San Diego Serenade

shiver me timbers, I'm sailing away....

you know Wendy McCaw and Sarah Miller McCune have some things in common..money and gender...and that's about it...if Wendy ever sells, Sarah would be a likely buyer, but I think Wendy's going down with the ship...

I picked up a copy of Sarah's mag and thought it was pretty good... heads and tails above anything Wendy has ever published...it's a broad look at issues around the world versus a paper that prints the same thing day after day with the same idiots selling the same idiotic editorials: strong anti-government /anti-worker slop....

now, I saw two things that were interesting..one in the NP where a PETA lawyer is suing Sea World in san Diego on behalf of some orcas..killer whales in pens that do tricks for people..paying customers..the thinking is that animals should have civil rights like black folks, that the orcas are being subjected to slavery!!...

I swear to God, it was a bizarre read... first of all, civil pertains to citizens, not animals...so suing for civil rights for orcas is stupid...the orcas should be released and never penned for tricks of course, but PETA is barking up the wrong tree on this one..animal cruelty or abuse is against the law, yet the National Parks Service and Nature Coinservancy got away with killing thousands of animals in the name of nativism...biological nativism even though the little foxes that caused all the killing and over-reactions are inbred!!

then, in Sarah's magazine, there was a link to a thoughtful article about corporations and lawyers wanting to confer human rights upon animals and declare them "legal persons"...this whole notion is absurd and irrational...can you imagine what the courts would look like....dogs everywhere... I could be covering a trial with a dog as a defendent!!!

http://www.miller-mccune.com/legal-affairs/five-orcas-five-slaves-or-five-persons-39524/

well, let's test that theory..let's say this bullmastiff named Mikey in the video had the same equal rights as me..Mikey just got rescued from an icy river and the TV news was doing a story on him, invited him to the studio....then he goes on TV and bites this poor anchorwoman's face in front of witnesses, who pretend nothing happened...the dog's civil rights were violated by the woman because she leaned into the doggie to kiss him....maybe sexual harassment??

well,

I could be sitting there watching the dog vs the anchorwoman in a court hearing!!
your witness: Fido, did you intentionally lunge at and try to make out with Ms Wizzam?
Fido: rrrrr..grrrr..ruff ruff...
Your Honor, can you please have the witness speak English!!
but wait..Your Honor is...a dog, too!!!

and she was...

and she was lying in the grass, and she could hear the highway breathing

I was talking with a massage therapist from Self, Texas the other day and she mentioned the Susan G Komen Foundation...the Texas nonprofit dedicated to fighting breast cancer..or so we thought...it seems when it comes to women's health, things get a little fuzzy..the buzz created was a teabagger member of the Komen group pushed to stop funding for Planned Parenthood...the lady is a Christian conservative who doesn't support Planned Parenthood because of the abortion issue..

The origins of Planned Parenthood date to 1916 when Margaret Sanger, her sister and a friend opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. in Brooklyn, New York. It resulted in her being jailed. In 1938, the clinic was organized into the American Birth Control League, which became part of the only national birth control organization in the US until the 1960s, but the title was found too offensive and "against families" so the League began discussions for a new name. By 1941, the organization was operating 222 centers and had served 49,000 clients. By 1942 the League had become part of what became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

I knew a guy once who was as anti-abortion as they get..I worked with him on my shift and he'd give out bibles to us...on his days off we'd hear he'd spend time at the local Planned Parenthood over on Laguna St. I think it was, chaining himself to cars in the parking lot and lying down to protest abortions...he was a very nice guy who was very committed to his God and his religion...and also very naive...

so the Komen Foundation hired this teabagger gal and she started injecting her politics into women's health issues...and of course the conservative presidential candidates chimed right in standing behind her...Rick Santorum says if you get raped, you should have the baby!!!
then after a public wupping, Karen Handel, the chubby gal from Texas, resigned from the foundation and funding was restored to PP...

but this is part of the problem with nonprofits..when the money comes in so quick, people lose sight of the intended mission and instead of provided money for real services, they become a PAC....and this is why non-profits should not be tax-exempt...

now, I get the fervor over abortion...I would love to see them stopped but not at the expense of personal freedom...and you won't stop abortions by chaining yourself to cars, or teaching abstinence only in schools....or bombing abortion clinics...or acting stupid...

broken cisterns hold no water....

Ghost

ditto...

so Demi Moore checked into rehab because of addiction issues and an eating disorder...Demi Moore is a fine actress with....an eating disorder? well, I saw a picture of her and she looked skeletal and ghostly....the Holocaust look...

and I can't say I approve of her choices in men.....Willis and Kutcher? really, that's the best she could do...and then I hear that ex Playboy model Kym Herrin is a heroin addict???

WTF is going on here ladies??? you got the whole world in your hands and you choose this..drugs..the easy way...the self-destructive way...if you need to vent without censorship, come to Mick and start babbling away!!! my love is unconditional!! except for one condition I'll ya later...

and then I hear that David Cash, the new schools superintendent in Santa Barbara, wants to use drug-sniffing dogs to storm the junior high school and check out their lockers! instead of teaching about drugs, the dangers and stupidity of using drugs, the psycho and biological changes that happen with drug use, the "educators" use drug sniffing dogs..talk about an invasion of privacy...it's a Gestapo tactic and should not be allowed in public schools at all!!

the obvious alternative is to use the vast educational resources to teach young people about drugs..as part of biology or as a separate course...they could use our local illuminaries who have been busted recently as examples...invite them in for a Q&A....

