Miss America..

do you remember the Americans, where did they go....

apparently, the only people who are still under Wendy McCuckoo's money spell are the Young Miss America Foundation..a non-profit to which Wendy gives huge amounts of cash...a sugar momma of sorts...none of the cash was earned by Wendy, instead she got it thru a divorce..and this is young conservartive ideal..get money from rich people so they don't have to work or get their hands dirty so they can prance around looking pretty...while the real men and women are taking care of business, the little pampered Young Miss Americans are being tightly controlled by their rich handlers....and they have created a simple-minded Ronald Reagan myth that they wholeheartedly believe in, and they celebrate Reagan as the second coming of Christ...and Young Miss Americans are all profoundly religious like little zombies who think Jesus gives them stuff if they just pray...this partnership with Wendy is one of the oddest pairings I've ever seen...it's all show and no substance....like a beauty contest...but with Wendy's financial backing, the show will continue...and that's not a bad thing...I get material and they get exposed as the phonies they are....smoke and mirrors..

first of all Reagan did not end the cold war or communism...in Russia, it was alrweady on the way out..it was a 1950's thing...ever see Dr. Strangelove??

The reason given is that Reagan’s willingness to increase military spending by a third created serious economic problems for the Soviet Union. It is indeed true that the Soviet’s attempt to keep up with American spending did have economic repercussions. This is especially true in the United States and by the time Reagan left office the company had a national debt of $3 trillion. This has had a long-term impact on the American economy (although it did wonders for Reagan’s political backers – the American arms industry).

If the Cold War was just about the arms race we would have seen a dramatic fall in American arms spending since the fall of communism. However, this has not happened, the Military-Industrial Index still manages to persuade American governments to spend increasing sums of money on the latest weapons of mass destruction. Whenever the American public start to question this strategy they find an excuse to use up some of these weapons.

If Reagan’s anti-communist policies were so powerful, why did it not bring an end to communism in other countries such as China, Cuba and North Korea. It seems that he needed the support of someone who was actually making decisions in the Soviet Union to make it possible. That man was Mikhail Gorbachev. The end of what had become known as the Cold War started when Gorbachev announced he would no longer interfere in the domestic policies of other countries in Eastern Europe. This was reinforced in 1989 by withdrawing Soviet forces from Afghanistan..the Young Miss American Foundation should invite Mikhail Gorbachev to speak!!

now, this coming Friday, Wendy's Reagan Ranch Center on lower State St will welcome Sarah Palin as keynote speaker...no point in refudiating her..she's a star and even I like her a little bit..so I will try to shoot her...with my camera..you know, shoot a picture... a picture of her unless she's too well protected by her handlers... and Dick Cheney, the guy who helped get us to trillions in debt and wars without end, will speak Saturday...rewarding incompetence is what these folks are all about...just like the News-Press....

no sugar tonight...

Cause it’s the new Mother Nature taking over
It’s the new Splendid lady come to call
It’s the new Mother Nature taking over
She’s gettin’ us all

so I went over to Kevin's place to congratulate him on giving the award to our pal Annie Bening, who was running around naked at his spread by the beach!! we had a brew then I split... didn't want to be a third wheel, you know...

I'm riding around when I see some commotion on the Bluffs in Carp...I park it and get my camera and go check it out...just some kids and old dudes from the Rotary Club planting natives....I shoot some pictures and some guy says who am I taking pictures for..I said myself..you gotta problem with that??

then I raised my voice and said kids, don't these old dudes fool you, weeds are important in nature and restorations are a scam...everybody just looked down and kept working...I said, don't kill all the weeds and stop teaching these kids plant intolerance...they all just ignored me...I said: hey I'm Mick Von Caw famous blogger and naturalist and Kevin Costner's friend..they kept working like I wasn't there..well, maybe I'm not as famous as I think..so I left them to plant the little seedlings which have their own little irrigation system..but the plants will eventually die because nature may not allow them to thrive... just because something is native doesn't mean it will survive...

and Rotary Clubs! these weird clubs and non-profit fraternal organizations..I dunno.. I'll get into them another time, but I don't like them..not one little bit!!
damn, so Carpinteria is in the red now and the City Council wants feedback..is there anything the city is doing that is unnecessary, they ask..well yeah..stop restoring the heck outta everything..geez...is it necessary to provide plants in a wild setting with their own irrigation system? stop wasting money!! how much tax money has the city doled out to non-profits, especially Peoples' Self Help Housing, who are now hitting up Santa Barbara for millions!! PSHH is worth over 50 million dollars!! what about the 8th Street Bridge..why was it over-engineered and over- priced?? where has common sense gone?? whatever happened to preventive maintenance??

whose idea was it to cut down five trees and erect an Indian park inside the State Park...a stupid idea indeed..and why isn't the city stopping the absurd removal of ice plant at the beach? do you want sand blown everywhere into the town streets? ice plant provides excellent ground coverage and bees love it..reason enough to leave it alone!! there, Carpinteria City Council..chew on that for awhile....

the Teachings of Don Juan...

a separate reality

after seeing Ernie Salomon's funny interview with self-proclaimed News-Press Editor Don Katich, I was interested in why this guy Katich looks so..um...ill at ease or nervous all the time...and why the News-Press seems to focus on three things: bulbouts, homeless, and the Reagan Ranch Center..

so I began my search for info since he is a public figger now thanks to Nipper and Wendy.. I'm checking out the web...I checked Craig Smith's Blog..he's usually up on the News-Press doings..at least he was at one time...wow..no News-Press stuff for months! hmmm, I wonder why...I'll have to think about that for a spell..hmmmm

whoa..here's something... Katich used to sell real estate after his job at KEYT expired.. Don Katich, Real Estate Agent, Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation... after the real estate gig, he went to work for the News-Press...hmmm.....what was the nexus from real estate to the News-Press? real estate~News-Press..if I was selling real estate why would I go to work for the News-Press..is it because I wasn't doing a very good job selling real estate?? or I was running out of money?? why did Wendy hire Don Katich? is it because when you run the name together, it sounds like donkey? donka-tich...and Wendy's likes her pet donkeys!

and why hasn't Craig Smith written anything about the News-Press for months?? did Wendy pay him off? why him..why not me!! godddamit Wendy, I like money too!! and what's Barry Cappello up to?? and who is Albany Irwin? an escort??

