my conservative clothes-khaki pants, polo shirt, and brown polished sensible shoes and tried to court her
she was in Santa Barbara for Wendy's Roundtable Luncheon at the Reagan Center of Ronald Reagan...and a guy from NewsMax was with her!! I guess the Wendy has ditched FOX News at the go-to conservative TV station and I don't blame her..NewsMax is bad, but not as bad as FOX
update: well, I did see a bit of the interview with Kristi and the Newsmax guy on TV...talk about a couple of Bimbos! this was pure right-wing propaganda courtesy of Wendy and the guy was talking a mile a minute: "let's talk about the Afghanistan withdrawal, a big national embarrassment,"
then he asks the veterans in the audience to stand up, two guys get up then the Newsmax dude rushes to the Iran nuke deal and Paris Climate deal calling them silly, which of course leads Kristi to proclaim the Afghanistan withdrawal was done "on purpose" because there should have been protocols in place and she worries the vets will question their service...
Kristi may be pretty but she's awfully stupid...20 years in Afghanistan?? there is no excuse for that and of course Biden did it on purpose...
but Kristi and Newsmax bimbo didn't say anything about Reagan's Beirut withdrawal: Three-and-a-half months after the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. military personnel — and after repeatedly pledging not to do so — Reagan ordered the withdrawal ...October 1983...spooky
but make no mistake, Kristi is pro-Trump, and somewhat of a shady conservative: The Associated Press reported Monday that Noem held the meeting shortly after the state agency had moved to deny her daughter the license last year. Noem’s daughter eventually received her license four months later. Afterward, the state employee who directed the agency was allegedly pressured to retire by Noem’s cabinet secretary. The state employee, Sherry Bren, eventually received a $200,000 payment from the state to withdraw the complaint and leave her job.
I don't know but I hope she believes in love
Let me take you to the movies, can I take you to the show, let me be yours ever truly, can I make your garden grow
welcome to Fall!!!
CALTRANs has set themselves up like KINGS with a compound on Santa Claus Lane...when they leave, if they ever do, they could house hundreds of homeless folks and put them to work picking up trash and dog poo on the beach and save Mr and Mrs John Q Taxpayer some money
one thing the Democrats are good at is passing bills because that's all they do...write bills..I bet there's so many bills on the books that there's duplicates and overlaps and I demand an audit on all those bills in California...
unfortunately the recall failed and Newsom is back signing them bills
supposedly there's a housing crisis and the Dems want me to buy a house and give it to a slacker...no fucking way...they can buy their own house with all the risks and rewards that come with such an investment
the Republicans failed again but I was surprised by Larry Elder's claim that CEQA is to blame for high beach house prices and homelessness...CEQA has NOTHING to do with homelessness and was signed into law by Gov Reagan to protect the coast from irresponsible development, otherwise the Carp Salt Marsh might have been filled with concrete and unholy houses by now
in effigy
cool cat looking for a kitty
it's been a long while since I've been to Santa Barbara, still the sunny little paradise we all know and love, but putting off dental health is unwise and the hygienist cleaned my clock, man... she cleaned my clock!
it's long past time to get some sea water in the Bird Refuge because it's dying to be a marsh
and OPEN STATE STREET for Christsakes!! stop catering to hippies who don't like cars...geez, cars are part of the night time vibe downtown...esp in the Arlington neighborhood
because at night it's a different world, go out and find a girl, c'mon c'mon and dance all night
nice work on the drums there, Charlie, nice work on the drums
Conspiracy Theories
this group of nincompoops wants Joe Holland, the SB election guy to resign because of their conspiracy theories about the 2020 election...they concocted a wild one about USCB votes being cast by demons but that never panned out...most of the people crying about election fraud have no idea how the system works..the system...the sys-tem..maybe they could volunteer at a local precinct next time
and what of that punk who killed his kids? was it mental illness or a life of religious brainwashing? he had the where-with-all to drive to Mexico and act normal until he obeyed the Q'Anon crackpot commands and killed his kids...
