Marin Affordable Housing Exemption

I told you all long ago that the "Bernie" supporters and social-justice-for-all-bumper stickers on Prius diving Marin County residents was nothin but a sham.  The so called "progressive" Marinites claim they support diversity and equal rights for all.... until it wants to roost in their own yard.

Now here this.

Marin County wants an exemption to affordable housing.

WTF?????

No.  They don't want anybody who might drag down their property values living amongst them.  However, in front of the cameras these left wingers in Marin claim they are all about diversity, equality, democracy, human rights, sanctuary cities, religious freedoms...Blah, blah, blah, until they are called upon to coexist... and share their backyard.  Now it's hands off.  Their bumper sticker on their Prius preaches...coexist.  No... that's meant for everybody ELSE.  Not THEM. They want to mandate world peace but want to exclude themselves when push comes to shove.

What???  Marinites don't want homeless people pissing on their tires and crapping in their front lawns? Why, then dear Marinites, do you wave the diversity and freedom flag if you're not willling to coexist with it?

I'm still wanting to know how many Marinites pay their gardner and baby sitter a living wage...as their equality for all and living wage bumper stickers promote.  Somehow, I don't think they are paying jack diddly.  Marinites are Fake.

That's why the republicans are gaining force.  At least they don't lie about their agenda like democrats do.  At least republicans say to everybody's face they are going to f*** them over.  Democrats are out to do the same thing... but they lie about it.

Health Care

Rule #1:  Never trust a politician;
Rule #2:  Insurance companies don't do anything unless there's profit in it for them.  Sure, they will give the intermittent public relations commercials wanting you to think they care about you.  They don't.  What they spend on one patient they "save" and parade in front of cameras, they cut off care behind the scenes to another to satisfy their bottom dollar - which is usually you - the shareholder;
Rule #3:  It is estimated that 1/3 of all spending for medical care in this country is wasted.

Let's go into rule #3.

This last week I attended a seminar on health care and where it's going in this country.  The image of a toilet came to mind.  For starters, nobody really knows for certain what's going to happen.  It is anticipated that health care premiums will continue to rise at a rate well above inflation.  Prescription drugs now outpace spending for medical care. 

Fraud, abuse, and misdiagnosis is so common by the medical field these days some insurers are now using a tool called Best Doctors to give second opinions.  The idea is to save the insurance company money and to prevent unnecessary procedures on patients.  Since implementation of Best Doctors there have been SEVERAL instances where patients were diagnosed with diseases they did not have.  People are told they have cancer when they really don't.  Surgeries are suggested when a less intrusive option is available.  There are now made-up diseases just so doctors can prescribe medications. 

Most medical fraud happens in your community by doctors everybody loves.  Politicians are beholden to big pharma and insurance companies.  Big pharma and insurance companies are beholden to shareholders.  Shareholders consist of YOU.  There's a reason the Hippocratic Oath exists.  We don't heed it.  Huge, gross profits on health care is just obnoxious.  As long as there is a fat profit to be made, don't expect health care premiums and prescription drug prices to go down. 

Both republicans and democrats will dance around this issue until the cows come home each side pointing the finger at the other.  Neither side really wants to be responsible for it despite what they are saying on camera because it's a no-win, complicated issue.  Both sides have their hands out for political donations as they tisk-tisk and wag their fingers at the medical and pharma industry.  Nothing will really change. 

I can't make this stuff up, people. 

Moments in History IV

In 1967, challenging the all-male tradition of the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer, at the time a headstrong 20-year-old junior at Syracuse University, entered the race. Two miles in, a race official tried to physically remove her from the competition.

Arnold Schwarzenegger on his first time in New York, 1968  

New York City sidewalks filled with trash during the 1968 strike of sanitation workers.

US President Richard Nixon jumps down from the trunk of a limousine which carried him and Pakistani President Yahya Khan (left, background) in a motorcade to Government House after Nixon's arrival in Lahore on August 1, 1969  

Children play a game on the Xerox Alto, one of the first personal computers with a graphic user interface, 1973. Its monitor was switchable between portrait and landscape mode. 

