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LL Cool J Removed From Sarah Palin-Hosted Show
I'll write more about this later...
OK, it's later.
What a SNARKY way for Fox to weasel their way out of STEALING LL Cool J's clip from another show!
LL has been around for a long time. He's not some newcomer to acting. He doesn't need his clip shown on this desparate attempt to make Palin look good. (Whose bright idea was this anyway?)
Somehow, I'm not surprised. Any time Palin is involved in something, it seems to turn out badly. I thought she was a brilliant choice for VP -- until she opened her mouth and proved that the Republicans couldn't possibly pick a WORSE and STUPIDER contender.
Oh, my, gosh. A new low for the Repubs, Palin, and Fox network.
How much deeper can that mud hole get?
Oh, wait. California is going to elect a new governator.
It will get worse...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Sweat Lodge Charlatan -- A "Self-Help Guru"??
http://www.nctimes.com/news/national/backpage/article_652ba590-a370-5c0c-be3d-b0ae0da5c8f2.html
This is disgusting on so many levels, that I don't know where to start.
This man, James Arthur Ray, took it upon himself to fraudulently use the sacred ceremonies of the sweat lodge and managed to kill three people. Why?
The Bible says that "The love of money is the root of all evil."
According to the news article, "His attorneys have said his Carlsbad-based company, James Ray International, hasn't been bringing in revenue for months."
Well, I don't know about you, but it's pretty clear to me -- it's all about the money.
His attempts at restarting his career at fleecing those people seeking spiritual enlightenment is disgusting. He built his empire on the backs of the lost, and now, after killing three of them, he's trying to get it going again?
My friends, there is nothing wrong with seeking Truth. In fact, you should seek Truth. But don't listen to charlatans who are stealing from other cultures, other peoples, from the Great Spirit, from God.
Have respect for the Great Spirit, Jehovah Jirah, God. Your God who loves you as a parent loves a child. He gave you a handbook to guide you through this life.
It's called the Bible.
Don't listen to disgusting thieves who warp the sacred ways, desecrate the sacred places, perform ceremonies without proper safeguards, without guidence from the Elders.
Take it back where you belong, back to the Word.
And for Heaven's sake, don't give this "self-help guru" your hard earned money! He's NOT looking to help you, he's looking to help himself to your checkbook.
This is disgusting on so many levels, that I don't know where to start.
This man, James Arthur Ray, took it upon himself to fraudulently use the sacred ceremonies of the sweat lodge and managed to kill three people. Why?
The Bible says that "The love of money is the root of all evil."
According to the news article, "His attorneys have said his Carlsbad-based company, James Ray International, hasn't been bringing in revenue for months."
Well, I don't know about you, but it's pretty clear to me -- it's all about the money.
His attempts at restarting his career at fleecing those people seeking spiritual enlightenment is disgusting. He built his empire on the backs of the lost, and now, after killing three of them, he's trying to get it going again?
My friends, there is nothing wrong with seeking Truth. In fact, you should seek Truth. But don't listen to charlatans who are stealing from other cultures, other peoples, from the Great Spirit, from God.
Have respect for the Great Spirit, Jehovah Jirah, God. Your God who loves you as a parent loves a child. He gave you a handbook to guide you through this life.
It's called the Bible.
Don't listen to disgusting thieves who warp the sacred ways, desecrate the sacred places, perform ceremonies without proper safeguards, without guidence from the Elders.
Take it back where you belong, back to the Word.
And for Heaven's sake, don't give this "self-help guru" your hard earned money! He's NOT looking to help you, he's looking to help himself to your checkbook.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
About The Tea Party Racism
Yes, I hear people talking about how the Tea Party movement isn't racist, that it's NOT about having a Black President, that we just aren't like that any more.
Huh.
Well, ya know, people can SAY anything they want, but the proof is out there, as this writer pointed out in her article, Too much tea party racism.
Even in liberal San Francisco (which is NOT as liberal as many people think), there's a lot of Conservatives and while they may get outvoted, they're a force to be reckoned with.
Don't believe me? Check it out:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ErH-DRlNvXtWD7Pki7YHgpf1DrJsijHf03RLjnqoEr46JDD4JzINgUwKDQi3o71Syah1CVfhtQaEKYaKF_w_lUIhzFEG2L40JigfJH6H5Q8NkW3deYANXVtbuKb-FC5BPEuXecIMpjw/s1600-h/teapartypic.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYx7R2zM8w0
And from CNN: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/21/house-republicans-denounce-racial-slurs-hurled-at-democrats/?hpt=T1&fbid=qsfJsirq2lr
Just do a quick Google. You don't have to believe me, the proof is out there for all who want to see it. As for the rest of you -- sigh -- ignorance IS a lifestyle choice.
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Huh.
Well, ya know, people can SAY anything they want, but the proof is out there, as this writer pointed out in her article, Too much tea party racism.
Even in liberal San Francisco (which is NOT as liberal as many people think), there's a lot of Conservatives and while they may get outvoted, they're a force to be reckoned with.
Don't believe me? Check it out:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ErH-DRlNvXtWD7Pki7YHgpf1DrJsijHf03RLjnqoEr46JDD4JzINgUwKDQi3o71Syah1CVfhtQaEKYaKF_w_lUIhzFEG2L40JigfJH6H5Q8NkW3deYANXVtbuKb-FC5BPEuXecIMpjw/s1600-h/teapartypic.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYx7R2zM8w0
And from CNN: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/21/house-republicans-denounce-racial-slurs-hurled-at-democrats/?hpt=T1&fbid=qsfJsirq2lr
Just do a quick Google. You don't have to believe me, the proof is out there for all who want to see it. As for the rest of you -- sigh -- ignorance IS a lifestyle choice.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Keep The Happy People
Wow!
I just read this Yahoo article, The Secret to Having Happy Employees by Jay Goltz, and it touched me in a couple of ways.
First, of course, it's like, dang, he FIRED all the unhappy people? Wow, that's harsh!
Second, having worked with a lot of miserable people who did not fit the job and the job didn't fit them, it was a super smart move to make.
Goltz has an extremely valid point. In today's economic climate, there's a lot of people looking for work. Why on earth would he keep unhappy people on his payroll?
He was smart to set the unhappy people free. Many, many employees will stay, year after year, making everyone around them just as miserable as they are. They complain. They poison the workspace. They stress out the people who actually like their jobs.
Yes, I've seen all that before.
Good bosses sometimes have to make very difficult decisions. Goltz set the unhappy people free to seek new jobs that will hopefully be a better fit. It was a good business decision on his part, good for his company and good for the remaining staff.
Again, having worked with people who are just miserable to be around, day after day, I can see how his difficult decision has benefited the company. I hope that he also got rid of any supervisors who worked to make their staff miserable. There ARE two sides to that coin.
Don't get me wrong now, I'm not saying that staff should bow and scrape when the boss goes by, but as I often tell my co-workers (and even people on the phone), "They pay me good money to do my job. The least I can do is be nice about it."
There is an important lesson here for both businesses and employees. Not "don't worry, be happy" but more on the order of "happy people work harder and will stick with the company through thick and thin..."
(I'm human. There are days when my job is not a happy place -- filled with high stress situations and dealing with difficult people. But in general, I have a good job, I get paid well, and I appreciate it. It doesn't hurt me to let it show.)
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109063/the-secret-to-having-happy-employees?mod=career-leadership
I just read this Yahoo article, The Secret to Having Happy Employees by Jay Goltz, and it touched me in a couple of ways.
First, of course, it's like, dang, he FIRED all the unhappy people? Wow, that's harsh!
Second, having worked with a lot of miserable people who did not fit the job and the job didn't fit them, it was a super smart move to make.
Goltz has an extremely valid point. In today's economic climate, there's a lot of people looking for work. Why on earth would he keep unhappy people on his payroll?
He was smart to set the unhappy people free. Many, many employees will stay, year after year, making everyone around them just as miserable as they are. They complain. They poison the workspace. They stress out the people who actually like their jobs.
Yes, I've seen all that before.
Good bosses sometimes have to make very difficult decisions. Goltz set the unhappy people free to seek new jobs that will hopefully be a better fit. It was a good business decision on his part, good for his company and good for the remaining staff.
Again, having worked with people who are just miserable to be around, day after day, I can see how his difficult decision has benefited the company. I hope that he also got rid of any supervisors who worked to make their staff miserable. There ARE two sides to that coin.
