Why Did The EPA Smother A Scientific Report That Questioned Global Warming?

Alan Carlin, a PhD and seasoned veteran at the EPA may become a folk hero to climate change skeptics, but he may also lose his job. At least according to an interview this morning on Fox news, he was grateful that he still had a job. A report he submitted back in March had called to question many points of the Global Warming Theory based on current data. The internal e-mails were leaked out, perhaps in response to the recent passing of the high taxing climate change bill. I recently wrote an article that highlighted four points of climate change skeptics. Many more were raised by this paper. According to Carlin and his co authors:

Global temperatures have actually declined in the last 11 years, despite increases in CO2.
Increased tropical storm activity has repeatedly been cited as a sign of anthropogenic global warming and yet that has not occurred.
The IPCC in its reports has claimed that Greenland would shed its ice and that has not happened at all.

Recent studies have concluded that the Global Climate Models used by the IPCC are faulty and “not supported by empirical evidence.”
Studies also suggest the IPCC dismissed the effect of solar variability based on faulty data and new research shows that “up to 68% of the increase in Earth’s global temperatures” could be caused by solar variability.

Analysis of surface stations that monitor temperatures has shown that most fail to meet the most basic meteorological guidelines for proper sighting resulted in inaccurate measurements. The “Urban Heat Island” effect is considered key to this.
Satellite temperature measurements taken from 1978 to 2008 do not show an increased rate of warming over the 30 year period.

Are politics blocking science on this issue? Carlin suggested that old science is being used for current policies, and the ideas are out of date. New evidence has backed a growing number of outspoken scientists on the skeptics side. This is new science with limited recorded data. Computer models have been wrong in their expectations up until now, so what about the next few decades? I support less pollution and renewable energy, but not at the cost of deceiving the public.


Tony Pann, Examiner.com, 6.30.2009

Why I Love Season 1 Of '24'

On November 6, 2001, television drama changed forever with the debut the first episode of ‘24’. ‘24’ wasn’t an ordinary drama. It was a thriller with an edge-of-your seat quality and unique format that has drawn millions of fans all over the world.

Beginning today, I am going to post a series of installments with my commentary on the episodes of ‘24’ that made me love the series and that have made the series in my opinion the best drama ever in the history of television.

I will begin by commenting on my favorite episodes of season 1 beginning with the pilot episode.

Episode #1, Season 1

12:00 am – 1:00 am

Writers: Robert Cochran & Joel Surnow

Director: Stephen Hopkins

“Don’t trust anyone…not even your own people. We’ve got to find the shooter Jack…whatever it takes.”

– Richard Walsh

The first thing you notice about the pilot episode of ‘24’ is its unique format. The ticking clock, “Events occur in real time”, the boxes. No other show had attempted the real-time format before so that alone made the show very different. It was also interesting that the ticking clock had a much different sound to it in the pilot.

The pilot episode is special because it establishes the unique format, introduces the viewer to the characters and the basic storyline that’s going to take place over the next 24 hours.

The first scene shows a mysterious man in Malaysia who gets a message to a man in LA that warns of a possible assassination attempt on Senator David Palmer. Meanwhile, a guy named Jack Bauer is playing chess with his daughter looking like an ordinary family man. Little does he know the day in store for him.

The buildup of this story in just this one episode is brilliantly done. Not only are we introduced to the main characters, but there is a great deal of development of these characters as well.

Just as an example: in just the first exchange between Jack Bauer and George Mason, you get to find out so much about these characters. George Mason is a sarcastic smart-aleck who is willing to keep Jack in the dark and lie to him about a source for some information. We also find out that Jack Bauer is a take-no-prisoners kind of guy who is willing to do anything including tranquilizing Mason (who is also his boss!) and blackmail him in order to get the information he needs.

Other great aspects of Episode 1:

• Jack’s talk with Nina about compromise: Great glimpse into Jack’s moral center and character.

• Senator Palmer & Sherry Palmer: We don’t see a lot of their relationship in this episode ,but you get a good idea that at least at the beginning of that day they seemed like a happy couple with a successful marriage. Little did we know at that time about the real Sherry Palmer.

• Mandy is not what she seems: We are introduced to the character of Mandy who seems to be a just a passenger on a flight interested in the photographer she’s sitting next to. By the end of the episode we find out she’s an assassin who proceeds to blow-up a passenger airliner in mid air. I love how ‘24’ makes you think a character is certain way then totally does a 180 and shows the character as being completely different from your initial impression.

• Kim Bauer’s teenage antics: When I first saw this episode, I thought what does this have to do with the main plot? I wasn’t exactly crazy about Kim’s storyline at first, but I eventually found out this was actually a great way to build up to the kidnapping story and its tie-in to Jack and Palmer. I have found that patience is a virtue when watching ‘24’.

• Richard Walsh/Jack Bauer relationship: You can tell from the conversation between Jack and Walsh that these characters had a great deal of respect for each other and that Walsh trusts Jack more than anyone. Too bad this relationship didn’t get to be explored further since Walsh only lasted two episodes.
  
  
• '24' Look/Feel: The pilot episode also established 24's unique look. The lighting and dark "feel" to the show was quickly established in the first episode. Starting the season at midnight was another great way they made the show different from anything else on TV.
  
  
• Good Introduction Of Other CTU Characters: I liked the way the other CTU personnel were introduced in the pilot. Tony Almedia's character being hostile and not liking Jack too much was interesting. You didn't quite know if Tony was a good guy or bad guy at the beginning of the series. Jamey Farrell, CTU Analyst; seems like a good character in the first episode. A competent analyst willing to help Jack when needed. And of course, there is Nina Meyers. There are hints of her and Jack having some kind of history, but it is not specifically stated in the pilot. You also find out that she and Tony are apparently currently an item, not gone unnoticed by Jack.
  

Final Thoughts: You can’t talk about the episodes that made ‘24’ a great show without talking about the pilot episode. The way the basic plot and the characters were introduced it made you want to see what was coming in the next episode. '24' has this unique ability to draw in the viewer and make you want to see what happens next. I will be forever grateful that FOX decided to pick up this show after seeing the pilot and sticking with it despite surprisingly low ratings for the first season. If they had not picked up '24', TV viewers would have been deprived of many great hours of drama and suspense. I'm also thankful for the creators of '24', Bob Cochran and Joel Surnow. What a great concept for a television drama/thriller. Thank you Bob and Joel!

