New York State Of Mind

It comes down to reality

And it's fine with me 'cause I've let it slide
Don't care if it's Chinatown or on Riverside
I don't have any reasons
I've left them all behind

I'm in a New York state of mind

Bells of Rhymney

Oh, what will you give me? / Say the sad bells of Rhymney / Is there hope for the future? / Say the brown bells of Rhymney


Dances With Wolves, Catches Many Fishes, that mysterious Cherokee woman and I were chillin' in a teepee one day...

things are getting so bad at the News-Press, Wendy had to sell her yacht, the Calixe...the price was $15 mil and the new owner named it Minderella..and will charter it...but it seems Wendy sold it in 2015 so that goosip dude at Montecito Journal is late in informing enquiring minds!!

so what do I want for America....less people like Wendy McCuckoo for starters....or how about a wasteland of oil refineries, six lane highways everywhere, too many people, too much crime, too many drugs, invloved in too many foreign wars..too much God

well that's where we're at right now...will Hillary or Donald make things worse or better or staus quo...

it seems one presidential candidate has a warrent out for her arrest...Jill Stein for grafitti applied to a tractor in North Dakota..you betcha!

Jill is the Green Party candidate and there's a battle brewing between the oil company and the Indians in ND..the Energy Transfer Partners is building an oil pipeline that disrupts sacred Indian burial grounds and will spoil the drinking water...so given that the Indians were here first and we are the illegals, the whites are the illegals, I think I'll support the tribe, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe even though they have two casinos...

the Grand River Casino near Wakpala, South Dakota...I got no prob with real tribes running casinos where they might be fun....and where Las Vegas is far away...that's why California should have no casinos because the Casino-Chumash Indians here aren't real.. and Las Vegas is just a few hrs away if you drive real fast...

the Casino-Chumash Indians only concern is pouring liquor for gamblers regardless of the resulting crime...the California casinos have cheapened the Golden State, so I applaud the folks who try to stop them

but these Dakota tribes are the real deal..so good for JiIl Stein..maybe I'll vote for her for president

 "I hope the North Dakota authorities press charges against the real vandalism taking place at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation: the bulldozing of sacred burial sites and the unleashing of vicious attack dogs," Stein said in her statement. She said that pipeline security officials had used dogs and pepper spray on protesters over the weekend.

and I got no problem with oil companies/pipeline operators..except when they unleash attack dogs on legitimate protestors...

or foul miles of California coast line

Oh Very Young

what will you leave us this time??

 

oh so I see we have another drunk driver killing two kids that were riding in his car while he was DUI...the guy crossed over and slammed into an oncoming car....this was on Highway 166 near Cuyama...the rural highway to Bakersfield

but the guy was drunk and he killed two kids- a 7-year old boy and a 4-year old girl...both ejected from the drunk's car...lying dead somewhere on the side of the road

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a 7-year old boy and a 4-year old girl....dead from a drunk driver

maybe the kids can figure this alcohol thing out....sure as Hell the adults can't...sure as Hell the adults can't...

the drunk driver is an adult and should be tried for murder

did you fucking copy that???

Working Man Blues

It's a big job just gettin' by with nine kids and a wife / I been a workin' man dang near all my life

this watch is from 1898, around the time Americans began celebrating Labor Day

so it's Labor Day and today, I salute the working man and woman..took alot of years, blood sweat and tears that led to the day when I could sit down on a Saturday in relative peace and freedom and listen to some good music...men and women before me working so we could have a few days off a week to enjoy our lives...


but today is a day of wrath for conservatives becasue they don't repsect the working class...Wendy usually fires soneone from the News-Press but she's running out of workers...the only ones left are the suck-up sychophants waiting for a meal ticket....

this history of Labor Day isn't about right-to-work states where anti-union rightwingers think it's ok to work in a union shop but not pay dues....no, Labor Day is all about unions and workers...and those unions are around today...Carpenters, musicicans, pilots, cops, firefighters and a host of others have the right to join unions...a right the rightwing is working feverishly trying to take away..so when they call cops heroes, they are hypocrites because they hate unions and don't think cops should retire at 50...

President Grover Cleveland signed a law designating the first Monday in September circa 1894 as Labor Day nationwide. This is interesting because Cleveland was not a labor union supporter. In fact, he was trying to repair some political damage that he suffered earlier that year when he sent federal troops to put down a strike by the American Railway Union at the Pullman Co. in Chicago, IL. That action resulted in the deaths of 34 workers.

if the teabaggers were in charge of the country there would be no weekends, no family leave, no raises and piss-poor working conditions,,,but over the years workers banded together and fought for the right to pursue happiness without being harassed by some employer...

like Wendy, whose idea of work is getting a big divorce settlement and buying yachts and buying a newspaper and writing front page stories about dogs....that's not work..that's not capitalism...that's not cool..Wendy and Nipper are both parasites, spongers, sponges, drones, leeches, hangers-on, scroungers, bloodsuckers, cadgers

as are the folks on the front page attending a GOP BBQ....and there's old anti-public worker Dale Francisco trying to look relevant....

but the irony is Wendy and her ilk have succceeded in making the GOP irrelevant..

especially on Labor Day...the GOP is gettin' fried!