Don't get me wrong now, I'm not saying that staff should bow and scrape when the boss goes by, but as I often tell my co-workers (and even people on the phone), "They pay me good money to do my job. The least I can do is be nice about it."
There is an important lesson here for both businesses and employees. Not "don't worry, be happy" but more on the order of "happy people work harder and will stick with the company through thick and thin..."
(I'm human. There are days when my job is not a happy place -- filled with high stress situations and dealing with difficult people. But in general, I have a good job, I get paid well, and I appreciate it. It doesn't hurt me to let it show.)
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109063/the-secret-to-having-happy-employees?mod=career-leadership
Friday, February 19, 2010
The Tea Party -- Like Herding Cats
We hear a lot on the news about the current Tea Party Movement.
But what are they?
In my mind, they're a bunch of small minded, bigoted (even racist), conservatives who want to roll back time, back to the 50s when white was right and America's might dominated world politics.
Of course I think they're deluded.
But I read this most interesting piece about the Tea Party Conservative. Especially interesting was about halfway down the article, "The Three Flavors of Tea". According the article, the Tea Party movement is a mish-mash of various political misfits.
Talk about herding cats! They're lucky they can agree on a place and time to demonstrate!
The Time article, The Making of the Tea Party Movement by David Von Drehle, really captures the Tea Party mentality, explaining it to the rest of us who look at crowds of mostly middle aged and older whites, signs bobbing up and down with monkeys and trite slogans, and say "Whaaaaa?"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100219/us_time/08599196490300;_ylt=AsX7KxX5udIvfKh3HyO1gBrQOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTM1czdtYzAzBGFzc2V0A3RpbWUvMjAxMDAyMTkvMDg1OTkxOTY0OTAzMDAEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM0BHBvcwM0BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDYW5hbHlzaXN0aGVt
But what are they?
In my mind, they're a bunch of small minded, bigoted (even racist), conservatives who want to roll back time, back to the 50s when white was right and America's might dominated world politics.
Of course I think they're deluded.
But I read this most interesting piece about the Tea Party Conservative. Especially interesting was about halfway down the article, "The Three Flavors of Tea". According the article, the Tea Party movement is a mish-mash of various political misfits.
Talk about herding cats! They're lucky they can agree on a place and time to demonstrate!
The Time article, The Making of the Tea Party Movement by David Von Drehle, really captures the Tea Party mentality, explaining it to the rest of us who look at crowds of mostly middle aged and older whites, signs bobbing up and down with monkeys and trite slogans, and say "Whaaaaa?"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100219/us_time/08599196490300;_ylt=AsX7KxX5udIvfKh3HyO1gBrQOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTM1czdtYzAzBGFzc2V0A3RpbWUvMjAxMDAyMTkvMDg1OTkxOTY0OTAzMDAEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM0BHBvcwM0BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDYW5hbHlzaXN0aGVt
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Yet Another Reason To Hate Republicans
Insensitive, self-righteous, obnoxious pig -- how's that for a start?
South Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer gave me yet another reason to never, ever, ever become a Republican. Never.
On Friday, not only did he open his mouth, shove his foot in, but he's still gnawing at his hip instead of admitting that he could be WRONG and APOLOGIZE to the poor and needy families he insulted with his typical Republican point of view of the "welfare" system of cash aid, food stamps, Medicaid/Medi-Cal.
Quote:
"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals," Bauer told a Greenville-area crowd. "You know why? Because they breed.
"You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better."
He's comparing poor families to ANIMALS??? In a state with 12.6% unemployment?
And he feels NO need to apologize.
Say what?
OK, like I didn't need another reason to hate a closed minded, selfish, arrogant, self-righteous political organization that not only condones but encourages this kind of attitude toward the peoples of his state and the United States.
Calling poor families, even children, animals?
As a Christian, I'm embarrassed that someone who professes Christianity would forget that Jesus himself told us that the poor would always be with us AND that we're supposed to take care of the widows and children. It's our mandated duty, given to us by our Savior. We don't get to pick and choose what we think the right thing to do, this is straight out of the Big Man's mouth. We are to care for the poor. Period.
Bauer needs to crack open the Word and let the Lord smack him up side the head a few times. Then apologize and do some actual work for a change, like volunteer at the local soup kitchen and homeless shelter. No, not just a donation -- I'm talking about actually getting his behind up out of his white castle and go down into the streets and do some important work for the Lord.
In the meantime, we the people have a duty to handle politicians with this kind of disrespectful attitude toward the families they're supposed to represent.
IE: Vote the B******s out! (And in Bauer's case, don't vote him in as governor!)
Links:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/82910.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Bauer
South Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer gave me yet another reason to never, ever, ever become a Republican. Never.
On Friday, not only did he open his mouth, shove his foot in, but he's still gnawing at his hip instead of admitting that he could be WRONG and APOLOGIZE to the poor and needy families he insulted with his typical Republican point of view of the "welfare" system of cash aid, food stamps, Medicaid/Medi-Cal.
Quote:
"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals," Bauer told a Greenville-area crowd. "You know why? Because they breed.
"You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better."
He's comparing poor families to ANIMALS??? In a state with 12.6% unemployment?
And he feels NO need to apologize.
Say what?
OK, like I didn't need another reason to hate a closed minded, selfish, arrogant, self-righteous political organization that not only condones but encourages this kind of attitude toward the peoples of his state and the United States.
Calling poor families, even children, animals?
As a Christian, I'm embarrassed that someone who professes Christianity would forget that Jesus himself told us that the poor would always be with us AND that we're supposed to take care of the widows and children. It's our mandated duty, given to us by our Savior. We don't get to pick and choose what we think the right thing to do, this is straight out of the Big Man's mouth. We are to care for the poor. Period.
Bauer needs to crack open the Word and let the Lord smack him up side the head a few times. Then apologize and do some actual work for a change, like volunteer at the local soup kitchen and homeless shelter. No, not just a donation -- I'm talking about actually getting his behind up out of his white castle and go down into the streets and do some important work for the Lord.
In the meantime, we the people have a duty to handle politicians with this kind of disrespectful attitude toward the families they're supposed to represent.
IE: Vote the B******s out! (And in Bauer's case, don't vote him in as governor!)
Links:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/82910.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Bauer
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Rain, Rain, Go Away...
Rain, rain, go away, come again another day...
And another,
And another,
And another.
I'm Cali, born and raised, so I get a little irritated with the constant nattering about drought.
Bad news folks, California is a wet/dry climate. We have regular cycles of wet and then dry. In other words, it's not a drought, it's normal for our climate.
However, the constant stream of misinformation is big business, not just for the media, but for all aspects of our California culture. Just like the "global warming" scenario is for the Feds and scientists looking for grant money.
To be blunt, the entire planet cycles.
Sometimes it's hotter.
Sometimes it's colder.
Sometimes it's wetter.
Sometimes it's dryer.
There are far, far more factors involved in climate and weather than man's influence.
Now, I'm not saying that we shouldn't use wind, solar, water, any alternate energy source. Heck no! We certainly should. But not because of the hype about global warming. We should do it because done right, it would be cheaper for the consumer.
The next time you hear nattering about drought or global warming, remember: It wasn't that long ago that scientists were sure that we were slipping into the next ice age.
Honestly, all it would take would be another Krakatoa or Tambora or Yellowstone to make an abrupt change in our climate cycles.
So while the doomsayers natter on, do some research, check into the information that they state as fact (it's usually just the latest theory and not a fact at all), and take it all with a grain of salt. The earth may be heating up or cooling down, but scientists and politicians don't know how or why, they just think they do.
And as long as there's grant money available to "prove" those theories, somebody is going to be doing their best to find the facts that fit the theory. Yeah, it's not very ethical, but it's what happens all too often when money meets a theory...
The Little Ice Age: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
Krakatoa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa
Tambora: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tambora
Yellowstone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera
http://www.livescience.com/environment/050308_super_volcano.html
And another,
And another,
And another.
I'm Cali, born and raised, so I get a little irritated with the constant nattering about drought.
Bad news folks, California is a wet/dry climate. We have regular cycles of wet and then dry. In other words, it's not a drought, it's normal for our climate.
However, the constant stream of misinformation is big business, not just for the media, but for all aspects of our California culture. Just like the "global warming" scenario is for the Feds and scientists looking for grant money.
To be blunt, the entire planet cycles.
Sometimes it's hotter.
Sometimes it's colder.
Sometimes it's wetter.
Sometimes it's dryer.
There are far, far more factors involved in climate and weather than man's influence.
