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  • 20081102-California Propositions

    Here are the ‘Official Title and Summary’ to the propositions of the California General Elections. It includes my opinions only, too.

    1. PROP 1A: I really wanted bullet trains (just like the ones in Japan) to complete the circuit around the Bay Area; so people could travel to major cities like San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland. I envisioned less stress and time driving behind the wheels, less hydro-carbon emissions from the tailpipes of motorized vehicles and more traveling to these tourist sites, which should be profitable for businesses. Plus, workers won’t be late on arrival.

    STANDARDS FOR CONFINING FARM ANIMALS. INITIATIVE STATUTE.

    • Requires that calves raised for veal, egg-laying hens and pregnant pigs be confined only in ways that allow these animals to lie down, stand up, fully extend their limbs and turn around freely.
    • Exceptions made for transportation, rodeos, fairs, 4-H programs, lawful slaughter, research and veterinary purposes.
    • Provides misdemeanor penalties, including a fine not to exceed $1,000 and/or imprisonment in jail for up to 180 days.

    Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

    • Potential unknown decrease in state and local tax revenues from farm businesses, possibly in the range of several million dollars annually.
    • Potential minor local and state enforcement and prosecution costs, partly offset by increased fine revenue.

    2. PROP 2: I remember watching ‘Charlotte Web’, an animated cartoon show about Wilbur the pig and Charlotte the spider. They were friends until Charlotte the spider died of old age. I feel that farm animals need to roam freely prior to slaughter time. I feel that animals should not be bred as foodstuff to fill the stomachs of hungry, flesh eating, blood drinking ‘people’. I don’t like those advertisements on television promoting the fear factor of these alleged dangers from food poisoning. China is already doing a good job with harming its own citizens. I think we should be morally conscionable to help our farm friends.

    STANDARDS FOR CONFINING FARM ANIMALS. INITIATIVE STATUTE.

    • Requires that calves raised for veal, egg-laying hens and pregnant pigs be confined only in ways that allow these animals to lie down, stand up, fully extend their limbs and turn around freely.
    • Exceptions made for transportation, rodeos, fairs, 4-H programs, lawful slaughter, research and veterinary purposes.
    • Provides misdemeanor penalties, including a fine not to exceed $1,000 and/or imprisonment in jail for up to 180 days.

    Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

    • Potential unknown decrease in state and local tax revenues from farm businesses, possibly in the range of several million dollars annually.
    • Potential minor local and state enforcement and prosecution costs, partly offset by increased fine revenue.

    3. PROP 3: I love children. But I don’t like the idea of prolonging their pain and suffering either, especially when they already have an incurable disease illnesses. I see this bond as another expensive improvement on ‘real property’ and less help to the real cause of these sickness. Chemo-therapy is not the answer. It’s another scam to poison the children with radiation, which we all damn well know destroys living cells and irradiates the DNA structure.

    CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL BOND ACT. GRANT PROGRAM. INITIATIVE STATUTE.

    • Authorizes $980,000,000 in bonds, to be repaid from state’s General Fund, to fund the construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing and equipping of children’s hospitals.
    • Designates that 80 percent of bond proceeds go to hospitals that focus on children with illnesses such as leukemia, cancer, heart defects, diabetes, sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis.
    • Requires that qualifying children’s hospitals provide comprehensive services to a high volume of children eligible for governmental programs and meet other requirements.
    • Designates that 20 percent of bond proceeds go to University of California general acute care hospitals.

    Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

    • State cost of about $2 billion over 30 years to pay off both the principal ($980 million) and the interest ($933 million) costs of the bonds. Payments of about $64 million per year.

    4. PROP 4: I love children. I especially don’t like minors being hurt by criminals. But what I especially don’t like are the irresponsible minors, who sneak off at night and have pre-marital sex behind their parents’ backs! I don’t like seeing those televised advertisement about promoting fear from letting the parents know about another life. This proposition encourages minors to lie flat out! There is always the option of adoptions.

    WAITING PERIOD AND PARENTAL NOTIFICATION BEFORE TERMINATION OF MINOR’S PREGNANCY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.

    • Changes California Constitution to prohibit abortion for unemancipated minor until 48 hours after physician notifies minor’s parent or legal guardian.
    • Permits notification to certain adult relatives if doctor reports parent to law enforcement or Child Protective Services.
    • Provides notification exceptions for medical emergency or parental waiver.
    • Permits courts to waive notice based on clear and convincing evidence of minor’s maturity or best interests.
    • Mandates reporting requirements, including reports from physicians regarding abortions on minors.
    • Authorizes damages against physicians for violation.
    • Requires minor’s consent to abortion, with exceptions.

    Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

    • Potential unknown net state costs of several million dollars annually for health and social services programs, court administration, and state health agency administration combined.

