History Has Been Made

I have never banned an entire caller before, but after his last two calls, Eddie from Stockton has been weighed in the balances and found to be an asshole.

Worse, he's pretty much a racist asshole who believes that the Towers were an inside job, the Murrah Building was knocked down from the inside and the Jews (who else?) are evil.

From his "Why don't you [Dave!] ally yourself with the idiot Ron Paul, to today's tirade in the middle of a discussion of California that I should completely drop that and talk about HIS looney tune theories about Justice Sotomeyer (whom I dislike as well) because "she's a communist" I have had it with him. Tack on his calling back to bitch at Capt'n Mike and frankly I will no longer tolerate him.

So, for the first time ever, we have a 100% banned caller. Au revior Eddie from Stockton. Never again shall we hear from you...

The Latest State Budget Debacle and the Death of California

Few things piss me off more than those who claim to want my vote and money because they "ally" with me ideologically (i.e., the CalGOP) who do stupid things and then try to blame me or others for their own obvious failures. Let us take a look at the latest California State Budget proposal as presented to us today by Senator Dennis Hollingsworth, the LEADER of the GOP in the Calisornia Senate.


Understand that Senator Hollingsworth is the LEADER. He negotiated the deal, he agreed to it and then marched out and announced it done. He later released the following statement:


SACRAMENTO - Senate Republican Leader Dennis Hollingsworth (R-Murrieta) issued the following statement regarding the budget agreement reached late Monday:


"We were able to resolve California's 26.3 billion dollar budget deficit without raising taxes. It solves our cash flow issues and saves money by reforming key government programs so they operate more efficiently. By being accountable for every taxpayer dollar we can save billions in future years."


"It will allow us to close the deficit without further increasing taxes on hard-working Californians. It takes steps to reform government to save taxpayers significant sums now and billions in the future."


Putting aside (for the moment anyway) the repeating of the message in slightly different words to reinforce the propaganda message, the fact is this GOP (that's Republican) LEADER is flat out lying and he KNOWS that I KNOW that he is lying and continues to do it anyway.


There are no future savings here, given the theft of local monies from local city and county governments, the "phasing" of State employee payroll by one day (look at the savings in the previous year!) to the next fiscal year, and by the despicable front loading of California State Income Taxes by "adjusting" the withholding tables. Which - of course - is exactly what the President did in reverse, but hey, I never get a refund anyway.

What set me off today is when I called the Senator on the OBVIOUS lies and falsehoods, the response was the typical, "It's the Democrats fault."

No, Senator, it's yours. YOU negotiated this, YOU issued the press release. These are YOUR words and they are lies. I expect much more from Conservatives, certainly from those who claim to want my vote, support and Bully Pulpit.

Insofar as I am concerned, this Budget is a criminal fraud, and any Politician (especially one claiming a Conservative mantle) who votes for it is guilty of fraud.

Tomorrow we'll hold an "Instant Tea Party" at 1010 10th Street in downtown Modesto to let Sacramento know that the theft of the local money is both outrageous, but even more importantly NOT ACCEPTABLE.

I'm So Done With....

Ron Paul supporters who get upset that ALL conservatives haven't flocked to this nut job and glommed onto "his" message. ALL politics is compromise. I get that, so for all you Paulistas here is my final word on the matter, Ron Paul might have a few good ideas on the economy, but (a) they aren't his original ideas nor his sole purview. I don't need to be a Paulista to have the same ideas; (b) He wants to make nice to Al-quaeda and the PLRI.

Even if I wanted to join with Ron, I could not, would not, and shall not ever compromise my opposition to those who attack us and liberty daily around the globe and who would cut my head off solely for my religious and political beliefs. Ron Pauls' economic ideas are not worth joining him in his cowardice and isolationistic theories that are failures and dangerous.

I don't need Ron Paul to fight excess spending and taxation.

Ron Paul doesn't agree with me. Why should I join him?

Forgot My Own Rules

Last week I estbalished the new show "Aluminum Hat Theories" Rule and then over the weekend accepted for consideration two (2) new (or at least kinda new) theories.

First was that the medical companines are intentionally jacking up the price of healthy foods and keeping crappy food cheap to keep us obese and diabetic so they can make money. A quick trip to my own local Farmers Market proved this to be untrue, so my advice to that person is that you are shopping in the wrong place. Moreover, it doesn't matter what you eat if you don't excercise.

The second one I haven't gotten to on the air yet - it's yet a new twist on the "Obama Birth Certificate" that at least Rusty hit tonight, although he did qualify it as unverified, which after several hours of research I am unable to find anything that even hints to support it.

As I have said, to not be an AH Theory, it cannot change facts to fit theories. Sadly, this one does. For example it ignores that people with US Passports travel to places all the time (i.e., Cuba) even in the face of embargos. Secondly, it bypasses the fact that has never been (at least no evidence of) any US State Department Policy of a "No Travel List" at least in the sense of banning US Citizens (and passport holders) from traveling to pretty much anywhere they wanted to go (including the USSR!).