I know it's hard to teach when the culture promotes alcohol consumption as a way of life, but all this stuff needs to be analysed and taught, in and out of the classroom, by people who aren't owned by the booze lobby...

raiding local schools with agents and dogs to look for drugs is not an answer...at all...not even close

the Bastard

don't miss a book signing with Michael Reagan at the Reagan Ranch Center on Monday..TODAY!! the book is called "I was a Teenage Bastard" because Mike doesn't know who's his real daddy just like most conserative guys!!

awright..it's a fact that Wendy owns the Young Miss America Foundation...pumping millions of dollars into the organization to keep the young people from having to work or even figure out what work is...look kids, as long as you have a benefactor like Mrs. McCuckoo, you'll grow up to be spoiled little brats who expect public workers to wait on you hand and foot!

all the public workers want is to do the jobs they are paid to do....jobs that you little muffies wouldn't even consider...no, your world will be filled with consultants and non-profits and wine tasting and all sorts of useless endeavors unless someone wakes you up and that someone may have to be me...now I saw some of you gals the last time I was at the Reagan Center on State St...oooolala...mmmmm..so innocent...s'cuse me while I kiss the sky....

five minutes go by...ok I'm back....so once again we have Wendy and the YMAF honoring Ronald Reagan..the long since dead president who for some reason they have raised to godhood...I'm sure Reagan was a pretty good guy, but all this fawning over his memory is..well I bet Patti and Ron think Wendy is nuts...

of course, the story of all this is on the front page written by Wendy's waterboy poor old Scott Steepleton..I read it and he indeed claims Sarah Palin is still governor...and he implies she's still governor of California...altho I'm sure it was Alaska she once governed..but I could be wrong since she's out sticking her tits in everyone's business...maybe she thinks she's president!! On FOX NEWS, you can be anyone you want..just say so!!

is Sarah Palin an illegitimate governor??

look Sarah didn't finish her term...she's a pageant queen...her husband Todd is a moron who endorsed Newt...Sarah works for Rupert Murdoch...and since she didn't finish her first term as governor, then she really wasn't governor...just half-governor or pretend governor..from now on anyone who quits during their first term is not a legitimate governor....

and how is this all related to Reagan??
it's not..the Reagan legacy has been hijacked by his bastard adopted son Micheal....the ruse is financed by the crackheads at the News-Press....and you youngsters thinking about becoming Miss America, I only point these things out for your own good...this summer, get a job in a restaurant washing dishes instead of washing Wendy's feet!!

rip this joint...

this sounds very dirty....

I've been busy re-wiring my little Peavey guitar that I got for 30 dollars...I was suprised at how light it is and how easy it is to play..when I got it the electronics didn't work..someone went in and soldered things like they should never be soldered...it was a mess!

so I got some new pots and switches, and kept one old pick-up...and now it sounds motherfucking dirty..it sounds like a Strat with an attitude..... I swear my fingers hurt cos I can't stop playing it...put a naked college girl and a Peavey side by side, and I'd go for the Peavey..sorry, but it sounds really good now!

time to rip this joint....

who is the gaucho, amigo?

bodacious cowboys, such as your friend, will never be welcome here...

a panga boat was found beached in Montecito..by Butterfly beach...uh, look just put 2and 2 together and you'll detemine that all those folks squeezed into that boat fled in the middle of the night for their new jobs at the Biltmore!! Ty Warner has come up with another beanie baby called "Panga" to support and raise money for his illegal workers!!

but really, without a realiable work force ( the Mexican folks) we wouldn't have a hospitality industry or an ag industry...the cooks, busboys, dishwashers, the hookers..all jobs I've done to make money and support myself..the fruit and vegetable pickers...we invited them to come work here so it's rather silly to tell them to all go back to Mexico...besides, all those thirty something white dudes who are still living with mom and dad because they don't want to work, do you think they're gonna take up the slack?? hell, they probably complain about taking out the garbage!!

rumor has it that Peter Lance tried out for a cop position at the SBPD..he was denied because even in his cowboy boots he wasn't tall enough..he didn't quite measure up...

hey look Pete..it's your nemesis SBPO Kasi Beutel doing her work as beat coordinator....I watched the recent city council meeting and the chief's update/report to the council...hey, what happened to all the chief's detractors? no one spoke at public comment!!
newest councilmember Cathy Murrillo praised Kasi for her enthusiam at a recent westside community meeting as you can see in the pic...good show!

now I've heard that Starbucks will soon be serving beer and wine with the mocha java and I figured that they are just trying to be an upscale 7/11....or they're just yuppiemuppies..but I also saw that a Christian pastor wants to boycott Starbucks! then I read on and it's not for beer and wine but for Starbuck's support of gay marriage!

then I read that Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is lawyering up for the probe into his illegal doings while working for the government a few years back..another shining rising ultra-con star for the Koch Bros, who have promised one hundred million dollars to defeat Obama in November...one hundred million...and they complain about a union member giving a measley hundred bucks to a campaign...geez....

