dust...

Watson to voters: fuck you non patriot dumbasses who didn't vote for me!! hey right back at ya, Tommy
geez, some people are too thick I guess to understand California, including Watson..the dude is a crybaby. He complained about his election loss, in where else, the News-Press. He listed all the Teabagger complaints about small businesses and pensions for public employees..
all the while ignoring the tax loopholes for the corporations, corporate welfare, and a litany of sky-is-falling political jibberish...all from a guy who tried to intimidate student voters and who lied about taking gov't subsidies and who gets a military pension!!
ok, so are small business leaving California as Watson claims? Here's his take: small business doesn't have a voice at the table, instead, it is on the menu.....he said that, not me... again with the big bad government stuff..well, I went to a small business, 7/11, to get a paper and coffee Sunday morn..I checked out Carp and all storefronts are filled with small businesses...These are folks who work everyday to provide goods for us and make a profit if they are successful..they are not crying and holding up the white flag of surrender...they are business people..and there are business cycles..some fail and some succeed..there are no guarantees..that's life...
California has 3,320,977 small businesses, according to the most current federal data available....some will leave. some will stay...and they will continue to offer economic opportunity to diverse groups of people, from ag and food service, to real estate and scientific..so all this harping about business leaving California is a bunch of selective cherry picking and padded numbers..the dot.com bubble burst because people got greedy, not because of gov't regulation!!
and then there are gov't workers who aren't interested so much in profits, but providing essential services like water, sewer, cops and fire...that takes professionals who are career minded..they have been doing these jobs forever and have been retiring with pensions, so it's not an issue all of a sudden unless you happen to be conservative...connies have been trying to raid pensions forever..what they should be doing is investing a portion of their employees pay into a retirement account like PERS...of course, they would have to work to keep Wall Street honest, but it would benefit everyone..if you don't have any savings and you are in your 40s or 50s.... that's your own fault..PERIOD!
now, California is not a poor state but does have a deficit and budget problems...just like America..just like all those teabaggers and cons who voted for Bush and Arnold TWICE!! If the alternative candidates had won, we wouldn't be a debtor nation..ahh, but we gotta have wars and salute all those soldiers every five minutes who get sent off to fight, come back maimed, and are handed trinkets by the very people who sent them!!
America has gotten stupid in the last eight years.... ignoring the Wall Street fraud, pretending we are a capitalist nation while owing 800 billion to a trillion dollars to China...capitalism doesn't mean spending ourselves into debt...capitalism, if done right, should mean freedom!!! the only way to make us smarter is start adding "smart dust" to jet contrails....that way everyone will benefit...
we all need to be dusted!!

if elected officials are owned by corporations, they won't raise necessary taxes on those corps; if non-profits are allowed to collect billions and avoid income and property taxes, then we will continue to have budget issues;
and if guys like Tom Watson continue crying, California will have to start a day care center for conservatives who can't cut it in the real world...

doggone...

you know, Nancy Pelosi looks like she's always got a dog humping her leg!!
well, hmmm, how about a story about raccoons and dogs..now, I like dogs just fine, especially wild canines like coyotes who can take care of themselves, what I don't like is people who treat their dog pets like something other than what they are...we've seen the pathetic dog spa at Lookout Park in Summerland, the gourmet dog food with real meat and no filler, the pampering..all this is simply to fill a deep emotional void in the owner and is not healthy for the dog..if elected I will outlaw (or outsource if cheaper) this behavior and fine you if you treat you dog better than, say, you would treat me...in the meantime, I think I found a way to control your critters...raccoon gangs!
　
There's a story out of Alameda County near San Francisco:
Alameda struggles to contain street gangs — of raccoons
　
Reporting from Alameda — Rachel Campos de Ivanov was walking her dog last Sunday night when she saw two eyes glowing in the darkness. Her border terrier barked furiously. The eyes came closer, and she discerned a masked furry critter.She turned away and her pursuer, a raccoon, charged. Then four other raccoons dropped from the trees and joined the chase."I was running as fast as I could and screaming at the top of my lungs, 'Help! Help! Help!' " said the East Bay resident. "I ran about a third of a block, then tripped and fell on the ground."

"The problem is there is more wildlife in the cities than in the country because there is more food here," said David Gould, a vector control officer who has worked in Alameda for 20 years. He said all of the attacks involved people with dogs, and the dogs probably incited the raccoons. Raccoon attacks on humans remain unusual, but people can get mauled when they feed the animals or intervene in fights with dogs, officials said. Raccoons also have been known to get dogs into swimming pools and drown them."They grab them by the head and hold them under water," said Gary Beeman, a Northern California wildlife biologist who owns a pest control company, consults with the federal government and has trapped hundreds of raccoons. "Not just little dogs — Labrador size."
well, I didn't know that raccoons could actually drown your dogs, but now I do and you've been warned...

cracked...

New-Press cracks case of why conservatives lost in California...
we're running out of white people!! Crackers!!

wow, I had to read the N-P editorial a few times because I couldn't believe it the first reading..it was so full of racist cliches that explained to us why the conservatives lost so badly in California..
or it tried to explain, but just kept dredging up nonsense statistics to support nonsense conclusions...according to the News-Press, Meg Whitman would have lost by only 5.5% but for the Latino vote, which increased the loss margin to 13%! In politics, it doesn't matter how much you lose by..if you lose, you lose...it doesn't mean you are a winner just because you lost by X number of votes..the point is Meg lost and blew 140 million dollars in the process!
and Latinos are more likely to work in the private sector as independent contractors, so they should vote Republican who favor small businesses...
look, the the real reason the conservatives lost in California is most of them were proven to be colossal hypocrites, from Whitman to Watson....we have a higher standard here and the voters will take no more bullshit..
the N-P can dance around it all day long, but if you surround yourself with stupid people, you won't learn anything..you need to get some smarter folks in there to tell the cons what they don't want to hear...the teabaggers are a fad, and the GOP is dying..
when I lose, I admit I got beat by a better person..now of course that's never happened, but if it ever did, I would be humbled and contrite and learn from my superior, who of course doesn't exist..but if they did...
so anyway, the N-P is a shining example of ignorance leading the stupid....if you work for FOX NEWS or the News-Press, you've sold your soul to the devil and will never learn anything because those folks live in a bubble provided by very wealthy owners...and it is very unhealthy to be so insulated!! while crackers Wendy and Rupert may have more dollars than I, they certainly don't have more sense!! (get it???)

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!!