One of Those Days
Source: Chico Enterprise-Review [07/22/10]
A Mexifornia desperado, Laura Murray, pressed her luck to the breaking point, after the fickle fates cut her some slack a week earlier. She managed to knock over three money emporiums, and would still be going strong, if ‘it’ hadn’t delayed her speedy getaway.
Her first heist, at a Butte County credit union - Sierra Central Credit Union, in Oroville - hit a speed bump, when the cops bagged and tagged her. They wanted to drag her to the Butte County graybar, but she sold them a bill of goods about a serious medical condition, so, despite her 'yup, I did it' confession, they took her to Oroville Hospital instead.
Once inside the hospital, Laura deftly eluded hospital security and walked away. After managing, somehow, to retrieve her 2002 Ford Taurus from the Oroville police, Laura celebrated, by driving to Chico (Mexifornia), where she robbed the Butte Community Bank.
A week later, Laura walked into a Union Bank in downtown Davis (Mexifornia) with a bag and a holdup note. Still on a roll, she walked out, unimpeded, with her loot, but her luck had run out. In her zeal to knock over the bank, Laura had locked herself out of her getaway ride. She was still trying to borrow a blunt instrument to break her car window, when the proper authorities showed up to bag, tag, and drag her to the local graybar. Hopefully, they’ll have better luck keeping her in custody than the clueless clowns in Oroville.
Blight By The Bay Buttheads Do It Again
Source: Golden Oinks [07/09/10]
It’s time to put a tactical nuclear strike targeting the Blight By The Bay (San Francisco) on the front burner. I’d prefer to ‘reduce’ our excess nukes stockpile with a Desert Storm class pummeling of this Left Coast pestilence, but, if that’s not gonna fly, I’d settle for one, suitably sized nuke, ‘falling off’ a USAF bomber in a ‘tragic accident’. I don’t care how we do it, as long as the Blight By The Bay’s Elected Tormentors glow.
What elicited this hostile Hambo prose? You’re going to be thrilled:
Sell a guinea pig, go to jail.
That's the law under consideration by San Francisco's Commission of Animal Control and Welfare. If the commission approves the ordinance at its meeting tonight, San Francisco could soon have what is believed to be the country's first ban on the sale of all pets except fish.
That includes dogs, cats, hamsters, mice, rats, chinchillas, guinea pigs, birds, snakes, lizards and nearly every other critter, or, as the commission calls them, companion animals.
"People buy small animals all the time as an impulse buy, don't know what they're getting into, and the animals end up at the shelter and often are euthanized," said commission Chairwoman Sally Stephens. "That's what we'd like to stop."
San Francisco residents who want a pet would have to go to another city, adopt one from a shelter or rescue group, or find one through the classifieds.
The Board of Supervisors would have final say on the matter. (S. F. Chronicle)
A ban on selling pets? Are we all on the same ‘nuke ‘em until they glow’ page, now, PIGster Sparky?
Mexifornia Killjoys
Source: AOL News [07/01/10]
Unable to ignore the tsunami of red, budgetary, ink, Mexifornia bean counters are systematically taking all the joy out of being a welfare recipient. First, they took casinos off the authorized check cashing locales roster. Now, the heartless bastards have black flagged strip clubs, too.
Since 2007, it's been possible to cash the checks -- meant to feed and clothe needy families -- from ATMs at strip clubs across the state, including such well-known gentlemen's cabarets as Sam's Hofbrau, Seventh Veil and Star Strip.
More than $12,000 from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was dispensed from the start of 2007 to the end of 2009 at various California strip bars, casinos and state-licensed poker rooms, according to officials at the Department of Social Services quoted in the Los Angeles Times
California welfare recipients will no longer be able to cash their checks at ATMs inside strip clubs.
Those businesses even appeared on an official website showing welfare recipients where they can access cash benefits. But now those places are being terminated by the Terminator. (AOL News)
Casinos? Off limits. Strip clubs? Off limits. It’s enough to make a welfare slacker go out and - GASP - get a J-O-B!
Eating Crow In Boycottville
Source: PIG News Wire [06/25/10]
The Sanctuary City of Angeles’ City Council was forced to choke down heaping helping of crow, this week, when an inconvenient, Arizona boycott, truth hit the sanctimonious Colonista scumbags where they live. The inconvenient element of objective reality involves a multimillion dollar red light camera contract with American Traffic Solutions, which is based in - TA DA - Scottsdale, Arizona.
The firm operates cameras at 32 city intersections that catch tens of thousands of red light violators each year. The council's Public Safety Committee says the exception is justified because red light cameras provide a "significant benefit to public safety." (Los Angeles Times)
After an unscheduled side-trip into objective reality, during which the City Council confronted the fact that the red light camera ‘revenues’ don’t even cover the cost, the boycott buttheads held their noses, then voted to extend the red light camera contract for an additional 10 months.
The good news, for boycott bonkers Colonistas, is that there’s another bidder for this contract, so the Scottsdale firm hasn’t got a lock on a contract renewal. The bad news, for boycott bonkers Colonistas, is that the other, top, bidder, Reflex Traffic Systems, is - D’Oh - also based in Arizona. Life is so sucky that way.
Mexifornia’s EBT Cards Are Street Legal In Casinos
Source: Los Angeles Times [06/24/10]
If you’re not up to speed on Nanny State terminology, I feel your pain. For our purposes, an EBT card is a Nanny State-issued debit card which is a user friendly way to put taxpayer dollars in the pockets of the allegedly ‘Golden’ State’s welfare recipients. Armed with an EBT card, that is regularly ‘refreshed’ with monthly cash infusions, a welfare recipient can use it to obtain cash at an ATM machine in banks, stores, and other state-sanctioned establishment.
Showing an unprecedented glimmer of genuine journalism, some Los Angeles Times’ reporters decided to take a gander at the establishments which honor these EBT cards. Did they find anything thrilling? You better believe it, Sparky:
California welfare recipients are able to use state-issued debit cards to withdraw cash on gaming floors in more than half of the casinos in the state, a Los Angeles Times review of records found.
The cards, provided by the Department of Social Services to help recipients feed and clothe their families, work in automated teller machines at 32 of 58 tribal casinos and 47 of 90 state-licensed poker rooms, the review found. (Times)
While the relevant officials scrambled to cope with this public relations nightmare, other state minions searched for someone to blame. The provisional scapegoat is a private ATM network which the state’s social services agency contracted to wrangle the EBT card. Curiously, during the contract granting process, nobody bothered to notice that the aforementioned casino ATMs are included in the thousands of machines in the private ATM firm’s network.
Those of you who are still in a political coma will be thrilled to hear that your bud, Mexifornia’s action hero governor, has decreed that the ATM network prevent casino ATM’s from accepting the EBT cards. And here you were, worrying, needlessly.
