Your Children at Play

So where are the parents?

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The Meteor Strikes At Midnight

California citizens are already one of the most highly taxed in the USA, and it's about to get worse.

Starting Wednesday, California's sales tax will rise to 6 percent, bringing the average local sales tax rate to almost 9 percent — one of the highest in the nation.

More [here]

Don't forget to thank your representatives that have overspent, overbarrowed and have raised taxes at at time when it is the most damaging. Next time you go to the polls, remember how much less you have, and yes, vote with your pocket.

Hurry up, and buy that expensive new car, or computer before the stroke of midnight. Riverside County sales tax is going up to 8.75% an increase of whole percent.

The obamanation

Is Neagleria Fowleri guilty of murder?

In the twenty year plus that I have lived in the the Temecula valley, I have always heard people refer to Lake Elsinore (the body of water) as a dirty and smelly place where even the fish has trouble living in it. However, an amoeba known as Naegleria Fowleri may have found a home here. Naegleria sounds like a chic Italian shoe designer, but no, it is actually deadly single cell vermin.

The family of a 9-year old boy is seeking over a million dollars in compensation from the City of Elsinore for the boy's death attributed to the deadly amoeba. Sad that this boy died, but a million dollars?

The amoeba is found in freshwater lakes and ponds that are warm and, upon entering a person's system through the nasal cavity, it can cause an infection that leads to death within three to seven days, health officials say. However, not everyone exposed to the amoeba is affected and the infection is very rare, the officials said.

More [here].

Water Troubles in the IE

If you live in the Inland Empire you are most likely used to seeing those brown lawns from all the foreclosures and abandoned homes. It has become a reality of life in this economic downturn, but things are about to get a little browner.

Starting March 1, customers served by Eastern Municipal Water District, including 130,000 households in Moreno Valley, Hemet and unincorporated areas, will be required to stop hosing down driveways, water lawns only at night or in the early morning, and prevent landscape irrigation from creating runoff. More [here].

The drought in California is only made worst in Southern California by Northern California cutting its supply of water by about 30% due to some fish that requires protection in the delta. Fuck people!!!

How about the water that is underneath us, plenty of it, in aquifers? Yes, it may be contaminated with one thing or another...but can it be treated and made potable for for human consumption?

Holy cow...I mean cats and dogs

This from the Press Enterprise -

200 dead dogs, cats found at Temecula home

Sat, Jan 24, 2009

Authorities found the bodies of 200 cats and dogs stored in trash bags at a Temecula home Friday and had to put down 100 feral animals that were running wild.

More than 300 cats and dogs had control of a mobile home on the Liefer Road, said Willa Bagwell, executive director of Animals Friends of The Valley.

"I've never seen this many animals and animals this feral," said Bagwell, whose career in animal control work spans 21 years.

In all, authorities were able to save nine puppies that are about 8 weeks old and a 10-year-old dog. The dog and the puppies will be put up for adoption, she said.

Temecula police arrested 66-year old Elisao Gilbert Jimenez, who was booked into the Southwest Detention Center on suspicion of animal cruelty, according to a department news release.

This guy is sick. If he is here illegally lets not spend a penny in trying to cure him...deport him!

Cornerstone Sunday

This morning, I am off to an early service at Cornerstone Community Church in Wildomar. I started attending Cornerstone a little before the holidays; it is close to home and conveniently located to my other secular Sunday activities. The service is quick, and Pastor Ron Armstrong prides himself in being able to deliver a one hour sermon in half-an-hour, and he does it by talking at an unbelievable speed. It is like running in to a fast food joint and all you can have is the $1 burger, in the end you are still eager for more. Apparently spiritual fast food is not bad business; the church is thriving with more than 4,000 members catered to a couple of Sunday services, plus countless activities during the week. I will admit however, that the church has some of the best greeters around. There is one gentleman, with the strangest sandy red hair and the broadest grin, and the neatest pressed guayabera, with a mission not miss saying hello to any worshiper coming through his side of the entrance. I look forward to seeing this guy out there every Sunday, he makes me feel welcomed.
Pastor Armstrong has not given as sermon in the last several Sundays, he and his family have been in mourning. You may have heard that his son, Ryan Armstrong was stabbed to death in a Temecula bar right after the Christmas Holiday. The satisfying news is that the swine that actually committed the stabbing was finally capture in Vista, California. In spite of this, I see a church that remains strong, resolute and hopeful in the business of God.