I call that a bargain...

the best I ever had....

so Lanny Ebenstein at Wendy's orders is attacking public workers again!!

now we've seen what happens when rightwingers go after the rights of workers....in Ohio and Wisconsin the governors have been slapped for promoting their anti-public worker campaigns....

collective bargaining scares the conservatives because the work force has banded together to keep management honest....the public sector is different from the private sector, so you can't compare the salaries and benefits and say the public workers have no right to make more than the private sector..that's simply bullshit....of course they do!! if I worked for the gov't in a career that demanded I get state certification, that demanded I learn many disciplines, then I become more valuable and the money should rise with my skill levels..and there are plenty of areas where you can climb the ladder in the public sector...but public sector work is mainly service oriented, not profit motivated....that's the key difference..I want professionals running the services I pay taxes for..the water plant, the wastewater plant, the cops and firefighter, the big pipe cleaning trucks and all the work that is done in the city and county that people generally don't hear about until a water main breaks...

we do hear about the private sector alot...most private sector folks understand what's going on but there are still lots complaining about jobs...look, there's plenty of jobs if you're not afraid to get your hands dirty...but the problem is there are a few daisies who are afraid to get their hands dirty, so they run to the big money folks like Wendy McCaw....Nipper did it, and Lanny Ebenstein did it...ran right to Wendy and that's where they hide...behind her skirt! and Wendy DID NOT work for her money, she got it thru a divorce!!! naturally, these people have no work ethic....and continue to view public workers as personal servants...

so when Lanny continues to call for the end to collective bargaining for public workers and cites a study from the conservative Goldwater Institute, I just roll my eyes..here we go again...Goldwater was against labor unions and tried to tie them to communism, which really scares the conservatives! of course it's nonsense but these guys are very fearful by nature and that's why they covet money....it insulates them from the realities of life like WORKING FOR A LIVING AND PAYING A MORTGAGE...a mortage is an unfunded liability by the way!!!

now we know that conservatives in Wisconsin and Ohio tried to bust the unions and eliminate collective bargaining rights...rights that have been in place since the 1950s! and Lanny says that Wisconsin ended collective bargaining and saw immediate benefits...that's nonsense..what happened is voters in Ohio overwhelmingly restored to public employees Nov. 8 their collective bargaining rights that a conservative majority in the state tried to take away led by Gov John Kasich.... a FOX NEWS hound conservative who calls cops idiots...

and Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker ( who spoke at Wendy's Young Miss America Foundation recently) is facing a recall because of corruption and anti-public worker bias...some of his aides were doing political fundraising on taxpayer time....the anti-collective bargaining law he signed is being repealed as we speak...and over one million signatures were gathered to force a recall election....

this is all about curbing union ie working class power: but Ohioans voted to repeal a Republican-backed law that restricted collective bargaining for public workers, a victory for Democrats and labor organizers both nationally and in the state.
AP has declared Issue 2 (as the law was called on the ballot) dead. As of this writing, with about 75 percent of precincts in, repeal led by a whopping 62 to 38 percent margin.
Gov. John Kasich (R) took office in January vowing to curb unions’ power. But he appears to have overstepped his hand in curtailing the rights of 350,000 public workers — including firefighters and police officers — to negotiate over benefits, equipment and other issues.

I think it's kinda stupid to go after people who put their lives on the line everyday or work in hazardous environments to keep the cities safe....but we're talking Lanny and the News-Press here..and ironically, collective bargaining is the time to either restrict or reduce benefits that indeed are excessive....do it at the negiotiating table

and all these folks like Lanny were cheerleaders for the free market greed that caused the financial meltdown which is now in recovery mode...people have sobered up and that's why conservative governors are being recalled...the stock market today is a much healthier place with less huge swings....

it is high time to tax churches casinos non profits and all those trying to fly below the radar....sin taxes are good..booze and cigarettes continue to impact quality of life with higher insurance rates and litter and those mofo drunk drivers...they should pay their own way and stop making taxpayers subsidize their stupid vices!!!

collective bargaining has been going on for years thru good and bad financial times...it's just a political issue for conservatives...Pete Wilson tried to steal public pensions when he was govwenor, and now all the wankers like Lanny are looking at that billion dollar PERS fund as theirs..it's not theirs, it's the public workers who've been investing for their future...if you're in the private sector and you failed to plan ahead, too bad, so sad..every worker should be putting away money for their retirement in some sort of mutual fund so that after twenty years the investments pay off..and there's plenty of folks like Lanny or Arnold or Bernie Madoff who want to steal that money....so regulation of the markets/banks is important because there's just too many crooks who take your money and make risky investments..and lose it all!!!

so here's my advice to Lanny..stop sucking Nipper's dick and get a real job ...AND LEARN TO PAY YOUR MORTGAGE (S).... and stop being a slumlord!!!
and keep your Mitts off the working person's paycheck....