Loewe's in Tuolumne County

With all this hub-bub about Loewe’s, the proposed County Law Enforcement/Administration center, it leaves one to wonder who is sleeping with who in the Administrative, Judicial and Property Ownership arena.

I mean, after all. It was just about 4 months after the closing of TGH, that the county thought up the idea of the new Law Enforcement Complex. (What, we can’t provide health care, but can provide incarceration?) TGH had a negative $900 M / year deficit. The new law enforcement center will only cost upwards of $266 M. Hmmm.

And now we find the care from our sole provider is mediocre, at best. I guess when you’re the only game in town you can be the best you want to be.

And Loewe’s…anyone checked out the corporate profile lately. I wonder how they can manage to keep their doors open another day. And we are really to believe they are actively pursuing new stores.

I would suggest the wool is being pulled over the people of this county’s eyes. Already the epithet “Come here on Vacation, leave here on Probation” is being thrown around. And we are to think the state (Bankrupt, by the way) is going to provide the necessary funding for our new “lock down”.

So who is sleeping with whom? Who stands to gain the most? The people of Tuolumne County that thought they moved to
God’s Country or the unknown individuals that seem to keep things under control, at best.

Over 500, but who's counting

Just for fun, last week I counted the number of homes advertised for sale in the Democrat. It was over 500! Wow! What a market! So much to choose from.

I guess moving into "God's Country" is on hold for a number of families. Too bad.

Had we planned better, we might not have made it so attractive to Bay Area Buyer's. Maybe a little extra tax, or something. Something Supplemental. But now we have it. We have created a cute little oligarchy. Now there's a word to hold an open house on.

I didn't count the number of Real Estate professionals, but there sure are a lot of like-size heads on two pages of one company's ads. Wonder how much they make a year? Hmm.

Does no one in this county have a current photo?

It is absolutely beyond me why this paper continues to publish Obit pics, Campaign pics and other miscellaneous pictures that are consistently 20-50 years older than the person depicted.

I mean, Grandma, age 92 with a 1940 picture. Aunt Thelma, age 70 with a picture of her in her 30’s. And now the GOP VP candidate, I forget her name, with a 1992 photo.

Come on kids, it’s the digital age. 82 million digital cameras are predicted to be sold worldwide this year. Walmart will even develop the photo’s on your non-digital POS.

So what is the reason no one seem to come up with a recent photo? I heard once that your could always tell a loved child by the number of pictures in the home. Some people aren't photogenic, I give you that. The more superstitious believe a photo will steal the soul of the subject, but I don't think that holds today. I think we have just become a lazy, selfish society...pure and simple.

So shame on you readers for not taking pictures of your Great Aunt Thelma and shame on this newspaper for not insisting on recent photos.

Funny, the "County's Most Wanted" pics are current, what gives?

A Favorite Sign in Tuolumne County

These little ditties are popping up everywhere these days.

This is only the beginning.  I only wish we could go back to the late '70's and rethink the Jarvis-Gann Act.   Our counties would be stable. There would be income, life just might be grand.

So more about these photo's

Let's see.  It just dawned on me that during our last Supervisor's race we had conflicting pictures of Mr. Torchia (one twenty years younger than the other...will the real Mr. Torchia please stand up) and the inimitable Liz Bass in a visor hat...yes, a visor hat.  OMG (that means OH MY GOD!)

It is absolutely unimaginable that this woman could do more to destroy any "style" or sense of fashion this morbid little community could possibly have with the campaign photo of her in a visor shading her eyes from truth and conservative spending.  You know her votes:    No, no, no!

I remember years  ago, a career counselor advised me to shave my moustache & beard and never wear shaded glasses when going for a job interview.  There is something that comes across devious, or dishonest, or disguised with such facial hair and eye shades.  And here we have two glimpses in the life of one candidate and another hidden by dark glasses and a visor.

So much for upfront honesty!

Now about that run off race!  I'm all for the tow guy. I mean, I'd actually move into District 1 to vote for him.  He, at a very early age, taught me every expletive I would ever need to know in the course of my life.  Unfortunately, my parents thought that at the age of 6 or 7, it might be a bit premature in lesson.  So, after a few brief courses, they ended.  Hmm.  I sure hope I didn't miss any.

Again, when the tow guy was a Sonora Police Officer he let me pass whilst careening down Lyons Street at 65 mph.  It would have been hell in that decrepid old jail at the age of 16.  Let's just say, "I like him!"  

Common Sense Obituaries

Ok, I give up!   Why, pray tell in the Obituaries c olumn of the local newspapers must they insert photo's of the deceased that were taken, say 60 or 70 years ago.  I don't get it.  I mean, I really don't get it.

I heard once someone said you could tell a person was loved when there were photo's around their homes and of their relatives.  Well, my God...in Tuolumne County no one must have been loved.

I give you a recent example.   La Ti Da, aged 90 - photo circa. 1940's.     Ti La Da, aged 65 - photo circa. 1980.  Even better yet are the younger folks that have high school pictures.

In the most humblest opinion of this writer, I believe a photo that accompanies a Death Notice should be reflective of the person.  Maybe when they were most active in the community, maybe recent, if it were a sudden death but none of this 50 - 80 year old photo's.  I mean, who's gonna recognize them?  Doesn't someone in the family have a photo which would resemble the deceased?

Speed Traps and Hysterical Monuments

Ain’t no two ways about it and we have one of the greatest speed traps in any of the 20 or so states I’ve been to:  That is, 55 from O’Bynes Ferry Road to J-59 turn off on 108/120.  Yup, a virtual straight-away with two nice easy turns…55 mph.  Maybe Seniors shop in the Valley on Tuesdays.

 

All in all, where else can you find some local attorney’s wife running around making every inch of downtown a Hysterical Monument, further restricting the addition of a bathroom, a heater, or possibly a toilet paper holder.  A group of High Brow Soroptomist’s (what the hell is a Soroptomist anyway, putting on a fashion show of bad outfits once a year).  A county with two radio signals (both owned the the same company mind you) playing music that had it’s hey day in 1978?  The blatant run of racism and homophobia I’ve seen in years…yes, there must be a seat between two men in a movie theater.   We must remember in the words of one of our Supervisor’s, “…we like to keep them (homosexuals) silent and scared”.How else do you have a full theater with ½ the seats full.