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THE BEACH PIT BBQ
Yes, now and then, we watch Huell Howser's California Gold. Wanna make something of it??? Okay, I didn't think so! Anyway, he was talking about good BBQ places and since our favorite place, Riley's (in Brea), went out of business last year, we've been looking for a new favorite place. When Huell did a spot on The Beach Pit BBQ in Old Town, Tustin, we paid attention. The restaurant is kinda like Philippe's, in L.A., near Union Station, but for BBQ, instead of for French dip (hmmm ... and now I want a Philippe's sandwich). It used to be a garage. Not like the one you have attached to your home, but the kind where you take your car to be repaired. They've preserved the feel of the garage, but, of course, it's much cleaner. They have a few old style booths, but mostly tables and chairs and a lot of the tall tables and stools. The music was from the 70's and was too loud, but there were only a few people in the place -- if it were full, the music might not be an issue. The BBQ meat is smoky and good. The sauce comes in mild or spicy. Everything on the menu is a little pricey. No big surprise that you're more for it being in Old Town. But they have something there that I've never had before and it was absolutely terrific. What is it? Deep friend pickles! I know, I know, it sounds gross, but that's what the photo is, at the start of this, and it's not only NOT gross, it's delicious! Thankfully, Old Town, Tustin, isn't that easy to get to from Fullerton. We have a couple of friends who live up that way and if we're out there anyway, then we might stop back at the Beach Pit BBQ. But, even for those yummy fried pickles, I don't see us making the trip out there solely to eat at this place again. wwwww The Trials of Living in Fairway Village Continue - The Never Ending Drama of Association Living Ah, the joys of living in a community association, in the state of California ... or, for that matter, in any state in the U.S., or so I've heard. Truly, you'd have more rights, living on foreign soil, than you'll ever have living in a community association. Certainly, foreigners have more rights living on our soil than Americans have, living in our community associations. They sound so wonderfully ... well, communal LOL. In fact, they're anything but. They're run by a Board of Directors, which is made up of your neighbors. Sounds okay, huh? Just remember that, at some point in time, even Adolf Hitler had a neighbor or two. And if you want to see how he used to run things, just wait and see what happens to your "friendly" neighbors once they've been given a little bit of power. Currently, in our little piece of heaven, the president of the board, who isn't supposed to be doing anything but chairing the meetings and voting to break ties, is harassing and haranguing the rest of the board members into doing his bidding - putting HIM, in fact, in charge of everything. That'd be a bad idea if he actually knew what the devil he was doing, but since he doesn't ... well, you fill in the blanks. It's on the other board members, for letting him get away with it, but still ... (Sound familiar? Sort of like a President "directing" another branch of our government into doing what he wants them to do - defeating the purpose of having separate branches of government altogether). CLICK HERE read about the latest fiasco wrought by the board of directors of just one of the dozens of these little pieces of Hell on earth ... wwwww GOT A BOOK ON CD THAT YOU'VE ALREADY UPLOADED TO YOUR IPOD? Bet you've got at least one DVD that's been doing nothing but collecting dust, too. Why not swap them for something you haven't listened to yet, or for something you haven't seen? This is the place where I "swap" books on CD. If you want an audio book that someone else has, they pay the postage to send it to you. If someone else wants an audio book that you have, you pay the postage (usually media rate) to send it to them. Obviously, you can swap paperback books, too. And you can swap hardback and books on cassette tapes as well. You should click the logo below and go take a look at what they have to offer ... If you decide to sign up for any of the sites below, please tell them that Sandi@LoisDailyPlanet.com referred you. Thanks!