    5. PROP 5: I believe in second chances. But this would mean, based on my quick reading of the ‘CON’ section to this proposition, that the DRUG DEALERS would go free. According to my economic studies long ago, if y’all want to eliminate drug users, you must remove the source, which are the DRUG DEALERS! They are the criminals! They are the ones dumbing down Americans, who cannot fight back because of their drug addictions! And now y’all want to stick a proposition in the faces of the tax payers to ‘help those beyond repair’? Sheesh!

    NONVIOLENT DRUG OFFENSES. SENTENCING, PAROLE AND REHABILITATION. INITIATIVE STATUTE.

    • Allocates $460,000,000 annually to improve and expand treatment programs for persons convicted of drug and other offenses.
    • Limits court authority to incarcerate offenders who commit certain drug crimes, break drug treatment rules or violate parole.
    • Substantially shortens parole for certain drug offenses; increases parole for serious and violent felonies.
    • Divides Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation authority between two Secretaries, one with six year fixed term and one serving at pleasure of Governor. Provides five year fixed terms for deputy secretaries.
    • Creates 19 member board to direct parole and rehabilitation policy.

    Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

    • Increased state costs over time potentially exceeding $1 billion annually primarily for expanding drug treatment and rehabilitation programs for offenders in state prisons, on parole, and in the community.
    • State savings over time potentially exceeding $1 billion annually due primarily to reduced prison and parole operating costs.
    • Net one-time state savings on capital outlay costs for prison facilities that eventually could exceed $2.5 billion.
    • Unknown net fiscal effect on county operations and capital outlay.

    6. PROP 6: Honestly, most people are honorable and non-violent. People won’t just belong to gangs if they have no where else to go, hope or family members to make sure they won’t ‘fall from grace’. I don’t see people getting hurt in my neck of the neighborhood. Only mind-programming material from the boob tube shows us that there are those who need jobs and a second chance in life. But if the data shows that ‘human beings’ are getting more out of control with ‘anti-life’ sentiments for justice, then sure, let’s have more a more, military, gestapo-like system to keep ALL of us locked up inside our own homes out of fear from taking a normal, brisk walk at night with friends. Sheesh!

    POLICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT FUNDING. CRIMINAL PENALTIES AND LAWS. INITIATIVE STATUTE.

    • Requires minimum of $965,000,000 each year to be allocated from state General Fund for police, sheriffs, district attorneys, adult probation, jails and juvenile probation facilities. Some of this funding will increase in following years according to California Consumer Price Index.
    • Makes approximately 30 revisions to California criminal law, many of which cover gang-related offenses. Revisions create multiple new crimes and additional penalties, some with the potential for new life sentences.
    • Increases penalties for violating a gang-related injunction and for felons carrying guns under certain conditions.

    Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

    • Net increase in state costs that are likely within a few years to exceed $500 million annually, primarily due to increasing state spending for various criminal justice programs to at least $965 million, as well as for increased costs for prison and parole operations. These costs would increase by tens of millions of dollars annually in subsequent years.
    • Potential one-time state capital outlay costs for prison facilities that could exceed $500 million due to increases in the prison population.

    7. PROP 7: I don’t know about this one. Solar energy is non-renewable. I’ve been reading articles on how major, technological break-throughs have not been fully disclosed to the public and the geniuses behind these discoveries have been removed from society and the pages of mainstream, scientific publications forever. This proposition forces the taxpayers to pay up either way.

    RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION. INITIATIVE STATUTE.

    • Requires utilities, including government-owned utilities, to generate 20% of their power from renewable energy by 2010, a standard currently applicable only to private electrical corporations.
    • Raises requirement for utilities to 40% by 2020 and 50% by 2025.
    • Imposes penalties, subject to waiver, for noncompliance.
    • Transfers some jurisdiction of regulatory matters from Public Utilities Commission to Energy Commission.
    • Fast-tracks approval for new renewable energy plants.
    • Requires utilities to sign longer contracts (20 year minimum) to procure renewable energy.
    • Creates account to purchase rights-of-way and facilities for the transmission of renewable energy.

    Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

    • Increased state administrative costs of up to $3.4 million annually for the regulatory activities of the California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission, paid for by fee revenues.
    • Unknown impact on state and local government costs and revenues due to the measure’s uncertain impact on retail electricity rates. In the short term, the prospects for higher rates-and therefore higher costs, lower sales and income tax revenues, and higher local utility tax revenues-are more likely. In the long term, the impact on electricity rates, and therefore state and local government costs and revenues, is unknown.

    8. PROP 8: I believe that love between same-sex couples does not need to be recognized by the state. They already have the same rights as married couples. This proposition promotes the indocrination of our children to accept ‘anti-life’ in place of basic social structure of parental units between a male (husband) and a female (wife) to raise a family of children. This is another attempt to depopulate ‘human beings’, or genocide as another form of hidden agenda. The only discrimination I see here is the discrimination to keep sound family values intact.

    ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME-SEX COUPLES TO MARRY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.