Now, I'm not saying that we shouldn't use wind, solar, water, any alternate energy source. Heck no! We certainly should. But not because of the hype about global warming. We should do it because done right, it would be cheaper for the consumer.
The next time you hear nattering about drought or global warming, remember: It wasn't that long ago that scientists were sure that we were slipping into the next ice age.
Honestly, all it would take would be another Krakatoa or Tambora or Yellowstone to make an abrupt change in our climate cycles.
So while the doomsayers natter on, do some research, check into the information that they state as fact (it's usually just the latest theory and not a fact at all), and take it all with a grain of salt. The earth may be heating up or cooling down, but scientists and politicians don't know how or why, they just think they do.
And as long as there's grant money available to "prove" those theories, somebody is going to be doing their best to find the facts that fit the theory. Yeah, it's not very ethical, but it's what happens all too often when money meets a theory...
The Little Ice Age: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
Krakatoa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa
Tambora: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tambora
Yellowstone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera
http://www.livescience.com/environment/050308_super_volcano.html
Oh My Gosh! Larry Platt On American Idol
Larry Platt - Memorable auditions
This was GREAT!
And upon reading about Larry Platt, he's an awesome man. From the Civil Rights movement right up to the present, he's an activist that we should pay attention to!
While some may feel that performing "Pants On The Ground" on the pop TV show American Idol was beneath him, I saw him as an impassioned activist that saw a way to send a message to millions of Americans about self respect and dignity. He was not acting the buffoon as some bloggers have said, he was using the popular media to get an important message out to our youth.
He's a great man. Check the video out -- Larry Platt.
And then read more about him and be ready to be truly impressed!
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/realityrocks/301708/general-larry-platt-a-real-american-idol/
This was GREAT!
And upon reading about Larry Platt, he's an awesome man. From the Civil Rights movement right up to the present, he's an activist that we should pay attention to!
While some may feel that performing "Pants On The Ground" on the pop TV show American Idol was beneath him, I saw him as an impassioned activist that saw a way to send a message to millions of Americans about self respect and dignity. He was not acting the buffoon as some bloggers have said, he was using the popular media to get an important message out to our youth.
He's a great man. Check the video out -- Larry Platt.
And then read more about him and be ready to be truly impressed!
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/realityrocks/301708/general-larry-platt-a-real-american-idol/
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Misinformation And Straight Up Republican LIES
I just heard the Meg Whitman ad on the radio yesterday and about swallowed my teeth. (Good thing they're still original equipment!)
Have you heard the garbage she's spouting about welfare reforms?
Ummmm, did she miss the fact that we've had Welfare Reform over 10 years ago now?
From her own website:
MEG: Some people worry that we're creating a welfare state. The fact is, California is the welfare state.
ANNCR: Meg Whitman talks about the California welfare system.
MEG: Did you know that California has twice the population of New York, but five times as many welfare cases? 32 percent of all welfare caseloads in America are here in California.
We provide among the highest cash welfare checks of any state.
But only 22 percent of our recipients work for their benefits.
The system is broken.
But we can fix it…
Let's cut the lifetime welfare benefit from five years to two.
And let's put able-bodied welfare recipients to work. Looking for employment, performing community service or working toward a GED.
If they don't, they lose their benefits.
Welfare can't be a way of life. We need to help those in need, but we need to do it in a way that's accountable, sensible, and strengthens our communities.
ANNCR: Paid for by Meg Whitman for Governor 2010.
MEG: It's time for A New California. What do you think? Share your ideas and read my plan at TalkToMeg.com.
OK, now let's just look at this. Except for cutting the 5 year lifetime limit to 2 years, what she's spouting is WHAT WE'RE ALREADY DOING!
Sorry for shouting, but she's spouting garbage. It's all political gobbledygook to make people get all hot and bothered about "those people".
Well, you know what, with approximately 12.5% unemployment* in California, there may be good reasons why welfare recipients aren't working. They can't find jobs!
Use your heads people! If your highly skilled next door neighbor got laid off and can't find work, what makes you think that someone with a GED, two kids, and an ex that refuses to pay child support, is going to be able to bounce out the door and find a job that will make him/her and the family self sufficient? Get real!!
Meg is pushing out the usual Republican pap to get the right wing masses all hot and bothered about "those lazy welfare recipients".
Bad news Meg, reality bites and the garbage you're pushing out is just that, garbage. A pack of misinformation and straight up lies. Too bad that the conservatives will bite, sucking up the party line instead of using their heads, doing a little research, and realizing that you're just Arnie in a dress.
Yup.
I fear for my state, if Meg gets in, we're looking at four more years of the same tired BS. We might as well vote Arnold in again. It'll just be more of the same -- blame the poor and the liberals instead of rolling up sleeves and actually doing some work.
Oh. I didn't mention something about our welfare recipients, did I?
The biggest welfare recipients are our elected representatives, sucking at the government teat while spending OUR money, trying to steal OUR pensions, and then blaming US for their mismanagement of this beautiful state.
Well, they're right about one thing. We are to blame for voting them back in, year after year after year.
This next election, let's make a REAL change.
Vote them all out!
Every
Single
One
Start over with some new blood. We can't do any worse than we already have!!
And in the meantime, since Meg is already lying in her ad campaign, if I was you, I'd be really suspicious about everything else that comes out of her mouth. Leopards don't change their spots and liars don't stop lying. Even when they've been busted for it.
Especially when they've been busted.
Think about it.
And don't take my word for it. Look it up.
From 1997 - when Welfare Reform began: http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/rb/RB_297TMRB.pdf
From 2003 - The stats used by pundits like Meg:
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_wel_cas_tot_rec-economy-welfare-caseloads-total-recipients
BUT looking further on the same website: http://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_wel_cas_tot_fam_percap-caseloads-total-families-per-capita
Unemployment - January 2010:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
And by state - November 2009:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm
* California unemployment in November 2009. Recent news reports are putting the actual unemployment rate at nearly 25%. (But we all know how the media can distort a simple statistic!)
Have you heard the garbage she's spouting about welfare reforms?
Ummmm, did she miss the fact that we've had Welfare Reform over 10 years ago now?
From her own website:
MEG: Some people worry that we're creating a welfare state. The fact is, California is the welfare state.
ANNCR: Meg Whitman talks about the California welfare system.
MEG: Did you know that California has twice the population of New York, but five times as many welfare cases? 32 percent of all welfare caseloads in America are here in California.
We provide among the highest cash welfare checks of any state.
But only 22 percent of our recipients work for their benefits.
The system is broken.
But we can fix it…
Let's cut the lifetime welfare benefit from five years to two.
And let's put able-bodied welfare recipients to work. Looking for employment, performing community service or working toward a GED.
If they don't, they lose their benefits.
Welfare can't be a way of life. We need to help those in need, but we need to do it in a way that's accountable, sensible, and strengthens our communities.
ANNCR: Paid for by Meg Whitman for Governor 2010.
MEG: It's time for A New California. What do you think? Share your ideas and read my plan at TalkToMeg.com.
OK, now let's just look at this. Except for cutting the 5 year lifetime limit to 2 years, what she's spouting is WHAT WE'RE ALREADY DOING!
Sorry for shouting, but she's spouting garbage. It's all political gobbledygook to make people get all hot and bothered about "those people".
Well, you know what, with approximately 12.5% unemployment* in California, there may be good reasons why welfare recipients aren't working. They can't find jobs!
Use your heads people! If your highly skilled next door neighbor got laid off and can't find work, what makes you think that someone with a GED, two kids, and an ex that refuses to pay child support, is going to be able to bounce out the door and find a job that will make him/her and the family self sufficient? Get real!!
Meg is pushing out the usual Republican pap to get the right wing masses all hot and bothered about "those lazy welfare recipients".
Bad news Meg, reality bites and the garbage you're pushing out is just that, garbage. A pack of misinformation and straight up lies. Too bad that the conservatives will bite, sucking up the party line instead of using their heads, doing a little research, and realizing that you're just Arnie in a dress.
Yup.
I fear for my state, if Meg gets in, we're looking at four more years of the same tired BS. We might as well vote Arnold in again. It'll just be more of the same -- blame the poor and the liberals instead of rolling up sleeves and actually doing some work.
Oh. I didn't mention something about our welfare recipients, did I?
The biggest welfare recipients are our elected representatives, sucking at the government teat while spending OUR money, trying to steal OUR pensions, and then blaming US for their mismanagement of this beautiful state.
Well, they're right about one thing. We are to blame for voting them back in, year after year after year.