-By 24FanForever

Next Installment: Season 1, Episode 5: 4:00 am - 5:00 am

Step and Fetch It Media Ignore Further Questions Over Obama-Fired Inspector Gen Walpin

Apart from several reports on FNC, and a few on CNN, the mainstream television news media have ignored the controversial firing of former Inspector General Gerald Walpin, who had recently battled for tougher penalties against Obama friend and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson after an investigation by Walpin found Johnson had misused hundreds of thousands of tax dollars granted by the AmeriCorps program to the Johnson-founded St. Hope charity. Over the past weeks, there have been a number of developments, including the opening of an FBI investigation into the St. Hope charity, further casting doubt on the White House's decisions and bolstering Walpin's case that he was wrongfully booted.

In the June 22 editorial "Walpin-gate Opens Wider; FBI Investigation Embarrasses the White House," the Washington Times wrote that "The FBI has opened an investigation into a Sacramento program formerly run by a close ally of President Obama's, giving credence to the IG's work."

The article also recounted that Walpin and the acting U.S. attorney involved in the case, Lawrence Brown, had clashed because Walpin complained that Brown "had negotiated far too lenient a settlement of the charges against Mayor Johnson and St. Hope." The White House had cited complaints by Brown against Walpin as part of its justification for firing the inspector general. But, as noted by the Times, the White House "fired Mr. Walpin long before the relevant committee would have finished its assessment of the U.S. attorney's complaint."

Arguing that Walpin's view of the seriousness of the situation at St. Hope is well-founded, the article also recounted: "On the very same day that the president fired Mr. Walpin, St. Hope's executive director, Rick Maya, left his job at St. Hope. He did not go quietly. His resignation letter charged Mr. Johnson and several St. Hope board members with numerous ethical violations. Most explosively, he charged that a board member improperly deleted e-mails of Mr. Johnson's that already were under a federal subpoena."
According to the June 24 article "Even Political Foes Cheer on Fired AmeriCorps Inspector General Walpin," Paul Bedard of U.S. News and World Report writes that Walpin "has some pretty important friends coming to his defense. Some 145 of them, including political foes, have written Congress and the White House to refute attacks on his integrity in the controversy over why he was fired by the Obama administration." Bedard notes that the list "includes former federal judges and even Democrats like Bernie Nussbaum, former President Clinton's first White House counsel," as the group wrote that "All of us are unanimous in affirming Mr. Walpin's integrity and competence."

In the June 17 editorial, "Walpin-gate's 'Egregious Stuff'; There's Still No Cause for Obama Firing of an IG," the Washington Times informed readers that Walpin and several of his staff had submitted an 18-page rebuttal to Brown's accusations. Regarding Brown's complaint that Walpin had given information to the media before delivering the same information to Brown's office, the Times recounts Walpin's side of the story: "The U.S. Attorney's Office claims it only learned of developments in the investigation through news articles inspired by the inspector general. That's odd. The U.S. Attorney's Office actually submitted, as requested by Mr. Walpin's team, a letter necessary for the action against Mayor Johnson. So that claim is false, too."
In the June 24 editorial, "Lieberman Overlooks Walpin-gate; Public Hearings are Needed on IG Firing," the Washington Times also recounted Walpin's side of the story as a rebuttal to Brown's charge that information was withheld from him by the inspector general: "On the withholding of certain memos, it turns out that the supposed 'withholding' occurred at a meeting Mr. Walpin did not attend - but at which, we are told, his staff discussed with other investigators the memos in question. So it wasn't as if they, much less Mr. Walpin, were deliberately trying to conceal anything."

In the June 18 article, "A Witness to Walpin-gate; An Eye Witness Contradicts the White House," the Washington Times cited an anonymous witness to the infamous May 20 meeting between Walpin and the bipartisan board of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which claimed Walpin was "disoriented" at the meeting, and unanimously requested that he be replaced. According to the Times, the witness not only disagreed with the board's description of Walpin's behavior at the meeting as "disoriented," as the witness described the meeting as "contentious" because Walpin was scolding the board for not being aggressive enough in its duty to protect tax dollars from fraud. The witness also argued that the board's complaint about Walpin telecommuting from his home in New York was not grounds for dismissal since the necessary board members had agreed that Walpin could telecommute without any objections from other board members when they had the opportunity to do so.
In the June 23 article, "Getting to the Bottom of the AmeriCorps IG Firing," Byron York of the Washington Examiner wrote that a Republican member of the board which requested that Walpin be replaced conceded that the board members were not sure whether there was sufficient reason to fire him. York: "But the corporation has never said the board unanimously supported the way in which Walpin was fired. And indeed, a long discussion with a Republican member of the board suggests that while there was, in fact, agreement on firing Walpin, it's not clear whether there was sufficient cause to do it. Nor is it clear why the White House decided to lower the boom in a way that defied the law governing how inspectors general can be fired." Regarding the telecommuting issue, York recounts that, according to his source, "the board did not tell Walpin he couldn't telecommute."

In the June 14 article, "Gerald Walpin Speaks: The Inside Story of the AmeriCorps Firing," Byron York of the Washington Examiner presented the theory that Brown and the Corporation for National and Community Service were under pressure to reach a quick settlement with Mayor Johnson that would remove his suspension so that the city of Sacramento would not be barred from receiving millions of dollars in federal stimulus money because of its mayor's history.
Brad Wilmouth, NewsBusters, 6/30/09

The Bill star TJ Ramini joins 24 cast - 6/30/09

TJ Ramini, best known for his role as maverick cop Zain Nadir in The Bill, has joined the cast of 24.

Briton TJ, who most recently played boot camp instructor Yaniv in the US comedy drama Desperate Housewives, joins the hit American spy series as recurring character Tarin Karoush, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Tarin is an associate of the Middle Eastern leader played by new series regular Anil Kapoor.

The eighth series of 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Special Agent Jack Bauer, is due to premiere in the US on January 17, 2010.

Article Link: What'sOnTV.co.uk

Making a Monkey Out of Darwin

You have no notion of the intrigue that goes on in this blessed world of science," wrote Thomas Huxley. "Science is, I fear, no purer than any other region of human activity; though it should be."