Client comments about Albany Irvin

"As a producer of over 50 telethons, hundreds of public events and thousands of commercials, few talent have had the poise, presence and pizzazz that I witnessed with Albany. She is quick on her feet, takes direction, unflappable and a joy to work with." (she fucks good!)
- Don Katich, producer MDA Telethon

I want some answers!!

I suppose I could call these folks and find out but it's more fun for me to speculate...somewhere in the middle the truth will fall...the verdict will fall...Truth. That's what verdict means. It's a word that comes down from old England, and all our little ol' ancestors ...

celluloid heroes....

success walks hand in hand with failure, along Doggywood Boulevard....

I had a dental appointment in Santa Barbara (Doggywood) yesterday..the first day of the Film Festival...I got anxious because Santa Barbara is so celebrity conscious now....I asked myself should I dress up just to go to the dentist..what would others think of me if I didn't ? then I said no way, it's hiking boots, shorts and a turtleneck..if those Hollywood Reporters don't like, it they can kiss my ass!! and by the way, I was not attacked by one homeless person!!

so after the appointment with the drillmaster, I checked out the festival..it hasn't even started yet but look..there's the famous Arlington marquee! and over there, a woman walking her dog..and there.... a guy walking his dog...whew, he stunk of perfume or maybe his dog did or maybe his dog was his bitch?? I wouldn't be a bit surprised with all these new fluffy people walking up and down the sidewalks...pampered by over protective parents and now they can't even bare to look at a bum sitting on a bench! and Dale Francisco is their spokesman!! oh no, the dog just lifted his leg and peed!! Santa Barbara doesn't have a homeless problem, it has a dog problem!!! well, being that the festival starts in a few hours, there's still time for me to enter my mini-documentary...called "Benches"....

Benches.. a short still film by Mick Von Caw

the 50,000 dollar question is how to turn around a bench in Santa Barbara for less than $50000...can it be done? assuming you're serious about spinning benches, yes it can be done..the advantages of having benches face the other way are many..first, you get a fresh perspective..instead of looking at a building, you can now look at a hedge unless the hedge gets shaved down with a new ordinance...a spun bench offers tourists an invisible safety barrier against bench dwellers...so all you got to do is follow my directions...first, notice that the bench has four legs, each attached to the concrete base with nuts and bolts...one bolt per leg...next all you gotta do is loosen and remove the nuts with a 1/2 inch wrench...1 bolt per leg times 4 legs = 4 nuts ...keep them in a little jar or container so you don't lose them..then you can lift the bench off the bolts and turn it around (get a homeless dude to help you) and place it back on the same bolts! then put the nuts back on and fasten them with the wrench..you're done..it took about 15 minutes to turn the bench around...you could charge the city about $500 and save them a bundle!

the end...

the wasteland of the free...

Living in the wasteland of the free
where the poor have now become the enemy
Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
Living in the wasteland of the free ...Iris Dement

a few years ago I saw Frank Hotchkiss stumble out of an old black Porsche that was missing its front license..he went into Winchell's donut shop on Milpas..his eyes were bloodshot and his bulbous nose was even more bulbous than usual..then he got elected to Santa Barbara City Council..Frank got my attention when he said he wanted to get rid of all the homeless people in Santa Barbara...the conservatives on the Council, Dale Francisco, Frank Hotchkiss and the new guy Randy "Ronald McDonald" Rouse all want to get rid of the homeless..now, Rouse will do whatever Dale wants him to do...so it appears he's found a daddy on the council to help guide him....how sweet...but the conservatives on the council are speaking out of their asses on this issue..making things up, coming up with stupid ideas...they say they don't have enough data on the homeless population in town, so they don't believe the claims that some down -and -outers are local, or veterans..check the intake census of the shelters dumbasses!!!

but, Dale claims that many homeless take advantage of Santa Barbara and the system..he knows because he's seen it..then, he doesn't provide any evidence!

and Frank Hotchkiss, an obviously heavy drinker, says that not all towns in California have homeless people..that Santa Barbara is one of the few because of the services provided, like the shelter by the tracks on lower Milpas...now, this brings me to the Milpas Association.. a group of conservatives who banded together to try to end the homeless in their area..to end the crime in the area....ok, not a bad idea...but things are a bit muddled with these people..their bias against the homeless is evident..extreme prejudice...their mouthpiece is Alan Bleeker, who owns a harware store and appears to be a dufus...now I want some statistics from these people: verifiable proof that the homeless are hurting their businesses...that illegal activity is being ignored by the cops...if that's the case, fire Chief Sanchez and get a competent officer in there..
the last time looked, being homeless wasn't a crime, being poor wasn't a crime and panhandling wasn't a crime....but harrassment of a class of people by the city certainly may be a crime..

quick..see that chick on the beach....somebody check her status..is she a resident..is it legal to play volleyball on the beach with her tits flopping around and her ass enticing me..somebody on the council..help!!!

more on the Milpas Association later..meanwhile, I am boycotting Bleeker's business, Capital Hardware, altho I've never ever shopped there..and I never will....I'll have more on the Arayan Nazi influence on Milpas businesses..and more on the Milpas Association in the future, Meine Freunde...

still crazy after all these years...

"we should discriminate against the homeless and put them in insane asylums..that would be the intelligent approach"..Dale Francisco- Santa Barbara City Council

so I was watching the city council meeting and caregivers were trying to get support for a small housing unit for treating homeless folks..and there was Dale Francisco, lecturing everyone on the problem of the homeless and its root causes..according to Dale, Santa Barbara's homeless issue began in the 1960s and the ACLU giving too many civil rights to the mental patients...that's it..that was his argument...the 1960s and the ACLU are to blame..if it weren't for that decade and the ACLU, we could just round up the homeless and send them to insane asylums! that's we he said! what a fucking idiot..Dale you are one ignorant dumbass sonofabitch! history is full of horror stories about how the mentally ill were treated..like you would treat them..like a Nazi would treat them....let's take a walk down Memory Lane, shall we?

death, illness and tragedy have long permeated the history of American insane asylums. Beginning in the late 18th century buildings that housed the criminally and mentally insane swept the country like a plague. Now, all but lost to history, is the brutality of these istitutions. Torture and abuse all but flowed freely and time has yet to erase the multitude of horror that was brought down upon each surving soul... the 1960s and the ACLU didn't cause homelessness...just check the history!!