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HEADLINES HERE'S AN EASY MONEY GRAB FOR THE DEMOCRATS ... THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE THRILLED! (And I'll take a "finders fee" of 1% of all of the additional tax revenue that will be raked in because of this idea, thank you very much. These neo-Democrats are used to paying people off - this shouldn't be hard for them to do.) Anyone who has ever worked around illegal aliens knows one thing ... they DO NOT put ANYTHING into our system, if there's any way at all that they can avoid it. All the rhetoric about "these poor people", paying taxes, supporting the infrastructure and, because they're illegal, getting nothing in return is the biggest pile of baloney ever ... and I know how to prove it. Unfortunately for me, doing that means giving the neo-Democrats more money to piss away, thrilling the devil out of them, which means that it'll be the best thing for them, ever, because they're full to the brim of, well, brimstone. What determines how much of our hard earned money gets taken out of our paycheck and sent to the state and federal government each pay period? The answer is that a number of things impact how big a bite various government agencies take out of our paychecks ... but it starts with the employee and the paperwork that each employee gives to their employer. How many deductions/dependents do you claim on the W4 paperwork that you've filed with your employer? I'm guessing that you only claim two or three, even if you're married and even if you have children, because you don't want to get caught short on April 15th and end up having to pony up more of your hard earned money. The government is like 15th century physicians ... and it just seems to hurt less if they bleed you a little at a time, instead of just slicing open a vein and taking everything at once. But, every single one of you who have ever kept books knows that our illegal friends have no intention of paying anything at all to any of our government agencies, if they can manage it, so they take the largest allowable number of deductions, which is meant to permit the poorest of our citizens to keep food on the table for their children. That number, by the way, is nine. NINE. How many couples do you know who have at least seven children and make so little money that they can afford to take nine deductions on their W4 forms? Yeah, I thought so. Why, then, are there thousands and thousands of employees claiming nine dependents? The simple fact is that anyone claiming all nine dependents should automatically be a red flag, but since it isn't, then let's make it easier for the numbskulls in government to figure it out. GET RID OF IT. Only allow two or three dependents on a W4. Period. That would mean that the employer of illegal aliens HAS to withhold more taxes from each pay period. And that would mean money coming in to both the state and federal government - for the first time - from the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who have never before paid a penny to the states they're bleeding dry or to the federal government who is protecting them while they do it. What about actual American citizens, who really need those nine deductions? They can apply for payroll tax relief. If they can withstand an audit, conducted by an actual person (no submitting forms - you have to meet someone, face to face - so here you go, neo-Democrats, you can "create" more jobs by hiring more government employees to deal with these audits), who will be checking the validity of the birth certificates of the children who are being claimed, then they get their nine deductions. And, because they ARE American citizens, they'll have no problem with presenting their "documents", because we've all had to do it for years ... to get driver's licenses, to get our children into school, to get our children into various sports programs, for all kinds of things. And, as I keep saying, American citizens never think twice about producing those documents when requested to do so. Because reasonable requests for documentation are never considered "racist" by American citizens ... only by those people who are in someone else's country, illegally, or who are protecting the people who are in someone else's country illegally. The border states, especially, will benefit greatly from the additional income, because they're actually being bankrupted by people who aren't paying their fair share. But, in the end, every state will benefit and so will our debt-ridden federal government. Oh, c'mon ... you KNOW that Obama's Congress would just LOVE to have some REAL money that they can say they've generated because they think that will entitle them to keep spending the country into more debt. Sure, I'd rather send illegal aliens back to wherever they came from. But since Obama's Congress is never going to let that happen, then let's at least stop pretending that the leaches aren't sucking our blood and, instead, "help" them learn how this country actually works by introducing them to the joy of paying their way (via getting taxed), just like the rest of us. wwwww GO ARIZONA!
