a hole in my head...

in the dark ages where Republicans like to live, they used to bore a hole into your head to release evil spirits.. it's called trepanning...well, that's kinda what happened to me Monday...

I had an appt for oral surgery....after the minor procedure, I had a gauze pad in my mouth, I was out $300, and my jaw looked droopy and stupid from the novocaine..I looked like Quasimodo...

and to add insult to injury, I couldn't eat....all to get rid of a little cyst which was threatening to take up residence in my sinus and actually poking a little hole in it...but thank God for good doctors! the guy has got some fine women working for him too!! still he told me not to blow my nose so the little hole in my head could heal...

so I went home and it was windy and warm then cool and what do you think that does to the sinuses? all that dust blowing around....then the novocaine wore off and ohhhh fuck my head hurts!! OWWWW... I WANT MY MOMMY!!

I feel like I got my brains scrambled! so I spent the rest of the night practicing how not to sneeze...everytime I felt one coming on, I'd stop it...think of something else, put my hand under my nose...anything...

ok so what did I miss on Monday.. a little rally by the Democrats in support of workers rights...sorry guys.... you're on your own for a few days....no help from me...I gotta heal..I gotta sin..I gotta sin to get saved....I gotta release these evil spirits

natural woman...

Front Country Trails Task Force... Trail Assessment Project..

I was watching City TV and came upon a meeting of the Trails Advisory people..I was amazed at what I saw...Jill Zachary was giving details on all the trails in Santa Barbara..front country...trails have grades, step outs, lengths & widths..mapping.. signage...is this how yuppies hike nowadays?

trails are not complicated and have been a part of Santa Barbara forever..Cold Springs is a great trail..but now, before I hike it I need to know the width? how to prepare to hike...is the weather ok..are there hazards..did I check the trail profile?? did the trail task force say it's a verified trail??

did you know that the Tunnel trail has a 9 degree slope??

what in the world is the point of all this analysis of a trail? and paying these folks over one hundred thousand dollars a year for this information??

I don't get it! who are these people?? are they serious??

you don't need the city to tell you if you can go on a hike...why would anyone want to read a bunch of sign before they hike? or while they are hiking....are people so helpless they need signs to tell them there are big hills ahead? or trees..or a waterfall?? the joy of hiking is finding out for yourself what lies ahead....

a hike doesn't a need a freakin' shitload of information..just go on a hike..use your brains and intuition..get dirty, cut yourselves on the branches..OHH..JILL!! there's a weasel on the rock..what shall I do..that information wasn't on a sign! oh boo hoo..I'm going to sue the city....eeeek....there's a non-native plant..I'm gonna cry!!

listen Jilly..here's how I hike...I take off my shirt baby...start at a Cold Springs trail pool..and hike up the water..up the stream...I get wet, I sweat, I have fun, I see snakes and animals and I don't need any signage to tell me anything about nature...or a yuppiepuppiefuppiemuppie to plot a trail chart for me...
some of you girls need to get dirty... be dirtier.. become the dirtiest..become a natural woman...

neon rainbow...

hello baby? would you like to buy a vacuum cleaner??

when I was a kid, I did a lot of summer jobs..gardening, restaurant work, and I tried my hand at selling vacuum cleaners..they were called Rainbow vacuum cleaners with a little rainbow insignia on them... and the guy would train us...he was a salesman, telling us that selling vacuum cleaners, that first sale, was better than sex...I developed a strong skepticism for white people after that....I was around 16 or 17 and already had sex and a vacuum cleaner was not in the picture while that chick was fiddling with my boys..believe you me!! I saw stars, some rainbows, but no vacuum cleaners!

anyway, I figured salesmen were not to be trusted..oh, I tried my hand at calling folks on the phone offering a demonstration of the Rainbow..I got a few calls and sold one vacuum cleaner..but really, I wasn't into selling door to door..and one lady, after I gave her my telephone sales pitch, said I should be on the radio with my beautiful voice....well that never happened either..you see, all my dreams throughout my life have died a slow death.... dreams are for idiots!

but people will try to sell you anything.. dreams even....and that brings me to Mike Huckabee, a FOX News celeb who is trying to run for president..he's running around the country selling his vision of America to sell his new book...telling us that Obama is not an American; judging people who choose to get pregnant out of wedlock...now, I had pre-marital sex and my father found out and was very ashamed of me...I simply told him: Dad..I can't just jerkoff for the rest of my life..I need some real pussy now and then!! still, he was not amused but who cares..it's none of his business!! geez, everyone sticking their nose in others' private business...like Mike Huckabee..