1946: Mental Health Act of 1946

. Provided funding for research into causes, prevention and treatment of mental illness. It also led to establishment in 1949 of the National Institute of Mental Health and provided for Federal investigation of mental hospitals. Investigators found apathy, neglect, and custodial care. Late 1940's--Early 1950's: Exposés of hospital conditions produced a widespread public and professional demand first for reform and then for dismantling of state hospitals. 1949: The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a new component of the Public Health Service's National Institute of Health, came into existence. 1949: The New York State Mental Health Commission was formed. 1949: The State mental health system included 27 facilities, and the state's inpatient census was the largest in the nation. WWII - 1950s Hospital construction during the War halted in New York State, and a significant number of state hospital staff entered the armed forces.

here's a look at one asylum....circa 1800s...and Dale, what you really fear is the shadow of the homeless staring at back at you...if you're solution is to rearrange benches on State St or round up the undesirables and lock them away, then you're part of the problem, not the solution..and the problem is mental illness...ignorance such as yours is a type of mental illlness...shall we come and get you, too?

The Ridges- Athens, Ohio

Facts

The Ridges, also known as the Athens Mental Health Center, is located in Athens, Ohio. Originally monikered the Athens Asylum for the Criminally Insane, this massive institution first opened its door on January 9, 1874, 135 years ago. The State and Federal Government had purchased over 1,000 acres of land from the Coates, a family whos farm had previously occupied the land.The main building, enormous in structure, was designed around the idea that it was therapuetic for patients to be housed in a facility that resembled a home. Asylums at this time were more often than not a facade of mental abuse and torture. The Ridges was a first of its kind, an asylum where bleeding, freezing,and kicks to the head were not thought of as ways to "shock" the illness out of the brain. The less disturbed patients were housed closer to the center where the administrative offices and employee housing were. The violent patients were housed at the far end of the wings away from employee housing and convenient exit and entries. The bulding housed over 200 patients until over crowding ensued in the early 1900's. The patient count then rose to nearly 2,000 patients in a building with only 544 rooms. The increase in popularity lead to the decline of patient treatment. Once unique in its mental practices, The Ridges fell prone to old time customs. Eventually, The Ridges reverted to hostile patient care including physicall abuse, water treament, shock therapy, and lobotomies. Athens families sent their relatives to the Asylum for care. An average of two to three Athens residents were committed to the Asylum each year. The institution was a community resource for the elderly with dementia, for those suffering from depression, for those with drug and alcohol addictions, and for those likely to harm others or themselves. It was also a resource for families wishing to rid themselves of troublesome family members, especially women, and the Asylum accepted persons who were problematic to the community, such as homeless men ("tramps") and persons with epilepsy. Asylums have invariably met community needs for social control, and Athens was no different. For example, in the Athens area, nineteenth century home of the United Mine Workers, sheriff and judge worked to commit to the Asylum a newcomer from West Virginia because of his preoccupation with establishing a labor union (Athens Mental Health Center Patient Records: Male #1945).

By 1993 the Athens Asylum for the Criminally Insane bused its last patients out and closed its doors for good.

psychologists work everyday helping mentally ill people get back to some semblance of a normal life... real psychologists, not quacks like Dr. Laura...the ones in community based programs...that model has replaced the institutions..so you better get used to it and stop trying to sweep the issue under the rug..it doesn't matter if you spin the benches around on State St..or paint them blue... the homeless have been here forever..and will never leave...ever...

the snake pit...

starring Olivia de Havilland and Julia Di Sieno (#69)

so I'm reading EDHAT and I see a little thing by #69, Julia De Sieno, of the Animal Rescue Team...you know the ones who go out and rescue wild critters to death..unless you're a snake, then they just kill you!! well, apparently, #69 is darker than I originally thought...

By Julia DiSieno

A good friend of mine was out hiking today about 10 miles past Nira camp grounds, when she came across this VERY large rattlesnake that was about to strike. Sadly the snake was destroyed, and all 11 rattles were removed. Hikers with dogs need to be very aware during this unusual weather pattern which has drawn the snakes out.

so, her friends were out hiking in the wilds with their dogs (STUPID!!) when they encountered a rattlesnake..the facts get muddy but it appears the snake was killed and de-rattled by the hikers! the funny part is when Edhatters criticized Julia's friend for killing the snake, #69 tried to spin the story..."it was already dead" ..."someone else killed it"

well, no problems with killing for survival, but killing out of fear and ignorance is pathetic..rattlesnakes are very important in the eco-cycle..generally they will warn you by rattling..so you just should move away and let them alone..don't harrass them because you're afraid they might bite your stupid dog!! DOMESTIC DOGS SHOULD BE OUTLAWED IN HIKING AREAS!! or get your dog a rattlesnake vacccine and booster if you go on hikes with it..

With many snakes, the first human reaction may be to kill them... and just because Fish and Game says it's ok to kill, it doesn't make it right.... But it is important to remember that all snakes play an important role in the ecosystem. Some may eat insects, others like the massasauga consider rodents a delicacy and help control their population. Snakes are also a part of a larger food web and can provide food to eagles, herons, and several mammals.

so Julia, you're a very bad girl and I'm very, very very very very very very very disappointed in you..you and your friends can't go running around in the bush killing animals you don't like!! you need to be disciplined! how about a spanking... 11 spanks... one for each rattle you pulled off...you may fool some Edhatters, but you don't fool me!

spill the wine...

dig that skinny alcoholic botoxed girl!

wine tasting....ladies did you know you're not supposed to swallow at wine tastings? you're supposed to spit it out! bunch of pussies! really, they have a little spittoon for you and I have one by my bed too just in case! I found this out because one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills visited the Summerland Winery Boutique and was flabberghasted that she had to spit the wine out..she said it went against every instinct she had... here's a picture of the obnoxious winery in Summerland..