Thank God I live in Orange County! Living in Los Angeles County would just be too humiliating. First, the city of Los Angeles gets on its high horse and VERY PUBLICLY passes a boycott on another state (Arizona), over a law that has nothing whatsoever to do with them because it applies only to that other state. Then, with apparently no idea of how shallow and self-centered it makes them look, the city council promptly AND QUIETLY go about passing "exceptions" to their boycott, so that they don't have to miss out on taking trips to Arizona for seminars and/or be in breach of contract with regard to things that are being made there - instead of in their own state, whose economy could use the business, thank you very much - and/or for whatever else might inconvenience them the tiniest little bit. Meanwhile, Obama's government is suing Arizona, for passing a law that will allow them to enforce an existing Federal law that the government refuses to enforce. I know ... poor illegal aliens. They need our rights more than we do. According to the AP: "An Associated Press-GfK poll this month found that 85 percent of people now rank immigration as an important issue, and about half disapprove of how Obama has handled it." I'm screaming into the wind, I know. Regardless of which side you're on, you've already made up your mind. Just one question .... Are you an American citizen? If you're pulled over by a police officer, whether you think you've done anything wrong or not, what's the first thing he asks you to do? He asks you to produce your papers ... "License and registration", he will say. And do you ask him to wait a minute because you have to call a civil rights attorney first, or do you just hand over your papers? Yeah,
I thought so. Apparently, asking to see any kind of papers is only
discrimination if you're a thief who sneaked into someone else's house, which is
exactly what people who come across the border illegally have done. The
rest of us just hand over the papers the officers ask for, because that's what
honest people do.
wwwwwwwwww KEEP IT TO YOURSELF
A while ago I finished listening (on my iPod) to a short story that was
written by Orson Scott Card. There was a chapter at the end, read by the
author, telling how the idea for this particular story came to him. And
before I knew it, a man whose work I'd been enjoying for quite some time told me
more about himself than I ever wanted to know. The
days of these people permitting the rest of us to believe about them whatever illusions
have been spun by their industry, or in our own minds, are long
gone! It's no longer enough for the actor to be famous for acting, the
singer for singing or the author for writing. Now, they want us to know
everything about their personal lives and love them for that as well as
for whatever else it is that they do. The problem is that most of these
people are broken in some way and even if they're among the few who aren't, I
don't want to be a part of the reality of their life -- I have my own reality to
deal with! I only want to be able to enjoy the fantasy they create.
That fantasy is what I pay for when I buy the movie, the CD or the audiobook. So
I blame myself for the loss of this author because I know better than to listen
to any artist or celebrity. But blaming myself for not hitting the
"pause" button when I should have doesn't make me any less angry over
the fact that I'll never be able to look (or listen) to anything this man writes
the same way again. In truth, I doubt I'll ever again purchase anything
else he writes or has written ... something for which I'd like to smack him -
HARD - right upside the head! What I
desperately need these people to do is their job, whatever it may be ... act,
sing, write, whatever, and then just SHUT UP AND GO AWAY. They
always act as if they're spitting out a bad clam when they say the word
"fan" anyway, so why should piping down and getting the hell out of
Dodge when they're finished with whatever they were doing be so hard for them? wwwww
Winston Churchill once said: "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of
ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of
misery." wwwww
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A DIFFERENT KIND OF BUCKET LIST This is a list of things that I hope I live long enough to see and that, in fact, I would gladly PAY TO SEE. It only has a couple of items on it now, but it will grow ... never fear! Item One: No more Mary Carrillo on my TV set! I would happily PAY to not have to listen to Mary Carrillo's voice commentating another tennis match. In fact, I don't want to see her commentating anything, period, since NBC has now begun to insinuate her into whatever coverage it's offering at the moment, even though she obviously knows nothing about any of it. She's the queen of talking about anything other than what's going on. In the middle of a great tennis match, she'll launch into a name-dropping story of a match that took place 20 years ago. I've had medical procedures that were more pleasant than having to listen to even ten minutes of a Mary Carrillo commentary! Item One "B" Let's add Rachael Maddow to the above list. The mess in the gulf is less toxic than that woman and a top operates with less spin than she does. Sadly for me, I'm actually acquainted with someone who could be her clone and, no exaggeration, being around her makes me physically ill. No, I'm not going to go into why I feel that way. If you don't feel the same way that I do, then you're the one who hasn't done their