the Hum | California Politics, and other crazy rants

We voted our propositions in for years, and even decades. We told the politicians what we wanted. But still… they tried to put one past us by giving a special election filled with one-sided propositions with clever names.

California answered with a resounding NO!
No changes in the things we voted for earlier in the years. No special elections. No kindly names like “Childrens Special Fund” attached to what is really a “Special Bad Budgeting Fund.” We just aren’t that stupid Arnold.

Stop the wild government spending. Stop the powerful union interests, stop the attempt at tricking the voters and taxpayers of California. How ’bout you guys just get back i session and come up with some real solutions and the number one solution yet: STOP THE LAVISH SPENDING!

Schwarzenegger thinks we are going to be upset that 38,000 low level prisoners are going to be released if we don’t vote in a budget fiasco bill that diverts funds from other causes, voted by Californians, into another bankruptcy prevention fund. Get a grip.

Of the 38,000 nearly half of them are illegal immigrants! Cut them lose. Under a pact with the Feds, supposedly those prisoners will be picked up and dealt with by Obama. Oh but wait, instead, 15,000 gang-bangers are going back to their turf. But who cares! We don’t care. Cut them lose. We shouldn’t be housing illegal gang bangers we should be deporting them to Tijuana where they can gather with the rest of their buddies.

While we’re at it, let’s cut lose with the other illegals that are creating a 30% budget over spend in our schools. Let’s cut another 30% off of the rolls for illegals using Health and Human services. Let’s cut the college tuition for illegals too.

While 8 percent more prisoners were added from 2003 to 2008, a whopping 79% budget increase resulted. Is it not clear that we can no longer let the top 2 unions (prisons, teachers ) in California run the state?

“Schwarzenegger proposed reducing payments to private hospitals, cutting rates for family planning providers and, if the ballot measures fail, eliminating 225,000 children from health coverage.”

The California middle class has been footing the bill for the services that are being abused for so long, we’re not sure if we are paying welfare for residents, or welfare for non-resident illegals. Recently I’ve read that the illegal population is not responsible for any of the drain on the California government, but I can’t help but notice that the budget deficit is exactly the amount of the spend for illegal immigrant services. If any of us are to buy the argument that the immigration is not the issue, then show us how the government can afford to pay for the services it needs to provide to taxpayers, and all these extra services going to non-taxpayers, while balancing the California budget.

A new study has shown that just smelling food (like a good chocolate cake for example) can create an increase in dopamine. The study at Brookhaven is located here: http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2002/bnlpr052002.htm .. but you already knew that right?

Looks like a new development in the depression industry, the ability to measure dopamine. Here is a link to the Coulochem III electrochemical detector, but looks like this one is for blood only in major labs.

Meanwhile, here we have “Integrated” something or other that actually has the tests to get neurotransmitters tested

As the Senate Banking committee is seeking a mere $500 billion dollars to shore itself up, it becomes notable that that is only 1 percent of the needed money if there is a run on the banks. And there likely will be.

No amount of smooth talking by Obama is going to change the scenario once this hits the fan. While he is out talking up the market, like it’s a great place to put a new 401K after your old one crashed, not many people (smart people) are buying it.. literally.

So in this vein, it’s about time that our youth learn some basic survival skills.

1. You don’t have to eat at McDonalds, you can survive on potatoes.
2. You don’t need to go mall shopping, try a thrift store for something new and cheap
3. Start a new fad wearing keds. You can save a few bucks there.
4. Candles are good, go buy some, you’re going to need the electric bill cash
5. You CAN build a house out of cardboard, or go camping for a year or so

Get a clue people, when you thought that Obama was any different than Hillary, or Bill, or McCain or anyone else who walked into office and still has to spend, spend, spend.

Obama has the new excuse of reviving the financial markets that were left by Bush, but in reality what we are seeing is spending like an American consumer and nothing more.

We spend, spend, spend, and so does Obama.
Nothing new came out of the hopeful election that so many hopeful youth voted in, only to find, it’s business as usual.