As "Darwin's bulldog," Huxley would himself engage in intrigue, deceit and intellectual property theft to make his master's theory gospel truth in Great Britain.

He is quoted above for two reasons.

First is House passage of a "cap-and-trade" climate-change bill. Depending on which scientists you believe, the dire consequences of global warming are inconvenient truths -- or a fearmongering scheme to siphon off the wealth of individuals and empower bureaucrats.

The second is publication of "The End of Darwinism: And How a Flawed and Disastrous Theory Was Stolen and Sold," by Eugene G. Windchy, a splendid little book that begins with Huxley's lament.

That Darwinism has proven "disastrous theory" is indisputable.

"Karl Marx loved Darwinism," writes Windchy. "To him, survival of the fittest as the source of progress justified violence in bringing about social and political change, in other words, the revolution."

"Darwin suits my purpose," Marx wrote.

Darwin suited Adolf Hitler's purposes, too.

"Although born to a Catholic family Hitler become a hard-eyed Darwinist who saw life as a constant struggle between the strong and the weak. His Darwinism was so extreme that he thought it would have been better for the world if the Muslims had won the eighth century battle of Tours, which stopped the Arabs' advance into France. Had the Christians lost, (Hitler) reasoned, Germanic people would have acquired a more warlike creed
and, because of their natural superiority, would have become the leaders of an Islamic empire."

Charles Darwin also suited the purpose of the eugenicists and Herbert Spencer, who preached a survival-of-the-fittest social Darwinism to robber baron industrialists exploiting 19th-century immigrants.

Historian Jacques Barzun believes Darwinism brought on World War I: "Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens -- all of them, when appeals
to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate."

Yet a theory can produce evil -- and still be true.

And here Windchy does his best demolition work.

Darwin, he demonstrates, stole his theory from Alfred Wallace, who had sent him a "completed formal paper on evolution by natural selection."

"All my originality ... will be smashed," wailed Darwin when he got Wallace's manuscript.

Darwin also lied in "The Origin of Species" about believing in a Creator. By 1859, he was a confirmed agnostic and so admitted in his posthumous autobiography, which was censored by his family.

Darwin's examples of natural selection -- such as the giraffe acquiring its long neck to reach ever higher into the trees for the leaves upon which it fed to survive -- have been debunked. Giraffes eat grass and bushes. And if, as Darwin claimed, inches meant life or death, how did female giraffes, two or three feet shorter, survive?

Windchy goes on to relate such scientific hoaxes as "Nebraska Man" -- an anthropoid ape ancestor to man, whose tooth turned out to belong to a wild pig -- and Piltdown Man, the missing link between monkey and man.

Discovered in England in 1912, Piltdown Man was a sensation until exposed by a 1950s investigator as the skull of a Medieval Englishman attached to the jaw of an Asian ape whose teeth had been filed down to look human and whose bones had been stained to look old.

Yet three English scientists were knighted for Piltdown Man.

Other myths are demolished. Bird feathers do not come from the scales of reptiles. There are no gills in human embryos.

For 150 years, the fossil record has failed to validate Darwin.

"The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontologists," admitted Stephen J. Gould in 1977. But that fossil record now contains even more species that appear fully developed, with no traceable ancestors.

Darwin ruled out such "miracles."

And Darwinists still have not explained the origin of life, nor have they been able to produce life from non-life.

The most delicious chapter is Windchy's exposure of the Scopes Monkey Trial and Hollywood's Bible-mocking movie "Inherit the Wind," starring Spencer Tracy as Clarence Darrow.

The trial was a hoked-up scam to garner publicity for Dayton, Tenn. Scopes never taught evolution and never took the stand. His students were tutored to commit perjury. And William Jennings Bryan held his own against the atheist Darrow in the transcript of the trial.

In 1981, Gould had this advice for beleaguered Darwinists:

"Perhaps we should all lie low and rally round the flag of strict Darwinism ... a kind of old-time religion on our part."

Exactly. Darwinism is not science. It is faith. Always was

Patrick J. Buchanan, Human Events, 6/30/09

street fighting man..

white punks on dope..

take a bunch of gay punks from trailer parks, shave their heads, cover them with tatoos, stick them in a ring to pummel and/or try to have sex with each other and they call that martial arts?? Please, it's not martial arts..it's cock-fighting! Now, I got no problem with people fighting when they have to..
I've been in a few bar room brawls in my day..and I won..some guy was looking at my girlfriend like he wanted to steal her..so I got jealous and started talking shit..we took it outside and ended up in the alley..in the blood and guts and the beer..the bouncers pulled me off of him..and I was crowned "Hard as Nails"...so I get it..young men like to fight..but the Mixed Martial Arts show has no artistry to it..I've watched it to try and detect some..but there is none..all they do is end up on the floor with their legs wrapped around each other..it's embarassing! The great martial arts require no blood, just discipline and respect..boxing and wrestling, real wrestling, are great sports..sometimes bloody, but so is life.. and the blood is drawn for a reason..someone got out-punched not out-pummeled..hitting someone with a baseball bat is not a martial art!
I think the MMA guys need to come clean and stop claiming that they are anything more than money grubbing punks whose audience consists of punk asses from the Jesse James Hollywood crowd..these boys need to go grow up and get real jobs....like men do
　
The cock fight takes place Saturday, July 3, at Earl Warren Showgrounds...let this be the first and last time the Showgrounds get disrespected like this...

Merry Christmas!!!

don't look back.....