Public Works Planning, On A Shoestring
Source: PIG News Wire [06/18/10]
When the relevant Elected Tormentors started looking for a way to revive the Oakland (Mexifornia) economy, one of the items high on their list was, predictably, a public works project. Somehow, a 2.5 mile streetcar line running through the heart of the city would get the job done.
In 2005, Oakland’s hacks laid out $300,000 of the taxpayer’s money for a feasibility study. Five years later, the experts are still running the numbers, so they’re back, in 2010, asking for an additional $330,000 to get the job done. As fun as this is, it gets better.
An undergraduate at Stanford University, 20-year-old Daniel Jacobson, decided to tackle the task, on his own as an independent study. After nine months of work - funded by a $1,275 grant - this aspiring transportation planner/urban designer, produced what a San Francisco Chronicle scribbler calls a ‘detailed and ingenious’ plan for the aforementioned streetcar line:
Oakland at-large Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, who has known about Jacobson's work for a couple of weeks, described it as an "anchor project" with the potential to create a downtown hub that connects newly redeveloped areas of uptown Oakland to the waterfront.
"This could have more bang for the buck than virtually any project we could do in this area, which is the very heart of Oakland," said Kaplan.
Jacobson's plan is an impressive and comprehensive 140-page how-to manual on how to build, run, operate and finance a successful streetcar project in Oakland.
He lays out a route that would link two BART stations, the Oakland ferry, Amtrak and main AC Transit lines. He projects residential and commercial growth along the rail line, identifying 125 acres of underutilized land adjacent to the line. He provides job projections for the next 20 years. He also provides a road map for local, state and federal funding to pay for the $92 million price tag of the streetcar line. (S. F. Chronicle)
The last thing I’m going to advocate is another public works rathole, no matter who plans it. On the other hand, I salute Daniel Jacobson for doing in 9 months, what a much better funded panel of experts failed to do in 5 years.
Another Gulag Brainfart
Source: Daily Mail [06/16/10]
Unwilling to wait for the proverbial ‘smoking gun’, the Rabid Moonbats running the Gulag (San Francisco, and you should know that by now) are mandating a health warning that must be deployed on mobile phones. Under this edict, cell phone companies must post the ‘specific absorption rate’ for each cell blight, wherever that Terror of Technology is sold.
What, exactly, does all this mean? The London Daily Mail served up these pertinent particulars:
The new rules in San Francisco will be phased in from February next year and along with the health warning, which must be at least 11pts in font size, the signs will also direct consumers to where they can find more information.
Companies that breach the rules will face £200 [$300 in dead presidents] fines.
The SAR is the amount of radio waves absorbed into the mobile phone user's body tissue and is registered with the Federal Communications Commission.
The rate varies from phone to phone however in America all phones must no emit more than 1.6 watts per kilogram. (Daily Mail)
Why do the Rabid Gulag Moonbats do this stuff? Because they can.
Hambo’s Prop 14 Primer
Source: Hambo’s Hammer [06/10/10]
As far as I can tell, everyone was so bedazzled by the shiny object - ‘increased voter participation’, ‘ending legislative gridlock’ - that they’re all missing the real point about this Prop 14 thing.
If all goes according to Prop 14's stated purpose, more ‘moderates’ will be elected to the legislature. It’s alleged that the pachyderm punks could pick up a few seats, and, I don’t necessarily disagree.
If all goes according to Prop 14's stated purpose, many/most of these additions will be RHINOs.
If all goes according to Prop 14's unstated purpose, the legislature will be dominated by a militantly Marxist Demoncrat majority. It will also include an Elephant Clan minority that includes enough RHINOs to make getting the necessary two-third’s majority required to raise taxes a slam-dunk.
Prop 14 was put on the ballot to make it easier to raise taxes in one of the most heavily taxed states in the USA, and IT WORKED.
That fun fact makes me ask the requisite question. During the run-up to the Mexifornia primary, while I listened to KFI on Internet radio, why wasn’t there a single ad AGAINST Prop 14?
If you live in Mexifornia, the new state motto is: Elevator! Elevator! We got the shaft.
Parting shot: If you still can’t see the downside of this open primary scheme, you need to take a close look at the just concluded South Carolina primary, where something very strange happened in the race for the U.S. Senate nomination. Demoncrats swear that the Demoncrat ‘winner’, Alvin Greene, is an Elephant shill who won because - allegedly - Elephant Clan voters punched a chad for him, in impressive numbers.
City of Angels Scumbag
Source: Golden Oinks [06/04/10]
Sanctuary City of Angeles media slut Mayor, Tony Villar, is in a pot of lukewarm water, this week, for cashing in on his office. Eager to share any spotlight, Mayor Tony is a familiar fixture at the Oscars, Lakers games, and Dodger games, to name a few. So what? So plenty.
As eager as Mayor Tony is to attend such star-studded events, he’s equally eager not to pay one thin dime for his tickets. No harm, no foul? It should be, if he reported the tickets as gifts, which he hasn’t. Instead, he has some city minions whomp up a ‘proclamation’, making his FREE attendance street legal as - TA DA - ‘official business’.
Mayor Tony was living the high life, for free, until the local news nitwits awoke from their coma and ratted him out:
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has attended more than 80 entertainment events since 2005. Officials are investigating whether he was required to report free tickets he received.
Villaraigosa has asked for reviews by both a city ethics commission and the city attorney's office, even as his aides pore over his records to determine whether he may have violated the ethics codes, the Los Angeles Times reports. Under the laws, free tickets must be reported, including the name of the donor. Gifts are limited, depending on the donor's relationship with the city, to a maximum value of $100 to $420 per year.
The mayor has attended more than 80 entertainment events since taking office in 2005, including more than 20 concerts. Tickets to Academy Awards events alone were worth some $21,000. The Times noted that in a court-side interview at a recent Lakers game -- the team begins the NBA Finals Thursday against the Boston Celtics -- Villaraigosa said he had not paid for the seat, which can cost up to $3,100.
Free tickets become problematic because most of the sponsoring organizations and corporations do business with the city of Los Angeles. (AOL News)
The smart money says the fix is in, meaning Mayor Tony will escape unscathed. I agree, when it comes to the city ethics commission. The jury is still out, when it comes to the new city attorney, a man who isn’t Mayor Tony’s biggest fan and has a well-earned reputation has a hard ass.
A Moving Experience
Source: S. F. Chronicle [06/02/10]
What’s 8-inches tall, 20-feet wide, was presumed to be extinct 60 years ago, and cost an impressive $175,000 to move (distance of the move = less than a mile)? If you guessed a Franciscan manzanita bush, you probably cheated, and you REALLY need to get a life, mom’s basement is spiffy, Sparky.
The discovery of the 8-inch-tall, 20-foot-wide bush was greeted with cries of joy by nature enthusiasts but quiet shock by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, which suddenly found a leafy version of the spotted owl right in the path of a billion-dollar roadway.
