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Whitman : I just can’t vote for her

Over the last 6-8 weeks I have wrestled with whom I would vote for today. It really came down to Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman on the Republican side of things. These were the two most viable candidates being forced down our throats on the Republican ticket.

On one side, you have the former eBay CEO and the other side is another multi millionaire. Both are using a huge amount of their own money to campaign, and I mean an obscene amount of money to possibly become the Golden States next Governor. I am not even joking in regards to how much of their own money we are talking about. I think Whitman spent like 70+ million of her own money and Poizner something a little less than that. That is obscene and almost makes me want to vomit right there. I mean really, who would spend that amount of money to take a public service job, unless they know for a fact that they will recoup that amount of money and even more in the long run. That right there makes me highly suspicious.

These two have been going at each other almost non stop, trying basically to out Conservative each other, when in fact they are both fairly moderate. This turns me off as well. Why not just go out and say, hey, I am a moderate, I am not some right wing lunatic? No, both of them are grabbing on to the reigns of being a “conservative” and that makes me sick as well. We do not need conservatives, me need moderates, we need people that will reach across the aisle and make compromises. Conservatives will not do it, nor will Liberals. We do not NEED more gridlock, the California government is almost as bad as the 405 freeway at the peak of rush hour right now. By filling our government with more people on the opposite ends of the spectrum, the less and less will get done. So already, there are two strikes against both of the candidates.
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Tags: Al Gore, Boxer, No Vote, Poizner, Vote, Whitman

Jnue 3

233.5lbs
20 minutes
200 calories

last three days been eating cottage cheese, honey and fruit salad pretty much, though had some chicken wings today… like 5.. but still.. been keep the calories off… hopefully if I can get down to 220 my blood pressure may fall back into check and I may not feel short of breath all the freaking time.

Tags: Daddy Fat Fat, I am fat

May 31

239lbs
30 minutes
3 mph
255 calories

Tags: Daddy Fat Fat, I am fat

The Irony

How is it that my hearing goes kaput when I am taking an American Sign Language class?

Granted, I can still hear, but it is probably at about 75% of what I normally could hear at. It is annoying listening to people on the phone and it is like they are talking through a wet towel. It became highly apparent today during my one on one with my team lead and I honestly had issues. I could hear what she was saying, but it was very muffled to say the least.

Over the last two weeks I have had to listen very closely to what people have said, when they talk really low it is a crap shoot as to what they have said. I smile and giggle a little bit, or I move closer towards them to listen. It has been interesting to say the least. Jocelyn is annoyed beyond belief.

The doctor said that it has to do with some tubes behind my nostrils that are not working properly, they are letting things in, but they are not letting them out, basically clogging my ear canals. The suggestion is to get permanent ear tubes placed into my ears. This would eliminate me from being able to swim pretty much unless I used those heavy duty ear plugs which would in affect render me almost completely deaf while in the water.
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Tags: American Sign Language, ASL, Chat, ear tubes, ears, email, finals, Jocelyn, Mesa, nostrils, speaking

Dear Parent: Poway Unified Budget Alert

There literally is only so much one can do before really getting pissed off at how this country works. We can spend billions a month over in foreign countries, to help make their lives better under the guise of national security. We can build planes that can’t be picked up on radar under the guise of National Defense, we can have people in our own congress get totally worthless ear marks in bills without anyone yelling and screaming, but we cannot adequately fund our school systems. We complain about why we are losing the the technological edge to countries like India and Thailand, and South Korea, but we cannot give our own children the ability to compete with them when they are being educated.

The PUSD teachers have taken ANOTHER paycut due to budget problems, I think that is two years in a row that they have actually lost money, just to do what they love, which is to teach our children. Yet, we have jacktards in our own government who make millions off of being in power that still get a yearly salary. I am pissed beyond belief at this situation, unless we start screaming at the top of our lungs, nothing will get done.

The email I got today really pissed me off beyond belief:
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Tags: 175 school days, California Public Schools, Children, education, pay cut, Poway Unified School District, PUSD, teachers

Nice: Attempted Murderer on the loose in PQ

Gotta love instant updates:

PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL PQ ,RB, Poway, Sabre Springs, MM and Carmel Valley Residents:

Stater Bothers shopping center patrons:

Please be aware that an attempted murderer is on the loose after a very violent incident in PQ on Tuesday night (see below). The police are looking for a migrant who hangs out and most likely lives in the bushes down near the bike path/skatepark area near RP Blvd and I-56. He tends to stand out as he is much larger than most of them and I believe the group he hangs with are the ones that generally collect right behind the Stater Brothers’ parking lot near the frame shop.

Since the incident on Tuesday night, I have not seen this group of about 6 men. They generally appear to be drunk by mid day, either drinking in front of the Stater Brothers or in one of the two freeway rounds to I 56 at RP Blvd. Unfortunately this is not the first attack in the area as the poor older security guard was threatened with his life and attacked some time back when he asked some drunk Hispanic male adults to exit the same area in the shopping center. The police have video surveillance pictures of the suspect and are working diligently to apprehend him.