War on Homeless..the conservatives have abandoned the war of terror and are focusing on the homeless in Santa Barbara...ok, I was waiting and watching for the big shift on city council with Dale and Mike and Frank and Ronald McDonald..but the only difference I see is they too will waste money ($50000) as long as it's for a good cause..like re-arranging the sidewalk benches on State Street to try to trick the homeless into sitting somewhere else...I swear to God, the business people on the State Street corridor have gone crazy..the Downtown Org and the nutty Redevelopment Agency are completely bonkers....how many sidewalk variations have they tried? how many wasteful projects have they tried..and still we got money problems...and they think playing games with the streetwise homeless folks will benefit who?? how sterile do they want Santa Barbara..shall we all wear lab coats?? We need to support Governor Brown as he tries to reel in these unnecessary agencies....

Glorifying Reagan..Essentially, Reagan switched the federal government from what he critically called a "tax and spend" policy to a "borrow and spend" policy, where the government continued its heavy spending but used borrowed money instead of tax revenue to pay the bills. The results were catastrophic. Although it had taken this nation more than 200 years to accumulate the first $1 trillion of national debt, during the 12 years of the Reagan-Bush administrations, that debt quadrupled to $4 trillion!

Ron Reagan Jr had it right when he said President Reagan was probably suffering from Alzheimers, or the beginning of it, while in office..Mike Reagan the bastard adopted son of Reagan was all over Ron for that, but we know who the President was really embarrassed by, don't we... so the News-Press is having more wet dreams about Reagan because Wendy owns the Ranch Center on lower State Street! all Republicans are frothing over the 100 birthday of the Gipper who is dead I'll remind them..poor guy, leave him in peace...after all he was the main reason the US economy finally collapsed causing the taxpayers to bail out private industries practicing Reaganomics!!

again... Ronald Reagan is dead...as a doornail....

birds of a feather..

die together...if your town doesn't look quite the way you think it should, it's because community development has run amuck...

Governor Brown is on the right track by going after waste in government like redevelopment agencies..and there's a few more he could rein in...I support agriculture but the Dept of Ag is outta control..one of the most wasteful and useless agencies, using tax money to poison the landscape...to get rid of species for no good reason except fear and ignorance....they've been doing their handiwork in Carp and now I hear the US Dept of Ag is admitting they poisoned thousands of birds in South Dakota because a farmer complained they were pooping on his animal feed!

in Carpinteria, the 8th Street Bridge is a perfect example..when local government agencies conspired to replace a classic old foot bridge in Carpinteria..the 8th Street Bridge...they over-spent, over-built, and over-killed the creek beneath...

WORLD PREMIERE

THE 8th STREET BRIDGE

Santa Barbara International Film Festival 805-963-0023

SB Short Docs Program #2

Feb 4th (Fri) 2:00pm Metro 4 Theatre IV

Feb 5th (Sat) 1:00pm SB Museum of Art

and the EPA has been using pesticides toxic to bees... Colorado beekeeper Tom Theobald never expected to become embroiled in a controversy between the EPA and the pesticide industry. But that's exactly what happened when Theobald got hold of an EPA document revealing that the agency is allowing the widespread use of a bee-toxic pesticide, in spite of warnings from EPA scientists. So how did Theobald end up with such a contentious document?
Bayer, the corporation behind clothianidin (the pesticide in question), published a life cycle study about it in 2006 at the EPA's request. The study was flawed--test and control fields were, for example, planted as close as 968 feet apart. But the EPA continued to allow the use of clothianidin, which has been on the market since 2003 for use on corn, canola, soy, sugar beets, sunflowers, and wheat (and which has been banned by Germany, France, Italy, and Slovenia for its toxic effects on bees, birds, and other species).

what usually happens is the gov't give tax money to non- profits who then go out and poison the land to get rid of unwanted critters and plants...and we sit there with our thumbs up our asses and let it happen!! why??

is that all there is?

I wish all the poor little victims crying about how life has mistreated them would shut up.... except for Peggy Lee..the only real victim ever..she deserves our love and pity....

awwwww man....I hardly know where to start with these people..I was hoping things would die down so I could go hunting caribou in Alaska, but all these stories keep popping into the radar..I can't just ignore them, can I? no! bloggers are supposed to blog so, after all the chores were done yesterday, I continue now.....

Meg Whitman has joined the board of HP, one of the most corrupt tech companies in the Silicon Valley..and

"sources say Whitman in the last months has sought a detailed explanation regarding what went wrong in her resounding defeat by Brown ... As one of America's wealthiest women, several in the know suggest she aims to emerge again with a message and a profile on the California politics scene. And fairly soon." you lost because you're a phony...go away, Meg!!

I remember when I was a very little girl, our house caught on fire.
I'll never forget the look on my father's face as he gathered me up
in his arms and raced through the burning building out to the pavement.
I stood there shivering in my pajamas and watched the whole world go up in flames.
And when it was all over I said to myself, "Is that all there is to a fire?"

next, we see that I'm not the only one who thinks Dr.Laura is playing up the victim act to sell her latest book "How to Survive a Shark Attack on Land"...a book about all the people who've betrayed her poor l'il ass....geez, these people I'm dealing with!!

Caller: Dr. Laura Is Lying About Me

January 21, 2011 2:25 pm ET - by Sarah Pavlus

Nita "Jade" Hanson -- the Colorado woman who called Dr. Laura for relationship advice in August and instead found herself on the

receiving end of a racial rant

in which Dr. Laura used the 'n' word 11 times -- says that Dr. Laura has been lying about Hanson on national television in an effort to rehabilitate her own image as she promotes her new book. Hanson, who is African American, told Media Matters she was alarmed when she saw Dr. Laura on NBC's Today and Fox News' Hannity earlier this week claiming that Hanson "called the NAACP" and told them Dr. Laura "called her" the 'n' word on the air.