"We took this very seriously," said San Francisco County Transportation Authority head José Luis Moscovich.
No kidding.
Not only did the authority spend a small fortune preserving the manzanita, it moved the plant to its new secret home under cover of darkness out of fear that plant buffs might stalk it for cuttings. (Chronicle)
It’s a relief to know that the Blight By The Bay is so prosperous and Eden-like, that they have the time and money for such foolishne$$.
Parting shot: It cost $140,000 to dig it up and move it less than a mile. The city spent another $35,000 on a plethora of ‘experts’ - geological, botanical and climate - to nag them before, during, and after the move.
Another Inconvenient Truth
Source: A Hot Air Posting [05/17/10]
Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey fires a rhetorical warning shot across the bow of border jumper-coddling Elected Tormentors who are full of themselves and ‘it’ over Arizona’s SB 1070. Focusing on an especially annoying L.A. City Council Colonista, Ed Reyes, Morrissey hits this Mexifornia pissant with some objective reality chin music.
If you couldn’t pick Ed Reyes out of a Rabid Moonbat lineup, I’ll give you taste of Reyes’ lunacy:
“I cannot go to Arizona today without a passport,” Los Angeles Councilman Ed Reyes, a Democrat, said before the vote. “If I come across an officer who’s had a bad day and feels the picture on my ID is not me, I could be summarily deported — no questions asked. That is not American.”
Attention self righteous Mexifornia, Elected Tormentor, Colonistas! SB 1070 isn’t the only item on your reading list. It’s not even the most important one. You should also read EXISTING Mexifornia state law:
Kerry Picket at the Washington Times interviewed Los Angeles City Councilman Ed Reyes, who said that he would need his passport to travel in Arizona, but she points out that the very same provisions to which Reyes objects exist in California’s own penal code:
Well, why does California have to call it out, Councilman Reyes? Kerry did a little digging and found this nugget in Section 834b in the California Penal Code:
(a) Every law enforcement agency in California shall fully cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws. (b) With respect to any such person who is arrested, and suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws, every law enforcement agency shall do the following: (1) Attempt to verify the legal status of such person as a citizen of the United States, an alien lawfully admitted as a permanent resident, an alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time or as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of immigration laws. The verification process may include, but shall not be limited to, questioning the person regarding his or her date and place of birth, and entry into the United States, and demanding documentation to indicate his or her legal status. (2) Notify the person of his or her apparent status as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws and inform him or her that, apart from any criminal justice proceedings, he or she must either obtain legal status or leave the United States. (3) Notify the Attorney General of California and the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service of the apparent illegal status and provide any additional information that may be requested by any other public entity. (c) Any legislative, administrative, or other action by a city, county, or other legally authorized local governmental entity with jurisdictional boundaries, or by a law enforcement agency, to prevent or limit the cooperation required by subdivision (a) is expressly prohibited.
Sounds very similar to the provisions of SB 1070, the bill that prompted LA’s City Council to launch its boycott of Arizona. Will they also now boycott their own state? They do seem to be conducting a boycott of common sense and legal scholarship at City Hall.
Will Ed Reyes boycott Mexifornia? I hope so, because it would be a hoot to watch him tilt that windmill.
Sanctuary City of Angels Is Run By Rabid Moonbats
Source: Hambo’s Hammer [05/13/10]
In reality, the entire Sanctuary City of Angels City Council deserves our weekly Rabid Moonbat bitch-slap, after the incessant outpouring of insane bullshit that passed for a ‘debate’ on their highly publicized boycott of Arizona.
The Los Angeles City Council, protesting Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigration, on Wednesday voted to ban most city travel to Arizona and future contracts with companies in that state... During a morning-long debate on the resolution, council members compared Arizona's action to Nazi Germany and the beginning of the Holocaust, as well as the internment and deportation of Japanese Americans during World War II. A new Arizona law, which will take effect July 23, will require police to determine whether people they stop are in the country illegally, which critics say will lead to racial profiling. (PIG News Wire)
As vile as all these border jumper coddling assholes are, two of these Elected Tormentor turds floated to the surface with infuriating bloviating that makes me want to forcibly evict them from the human gene pool.
Rabid Moonbat: Los Angeles City Councilcretin Ed Reyes
Magic Moonbat Moment: "Los Angeles the second-largest city in this country, an immigrant city, an international city. It needs to have its voice heard. As an American, I cannot go to Arizona today without a passport. If I come across an officer who's having a bad day and feels that the picture on my ID is not me, I can be ... deported, no questions asked. That is not American.''
Hambo sez: When I hear shit like this, I want to track this Colonista down, check his paperwork, then frogmarch his loser ass to Mexico.
Rabid Moonbat: L.A. City Councilturd Paul Koretz
Magic Moonbat Moment: "What we are seeing now is what we witnessed in the early '30s in Germany. SB 1070 is just the tip of the iceberg."
Hambo sez: Boiling mad, my response isn’t printable in an allegedly family-friendly publication. The only part that passed PIG’s rules of rhetorical engagement are ‘Old Betsy’ and ‘lock and load’.
A Quixotean Quest In Mexifornia
Source: CBS 13 [05/04/10]
At least one Mexifornia Legicrat - state Senator Dennis Hollingsworth - knows that the pension costs for state workers are out of control. If nothing is done, the state will hurtle off a cliff into insolvency. State Senator Hollingsworth has sounded the warning and proposed a long-term fix: SB919 raises the retirement age and lowers the payout, for FUTURE employees. It’s a good start, but one that’s doomed to fail, for two reasons:
* State employee unions OWN the overwhelmingly Demoncrat state legislature.
* State Senator Hollingsworth is a - GASP - Republican.
I applaud Senator Hollingsworth for daring to touch the third rail of Mexifornia politics - state employee pensions - but I suspect that, in this Quixotean political joust, the public employee windmill is destined to win. Despite that, I’ll give him what help I can, by serving up these inconvenient public employee pension truths:
Governor Schwarzenegger supports the bill, saying California's public pension system is the single biggest threat to the state's fiscal future. In a recent Capitol news conference, he addressed the escalating costs.
"The fact of the matter still is as you can see, it went from $150 million to $3 billion dollars," the Governor said, before adding it "is a 2,000 percent increase, while the revenues maybe increased by only 26 percent."
The Governor is supported by a Stanford University study. The study shows California's unfunded pension debt is more than $500 billion. (CBS 13)
As expected, the state employee union is mounting a vigorous counterattack which amounts to this: We don’t give a rat’s ass if the state goes down the crapper. We don’t care if the state can’t pay its bills, as long as we get ours FIRST.
Why does Mexifornia matter? It matters, because it is blazing a trail that Obamunist America is hell-bent to follow.