    • Changes the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California.
    • Provides that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

    Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

    • Over the next few years, potential revenue loss, mainly from sales taxes, totaling in the several tens of millions of dollars, to state and local governments.
    • In the long run, likely little fiscal impact on state and local governments.

    9. PROP 9: Once again, I read the ‘CON’ side to this proposition first and made my vote based on the fact that victims already have rights. Perhaps, the real victims could be the offenders as the cycle continues. There are always those on the far end of the spectrum of being dealt a bad deal in life. I see that some ‘personal confidential information and records to criminal defendants’ might be a problem is this area. I smell stink, here, like someone (i.e. ‘Barry’) blocking the truth to his past.

    CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. VICTIMS’ RIGHTS. PAROLE. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND STATUTE.

    • Requires notification to victim and opportunity for input during phases of criminal justice process, including bail, pleas, sentencing and parole.
    • Establishes victim safety as consideration in determining bail or release on parole.
    • Increases the number of people permitted to attend and testify on behalf of victims at parole hearings.
    • Reduces the number of parole hearings to which prisoners are entitled.
    • Requires that victims receive written notification of their constitutional rights.
    • Establishes timelines and procedures concerning parole revocation hearings.

    Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

    • Potential loss of future state savings on prison operations and potential increased county jail operating costs that could collectively amount to hundreds of millions of dollars annually, due to restricting the early release of inmates to reduce facility overcrowding.
    • Net savings in the low tens of millions of dollars annually for the administration of parole hearings and revocations, unless the changes in parole revocation procedures were found to conflict with federal legal requirements.

    10. PROP 10: This is yet another scam. The replacement for the batteries of hybrid cars cost around $8,000.00! This is due to the fact that batteries don’t hold their charge! And in time those batteries lost their juice. A person could get more power from regular car, which cost by far less than a hybrid car! Trust me: I have an electrical shaver that could only be used once and then I’d have to re-charged that shaver for about one-hour. The price for the barrels of oil is going down; yet the prices of gasoline keeps going up. Why? It’s because it’s all a scam to line the pockets of TPTB; while this proposition forces taxpayers to meet the ‘demands’ for the rising cost of energy. Sheesh!

    ALTERNATIVE FUEL VEHICLES AND RENEWABLE ENERGY. BONDS. INITIATIVE STATUTE.

    • Provides $3.425 billion to help consumers and others purchase certain high fuel economy or alternative fuel vehicles, including natural gas vehicles, and to fund research into alternative fuel technology.
    • Provides $1.25 billion for research, development and production of renewable energy technology, primarily solar energy with additional funding for other forms of renewable energy; incentives for purchasing solar and renewable energy technology.
    • Provides grants to cities for renewable energy projects and to colleges for training in renewable and energy efficiency technologies.
    • Total funding provided is $5 billion from general obligation bonds.

    Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

    • State costs of about $10 billion over 30 years to pay off both the principal ($5 billion) and interest ($5 billion) costs of the bonds. Payments of about $335 million per year.
    • Increase in state sales tax revenues of an unknown amount, potentially totaling in the tens of millions of dollars, over the period from 2009 to about 2019.
    • Increase in local sales tax and vehicle license fee revenues of an unknown amount, potentially totaling in the tens of millions of dollars, over the period from 2009 to about 2019.
    • Potential state costs of up to about $10 million annually, through about 2019, for state agency administrative costs not funded by the measure.

    11. PROP 11: I read the ‘CON’ side to this proposition and I don’t like what I read. It appears that the oversight would be eliminated and the spending spree by these bureaucrats would get out of control again. I don’t understand why the government cannot hire, non-interested external auditors not from the government and without any ties to political parties. I don’t understand this proposition except it will cost the taxpayers again.

    REDISTRICTING. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND STATUTE.

    • Changes authority for establishing Assembly, Senate, and Board of Equalization district boundaries from elected representatives to 14 member commission.
    • Requires government auditors to select 60 registered voters from applicant pool. Permits legislative leaders to reduce pool, then the auditors pick eight commission members by lottery, and those commissioners pick six additional members for 14 total.
    • Requires commission of five Democrats, five Republicans and four of neither party. Commission shall hire lawyers and consultants as needed.
    • For approval, district boundaries need votes from three Democratic commissioners, three Republican commissioners and three commissioners from neither party.

    Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

    • Potential increase in state redistricting costs once every ten years due to two entities performing redistricting. Any increase in costs probably would not be significant.

    12. PROP 12: I read the ‘CON’ side to this proposition, which looks familiar, like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whereby only a few deserving folks are entitled to this program. Whatever this proposition means not all these ‘veterans’ could pay back the loans? Aren’t most veterans disabled? And how are the disabled to ‘pay back’ the loans when they cannot find descent, paying jobs? This means the taxpayers are going to ‘foot the bills’ again.

    VETERANS’ BOND ACT OF 2008.