This next election, let's make a REAL change.
Vote them all out!
Every
Single
One
Start over with some new blood. We can't do any worse than we already have!!
And in the meantime, since Meg is already lying in her ad campaign, if I was you, I'd be really suspicious about everything else that comes out of her mouth. Leopards don't change their spots and liars don't stop lying. Even when they've been busted for it.
Especially when they've been busted.
Think about it.
And don't take my word for it. Look it up.
From 1997 - when Welfare Reform began: http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/rb/RB_297TMRB.pdf
From 2003 - The stats used by pundits like Meg:
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_wel_cas_tot_rec-economy-welfare-caseloads-total-recipients
BUT looking further on the same website: http://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_wel_cas_tot_fam_percap-caseloads-total-families-per-capita
Unemployment - January 2010:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
And by state - November 2009:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm
* California unemployment in November 2009. Recent news reports are putting the actual unemployment rate at nearly 25%. (But we all know how the media can distort a simple statistic!)
Sunday, January 3, 2010
The Dilemma of the California Valley Miwok Tribe
California Valley Miwok Tribe is essentially a landless tribe. All their tribal homelands are gone and the only land that they have as a tribal headquarters is a house in Stockton, California.
However, they face losing that tiny bit of land too, due to the Federal Government withholding the monies owed to the tribe.
Now, there appears to be a major dispute over the tribal leadership and membership. However, the failure to pay funds owed to the tribe is not the way to deal with internal disputes within a sovereign nation.
This is a very complex and disheartening read of the legal issues involved in both the election of the current leadership of the tribe as well as the involvement of the BIA. I agree that all members of the tribe should be involved in the administration of the tribe. But how can this happen if there's no funds available? We aren't talking about a rich tribe here, the California tribes have been impoverished for generations.
No matter which side you're on, this is an ugly situation.
It seems to me that very least that the Feds could do is to pay the mortgage on the property out of the gaming funds while the internal dispute is being resolved. Should it turn out that the membership of the entire tribe decides that the current tribal administration needs to be removed, then the tribe can decide if the funds should be reimbursed to the tribe by the current owners.
In the meantime, the current foreclosure is set for January 15th, 2010.
For details, check it out:
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2009miwok-house (Note: I have no affiliation with this website, nor do I agree with all their political views.)
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/dct/unreported/miwok.html
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/cta/unreported/cavalleymiwok.pdf
http://turtletalk.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/calif-miwok-tribe-v-kempthorne.pdf
However, they face losing that tiny bit of land too, due to the Federal Government withholding the monies owed to the tribe.
Now, there appears to be a major dispute over the tribal leadership and membership. However, the failure to pay funds owed to the tribe is not the way to deal with internal disputes within a sovereign nation.
This is a very complex and disheartening read of the legal issues involved in both the election of the current leadership of the tribe as well as the involvement of the BIA. I agree that all members of the tribe should be involved in the administration of the tribe. But how can this happen if there's no funds available? We aren't talking about a rich tribe here, the California tribes have been impoverished for generations.
No matter which side you're on, this is an ugly situation.
It seems to me that very least that the Feds could do is to pay the mortgage on the property out of the gaming funds while the internal dispute is being resolved. Should it turn out that the membership of the entire tribe decides that the current tribal administration needs to be removed, then the tribe can decide if the funds should be reimbursed to the tribe by the current owners.
In the meantime, the current foreclosure is set for January 15th, 2010.
For details, check it out:
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2009miwok-house (Note: I have no affiliation with this website, nor do I agree with all their political views.)
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/dct/unreported/miwok.html
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/cta/unreported/cavalleymiwok.pdf
http://turtletalk.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/calif-miwok-tribe-v-kempthorne.pdf
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Veterans Day
Yes, it's a day off from work.
But let us not forget the men and women of the Armed Forces, who have sacrificed so, so much in order that we can live in the ways that we choose.
So that I can write in my blogs and not fear that my door will be broken down and my kids and I carried away, just because some politician or cop didn't like what I wrote.
That I can live in the neighborhood that I choose, work at the job I choose, drive the car or truck that I choose.
Veterans have provided us with the protections that we have, so we can CHOOSE to live the way we want, in peace and [more or less] harmony with our neighbors.
Today is a good day to say thank you to a Veteran.
Today is a good day to take a minute and thank the Lord for those who have paid the ultimate price for our freedoms.
Today is a good day.
Veterans Day, November 11, 2009.
Thank you.
But let us not forget the men and women of the Armed Forces, who have sacrificed so, so much in order that we can live in the ways that we choose.
So that I can write in my blogs and not fear that my door will be broken down and my kids and I carried away, just because some politician or cop didn't like what I wrote.
That I can live in the neighborhood that I choose, work at the job I choose, drive the car or truck that I choose.
Veterans have provided us with the protections that we have, so we can CHOOSE to live the way we want, in peace and [more or less] harmony with our neighbors.
Today is a good day to say thank you to a Veteran.
Today is a good day to take a minute and thank the Lord for those who have paid the ultimate price for our freedoms.
Today is a good day.
Veterans Day, November 11, 2009.
Thank you.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Refuses To Marry Interracial Couples?
Are you kidding me? This Justice of the Peace refuses to marry interracial couples and in Louisiana, that's OK?
Are you joking?
And people think that racism doesn't exist? PULEEZE!!
Oh, yeah, he says he's not a racist. He even lets Blacks in his house. They even use his bathroom.
That is so f*ing clueless that it's scary.
I'm darn near speechless, not just in disbelief, but in rage! An elected official who thinks that it's OK to refuse to follow the law and apparently has already been warned about it -- and he's still in office?? Are you kidding me????
But you should read this for yourself and draw your own conclusions about this clown. I'm afraid that my conclusions aren't printable in a family space...
http://www.allgov.com/ViewNews/Louisiana_Justice_of_the_Peace_Refuses_to_Marry_Interracial_Couple_91017
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_interracial_rebuff
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/race/2009/10/louisiana-justice-of-the-peace-refuses-to-marry-interracial-couple.html
Are you joking?
And people think that racism doesn't exist? PULEEZE!!
Oh, yeah, he says he's not a racist. He even lets Blacks in his house. They even use his bathroom.
That is so f*ing clueless that it's scary.
I'm darn near speechless, not just in disbelief, but in rage! An elected official who thinks that it's OK to refuse to follow the law and apparently has already been warned about it -- and he's still in office?? Are you kidding me????
But you should read this for yourself and draw your own conclusions about this clown. I'm afraid that my conclusions aren't printable in a family space...
http://www.allgov.com/ViewNews/Louisiana_Justice_of_the_Peace_Refuses_to_Marry_Interracial_Couple_91017
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_interracial_rebuff
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/race/2009/10/louisiana-justice-of-the-peace-refuses-to-marry-interracial-couple.html
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Racism
Tami says it better than I ever could.
Check it out:
http://whattamisaid.blogspot.com/2009/09/ism-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html
Please don't just gloss over and then discount what she's written.
If you do, you've joined the masses that trivialize and marginalize our Brothers and Sisters of Color, discounting their truths because you just don't want to see the pain that still exists in this country.
When you deny another person's truth, you deny their very being.
Think about it.
Check it out:
http://whattamisaid.blogspot.com/2009/09/ism-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html
Please don't just gloss over and then discount what she's written.
If you do, you've joined the masses that trivialize and marginalize our Brothers and Sisters of Color, discounting their truths because you just don't want to see the pain that still exists in this country.
When you deny another person's truth, you deny their very being.
Think about it.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Medical Coverage For All
You know, I'm tired of the misinformation and just flat out BS that's being put out regarding health coverage in the US.
Let me tell you, I make decent money, and I'm being bled dry by the costs of my health plan. It's HELLA expensive and gets more expensive every year. In addition, my work is trying to mess with the plan we have. (I'm not getting into the details of that, I don't risk my job for a blog -- sorry.)
No matter how it all falls out, this is what I want to see:
Let me tell you, I make decent money, and I'm being bled dry by the costs of my health plan. It's HELLA expensive and gets more expensive every year. In addition, my work is trying to mess with the plan we have. (I'm not getting into the details of that, I don't risk my job for a blog -- sorry.)
No matter how it all falls out, this is what I want to see:
- Free vaccinations for EVERYONE. You get a little shot card, you walk in anywhere and get free vaccinations. No questions asked. No status, no nothing. This is about everyone's health and the more people who choose to be vaccinated, the better off we all are. Think of how many cases of Hep A that could be avoided just by encouraging everyone to get vaccinated. Free. No questions asked.