May Day Mayhem In Mexifornia
Source: Fox [05/03/10]
It’s not that shocking, to me, that a May Day march in WAY lefty Santa Cruz ended with an outburst of violence and vandalism. May Day is a day venerated by anarchists, so this assault on 20 local outposts of capitalism is the RULE, not the exception. It’s the kind of crap you expect from the Santa Cruz lunatic fringe:
Santa Cruz Police spokesman Zach Friend said roughly 250 people marched through the city at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. The "unpermitted and unsanctioned event" was running smoothly until some individuals in the crowd began breaking windows and spraying graffiti on retail shops in the city's downtown corridor.
It was unclear if the damage was caused by people marching in support of immigrants' rights or if the group was "infiltrated by anarchists," Friend said in reference to anarchy signs that were spray-painted on some of the buildings. "They're a group of people who seem to fancy themselves as revolutionaries, but what they really are are a group of morons," said Friend, adding that a fire in a coffee shop had been extinguished.
A total of 18 businesses were damaged, with cost of repairs estimated at between $50,000 and $100,000. Police were able to restore order once officers arrived from other agencies, Friend said. (Fox)
I love that stuff about an "unpermitted and unsanctioned event". Why? Among other things it’s a perfect description of the way the border jumping scumbag invaders arrived in this land conceived in liberty.
No Toy, No Joy, In Mudville
Source: PIG News Wire [04/29/10]
With nothing better to do, Santa Clara County’s Board of Supervisors had a memorable Fat Nazi brainfart. They won’t tolerate some dastardly fast food capitalist turning Little Johnny and Moonbeam into junior wide loads.
It’s nice to know that Santa Clara County is so Edenesque that a cheap, Happy Meal, toy is the biggest problem on their agenda:
No toy for you, Junior.
Not if you live in unincorporated Santa Clara County, where the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban restaurants from giving away toys with children’s meals that exceed set levels of calories, fat, salt and sugar.
The ordinance, which the board passed by a 3-2 vote, is believed to be the first of its kind in the nation. The target is the fast-food industry and what critics call its practice of marketing unhealthful food to children and fueling an epidemic of obesity among the young.
“This ordinance breaks the link between unhealthy food and prizes,” said the law’s author, Supervisor Ken Yeager. “Obviously, toys in and of themselves do not make children obese. But it is unfair to parents and children to use toys to capture the tastes of children when they are young and get them hooked on eating high-sugar, high-fat foods early in life.”
Yeager said he hopes the law will inspire cities and counties across the country to follow suit like “ripples that create a wave.”
The law bans toy giveaways in children’s meals that contain more than 485 calories, derive more than 35 percent of their calories from fat or 10 percent from added sweeteners, or have more than 600 mg of sodium. The totals are based on children’s health standards set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (SF Gate)
When it comes to keeping Little Johnny and Moonbeam from getting hooked on eating high-sugar, high-fat foods, there’s something much better than the Nanny State. In my formative years, I was assigned my own personal ‘don’t eat that, Sparky’ countermeasure. You probably had one too. I called mine ‘mom’.
L.A. Department of Water & Power Gets Last Laugh
Source: Hambo’s Hammer [04/21/10]
The tug of war over a power rate increase in Los Angeles seemed over, last week, when the DWP and City Council came to terms on rate increase. Appearances, in this case, are deceiving, but I’m getting ahead of myself.
First, I’ll remind you of some essentials, as presented here, on April 11, 2010.
Sanctuary City of Angels Fiscal Shell Game
This week, Los Angeles officials continued their three-way food fight over - TA DA - money. The issue is simple enough. The city owned public utility - the Department of Water & Power - is rolling in dough, thanks to all the rate increases approved by the city council, and the city wants a piece of the action. In bygone days, the city asked for, and got, its cut, but not this time.
The dirty little secret here is how city financing works. Due to a voter initiative from bygone days, tax increases which, directly, feed the city coffers require voter approval. With a nasty recession making life miserable for taxpayers, approval isn’t likely to happen. That’s why the city launders its money through the DWP.
All that’s needed for an electricity rate increase is approval by the city council. It’s done with the understanding that, when the money rolls in at the DWP, the city will get its cut - $75 million, this time around. This time, the DWP - aided and abetted by L.A. Mayor Tony Villar - imposed some conditions on their transfer. The DWP wanted another - HUGE - increase in the electricity rates, before they’d hand over the money. The city council balked, before approving a much smaller increase.
After a very public pissing contest, the DWP board - it’s appointed, and thus immune to voter retribution - told the council ‘bite me’. They demanded the full increase, before they’d turn over the money. Pissed, the city council which is ELECTED, not APPOINTED, issued their own ‘bite me’.
Is this the end of the story? It is, for now, but the war of wills is far from over, because the city council is making noises about taking DIRECT control of the DWP. It’s stay tuned time in the Sanctuary City of Angels.
Parting shot: The skirmish ended, temporarily, with a whimper, when city officials 'found' enough money in the sofa cushions to get them through this fiscal year, in the black. Does that mean the city's bean counters will drop their plan to audit the DWP's books? It's too soon to tell.
Last week, the City Council agreed to approve a ‘temporary’ 4.8% rate increase which will start in June. During the 3-month interval, the DWP would present its case to the City Council for a larger, permanent, rate increase. In exchange, the DWP would fork over the $75 million kickback to the city.
Eager to extend an olive branch, the City Council decided to let the DWP make the first move, then submit its rate request to the City Council for immediate approval. The $75 million would be turned over on, or immediately after, April 27, 2010. What could possibly go wrong? What indeed.
The cow squeeze hit the rotating cooling device, this week, when the City Council got a hot flash on that DWP rate increase, which they passed, WITHOUT READING IT. Yes, it’s 4.8% increase, but it won’t expire in 3 months. In fact, it is renewed, automatically, at 3 month intervals, unless the DWP ends it. As fun as that is, it gets better. Remember that money transfer date, April 27, 2010? There’s something else that’s momentous about that date. It’s the last date that the City Council can terminate their rate increase approval.
The City Council is pissed, but they only have themselves to blame. Will they swallow this insult and pocket the money? Or, will they show some spine - probably for the first time - and bitch-slap those tricky DWP asshats?
It’s stay tuned time in the top secret PIG bunker.
Jerry Brown Hitches His Campaign Wagon to Palin’s Star
Source: PIG News Wire [04/16/10]
Unable to get anyone to give a rat’s ass that he’s running for governor of Mexifornia, Attorney General Jerry Brown knows he needs name recognition. Since he can’t get there on his own, moribund, ‘talents’, the former - and future? - governor, decided to score some notoriety by stealing it from somebody who already has it: Sarah Palin.
The fun started when the usual suspects set their hair on fire, after the California State University, Slanislaus Foundation hired Sarah to give a speech at the aforementioned Mexifornia Ivory Tower. Outraged, the Libertard moonbats, spearheaded by State Senator Leland Yee (a San Francisco Demoncrat), are demanding to know all the details of the speaking contract.
