Liberal Christian Evangelist Tony Campolo May Cause Gay Fits in the...
I'm a straight, older, science-loving liberal Christian across the universe from the evangelical movement. So, forgive me if I give that over the glasses look to someone that's starting to actually...
View ArticleAnd In Weird News... This Won't Go Well.
The OC Register (our local, pretty useless Libertarian rag) reported today that some 600 DUI and other traffic court cases are being looked into, and some may be retried, due to a laundry list of...
View ArticleThe Fix Was In; Orange County Traffic Cases Involved Big Bucks
When last we visited my red county, I wrote about a peculiar case of perplexed attorneys, and over 1000 traffic tickets mysteriously dismissed.It's getting more interesting.
View ArticleFire Fighting Planes Grounded Due To Drone
Tonight a hobby drone grounded firefighting aircraft by flying over the #LakeFire. When you fly...we CAN'T! Puts our pilots lives at risk.— CAL FIRE PIO Berlant (@CALFIRE_PIO) June 25, 2015InciWeb...
View ArticleReferendum Filed to Overturn California Vaccine Requirement
Former Assemblyman, current talk radio host and tea party member Tim Donally has filed a referendum in California to overturn Senate Bill 277.The bill, signed by Governor Brown on Tuesday, removes the...
View ArticlePet Food Recall: Stella and Chewy's
Stella and Chewy's is voluntarily recalling quite a number of foods given potential for Listeria contamination.Over the orange listeria creature.
View ArticleDog Food Recall: Vital Essentials (raw)
Listeria.Product sold in:California Colorado Florida Georgia Illinois New Mexico Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island Texas Vermont Washingtonover the orange listeria thingie
View ArticleDog Treat Recall; Salmonella
One product (so far) from "I and Love and You" company (yes, you read that right!) of Boulder, Colorado. Possible salmonella contamination; voluntary recall.Product is:Cow-Boom! Strips Beef Gullet that...
View ArticleDog Treat Recall Expanded
This involves treats from company "I and Love and You" (yes, you read that right!).Previous recall read:Cow-Boom! Strips Beef Gullet that were packaged into 2.0 oz bags, with the lot numbers...
View ArticleDog & Cat Food Recall: Salmonella
Food recall is raw food by Bravo! (Not to be confused with Jeb! ... sorry, couldn't help myself) of Connecticut.As an aside, the raw dog/cat food company also had a salmonella recall last...
View ArticleDog Food Recall: Salmonella
This time it's Nature's Variety Instinct Brand chicken sourced raw food.Hop over the orange salmonella bacterium...
View ArticleLA Times writer Michael Hiltzik dismantles Carly Fiorina
When last we spied Carly, she was at the kids' table on GOP debate night. Post debate, some of the very important people were handing her the kids' table twinkie:“Carly won the debate. Period. Reaction...
View ArticleCalifornia bans use of Grand Juries for police violence; affirms and...
Yesterday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law two important bills regarding police-involved shootings/excessive force and clarifying the right of the public to film police.The first bill...
View ArticleDog Food Recall: Attn. Vermont, Pennsylvania and Colorado; Also Horse Feed...
The Brand OC Raw Dog, located in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, has voluntarily recalled the following for potential Salmonella contamination:--The recall is limited to the Chicken, Fish and Produce Raw...
View ArticleVoluntary Class III 12-state recall for Dingo Pet Treat
The product is: Dingo chip Twists “Chicken in the Middle” Dog Chew TreatsStates:California Iowa Illinois Minnesota New York Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania Texas Virginia Washington WisconsinPackaging and...
View ArticleNationwide Dog Treat Recall: Salmonella
The recalled "Good 'n' Fun – Beefhide Chicken Sticks" was distributed nationwide by Salix Animal Health to Dollar General and Dollar Tree retail stores.The recalled product: 2.8 ounce bag stamped on...
View ArticleGardening for birds; my bird and plant addiction
I love birds. All kinds of birds. Here at my California cottage in the foothills of the Cleveland National Forest, Orange County, I get loads and loads of birds. But that wasn't by accident.The first...