- Free TB tests and treatment. This is the same thing, all about public health. People blather on about undocs bringing TB into the country. Well, first, many are NOT undocumented, and most are NOT Hispanic! TB is an important public health issue and should be treated, no matter what a person's economic or citizenship status is.
No matter what else the powers that be decide, these two things should be free and available to everybody in this country.
In addition, I think that we should take health care a step further with:
- All prenatal care should be free. This is obvious, healthy babies make healthier adults.
- All health care for kids up to age 24 or graduation from college should be free. This would be a HUGE help to parents, to know that their kids are covered. And a large part of the coverage should focus on preventive medicine. Once a young person starts working, a health plan should be available through the employer. By age 24, a person should be established enough to manage this. If not, there's always the public health clinic...
Anyway, that's my not-at-all-humble thoughts on health coverage in the United States.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
I AM LIVID!!
Oh my gosh, I am just livid with our California lawmakers and the idiot governator.
They have a budget, so he goes in with his blue pen and lines out more stuff?
Why the HELL did the budget get so delayed, when he was holding it up, and then he just went in and destroyed a bunch of hard won agreements and work anyway?
The governor of California is a bleeding idiot and so are all too many of my fellow inmates in this beautiful asylum we call a state.
I didn't vote for this guy.
Anyone who got sucked into his BS should be sorry now.
I could have told you that we'd have a budget mess a long time ago. In fact, as soon as he got into office and leveraged all our state debt into new agreements. All he did was push the payment back, and now here we are, backs against the wall, thanks to him and his "solutions" to our budget problems.
The poor will suffer.
The middle class will suffer.
The old, the children, the disabled are now officially screwed by the governor.
I am so angry I could spit nails!
He needs to go back to the fanatsy world of the movies. Because he's forgotten where he came from. Now he's just another bent up Republican on a power trip.
People, pay attention to who you vote for.
IE: Be careful what you wish for -- you might get it.
And oh, man, did we get it...
They have a budget, so he goes in with his blue pen and lines out more stuff?
Why the HELL did the budget get so delayed, when he was holding it up, and then he just went in and destroyed a bunch of hard won agreements and work anyway?
The governor of California is a bleeding idiot and so are all too many of my fellow inmates in this beautiful asylum we call a state.
I didn't vote for this guy.
Anyone who got sucked into his BS should be sorry now.
I could have told you that we'd have a budget mess a long time ago. In fact, as soon as he got into office and leveraged all our state debt into new agreements. All he did was push the payment back, and now here we are, backs against the wall, thanks to him and his "solutions" to our budget problems.
The poor will suffer.
The middle class will suffer.
The old, the children, the disabled are now officially screwed by the governor.
I am so angry I could spit nails!
He needs to go back to the fanatsy world of the movies. Because he's forgotten where he came from. Now he's just another bent up Republican on a power trip.
People, pay attention to who you vote for.
IE: Be careful what you wish for -- you might get it.
And oh, man, did we get it...
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Obama's Supreme Court Choice
OMGoodness!
We FINALLY get a good pick for the Supreme Court and the GOP is having a hemorrhage about a speech that she made in 1991!
Yes, Sonia Sotomayor did say that a Latina judge "would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
Context people, think context!
The people having the biggest fits are old white guys who were never poor. Ever.
The point is that each judge brings their own background with them to the bench. That's human, we ALL view things from the influences of our lives.
A Latina woman who came up from poverty, fighting her way into law school and success, is definitely going to view life from a different perspective than a white child of a privileged background.
In some ways, she may be more compassionate. In others, she may be harder than any of us can imagine.
Don't buy into the media and the politicians carrying on. It's all a tempest in a teapot. She'll be great!
Sonia Sotomayor is a great choice for the Supreme Court!
We FINALLY get a good pick for the Supreme Court and the GOP is having a hemorrhage about a speech that she made in 1991!
Yes, Sonia Sotomayor did say that a Latina judge "would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
Context people, think context!
The people having the biggest fits are old white guys who were never poor. Ever.
The point is that each judge brings their own background with them to the bench. That's human, we ALL view things from the influences of our lives.
A Latina woman who came up from poverty, fighting her way into law school and success, is definitely going to view life from a different perspective than a white child of a privileged background.
In some ways, she may be more compassionate. In others, she may be harder than any of us can imagine.
Don't buy into the media and the politicians carrying on. It's all a tempest in a teapot. She'll be great!
Sonia Sotomayor is a great choice for the Supreme Court!
Arnold Doesn't Know A Thing About The State Budget!
Yes, you heard me say it.
Not only is Arnold an idiot, he doesn't know a damn thing about the budget that he's blathering about!
Let's take just a quick pot-shot at him today, it's easy enough.
He wants to cut the Healthy Families program. It costs the state about 350 million or so a year. First, is he really so stupid that he wants to cut health care for CHILDREN? Second, if he cuts the program, the state loses about $500 million in Federal funding.
Wait a minute, that's not saving us money, it'll cost us $150 million!
And that's not even the most stupid thing he said this week.
He said he'll cut CalWORKs.
Say what?!?
He's going to cut a program that costs about $1.5 billion. Yeah, that's hella money.
But, but, but --
It brings in $4 billion from the Feds! So he's going to throw away $3.5 billion?
Arnold thinks that the general public is going to buy into his bullshit.
Think not!
Remember, every time Arnold opens his mouth, he's lying to you, to me, to us all.
I can hardly wait for the next election...
Not only is Arnold an idiot, he doesn't know a damn thing about the budget that he's blathering about!
Let's take just a quick pot-shot at him today, it's easy enough.
He wants to cut the Healthy Families program. It costs the state about 350 million or so a year. First, is he really so stupid that he wants to cut health care for CHILDREN? Second, if he cuts the program, the state loses about $500 million in Federal funding.
Wait a minute, that's not saving us money, it'll cost us $150 million!
And that's not even the most stupid thing he said this week.
He said he'll cut CalWORKs.
Say what?!?
He's going to cut a program that costs about $1.5 billion. Yeah, that's hella money.
But, but, but --
It brings in $4 billion from the Feds! So he's going to throw away $3.5 billion?
Arnold thinks that the general public is going to buy into his bullshit.
Think not!
Remember, every time Arnold opens his mouth, he's lying to you, to me, to us all.
I can hardly wait for the next election...
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Another Child Lost
What is it, that people think it's somehow OK to harm a child?
Yes, little Sandra Cantu lost her life to the perversions of an adult. In this case, the arrested person is a woman, her neighbor, her friend's mother, a trusted member of the community.
The perverted desires of adults that lead to harming our precious children.
How could you hate a child so much that you could hurt her, kill her?
I'm not a big fan of the death penalty, mainly because too many innocent men have been sent to their deaths. Too many have come too close to dying for a crime they didn't commit, due to mistaken witnesses and railroaded by prosecutors determined to overlook all evidence of innocence. And then the justice system fails them again by refusing to look at all evidence, refusing to accept recanted testimonies, failing to account for the prejudice, bigotry, racism that still infects our society like a weeping wound of poison.
But to kill a child?
What would lead anyone to harm a child?
I think death is too good, too easy for people like that. They should suffer in isolation, in prison until the end of their days.
Yes, my heart cries out for death, death, death, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The Old Testament speaks to my desire for vengeance.
But that's too easy of a solution. Too easy, too convenient, too forgiving of the sin of murder.
Yes, forgiving.
Death is the easy way out.
Vengeance is mine sayth the Lord.
True punishment is forcing her murderer to live out her allotted number of days, alone, the only thing left for her to do is regret and repent of the deed that led to that lonely cell. Alone in that cell, just her and God together, for many long years.
Poor little Sandra. I pray that she didn't know what was happening, that she didn't suffer, that God gathered her Home quickly.
May God rest her sweet little soul and Jesus hold her close until her family joins her in Heaven. I pray that Jesus will continue to hold her family close in their pain and sorrow.
Another child lost.
Keep your children close. Watch over them. Cherish them. Pray over them. Love them. Love them forever.
Yes, little Sandra Cantu lost her life to the perversions of an adult. In this case, the arrested person is a woman, her neighbor, her friend's mother, a trusted member of the community.
The perverted desires of adults that lead to harming our precious children.
How could you hate a child so much that you could hurt her, kill her?