Santa Claus Lane played an important role in the Carpinteria Valley’s agricultural beginnings. This is significant because the area surrounding Santa Claus Lane hasn’t changed that much in the last fifty years thanks to agriculture. That simple fact makes it a pleasure to live here. The pleasure will turn to pain if we continue to over-develop and jam in too many people! The BIG URBAN BANG hasn’t hit us…yet.....
Thank Goodness for Agriculture!
The half-mile strip containing Santa’s Village was originally part of a Lima bean farm along the ocean side of the old three-lane highway. The owner, E.T. Auger, built a small juice stand there. The McKeon family bought the property in 1948. Needing an advertising theme, Patrick McKeon named the stand Santa Claus to conform with other nearby Santas like Santa Barbara and Santa Maria and used the theme to attract passing motorists. Brilliant idea!
During their first Christmas on the lane, his wife June dressed up as Santa and waved travelers to the juice stand (the good old days). June also invented the Big Yellow House in Summerland!She was a big, loud, no-nonsense yet kind woman. The next Christmas, a passing motorist with five children, no money and low on gas stopped at the stand. For $500, he offered to build a Santa Claus on the roof of the juice stand. His offer was accepted and a monument made out of chicken wire and plaster would soon rise from the lima bean fields like a demented Phoenix!
The large Santa grew out of the chimney, wired with a loudspeaker to call out to passing motorists "Welcome to Santa Claus!" People were much looser then and not as anal as they are today!
*A western novelty shop was added in 1951, a pottery shop in 1953, and a café known as Santa’s Kitchen in 1954. A post office substation was established in the date shop where mail could be stamped "Santa Claus, California". In 1954, a four lane divided highway was built and the old coast highway became Santa Claus Lane. The area prospered as a thriving commercial enterprise until the 1970s when tastes changed and fewer travelers stopped on the lane. Many of the Santa themes and associated tourist attractions were removed, and the trend toward remodeling the lane in a Nantucket motif developed. Today, Santa Claus stands as one of the last reminders of Santa Claus Village.
The Santa Claus figure is a rare regional example of 1940’s roadside programmatic architecture. Automobile travel at the time, fostered by the construction of better highways, required the development of large, eye-catching roadside images that could be understood by a speeding motorist....

not any more....but development on the Lane has been held to a minimum...it's still a fun and funky place to spend some time..California casual 1950s style..

my generation, baby...

why don't you all just F-F-F-F..fade away...

baby boomers have been hogging the spotlight for way too long....just because they built the best guitars, cars and lived through the most fun and infuriating decade, the 60s, there's really no need to rub it in, is there? Well, they crowded into downtown Carpinteria to show off again...this time it's the cars...Time Machines from the 1930s to 1970s...muscle cars, cool trucks....if you wanted to see the cause of Global Warming...it was on display in Carp on Saturday...there were no Smart Cars here, just gas guzzling rip roaring American made hot rods that I would love to take from Carp to Monterey and back through Big Sur next weekend..with the top down and the radio up..real loud...with her

you light up my life....

who elected this dufus??

you know what happens when you smoke? everything turns yellow..your fingers, your teeth, your eyes, your clothes, your skin..and your brain...if you keep smoking you get a smoker's hack that greets you every morning with enough phlegm to fill a corpse...if you're into that type of thing..it takes your breath away...
so if you smoke, you're a fool..a yellow fool...now, I quit years ago after turning yellow...girls would come up to me and go "yuck"..they still do but for different reasons! The point is: cigarettes are the dumbest product ever to be sold because they have no redeeming feature whatsoever..NONE..everything about a cigarette is designed to fuck you up..and litter the beaches..why would anyone smoke?

it's the drug and the oral fixation..

if you're a guy and you step outside to have a smoke with your buddy, it really means you want to suck each other's dick, you little queers..think about that next time you light up...

Now what really bothers me is people who smoke in their cars in front of me..all that smoke goes into my truck and I started choking..choking smokers don't you think the joker laughs at you? Well, I have to avoid the smoker, usually by passing him at a very high rate of speed..Chevy V8 speed.. and flipping him off...why not, he's a loser anyway..I'm just reinforcing it...and I'm trying to live a healthy life!
ok.. so now we come to another loser Tony Strickland, who got elected with tobacco money. Instead of voting YES to tax the morons who smoke, he votes NO due to the money he received from tobacco companies..he's a stooge for Marlboro!
What do smokers cost taxpayers, Tony?
SENATORS: Taxpayers Shouldn't be Forced to Subsidize AIG Execs OR Smokers' Health Insurance
Smokers' Cost to Taxpayers in 1000 Times Higher, Both are Direct Causes of Unfair Subsidy The country appears to be unanimous in its outrage about taxpayer money being used to pay about $165 million in bonuses to AIG executives. But the Congress should be even more outraged over taxpayer subsidies, which are about 1,000 times higher, being paid to cover the costs of the small percentage of Americans who persist in smoking -- a much larger problem, and one which can easily be remedied. Although fewer than 20% of adult Americans still smoke, the CDC conservatively estimates that their smoking costs the American economy $193 BILLION annually, most of which is paid by nonsmokers in the form of higher taxes (for excess payments under Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs), as well as in grossly inflated health insurance premiums paid by both individuals and corporations ...

think about that next time you light up...

an apple a day...

keeps my insurance premiums down...

I got a glossy brochure in the News-Press about Cottage Hospital... I took it out and read it..I was unimpressed...it seems to me that too many people who enter that place for treatment don''t make it out alive..seriously! I've known many folks..some friends and family who were treated there...the surgeons got rich, but the patients got dead...that's the last place I'm going to if I ever get sick..St. Francis was another story...they stitched me up once when I nearly cut my finger off..I was cutting some frozen fish steak, pissed off at some stupid woman, and AHHH! the knife slipped and went right into my finger..I could hear her laughing 300 miles away! Blood was shooting out like a fountain..I freaked and wrapped it up and sped off to St. Francis hospital...the doctor, a kid with long hair, stitched me up like an old pro! Another good medical facility is the Medical Center on upper State St..I haven't beeen in so long, I don't know if it's still there...but Cottage..if you go there you better have a will ready..I don't trust them..hell, they even advertise "lap bands" and "gastric by-passes" for fat people..that alone should be a clue to STAY AWAY!!! don't get a gastric bypass.. instead exercise and eat an apple a day to keep the doctor away!
Outta Time...
the NewsPress is obsolete...it is so outta touch that they are making up headline stories...recently referring to the Montecito Republican Party as a real political entity...it's what happens when you replace pro work force writers with wet-behind-the-ears teenie boppers! like totally..well maybe they are a real entity..a group of radical anti-Obama activist bridge players!
Don't cry for me South Carolina..
first we get that goofy huckleberry neocon Lindsay Graham who holds a news conference everytime President Obama farts....then we get the neocon governor who abruptly takes off to Argentina to see his mistress, gets taxpayers to pay for it and tells everyone he's out hiking:

Sanford has said he has made three trips to see his lover, who is divorced. The governor paid for the most recent trip with his own funds, Sawyer said. He said he knew very little about the trip before that one. But the first of the three trips, Sawyer said, was a June 2008 trade mission to Brazil and Argentina, paid for with South Carolina tax dollars. On Thursday, in response to queries from The Times and other news outlets, the state Commerce Department released details of that weeklong trip, including the $9,000-plus bill paid by state taxpayers!!
MARIA

why don't I have an Argentina babe I can fly away to?? I guess coz I'm too busy out hiking!

the Thriller is gone..