The people who hired Palin keep stonewalling, a fun fact which attracted Jerry Brown’s attention. Brown swears it isn’t about Palin. He insists it's about a potential violation of the public disclosure laws. He’s unwilling to accept the assertions by the president of the Cal State, Stanislaus Foundation, Matt Swanson, who insists that Palin’s fee and accommodations will be paid from private donations, not public funds. Brown wants proof and, until he gets it, he’ll keep hitching a ride on Sarah Palin’s political coattails.
Speaking of Palin’s speech-related perks, you’ll be thrilled the learn that she’s not a cheap date. The following fun financial facts were made public, after some students found several pages from Palin’s speaking contract in a dumpster:
Among the perks laid out in the contract, the former Alaska governor will fly first class from Anchorage to California — if she flies commercial. If not, "the private aircraft MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger," the contract specifies.
Palin also must be provided with a suite and two single rooms in a deluxe hotel near the campus in Turlock in the Central Valley.
The document, dated March 16, does not include compensation details for Palin, who commands speaking fees as high as $100,000. Her appearance at the university's 50th anniversary gala is expected to draw a large crowd, with tickets selling for $500 each. (News Max)
The end game seems obvious. The Demoncrats won’t allow Sarah Palin to speak at a Mexifornia Ivory Tower, so they intend to nuke her out of their misery, one way or another.
Left Coast News Nuggets
Source: PIG News Wire [04/09/10]
Sanctuary City of Angels
This week, Los Angeles officials continued their three-way food fight over - TA DA - money. The issue is simple enough. The city owned public utility - the Department of Water & Power - is rolling in dough, thanks to all the rate increases approved by the city council, and the city wants a piece of the action. In bygone days, the city asked for, and got, its cut, but not this time.
The dirty little secret here is how city financing works. Due to a voter initiative from bygone days, tax increases which, directly, feed the city coffers require voter approval. With a nasty recession making life miserable for taxpayers, approval isn’t likely to happen. That’s why the city launders its money through the DWP.
All that’s needed for an electricity rate increase is approval by the city council. It’s done with the understanding that, when the money rolls in at the DWP, the city will get its cut - $75 million, this time around. This time, the DWP - aided and abetted by L.A. Mayor Tony Villar - imposed some conditions on their transfer. The DWP wanted another - HUGE - increase in the electricity rates, before they’d hand over the money. The city council balked, before approving a much smaller increase.
After a very public pissing contest, the DWP board - it’s appointed, and thus immune to voter retribution - told the council ‘bite me’. They demanded the full increase, before they’d turn over the money. Pissed, the city council which is ELECTED, not APPOINTED, issued their own ‘bite me’.
Is this the end of the story? It is, for now, but the war of wills is far from over, because the city council is making noises about taking DIRECT control of the DWP. It’s stay tuned time in the Sanctuary City of Angels.
The Blight by the Bay
Instead of trying to improve on perfection, I’ll simply serve up this rant from Neal Boortz blog:
This little goodie comes to us from San Francisco, home to the likes of Nancy Pelosi. There's an activist group in San Francisco by the name of Homes Not Jails, which is affiliated with the San Francisco Tenants Union. This activist group likes to go around and lay claim to things that they believe are rightly theirs ... like private property. Their website should give you an idea of this entitlement mentality: "People should not not be evicted for profit. People's rights should come before property rights."
Maybe someone should explain to these people that property doesn't have rights. People have a right to their property. So .. property rights ARE people rights. Wouldn't you love to see the blank expression on their faces when you told them that?
So over the weekend they arranged a little march. More than fifty urban outdoorsmen and activists showed up holding signs like "House keys not handcuffs" and chanting things like "Whose city? Our city." Then they proceeded to "take over" a privately owned duplex. The property owner, Ara Tehlirian says that he was targeted by the group because of the recent eviction of a tenant. The group claimed that the duplex was vacant and should be used to house homeless people and converted into affordable housing by the government. Tehlirian says that the property is not vacant and that he uses it for personal uses.
Ted Gullicksen is the leader of this activist organization. He says that "the city should do something to turn vacant buildings into affordable housing." More specifically he says that the city should foreclose on building where taxes are owed or "use its powers of eminent domain to turn over long-vacant homes to nonprofit developers."
If you want a preview of coming, America under Socialism, attractions, Mexifornia, in general, and San Francisco, in particular, will show you more of our future than you’ll want to know.
San Diego’s Self-Inflicted Wound
Source: ABC [03/19/10]
It’s THAT time of year, again. It’s the time of year when certain PIGish adult beverage afficionados head to San Diego for a gala celebration that’s utterly Mexifornia. It’s called ‘Floatopia’ and it’s the kind of thing which is, in PIG’s considered opinion, a hopeful sign that there might still be a faint flicker of hope for Mexifornia after all.
What is ‘Floatopia’? It’s an annual ‘neener, neener, neener’ which exploits a well-publicized loophole in a San Diego liquor law. A few years ago, alarmed, annoyed, and/or outraged by the drunken revery on their local beaches, San Diego’s modern day Carrie Nation’s passed a law which banned imbibing adult beverages on the beach. There was, however, one devilish detail that begged to be exploited: drinking was specifically prohibited for anyone whose feet were touching the sand at a public beach. Holy loopholes, Batman? You better believe it, thirsty Boy Wonder Sparky.
Picking up the gauntlet thrown down by San Diego’s Carrie Nations, some inspired individuals devised a suitable response: Floatopia.
The event is pretty simple. Bring a float, inner tube, raft -- you know, something that will keep you up on the water. Next, invite everybody you know and then bring a lot of booze. Finally, have fun.
The Floatpia organizers know the law and detail how to get around it on their Facebook event page.
Among the tips:
Carrying your unopened beer across the sand is legal but please throw it away in a bag or can.
Do not open your beer until you are on your float.
Finish your beer or leave it on your float.
Throwing your empties in the water or on the sand will result in a littering fine, so use the trash cans or garbage bag.
It is not illegal to drink or have fun, but if you get stupid, then the cops will notice you and you will get a ticket for being drunk in public. So be responsible. (ABC)
I know what you’re thinking, and I had the same thoughts. Yes, it looks good ‘on paper’, but have the proper authorities been copied on the memo? I’ll let you be the judge of that:
Capt. Chris Ball of the San Diego Police Department is overseeing the police response to the event. He said that, for the most part, the people who come down to the party want to know what the law is and they want to comply with it. "They recognize that there's this unique loophole," he said. "The loophole is this: if you get out on a float & you can sit out on that float in the 80-degree water with sunscreen on and have a beer. And there is not a darn thing we can do about it." (ABC)
Floatopia is properly-PIGish fun, and, as far as I’m concerned, you can’t have too much of that.
Parting shot: If you’re planning a visit to San Diego and want to give this Floatopia thing a shot, here, as served up by ABC, is the scoop on this law:
For those sticklers, here is the actual loophole in the law. See, the code defines a beach as "the sand or land area bordering the water of an ocean or bay." It prohibits drinking on the beach, sidewalks, piers and other surrounding structures. Nobody thought to include the water directly off the coast.