Audio of the controversial call, obtained by Media Matters in August, shows Dr. Laura did not "call" Hanson the 'n' word on the air -- but both Hanson and the NAACP say Hanson never claimed she did...

National Enquirer is reporting that Todd "the Rod" Palin cheated on Sarah with a female massage therapist who was "busted for prostitution." An anonymous e-mail tipper suggested that Todd's affair with 36-year-old massage therapist and computer technologist Shailey Tripp led to her arrest in March 2010. "According to the tenants in the building of her offices, they saw Todd come and go often and heard noises that sounded like someone was having sex. It was the same tenants who called the police on her," the source said ....

I know what you must be saying to yourselves.
If that's the way she feels about it why doesn't she just end it all?
Oh, no. Not me. I'm in no hurry for that final disappointment.
For I know just as well as I'm standing here talking to you,
when that final moment comes and I'm breathing my lst breath, I'll be saying to myself,

Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is

sorry Peg, but yes, that's all there is....

Joan of Arc...

"they can go fuck themselves!"..Joan Rivers tells FOX News....

oh, thank goodness for Joan Rivers..back in the old days she was blazing a trail for women to stand up in front of an audience and tell it like it is...tell it funny, crude, truthful, just tell it....Joan was way ahead of her time and finally the world caught up with her...and she's still at it!!

FOX canceled Joan's appearance on a morning show because Joan said critics were right to blame Sarah Palin for the Tuscon massacre...she criticized Palin, who works for FOX, so they censored her!! and she tells them to go fuck themselves..YOU TOO NEWS-PRESS!!! everybody say it: NEWS-PRESS, GO FUCK YOURSELVES!!!

now here's an interesting parallel between FOX owner Rupert Murdoch and News-Press owner Wendy McCuckoo..both supreme hypocrites who try to control their environments with money..Dr. Laura used to write page 2 columns for the News-Press. When another columnist at the N-P criticized Dr. Laura : I take this from a reader's comments:

in 2006, she Dr. Laura complained about a fellow columnist's reference to her having "cojones." The N-P ran an apology in which it accused the other columnist -- a licensed psychologist -- of an "inappropriate personal attack." the columnist, a real psychologist and editor were fired or quit....

Dr. Laura and Wendy always cry about their free speech rights, but anyone says anything they don't like, they complain and try to control it by unleashing a big PR campaign! Now, Dr. Laura is still smarting from her pathetic treatment of caller who wanted her help..Dr. Laura berated and belittled the listener, who happened to be black, and then launched into a tirade of racial epiteths like her son did in the Army....the press seized on the moment to point out Dr. Laura's quackiness, and what does she do.. she cries about it..and she hasn't stopped crying and blaming everybody else..this time she blames CNN..instead of running to Wendy, Dr. Laura ran to Rupert and cried to Hannity about her poor little victimhood....of course, Dr. Laura will keep up this behavior until her book is published soon..a book about being betrayed!! It's all to try to sell books...

Dr. Laura lost her radio show ..lost her identity....so now she's flailing around a like a fish out of water....she's an old hack, a has-been, a never-was, a fraud, a quack..so what does she want, an Emmy award???

a little bit of soul...

will wash away the tears....

ya know, soul sister #1 Dr. Laura was strangely silent on the Tucson massacre, perhaps feeling pangs of guilt for her son's crazed gun metaphors in the miltary, or perhaps for supporting Sarah Palin...but she did have a blog entry yesterday...apparently Dr. Laura was unaware Americans have been celebrating the MLK holiday for 25 years! Dr. Laura, did you bathe Deryk?? is that why he put a gun in his mouth and snapped a picture and put it on his blog while in the Army? you must be sooo proud!

Dr. Laura says:

Yesterday was my birthday.

Saturday, January 15 was Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, which we now celebrate today as a federal holiday. I’d like to honor Dr. King and share with you some of his more personal observations and advice on how to have a better life.

From September, 1957 to December, 1958, Dr. Martin Luther King wrote a monthly column for Ebony Magazine entitled "Advice for Living." Readers would ask questions and Dr. King would respond. Today, I’d like to share with you some of his advice.

First, Dr. King on pre-marital sex:
Question: I was raised in a Christian environment. My father placed great stress on premarital virginity. I am 29. Of late, I have begun to doubt the validity of his teaching…Is he right?
MLK: I think you should hold firm to the principle of premarital virginity. The problems created by premarital sex relationships are far greater than the problems created by premarital virginity. The suspicion, fears, and guilt feelings generated by premarital sex relations are contributing factors to the present breakdown of the family. Real men still respect purity and virginity with women. If a man breaks a relationship with you because you would not allow him to participate in the sexual act, you can be assured that he did not love you from the beginning.

..but the quote you see above was uttered under duress while Dr. King was incarcerated in Birminham for being an uppity black man..the jailers wanted assurances that black dudes wouldn't have sex with white girls because them darkies is so promiscuous, so they wrote this down and attributed it to Dr. King..so you see Dr. Laura, you been snookered!

well I got a question for Dr. Laura....what do you think of these responses about mothers bathing their sons into teenhood?? I found this thread in the parenting forum and I gots to know!

Is it OK for a mother to continue to bathe her son after he becomes a teenager even though he has no physical or mental challenges but he has always enjoyed the special time he has had with his mother when getting a bath and both feel it will make their relationship closer?

"No trouble at all. My brother was bathed by mother till the end of his teenage years. He suffered of phimosis and she used to take care of his irritated foreskin balanites ),cleaning it in order to avoid complications.It is normal a teen or even an adult to be naked in front of his mother - after all she is his mother - on special situations. Only perverted people - obsessed with sin and modesty - thinks the contrary."