I got a message for the Huckster and others like him: SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!

have you seen the little piggies....

Nancy Crawford-Hall ate the plover!!

geez, I'm getting a little sick of this dude Steve Pappas who lost the election to Doreen Farr but can't seem to accept the fact....the voter fraud claim is used by election losers..Tom Watson used it; Pappas has been using it for years at the behest of his benefactor/sugar mommy fat lady Nancy Crawford- Hall..the owner of the SY Valley Journal...what is it with these newspaper owners? they're all a bunch of little dictators..

Nancy has been threatening for months to expose voter fraud in Isla Vista..the student vote always worries conservatives..that's why they want to exclude young people from the democratic process..because the young folks can't be bought yet..they are too idealistic....

so we got these jackasses like Tom Watson and Pappas and Hall and Wendy forever trying to buy elections and crying when they lose....I think that Nancy will pay people money to report fraud so that Pappas will win something.. I think Nancy is guilty of witness pampering!!

so farr, Pappas has lost every legal battle, but keeps going back for more...I am wondering why he won't just drop and and move on....I think that is the much bigger story....the influence Nancy Crawford- Hall has on Steve Pappas...and just read her comments at the SYVJ over the last year..fraud this fraud that....and Pappas keeps going to court....there will always be some mistakes in the voting process, but outright fraud is another thing....I think Watson, in his zeal to find fraud in IV was guilty of voter intimidation when he sent 50 conservative punks to monitor the process....

and here's Nancy's smoking gun: Continued saga (copied from the Santa Ynez Valley Journal)

I hope you enjoyed and were astounded by what was disclosed last week regarding the ongoing reveal about what happened to our 2008 election. Were you surprised? As I have said, I knew for some time that something was wrong and many others had that same feeling, but no one had actually figured out what was wrong and how it happened. Now we know.

What do we know? We do know that there are a number of people involved and have been for a number of years, that the system has been well-established giving Democrat candidates an advantage over anyone else, and that the election machine has operated with enormous donations from SEIU and other unions that no individual donations can hope to surpass.

While employees are forced to donate a portion of their salaries to a union in order to work in certain fields, I have discovered a situation that I think needs some investigation. Workers for government whether state or local, all are required to belong to unions. What we discovered when looking into the voter fraud possibilities in District Three’s election for 2008 was that an inordinate amount of money paying for candidates came from public employee unions such as SEIU (Service Employees International Union) and a myriad of other unions.

It seems to me to be a huge conflict of interest because those people they finance the elections of are the same people who are going to be voting on their raises and benefits.

Thus, the system, to be crude, has been rigged

. As we go along with our discovery and in concert with court and other happenings, we will continue to reveal exactly what we know and can prove. We are being careful to not get ahead of ourselves, but the fact that investigations have been opened on both local and state levels for possible criminal behavior has got to say something to you about what we have found. I beg for your patience to continue, as we also have had to learn the value of that virtue as well. In every case, we have been rewarded where perhaps things would have turned out differently had we jumped the gun. Thus we will divulge all facts to paint the whole picture for you. As you begin to see the personalities emerge and see the background that they came from, you will understand just how bad our system has become. While the opposition is yelling about having every vote count, they don’t seem to want to acknowledge the probability that the entire district was disenfranchised. Does anybody care?