Statue of Liberty as seen from Jersey City, 1963

President Carter with engineers and solar panels newly installed on the White House, 1979.
President Reagan had them removed in 1986, to be reinstalled by President Obama in 2010   

Barack Obama posing with a group of friends that called themselves the Choom Gang, Hawaii, c. 1979. 
Choom was slang for smoking marijuana. 

Robin Williams joins the stunning women of the Denver Broncos Pony Express as pro football's
first male cheerleader and prances before 70,000 cheering fans in Denver's Mile High Stadium. 

Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan posing with clay soldiers 
at the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, 1984   

John Travolta takes Princess Diana for a dance in the White House, 1985

Moments in History III

Log motor home by Wade, 1922  .  A precursor to the airstream??

Interior of log motor home. 

Neighbors of Japanese origin were already unwanted in some neighborhoods in 1923

Three friends take a joyride on their new vehicle, Ohio, c. 1924 (above)
Native American switchboard operator c. 1925.  

Workers lay bricks to pave 28th Street in Manhattan, 1930   

Drive-In restaurant on West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles,1932

A life guard and a doctor attempt to save a swimmers life on Coney Island Beach, 1940. The woman in the center chose the worst moment for a smile. 

Cony Island, NY 1940

Victor Mature, Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth (both 30 at the time) meet at a movie premier in London. October 1956 

Victor Mature, Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth (both 30 at the time) meet at a movie premier in London. October 1956 

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev eating a hot dog in Des Moines, Iowa, on which he commented it's excellent. We make good sausages but yours are better, 1959  

Couple and friend being abused in a restaurant for the latter being black, USA, 1963  

Minoru Yamasaki (right) posing with a model of the World Trade Center he designed, 1964.  Bet he never dreamed his idea would go down in flames.  Sorry for the bad pun and sarcasm.  

Portrait of hockey goalie Terry Sawchuk before face masks became standard in 1966.  Looks like they took a saw to his face. 

Moments in History II

Alice Huyler Ramsey (November 11, 1886 - September 10, 1983), the first woman to drive across the United States from coast to coast, 1909. Only 152 miles out of the total 3600-mile trip were made on paved road.  Very Top:  Motorcycle chariots c. 1920's

North American native Chilocco Indian Agricultural School basketball team in 1909. (Originally, the swastika was a sign of good fortune.)

A horse-drawn fire engine of Engine No. 39 leaving Fire Headquarters at 157 East 67th Street for the last time after being replaced with a motorized fire engine, New York City, February 19, 1912. 

Lawn mowers of the White House grounds, 1918.  We've gone full circle on this one, folks.  The sheep were eventually replaced by gas powered lawn mowers.  Now the sheep will come back as they are a "green" alternative and environmentally friends.  Just where to put the feces?????  I have some very specific ideas. 

Moments of History

Why everybody is so determined to get rid of our history by taking down confederate statues, flags, and such is beyond me.  Whether it's pretty or ugly, history is history.  Shoving our more embarrassing moments under the rug and pretending they didn't happen is censorship.  Taking down confederate remnants is like thinking that the Holocaust did not exist.  We have so much to learn by ugly reminders that S**T did HAPPEN.  It was horrible.  The remnants left today are our battle scars. What did we learn?

Slave Auction Place c. 1870

Burnt District Coffee House in Chicago after the Fire, 1871. Chicago entrepreneurs quickly reacted to establish or reestablish businesses in the fire district.

Telephone wires in New York, 1887  

Hanging of a stagecoach robber in Texas, c. 1890-1900

Wood-plank prison in Wyoming, 1893

Above Chinatown Squad of the San Francisco Police Department posing with sledge hammers and axes in front of August Pistolesiâ's grocery store at 752 Washington Street, 1895. They specialized in raiding opium dens and gambling rooms and their method was simple.    Below: Opium den in San Francisco, 1900