Losing My Religion

consider this

I was reading the News-Press online edition, sometimes they charge money to read, sometimes not..but I got in free somehow

anyways, I see a story about a bunch of old teabaggers shuffling around the Court House in Santa Barbara where I spent time covering DUI trials when the conservatives were blasting the cops for busting Wendy's drunk friends

The President Trump Prayer March was advertised as a “clarion call for God to intervene.”
-Barbara Batastini, a Santa Barbara resident who organized the march, spoke to the crowd, saying, “This is spiritual warfare. These are demonic entities that are trying to take our nation out. We are saying no to it.

“We’re making an appeal to heavens,” she told the News-Press. “We are standing for our president, we are standing against all the fraud and we are believing that this nation is going to come back in order once again, and it’s going to be a good day.”-

oh Babs, how can you be so stupid??? First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

without the Constitution and Bill of Rights, you would not be able to march or call for God to intervene in an election!!  you see Barb, you are all mixed up about America....religious fascism from a bunch of knuckleheads is not democracy

the only option is to try to overthrow the government...get all the little Trump jerk-offs together and storm the Capitol

but I think you'd lose

again

White Rabbit

go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall

so Wendy endorsed ex-president Trump, she can't accept the election results and is encouraging all these frivolous GOP lawsuits aimed at overturning the election...of course, since Trump lost and Biden won, there must be fraud everywhere esp since black people were counting votes 

from the News-Press:

Election
remains
undecided

At this time, the Santa Barbara
News-Press is not calling Joe
Biden the winner.
The media that has called the
results since this past Saturday is
premature and incorrect.
President Trump has contested
the results in numerous
battleground states, and with
the election so close, it is
irresponsible to make
conclusions at this time.
All legal votes should be
counted and all illegal votes
discarded.
Any and all irregularities
regarding the operations at polls,
the validity of ballots and the
possible software manipulation
of voting computers must be
resolved before a true winner is
announced.
news@newspress.com

but the GOP has no argument, just conspiracy theories..and when they don't get their way, they throw temper tantrums

the GOP has gone down the rabbit hole with ex-president Donald J Trumpski and if they don't get their shit together, will become peripheral

but that's beside the point

Psychotic Reaction

oh little girl psychotic reaction

so who's running the friggin country?

while we wait for the BIDEN/TRUMP votes to be counted, some races have already been decidered...Salud beat Andy Caldwell again, no surprise there.. Andy's ads were full of ANTIFA IS GONNA GIT YA nonsense and the conservatives just don't get it...teabagger propaganda does not work in California

AOC and the Squad who struck so much fear in Trump and his groupies WON BIG!! congrats AOC.. but I still can't buy a GREEN NEW DEAL hoodie! they are sold out

pot initiatives passed across the country which can't be good.. I hope someday the USA will be as evolved as New Zealand

locally, the schools are wrestling with s-e-x education: look, the kids are gonna learn anyway from their friends! but the rightwingers are hooked on abstinence and the leftwingers have only prurient interests

like me

Ride Like the Wind

and I've got such a long way to go, to make it to the border of Mexico

so I see that Christopher Cross had COVID and had a tough time but recovered..that's good..great music from this guy!

then I see that Jeff Bridges announced he has lymphoma and is undergoing treatment... all the best to this great actor and community member...I remember at the Brian Wilson/Zombies concert last year, Brian led the crowd in singing 'Happy Birthday' to Jeff's wife Susan...that was a wonderful night at the Arlington!!

so there was a big accident yesterday in Carp as the traffic overflowed the side streets..I watched it...101 south was shut down.. a big rig jack-knifed and a black Dodge Charger was involved

here's what's left of the Dodge Charger

it's what happens when you lose focus

Crossroads

I went down to the crossroads, tried to flag a ride 

ok so we got the News-Press and Independent endorsements but, like, who cares

Of course I don't endorse any candidates because who cares, so instead I highlight candidates and those are the ones I want you to vote for or not

nobody should vote for Trump.. I know his groupies will but normal clear thinking Americans need to get rid of him...send his fat ass back to Mar-a-Lago along with his weird Stepford Wives family

WARNING!! the California Republicans are putting up fake ballot boxes...in order to prevent voter fraud, they have committed election fraud!!