Reports: Michael Jackson Dead at 50

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Both TMZ and the Los Angeles Times are reporting that Michael Jackson has died at age 50. According to the site, the pop legend suffered a cardiac arrest this afternoon and medics were unable to revive him. A TMZ source says Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived, while the Times says he was in a deep coma upon arrival.
What We Know: Jackson was picked up this afternoon at his rented home in Bel Air around 12:26 p.m. where medics had to administer CPR before transporting him to UCLA hospital.

did the SB/Sneddon witch hunt do him in??

New Season 8 Tidbits...

A little bit of new Season 8 news...

24 Season 8 Starts At 4:00 pm

From SpoilerTV.com:

Thanks to 0698841978 for the heads up on this image of the call sheet for Episode 3 and 4 of 24's Season 8. This means that Season 8 starts at 4:00 P.M.



Comment: Loved to see the new start time. The morning start times for the past several seasons were getting a little old. Nice change of pace!

Article Link: SpoilerTV.com


From Ask Ausiello:

Question: So does Ethan become the Vice President of 24 next season? Or maybe the first new gentleman?--Chris
Ausiello: You're wrong on both counts. According to an aide close to President Taylor, who asked not to be identified because he/she could get fired for talking to me, Ethan will be appointed the new ********* ** *****.

Many are speculating that Ethan will be the Secretary of State for Season 8.

Article Link: Entertainment Weekly/AusielloFiles

Midnite Run...

is this moron #1? put moron #2 on the phone!!

an open letter to Honorable Joe Centeno, 5th District Supervisor...
Dear Joe,
what kind of a crooked operation are you running??? Your assistant Gilbert is a drunk, a drunk driver and it appears a liar, too! and yet you keep him on your staff at @ $77000/ year! What does he do? What do you do? What did you do as Chief of Police in Santa Maria? Go on the Casino payroll?? what's with all the Casino crime?? how long can you look the other way??
So Gilbert was arrested in MY TOWN at MY FAVORITE PLACE..Highway 150 and Via Real.. it's got the Rincon vibe, it's where the bucolic frolic, it's where the peaceniks hike, it's where Highway 150 transports you, magically, to Ojai.. the uncontested beauty of old California agriculture is here ...and we got government drunks here..the guy is in his fiftes and he's still drinking and driving???
what was he doing..a Midnite Run for you?
Goddamit Joe.. these lessons should have been learned in your twenties!! WTF is wrong with you people and your love of alcohol..are you stewed on the dais? You look confused most of the time...and now...I hear when you retire (about 10 years too late) your boy Gilbert wants to run for your seat..and what about the Santa Maria Cemetery controversy under your watch?? Your appointments were the subject of a scathing Grand Jury investagation...and still, you looked the other way! and you were a member of the SBCTA..pissing away tax dollars!
what a mess!
Report of the 2007-2008 Santa Barbara County Civil Grand Jury 2
The Calvary Chapel of Santa Maria offers a bereavement ministry that includes the Angel
of Hope Memorial. In March 2006 the District and the Calvary Chapel of Santa Maria
(hereafter referred to as Calvary), a California nonprofit corporation under IRS Code
Section 501(c)(3), entered into a verbal agreement whereby the District accepted the
Angel of Hope statue to be placed on a parcel of District land equivalent in area to 36
burial plots. The statue is the centerpiece of a memorial where parents whose young
children have passed away can purchase an appropriately engraved remembrance brick to
be placed adjacent to the Angel of Hope statue. This is one of 71 such memorials
worldwide. No written contract was signed to document the transfer/donation/lease of
the land or to specify the terms for operating and maintaining this memorial. As a result,
controversy, bickering, allegations of professional and fiscal impropriety, as well as
financial hemorrhaging, have ensued....
is this the best Santa Maria can do??
Ripley's Believe It or Not....
Centeno aide to run for supervisor in 2010....let's legalize drunk driving!Gil Armijo, administrative assistant to 5th District County Supervisor Joe Centeno, hopes to land his boss’ job in four years when Centeno retires."I decided I’m definitely going to run for supervisor in 2010," Armijo said this week, referring to the election that will decide Centeno’s replacement. "I know that’s a long ways off," he added.Centeno, 71, disclosed publicly before he was re-elected in June, and again last week, that he will retire — after more than 50 years of public service — when his term ends in January 2011. He was formerly police chief of Santa Maria, and its mayor and a city councilman. Before becoming the supervisor’s assistant, Armijo was a Santa Maria planning commissioner, a political consultant, community activist and a newspaper reporter.
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According to court documents, Armijo attracted the attention of a patrolling sheriff’s deputy while parked in the roadway at Via Real and Highway 150 at about 4 a.m.
He allegedly told Deputy Bradley Borden that he was driving from Santa Maria to Pasadena, and had stopped to urinate.
Stopped to urinate?? You mean he stopped to piss on Carpinteria!!???
A breath test conducted by the deputy at the scene indicated Armijo’s blood-alcohol level was 0.16, twice the legal limit for driving in California, court documents state....
ok Joe? do you understand me? DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME??? I WILL NOT TOLERATE DRUNKS ON THIS HIGHWAY!!
irresponsible, silly, dirty old men...

'24' Panel To Appear Again At This Year's Comic-Con

Once again a '24' panel will make an appearance at the annual Comic-Con Convention in San Diego. The convention will take place July 23 - 26, 2009.

Here's how Fox described the panels in a release issued this morning:

Friday, July 24:

2:15-3:00 P.M. Coming off its most critically acclaimed season in years, 24 stars Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub and new cast members Anil Kapoor, Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Katee Sackhoff join showrunnner Howard Gordon and the producers of the Emmy-winning series for a special sneak peek at the heart-stopping premiere episode of Season 8. Ballroom 20.