    • This act provides for a bond issue of nine hundred million dollars ($900,000,000) to provide loans to California veterans to purchase farms and homes.
    • Appropriates money from the state General Fund to pay off the bonds, if loan payments from participating veterans are insufficient for that purpose.

    Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

    • Costs of about $1.8 billion to pay off both the principal ($900 million) and interest ($856 million) on the bonds; costs paid by participating veterans.
    • Average payment for principal and interest of about $59 million per year for 30 years.

    Blogger’s note: If y’all not sure how to vote on any of these propositions, just vote the OPPOSITE of the proposition, which is ‘NO’ on most but only one ‘YES’, which is Prop8. The bureaucrats got its citizen into loads of mess by creating chaos out of nothing and expect the TAXPAYERS to ‘clean house’! THINK PEOPLE!

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20081031-Happy Hallowed

    Well, nothing is new except being true! Yesterday was light rain. This morning was light rain until around noontime when the sun started to shine. Of course, I knew what this `break in the clouds` meant and perhaps it had something to do with my cellphone call. I was being calm and rather thankful and quite appreciative to the caller. I assumed `that one` heard my thoughts. And of course, I had a difficult time processing one due to some sort of validation error. Whatever!

    So far, I`ve sustained a chocolate headache after two hours of handing out candy. It was fun and we had a chance to watch the little girl from across the street walk up, unwrap and eat a chocolate candy from our container of mostly chocolate, of course. Her younger sister was cute as a button too with those big blue eyes. Other Asian children were cute too as I complimented the glittery ones. The count for this year was around forty one, up by four from last year.

    Anyway, I shouldn`t complain, rant and rave. But this is my current reality. Y`all know what I`m up against. Y`all know that I`ve been irresponsible to myself and others. It`s time for me to get back to work, which is why I`ve signed up with a temporary agency last week. This is the same one that got me into that number one monster of a company known worldwide. And sure enough my recruiter was able to get me the interview with the client for next Monday.

    Besides my CA driver`s license as one form of identification, all I had to do was provide the second proof in the form of my `Socialist Slavery Abomination` card, which I received today in the mail. It is a replacement card. A few minutes later after speaking with her over the phone and after reviewing the recruiter`s email, I discovered that the client`s cross-training occurred on the days of my first trip to Las Vegas! Dammit! I needed a job right away!

    Anyway, I forgot to inform the recruiter about our short trip but didn`t care because the company required all those stupid tests, which really is for full-time employees. Afterwards, I filled out an application online for a `Merchandise Specialist`. I like arranging and organizing stuff. Have y`all ever walked into a store to find the merchandise topsy turvy? As a consumer, I prefer a tidy shopping experience. I may try applying to other retail stores for the upcoming holiday seasons for some much needed cash.

    So I fixed my PayPal donation button to this weblog site after discovering the error message today via a friend. For whatever reason, the `default` PayPal buttons is only allowed on the `Contact` page via Yahoo! Site Solutions building tool to my FlynnsPaws.com. Ooo! Ooo! My big brain discovered something: I could enter the HTML code of the email from PayPal.com exactly as it appears on both this weblog site and the hosted site. It’s a great brouhaha! I`ll do that now!

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  • 20081023-Heads Up

    This is just a heads up to our local SJPD. There has been recent activity on the roads on Thursday, 10-23-2008. Today, while helping Paw wash the cars, a strange maroon van drove up our road. Then I hollered out loud for whatever reason for having fun hosing (not soaping down my car) and I thought they heard what I’ve said.

    Then all of a sudden the driver reverses. His thug was in the passenger seat and didn’t crack a smile. The driver looked in our direction through the passenger side window, which was opened and made words which my deaf ears couldn’t pick up. I kept pointing with my left hand to my ear that I was deaf. He kept looking at me and asking something.

    I looked at Paw, who was also hard of hearing. He was bent downward while wiping the right rear section of his Mercedes Benz E430. I kept pointing towards the direction of Paw in the hopes that the thugs would take a hint that we both couldn’t hear them speaking. Later, Paw heard, looked up, got up slightly and replied, ‘No’.

    I didn’t hear but Paw said they wanted to buy my Mustang. Later on, a lowered white Honda buzzed around our neighborhood. I swear these people looked Latino. I know: this is my hood. I know that the mini-van didn’t have a license plate but a bright yellow with red markings advertising its newness from a dealership.

    Later on, I was on my way to the ‘Social Slavery Administration’ to get a replacement for my lost card; so I could work (and no thanks to TPTB!). Another Latino in a dark, colored four-door sedan was seen swerving erratically from the right of Old Oakland Rd. all the way to the left, almost hitting the Asians in front of me. This incident was prior to the railway intersection because the negligent driver wanted to make a U-turn from the center divide.

    Another strange turn of events occurred when I tried to pull out of the parking lot of the ‘SSA’. My car sputtered and died! I was in the middle of backing out and it stopped in the middle, blocking noone except a few children biking. I tried to start this damn piece of junk but my Mustang kept dying on me!