I'm not a big fan of the death penalty, mainly because too many innocent men have been sent to their deaths. Too many have come too close to dying for a crime they didn't commit, due to mistaken witnesses and railroaded by prosecutors determined to overlook all evidence of innocence. And then the justice system fails them again by refusing to look at all evidence, refusing to accept recanted testimonies, failing to account for the prejudice, bigotry, racism that still infects our society like a weeping wound of poison.
But to kill a child?
What would lead anyone to harm a child?
I think death is too good, too easy for people like that. They should suffer in isolation, in prison until the end of their days.
Yes, my heart cries out for death, death, death, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The Old Testament speaks to my desire for vengeance.
But that's too easy of a solution. Too easy, too convenient, too forgiving of the sin of murder.
Yes, forgiving.
Death is the easy way out.
Vengeance is mine sayth the Lord.
True punishment is forcing her murderer to live out her allotted number of days, alone, the only thing left for her to do is regret and repent of the deed that led to that lonely cell. Alone in that cell, just her and God together, for many long years.
Poor little Sandra. I pray that she didn't know what was happening, that she didn't suffer, that God gathered her Home quickly.
May God rest her sweet little soul and Jesus hold her close until her family joins her in Heaven. I pray that Jesus will continue to hold her family close in their pain and sorrow.
Another child lost.
Keep your children close. Watch over them. Cherish them. Pray over them. Love them. Love them forever.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Be Warned, The Winds Of Change Are Coming!
Well, I hate to say it, but this year's budget debacle is nothing new.
We darn near have a budget, and the GOP worked the whole situation to get concessions.
Of course, ALL of the politicians wanted their bit of pork barrel in there, and I'm quite sure they got it. Arnold too.
For those of you outside of Cali, this is nothing new, it just dragged on longer than usual. Our current mess goes way, way back, long before Davis and the foolishness of the recall and election (and reelection) of Arnie.
Believe me, the little people are all too aware that our politicians don't give a rats about us.
Holding up a budget, putting the workers on furlough (can you afford to lose 2 days of work every month?), failing to pay the counties for State MANDATED programs, and then trying to blame state employees for the twists and turns of the political BS that goes on day in and day out in Sacramento. Well, at least when the politicians are actually IN Sacramento and supposedly working on our behalf.
And to add insult to injury, those same politicians are still trying to STEAL the employees' retirement funds. Yes, I'm talking about CalPERS.
CalPERS is the best managed retirement program in the United States. It's the model of retirement programs nationwide, and to be blunt, if the United States ran the Social Security system using the model of CalPERS, we wouldn't be worrying about Social Security failing.
No wonder the politicians drool every time they think of CalPERS. There's a pot of well managed money that they haven't been able to dip their sticky fingers into, and we're going to fight tooth and nail to keep them out of it.
Think "thieves in the temple".
Hell, yes, I'm calling my representatives thieves.
Liars too.
When you hear them blathering on that media sound bite about CalPERS, trust me, they don't give a flying you-know-what about you, the little person. The ENTIRE goal is to steal the little guys' retirement funds.
Don't think that I don't pay into the system either. Darn right I do! I pay out of my paycheck every month into that system, and I'm sure not going to let a pack of hyenas dip into MY money.
For all of you doubters, think Enron. Think of all the retired people who lost their entire pension thanks to the wheeling and dealing and out-and-out lies of Enron.
Don't you see a resemblence here?
I do!
I can see the vultures circling, the pack of hyenas gathering, laughing a vile laugh into the wind. They're under the delusion that they're going to steal our pensions right out from under our noses.
And my response is:
The winds of change are coming, let them come. Let them come and blow a fresh new wind into the State Assembly and Senate. Let the wind blow away the chaff from the least to the most high and leave the good grain behind, to fill the storehouse, to support the workers who work by and for the people.
Let the wind blow away the grasshoppers, who think that they should reap, but never sow. And let the workers, the busy ants, the busy bees, let their voices be heard.
And as the winds of change blow through, let the politicians who have betrayed their trust remember that when they steal from the storehouse, like thieves in the temple, they shall be lit by the light of Truth. Like the tables of the money-changers, they shall be overthrown.
"By the people, for the people." If you aren't following that policy right now, today, my representatives, you WILL be caught by the winds of change.
In other words, all you lying low-life politicians that held us hostage for the last three months, you can kiss your jobs goodbye. We are SO done with you.
Be warned, the winds of change are coming.
Just like so many of your constituents, you're going to be out of work after the next election.
I can hardly wait...
We darn near have a budget, and the GOP worked the whole situation to get concessions.
Of course, ALL of the politicians wanted their bit of pork barrel in there, and I'm quite sure they got it. Arnold too.
For those of you outside of Cali, this is nothing new, it just dragged on longer than usual. Our current mess goes way, way back, long before Davis and the foolishness of the recall and election (and reelection) of Arnie.
Believe me, the little people are all too aware that our politicians don't give a rats about us.
Holding up a budget, putting the workers on furlough (can you afford to lose 2 days of work every month?), failing to pay the counties for State MANDATED programs, and then trying to blame state employees for the twists and turns of the political BS that goes on day in and day out in Sacramento. Well, at least when the politicians are actually IN Sacramento and supposedly working on our behalf.
And to add insult to injury, those same politicians are still trying to STEAL the employees' retirement funds. Yes, I'm talking about CalPERS.
CalPERS is the best managed retirement program in the United States. It's the model of retirement programs nationwide, and to be blunt, if the United States ran the Social Security system using the model of CalPERS, we wouldn't be worrying about Social Security failing.
No wonder the politicians drool every time they think of CalPERS. There's a pot of well managed money that they haven't been able to dip their sticky fingers into, and we're going to fight tooth and nail to keep them out of it.
Think "thieves in the temple".
Hell, yes, I'm calling my representatives thieves.
Liars too.
When you hear them blathering on that media sound bite about CalPERS, trust me, they don't give a flying you-know-what about you, the little person. The ENTIRE goal is to steal the little guys' retirement funds.
Don't think that I don't pay into the system either. Darn right I do! I pay out of my paycheck every month into that system, and I'm sure not going to let a pack of hyenas dip into MY money.
For all of you doubters, think Enron. Think of all the retired people who lost their entire pension thanks to the wheeling and dealing and out-and-out lies of Enron.
Don't you see a resemblence here?
I do!
I can see the vultures circling, the pack of hyenas gathering, laughing a vile laugh into the wind. They're under the delusion that they're going to steal our pensions right out from under our noses.
And my response is:
The winds of change are coming, let them come. Let them come and blow a fresh new wind into the State Assembly and Senate. Let the wind blow away the chaff from the least to the most high and leave the good grain behind, to fill the storehouse, to support the workers who work by and for the people.
Let the wind blow away the grasshoppers, who think that they should reap, but never sow. And let the workers, the busy ants, the busy bees, let their voices be heard.
And as the winds of change blow through, let the politicians who have betrayed their trust remember that when they steal from the storehouse, like thieves in the temple, they shall be lit by the light of Truth. Like the tables of the money-changers, they shall be overthrown.
"By the people, for the people." If you aren't following that policy right now, today, my representatives, you WILL be caught by the winds of change.
In other words, all you lying low-life politicians that held us hostage for the last three months, you can kiss your jobs goodbye. We are SO done with you.
Be warned, the winds of change are coming.
Just like so many of your constituents, you're going to be out of work after the next election.
I can hardly wait...
Friday, January 9, 2009
Update On Missing Boy
Oh me, oh my, it's not looking good for this poor kid.
I am darn near speechless with rage.
This poor kid was placed in a home where it appears that he was an abused child. And nobody said anything, nobody noticed? Where the F* were the social workers? Where were his teachers? What the heck happened to the system that was supposed to protect this child?
Reports have come out saying that the parents first said that he was given back to the System. Then the story changed and he'd ran away. Etc, etc, etc. I don't know what's true and what's not, the media being the way that it is, but there is a little boy missing and I rather doubt that his adoptive parents are telling the truth at this point.
God rest his little soul.
And may God judge his adoptive parents. May they receive the punishment they richly deserve in both this life and the hereafter.
I don't usually go this far in condemnation, but (leaving in that shred of doubt) if the stories of the abuse this child suffered are true, then they deserve the worst that this world and the next can offer.
God rest your little soul, darling child.
And may God bless your siblings and give them peace in knowing that as children, there really wasn't any way to protect you. That was Social Services' job and they failed miserably...
I am darn near speechless with rage.