Tag, You’re IT!
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel [03/07/10]
Taking his show on the road, a 24-year-old Blight on the Bay Butthead, Alexander Hall, decided to leave his ‘mark’ on Santa Cruz. Armed with the tools of his tagger trade, he etched his gibberish in the windshields of a dozen cars. He tagged three other locations around the city, including a restroom where he "vandalized every surface" in the place.
Just getting started, he reached for the tagger brass ring, when he spotted the police cruiser of the Santa Cruz cop, Lt. Rick Martinez, who was investigating Hall’s "path of destruction". Too bold for his own good, this tagging piece of shit was caught in the act:
While Martinez was inside the business dealing with rest room vandalism that had just occurred, a bar patron allegedly saw Hall vandalizing the Locust Street side of the building around midnight and flagged down a bouncer.
"When they come up on him, he's actually spray-painting my car," Martinez said.
Martinez said he saw bar security grabbing a man with a can of yellow spray paint in his hand and helped detain the man. Hall reportedly had the can of spray paint, different spray paint tips, markers, stickers with his tag already on them and a tool for etching glass with him when he was arrested. "It's always nice when we catch one of these because they create so much damage," Martinez said. (Sentinel)
Already facing felony vandalism charges, this scumbag might be looking at additional charges, after the proper authorities found photos of additional graffiti incidents on Hall’s cell phone.
Parting shot: Taggers are beneath contempt. I think we need to go ‘old school’ and let the punishment fit the crime. How? I say chop off their hands as a lesson to all the other tagger rat bastards.
LAUSD Black History Knicker Knotter
Source: Girlieman of the Week [03/05/10]
Eager to make Black History Month memorable, a trio of LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District) teachers - all of them oppressors - decided to ‘keep it real’ for their school’s 2010 Black History Month parade. Unwilling to go with the flow, our trio of PIGish educators eschewed such ‘been there, done that’ Melanin-Enriched players as Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman and - of course - Messiah Barry Obama. Instead, our trio of outside the box thinkers gave the tykes in their classes pictures of O. J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and gender bender RuPaul to carry in the parade.
I know what you're thinking and you're wrong, because the relevant school authorities pre-approved their choices.
Prior approval notwithstanding, Ramon Cortines went gutless and girlie, after the Ethocrap bovine excrement hit the proverbial cooling device with a deafening "splat". Instead of shaking his head, or admitting ‘Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are’, District Killjoy Cortines went turned into a panty wearing, panic-stricken, pissant, putting the trio of funsters on administrative leave, while an investigation is conducted. Apparently, Cortines misplaced his nads, the moment that the designated Sanctuary City of Angels whiner - NAACP chapter president, Leon Jenkins - had a panty wadding hissy fit over this PIG-worthy stunt.
Unwilling to do his own talking, Eunuch Ramon Cortines had his spokeshole, Gayle Pollard-Terry, spout this pathetic drivel: "The superintendent will not let anyone make a mockery out of Black History Month."
Congratulations, Ramon. You’re more than a gutless guttersnipe. You’re not just another steaming pile of nadless Educrat crap. You're a pathetic, panty-wearing piece of crap.
Mexifornia’s Meatheads Running Amok
Source: PIG News Wire [02/26/10]
Booze Nazis Busting Home Brews
I know what you’re thinking, and you’re wrong. This outburst of Booze Nazi abuse has nothing to do with moonshine and/or bathtub gin. The items in the bull’s-eye of these goose-stepping asshats are adult beverages which are ‘adulterated’ when a restauranteur or bartender infuses them with - GASP - herbs or fruit.
Mexifornia’s California Alcoholic Beverage Control won’t tolerate anyone adding lemon, or tarragon to vodka without permission, so don’t even think about it, ‘do you feel lucky’, Sparky.
The California Alcoholic Beverage Control is cracking down on people who "adulterate" spirits by making limoncello and infusing spirits with herbs or fruit. Reportedly, agents have been in San Francisco recently sniffing out these grievous lawbreakers.
It's ironic, the budget may be near the busting point, but the ABC still has resources to crack down on restaurants. In the last couple of weeks a team of enforcers have cited at least four restaurants in the Bay Area, making them pour out their creations. (SF Chronicle)
Mexifornia’s Booze Nazis spewed this demented gibberish about their antics:
Rectification is any process or procedure whereby distilled spirits are cut, blended, mixed or infused with any ingredient which reacts with the constituents of the distilled spirits and changes the character and nature or standards of identity of the distilled spirits.
One example of rectification is, but not necessarily limited to, creating products such as: "lemoncello" or "limoncello" in which sugar and citrus products are combined with vodka and stored, initiating a maturation process which consequently changes the character and nature of the vodka, and possibly its alcohol content.
Don’t these Mexifornia Meatheads have anything better to do on the taxpayers’ dime? You’ll know the answer to that, after you read the next Mexifornia Meathead item.
Meatheads Take Words Out of Your Mouth
If you’re in Mexifornia during the first week of March and are prone to unleashing ‘colorful’ utterances, when provoked, I have some annoying news for you, do you eat with that mouth, Sparky. Ignoring the tsunami of red budgetary ink hurtling toward the no longer ‘golden’ state, Mexifornia’s Elected Tormentors broke out their fiddles then struck up a lively tune.
The state Assembly passed a resolution Thursday that would establish the first week of March as "Cuss Free Week" throughout the state. If approved by the Senate next week, the measure would take effect immediately.
The resolution includes no enforcement mechanism and is simply meant to promote greater harmony and connectedness, said Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, a Democrat from La Canada Flintridge and co-author of the measure. "I've always wondered why we behave differently when grandma is watching than when we're on our own," said Portantino, who owned up to his share of four-letter words.
Portantino said the California Legislature -- known for imposing strict clean air and clean water laws -- is the first state legislative body in the nation to consider a statewide profanity-free week. (CBS)
I’d like to tell you that this idea came from this Elected Tormentor asshat, but I can’t. He ‘liberated’ it from a South Pasadena teenager named McKay Hatch, who started a ‘No Cussing Club’ at his junior high school in 2007.
I’d also like to tell you that this no cussing lunacy is confined to this left coast blight, but I can’t. Egged on by his success in Mexifornia, this 16-year-old pest vows to take his show on the road, to other states, and even other countries. This ‘colorful’ pagan scribbler is not exactly thrilled spitless, over THAT.
Panty-Wadding InKorrectness at UCSD
Source: Fox 5 [02/17/10]
Eager to do something to make Black History Month memorable, for everyone at University of California San Diego, some frisky frat dudes put on their thinking caps and came up with the "Compton Cookout". You’ll be delighted to learn that it’s even more thrilling than it sounds, "tell me more" Sparky:
The so-called Compton Cookout event urged all participants to wear chains, don cheap clothes and speak very loudly, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Female participants were encouraged to be "ghetto chicks.''