    I went inside to the private security guard and obtained his help, which he did by pushing the old timer back into the ‘Compact’ lot immediately to the left of the main door. I kept rambling on about my stories and he didn’t say much except that the gasket head might need sanding. He did offer his cellphone to call his friend, who works a tow truck.

    But I knew I was on my own because I didn’t bring my cellphone! So I sat there as instructed by him and decided to wait it out until the car cooled down, which it did. And after ten minutes instead of his suggested thirty minutes of waiting, the car started and I forced the accelerator pedal down enough to get the juice into the engine. Stupid car!

    So I got some gasoline at around $40.00 for a full tank (with an octane rating of 89 and went home with Maw ranting about my not being smart to protect my identity. I’m grateful, however for making a slow trip through the back roads and under forty miles per hour.

    And I learned that being irresponsible is not my goal. I guess I’ll have to work and pull my weight around to support myself, my bio-units and certain people, who won’t disconnect from my very thoughts, nay, my heart. Eeek!

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  • 20080719-Strange Cars

    Around 11:50AM, I noticed through our front window the same beige-colored, four-door sedan making a U-turn down my long, stretch of road. Only this time, a shiny SJPD, highway, patrol squad car was tailing it from behind. Then I ran to the television room in hopes waving down the squad car but thought it went straight ahead towards the railway intersection. But the squad car made its U-turn and speed in the opposite direction in hopes of intercepting that car.

    I’ve noticed recently how this vehicle (with two missing hubcaps on its right two wheels) would park next to the house across from us and along my long, stretch of road. The guy has a portly belly and would wait there underneath the neighbor’s eucalyptus tree. Then yesterday or the other day, which I cannot recall, he got out of his driver’s side of the car and went to open up his trunk.

    He proceeded to stamp on some aluminum cans as loudly the sound echoed back into our open front, window. For me anyone opening their trunk is signaling their ‘gang members’. I’ve had this happen too many times. I know this is recent because I’ve been living in this neighborhood all my life, never moving to anywhere else.

    So yesterday another parked car contained a handsome-looking, dark-skinned Asian (who really appears Filipino) to me. Maw and I had finished harvesting some long, stringed beans and purple ‘sweet pea’ pods from our backyards. She had grown those from seedling and now the plants are taller than us, almost the height of six foot.

    We made our made from the backyard to the front yard when I noticed that guy, who mysteriously disappeared. I believe another vehicle came to pick him up because he left all four windows opened. This was after both Maw and I harvested Philippine eggplants (with very dark purple skin) and long Anaheim, green peppers.

    I wonder if our fellow San Jose Police Department has noticed the parked vehicles along my long stretch of road, which is my middle name, my mother’s maiden name — both of which appears fully spelled as part of our identification documents.

    To add at around 11:00AM on Friday, July 18, 2008, I noticed a long shiny, silver-colored truck load check in at the main gate of Moffett Field. The back part of the load had the following website, in which Tesla has been on the something all these years. The truck load was parked near the airstrips, by the way.

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  • 20080630-Spits Again

    On Monday, I’ve mailed my letter via USPS and then decided last minute to get my smog check up in Milpitas, CA. I arrived at that place on 11:00AM and was dismayed that ‘Kevin’ wasn’t there to do my certification, except an old Asian couple. So I waited from for another one hour and twenty minutes.

    I would have been out there by noon-time but some older Korean guy cut in front of me with his white GM truck. I didn’t make a scene about being overlooked by the older woman but he knew what he has done in error as he looked at me several times. I didn’t make faces like I used to when pissed but kept a calm demeanor while mentally flicking him off. Besides I wasn’t in a hurry to go home.

    So there I was watching what was being done to the other cars. Drive the car over the rollers; raise up the car on the rollers sticking from underneath; down and up again. The computer graphics showed the attendant how fast to reve up the vehicle; maintain a constant speed and drop down when the test was over. Three cars went through this procedure with the last one testing for any leakage coming out of the gas cap.

    There were different sizes of gas caps for testing as the attendant fitted the correct ones for a black Mercedes Benz bought from L.A. The testing on the Benz was different as the computer hookup was inside where the driver seat was located. The attendant didn’t have to do anything except unhook the vehicle from the computer.

    I was worried about my transmission not working well on downshifting and the fact that some gaseous odor came out from somewhere of my car. When I noticed the line cutter was just about finished, I decided to burn off some of the gaseous odor; started my car and parked somewhere in front of the garage, waiting for my turn when I saw the old lady wave me into park indoors. The procedure was faster than the rest. In about fifteen minutes I was finished. I passed the smog test and all for $69.95.

    So I merrily drove away and took the long way back home. No sooner than I realized a large SUV was in front of me. The driver, you guessed it, was a pale-faced female behind dark sunglasses. She is the second ‘entity’ that I saw with those big fat beads of necklace hanging from the rear view mirror. She spat out the driver’s side window.

