Today, Wonkette reads my mind again

Poll Shows Republicans Still Think Cain Is Their Guy

http://wonkette.com/455752/seven-in-ten-republicans-obviously-dont-care-about-herman-cain-being-a-sex-creep

Are We Really Going to Let This Happen??? The 1% Just Stacked the Encinitas City Council

As you may or may not know, my dad is a retired L.A. County Fire Captain, and I am very proud of him. More proud than if he was the richest man in the world. It, therefore, made me ill to read in the Coast News (thecoastnews.com) that our own Encinitas City Council made a political appointment to replace the beloved Maggie Houlihan, lately passed away after a long struggle with cancer.  The council appointed Fire Chief Mark Muir to the vacant council seat. While I have nothing against fire chiefs as a whole, Maggie Houlihan was a true representative of  the slow-growth environmental stewardship brand of Encinitan who elected her to multiple terms.  Mark Muir is not replacing her representation.  Sadly, the other faction of the council, Stocks and Bond, are development-friendly and they have been elected to multiple terms by what could be considered the 1%-ers in Encinitas.  Houlihan had been holding back the dyke, as it were, against over-development and with the council seat finally in their grasp, Stocks and Bond were able to appoint a like-minded individual to fill it. Mark Muir is not who Maggie Houlihan had in mind to fill her seat. Her dying wish was that UCSD Lecturer Lisa Shaffer fill the empty council seat. In an unbelievably crass and ugly power grab, the 1%-ers acted like their class and simply stole the representation of the voting bloc to give themselves a majority that will give them unfettered access to Encinitas's precious environment.

Where are the 99%-ers I have seen at the Occupy Encinitas actions?  Are we going to sit by and watch this happen?  This is 1% ugliness at its best.  They just TOOK OVER ENCINITAS!  Are we really going to let this happen?  How about some 99%-ers getting serious about this?  They're bringing it to us!

1964 Studebaker Cruiser

This is my new (old) car! It's going to need a lot of work, so if you know anyone who works on old cars, inside or out, I need referrals!  I need a good diagnostician and a hookup for upholstery, maybe a fuel pump, maybe a transmission, door panels, a dashboard, wheel alignment, etc, etc, etc...

And if you see me around town, honk!

IAFF Local 3787 salutes the fallen 343 of the NYFD

I'm so proud to live in Encinitas and so very proud of the Cardiff Kook today.





Encinitas Will Never Forget



Major Cardiff Kook

Yeah, I know. My neighbor was right. It was a huge thing they did to the Kook. No doubt. I didn't get down there to see it, though.  Blast!

Soooooo, I moved

to the next building and it took all this time to get settled. It's been almost 2 weeks.  I had trouble with Time Warner, too. I was watching the Charger game and this guy knocks on the door. He says he's looking for George, the last guy who lived here. I said he moved. The guy said thanks and left and the next thing I know, my tv goes off. In the middle of the Charger game. So I call Time Warner and make a payment. That wasn't the problem. But they're not open so I have to READ for the rest of the night.

Then I call the next day and they send a guy out to turn the thing back on. Apparently, when someone moves, they have to physically turn off the cable and then turn it back on in the name of the new person. Whatever. I think the guy who turned it off was a Raider fan because he was laughing when he left.

Bastards.

I am still laughing

On Weirdest UFO Stories today: 

The narrator, who is British (of course. Why is that?), recites the tale of the great mind that posited the theory that ancient aliens built the Great Pyramids. The stones each weighed about 80 tons and came from hundreds of miles away before the invention of the wheel.  This meant that the only way to get the stones to Giza was for great numbers of men to drag them. The alternative theory that it would take some other-worldly force to accomplish the task is more plausible to the theorist and it sounds reasonable to me.

The problem with the theory is that carved on the pyramids are pictures of arrays of men with ropes dragging large things like statues.  The narrator points out that there are no aliens in the pictures unless they are cunningly dressed as ancient Egyptians.