Buzz Lightyear vs. Dino-Boy!

Our new Doggy’s name is Buzz Lightyear. My son, Thomassaurus Rex named him. When the dog wants to play, he will lick the dino-boy on the face. In response to the alien attack, Tommy will say “Buzz Lightyear to the rescue!” and run from the dog. Buzz will chase the squeals around the kitchen island; his tail wagging for balance, his speed not enough to ever catch his prey.

Our new Doggy, Buzz Lightyear, is an eight-week-old Golden Retriever. He is well behaved and already knows where to pee (on the paper matt laying next to the back door) in cases of emergency. I confronted Thomassaurus with this issue, stating that the Star-Ranger Canine can pee in the appropriate places, yet my Saurian Son still needs a diaper. This caused Tommy to stop smiling and think over the issue. He then smiled and said he would try.

That’s a start.

They don't give me my props!

To be honest, I have been feeling pretty down lately. In California, there were some props up for vote and they all failed to pass.

One prop (73) wanted to make it illegal to perform an abortion on an under aged girl without her parent’s permission. It also established a 48-hour waiting period for under aged abortions too. By the way, they just passed a law that made it illegal to pierce an under aged girl’s ears without a parents permission.

Another prop (74) changed the amount of time a teacher had to work before reaching tenure. It is 2 years now in California. The prop would have made it 5 years. What the hell is this tenure deal anyway? It is supposed to protect college professors who speak their mind from being fired. Why does a second grade teacher need tenure? Will she say something scandalous about Elmo that might get her fired? Does your job grant you tenure?

Prop 75 does not allow a union to spend a union members dues on political campaigns unless you give the employee gives them permission. The Union special interests spent $250 million in advertising against this prop to make sure they could spend $250 million against this prop. Ironic! Just think what GM’s unions could have done to secure pension plans with that $250 million….

So if Prop 76 would have passed, the state legislature would be restricted on spending increases to only a 3 percent or so increase per year. If the state later found that they spent too much and needed to cut something, the governor would call for a reduction. The legislature would then have 45 days to make the cuts, or the governor would be given the power to do it. Wow…how horrible. The state would have to live within its means like you and me. It sure is easy to spend money you didn’t earn….

Prop 77 was the biggy. If it passed, the legislature would not be able to rig elections by setting up their own congressional districts. Allowing this is allowing people to pick who they want to vote in their election. Ridiculous, right? Well, that made far too much sense for California. It was defeated, of course, by a 19.7% margin. You see, we like our elections rigged in California.

Props 78 and 79 were programs set up to socialize prescriptions. They both used “discount drugs” in the titles. Thank God they were shot down.

Finally, Prop 80 would have added more bureaucracy on the utilities industry out here. Yeah, that’s what we need…more government involvement in utilities. We already pay waaaaaaaay to much. Nothing like funneling tax money into it to slow the utility companies more so they charge us more. Talk about lose-lose. That was shot down too.

So, same old same old.

I just hoped something positive would happen. Instead, Union special interests and those who just want to get a Republican out of the Governor office fought some props that would melt the ice-lock-grip of these corrupt bastards on our local government. The TV commercials they played were just lies. It was so hard to watch as the lazy sucked up whatever they were told on TV and from their Union bosses.

Will California be saved, or is it just destined to crumble under its own bloated weight?

Stay tuned.

So...an update on school

I finished my classes at the local junior college, Foothill, this summer. I now only need to CLEP Intermediate Algebra and I will have an AA in Philosophy from that institution. Yippee! It was fun and challenging, but I am glad I am moving on to bigger things.

I am presently enrolled at the University of San Francisco (USF) and taking classes in English and Ethics. The English courses here are harder than the Junior College classes I have taken in the past. Well…not so much harder as they are tedious. I have to write a ton of papers and I am lazy and I don’t want to…..waaaaa…. The English type class is fun, though. What makes it fun is that I am constantly wise cracking and the teacher does not come down on people. She is pretty open and does not mind.

The Ethics class is fun too. I love philosophy and the ethics class covers Kant and others.

The thing to remember is to stay focused and get your work done, Ruslfish! Ugh!