Now you ad in the Major in the Army who is refusing to go to Afghanistan until The POTUS "shows" his Birth Certificate and we are quickly reaching the limits of tolerablility. The Major is wrong to issue his demand, and is showing both poor leadership and command skills. If he doesn't want to go to war, then he needs to resign and quit setting a poor example.

But for the moment, the theory is that this lone Major will "force" Obama to show his Birth Certificate - or as the theory hopes - not show it and thus prove that he is illegitimate (as POTUS, not his birth). My question is: will this "Heroic Major" be the first to volunteer to go to Afghanistan if the POTUS does produce a paper that satisfies him (keeping in mind that he already did to satisfy one court)?

In the end, it's one thing to send me a Theory and in this case there were some decent questions, but again, with no answers and no footnotes or sources cited for the "facts" that it did purport to proclaim, which, as it turned out, weren't quite as factual as hoped.

Don't get me wrong, I wish every night that the magic scandal would be found and suddenly Mr. Obama would be out. But I am also smart enough to know that it isn't going to happen. And instead of spending my life and time hoping against hope for a consipracy theory to break, I am going to work on the real issues, like $1trillion deficits and health care highjacking....

Aluminum Hat Theories

A few years back Bill Mick was talking on his show about the nut jobs who wear aluminum hats to keep the aliens or government or whoever from reading their thoughts and the 9/11 attacks came up. He had a caller who was convinced that the Gov'a'mint had "fired a missile" at the Pentagon and the proof was that no film existed of the plane hitting the building.


Interestingly enough, the next day Barry Bonds completed his cheating and hit a home run that either tied or broke the record (like anybody cares or remembers) and I noticed that nobody had any film of the guy who got the ball actually getting the ball. It might have been the most fun sports news ever.


Anyway, driving home from Tacoma I was listening (for reasons that I will not discuss but involve masochism) to left side Talk Radio when I came to a realization. We make fun of their AH wearing callers, and that is why they make fun of ours. All AHers are nuts, although entertaining. And none of them ever have any actual proof. Just wild theories that always end up with me not believing them and then my being accused of being a "part of" the vast gov'a'mint conspiracy that is there to read their thoughts - as if anybody - especially me - would want to.


So the new rule for Afternoons Live is no more AH theories. If you don't have incontrverable proof, including being present at the secret meetings, don't bother. I simply don't care.


Plus I don't want some left side host driving through the Valley making fun of my callers.

The Great EPA Reprt Suppression Affair

To listen to most of my compatriots lately you'd think that Alan Carlins EPA report "disproving" global warming is being suppressed and he is also being "reassigned" is the most Earth shaking example of aluminum hat conspiracies on the left side of the world.

Peshaw.

Three things to consider. First, for all it matters Alan Carlin and his magical report could be right - global warming could be a complete and ToTaL hoax. But for all the reports, books, articles and discussions out there already, Alan Carlins' report is meaningless and it will convince no one. If you still believe in Global Warming, Alan Carlin is not going to change your or anybody else in Congress' mind.

Second, although he could be right, Mr. Carlin is NOT a scientist. He's an accountant. So, while it might be an entertaining and correct report of the facts, the idea that it is an accountant presenting the position of the entire anti-Global Warming Movement isn't going to help matters. Don't we have an actual Scientist with the same data, opionions and interpetations? (Yes, we do)

Lastly we pay Mr. Carlin to be an accountant. His supervisor improperly "allowed" him to produce this report on company (taxpayers) time. Again, the report might be correct, but we don't pay him to write global warming reports, we pay him to account. The supervisor was wrong to allow him to produce such a report on our time, and now feels (according to Mr. Carlin) that he (the supervisor) had to "reassign" Mr. Carlin or lose his own job. Well of course he did - he should never have allowed Mr. Carlin to do this "report" on our time to begin with. Now he has to "suppress" an unsolicted, unsupported, unnecessary and un-scientific report in order to cover his own Accounted Department behind.

For all it matters, the report (such as it is) might be absolutely correct, BUT it's not from a person who (a) should be making the report or (b) is paid to make the report or (c) ought to be doing his real job and is poorly supervised.

By this point in time, if you need Alan Carlin to support the anti-Global Warming position then you've been asleep for a decade. In the meantime we've been paying Mr. Carlin to not do his job.

Surreal Day

I woke up to the news of the death of Farrah Fawcett had passed away after a long battle with cancer. It was somewhat expected but still a little surprising and jolting as an icon of the era that I grew up in, the 1970's was now gone. It's getting harder and harder with each passing day to see my own life's history pass on, it certainly brings into focus my own mortality.

Two hours before I went on the air today, the news broke the Michael Jackson had been rushed to the hospital with cardiac arrest. My first thought was that he had passed away - I know the odds on cardiac arrest survival - but like most people I held on to a little hope. I am not a MJ fan, but my own history as a child of the 1970's was full of listening to the Jackson 5, and of one afternoon calling the local pop station over and over requesting "Back to Indiana" by the Jackson 5.

It's hard. But it's life. The wold is a smaller place again today. I think that tonight I will watch Logan's Run again, and listen to Dancing Machine...