Link To Full Article: TVWeek.com

long hot summer...

roses and rainbows and rods and roses

why why why do these folks from Rods and Roses insist on having that fat slob Andy Granatelli as big fat Grand Marshal every year?
Don't they know his past? the STP fraud, the Sheriff's Council fraud...it's embarassing..clean up this event and get another Grand Marshal like Danica Patrick! I'd rather look at Danica's high beams than Andy's gut! the parade is this weekend and the cars are cool and the flowers are pretty...and that's why Carp is cool in spite of some of the wackos who live here!
and to our City Councilman Jose Armendariz..why do our city streets look so bad? There's three types of maintenance: deferred, corrective and preventative...we need to establish a preventative maint program for Carp, not the present deferred program..now, get to work and stop wasting time trying to raise funds for the Taxpayers Association! you other council members can grab a shovel, too!

Iya's high tech panhandling...

the first pic you see when you go to Iya's new unfinished website is a picture of her by a fountain asking for money!! cheezzzy babe!
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Drinking again?
Travis A. McCaw of the News-Press is on vacation again?? What!! It seems every two weeks he's on vacation..maybe this time it's summer school to learn how to enunciate for his radio show instead of the usual: bbblurgnn..mayor...kkkkloo looo fuiy duiy..blah blah.....who knows?
Well, I know one thing..Dr. Laura looks like she's hit the skids...crying out by the pool with bloodshot eyes and a drink close by....
scotch and soda....my oh my, do I feel high...

'24' Quote Of The Day - (Classic Jack Bauer)

"I'm gonna need a hacksaw."

-Jack Bauer

Season 2

8:00 am - 9:00 am

Inspector General Fired by Obama Wants Congressional Hearing on His Case

The ousted inspector general who reported that his office found misuse of AmeriCorps funds granted to a charity run by a political ally of President Barack Obama sees an assault on the institution of government watchdogs, noting that besides himself, the inspectors general in both the Treasury Department and the International Trade Commission (ITC) have faced reported hurdles in doing their jobs.

He says he wants Congress to hold a hearing on his firing.

“I certainly don’t know the facts about any of the other IGs. But I don’t think you can find in the history of IGs such an administration attack on and terminating IGs before the last few weeks,” Gerald Walpin, the recently fired inspector general of the Corporation of National and Community Service, told CNSNews.com on Friday. The agency runs the youth volunteer program AmeriCorps.

Obama fired Walpin after Walpin led an investigation into the alleged misuse of federal grants by the St. Hope Academy, a charity led by Kevin Johnson, now the mayor of Sacramento.

Federal money intended for the charity allegedly was used to pay for political activities and to run personal errands for Johnson, according to the IG’s report. Johnson and St. Hope agreed to repay half of the $847,000 in grants they received from AmeriCorps between 2004 and 2007

“I do know the facts to my termination,” said Walpin. “I did my job as I was supposed to do it, honestly reporting on facts and conclusions that my staff, who are career civil servants had discovered [and] had reported to me.”

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is seeking information from AmeriCorps about the Walpin firing. The top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee is also seeking information on documents that had allegedly been withheld from Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Assets Relief Program (SIGTARP), the $700-billion financial bailout package launched last fall.

Grassley this week also filed a request for all documents that might demonstrate what role the office of First Lady Michelle Obama played in the firing of Walpin, if any. The First lady’s former chief of staff, Jackie Norris, is expected to join AmeriCorps as the senior adviser next week. (See Previous Story.)

Meanwhile, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is asking the administration to provide more information on the AmeriCorps matter.

Regarding his case, Walpin would like to see a congressional investigation to lay out all the facts.

“I would very much like for the American public to know all the facts, instead of how it has so far not been disclosed in response to Sen. Grassley’s and Congressman Issa’s letters,” Walpin said in an interview. “My view is that – as with Teddy Roosevelt – that sunshine is the best disinfectant. I think it is terrible what happened here to the IG, the institution as a whole."

"My firing has a chilling effect on other IGs," he said. "The best way to handle that--aside from President Obama admitting that he made a mistake--is to have a congressional hearing so that all facts can be put out for the public to see.”

He said that he believed the Democratic majority in Congress would support an investigation.

“I have great hopes that Democrats, like Republicans, believe in the integrity of the system and believe that the IG system must be protected,” he said. “I have hopes. I hope they won’t disappoint me.”

An independent office?
The Treasury Department has asked the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to clarify the special inspector general’s legal status within the executive branch.

In April, Barofsky sent a memo to the Treasury regarding the DOJ inquiry, addressing the issues of attorney-client privilege and whether the special inspector general is subject to supervision by the Treasury Department.

“SIGTARP does not object to your plan to seek guidance from the OLC, however, as discussed below, SIGTARP believes the Emergency Economic Stability Act of 2008 provides SIGTARP is an independent entity within the Treasury, that SIGTARP is not subject to the secretary’s supervision, and that attorney-client privilege is not a bar to access to Treasury’s records or information,” Barofsky wrote. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed any connection regarding the AmeriCorps firing and the TARP matter.

“The president believes that inspectors general fulfill a unique and important role in ensuring that programs operate with efficiency,” Gibbs told reporters during the daily briefing on Friday. “No attorney-client privilege has ever been evoked. No documents sought have been withheld. The DOJ review is not related to a particular investigation. It is sorting out the legal issues relating to the creation of this office.”

He added, “We have outlined the reasons why the inspector general of the Corporation for National and Community Service was not retained.”

Gibbs later responded to a question as to whether someone could infer a trend with the Obama administration and inspectors general.

“If they inferred it, it would be an incorrect inference,” Gibbs told CNSNews.com.

‘Desperation’
Walpin said the White House called him “confused” and “disoriented” for lack of a legitimate reason for the termination.

“I think it’s absolutely desperation on their part,” Walpin said. “The first reason they gave me for my termination was that the president thought I ought to move on. The second reason the president expressed was that he lost confidence in me. That was in a letter to Congress. Of course that’s not a reason, that’s a conclusion.”

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that oversees inspectors general, was the lead sponsor of the Inspector General Reform Act of 2008, which Obama co-sponsored as a senator. The law requires that the president give Congress 30-days notice before dismissing an inspector general and provide Congress with an explanation of why such action is necessary. Initially, Obama only told congressional leaders he lost confidence in Walpin.

