home for the holidays...

birddoggin'

well, Halloween is over and a much more frightening holiday is coming up: Thanksgiving! the families, the fights, the incest, the food, the feeling of impending doom, people in your house, using your bathroom, it's all very depressing but we must soldier on to preserve these traditions...even though we hate them...
Remember when Wendy first bought the News-Press, she started writing editorials telling us all to find another way of celebrating that doesn't include killing turkeys..geez, she buys a paper and then starts telling eveyone how to live their lives..bitch!! Fuck that bitch was what I said after the first assault on my freedoms..then came the nutty editorials and weird front page greetings like I give a shit what she has to say...but after eight years or so, I'm thinking maybe the bitch is right..let's leave the turkeys alone and find something else...so I thought a nice white egret would make a good dinner and I plugged me a couple who now reside in my freezer until Thanksgiving..there's plenty for everyone!!
see this red T-Bird...the driver was entering the highway in Carp ...before he entered, I spoke with him while I was getting coffee at 7/11 and he mentioned that he liked all the pretty wood chips CALTRANS put on the median...and he loved all the little native plants they put in with my tax dollars..well, he got in his hotrod, hotdogged a little and 3 seconds later spun out into the ditch...holiday stress!
ya know, the November sky is full of wonders...meteors, constellations..and the man in the moon...I took a picture of the man who looks a little like an ape but you can see his face, can't you? or am I the only one who can see these things?
　

a hospital runs through it...

an escargot's pace...

every time I go to the French Festival at Oak Park, I marvel at the cool bungalows, the beautiful French women..but in order to get to the French women, I have to pass by the always-in-construction-mode Cottage Hospital and look with disgust at how big it has become...it grows by the years, bigger and bigger, threatening to swallow this beautiful historic neighborhood...but how was Cottage allowed to get so big? Did Ty Warner build it?? Is Ty's Orange monster on Channel Drive done yet??
and why, if America is the bastion of high tech health care and high standards of living, are so many people unhealthy? so many in need of expensive services to keep them going..and more and more prescription drugs dispensed in the name of wellness?? I contend if you live a healthy and conscious life, you won't need to visit a giant hospital very often..occasionally, you'll stop by a smaller place for a little tweak here and there....but the giant Cottage, why is it here?? well....it exists to support and distort itself.. just like the News-Press!!
and lookit this beautiful French woman, then lookit all the CEOs and chairpeople!
Gretchen Milligan, Chair Edward E. Birch, PhD, Vice Chair Robert C. Nakasone, Vice Chair Jeffrey L. Kupperman,MD, SecretaryFrederick W. Gluck, Treasurer
J. Robert Andrews Margaret Baker Jon Clark Judith HopkinsonAngel Iscovich, MDCharles A. Jackson
Alex Koper II, MD Fred Lukas Robert E.M. Nourse John Romo Marshall "Chip" Turner Thomas Watson, MD
and no longer is it just a hospital, it is now called a Health Care System..and it is a non- profit, which means it profits very much from being a non-profit!!
and now, it has grown well out of proportion with the community it is supposed to serve...
2009 net revenue was 536 million dollars with a whopping 52% going to salaries and benefits!
another example of a nonprofit squeezing the citizens and intending only more power and growth...when they tore down the wonderful St. Francis Hospital, it is clear they knocked down the wrong one...

c'mon get happy...

that's why they have happy hour, you know
many people are unhappy but why? we Americans are guaranteed the right to pursue happiness...oh, but there's a catch..no guarantee you'll find it...like the bright elusive butterfly of love, happiness, to some, is also elusive...but lately happiness has been forced upon us, forced down our throats by the private sector! This culture of dog eat dog in a rat race suddenly wants us to be happy...well, maybe that's why happy boy David Cassidy was recently busted for DUI in Florida..the cops found half a bottle of whiskey in the back seat, which means the other half was sloshing around his brain! Cassidy played teeny bopper fave Keith Partridge in the 70s show the Partridge Family and now he's a Vegas attraction, in his 60s, playing a teen idol...whew, what a bummer!
then we got McDonalds...they serve meals that are full of fat and salt and to market kids' meals, they include a little toy and call it a Happy Meal...well San Francisco has recently outlawed this practice of bribing kids to eat bad food just so McDonalds can make a buck..and McDonalds has sued...the same McDonalds that told its employees "no raises unless you vote Republican"...the same McDonalds that on Milpas Street, allows the homeless to have sex in the bathrooms!! I don't eat at McDonalds anymore..they used to be ok, but the quality has dropped so low, I got sick once after eating a Big Mac...that didn't make me happy..
so the private businesses really don't want us to be happy..they create products that satisfy a feel good lust..then when we're hooked, we come back like junkies and make them rich..
and until we see the joke is on us, we won't change our behavior..you can't be happy without awareness..you can't row a boat on the sand...
so if you are sad today, don't worry about it because you'll probably be sad tomorrow, too..happiness is for suckers!!!