    I flicked her off with both my fingers subtly while gripping the steering wheel. There was noone to her left except a passing motorist coming from the opposite direction. This was prior to the Elmwood Correctional Complex in Milpitas, CA. She turned left to a bunch of living complexes located across the facility.

    I made my way home, finding my parental units sitting down for lunch. ‘Paw’ had already left a voicemail message on my cellphone. Later, I went online and paid my stupid $72.00 to get that blue sticker to place on the upper right hand corner of the license plate on the back of my 1998 Ford Mustang; so as to avoid being ticketed by our friendly neighborhood ‘gesatop units’. Life goes on as usual in my neck of the woods. How’s yours?

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080412-Wrath Prices

    I feel your wrath. The other diesel I saw gasoline prices for a gallon of diesel at around $4.36 and around $3.98 for the premium (octane rating of 91). We are already lost the purchasing power for every dollar earned and all for nothing while the cost of commodities goes up.

    I think the Amero is already on its way by combining the currency of Canada, United States and Mexico. And let’s keep an eye on this super highway numbered ‘69’, which is supposed to increase the transportation of goods

  • 20080113-Daily Diary

    Around 06:30PM, the gestapos, err I meant police, made all sorts of ruckus up and down MY Rd. There were three squad cars with red and blue lights blinking going towards Flickingoff Rd. There was a helicopter looking around Flickingoff Rd. Then the stupid squad cars doubled back and made a U-turn on MY INTERSECTION, back up Flickingoff Rd. Then the helicopter looked around the Rouge Rd. area, where I took some dark pictures of a faint light. Maw got mad again as she told me not to take pictures. Idiots.

  • 20071208-Saturday Shopping

    Well, I woke up late, ate breakfast and went shopping at Mervyn`s for some clothes and presents. First stop was trying to buy Paw his new sweat suit outfits to replace his grungy ones from the local flea market years ago. He protested as usual this time by weakly grabbing at the articles of clothing weighed down upon my arms.

    But I pulled back and stretched up to get at the ones beyond my reach. He claimed to want only one outfit. He got three. I paid for those along with a pajama set for Brat as his holiday present.

    Next was me and I eyes one pair of Sketchers with plaid black designs. The support a little bit below the middle of my foot (and slightly above my heel) felt weird yet bouncy. I took that for my purchase, tried five more tops and purchased the red ones with flowers along the next line including a brown 3/4 sleeve for me and a red one for Twits holiday present.

    We ate lunch and tipped both the cashier and a bunch of youths one dollar each. The singers (three with one playing a classical guitar) were from Fremont, CA and for some reason belong to this Pentecostal organization. I don`t know what that is but it means another version of God as a tasty cheeseburger.

    I read in a topic from another forum in which God is expressed as being the best cheeseburger — unique to different types of burger joint, much like religion and all its domination. Now I realize that these boxes, dojos or forums are trying to present themselves as being the best burger in town — God or not.

    I wasn`t ready to go home since it wasn`t 14:00PM when I decided to go shopping at Long`s Drug Store for more outdoor lights because I saw how lack luster our outdoor decorations looked compared to the beautiful lightings done by our neighbors when Maw and I drove around last night. This was from 07:00PM to 08:00PM right after dinner and leaving Paw taking too long with the garbage outback more recently.

    While driving, I listened to her freaking complaining, whining and crying as an awakened victim of late to a failed relationship with an no compassion, dull-witted and selfish husband — Paw. I should know because I see these particular traits in Paw, Brat and me as well as my paternal relatives up in the East Bay. They come from Tuy, Batangas, Philippines and people from this province are notorious for being spitefully mean, very territorial and knife wielders. (I bet you didn`t know that, eh `Shrimpsei`?)

    Anyway, I purchased around $39.00 worth of new decoration with 2-100 mini-lights for $4.00, one 22-green colored extension cord (with three `female` outlets at the end for my three reindeer bio-units) and four boxes of plastic gutter clips, which I used for hooking up the lights on the chain link fence (made by Montgomery Ward).

    Oh yeah before I forget, yesterday I saw a guy walking his red rover dog yesterday after work as Paw described his accomplishment of throwing the three bad lines of mini-lights and decorating the front porch with two extra lines of multi-colored mini-lights. I hollered out like: `Good job, Paw`! And sure enough I got a reaction from boy and dog as boy looked in my direction. I`m a brat.

    As soon as we arrived home, I grabbed my jacket and head out front to get working on those lights. Later, I heard the loser coughing out loud intentionally from his AT&T van. I flicked him off since my back was towards this main strip of road. And as he parked across the road, I got closer to the end of my chain link fence and hollered: `Die you loser! Choke on your SARS!` Heck, I`m only human and I know TPTB will make him work harder.