Please be cautious and if you have questions call SDPD NE at 538-8000. Also sign up for the instant email and text messaging alerts from https://local.nixle.com/accounts/login/ as it provides very good timely information on crimes.

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Tags: Attempted Murder, Jocelyn, Migrant, PQ, SDPD, Stabbing

Political Climate

I do not care if you are a conservative, a liberal, or anything inbetween, our government sucks because of the two party system that has been around since the election. It worked out fairly well for the last 200 years… then some how it turned to shit.

It started probably in 76 with the election of Jimmy Carter. It was cool to be a Democrat, it was good to be against the Republican system. Then Carter drove the country to shit, which led to the rise of Reagan and the conservative movement. A natural backlash to the rise of the left wing that occurred in the Carter administration. The conservatives took root, they created a system of the war machine, they destroyed communism by making the communists spend themselves into oblivion. They made the business their sole focus, they made capitalism what it has become today. Their only problem was the fact that they aligned themselves with the religious nutjobs of the world. The evangelicals were now becoming part of the government. The separation of church and state was becoming blurred. They aligned themselves with the people that would come out and vote, they aligned themselves with senior citizens, they aligned themselves with the people that lived in the outskirts of the big cities. They aligned themselves with the powerful corporate types, they aligned themselves with the white majority at the time.

Then 92 rolled around and as a natural backlash, the Democrats took over once again. These were not left wing democrats, rather moderate democrats that took over the government. The conservatives were going to far to the right and it was the natural result of the pendulum going to far to one side and it needed to be brought back towards the center. The democrats lost congress due to their own ineptitude, and for the fact that a new group of people rose from the ashes of the conservative movement. The right wing radio talk show hosts that gave their programming away for free. The right wing talk show hosts aligned themselves with the image of Reagan, the last great President, invoking imagery and statements that made people feel good about themselves. They took a good term, liberal, and made it into a horrific term.
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Tags: Bush, Carter, Clinton, Conservative, liberal, moderate, Obama, Reagan

Diclementi

I have thought about Mike off and on the last 18 years, sometimes it is pretty difficult, sometimes it is fun to think about what may have been. Usually it is all in my minds eye.

We went up to Los Angeles to see my parents this weekend, celebrate my mothers birthday 5 days early and then have the kid play with her cousin. Just a standard day in the life of the McGuffin. Only today took a weird turn to say the least, after dinner we got home and we talked about stuff and I asked to see if the pictures were still around and my mother pushed them out and Joe and I started to go through them. Great times, great memories, all fun times. Going back tot he old black and white pictures from Korea to Joe’s wedding on the Queen Mary.

i had seen the pictures before, but it had been over a decade since I last looked upon them. I went through all of the photo albums as they were already lined up. I remember when my mom and dad bought some of them, very oddly colored with weird patterns on them. They were not really put together in any real semblance. There was the Danny photo album and a Joe photo album, kind of, general family photos and everything. Then I saw one picture that I did not expect to see.
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Tags: Baumholder, Cressida, Danny, Diclementi, Family Photos, Germany, Jacksonville, Joe, Korea, Mcguffin, Michael, Mike, Turkey

I went to a funeral today

It was told to me a few weeks ago that on April 1, at 11am in San Pedro that my Aunt Marie’s ashes would be spread out at sea. My knowledge of the San Pedro area was a bit off as I thought initially that it was in Orange County, which is only about an hour and a half away from us. I found out late last night in fact after using this really cool site called Google Maps, that it was basically around the Long Beach area, which meant that it would take 2+ hours to get there. This threw a kink into our plans. It was deemed that Jocelyn would stay behind to take Molly to school at 9am. The original plan was to drop the little creature off and drive up to Orange County and be there by 1030am. That would not have worked out well.

Not only was it farther north than I had expected, but it was going to rain in the morning. So I had to leave extra early. I set my alarm for 615am when I went to bed last night.

Woke up knowing full well that I had finally succumbed to the cold that has been floating around the house, no thanks to the little girl who has been coughing all over me and to my lovely wife, who has been doing the same, it was my turn. Sore throat, body aches greeted me as my eyes opened up to try and turn my alarm off.
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Tags: Ashes, Aunt Marie, Dale, funeral, Mcguffin, San Pedro

Healthcare Bill

Now I am just going to make an observation, this is not something along the lines of i hate white people or anything of that nature, I am half white after all.

Protesters took to the street Saturday before the health care bill is to be voted on today. I saw three large groups of them in various parts of Southern California, one group near my home in PQ, another in Temecula, and a third group in heavily Asian Arcadia.

PQ is a pretty ethnically diverse city, lots of Filipinos, Mexicans, Caucasians… the group protesting the health care bill was evidentially 20-25 strong and all of them physically looked Caucasian. They were on the side of the road with their signs and everything. Went up to Temecula, which is heavily Caucasian with some Asians and Hispanics mixed in. This group was probably 40-50 strong, again, all looked physically Caucasian.
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Tags: Arcadia, Caucasian, Charger BoBoi, civil rights, congress, education, Filipinos, government, healthcare, incumbent, liberal, Liberman, Medicare, Mexicans, PQ, Protesters, Republican, Snowe, socialism, Temecula, Twitter