McCaskill, in a statement last week, said the White House did not offer a sufficient explanation under the law. So that same day, White House Counsel Norman Eisen sent a letter to the Homeland Security Committee providing further reasons.

“Mr. Walpin was removed after a review was unanimously requested by the bi-partisan Board of the Corporation,” Eisen wrote. “The board’s action was precipitated by a May 20, 2009 board meeting at which Mr. Walpin was confused, disoriented, unable to answer questions and exhibited other behavior that led the board to question his capacity to serve.”

In regard to claims he was confused, Walpin said: “Well, I can only say to you that those are code words for a desperation attack on somebody who is--I’m not a young man, I’ll be 78 in September--those are code words to suggest or imply that I’m senile.”

“This is desperation. They never believed I would do anything but resign to avoid the mud that is thrown at somebody who stands up to the most powerful person in this country,” Walpin said. “I did this as a matter of principle. I believed that I could not look myself in the mirror if I gave in.”

No one with the agency or the administration contacted him about being disoriented or his job performance, Walpin said.

“Let’s assume they’re even right--which I say is not correct--they and the corporation have met with me hundreds of times,” Walpin said. “Not one occasion have they ever said anything but that I’m very eloquent. Indeed, on the Tuesday before I was fired, one of the top management people in the corporation begged me to go out to San Francisco and speak to 2,0000 members of their staff and grantees at a conference because they thought my ability to speak was so great.”

Last Wednesday, after the White House released Eisen's letter further explaining the president's firing of Walpin, Sen. McCaskill issued a statement, in which she said that the White House's explanation for the removal of Walpin seemd "well-founded," while suggesting that Congress "undertake any further review that might be necessary."

“Last night, in response to my request for adequate information on the firing of Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service Gerald Walpin, the White House submitted a letter to Senators Lieberman and Collins that now puts the White House in full compliance with the notice requirement in the law," said Sen. McCaskill.

"The next step for Congress is to use the 30 days provided by the notice to seek further information and undertake any further review that might be necessary," said Sen. McCaskill. "The reasons given in the most recent White House letter are substantial and the decision to remove Walpin appears well founded.”

Fred Lucas, CNS News.com, 6/22/09

Obama Chicago-style corruption exposed by firing

When Inspector Gerald Walpin was fired by Obama after he drew attention to fraud involving AmeriCorps Grants by the board of the Corporation for National Community , he was shoved out of his position. Obama reverted to his Chicago-style training by protecting one of his heavy contributors.

Walpin was investigating Barack Obama supporter Kevin Johnson, a former NBA star who's now mayor of Sacramento, Calif., for irregularities in use of federal money by St. HOPE, a charity he ran. Walpin was asked by the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service to investigate St. HOPE, which received an $850,000 AmeriCorps grant to tutor Sacramento students, redevelop buildings and develop art and theater programs.

Walpin found the money was used to sweeten St. HOPE staff salaries, get involved in a school board election and make AmeriCorps volunteers attend to Johnson's personal needs, including washing his car. In May 2008, Walpin's office recommended Johnson and a St. HOPE assistant be suspended from receiving federal money.

To ger rid of Walpin, the White House said that Walpin was disoriented and confused and questioned his capacity to serve. In response, Glenn Beck, of Fox News, invited the Inspector General to appear and then put him through a serious of tests to see if there was anything wrong with him mentally. Viewers could see that he was alert and of sound mind.

One person who was at the meeting afterwhich Walpin was fired, said that the board was hostile and rude to Walpin, interrupting him and going at him with questions on multiple issues. When Mr. Walpin left the meeting for 15 minutes, he came back to find his notepapers had been, mixing them up and the board refused to give him time to put them back in order.

The White House tried to cover its corrupt actions by claiming that Walpin was "absent from the Corporation's headquarters...over the objection of the board. But a witness at the meeting said that the arrangement for Walpin to telecommute from New York to the District office had been approved by the board. Other witness confirmed that it had been approved without a single objection.

The fact remains that an inspector general does not serve at the president's pleasure but can be removed only for a specified just cause. No legitimate cause has been given for the firing of AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin.

When Obama was a politician in Chicago, with Mayor Daley covering his back, he could get away with almost anything without it being brought to the attention of the public. His association with people like Rezko, who is now in prison, was accepted as a way of doing business in the Windy city. While some newspapers and the media are in love with Obama and over look his bringing Chicago tactics to Washington, there are still a few reporters that are not taken in by the President's charm and continue to investigate his actions.

Martha R Gore, Examiner.com, 6/22/09

Democrat Party and Slavery Times

Drenched in Blood and Slavery

The U.S. Senate voted unanimously last week to adopt a resolution apologizing for slavery.
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa

, lead sponsor of the resolution, said, "You wonder why we didn't do it 100 years ago. It is important to have a collective response to a collective injustice."
Only after decades of public education ignoring and distorting U.S. history can such a huge lie be said with a straight face.

Senator, you didn't do it 100 years ago because 100 years ago you Democrats were enforcing Jim Crow segregation laws, poll taxes to keep blacks from voting, and riding around in sheets and pointy hats just in case blacks didn't get the message.

You say "It's important to have a collective response" because you want to bury the origins, purposes, and historical practices of your own party.
The worst part is, Republicans in the Senate let you get away

with it. Principled Republicans knowing their history would have authored a resolution reciting the facts that the Republican Party was formed, among other reasons, to oppose slavery and that the Republican Party and its first President Abraham Lincoln

responded to Southern, Democrat-led secession with a successful war that preserved the union and freed the slaves.

After Lincoln's assassination (by a Democrat), the Republican-led Congress (over the objections of the Democratic Party minority) amended the Constitution to confirm the liberation of the slaves (13th Amendment: slavery abolished), and the 14th Amendment (freed slaves are citizens equal to all citizens) and the 15th Amendment (right to vote guaranteed to freed slaves).

Southern Democrats spent the next 100 years trying to keep freed slaves down with segregation laws, poll taxes to deny the right to vote, and lynching to enforce the social order. The KKK was formed by a Democrat; no Republican has ever been a member of the KKK. This is the heritage of the Democratic Party.

In fact, the Democratic Party was formed in the first place to defend and expand slavery.