This poor kid was placed in a home where it appears that he was an abused child. And nobody said anything, nobody noticed? Where the F* were the social workers? Where were his teachers? What the heck happened to the system that was supposed to protect this child?
Reports have come out saying that the parents first said that he was given back to the System. Then the story changed and he'd ran away. Etc, etc, etc. I don't know what's true and what's not, the media being the way that it is, but there is a little boy missing and I rather doubt that his adoptive parents are telling the truth at this point.
God rest his little soul.
And may God judge his adoptive parents. May they receive the punishment they richly deserve in both this life and the hereafter.
I don't usually go this far in condemnation, but (leaving in that shred of doubt) if the stories of the abuse this child suffered are true, then they deserve the worst that this world and the next can offer.
God rest your little soul, darling child.
And may God bless your siblings and give them peace in knowing that as children, there really wasn't any way to protect you. That was Social Services' job and they failed miserably...
Monday, January 5, 2009
Search Starts For Boy Missing For 10 Years
Yes, that's hard to believe, isn't it? The search STARTS for a boy that's been missing for 10 years!
I saw this on Yahoo and thought, WHAT???? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090106/ap_on_re_us/missing_boy_search
This poor kid, Adam Herrman, was adopted by parents who failed to report him as missing?
Or is he long dead and no one noticed?
In either case, those "parents" need to be thoroughly investigated.
I believe that every child deserves a forever home, where the child can grow up SAFE and LOVED.
I understand that the authorities are treading carefully. They should be careful. Even though I am doubting the parents' story that the child was a chronic runaway, well, anything is possible. Better to carefully put together the case than to jump the gun and blow it like Mark Fuhrman did back in the day. Or falsely accuse the parents like in the JonBenet case.
But if these people harmed this boy, I'm praying that the truth comes out and they are punished to the full extent of the law.
Every child deserves a forever home. A home where the child can grow up SAFE and LOVED.
Not a home where they didn't even bother to report the child missing...
I saw this on Yahoo and thought, WHAT???? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090106/ap_on_re_us/missing_boy_search
This poor kid, Adam Herrman, was adopted by parents who failed to report him as missing?
Or is he long dead and no one noticed?
In either case, those "parents" need to be thoroughly investigated.
I believe that every child deserves a forever home, where the child can grow up SAFE and LOVED.
I understand that the authorities are treading carefully. They should be careful. Even though I am doubting the parents' story that the child was a chronic runaway, well, anything is possible. Better to carefully put together the case than to jump the gun and blow it like Mark Fuhrman did back in the day. Or falsely accuse the parents like in the JonBenet case.
But if these people harmed this boy, I'm praying that the truth comes out and they are punished to the full extent of the law.
Every child deserves a forever home. A home where the child can grow up SAFE and LOVED.
Not a home where they didn't even bother to report the child missing...
Thursday, January 1, 2009
More Paranoia In The Hinterland
Oh my goodness!
I just got back from out of state.
Did you know that there is some MAJOR paranoia going on in the hinterland?
I heard not one, but several people comment on how they're afraid of Obama.
Whaaaaa????????????????????????????
Oh my goodness, I really couldn't believe it. Some people are listening to way too many right wing whack job radio hosts.
Obama isn't going to overturn the Constitution. Even if he is a Democrat.
He isn't going to start a race war. Even if he is African-American. (Or bi-racial if you prefer.)
He isn't going to take your guns away. Even if he is a liberal.
Why?
Folks, do I really, really have to explain it?
Obama BELIEVES in civil rights and has worked as a lawyer. He wasn't always a politician. He has a real law degree and has used his education, training and knowledge to help those less fortunate than himself.
He's probably the best thing for our country right now, despite what the tin foil hats are blathering right and left.
He's not against the Constitution of the United States. He TAUGHT constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years!
He's not a neo-Marxist. Shoot, he served on the Senate Committee for Veteran's Affairs and sponsored legislation favorable to our Veterans.
He's not anti-white. People, his MOTHER was white!
He's not a Muslim. He's been a member of a Christian church for what, twenty or so years. He's going to swear his oath on the Lincoln Bible, for God's sake!
My people, my people, he's an American citizen, just like you and I. Born in Hawaii of a US citizen, all the blatherings about his birthplace are just that, blatherings.
I really have trouble believing the paranoia in the hinterlands of our country. People will believe anything bad about anybody, won't they? Because they saw it on TV, because someone on the Internet said it, so it must be true.
I just shake my head. Then I sigh. People will believe anything except the plain, unvarnished truth...
Check this out:
http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Li-Ou/Obama-Barack.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/27/obamas-birth-certificate-part-ii/
I just got back from out of state.
Did you know that there is some MAJOR paranoia going on in the hinterland?
I heard not one, but several people comment on how they're afraid of Obama.
Whaaaaa????????????????????????????
Oh my goodness, I really couldn't believe it. Some people are listening to way too many right wing whack job radio hosts.
Obama isn't going to overturn the Constitution. Even if he is a Democrat.
He isn't going to start a race war. Even if he is African-American. (Or bi-racial if you prefer.)
He isn't going to take your guns away. Even if he is a liberal.
Why?
Folks, do I really, really have to explain it?
Obama BELIEVES in civil rights and has worked as a lawyer. He wasn't always a politician. He has a real law degree and has used his education, training and knowledge to help those less fortunate than himself.
He's probably the best thing for our country right now, despite what the tin foil hats are blathering right and left.
He's not against the Constitution of the United States. He TAUGHT constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years!
He's not a neo-Marxist. Shoot, he served on the Senate Committee for Veteran's Affairs and sponsored legislation favorable to our Veterans.
He's not anti-white. People, his MOTHER was white!
He's not a Muslim. He's been a member of a Christian church for what, twenty or so years. He's going to swear his oath on the Lincoln Bible, for God's sake!
My people, my people, he's an American citizen, just like you and I. Born in Hawaii of a US citizen, all the blatherings about his birthplace are just that, blatherings.
I really have trouble believing the paranoia in the hinterlands of our country. People will believe anything bad about anybody, won't they? Because they saw it on TV, because someone on the Internet said it, so it must be true.
I just shake my head. Then I sigh. People will believe anything except the plain, unvarnished truth...
Check this out:
http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Li-Ou/Obama-Barack.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/27/obamas-birth-certificate-part-ii/
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Tin Foil Hats
Oh my goodness!!!
The tin foil hats are out in full force now that Obama won the election.
Let's see, where should we start?
President elect Obama was born in Hawaii. Shoot, the birth announcement was even in the local newspaper.
Do the tin foil hats listen to reason? Nope!
Do the wack jobs that blather on about every Internet rumor realize just how stupid they sound? Oh, yeah, you're right, they don't.
Every piece of proof presented to the conspiracy theorists is somehow not enough. Of course, LOL, the truth is never enough for someone who is bound and determined to believe in every crazy fantasy that comes down the road.
And why do these clowns believe it?
Well, I suppose there's lots of reasons. Probably not good ones for those of us who don't live over in their alternate reality. But then, like I just said, we don't live there.
Is it because Obama is African-American?
Is it because his father was born in Africa?
Is it because he spent part of his formative years living overseas?
Is it because he's a Christian?
Is it because he's a Democrat?
Or is it all of the above mixed with a definite lack of medication in the tin foil hat world?
I suppose I shouldn't make fun of these guys. It's not nice to mock the reality-impaired.
But good grief people, get a CLUE!
Just because someone SAYS that there's a conspiracy, it doesn't mean that it exists. Just because one of these guys is trying to take the question to the Supreme Court doesn't mean that he has standing or that the case has merit.
In fact, before you blindly follow that trail of shiny bits of tin foil, maybe you should do a google search of the conspiracy theorists first. Try just using their full names. In fact, I took the time to google it up for you.
Remember, don't believe everything you read. When in doubt, go to the source, which in this case would be the State Department.
Not some clown on the Internet.
Tin Foil Hats are not the latest fashion statement -- despite all the hype.
Links:
Supreme Court - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081208/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_obama
Leo Donofrio - http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLR_enUS236US239&q=Leo+Donofrio+
Philip J. Berg - http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLR_enUS236US239&q=Philip+J%2e+Berg
The tin foil hats are out in full force now that Obama won the election.
Let's see, where should we start?
President elect Obama was born in Hawaii. Shoot, the birth announcement was even in the local newspaper.
Do the tin foil hats listen to reason? Nope!
Do the wack jobs that blather on about every Internet rumor realize just how stupid they sound? Oh, yeah, you're right, they don't.
