Sunday, May 31, 2009

SUNDAYS ARE FOR SILLY DOGS mit SUNGLASSES -ALLITERATION YA KNOW...Wayne.


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NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD PEOPLE TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY!

Saturday, May 30, 2009

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA: LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN, FALLING DOWN...


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NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD PEOPLE TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY!



It is not just money but the gross immorality that California represents: sexual promiscuity, not intimacy; abortions and divorce rule the day and have decimated the nucleus of our families and the"American Dream"; the lack of mutual respect between citizens on the streets and on the freeways; the literal internal daily massacre between our police and the impoverished "outliers" in our society -the homeless, the victimless criminals, the mentally ill, the shoplifters, the drug addicts and our countless hopeless peoples. There no longer is a wall street or a main street. Our children have become obsessed by and addicted to text messaging: the loving counsel of grandparents has been replaced by a very sick teenage culture with no viable hope for the future. These young people choose to numb themselves with the mediocrity of cyberspace and Facebook. Facebook? Please, what a proverbial joke and sham. It should be called Fluffbook...! 

Please remember that we are the not the first global superpower to fall from God's graces to bite the dust (that is the result of a nuclear conflagration: the conservative Christian majority calls this "rapture," of all things), but we may be the last...The final solution in this fuzzy math equation is that we did it to ourselves.

We have only precious little time to make this equation balance out: END WAR TODAY!

Wayne Dennis Kurtz.



London Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down.
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady!

Build it up with iron bars,
Iron bars, iron bars.
Build it up with iron bars,
My fair lady!

Iron bars will bend and break,
Bend and break, bend and break.
Iron bars will bend and break,
My fair lady!

Build it up with needles and pins,
Needles and pins, needles and pins.
Build it up with needles and pins,
My fair lady!

Pins and needles rust and bend,
Rust and bend, rust and bend.
Pins and needles rust and bend,
My fair lady!

Build it up with penny loaves,
Penny loaves, penny loaves.
Build it up with penny loaves,
My fair lady!

Penny loaves will tumble down,
Tumble down, tumble down.
Penny loaves will tumble down,
My fair lady!

Build it up with silver and gold,
Silver and gold, silver and gold.
Build it up with silver and gold,
My fair lady!

Gold and silver I’ve not got,
I’ve not got, I’ve not got.
Gold and silver I’ve not got,
My fair lady!

Here's a prisoner I have got,
I have got, I have got.
Here’s a prisoner I have got,
My fair lady!

What's the prisoner done to you,
Done to you, done to you?
What’s the prisoner done to you,
My fair lady!

Stole my watch and broke my chain,
Broke my chain, broke my chain.
Stole my watch and broke my chain,
My fair lady!

What'll you take to set him free,
Set him free, set him free?
What’ll you take to set him free,
My fair lady!

One hundred pounds will set him free,
Set him free, set him free.
One hundred pounds will set him free,
My fair lady!

One hundred pounds we have not got,
Have not got, have not got.
One hundred pounds we have not got,
My fair lady!

Then off to prison he must go,
He must go, he must go.
Then off to prison he must go,
My fair lady! 

Friday, May 29, 2009

IS IT THIS? ARE WE HUMAN BEINGS ALL LIARS?...

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NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD PEOPLE TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY!

SHALL WE ALL HOLD HANDS WHEN THE NUCLEAR BOMBS FALL AROUND US?

WILL THERE EVER BE A POINT-IN-TIME WHEN WE COLLECTIVELY ADMIT OUR MISTAKES IN THIS LIFE, OUR FOLLIES?

OR, DO WE STUBBORNLY HOLD ON TO OUR OUTRIGHT LIES AND SELF-APPOINTED NARCISSISM WHILE WE SPEED INTO NUCLEAR CONFLAGRATION?

WHY ARE WE ALL LIKE STUBBORN TEENAGERS WHO LIVE RECKLESSLY AND SOMEHOW EXPECT THIS PLANET TO KEEP ABSORBING OUR GROSS MISGIVINGS?

WHEN WILL WE GROW UP?

WHEN WILL WE LISTEN TO THE TRUTH?

SOMEHOW, WE ARE ALL LIARS...

Wayne Dennis Kurtz.


CALIFORNIA HAS LOST ITS STATUS AS THE GOLDEN STATE: SHAMEFUL.

http://web.mac.com/videopalitalia/iWeb/Site/Photos.html

NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD PEOPLE TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY!

