California Dreamin'

I'd be safe and warm if I was in LA

with Andy Caldwell running for senate, I haven't heard peep from him in the News-Press editorials since Nov 4...I guess it's due to the senate bid Andy is pursuing to save California..and Andy's pal (these two must share the same underpanties) Joe Armendariz provided a lame editorial on Nov 7 and then nothing...

and why Das, Joe and Gail Marshall debated Trump in Carpinteria at the Plaza Theater I'll never know..oh I know they changed the name to Alcazar-a scar on the face of Carpinteria-but it's the Plaza Theater

GO LAURA CAPPS!!!

well it's obvious that California needs to be run by moderates otherwise it will turn into a pot infested, over-populated  jungle
and the  hippies have covered the marsh with plastic sheeting to kill Japanese Sea Grass!! how stupid these people are and it's affecting my view... I don't care about climate change, but I am concerned with acid rain

I love California..the weather's nice and the women are beautiful

and the hawks are hungry

Everybody Loves a Clown

so why don't you?

I'm still waiting for the News-Press to do a story on the nonprofit Youth Initiative rape charges..

and speaking of clowns, I haven't seen a News-Press editorial from Andy Caldwell in weeks! proberly cos he's running against Salud so it could be a conflict of interest..doesn't matter cos Andy will lose anyway

new serious Mike!

instead we get stories like this from the News-Press involving the usual suspects...I'm certain that the Chumash paid some cash to Mike Stoker for this PR stunt...

Dancing with the Stars??

the Casino is a plague, attracting all manner of lowlife gamblers who don't know the value of a dollar and the Chumash are only too happy to take their money..but not mine

and Mike Stoker appointed by Trump is a joke...you know what that's like?

• it's like letting the wolf  babysit Little Red Ridinghood 
• it's like getting the fox to watch the Channel Islands
• it's like getting Wendy to head the union
• like getting a monkey to watch the weasel
• like getting a weasel to chase a monkey

when Greka Oil was polluting and spilling, Mike was right there protecting them, lying for them and now this nonsense...

oil spills that kill

if the Chumash resort wasn't there, then they wouldn't generate any waste and they wouldn't have these phony visits by Trumpies congratulating them on their "recycling" program...besides everybody knows all the recycled waste ends up in 3rd world countries anyway

"The Environmental Protection Agency has recognized the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians and Chumash Casino Resort for efforts to cut down waste, including recycling and food recovery.

Mike Stoker, regional administrator for  EPA Pacific Southwest, toured the Chumash Casino Resort during America Recycles Week.

“The Chumash Casino Resort’s Zero Waste initiatives are making a real difference for the environment,” said Mr. Stoker. “By diverting more than 90 percent of their total waste stream from landfills and sharing their expertise with other tribes, they are true recycling champions.”

Kenneth Kahn, chairman of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, described the recognition as an honor"

the Chumash keep giving back to the community

I wish they'd stop

Takin' It To The Streets

I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see

who's watching our youth? the Devil? stoners and child molestors?? geez

this is an appalling story about yet another shady nonprofit called Youth Interactive Santa Barbara..

*News-Press and KEYT have yet to mention this story... I wonder why...but you can be sure they will do plenty of stories on those icky homeless people!

here's some links of a fundraiser, the Board with Honorary Board Member/Patron singer Michael McDonald!! I don't think he knew but ya never know

https://www.independent.com/2017/12/09/benefit-event-held-youth-interactive/

https://www.youthinteractive.us/board-of-directors-1

and here's the story:
https://calcoasttimes.com/2019/11/01/santa-barbara-youth-program-staffer-raped-14-year-old-mentee-lawsuit-alleges/

"In the spring of 2014, Youth Interactive CEO Nathalie Gensac brought the girl over to her Montecito home. Hernandez, who would sometimes spend the night at Gensac’s home, was also there.

Gensac and Hernandez were drinking red wine and smoking marijuana, the latter of which they offered to the teen. The group was also watching the film Pulp Fiction at the time.
After Gensac went to bed, Hernandez raped the 14-year-old girl on the sofa, according to the lawsuit.

Following the incident, the teen was transferred to the home of Emily Griffith, a coordinator who oversaw all program participants and mentors. Griffith told the alleged victim she knew she had sex with Hernandez and it went unreported to police, even though Youth Interactive is a mandatory reporter of child abuse, according to the suit.

Several months later, the alleged victim was sexually assaulted a second time by Hernandez, this time at the Youth Interactive office.

In Jan. 2017, the alleged victim told Gensac she was raped by Hernandez inside Gensac’s home in 2014. Gensac did not report the allegation to police, according to the suit.

When contacted by KSBY, Gensac said she had yet to be served with the suit and that she cannot comment on the allegations. Gensac also said Hernandez and Griffith are no longer part of Youth Interactive."

wow! if it's true, this could kill every nonprofit in Santa Barbara and expose these rats for the predators they are....pot and wine parties at the CEO's house in Montecito??  storing jars of marijuana at the State St headquarters??? outrageous!