    So I removed the old blue lights from fence and the white lights from the rose bushes. After I used up the two new white mini-lights for the scallop design from one main post to the other, I used the remainder of the old blue lights from the rose bushes and the old white lights for the tall rose shrub. We moved the angel closer to the fence and the three reindeer bio-units towards the center of the lawn.

    Paw did not do anything useful except decorate the vertical rose shrub, hold the clips open for hooking the fence lights, cleaning up the extra boxes and twist ties and grabbing a stepping stool to hang the last line on top of the gazebo located near the main strip of road. I ended up doing the rest of the `engineering`.

    I realize what Maw has been through all these years with Paw. The other `auntie-in-laws` reported the same of my paternal uncles — they are slick, robotic Twits and won`t lift a finger for others but only for themselves! The paternal aunties are foul-mouthed, banshees whose endearing quality is to win the friendships of party fools.

    Anyway, I digress as Maw and I went out to see the newly upgraded design of mine. We left Paw again to do his own things in the house after Maw trimmed his hairdo. Then she whined, complained and cried again the whole time about other nonsense. I AM NOT MEANT TO BE HERE! These twosomes are killing me! And I`ve not started a life or bio-units away from these fools — my bio-units of loving kindness, of course.

    Oops, I digress again. I meant to go shopping for my new pair of flat ugly black shoes to replace the ones I bought from Payless ShoeSource years ago. I didn`t find a good pair from the messy boxes at Mervyn`s and will end up going to Payless ShoeSource for my new pair tomorrow instead since I purchased those outdoor lightings. It`s the price of hardship courtesy of TPTB:– a penny pincher with hard to find shoes for my big feet.

    I forgot to buy my purple nail polish, which I will hopefully remember for tomorrow`s shopping. I`ve been wearing electric blue nail polish to work for the whole of last week. Like I said, I will not conform or stay there to work until I die. Sitting at that desk is already death to me — it doesn`t allow me for creativity: singing, dancing or painting.

    I`ll be screaming out loud mentally to annoy TPTB until justice is served. They will not go unpunished or unscathed for betraying me all these years. There is no escaping my wrath. It`s a great brouhaha.

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  • 20071101-Daily Diary

    Left VM for Chunk; Texted Chilled, Butch; then called Chunk again while removing Halloween decors.

    Both Chunk and Chilled are the same – plastic to their teeth. DNA.
    Got lunch for Chunk via 99 Ranch.

    Left for 680North at 11:00AM.

    Would have arrived at 11:22AM but got lost and managed to call Chunk at Chunk’s main home phone.

    Told Chunk to remain on phone until we got there at 12:00PM.

    Texted Chunk’s about ordeal no response after leaving VM when lost at Shoreleft Dr.

    Chilled came home around 02:00PM and then we ‘kicked ourselves’ out after talking.

    Both are plastic and felt they wanted us out. So their energies are screwed. We tried.

    Called Brat and brought my mustang over for him to remove performance chip, which was not compatible with the car. We went together towards Starbucks to recalibrate chip removal based on my driving habits.

    Twit called and I offered to buy food but she asked Brat what she wanted for dinner and then she claimed she had to get rid of the food in refrigerator.

    Paid for one venti-sized white chocolate mocha with whipped cream. Got me tall pumpkin with whipped cream.

    Drove around some more until Brat invited me in. Watched his new Nintendo Wii and Zelda. Then watched him play tennis me too and then bowling and then me too. Prior to playing saw Twit with downcast eyes while she chopped her napa cabbage – a sign to please get out.

    Maw wouldn’t stop ranting. Told her to take shower to remove aura. Curled and dried and removed her hair curlers.

    Removed rant from WB website about ‘Check Engine Woes’ and posted one more to show success over dealership gouging ‘ Performance Chip Removal’.

  • 20071006-Daily Diary

    Saturday, October 06, 2007 8:34:58 PM

    20071006-Daily Thoughts

    07:50PM came back from Golden Buddha. Driving northbound 680. Nearing McKee Rd. exit. Notice police car severing fast from the fast lane, then second, then slows down due to traffic.
    Saw white pick-up truck swerve by earlier from left to right towards McKee Rd. exit. Saw lots of smoke from rubber tire smell. Didn’t think quick enough but had to signal right to exit McKee Rd. over crunchy V-shaped divide. Then slowed down enough to roll down window, peek to left and saw some sort of debris of vertical white towel on the road to the right of the truck with a red vertical shaped thing hanging down to the right back part of the ‘trunk’. Tires went crunching over the debris.

    Lots of blinking out of lights during dinner at Golden Buddha, Aborn Rd., San Jose, CA. Crunchy won-ton appetizer, noodles, rice and beef/broccoli. Sustained bloody booger from right nostril.

    Viewed two five minute videos of Pacquiao and Barrera weigh-in and pacquiao interview with Ralph Biel. View couple of photos. Viewed placement of both in lightweight section (130 lb) of cnn.com sport/boxing section. Kept viewing doghouseboxing.com for up to date information. Found Unanimous win for Manny Pacquiao around 09:55PM with Marco Barrera losing one point for head butting.