"My mom also bathed me thru my teen years. It wasn't a big deal. It's just the way it was and we really bonded and talked about all kinds of things during these baths. Nothing ever sexual happened. She just washed me all over, then dried me. Once when I was probably about 13, and starting puberty, she told me I should bathe by myself, but I told her I didn't want to and put up a big stink that I wanted her to keep bathing me. She said OK, as long as I didn't mind. I think it was good because she was able to answer any questions I had about my changing body and make sure I was developing properly. I have very fond memories of these baths."

is this why some young adults in their 20s are living at home with their parents when they should be out getting a taste of the world?? sponge baths from mommy??

one toke over the line...

is Lanny Ebenstein a pothead? a jarhead? a jughead?

well, after seeing his picture in the News-Press and reading his editorials, it looks like Lanny is wearing a pot on his head.... so I will launch a series of investigative reports, starting today... first I will list some symptoms of potty abuse and then some samples of his writing... I think it's plain to see Lanny is showing signs of severe silliness..or pottiness as I like to call it....his editorials are repetitive, like he can't remember he said the exact same thing last week, the writing is often twisted and tortured, as though getting through a sentence is a major task....of course, Mr. Ebenstein is welcome to refudiate my testimony and evidence any time he wishes, in the comments section...

the writing samples are taken from an editorial in the News-Press about education...I feel Lanny's words speak for themselves..hey that's clever!..but anyway, anyone is welcome to refudiate my inability to make sense of the editorial!

Marijuana abuse: Complications

Review medical complications possibly associated with Marijuana abuse:

Acute complications of marijuana/cannabis use may include:

Impaired thinking - up to 24 hours (an editorial cycle!)

Coordination difficulty (see Coordination problems) - up to 24 hours
Short term memory loss - up to several weeks.

now, the font is bigger in case your eyes are bloodshot and we know that education is important as even Sarah Palin would cop to that...but if the communication is so muddled, then education is just a word...and that's the problem..pot causes jumbled word salad thinking and I believe with all my heart that both Sarah and Lanny been tokin' on the same doobie....

Potterville...

potheads and well dressed men....

is the News-Press so hard up it has to use a pothead to write editorials and get old stories to fill the front page?? the Victoria Street Theatre story that ran on Sunday is almost an exact duplicate from Dec 12 2010, ie, non-profits behaving badly... the News-Press favors one of the players, the Unity Shoppe, and the front page stories are just a vendetta of sorts against the folks who booted them out of the Vic...

but if you want answers don't ask Don Katich, the News-Press Director of Operations..he was interviewed by Ernie Salomon and seemed very uncomfortable answering questions vis a vis the News-Press...actually, he looked like he was about to cry!! first he says he's the editor, but Wendy and Nipper control everything and won't let him edit the Victoria Street Theater story... Don says he won't be surprised if the city deficit rises to 90 million dollars next year, he says he wants to tackle the hard stories like the Victoria Street Theater, keep gov't honest, and go after crooked business people...and he tells Ernie "we're not afraid to back down"....when Ernie asked about the Blue Shield health insurance premiums rising 59%, Katich looked confused and said at least the gov't isn't involved!! the guy was afraid not to offend his boss Wendy, so he just blew smoke up her ass for an hour!! I will be investigating Katich in the future.....
now to the pothead, grow house owner/operator Lanny Ebenstein who says the reason why California and America are in debt is because of government workers' perks....
well, I want you all to rise and recite the new Pledge of Allegiance....

I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, in debt...

stop right there..why are we one nation in debt?? one state in debt?? well, find a real economist who won't blow smoke up your ass, and you'll get a better look.... such an economist is Allen W Smith...he doesn't own or operate pot houses and he was a real teacher....as for Lanny, he's blowing smoke up Wendy's ass, too..can you guess why?

here's some real economic analysis:

http://www.thebiglie.net/

When President Clinton signed into law the bill that repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, on November 12, 1999, he opened the floodgates for mass mergers of companies in the financial industries. In 2000, by creating the budget-surplus myth, Clinton was unwittingly laying the foundation for George W. Bush’s devastating tax cuts. Those tax cuts, along with the deregulation of the banking industry, started the clock that would continue to tick until the Wall Street meltdown.

President George W. Bush pushed through Congress huge tax cuts under the guise that the government had large amounts of surplus money. Bush led the government back into deficit territory during his first year in office, and the deficits just got bigger and bigger throughout the rest of his presidency. When Bush turned over the reins of power to President Obama in January 2009, the national debt, which had been $1 trillion in 1981, and $5.7 trillion when Bush took office in January 2001, was more than $10.6 trillion.

In 2008, the unthinkable happened. At a time when the nation was already spending massive amounts of borrowed money on two wars, the nation’s banking system and the economy went into free fall, and we came much closer to a 1930s-style depression than most Americans realize. The financial system had to be bailed out, and the economy had to receive a large stimulus, in order to keep the nation from plunging into another great depression. This action has contributed enormously to the large deficits and the growth in the public debt in the short term.

We, as a nation, must acknowledge the reckless financial and economic policies of the past and resolve to make a major change in course as soon as the economy recovers enough to minimize the risk that stringent new fiscal polices might throw the economy back into a recession, or worse yet, a depression. But, let us not forget that more than 90 percent of the $10.6 trillion national debt that Obama inherited was accumulated during the years between the beginning of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and the end of the George W. Bush presidency.

will the News-Press do some real investigative reporting ever....they will when I become Pope...

disorderly conduct...

anyone seen my titmouse??