Every piece of proof presented to the conspiracy theorists is somehow not enough. Of course, LOL, the truth is never enough for someone who is bound and determined to believe in every crazy fantasy that comes down the road.
And why do these clowns believe it?
Well, I suppose there's lots of reasons. Probably not good ones for those of us who don't live over in their alternate reality. But then, like I just said, we don't live there.
Is it because Obama is African-American?
Is it because his father was born in Africa?
Is it because he spent part of his formative years living overseas?
Is it because he's a Christian?
Is it because he's a Democrat?
Or is it all of the above mixed with a definite lack of medication in the tin foil hat world?
I suppose I shouldn't make fun of these guys. It's not nice to mock the reality-impaired.
But good grief people, get a CLUE!
Just because someone SAYS that there's a conspiracy, it doesn't mean that it exists. Just because one of these guys is trying to take the question to the Supreme Court doesn't mean that he has standing or that the case has merit.
In fact, before you blindly follow that trail of shiny bits of tin foil, maybe you should do a google search of the conspiracy theorists first. Try just using their full names. In fact, I took the time to google it up for you.
Remember, don't believe everything you read. When in doubt, go to the source, which in this case would be the State Department.
Not some clown on the Internet.
Tin Foil Hats are not the latest fashion statement -- despite all the hype.
Links:
Supreme Court - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081208/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_obama
Leo Donofrio - http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLR_enUS236US239&q=Leo+Donofrio+
Philip J. Berg - http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLR_enUS236US239&q=Philip+J%2e+Berg
Thursday, November 27, 2008
I Will Never Be All White
This is something I wrote in response to Loku:
As for my being white, you always try to take away the part of me that wasn't born in Europe, that did not come here on a ship, the part that is connected to this land in a way that you will NEVER understand.
I am not all white.
I will never be all white.
I can never deny who and what I am.
I will never be what you want me to be.
You can't steal my heritage from me, no matter how hard you try.
I really think that his attitude is part of the undercurrent of American society, that if you LOOK white, then you surely can't claim or affirm the REST of your heritage, the part of you that doesn't belong to the predominately white culture, the part of you that is connected to the land, the part that connects you to your Brothers and Sisters of Color.
As Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn said in the introduction of Half + Half, "Skin color and place of birth aren't accurate signifiers of identity. One and one don't necessarily add up to two. Cultural and racial amalgams create a third, wholly indistinguishable category where origin and home are indeterminate... What name do you give someone who is a quarter, an eighth, a half?"
She's right. What name do we have?
In America, we are automatically classified upon the first perception of the masses.
Our culture insists on placing a label on everyone.
Because my skin color is white, my hair is a funny reddish gold, my eyes are teal, I am classified as "white".
Yet, yet, yet, there are those moments when I am recognized as not being all white.
A party where a Latino/Aztec man I'd never seen before walked up to me and asked what kind of Indian I am.
My daughter's [Black] friend who hesitated, and then asked me what ethnicity I was -- because whites don't have the kind of hair I have.
High cheekbones, long coarse hair, there are identifiers for those who wish to see.
And I guess that's the issue, those who wish to see.
White American culture doesn't wish to see.
Individuals, yes, often individuals are willing to step outside of the box. But the inertia pressing us all down the path of assimilation doesn't permit us to be different. America doesn't permit us to be different.
When we self-identify, hold onto that part of our lives, our culture, our heritage that doesn't lead back to Europe, then we set ourselves apart from the mainstream culture.
We are aliens in our own land.
I identify more with Fredi and Isabel Washington, who in the 1930s could have easily passed into white society. Who chose to embrace their African and Native American heritage rather than become white movie stars. Who chose to be and remain who they were, despite their outward appearances of being "white".
I identify more with Julia Alvarez, from the Dominican Republic, yet perceived as white by not just white America, but by other, darker Dominicans.
I identify with my boss, who married into a Latino family, converted to Catholicism, immersed herself in the culture of her husband.
Some of us, despite our skin color, will never fit into white society. So we reach out, join our Brothers and Sisters of Color. We reach out for our heritage that is more, so much more than white America could ever understand.
Yes, we are aliens in our own land.
Yet, I could never trade who and what I am, just so I could fit in.
I would rather be alone than deny myself, deny my grandparents, deny my gggrandmother, a free person of color.
In the words of the immortal cartoon character, Popeye, " I am who I am".
No more, no less.
As for my being white, you always try to take away the part of me that wasn't born in Europe, that did not come here on a ship, the part that is connected to this land in a way that you will NEVER understand.
I am not all white.
I will never be all white.
I can never deny who and what I am.
I will never be what you want me to be.
You can't steal my heritage from me, no matter how hard you try.
I really think that his attitude is part of the undercurrent of American society, that if you LOOK white, then you surely can't claim or affirm the REST of your heritage, the part of you that doesn't belong to the predominately white culture, the part of you that is connected to the land, the part that connects you to your Brothers and Sisters of Color.
As Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn said in the introduction of Half + Half, "Skin color and place of birth aren't accurate signifiers of identity. One and one don't necessarily add up to two. Cultural and racial amalgams create a third, wholly indistinguishable category where origin and home are indeterminate... What name do you give someone who is a quarter, an eighth, a half?"
She's right. What name do we have?
In America, we are automatically classified upon the first perception of the masses.
Our culture insists on placing a label on everyone.
Because my skin color is white, my hair is a funny reddish gold, my eyes are teal, I am classified as "white".
Yet, yet, yet, there are those moments when I am recognized as not being all white.
A party where a Latino/Aztec man I'd never seen before walked up to me and asked what kind of Indian I am.
My daughter's [Black] friend who hesitated, and then asked me what ethnicity I was -- because whites don't have the kind of hair I have.
High cheekbones, long coarse hair, there are identifiers for those who wish to see.
And I guess that's the issue, those who wish to see.
White American culture doesn't wish to see.
Individuals, yes, often individuals are willing to step outside of the box. But the inertia pressing us all down the path of assimilation doesn't permit us to be different. America doesn't permit us to be different.
When we self-identify, hold onto that part of our lives, our culture, our heritage that doesn't lead back to Europe, then we set ourselves apart from the mainstream culture.
We are aliens in our own land.
I identify more with Fredi and Isabel Washington, who in the 1930s could have easily passed into white society. Who chose to embrace their African and Native American heritage rather than become white movie stars. Who chose to be and remain who they were, despite their outward appearances of being "white".
I identify more with Julia Alvarez, from the Dominican Republic, yet perceived as white by not just white America, but by other, darker Dominicans.
I identify with my boss, who married into a Latino family, converted to Catholicism, immersed herself in the culture of her husband.
Some of us, despite our skin color, will never fit into white society. So we reach out, join our Brothers and Sisters of Color. We reach out for our heritage that is more, so much more than white America could ever understand.
Yes, we are aliens in our own land.
Yet, I could never trade who and what I am, just so I could fit in.
I would rather be alone than deny myself, deny my grandparents, deny my gggrandmother, a free person of color.
In the words of the immortal cartoon character, Popeye, " I am who I am".
No more, no less.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Some People Shouldn't Be Allowed To Have Kids
No, I'm not talking about eugenics.
Not hardly.
I'm talking about degenerate, evil people like this "mother".
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/23/Mother_accused_of_scarring_wimp_daughter/UPI-27681227463372/
This is absolutely horrifying.
To burn "WIMP" into your child's neck, with a cigarette?!?
Thank the Good Lord that a teacher saw the marks and reported it to CPS.
The child is safe now and "mom" is facing charges of felony child abuse.
I pray that this child is taken in by family or a good adoptive family and that the life she's led up to now becomes a faint memory, overlaid by many happy memories in her new home.
God only knows what else she has suffered.
Some people should not be allowed to have children.
All children deserve to be safe.
All children deserve forever homes.
And some people should not be allowed to have children...
Not hardly.
I'm talking about degenerate, evil people like this "mother".
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/23/Mother_accused_of_scarring_wimp_daughter/UPI-27681227463372/
This is absolutely horrifying.
To burn "WIMP" into your child's neck, with a cigarette?!?
Thank the Good Lord that a teacher saw the marks and reported it to CPS.
The child is safe now and "mom" is facing charges of felony child abuse.
I pray that this child is taken in by family or a good adoptive family and that the life she's led up to now becomes a faint memory, overlaid by many happy memories in her new home.
God only knows what else she has suffered.
Some people should not be allowed to have children.
All children deserve to be safe.
All children deserve forever homes.
And some people should not be allowed to have children...
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