now, the Santa Barbara City Council needs new blood or else you won't recognize the city anymore...first order of business is reverse the stupid decisions about traffic issues..the loony parking by East Beach, the herky-jerky mandates about outdoor dining, the impending death of Dwight D Murphy field resurrected as DISNEYLAND...and fire that religious kook responsible for planning all the street chaos
and now we have another drought..fires..need to get back to controlled burns otherwise Nature will do it all at once!!
water running low and STILL Calif is mandating more growth and housing for methheads that I pay for!!!
just another reason to can Newsom
I ain't no hollaback girl
so I get my GUB RECALL ballot in the mail and I'm thinking "it's rigged" or "these people hate America" or whatever
gee, do we even need a governor??
I made my choices and sealed the envelope with forensic-proof spit but then I saw the other candidates in the voter info pamphlet...there's Caitlyn Jenner- I would be nervous as hell going out to dinner with her
has a nice ring to it
if it's the last thing we ever do
America has Traitor Trump and his hillbilly insurrectionist clan, and the Q'Anon kooks...how bad can the Taliban be???
"Since invading Afghanistan in 2001, the United States has spent $2.26 trillion on the war, which includes operations in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Note that this total does not include funds that the United States government is obligated to spend on lifetime care for American veterans of this war, nor does it include future interest payments on money borrowed to fund the war."
madness
Out of nowhere / Much communication / In a motion / Without conversation / Or a notion / Avalon
most healthy people keep their religion to themselves, but this is why religious fanatics should be classified as cult members...Santa Barbara guy allegedly kills his two little kids in Mexico, with a wooden stake....sick
WTF???
UPDATE: "A California man influenced by “QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories” confessed to killing his two young children with a spearfishing gun in Mexico because they inherited “serpent DNA” from his wife and “were going to grow into monsters.”
Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, made the statements to federal investigators after being arrested at the border in the wake of Monday’s double filicide, court documents show"
The owner of a Southern California surf school has been arrested for allegedly stabbing and killing his two kids—aged 1 and 3—after taking them over the border to Mexico without telling his wife where he was going.
Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, was detained Tuesday when he attempted to re-enter the United States one day after the bodies of his children were found at a ranch near Rosarito in Baja California
Hiram Sanchez, Baja California’s attorney general, told reporters that the 3-year-old boy was stabbed 12 times. The 1-year-old girl was stabbed 17 times. A blood-stained wooden stake was found at the scene, said Sanchez.
Coleman and his wife, Abby, run the popular Lovewater Surf School in Santa Barbara. Sanchez said that concerns about Coleman’s whereabouts were raised over the weekend when Abby Coleman reported to Santa Barbara police that her husband and their two children missing.
Mexican authorities said they have video footage showing Coleman and the children checking into a Rosarito hotel on Saturday. The footage is then said to show the three leaving in the early hours of Monday, before Coleman returns alone that morning to check out.
In the time between Coleman’s appearances on the footage, a farm worker discovered the mutilated bodies of the two infants. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents were waiting for Coleman when he tried to re-enter the country at the San Ysidro checkpoint on Tuesday, and he’s now in federal custody after being arrested on suspicion of murder.
ABC7 reports that Mexican and U.S. authorities are working together to return the children’s bodies to their California home. Coleman is reportedly expected to face charges of aggravated murder in Mexico.
Just a month earlier, Coleman had celebrated the birth of the couple’s youngest child, Roxy Rain, in an Instagram post.
“While waiting for her to come, I kept feeling this sense that she was going to be born at a very pivotal time in history and that she would represent a dawn, or even awakening, to years of great blessing for our family and nation,” he wrote. “Another picture that came to me was of God reaching down into a river bed and picking up a small stone (rock), examining it intently. Just as David had done before slaying Goliath, God examined the stone and was confident that it was just the perfect one for the battle. Although it was small, smooth and somewhat harmless looking, he knew that it would become great when placed into the palm of a skilled hand. My declaration over Roxy Rain is that she has been hand picked by God to slay the giants in the land.”