Of course we do. It is the backbone of this country and it is what gives us the courage and pride to be different from other countries. Without it, we are simply another low-class fiefdom or dictatorship. Shame on those who would steal our heritage. We will take it back here locally, across this state and throughout this nation, where those who are so arrogant as to think they can vote for us will be punished. Stay tuned.

in other words, Nancy and her conservative friends don't want unions, ie workers that they don't control, to vote! is that it?? that's all??

unions and workers have been giving money to campaigns for years!! it is not illegal to give money to campaigns! and there is no conflict of interest..at all...no one is forced to vote on anything!! we elect pro-labor candidates because we labor..we work for a living...

I think it's pretty obvious that the fat lady can't sing....

I've been hearing that conservative taxpayers don't want money going to unions...well, if I work for a municipality and get a paycheck for services rendered, I'll do whatever I want with it, I'll pay union dues, I'll eat out at restaurants, I'll buy a wristwatch if I want to.. why?? because it's my fucking money!! imagine, people now want to tell you how to spend YOUR money because they lost an election!!

if the Koch bros can spend $43000 on Gov Walker's campaign, then I can spend $100 on a pro- labor candidate...

and here's some real election fraud from union busting Indiana: INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's top elections official was indicted Thursday on voter fraud and other charges for allegedly listing his ex-wife's address as his own on voting and loan forms and serving on a town council when he was ineligible, a prosecutor said.

The Hamilton County grand jury charged Republican Secretary of State Charlie White with seven felony counts in all, including three counts of voter fraud, two counts of perjury and one count each of theft and financial fraud, said John Dowd, one of two special prosecutors asked to investigate the matter.

so... I see that I will have to concentrate of the psychological aspect of the Nancies of the world..a profile of Steve Pappas and Nancy Crawford-Hall and the nature of their relationship..are they smooching in the barn?? perhaps we'll uncover the real reasons for the irrrational court feeding frenzy these two are exhibiting....see, while everyone else is exploring the politics of the sitch, I will explore the psychological road...therein lies the answers

now, if you'll excuse me, I've got some work to do.....

Proud to be an American...

not today....

Petraeus Apologizes After Gunships Kill 9 Afghan Children

by Theunis Bates

Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has issued a rare apology for an airstrike that killed nine children gathering firewood in the east of the country. A 10th child was wounded.

"We are deeply sorry for this tragedy and apologize to the members of the Afghan government, the people of Afghanistan and, most importantly, the surviving family members of those killed by our actions," Petraeus said in a statement. "These deaths should have never happened."

Petraeus' swift apology Wednesday came hours after Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the deaths were the result of a "ruthless attack." He warned that the fight against "terrorism in Afghan villages" would never succeed if civilians continue "to suffer in the unjustifiable operations and bombings carried out by NATO and ISAF [the International Security Assistance Force]."

The children's deaths are the latest in a decade-long series of botched attacks that have killed civilians rather than militants and undermined efforts to win over the support of ordinary Afghans. While about three-quarters of civilian casualties in Afghanistan are caused by militants rather than coalition forces, deaths such as these can fuel hatred toward U.S.-led forces and produce new recruits for the Taliban.

call all American troops home once and for all..and save trillions of dollars..not to mention a handful of kids gathering firewood....

Idiots Roll Call...

Arnold-present

Darryl Issa-present

Caltrans-present

Tony Strickland-present

Mick..chair-present

ok, I call the meeting to order....

Caltrans..you shut down an on- ramp at Padaro Lane to do some gardening..and it took about 10 Caltrans workers!! why aren't they out paving the highways instead of pissing away my tax money on some weeds?? and they spray M-pede on the hills!! M-Pede is an insecticide soap that is TOXIC!! now when bats and other cool creatures eat the insects, they get sick....CALTRANS IS A PUBLIC HAZARD!!

Gov Brown..please do something about this agency....I support privatizing...

Arnold you dumbass...why haven't you invited me to dinner..I'd love to meet Maria and your daughters!