  • 20070814-Comes Around

    What goes around comes around. On August 29, 2006, a 20.00USD note has been given to a homeless lady with very clear blue eyes and dirty blond hair. On August 14, 2006, the same 20.00 USD note came back to me somehow. I reached down to pick up the note and quickly stuffed it into my black fanny pack.

    I noticed that a white guy in dark sunglasses walked behind my car prior to getting into his broken gray car also. I am assuming either him or another white guy had planted that note underneath the right wheel tire of my gray Mustang, which was parked to on the street to the left of Jon Jon’s BBQ place nearby our neighborhood.

    This discover was after Paw and I had returned from our second run to purchase the number eleven meal of Tri-Tip, Spear Rib, Chicken, two slices of white bread and two small samplings of red beans and potato salad. This was my idea — a quick inquiry to Brat if he and Twit wanted to eat for lunch prior to their going on vacation.

    Earlier, we had bought a half slab of ribs (of five pieces) for over 12.00USD notes after tax. This seemed expensive and I thought this would be enough for the twosome but was sent back to order for our dinner (the number 11) by Maw, who was waiting inside my car. I thought one piece per person of ribs would feed us well for lunch. I miscalculated again for the ones with heartier appetites.

    So after the second run, we left to drop off the food at home after my purchasing another full tank of gasoline. Then off we went to drop off the lunch at the twosome’s place. I passed on my blessed note to him. He placed that on the counter then stuffed it in his left back pocket of his rotting sweat pants. At the same time, I got the main key and code to their house. I suppose I am a trusted one and the obvious pick for convenience as well, since I’ve not work or other responsibilities at hand.

    Later, the three were at the Great Mall in Milpitas, CA. After two walks around the mall with Paw, Maw was talking with another older Filipina, who was living on her own. Their stories happens to be similar those elderly, who choose to not live with their children (due to the in-laws mostly).

    I sat almost motionless for about an hour before my rear end protested to get up and go. My vitamin supplements helped reduce the tingling feeling in my lower extremities – toes, ankles and knees. I did nothing else but stare at the water fountain and held my palms upward with the middle fingers mocking a flicking position.

    Around 01:30PM, the sun worked its way from left to right across from my seating area. The skylight provided good visibility of the place where children played as their caretakers and strange goons looked behind shades to dark to be worn indoors. Those I flicked off discretely, of course.

    We went home and then ate lunch. Then I blogged as the day of clear blue sky and warm days continued to provide me comfort from my upstairs bedroom and with a view of the westward skies. After few more hours later I played the roll of taxi driver to the twosome.

    Our travel began around 05:05PM after they bade Paw and Maw their farewells and while I waited in the car. Our arrival at the San Francisco airport was around 05:55PM. Brat encountered a male friend directly in front of us. The traffic didn’t start until after thirty minutes of driving around 70 miles per hour on the carpool lane.

    My travel home was about one hour as well. The radio was turned off because I needed to concentrate on my driving behind my very dark shades. The ride was enjoyable as I drove calmly on the slow lanes to the right of northbound HWY 101. The air conditioner worked fine to cool my brain, too.

    Dinner was taken and more blogging was done. Today was done without motives. My projected anger at the twosome has been replaced with a temporary ego of giving – food, a note and a free ride. Their handshakes of thanks (first the boy and then the girl) through my passenger window was sufficient.

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  • 20070725-Daily Diary

    20070725-Daily Thoughts

    Mass.
    McD.
    Talked about Samaritan. Helping stranger being beaten up on street – bystander effects. Maw said litigation not to the benefit of Samaritan, who needs to hire lawyer anyway.

    Had to repark Benz into disabled lot.
    Lobby: Tall cute guy with lightest blue eyes. Long hair below ears! Eeee! Lovely! EEEE!
    Asian guy shorter next to his right.

    Dr. Levine’s office: cute guys in vasectomy and reversal waiting room CUTE!
    Brunette tall guy. Blondish tall guy with Maw, light blue eyes to his right across from me.
    Blond older guy with dark brown sandels next to my left. CUTTE!!! Knuckle biting damn!

    Did orchids whole day from 02-07:00PM.

    Parakeets enjoying. Pimon freaking out. Both brothers clinging to side of top cage. Probably don’t like sunlight.

    (Maw didn’t say AHHH last night. She’s a vampire.)

    Removed leaves from eat orchid container.
    Helped load into wheelbarrow and dumped remaining three into it. Pissed Maw off though.
    Paw up and down to place finished container into second house.

    Paw helped removed roots, push soil into container.

    Applied heat compress to Maw and massaged-meditated during sleep 09:00-09:30PM. Tried to wake her from deep sleep. Totally freaky.

    Was cloudy in the morning and yesterday morning, too.