View ArticleSingle state (Maryland) voluntary dog food recall
Company of recall: K-9 Kraving Dog FoodProduct of recall: Chicken Patties Dog FoodFDA Notice is hereFood was shipped between July 13 and July 17, 2015Sold only in retail stores in the state of...
View ArticleFated cargo ship now considered lost, one body found; search for survivors...
Sadly, the US Coast Guard announced today that the cargo ship, El Faro, carrying 391 containers and 294 vehicles, crewed by 33 including 28 Americans and five Polish Nationals is considered lost 35...
View ArticleNationwide Dog Treat Recall
The original recall has been expanded to a nationwide recall.Here's the product: Salix Animal Health, LLC, Good N Fun Beefhide Chicken SticksProblem: Possible SalmonellaRegion: NationwideAvailability:...
View ArticleWatching the debate tonight; For those with no TV/Cable
This isn't really a diary...Many of us do not have a television or cable. Every time we have a debate, there are a bunch of us trying to find links that WORK to watch the debate. The last several...
View ArticleCatfood Recall for prohibited propylene glycol
The BLUE BUFFALO company has announced a recall for the following products:The product is packaged in a 2 oz., plastic stand up pouch. Only these specific code dates of this product are involved:Blue...
View ArticlePet treat recall; Blue Buffalo Cub Size Wilderness Wild Chews Bone. Sold at...
Because these are distributed at Petsmart stores in nine states (and because of the holiday season when a lot of people buy pet treats) this is a pretty big recall.FDA notice is here. (Note: FDA notice...
View ArticleWe have a choice to make. Let's make the right one.
When Paris was attacked by ISIS supporters, the result in the United States was a broad call for more air strikes against ISIS and closing our borders to Syrian refugees. The recent killings/murders in...
View ArticleSan Bernadino rifles used in killings purchased by friend
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that two semiautomatic weapons used by the San Bernardino couple who killed 14 people were purchased by a friend at the request of killer Syed Farook. The article...
View ArticleBringing cheer to those alone
Every year, Christmas is different. This year, sick for weeks with some kind of crud rendering me sick and tired of being sick, I am staying home. Though I am the only human here, I have plenty of good...
View ArticleBundyBunch bunch built a road at the refuge yesterday
Heartbreaking.xToday the #bundymilitia made this road within the refuge. #oregonstandoffpic.twitter.com/uRJrIYZLNX— Amanda Peacher (@amandapeacher) January 15, 2016Apparently, the road was built...
View ArticleBundyBunch member Robert "LaVoy" Finicum (aka TarpMan) has foster kids...
According to OPB News, one of our favorite BundyBunch characters, LeVoy Finicum, perhaps best known as a blob with a gun beneath a blue tarp at the currently illegally occupied Malheur Wildlife Refuge...
View ArticleMoo(re) bad news for BundyBunch
If timing is everything, the BundyBunch just got a swift cow kick by a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against a Nevada Ranching family:Siding with the government in a decades-old battle over...
View ArticleUS 395 at US 20 Closed near Malheur; Looks like something may be happening,...
Not a lot of substantiation at present…And I hope someone else will write about this, but KOIN is reporting it, and livestream is here: livestream.com/… Though I am having trouble staying on line....
View ArticleAmerican loons called to Burns, Oregon to protest FBI, State Trooper actions...
The insanity continues, and unfortunately it is now, again, aimed at Burns, Oregon.The Pacific Patriots Network (I will not link to their page) have issued a call for “any and all Americans” to head to...
View ArticleFleeing terrorists leave everything behind at refuge
When word got back to the refuge that Ammon Bundy et. al. had been captured, and a person shot and killed, on their way to a propaganda meeting in Grant County, the brave at the refuge jumped ship....
View ArticleWhere oh where is Mel Bundy?
Did you know that Daddy Cliven now has three sons in jail?--Ammond Bundy--Ryan Bundy--Cliven Lance BundyThat last one, daddy’s namesake, is probably a new name to you. It was to me.Federal agents...
View ArticleJailbirds wonder 'should I stay or should I go'?
xYouTube VideoYesterday brought Grand Jury indictments of 16 people related to the Oregon refuge standoff.These are the defendants named in the indictments: Ammon Bundy, 40, of Emmett, Idaho; Jon...