Beautiful Losers...

all God's chirren are beautiful!

normally, I don't hang out with losers, and there's a lot of you out there, but I will give advice ever now and then...
Abel Maldonado: dude, you gotta pay your taxes and farm fines!!
Mike Stoker: running for public office does not count as running a small business... get a clue, dude!
Loren Mason: keep away from kids!!
Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina: have sex with each other and report back to me
Bill Brown and Lanny Ebenstein: Measure S lost because you two are clowns, join a circus!!
Tom Watson: buy the Big Yellow House in Summerland and make something of yourself!!
Tony Strickland: let me have Audra for a few nights a week...
Mimi Walters: change your first name because that's why you lost..there are no Mimi's in politics...
　
lastly, I was watching Mike Self on Ernie Solomon's TV show and they were talking about the election..both said students shouldn't be allowed to vote and Mike said the voters misread Measure T- confusing the words yes and no and that they actually wanted to ban medical marijuana shops...gee, Mrs. Self, you are sooo perceptive!!
first of all, Mike, your candidates and issues lost because YOU are stupid, not the voters; and remember: "Political campaigns and elected officials have used a variety of tactics over the years to keep students from voting. There are often too few voting machines, so lines stretch for hours. Sometimes, students are falsely told that they will lose financial aid, health care or even car insurance if they vote while attending school. But the quest to promote civic engagement by college students must begin with access to the ballot box."
As a college student, you have the right to vote from the residence that you consider ‘home,’ including your campus residence." Here’s the law nationwide: Anyone can register to vote where they live.
any attempt to stop you from voting is political and discriminatory and should be reported.. Mike Self should resign immediately from the Santa Barbara City Council for advocating such discrimination and because she's a loser!!

cabin fever...

is the county encouraging sex at Lookout Park??
so I went in to Summerland Saturday to check out the open house at Lookout Park..see, they were showing what the new upscale trailer/cabin would look like...first, I checked out the park..it is an awesome, beautiful place..great natural beauty, but run down..it is clear to see it has been mismanaged and neglected...the chain link fence on the west side is ready to fall over...there's a lame attempt to fix it with rusted out posts..and over there is a fucking dog spa!!! WTF WTF WTF is that about??? and then there's a gravestone??? oh, I didn't know the park was also a cemetery! when I die, bury me in the park, that way I can keep any eye on you all!!
then I checked the native plantings that were put in over year ago on the slope..they even have their own irrigation systems, but are doing poorly...the county contracted this work out to the Channel Islands Restoration nonprofit and it was a waste of money...ironically, the area on the west end of the park is doing well with ice plant holding the hillsides together!!

if the cabin gets built, people will be having sex within earshot of picnicking families!!
so over I go to see the cabin..whoops, I thought they already installed it..nope, it is still the old ranger's trailer..I can tell ya, that ranger let the place go....geez, how about some clean up or organization..nope..just a mess..but the county had plenty of money to plant native species..I talked to the County Parks director, the same guy who spread mulch with plastic in it over the hills after the fires, and his assistant and told them to stop wasting my tax dollars trying to get rid of invasive species...they kept telling me that they may have been overdoing it, but that Eucalyptus trees by creeks are "not our friend"..I told them that was bullshit..the eucs are home to protected birds of prey and they better pray if they cut down ANY TREE for stupid reasons!! I think we need a new Parks Director...these guys..I don't know about these guys
then I spoke with a gal from the Summerland Citizens Association, who was kinda cute and taking feedback from visitors... I told her I was not in favor of putting up an upscale cabin so the county could generate a few dollars..instead they should perform the necessary maintenance on the park..hire the people who can do it instead of the ones who just let it deteriorate... maybe a park oversight committee would be a good thing to stop the wasteful irrigation and planting practices and focusing on safety and maintenance issues...this is a beautiful natural place, it's not Park Place..nor is it Sodom and Gomorrah!!!