I'm confused...not that that's anything new, but certain things I expect to happen, then don't...for example when three Hearst family zebras were shot and killed in Cambria, I expected a zebra story from the News-Press..instead I get a dog story..the N-P took a break from her front page coverage of a 32 year old story about a little lady fugitive who finally got caught...two days of front pages on this! but nothing on the zebras..you know, zebras have feelings too..well, not anymore..

girls, I want you to take off zee bras now....

ok then after many years of typing on a keyboard I noticed that little warning tag which says "turn the keyboard over" so I do then I get blasted with some bad news..USE OF A KEYBOARD OR MOUSE MAY BE LINKED TO SERIOUS INJURIES OR DISORDERS...and it lists a ton of maladies..so that explains this blog to some of you who may have been wondering..I have a disorder of sorts...

so... I happened to love the story in the N-P about some little dogs creating havoc in the neighborhood..my kinda dogs! and Scott Steepleton, King of the Dog Story, wrote it! anyway, the City of Carp is suing the dog owner because they killed two rabbits in someone's yard and they run around the neighborhood alot..that's what dogs are supposed to do...you keep prey in your yard, it's gonna get eaten...

girls, you must take off zee bras please!

a healthy dog is a free dog..free to roam and kill a few rabbits if needed! that's what ranch dogs do...however, in the city, dogs are locked up, leashed and pampered to death by the owners..very unhealthy!! so I'd like to see Carpinteria declared leash free and let the chips fall where they may.. healthy dogs running around are less likely to poop every five minutes! and if they run onto the freeway, it's just road kill..that's why we have the turkey vultures...in other words, let Nature work like she's supposed to..

and then, I see my fellow catholics are trying to beautify Pope John Paul ....why? the dude is dead and beauty, being skin deep, can't be seen if you're just a skeleton.... and Martha Stewart was attacked by her French Bulldog, after arousing him from a deep sleep....ladies, you need to let sleeping dogs lie...sleep, it's the only place a fella can get any peace anymore! get it!!

girls..zee bras??

and finally, I'm fiddling around Saturday morning when the doorbell rings...two guys dressed in black, one skinny and one fat..they got a bible..they're Jehovah's Witnesses...they say good morning...I say get lost..you guys need to leave the premises..this is private property! habba nice day... so they go but instead of leaving the premises, the go to my neighbors and try to convert them! so I go outside and start up again..you guys need to leave or I'll call the cops...the skinny guy says, "but we go to private properties all the time"...the fat guy's at my neighbor's door still yaking! what, do these guys work on commission??

so I stare at them and say: if you don't leave now, I got a 2nd Amendment Remedy (now known as SAR) that'll get you to Jesus in a hurry... you wanna test me?? you wanna trespass against me???

they hightailed it outta there faster than two zebras in a strawberry patch!!!

Silent Spring...

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

ok we know something is going on over at the Independent with Marianne P getting Wendy's sloppy seconds (Joe Cole), and Randy C and Marianne fueding in court, I guess I will have to get involved since the Judge Denise Debellefeuille and I share something in common, however, now is not the time..however again, it is time to scrutinize an article in the Indie about Eucalyptus trees, my favorite trees, by a chick named Teisha Rowland who studies stem cells at UCSB..as usual with these people, the bias against nonatives is pathelogical and she dredges up old myths about the eucs..all debunked by anyone at all curious about what really happens outside the classroom..that's right, Teisha you little twit, get the fuck outside the classroom, get your tits dirty and see what's really happening!

she says:

indieeucs

It seems harmless enough; how can releasing just a few plants or animals into a new area hurt anything? But again and again, we’ve seen just how devastating introducing a foreign organism can be, whether it was on purpose or inadvertent. This has led to declining populations of bats, honeybees, and amphibians, among others, and the explosive population of garden snails in California Even when it doesn’t look like the non-native organism is doing any harm, it’s still tilting a biological scale that had carefully balanced itself over millennia.

now this is what makes my head spin like that little girl in the Exorcist....explosive population of garden snails in California??? WTF!!

these folks ignore dispersal, Nature's means of spreading species..by wind, ducks, people ... competition and fires keep plants in check...when over populated areas in the hills in California get hit by fire, the people blame the eucs instead of the high winds, 100 degree temps, and all those houses that shouldn't be there!!

Now, the war on ferals began with Clinton and Gore creating the Invasive Species Council..since then, removing non-natives has become big business...and this is why people keep coming up with this outrageous slander against trees..MONEY!! billions wasted!!
the fact is the native-only cultists like Teisha, who sounds like she needs a good fuck to straighten her out, have done severe environmental damage that she blames on the non-natives! What does she think the consequences will be when she and her trolls poison and kill, poison and kill, disrupt, fertilize, and poison some more, the landscape to help ease their irrational fear of eucs and non-natives?? well, you are seeing it now.....bats and bees are disappearing because of herbacides and pesticides, sprayed in creeks and meadows to kill bastard plants...the hawks, bees, bats love non natives and natives..they make no distinction....only man does that..and when all this money is spent manicuring the wild aspect of nature, the weeds, God Bless 'em, keep growing back because the winds scatter the seeds! and they grow back stronger for which I'm thankful...nature always wins.....

Out of Africa

right wing ranchers, rumored to be Tea Party sympathizers, use 2nd amendment remedy to blow away three zebras...

rancher #1: I thought they were escaped prisoners...

rancher #2: they were non-native...

ok, now what would you do if you saw three zebras in your back yard? kill them and eat them like Bear Gryls?? here's what some private ranchers in Cambria did!

(Newser) – Hasty California cattle ranchers shot dead three Hearst Castle zebras who strayed onto their property, and neighbors are aghast. The zebras—a buck, a mare and yearling—were part of a herd that roams castle grounds, the remnants of what was at one time the largest private zoo in the world, owned by the late publishing magnate William Randolf Hearst. Two of the zebras were "spooking my horses," said rancher David Fiscalini, who blasted the animals with a shotgun, then called a taxidermist to skin one of the zebras for a rug....ok...so we got some issues here...first of all, who keeps zebras?? apparently the Hearsts did..since 1923, these were decendents from the original herd....kinda like the pigs on Channel Islands, slaughtered for no reason..or silly reasons anyway...

and second, we've heard the News-Press and #69 Julia at the Animal Rescue Team give all kinds of negative press when a Fish and Game ranger killed a bear or confiscated the lion cubs...now let's see what kind of press they give private ranchers who kill zebras for "spooking their horses and cattle".....a zebra is just a horse of a different color so why did the ranchers kill them?? this should be interesting...

something stupid...

killing floor...