The Fresno County Republican Party, citing the president, promoted its unauthorized drop-off boxes as the safer way to vote: “President Trump is very concerned about the lack of security with mail in ballots,” the Fresno GOP website read. “Don’t take a chance that your vote will not be counted.”

The California Republican Party admitted to placing the boxes. In an email, state GOP spokesman Hector Barajas said the party will "continue our ballot harvesting program and not allow the Secretary of State to suppress the vote."

Héctor es muy estúpido!

                                                           
Salud's got Covid 19 so that leaves Andy Caldwell as the possible survivor...maybe Andy needs a taste of real life politics so go ahead, vote for him and we'll probably never hear his whiny little-girl voice again...no wait, don't vote for Andy PLEEEEEEESE!!!!! ladies, if you play with your pussies a lot, Andy will want to know if you are aborting your baby

Carpinteria is suffering the pains of poor growth management..too many housing projects, cannabis farms, and more hotel projects in the pipeline...
the City Of Carpinteria's response to COVID 19 was bad...the city council and administrators ran around like chickens with their heads cut off...barricading beach parking lots, closing streets then opening, then closing, then opening....expecting people to eat lunch in the middle of Main Street (Linden Ave)...meanwhile, local businesses died and the City came out with more harebrained ideas

I've said this City Council should go...Fred Shaw is not running again and Wade Namora is a clueless mayor

a good start would be electing two newcomers: Natalia Alarcon and Mark McIntire...they seem to have a good read on the city and will listen to the folks who live and invested here...we take this casual beach vibe seriously and will fight for it instead of selling the city down the river to potheads and developers

America is at a crossroads..save her if you please

Shock the Monkey

you got to...

back in the old days, they used shock therapy on humans to address behavior deemed inappropriate.... Centuries ago, eels were used to intentionally shock people to address a variety of health issues including headaches and other mental problems...they also used to drill holes in your head to let the demons out...trepanning it's called...

as we evolved, those barbaric methods disappeared although Trump may try to bring them back..

now, I see weepy ads on TV about poor neglected dogs and cats who need a monthy donation from you to save them...ok, that's fine

then I see where PETCO, a private company, was selling shock collars for dogs until recently..as PETCO may go public and trade on the stock market, it decided to stop selling the shock collars...sounds like a PR move

point being I didn't know they had shock collars! I was shocked!  it's barbaric!

Description
You can have the well-behaved pooch of your dreams quicker and easier than you thought with the Petrainer 998DRB Remote Controlled Dog Training Collar System. Correct such common doggie disobedience problems as unwanted barking, digging or pulling with the touch of a button using the programmable remote and water-resistant collar unit. Customize your pup’s training sessions with one of four stimulation modes–beep, light, vibration or static shock. You’re sure to get his attention with 100 levels of intensity to choose from! With a range of up to 900 feet and a backlit LCD screen, this user-friendly Petrainer e-collar system can be used practically anywhere, at any time. And when training time is over, the receiver and transmitter can easily be recharged together

I know most folks would never stoop to electro-shocking their dogs, but some people, lacking control of their own lives, may try to micro-control a dog to compensate...

then I see a local shop selling CBD treats for dogs who are neurotic..the cannabis calms them down...

but there's nothing wrong with the dogs, it's the owners who are the problem

I wonder how many animals rights people use these shock collars on their dogs?? Wendy??

Down By the River

I shot my baby

I got my mail-in ballot! I'll mail it in and hope it doesn't end up in a river somewheres

the likelihood of that happening is slim unless the mailman is paddling down the Tuckasegee River in the Great Smoky Mountains and the canoe tips over...and some hillbilly comes out of the woods and says "now let's see you just drop them panties, take 'em right off!"

the Republicans think they will get fucked by mail-in voting and maybe they will 

Update: and it appears they're getting fucked by COVID-19, too!!

and  if Mr. Trump wants to send the knucklehead Proud Boys over to my house to monitor my voting choices, or anything else, I'll be waiting for them

standing by