Daryll..you dumbass ex-con..if it wasn't for you, the recall of Gray Davis wouldn't have happened, Arnold wouldn't be my neighbor, Enron wouldn't have fucked California, and Phil Angelides could have prevented our massive debt, incurred by a failure to tax the appropriate assholes like nonprofits gamblers drinkers and smokers...and now Daryll, who has the House Oversight Committee chair..hey how did this crook get that job? anyway, Daryll just fired his close aide and chief spokesman for sharing emails with a reporter on the inner workings of gov't:

Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California, has dismissed his chief spokesman, Kurt Bardella, after concluding that Mr. Bardella had secretly and regularly shared his e-mail conversations with a New York Times reporter who is writing a book about Washington’s political culture.

Mr. Issa is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and a leading voice of the Republican opposition to Obama

. In a statement, he said Mr. Bardella had acted improperly.

"It has become clear that the committee’s deputy communications director, Kurt Bardella, did share reporter e-mail correspondence with New York Times journalist Mark Leibovich for a book project," Mr. Issa wrote in a statement issued Tuesday. "Though limited, these actions were highly inappropriate, a basic breach of trust with the reporters it was his job to assist, and inconsistent with established communications office policies. As a consequence, his employment has been terminated."

so much for free speech, huh, Darryl!

Tony Strickland...recently wrote to the News-Press saying Carp's crash tax was a bad idea...a crash tax is a good idea..when you crash your car, you pay for it not me...I was recently pulled over for speeding on Highway 101...I was going like a rocket! the cop spotted me in Summerland and pulled me over on Santa Claus Lane...I didn't called the cop an idiot like the Ohio governor did because I was guilty...no ifs ands or buts...now according to our esteemed tobacco politico Tony Strickland, the taxpayer should pay my fine!! no way..I pay it..the buck stops here!! actually the 260 bucks!!

Highway Patrol...

the rightwing WAR against working Americans

living by the highway I see some weird things, some bloody things...Sunday, I see two guys carrying an American flag, walking down the road...then I heard a big screech and saw a bunch of dirt flying..so I go out and see a car had spun out into the shoulder and turned almost all the way around.. north bound lane.. no driver in sight...I called the cops and they arrived in five minutes...cops...these are the folks the rightwingers are waging war against!! and whoever crashed that car should most assuredly have a "crash tax" levied against him, right Tony Strickland??

now, Bill O'Reilly says: According to the U.S. Department of Education, two-thirds of the eighth graders in Wisconsin cannot read proficiently. But assuming the kids are skilled enough to watch TV, they can now see their teachers demonstrating to keep their generous union benefits.
of course Bill cherry picked this inaccurate story to go after unions.....this is how he started his anti-union column on Sunday..picking on school kids to make a point that teachers don't deserve collective bargaining....Bill O'Reilly, the guy who couldn't explain the moon's affect on the tides...saying that God caused it...."I’ll tell you why [religion is] not a scam, in my opinion," he told Silverman. "Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in."

ok..so that's Bill....one of the many hyper-conservatives going after working class rights...all these folks have something in common..a higher power..Bill's got Rupert; Lanny Ebenstein's got Wendy; Scott Walker's got the Koch Bros....I'll be tracking Lanny's anti-worker efforts very closely in the future...very closely!!

but that's the pattern...the pampered privileged class wants to keep the blue collar middle class worker down...not for budgets..that's been proven..but really for power..and it's been backfiring on them as protests around the country grow and some Republicans start to question the wisdom of demonizing cops, nurses, teachers and firefighter..ie union thugs!!

The National Assessment of Educational Progress explains its student rating system as follows: "Basic denotes partial mastery of prerequisite knowledge and skills that are fundamental for proficient work at each grade. Proficient represents solid academic performance. Students reaching this level have demonstrated competency over challenging subject matter. Advanced represents superior performance."

ok, I gotta agree with the Teabaggers on this one: get rid of the Dept of Education..if their rating system is so biased against kids, it is useless to them..first of all, you can't "paritally master" anything..it's either mastery or not... meaning you need to spend long hours and years to master something..most people don't!

stop picking on the kids..they are fine..instead focus on the idiot adults who can't explain the tides other than to say God did it...and these are the folks who want to solve budget issues by protecting the rich..the rich have been protected for too long...