DanLog the ramblings of Daniel Pettit

I had this epiphany last week, and I can’t shake its validity. California’s Government is an unrepairable house. They have been puttying up the termite holes, tossing throw rugs over the foundation cracks and spreading potpourri to cover up the sewage leaks. Doing whatever in the moment to make things look good, instead of fixing the leaks, shoring up the foundation or exterminating the termites.

Jerry Brown was the first derelict landlord or shall I say Captain of the HMS Califtanic. he started the mess my allowing state employees to unionize. Now the Government worker unions run California government. It used to be that government employees receive generous benefit packages to compensate for a lower base pay. Now for many they make much more in both cases than the private sector. Government payroll and especially the retirement benefits attached to that are not so slowly killing the State’s economy. I see it only fitting that Jerry be the Captain when this ship sinks. With a Jerry at the helm he will undoubtedly rubber-stamp every bone the legislature tosses to the unions.

This will speed the decline, the Earth may now have until 2015, but California is right on track to go down in flames in 2012 with Jerry at the helm. I have hope for the nation but California is a lost cause. California’s government must be driven to a quick economic ruin – total and utter bankruptcy, a collapse so complete that even a 9th Circuit Judge will have no choice but to render all employment contracts invalid. Only upon this complete razing of California can we begin anew, to rise up a functional, rational state built on personal responsibility instead of selfishness and foolish emotionalism.

I love and care for California and her citizens, so I will be voting accordingly on the propositions. I’m only looking for a collapse of the state government not the whole state so a yes vote on 23 and a No on 25 are vitally important to sa…ve jobs.

19- No: Because it is poorly written and is really pointless as it is in conflict with Federal law.
20- Yes: Because the foundation is rotten.
21- No: No new taxes for anything. Starve Sacramento
22- Yes: Force Sacramento to stop the budget parlor tricks.
23- Yes: This is already pretty simple if you bother to read the text instead of the false TV ads but I can make it even simpler. A yes vote will keep BEER LEGAL!
24- No: No new or higher taxes
25- No: This is a big fake out by Sacramento, do you really think they won’t get paid. A gimmick proposition to make raising taxes more palatable.
26- Yes: Will keep Sacramento more honest and will Starve the Sacramento beast.
27- No: The voters already spoke on this because Sacramento can’t be trusted. We already

obamacare-chart, originally uploaded by Daniel Pettit.

This seems pretty straight forward and cost efficient.

RockHarbor :: Campus Update July 2010
Featured in this video is Stephanie Byerly who is no stranger to following God’s heed. She “just happened” to be the person sitting next to me on my first visit to RockHarbor proper. On that Sunday, a little over two years ago, during worship I was planning which church I was going to tryout the next week as RockHarbor was too big for my comfort level. After the service she shared with me that she had been compelled to pray for me the whole service and asked if she could now. I shared a bit of my story, which included my accepting Christ the previous week on Good Friday. She prayed for me and then drug me off meet Shambrook, they prayed for me. Pete got the abbreviated story and the two of them prayed for me again. Needless to say I was feeling pretty good as I left RockHarbor that morning, and thought to myself, I think I’ll give them another try. The least of the story is I haven’t missed a weekend yet. So my RockHarbor family keep this in mind next time you have a stranger seated next to you and God starts to poke you in the side. Stephanie is the Cornerstone of my family at RockHarbor and she will always hold a special place in my heart.

I got a ridiculous deal on a 40″ Samsung LCD for me mum yesterday. So I’d been researching online last week for her new tv and I’d pretty much decided on a Samsung 120Hz 1080p nonLED, very good reviews online, I liked the USB ports etc. So Saturday I planned on actually finding one to take a first hand look. Local pricing wasn’t looking too good Best Buy $1100, WalMart $950ish, Pauls nope, Howard’s nope, Target nope, Amazon was the hands down the price leader $750 after going all the way through checkout just to find out the price. So okay Amazon is it thought I’d prefer to get it local but not at those prices. So I walk into Fry’s and they have one on display, I check the price and do a triple take. $599 WTH, is that the same model? Yep, oh wait it’s the floor model – nope. So I ring up me mum and ask if I can just get it now while the getting is good. So I did, bought a pivoting arm drove to her house and was able to install it then and there only because I just happened to have 4 carriage bolts that would work for the job and the bracket happened to work on on her bookcase without modification, something that I had always planned on having to do. So for whatever reason it seems that God wanted my mom to have her new tv yesterday and to save a chunk of change for good measure.

Img_7645a, originally uploaded by Daniel Pettit.

This illustration by Heather Lara was one of my favorites from the fine arts competition.

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IMG_17000, originally uploaded by Daniel Pettit.

17,000th photo with my Canon 30D today at the Dana Point Concours d’ Elegance

First a Republican in Kennedy’s seat now this. Satan must be in the market for a winter parka. So is the city of Boston going to boycott Massachusetts now?   http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/05/mass_senate_pas.html