CALIFORNIA HAS BECOME THIS NATION'S PROVING GROUND FOR STATE GOVERNMENTS TURNING THEIR COLLECTIVE BACKS ON THE POOR, THE MIDDLE CLASS, THE SICK, THE ELDERLY, THE INJURED WORKER, THE STRUGGLING STUDENTS, THE DISENFRANCHISED, THE UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE OF COLOUR, THE MENTALLY ILL AND THE SO-CALLED "MINORITIES."

Wayne Dennis Kurtz.

California could be the first state to cut student aid while hiking fees

BreeAnna Banks and SharRon Banks
Alex Gallardo / Los Angeles Times
High school senior BreeAnna Banks, 17, with mother SharRon Banks, had been counting on her Cal Grant to help with college costs. “This is taking away many people’s opportunity to become something in life,” she said.
Governor's plan would eliminate Cal Grants for 118,000 freshmen and cancel increases promised for 82,255 other students.
By Gale Holland 
May 29, 2009
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to dismantle the Cal Grant program would make California the first state in the recession-battered nation to eliminate student financial aid while raising college tuition, experts said this week.

"Other states are cutting back, but not a complete phase-out," said Haley Chitty, communications director for the National Assn. of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

 
The governor's proposal would end all new Cal Grants, eventually eliminating the state's main financial aid program for college students, and prevent existing awards from increasing. Grants awarded to 118,000 freshmen starting college in the fall would be canceled, as well as hikes in 82,255 continuing awards promised when the University of California and California State University raised fees this month by 10% and 9.3%, respectively.

At the University of California, among other options, students with university grants could see some of their money shifted to those who have lost Cal Grants, officials said. California State University and schools in the California Community Colleges System have yet to decide how to respond to the potentially devastating aid cuts, they said. The proposal would save an estimated $173 million in 2009-10 and $450 million in 2010-11, state officials said.

The Cal Grant program has existed in some form since the mid-1950s and was expanded in 2000 to cover virtually all low-income graduates of state high schools attending private or public two-year or four-year colleges or career institutes, officials said.

Higher education policy analysts rank the program among the best in the nation, both for its generosity -- top awards can cover full fees or tuition at public colleges -- and its focus on mainly low-income students in a state with an increasingly poor college-age population.

Until Schwarzenegger's plan was announced, it expected that 280,798 students would receive Cal Grants during the 2009-10 academic year.

"Why the poorest would take a double hit, I don't know," said Patrick M. Callan, president of the San Jose-based National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. "It makes no sense."

H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the state's Department of Finance, said the governor took "no pleasure" in his plan and was open to other ideas. "We have been forced to put forward proposals that would have been unthinkable even a few short months ago," Palmer said.

Some observers asked whether the governor was using the popular Cal Grant program as a bargaining chip to get the Democratic-controlled Legislature to make other concessions. But state and higher education officials said the program really could be axed, if only because the alternatives are even more dire. "This is not a test," said Palmer.

"We're taking it very seriously," said Jonathan Brown, president of the Assn. of Independent California Colleges and Universities.

Some educators said the cutbacks would wipe out any gains from federal stimulus money for higher education.

Because the potential effect is so sweeping, those interviewed said, it's hard to assess how students might respond, but they may have to work more, live at home, go more deeply into debt or beseech their families for further sacrifices.

But at least one student said she could run out of options.

BreeAnna Banks, 17, of Carson had been counting on her $1,500 Cal Grant award to help with her plans to enter Mount St. Mary's College in downtown Los Angeles as a freshman in August.

Her father is a Boeing mechanic, and her mother, SharRon Banks, is a homemaker raising seven children, including four the family adopted because their birth mother couldn't care for them. Two of the children are disabled and need medicine, and the family just emerged from a bad loan foreclosure drama that sent their house payments soaring.

"We were eating rice and pot pies," SharRon Banks said.

BreeAnna said her family has only one car, so commuting is out, the college is tapped out of aid and loans could be hard to get.

"I understand California needs money . . . but this is taking away many people's opportunity to become something in life," she said.

"People in my community look around and say college must just be for people who have a lot of money. Maybe they feel Cal Grant is not a big factor in going to college, but it is.

"And I really want to go."

gale.holland@latimes.com