POS
you make me dizzy Miss Lizzy
so I'm reading the News-Press and now I get full online access..it's the darnedest thing..sometimes I get it, sometimes I don't but as long as it's free, that's cool
but they had a story about the new News-Press legal correspondent, Lis Wiehl, who now lives in Santa Barbara
Lis used to be on FOX News and Bill O'Reilly's show...the New-Press story was a puff piece by a News-Press flunkie and din't include the juicier facts that inquiring readers want to know about.... like SEXXXXX!!! so naturally that's why I'm here to include those facts about Lis and Bill
Lis, you know the News-Press is a joke, don't you?? Wendy is a birther and a Trump groupie and Billo and Trump are pals!! well you should have done your due diligence, Lis
Lis Wiehl, the woman who received the settlement, was a Harvard law school graduate and attorney who worked as a legal analyst on O’Reilly’s show from 2001 to 2016.
32 million dollars!! for being a FOX NEWS Bimbo for fifteen years!
and why did she sign the affidavit??
tell me, where do the children play?
'Psilocybin mushrooms, as the name suggests, contain psilocybin or its derivative psilocin, which are well-known naturally occurring hallucinogenic and psychedelic agents'
but when I saw the plans they have for a playground at Dwight Murphy Field, I wondered WTF is really going on at the City...Parks and Rec chick Jill must be high on mushrooms or weed to even consider this trippy eyesore as befitting the City of Santa Barbara...
they want to rip out the grass and install astroturf!! why let kids feel and smell real dirt and grass when they can get rug burns on fake grass...
the project may be well-intended but it is ill-conceived
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
Praise the Lord, I saw the light
I see some people hiking down the street carrying backpacks and walking sticks..then a bunch more behind them, then a crowd of folks walking...some sort of religious trek honoring Saint Junipero Serra's walk along El Camino Real...a beautiful route from the SB Mission to Ventura that CALTRANS is in the process of destroying...and the cancel culture wants to kill the Saint's statues!!
a couple of guys were reciting prayers through loudspeakers..a couple of girls in cute tank top outfits...they're going to camp at St Joseph's church in Carp and sing songs around the camp fire...and vespers, too....pretty cool!
I will explore this travesty in future posts, but remember...
Straight is the gate and narrow the way
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine
Where have you been? It's alright we know where you've been
You've been in the pipeline, filling in time
so CALTRANS cuts down about 40 trees to build a concrete plant by the highway!! completely killed the vibe on Padaro Lane and Loon Point...fuck the birds and butterflies, let's pour more concrete for the hordes!!
I feel murderous
Ooh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
the osprey and the hummingbird know where it's at
awright, back to politics
and how do they expect to save America when Traitor Trump wears his pants backwards, Empty Greene thinks there's 31 days in June and Matt Gaetz little girls??
it can't be done
it cannot be done
it's the 4th of July weekend!
the jubilees.. the jamborees..the shiverees!
and the fireworks show will happen in Santa Barbara like old times but then I get this message from Senator Monique Limón telling me to be kind and not set off fireworks because it will unleash a plethora of ills on society's down-trodden....fireworks will touch off restless-leg syndrome??????
look, I've been watching fireworks since I was a kid at the Gloucester harbor waterfront to the Santa Barbara waterfront...Wendy comes along with her deification of dogs and all of a sudden they want to stop the all-American 4th of July festivities to save the dogs
now, do the Republicans have the sense to make adult decisions that matter to us? no
but if Monique keeps putting out these missives I'll vote for someone else
Santa Claus Lane is a good place to watch the fireworks but there's a new road sign there: BONFIRES AND BBQS PROHIBITED ON THE BEACH
so this 4th of July, party your hearts out, have fun at the beach, chase some grunion
and save a hot dog for me