The invitation read, "For those of you who are unfamiliar with ghetto chicks -- Ghetto chicks usually have gold teeth, start fights and drama, and wear cheap clothes ...,'' the Union-Tribune reported. (Fox 5)
Did the bovine excrement hit the proverbial cooling device? Yes, and no.
Yes: Campus chancellor Marye Anne Fox responded with finger-shaking disapproval: "We were distressed to learn that over the weekend an offensively themed student party, mocking the commemoration of Black History Month, took place off campus. We strongly condemn this event and the blatant disregard of our campus values.'' (Fox 5)
No: UCSD’s official spokeshole, Feff Gattas, UCSD’s executive director of communications and public affairs, notes that the party was held off campus and was NOT ‘sanctioned by the university or run by a student organization’, so Ivory Tower officials don’t have a handy-dandy reason to punish the party hosts.
A Compton Cookout? Holy cutting-edge inKorrectness, Batman.
Beserkeley’s Self-Inflicted Wound
Source: Berkeley Voice [02/12/10]
It won’t gobsmack you to learn that Beserkeley (Mexifornia) trash wranglers are swimming in red ink. It’s a familiar balance sheet malady which is nailing government entities from sea to shining sea. What makes this epic PIGish fun is the reason for the shortage: too much of a good thing.
A good thing? In the trash wrangling business? You better believe it. The fun was locked and loaded, when Beserkeley trash wranglers changed their rules of engagement. Eager to encourage recycling, the trash wranglers stopped charging for items which were recycled, and/or composted. Did it work? Oh hell yes:
‘...Berkeley's environmentally conscious citizens who reduce, reuse and recycle are behind a $4 million budget deficit in the city's refuse department. The amount of trash being picked up curbside and the amount of construction trash going in to the city's transfer station have fallen drastically in the past year, along with revenue the city collects from them. Leaders are considering serious measures, including reducing trash pickup to every other week, a second rate increase in a year, or both...’
‘...Residents have been so diligent about reducing the amount of trash that goes to landfills by separating paper, cans and plastic and food scraps and yard waste that they now produce less trash and are using smaller trash cans.
Because the city charges trash pickup based on the size of can at the curb, revenues have fallen as customers have asked for smaller containers. But labor costs are still the same no matter what size can people use.
At the city transfer station on Second Street where people pay to bring construction debris, revenues are also down because of a slowed construction industry and builders who are increasingly conscious of separating recyclable items when they do demolition work. Add to that a worldwide reduction in prices paid for recycled materials, and you have a problem...’ (Berkeley Voice)
The good news for denizens of Beserkeley is that their recycling efforts are making the city greener. The bad news is that the city’s trash wranglers will reward you with decreased trash service and/or higher trash fees. Normally, that would piss me off, but, this is Beserkeley, so I’m feeling slapably smug about it. Neener, neener, neener.
Mexifornia Mecca Maniacs Miffed
Source: KTLA [02/01/10]
If you couldn’t pick Lancaster, Mexifornia, out of a Map Quest lineup, don’t feel like the Lone Ranger. Situated in the Antelope Valley - north of the Sanctuary City of Angels and south of Bakersfield, it boasts a population of (approximately) 145,000. Otherwise unimpressive, Lancaster stumbled onto the PIG radar, when its Mayor, R. Rex Parris, managed to piss off the Islamikazes in the Greater Los Angeles area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The mayor of Lancaster is being criticized for urging residents in his high desert town to help "grow a Christian community." Mayor R. Rex Parris made the remarks at the end of his annual State of the City address last week.
He urged residents to support a city ballot measure that would authorize daily prayers invoking a specific diety, such as Jesus, at city council meetings. Parris explained that anyone who leads a prayer in a city meeting should be able to invoke any diety he or she chooses.
In his speech, Parris said 'we are growing a Christian community and don't let anybody shy away from that." (KTLA)
Demonstrating that legendary ‘tolerance’ which makes their flavor of supernaturalism relentlessly thrilling, the CAIR cretins set their hair on fire, had a memorable meltdown, then ran caterwauling to the U.S. Justice Department:
The Greater Los Angeles area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has denounced the comments. The chapter says it plans to file a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Justice Department. Executive Director Hussam Ayloush says elected officials shouldn't be using their public positions to impose their religious beliefs. (KTLA)
Did Rex the wonder mayor beat a hasty retreat? Not exactly.
Parris expressed surprise that some religious leaders object to prayers to Jesus at city meetings, and blamed opposition on activists who "want ... a fight," according to a report in the Antelope Valley Press. "They want their 15 minutes of fame." (KTLA)
I’m ambivalent about this prayer thing, but I do have one question which keeps nagging at me: why does a wide spot on a Southern Mexifornia road need a ‘state of the city’ address? It’s Enquiring minds time, again, in the PIGdom.
Sanity Prevails At Willows High School
Source: PIG News Wire [01/29/10]
Before I give you the breaking news, I’ll repost this item from November 2009's News Digest:
No Bending The Rules At Willows
Gary Tudesko’s header into Zero Tolerance Zombie hell started, when he decided to do some bird hunting, before he headed off to Willows High School (Mexifornia). The idea wasn’t fatally flawed, but he stepped in it, when he left his shotguns in his ride then parked it off campus. No harm, no foul? You know better.
The incident began on Oct. 26 when scent-sniffing dogs detected something in a pickup on the street north of the tennis courts on West Willow Street. A Willows police officer did a search of the license plate and traced the pickup to Tudesko.
Tudesko came out to the vehicle and said there were two shotguns and shells in the pickup. He opened his vehicle for a search, which revealed the guns on the rear seat as well as a knife with a 3-inch blade. The police held the weapons and the school suspended Tudesko for five days, which was later extended indefinitely until Thursday's hearing.
[Zero Tolerance ASSHOLE, Willows High Principal Mort] Geivett said the Education Code requires the school pursue expulsion, when a student is in possession of a firearm, knife or explosive without written permission from the school. He said he was concerned for the safety of students and staff.
"Gary should've known better than to come to campus with guns in his truck," Geivett said. (Chico Enterprise)
Unwilling, unable, to consider all the pertinent facts, the Willows Unified School District board of trustees voted 4-0 to flush Gary Tudesko down the crapper, by expelling him. What a steaming pile of shit! He screwed up and he knows it, so some punishment is richly deserved. BUT, expulsion is overkill. Before Educrats impose that fate, I’d expect them to investigate Gary, his background, and assess ALL the FACTS. Is he a good kid? Does he stay out of trouble? Has he shown any MEANINGFUL signs that he poses a threat to other students? Has this 16 year old junior done anything in his life that sends up a warning flag? If he passes muster on those, and other pertinent issues, then a suspension, and/or detention, is cool but NOT expulsion.