In 1840, the very first national nominating convention
of the Democratic Party adopted a platform which read in part:

Resolved, That Congress has no power ... to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several states ... that all efforts by abolitionists ... made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery ... are calculated ... to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the union.
Got that, Sen. Harkin? Your party was born defending slavery as necessary for the happiness of the people and threatening secession and war if slavery were challenged.
The same party platform language was used in 1844, 1848, 1852 and 1856. In 1860, the Democrat commitment to slavery took a harsher tone.

The Fugitive Slave Law was passed by Congress in 1850. This monstrous law provided that, since slaves were the personal property of their masters, runaway slaves must be returned to their owners. The law required all law enforcement officers to assist in the recapture of runaway slaves or risk a fine of $1,000 (about $100,000 in today's dollars)!
The Republican Party was formed in the 1850s in part as a political reaction to this unjust law.
In their national convention of 1860, Democrats harshly responded to certain Northern (Republican) states that were passing state laws to evade the Fugitive Slave Law by adopting a plank in the Democratic Party Platform which read:

Resolved, That the enactments of the State Legislatures to defeat the faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law, are hostile in character, subversive of the Constitution, and revolutionary in their effect.
Senator, your Democratic Party has much to be apologetic about on the slavery issue.

During the civil war, the Southern Democrats led the Confederacy out of the Union; Northern Democrats formed a separate party which opposed the war. The 1864 (Northern) Democratic Party platform adopted a "peace" plank which read in part:

... after four years of failure to restore the union by the experiment of war ... justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand ... a cessation of hostilities ... to the end that ... peace may be restored ...
Here is the origin of today's Democratic Party "Peace at any Price, Better Red than Dead, Why Can't we all just get Along" foreign policy.

The war was started by Democrat secessionists, and just as President Lincoln was on the verge of victory, the Northern Democrats wanted to save the South and slavery with "peace talks"! Voters knew better in 1864 and re-elected Lincoln.
But the Democrats weren't through. In 1868, Sen. Harkin's party condemned the Republican Party in its party platform as the "Radical Party," and condemned Reconstruction in these unforgettable words:

Instead of restoring the Union, it (the Radical Party) has dissolved it, and subjected ten states (the former Confederate states) ... to military despotism and negro supremacy.

And, senator, don't tell me this is all ancient history in a lame attempt to evade the true origins of your party.
As recently as 1964, when the Senate debated the Civil Rights Act, Southern Democrats (including Al Gore's father) voted no. While Northern Democrats voted yes, their votes were not enough. The deciding votes to pass this landmark bill were provided by Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill., and the Republicans.

Republicans should be proud of their heritage of liberation of the slaves and civil rights voting record.
It's Harkin and the Democrats who should apologize and pay reparations.

Roger Hedgevock, WorldNet Daily, 6/22/09

Scouts Honor...

ahh.. Mike, you forgot this one:
As an American, I will do my best to be clean in my outdoor manners, be careful with fire, be considerate in the outdoors, and be conservation-minded.
it is no secret that the Boy Scouts have been overtaken by ultra-right wing white bigoted supremacists...they have infiltrated this once-fine organization and brain-washed all those little kids, dressed them in little scouts uniforms, tied them up in knots, and are trying to produce citizens who can't think for themselves..only what the "party authority" tells them to think....so I was not surprised when I read in Noozhawk the Scouts honored Mike Stoker for something...citizen of the year!???


NOOZHAWK...In accepting the award, Stoker, an Eagle Scout, said: "The values and principles taught to me as a Scout are the same values and principles that made America so great. The Scouts have never changed those values. Unfortunately, our country has strayed from these ideals and the results have not been positive. Perhaps it is time to quit trying to reinvent ourselves with new values that we are told are ‘politically correct’ and return to what made us so great to begin with ... individual freedom and individual responsibility, self-worth and self-respect, rewards for good behavior and consequences for bad, and being accountable for your actions....
leave it to Stoker to use the kids to politicize the event....
is this the same Mike who stood in front of the cameras and tried to tell us a "phantom saboteur" was responsible for all those Greka Oil spills? The same Mike who is on the board of the Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Association, a shady non-profit that supports the Chumash Gambling and Crime syndicate in the Santa Ynez Valley?
Obviously, the scouts can't be blamed for this. Rather, the scoutmasters should be...I don't trust these guys for a minute. They remind me of Catholic priests who prey on little boys..the biggest value a scout should learn is to be HONEST...guys, your scoutmasters are being less than honest when they pull political stunts like this...
time for a housecleaning....

lookin' out for number one...

you know how people like to put number tags on condors

and other wild animals...

well..from now on:

Julia is # 69 & Wendy is # 86..

NewsPress Against Safe Routes to School for Children!
all this lip service to protecting the children and they complain about a few sidewalks to make it safer for kids to walk to school...hypocrites!
I was listening to Salud Carbajal on Travis/NewsPress radio AM 1290.. they were talking about a safe route to school in Montecito..Travis was representing one person in Montecito who didn't want sidewalks to interfere with the rural atmosphere..Travis was in agreement and said the idea would open a hornet's nest!! Imagine, a private enterprise like the News-Press trying to dictate what should be on a public access street...hey, if they don't like street lights, let's just pull them out...silly stuff! I don't know why Salud indulges the News-Press... and Travis' attempts at sarcasm pointed towards the cabal are pathetic and limp...how in the world did this goofball get a job??
listen to Travis complain about safety for the kids!! notsafe

an unfinished life

News-Press writes another editorial about the mountain lion cubs.. but doesn't finish it! Nice job of editing!
so the content as usual makes no sense..and I wish they would stop lying about the cubs and covering up for the Animal Rescue Team in Solvang...I am really getting annoyed with these ladies..their recuer complex has become a full-fledged mania...exaggerations, lies, grandiose imaginings abound with these two...ART even has a story on Animal Planet about how they rescued a bobcat and a fawn by "Arnold Schwarzenegger's Ranch" during the fires...if I had known # 69 was so close to my neighborhood during the fire, I would have handcuffed her to Arnold's ranch truck bumper...rescuing the fawn and bobcat may sound heroic, but leaving them alone would have provided a meal, perhaps, for an animal who needed it...these women #69 and # 86 need to be examined by a professional for holes in their heads...
and their stories....