California legislators sat it out over the weekend to get a grip on the massive deficit of California and failed to reach and agreement because, you guessed it, they never cut out all the fluff that Californians don’t need. When most folks are nearly broke, tightening their belts, still California is somehow under the impression that the massive spending amounts are still going to fly. I guess not. Has anyone ever figured out how to save the state billions by denouncing the costs associated with illegal immigration? Has anyone figured out how to let pot smokers out of jail saving us $40,000 per prisoner, or is that too much to ask when certainly the scare tactics would begin by the prison authority. Instead of drug classes and rehabs we spend $40K a year on prison instead. Add it up. Putting someone in full time rehab in a nice house costs about 2K a month or $24K a year, which is alot cheaper than housing them in prison which is punitive instead of rehabilitative. Then there’s the other millions and kazillions spent on illegals housed in prison, not to mention medical and health services that took the brunt of that load.

I drive down the street to notice the fire station looks better than a million dollar home around here and I have to wonder when the spending spree will end.

What is in the new budget anyways? I know that democrats and republicans don’t agree, but it’s pretty simple to know that either party, no matter, we don’t want to pay anymore for all this than we are already paying.

Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Denise Ducheny, a democrat from San Diego can’t understand why some people don’t believe this is really a crisis. Well Ms. Ducheny, we do believe it, but we don’t understand why you guys aren’t CUTTING EXPENSES and instead are still slamming it to the California people. If we had looked ahead a while back and stopped spending lavishly on services for illegals and all the other pet projects going on here, we wouldn’t be in this mess to begin with. Take a walk backwards and cut out the frills, and you’ll have our support. Your republican congressmen won’t be getting thousands of phone calls and this would have been a done deal.

Now the truth is appearing about several in the military that took bribes in the rebuilding of Iraq. How sad! In fact millions of dollars in bribes were taken. Maj. John L. Cockerham of the Army pleaded guilty to accepting nearly $10 million in bribes as a contracting officer for the Iraq war and other military efforts from 2004 to 2007, when he was arrested. One contracting official committed suicide in 2006 a day after admitting to investigators that she had taken $225,000 in bribes to rig bids in favor of American Logistics Services and Lee Dynamics International, that repeatedly won construction contracts for millions of dollars despite a dismal track record.

The New York Times is reporting that Lt. Col. Ronald W. Hirtle and Col. Anthony B. Bell are accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes. Hirtle signed a roughly $10 million deal to build arms warehouses for the fledgling Iraqi security forces, that went largely unbuilt.

In all over 125 billion dollars of taxpayers money went to Iraq for rebuilding and over all much of it was completely botched or never done. Just more and more billions of American dollars that will go for nothing but greed mongering individuals who can’t stop stealing from taxpayers. While millions of Americans are trying to figure out how to scape up a few thousand to pay taxes, their money is being squandered in numerous endeavors that never get completed.

Meanwhile, I don’t have much faith that the billions being allocated in the current spending bill will really make a dent in the situation of depression that we find ourselves in. Between the greed found at AIG and other top financial institutions, the American taxpayer is basically footing the bill for thousands of top executives and trusted officials to get rich for life. When will it end.

After watching the following foie gras video I feel sick to my stomach, absolutely horrified.

This is an extreme example of human cruelty.

Watch with caution, it is disturbing.

Why is it that preachers these days are commenting on political events and making it like they are the authority on some kind of consciousness from God about what candidates are thinking and doing.

The most recent attack on Hillary Clinton is disgusting where Pastor PFLeger should have the audacity to chastise the candidate after she spent days upon days running a fair race and doing whatever she could to get a nomination. So she failed. So she has disappointments, and with her so do millions of other Democrats who voted for her. So why all the hoopla and chastising of her attempt? If Hillary ever thought she was entitiled, she got a rude awakening, and since when was it mighty Christian of anyone to make fun of others who tried to do something great? Excuse me, was she robbing the poor? Was she doing anything other than what “God” says every man and woman are entitled to, such as life a good life.

In these days, watching supposed Christian, Catholic, hate mongering preachers is such a disappointment.