Last week I praised Sarah Palin for her keen insight into corrupt non profit Defenders of Wildlife, then she goes and spoils it all by saying something stupid like... using an anti-Jewish blood libel phrase when trying to defend her killing metaphors aimed at politicians....Gabrielle Giffords, one of the victims of the metaphor and a responsible gun owner, recently told Sarah Palin her thoughtless irresponsible meanderings about gun violence have consequences, and we saw those consequences in Tucson last Saturday...

another Teabagger, Sharron Angle of Nevada, said people should take "2nd amendment remedies" ie, shoot people in government if you don't like them...so according to Sarah and Sharon, I could walk into a Santa Barbara City Council meeting and take 2nd Amendment remedies to Mike Self and Dale Francisco! don't worry Dale and Mike, I'm just using a metaphor..heh heh heh

so last night Tucson got some love from the rest of the country and we learned that Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes briefly when her pals from Congress went to visit her...who didn't cry when they heard that, or heard about the short life of 9 year old Christina Green? well, Speaker Boehner didn't..he was off hosting a cocktail fundraiser for the RNC!!

the Tea Party is directly responsible for the Tucson massacre, they just don't have the spine to admit it, the sniveling little worms....instead of hiding in her Fox News bunker, Palin should admit her stupidity and leave the public arena and go back to being a beauty queen...but she doesn't have an ounce of the courage or brains that Gabrielle Giffords has..and she certainly doesn't have the grace of Christina Green...if Sarah ever grows up, she could learn a thing or two from Christina....

I got you, babe

radar love....

I saw some gossip about Mary Bono (R-CA) supposedly caught in some lurid sex pictures on Radar..well, I had to check it out but they weren't lurid..just damn sexy...apparently Mary, widow of failed skier but brilliant music man Sonny, was partying with some billionairess (not Wendy) who's in trouble with the law somehow and someone took their picture..when women party these days they always bring their tongues out in a faux lesbo lick gesture, for fun...they suck each others' tongue and well that's not necessarily a bad thing..tongues aren't just for licking envelopes, you know...but I was struck dumb by Mary....I hadn't really looked at the before..I always thought she was pretty, but kinda quiet and unassuming..but that picture showed me something...her shoulders and arms and breast are sublime, simply beautiful...I couldn't believe it...what a lovely woman...maybe I could get a job as her bodyguard what with the political climate nowadays...I wish that ugly rich chick would get outta the way.....check out the site for a better pic..you'll have to find it yourselves because I don't want to share her...

I got flowers in the spring, I got you to wear my ring...and when I'm sad, you're a clown, and when I get scared..you're always around.....

armed and delirious...

Tea Party and Rightwingers in defensive mode..many crawl out of their bunkers just long enough to see their shadows..get scared..and crawl back in!

is Jered Loughner the new face of the Tea Party??

so the shootings in Arizona have many folks pointing the finger at the Tea Party for inciting this type of violence..many blame the rightwing radio jocks like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck for pushing the lemmings over the edge....the Tea Party is on the defensive..."we hate violence, peace and love, power to the people" they now shout...but is it too late....will this tragic event spell the end of the Tea Party? well, maybe..I mean who wants to be associated with a group of people who wrap themselves in God, guns and the American flag?? a group of people who would threaten to kill elected representatives if they dare try to reform Health Care....is this really worth killing and dying for..Health Care reform?? and what about all the nut talk about Obama's a communist, he's a socialist, he's not a citizen..all this coming from fringe Americans like Jered Loughner...and now when blood spills, the Tea Party pretends it's shocked like normal Americans....but these little punks are cut from the same cloth...ignorance!!
and over at FOX NEWS, Bill O'Reilly was crying about people blaming him...he went on and on about the left wing loons out to get him...about how innocent Fox News and the Tea Party is just because they want to kill progressives! the Tea Party uses gun imagery and paranoid rhetoric about the gov't coming to take wasy our guns..no they're not..no one is coming to take away my guns...but owning firearms comes with responsibility...Teabagger Michelle Bachman wants everyone in Michigan armed and dangerous to fight Obamacare!! now there's a loon!!

I got no problem killing someone who is trying to kill me or family, but shooting politicians because you don't like them...or shooting kids....killing kids....dropping bombs...the Teabaggers are on the defensive..and well they should be...

get your kicks...

on Route 66..

so I'm out on a Sunday Drive..up around Ojai and back down Highway 150...I see a cool yellow four wheel motorcycle thingie that went by so fast and loud I couldn't get a picture...vroooom! then, I stop and get out for a little hike...the wild flowers are starting to fill in the roadsides and mountain areas ..lots of Cape Ivy that nativists hate..so naturally I love it..it's harmless and will die off ..reports that it chokes trees is greatly exaggerated..it grows and climbs trees, but it doesn't strangle them like I would a nativist if I saw one right now...but I don't see one so I get back behind the wheel and head off to my local Route 66..the road is winding and cool..I pass some big eucs and come around a corner and there's a lady in a white Cadillac coming the other way..she's in my fucking lane!!!

she was I assume, trying to turn into a rural driveway, but was going way too slow..she sees me coming and fucking turns into me while I was trying to swerve to avoid her..I hit the brakes and hard turned again THE OTHER WAYand missed her, but saw her face as I passed her....she was an old biddy in a mink coat with a silly feathery hat and big thick sunglasses...I shouted at her and flipped her off and she looked like an old deer in the headlights!! I passed her and glanced in the rearview mirror and she was still trying to navigate out of the wrong lane..stupid ass bitch!!

Now, the reason I was so adept as missing her was I was listeneing to the radio and Led Zep was on...a rockin song...the kind that gets you pumped up and glad you're out driving on a beautiful Sunday...if that song wasn't playing, if Page wasn't cranking on that Les Paul guitar and Plant wasn't wailing away, I may have been a bit more mellow and crashed into that old bitch woman...rock and roll saved my life!! can you imagine what would have happened if I was listening to Sarah McCacklin'...I probably would have been sooo mellowed out I woulda crashed into that old lady!! Sarah is playing at the Casino so be careful on the Chumash Highway of Death!!

but the point is this: if you think you are gonna share the road with me, you gotta stay on your side of it! lady, you got me?? if you are turning into a driveway, then commit and do it..just do it!! I own the road, not you!!!

meanwhile, I'm buying the Led Zep catalog as we speak.....