I'll be watching this one closely

What'd I Say

baby what'd I say

my idea of sex education is to have the pretty teacher bare her breasts and let the guys in the class jerk off in front of her

Dr Laura was pretty hot!!

so Trump's nonprofit charity, the Trump Foundation was a for-profit scam..and now Trump has to pay a penalty of 2 million dollars...Trump used some of the money for him and his kids(adult children) and posed as though he was raising money for veterans when the money went to his campaign!!!

that's enough to impeach the motherfucking draft dodger right there...

remember holier-than-thou Dr Laura..she had her own scam veteran charity that was finally exposed when she tried to pull her shit in Carpinteria....Dr Laura used to write a column for the News-Press and Wendy and Nipper endorsed Trump...no character these people..none

and Don Jr is on a book tour..

ugh, I can't stand it

The Nearness of You

It's not the pale moon that excites me / That thrills and delights me, oh no / It's just the nearness of you

so I see the Chumash are giving back to the community again, this time with a gambler who drove his Camaro into a car and killed a young woman and her two children..on Highway 154, the Chumash Highway of Death

"The initial investigation reveals the male driver of a black Camaro traveling westbound crossed over the double yellow lines and hit a Chevy Volt traveling eastbound where the two vehicles spun out and rested on the shoulder"

so what was the scenario? investigation not over yet so speculation is easy...gambler-POS-punk-loser drives back from the casino in his Camaro after drinks and poker, crosses the double yellow line into oncoming traffic by the Cold Spring bridge, and crashes head-on, taking out the smaller car and killing the woman and her kids

and this beautiful woman was a very talented musician from Solvang with so much to give to the world..Vanessa Bley...just find her and listen..and her father Paul was a pioneer jazz pianist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3xaFqyKSpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRBLwM2wauY

God this is unbearable!!!! who can I blame??

well, how about the Newpress and Peter Lance who tried to weaken the SB cops drunk driver team and let the scumbag drunks off the hook...Lance, Steepleton and Genis..I'd like to boil these dickheads in their own blood but it looks like Karma is taking care of it

but that goddam casino is a plague

Burning Down the House

Baby, what did you expect? Gonna burst into flame

so some people are trying to blame the Camp fire on the California politicians instead of PG&E...one such guy is Rat, er, pardon me..Ron Fink over at Noozhawk..he is/was also on the shady anti-gov't non-profit SB County Taxpayers Association

Ron Fink-Noozhawk: Recently, the Wall Street Journal pointed out that PG&E had been required to divert hundreds of millions of operation-and-maintenance funds to build renewable energy projects as a means of solving weather-related global warming. This may have impacted their ability to properly maintain thousands of miles of electrical transmission lines in the area they serve.

well no not really...

the facts:
The 2017 fires are yet another example of the broken corporate culture and habitual behavior of PG&E negligence. Instead of spending the substantial revenue it generates from its services (PG&E reported nearly $18 billion of revenue in 2016 alone) for PG&E wildfire resources, they chose to divert this money towards corporate profits for its PG&E stock shareholders, and hefty bonuses for its executives (PG&E reported nearly $1.5 billion of profit in 2016). For example, in 2007, corporate whistle-blowers found that PG&E planned to spend $5 million it had raised from residents to replace a segment of pipeline in San Bruno county that had been determined as being dangerous. In lieu of replacing the pipeline, PG&E repurposed the money, and ultimately chose to pay nearly $5 million in bonuses to PG&E executives in 2009. In 2010, as noted above, a deadly fire resulted from poorly maintained gas pipelines in San Bruno claimed lives and destroyed buildings. Doubtlessly other examples of PG&E’s mismanagement of its finances to focus entirely on corporate profit and paying its executives would exist if PG&E provided more transparency into its vast operations.

WSJ INVESTIGATION
PG&E Knew for Years Its Lines Could Spark Wildfires, and Didn’t Fix Them

Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal show that the utility has long been aware that parts of its 18,500-mile transmission system were dangerously outdated
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. diverted more than $100 million in gas safety and operations money collected from customers over a 15-year period and spent it for other purposes, including profit for stockholders and bonuses for executives, according to a pair of state-ordered reports released Thursday.

PG&E wasn't forced to invest in renewable energy.....these threats of power shut-offs are the result of mismanagement and are not the way to run a public utility

so maybe it's time for the gov't to step in and clean house

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

it might be scary til your eyes adjust

What a beautiful, cold and windy October evening under an almost-full Hunter's moon..I was watching the news earlier and according to KEYT, I should be worried about sharks at Santa Claus and Padaro beaches..and a forced power outage if the Santana winds kick up....

some doofus with a drone got a pic of a shark off Santa Claus beach and he's worried about a Conception-like disaster if swimmers start getting killed...this guy is just looking for attention because no such a thing will ever happen..you can't even compare a shark swimming to  the Conception boat fire..the guy is a dummy..Chief Brody would be ashamed of him

-Swimming and surfing in an ocean filled with sharks is possible to do safely. The important thing is to use common sense when doing so. Sharks are at the top of the food chain in the ocean and must be respected...they've been here for millions of years!-

the only shark you need to be aware of at Santa Claus beach is me, baby

next thing I gots to be afraid of is a power outage, forced by the utility companies if the devil winds kick up...SCE and PG and E want to make sure they aren't blamed again if a fire starts in Fillmore and spreads to Santa Barbara...ok but I see no sense in shutting off my utilities just to save your corporate ass...try some preventive maintenance from a respected sub-contractor if one exists...

UPDATE: they shut the power off and still fires are raging in northern and southern California!

the private sector likes to cut corners to make more money, even if they burn your town down!