pretty poison

another one bites the dust...

there's nothing that burns me more than people who put out poison traps to kill squirrels..they put them out in the countryside, strewn all over their big acres in the valley, just to kill squirrels...but I ask you, what harm has a squirrel done to you? remember Rocket J Squirrel..he was cool and who would want to poison him or his pal Bullwinkle??
it's disgusting how stupid people can be sometimes...well, I saw a press release from Animal Rescue Team and #69 was politley asking people in the valley not to set poison traps of D-CON because one killed a great horned owl...and if a dead squirrel was killed by poison, an owl who ate the squirrel would also die....it's called the food chain..the balance of nature..prey and predator..but now we have a bunch of nitwits in the valley who want to kill the wildlife because they fear it or because they are plain ignorant...remember DDT....what we do affects everything!!! that's why it's important to leave the outside areas alone..don't try to remake everything to fit your limited view of nature....why do you think bees and bats are disappearing..because people are interfering too much....and the ag and native-only industries use too much pesticides and remove plants that are beneficial....they don't understand dispersal and want to kill kill kill....
thankfully, smart Californians rejected prop 21, the tax to provide more parks services..but in reality, it would have provided tax money for the native-only cultists, who are not above poisoning animals, more resources to destroy habitat in the name of "restoration"...it's a scam, as we should know by now..
yes, Julia was very polite but I suggest she fire off a little righteous anger at these people..it is illegal to kill birds of prey..she's got the evidence and the property owner.... so throw the book at them!!
WTF is wrong with the valley people..old smelly conservatives that think they can kill every animal that bothers them..now I know that #69 depends on people giving her money to run her nonprofit, but it's time to get in their faces..shake your tits...use your talents and maybe save some owls and wildlife while you're at it... WE NEED WILDLIFE.....and I know Julia, half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you....

Tom Foolery...

Tom Watson and News-Press target students ..

it looks like the News-Press and Tom Watson were gunning for the Isla Vista students long before the elections began..
to wit: after many editorials expressing disdain for student voters, the N-P prints a plea to report voter fraud on Nov 2nd, and almost IMMEDIATELY on election day, the Tom Watson campaign stooges cry "fraud in Isla Vista" ... Watson sent 50 plus poll watchers?? and worse, Watson was on the news claiming IV has a history of voter problems...
it's obvious a plan was in the works and you can bet the News-Press was ready with this story ... let me introduce the evidence..see Exhibit A: one of the many editorials disparaging the student vote. next, Exhibit 2: the plea on the front page a few days before the vote to report any "perceived fraud" at polling places ...Exhibit 3: the resultant front page story/ accusation by Tom Watson of student fraud after the election...
oh I almost forgot, your Honor.. Exhibit D: Watson appears in N-P saying Capps was smearing him...
Watson inexplicably claimed the problem in IV was because students took their ballots into an enclosed patio area to vote..that was the fabricated fraud and he threatens to sue!! that's like saying if I walk into my polling place, a little church, and go into another room to vote, I'm committing fraud!!! and Josh Lynn, Watson's attorney, is defending him and saying "some fraud happened out there" ....it appears that Josh is still mad at Joyce Dudley and the county for firing him from the District Attroney's office!! hopefully, this will kill his career as a lawyer....
I find this amazing...they actually fabricated their own front page news with a lame attempt to try to intimidate students...now, the story on the front page rambles on: but then they inform us that Watson, according to his attorney Josh Lynn, will not sue anyone because he knows there's no fraud and knows he will lose because he's a loser..and Capps beat him by such a wide margin that any fraud he feared in his paranoid little head was nonexistant....do you see the waste of space these people are? Instead of admitting he's a tool for the rich, that he's a liar and a punk, Watson continues to blame students and the county gov't for his loss!! in other words, it was all a bluff by Watson and the News-Press...a cheap stunt...a fool's errand!!
Ironically, the ones who committed the most probable election day fraud were the News-Press and Watson..the very fraud they wanted you to report to them at 564-5273!! HA HA HA ..dumbasses!
I find it hard to believe that Tom Watson served with distinction in our military...I find it very easy to believe his military father pulled a lot of strings for him....one thing is certain, Watson, Wendy, Nipper and Scott are whip-dicks...that's irrefutable..