Get Back

get back home, Loretta

I've noticed in Carp some white guys with their hair tied up in a tight bun on top their heads like some Aryan hipster...this is not funny and just get a haircut...Christ Almighty, I'm losing control of everything!

and the other last thing I need is a bunch of skinny white Christian blondes like Ann Coulter with eating disorders and donkey faces running around screaming "praise Jesus"....mix in a few pretty Latinas and I'm ok with it

So Donald Trump/FOX News wants to build a big wall at the Mexican border and have the Mexicans pay for it to keep te Mexicans out..well if the Mexicans are gonna pay for it, don't you think they are gonna make sure there's some access points on the wall that Trump won't know about...a few extra pesos will go a long way, amigo.

the Trump wants an SS-type force to round up the Mexicans already here in America....Hitler did that to the Jews and made them wear Yellow JUDE patches...this is 2016 and we got boneheads trying to solve the immigration issue....

I don't want a wall...I traveled thru Arizona, close to the border and it is gorgeous...desert, quiet, long dirt roads..stunning country!! I saw nobody 'cept a lone jackrabbit

 

so what can we do to stem the alleged flow of illegals...it seems like this is an ongoing thing so while I wait for someone to figure out the dilemma of different people everywhere, I've chartered a helicopter service and we'll take tours of the border and try to spot wetbacks crossing at the Rio Grande...Wetback and Wine TastingTours

then we'll fly over to a ranch in Texas for some wine tasting and and a good old fashioned American BBQ... $500!!

but I'll be lookin' for some sunny illegal senoritas with the tight hair buns and sweaty backs...

get back to where you once belonged

You Don't Have To Cry

in the morning, when you rise

 

 

do you think of me, and how you left me crying...

1-2-3

that's how elementary it's gonna be

getting to the bottom of things is hard sometimes because there's a layer of muck you need to wade thru..but that's ok I got my waders from LL Bean..

is Carp school board afraid of "white flight"?

 
school boards are charged with educating kids not pushing rightwing agendas on them...there's some rumbling about the Carp Unified School Dist and the school board and the new school superintendent Micheline Miglis ...the school board fired her after giving $12000 to a consultant to hire her last year...consultants have the easiest jobs in the world


Micheline had some controversy in her a last job but not enough to fire her from the Carp job

Plumas News - Timeline | Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/Plumasnews/posts/320906414698881

The day before classes started, Carpinteria Unified School District Superintendent Micheline Miglis abruptly left the district on

Carpinteria School District, Superintendent Agree to Part ...

https://www.noozhawk.com/article/carpinteria_schools...

https://www.noozhawk.com/article/carpinteria_unified_school_superintendent_micheline_miglis_20160124


now I don't know Micheline but there was a good story in Noozhawk from Jan 2016 and she seems smart and a good fit for Carpinteria, but she wanted to start a dual immersion English/Spanish in kindergarten and 1st grade...and that may be where she offended the Board...

I've heard rumors that there's some racism in Carp, esp among school board members and some parents... is the school board concerned about white flight??? and the conservatives don't want kids speaking Spanish...but it is essential to teach kids early the wonder of being bilingual...that's what teachers do...some of the parents want their kids to be as ignorant as they are..

here's the letter to the Carp Community..notice they spelled "vision" wrong!

A Letter to the Community

From the Carpinteria Unified School District

Board of Trustees
The Board would like to acknowledge the passionate input that we have received regarding this matter. It is evident that we have a community of students, faculty, parents, and neighbors that care deeply about our schools and want the best.

While it may be very frustrating for all to not know the details of this immediate and sudden change, matters such as this that deal with the circumstances of employees is confidential and just like we would respect the confidentiality of any student, faculty, or parent matter, this situation is equally protected. The Board will not share the details that led to this outcome with the public as we continue to follow the law.

We are fully confident that our Administrative staff both at the site level and district office will continue to provide high quality support and continue to lead our district towards the vison of excellence. We must all agree that in the best interest of our students, this matter should stay at the adult level and not spill into the learning environment for our students. Only those in the classrooms have that power and we have confidence that they will act and speak responsibly.

In the end, only the five Board members and Ms. Miglis know the true details of this matter and it will remain that way on our part. Speculating or making assumptions about personal agendas or malice intent does not make this situation any easier but only encourages fear, anger, and attacks. Just as we ask for our children to solve conflict rationally and productively, we as adults must also set this example and work out our differences as professionally as we can and in a manner that allows for respect and civility.

In closing, we realize that this will take some adjustment as the new school year is beginning. We hope that in time the emotions of the loss felt now will turn back to excitement for learning, teaching, and grooming the future of Carpinteria citizenry. Thank you.

　
grooming the future citizenry of Carp???? hmmm

no way...there's still too many questions to just let it go at that..and they enlisted former SBUSD supe Brian Sarvis to fill in for Micheline!! Sarvis messed up his last job in Santa Barbara so bad he should not be anywhere near kids!!

there is something fishy going on with the Carpinteria School Board.. I know a few folks are bordeline teabaggers, one lists an affiliation with a defunct nonprofit; and one guy owns a Carp construction company and used to work for the Newport Beach Country Club (golf and white guys)

wow!! it is time to investigate the Board Of Trustees of the Carp Unified School District