View ArticleConspiracists, loons, nuts, militia flocking to Kanab, Utah for Finicum funeral
Some just can’t help themselves...xIt was inevitable......................... #Oregonstandoffpic.twitter.com/wlAnX634TX— Karin Hildebrand (@Karimala1) February 5, 2016Prior to the service, this nut...
View ArticleWatch out, Burns. Incoming.
In new news, retired Graham County, Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack (here and here) is heading to Burns, Oregon on 12 February. Mack is the founder of the very right wing Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace...
View ArticleFry from the hovel, Ammon from Jail and how you, too, can become a judge
When last we left off Saturday, PopTart and the three Loons had been quiet (mostly) for a few days. It seems he must have found a burner phone or two, because he was able to get two statements out...
View ArticleAttention Portland, Oregon: Incoming. Crazy Nevada Assemblywoman Fiore to...
QueenLoonie of Nevada, Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, will be visiting Portland, Oregon to protest the Bundy arrests and to ask for the release of additional audio and video tape of the shooting of LaVoy...
View ArticleBreaking: Conflict at the refuge ongoing now.
Ongoing situation at the refuge between FBI and PopTart + Four. Sounds very tense. It’s live on You Tube: xYouTube VideoUPDATE: The call is being broadcast by a Patriot type, so you are hearing his...
View ArticleLooks like Cliven is in some very serious do-do
I’m keeping this really short. Here’s a tweet from JJ McNab on his charges. Whew!xThe charges against Cliven Bundy. #Oregonstandoffpic.twitter.com/NSrezGOYUE— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) February 11,...
View ArticleOregon refuge may have been booby-trapped? Two more arrested, names released...
According to FBI Special Agent In Charge Greg Bretzling, and per a FBI press release, the second thing that will take place at the refuge after clearing the buildings (of people possibly hiding), the...
View Article34 page doc just slams Cliven Bundy in court; Bundy denied bail
Holy mole. I just got done reading this and all I can say is that Cliven is truly in some deep, deep poo.2-16-16 Doc 4 - U.S.A. v CLIVEN BUNDY - USA Detention Memorandum for Cliven Bundy2016-02-16 4 0...
View ArticleOregon standoff defendant Shawna Cox files eight pages of sovereign citizen...
Attention attorneys and sane people everywhere: You really don’t want to miss this one. Seriously, you don’t._______________________________________Today, Shawna Cox, one of 25 defendants charged with...
View ArticleMirror mirror on the wall, who's the dumbest of them all?
There are now so many charged in both the Oregon and Nevada Bundy conflicts it’s hard to keep track of what who is charged with. Fortunately, a brilliant Twitter chart can help (click and scroll to...
View ArticleSenate Select Committee on Intelligence statement addresses Carter Page's...
From early on, Carter Page, former Trump Campaign Advisor, has been attached to the whole Trump/Russia/RICO debacle just as Paul Manafort, a Trump campaign manager, was tied to both Russia/Ukraine....
View ArticleDare them to say it out loud
I live in a small community with a diverse political makeup. The local store owner was a Trump supporter. Several in the morning coffee klatch were as well. I’ve lived here for over 40 years, 30+ in...
View ArticleCalifornia Rep Adam Schiff: "Democrats are too nice, I'm too nice."
Tonight, Adam Schiff--who notably got the same “calm gene” as President Obama--was on Bill Mayer’s show and had some great one liners and observations about the ongoing Trump Administration/Russia...
View Article#withfewexceptions
Yesterday, in an effort to distance Trump from Russia, Trump attorneys put out the most lame (and ironic) tweet on his behalf addressing his taxes:xBREAKING: Trump lawyer: Tax returns from past 10...
View ArticleOn the 60th anniversary of King's "Give us the Ballot" speech, Ari Berman...
Today is the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Give Us The Ballot” speech. Now we face other obstacles. And millions are getting knocked off the nation’s voter roles. (I really suggest...
View ArticleLast August, republicans knew about Russian interference in our elections and...
In June 2016, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), having initially hired Irvine, California company Crowdstrike to investigate hacking dating back to the first known hack of May 2015, announced...
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