Parting shot: The one thing that always pisses me off about this Zero Tolerance bullshit is the inescapable fact that the Zero Tolerance Zombies ALWAYS end up giving a royal shafting to the good kids, but make excuses for the REAL badasses.
UPDATE:
This week, the Glenn County Board of Education, overturned Gary Tudesko’s expulsion and gave him a green light to go back to school.
In addition to reversing the Willows Unified School District board's decision, the county trustees ordered Tudesko's expulsion be removed from the school record.
It also ordered "any costs incurred by the pupil or his parents be reimbursed by the district."
The county board ruled the district had "acted in excess of its jurisdiction" because the act "did not occur on school grounds or at a school activity."
Furthermore, the county board stated that Tudesko did not have an opportunity for a "fair hearing" before the district board, because he "was not provided timely written notice of all evidence...."
The board also found "prejudicial abuse of discretion by the district" because it failed to show how other discipline choices were not feasible, or that Tudesko was a "continuing danger to the physical safety of the student and others."
The final finding stated that the board "need not reach a determination" about whether relevant and material evidence existed or "was improperly excluded at the hearing before the district governing board." (Orland Express-Register)
Did the relevant Willows High officials, like Principal Mort Geivett, take this slapdown like a man? You be the judge:
"I'm disappointed, but not surprised, due to the political climate we have here and the fact we have school board members who are going up for re-election and a superintendent who might be running for re-election," he said.
"And, the fact they had to face folks who are avid hunters. In this community, you have to dig down deep to stand up and do the right thing," he added.
PIGish kudos go out to the rational adults who financed Gary’s appeal:
Tudesko's appeal, presented by Long Beach attorneys C.K. "Chuck" Michel and Hillary Green, was funded in part by the National Rifle Association's and the California Rifle and Pistol Association Foundation's combined Legal Action Project.
The FSOP congratulates Gary on his victory, but we strongly advise him to watch his back because ‘they’ will be out to get you, by any/all means at their disposal.
An F-Bomb A Day Is The Frisco Moonbat Way?
Source: Hambo’s Hammer [01/08/10]
After years of profanity-laced staff meetings in the FSOP’s top secret bunker, I found the panty-wadding angst over an Elected Tormentor’s profane prattle, an absolute hoot:
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5)
Chris Daly, a San Francisco Supervisor known for outrageous behavior and profane language, cursed at a Rules Committee meeting at City Hall on Thursday and promised to use the "F" word in every board meeting for the rest of the year.
The supervisor said he was upset about a Bay Guardian newspaper article taking Daly to task for his bad language.
"I do want to warn the easily offended," Daly said at the meeting. "I just updated my Facebook page vowing that in 2010 I'll use the word f*** in every Board of Supervisors meeting," Daly added.
Daly’s antics didn’t go unnoticed, at City Hall, but the responses are much more asinine than this fool’s F-Bomb vow.
David Chiu, president of the Board of Supervisors redefined ‘wimp’, when he whined to Daly that "You can do better." Later, no doubt shocked by his own incivility to a fellow political punk, Davie walked to a nearby Wallgreen Pharmacy where he purchased a peace offering. Wasting no time, Davie boy headed for Daly’s office, where he dropped off his peace offering which is - TA DA - a bar of soap.
Elsewhere in City Hall, a spokeshole for Mayor Gavin The Terrible - Gavin Newsome - was almost as ‘harsh’ as that wimp Davie:
"I would advise Daly's colleagues on the Board to start a swear jar and make him pay into it whenever he uses the 'F' word so we could get something out of this stunt, but at this point, he doesn't need anymore encouragement." (CBS5)
Obviously, Chris Daly, in addition to being an utter and complete asshole, is the only pile of political crap in City Hall with a full set of nads.
Seasonal Stupidity
Source: Orange County Register [12/28/09]
Move over car surfing. Shut up and sit down, train surfing. There’s a new kid on Stampeding Stupidity Street. It’s called tree surfing, and it’s all the rage behind Southern Mexifornia’s Orange Curtain. All you need to play is a vehicle, a Christmas tree, and at least one congenital moron who can’t wait to be a featured player in the latest edition of the Darwin Awards.
How is tree surfing accomplished? It’s so simple that even a synaptically challenged hormone gorilla can do it. Simply attach the tree to the rear of a vehicle, using a suitable length of rope, then climb aboard the tree while your cohort drags your dumb ass along the highways and byways. Before you rush out to try it, you might want to read about a recent tree surfing adventure behind the Orange Curtain:
Two people were riding separate Christmas trees tied to a Mitsubishi Montero at about 10:45 p.m., said Jim Amormino, spokesman for the Sheriff's Department. The car – occupied by a female driver and two passengers – was traveling near Calle Ola Verde and Avenida Espada.
The car was going 20-25 mph, said Capt. Greg McKeown of the Orange County Fire Authority. As the vehicle turned at the intersection, one of the tied trees flew out wide, and slammed the 18-year-old into a parked car.
Investigators are not sure if the two riders were standing or sitting on the trees, Amormino said.
The driver fled, Amormino said. "As soon as the guy got hurt, she left on foot," he said.
Since the fickle fates were still hung over from the annual Christmas Party, they weren’t on hand to stamp this tree surfing fool’s emergency human gene pool improvement volunteer application ‘accepted’. That’s why, instead of an early exit to oblivion, this hormone gorilla got off lightly, with ‘moderate injuries to his head’.
Scoring: Mark this one "pending" and put it in your ‘if at first you don’t succeed’ file.
Gavin The Terrible Strikes Again
Source: PIG News Wire [12/18/09]
The Blight By The Bay’s Mayor, Gavin Newsome, is desperate to re-establish his Libertard Moonbat credentials, after he was forced to abandon his campaign to replace The Terminator in Mexifornia’s governor’s mansion. What he needs is some face time in the News Nitwit spotlight, to erase that noxious LOSER stench. He thinks he’s found it, but I doubt it:
Mayor Gavin Newsom is endorsing a proposal that would make San Francisco the first city in the country to require radiation labels for cell phones. The legislation would require cell phone retailers to post radiation levels next to each phone in a font at least as large as the price. The retailers also would have to inform customers about what the radiation levels mean.
Scientists do not agree on whether radiation from cell phones poses any health hazard. The federal government has established limits for safe exposure. The Federal Communications Commission says all phones legally sold in the U.S. are safe.
Newsom spokesman Joe Arellano says a bill to enact the rules likely will go before the Board of Supervisors within the next few months. (Breitbart)
Nice try, dude, but it won’t get the job done, not even in your Libertard Moonbat infested city. Why? You’re swimming against the Terrors of Technology tide on this one. If you want to annoy your Libertard base, why don’t you attack a real threat, by putting a ‘dangerous for your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness’ warning label on tomes by Marx, Alinsky, and Obama?