homework and is therefore being lead down the garden path to the pretty little place where they put the sheep down on their sides and then slit their throats. My days of trying to get people to stop playing "follow the leader" and actually research and think things through for themselves are over. You'll just have to figure this one out for yourself. Or not ... up to you how you choose to see the world, but better keep the Super Glue handy - I've heard it works real well for quickly closing gaping wounds. Item Two: Obama? Zip it! Never, in my entire life, have I ever been so sick of hearing the name of the President of the United States as I am now. I would love to have just a single day without having to hear the name, "Obama." This man cannot seem to stop spouting his campaign lies as regularly as Old Faithful and most of the media people can't seem to remove their lips from his behind long enough to report on anything other than what he thinks, what he says and/or what he might think or say. I know what's wrong with the environment ... it's been poisoned by the tons of yellow paper and ink that have been poured into it by the journalists who are too stupid to know who Hearst was, but who worship at his feet, just the same. Stop turning that funny color and withdraw your fangs, all of you neo-Democrats! I've been a Democrat since before I was old enough to vote and I've been an American citizen my entire life. Until the day that you manage to get away with socializing the entire country AND take away what rights I still have left, I'm entitled to my own opinion. And THIS is my opinion: I'm sick of hearing about Obama. Live with it. I never thought the day would come when I'd actually consider being a Republican, but that day has come, and this - in a nutshell - is why ... If the Republicans held enough power to be able to shove through a bill permitting them to cut down national forests, in order to drill for oil, they wouldn't mandate that the entire country be required to watch them do it AND THEN mandate that the entire country be REQUIRED to buy a gallon of the resulting gasoline, or be FINED, TAXED and MALIGNED for not wanting to participate in something with which they had no part because they did not believe that it was the right thing to do in the first place. All of which is why I no longer say "I'm a Democrat" (and, by the standards set by people like Nancy Pelosi, who is, as far as I can see, the Delores Umbridge of Washington, I'm really not one anyway) -- because all today's Democrats want to do is mandate us to do their bidding, require us to do their bidding, fine us if we don't do their bidding, tax us to pay for doing their bidding, malign anyone who isn't as flat out batty as they've become and lie about all of it on their way out the door. Item three: For the love of God, turn down the volume! Let's start with the commercials on TV, move on to the so-called "background" music on the TV shows themselves and finish in the movie theaters. It's all too damn loud! Honestly, I literally can't hit "mute" fast enough to prevent the assault on my ears from TV commercials. Which kind of works out, in a backwards sort of way, because the networks have begun cranking up the volume of their "background" music, particularly in the moments just before a commercial -- so the minute the already-too-loud background music starts to liquefy my brain, I automatically hit "mute" because I know the commercial is coming. And when you see people, young and old, putting in ear plugs when they go to the movies, isn't that a clue that things have gotten out of hand? The government steps in and makes people who work with certain types of machinery wear ear protection, but it's a-ok for a production company to deafen thousands of people at a time in a movie theater? What's with that? Item Four: Advertising in the form of "previews" on DVDs ... I used to think that I'd be a pretty good lawyer, and there are still moments when I wish that I'd given into the urge to study law. I experience one of those moments every single time I have to sit through 20 minutes of "previews" before I can watch a DVD that I've paid good money to rent. If I were a lawyer, I'd have gotten a class action lawsuit going by now, to both make the distributors of the DVDs give the viewer the option to opt OUT of watching the previews AND to return to the millions of people who have already had to sit through them a portion of their rental fees. It's bad enough that the cable channels have reneged on their "pay for cable TV and you'll never have to watch another commercial again" promise. Now the entertainment industry has got consumers paying to sit through what are essentially studio/distributor ads, in the form of 20 minutes worth of previews, before they're permitted to watch the movie for which they've shelled out their hard earned money - all the while crying, "poor me" and claiming that everyone is stealing from them. We're the ones who are getting ripped off! I start the DVD, then do something else for another half an hour before I sit down to watch it ... but I shouldn't have to go to that trouble because they shouldn't be able to attempt to steal precious minutes of my life. It's a crime, plain and simple, and one with which they've been getting away for so long that they've come to believe it's their due. I say end it now. And since we obviously cannot rely on them to simply do the right thing of their own accord, let's sue the bastards! wwwww |
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