Prop 8

'Prop 8 Irony'
This morning I went outside to pick up my morning paper and noticed that someone
had torn my Yes on Prop 8 sign into pieces and dumped a yard full of liter on my
property. In Modesto, a man passing out Yes on Prop 8 signs was assaulted, left with a bloodied face that required stitches and his assailant stealing 75 of his signs.
There are reports of Prop 8 related vandalism at churches in California. According to the Yes on Prop 8 Committee, over 50 Yes on Prop 8 signs are stolen or destroyed in Vacaville each day. Removing or destroy campaigns signs from personal property is a misdemeanor and being in possession of a stolen campaign sign is a felony.
What is it with some of you No on Prop 8 people? Talk about irony. A group that calls for tolerance and civil rights is resorting to theft, vandalism and assault. Nothing like an initiative to bring out the true colors of some folks.
Many years ago in high school I took a debate class. The words of our teacher still
ring true: Whenever the debate changes from a discussion of the issues to personal
assaults on the debater, the debate is lost. Unfortunately, I see little discussion of issues
from many of the No on Prop 8 folks. Often their sole response to the issues presented is to call their opponents homophobic, bigots, and ignorant.
I guess since name calling is not working, then they are hoping that vandalism,
stealing, and assault will get them more votes. How many more crimes must we endure in the name of tolerance? Regardless of the outcome of the election, the criminal actions of these No on Prop 8 folks is a sure indicator that you have already lost.
-Danny Wells
Vacaville, CA'


My Prop 8 sign was taken from my yard a few weeks back....Just wanted to share

Joe the Plumber

We spent a lovely afternoon yesterday with a nice plumber named Joe, short for Joseph. I can thank Abigail for meeting such a famous man...well, his name is famous :) She flushed a baby doll blanket down the upstairs toilet and backed up the whole upstairs plumbing. I now have a large hole in my garage ceiling and drywall to clean up. The garage smells like an old moldy hotel. All this fun only cost me $365 dollars. And so today I am being unproductive. I am wasting my time reading articles on the internet, like this one I haven't done the dishes, cleaned the house or anything related to doing housework. I put leftover pizza in the kids lunch and I'm letting Abigail use watercolors to paint, with out stressing over the mess she will more than likely create. I filled out my vote by mail ballot and will mail it today so my vote will count. Sarah will be so proud of me. (even though I didn't vote for her man Obama)

Election

I was sent this video from a friend of mine. It was very inspiring to me and thought I would share it here. And another one that relates to why Prop 8 is so very important to the people of California.





It is time to vote, what a great privilege we have to vote our conscience without fear of government telling us who and what we need to vote for.

The housing bust..

I'm just a little irked at the moment. I've heard about all I can stand about how the government has caused the financial fiasco we are in at the moment. I think people are forgetting their personal responsibility that help to create the big load of garbage dropping on all of our heads. We moved to Stockton in 2003 because it was the last place we could afford to buy a house and it was 90 miles one way to Thor's job. New home developments were everywhere and people were lining up to buy a home. Most of these people came to buy investment property, driving home prices higher than the local economy could afford. In 2 years, homes very similar to ours were selling for $600,000. People who had bought earlier and had thousands of dollars in equity, pulled out that money and bought big, expensive cars and went to Disneyland :) Our neighbors who had children close in age to mine, fell victim to this. They pulled out all the equity they had, refinanced into ARMS and then had to leave their home when they couldn't sell for what they owned. The house sat empty for over a year. I'm not that good with math but even I know you can't afford a $600,000 home making $65,000 a year. Good ol' greed caused this problem. Greed from the banks wanting to make money by selling their mortgages to Wall Street, greed on Wall Street to make even more money, and even greed from the buyers. They gambled on the fact they could flip the house and make so much, they could afford a new house with the money made on the old house. So now we are stuck with the 700B bailout, all because too many people wanted to make a fast buck.