Journalizm

It turns out the journalists were wrong regarding the death chaos and mayhem that was reported during the days after Hurricane Katrina Struck. It now appears that there weren't any sexual assaults of children and there weren't roving gangs attacking helpless folks in Louisiana's Superdome. Chalk it up to lack of communication lines to vette stories, or whatever, the fact is that newspapers and TV reported such events, from the NY Times to FAUX News, to the LA Times. When you look back on it, it really is a non-surprise. The mainstream media has been asleep at the wheel the last five years. Really. WMD's in Iraq? Where was any journalistic investigative reporting there? It is really a pathetic time indeed to be a member of the mainstream media trying to cover today's current events. Perhaps journalists should be compelled to obtain a license to practice their craft.

Thick Fat Beast

I went surfing out at the Point in Newport yesterday. There was a thick fog and the waves were breaking well over head. The Point is a fickle left hander for the most part that breaks on a straight south swell. I never really have good luck with this left hander lately, especially how this one breaks. For the most part, my success rate with this wave is 85/20% success rate. I usually do pretty good with it. The Point though really sucks up and breaks on a sandbar, so the water is super shallow. But yesterday was one of the 20s. Although the conditions were pretty glassy, the fog was obscuring the swell, and I got a little too confident on the first two waves that came in. The third wave, I found myself in the impact zone, and on a board that was too big to punch through it so I got drilled. I don't get drilled too often but this one was a rogue that absolutely hammered me. I saw it coming out of the fog and it was just beastly, a solid 8ft wave with a thick, fat lip. It was a freighttrain. Superpowerful, nobody caught it. I paddled as hard as I could to get over it and was just at the top of the face when I tried to punch through. Didn't make it. The wave proceeded to catch me and throw me down. I didn't get thrown from the lip so it wasn't as bad as it could have been but it was pretty scary nontheless.

Since I am blind as a bat, I wear contacts and I don't open my eyes underwater, but for the most part, i can keep a good sense of which way is up relative to the position of my body. I came up and there was another wave coming in and I got thrashed again. This time though I tried to hold onto my board, which proceeded to whack me up side the head in the process. So called it a day at that spot after only 20 or so minutes out. There was a current like a river pushing toward the Newport Pier and I just really had enough of the Point. So I went and surfed 36th, which is about a mile walk down the beach. The waves were a bit more managemable but at this time I realized that I injured my back and neck. The back injury I think was a result of getting absolutely bent at Sandy's during our family trip to Oahu last month. And the neck injury I think occurred when I got whacked upside the neck. Sio today I have a stiff neck. Hurts to turn, can't look at the pretty girls anymore, just kidding. My neck is stiff and hopefully it will be better tomorrow.

Wrong man pays child support to Peterson mistress

This goes to show how promiscuous US society is.

Cnn Story

Amber Frey, the woman who had an affair with Scott Peterson during the time he was plotting his wife and unborn son's murder, announced that the father of her four year old daughter is actually not the father, even though he has been paying $400 a month for the last four years. Her Attorney, Gloria Allred had to announce to the media that Amber, in good faith, believed that the man was indeed the father of her child when in fact a DNA test proved that he was not the father of her child.

That is straight out of Maury or Jerry Springer. I mean what kind of woman would do that to a man, claim he is the father when in fact he wasn't? Could it be an honest mistake, as Frey's attorney claimed? The woman just couldn't stop jumping from one man's bed to another. She should have at least used birth control.

High school reunion

I went to my 20th high school reunion with my friend Mike Heinle and his wife. who graduated a year after me but are friends with some classmates of mine. We sat with two classmates I had went to school with since grade school and junior high. Lori Baker and Denise Ferrell. Lori looks totally different from when I knew her last. We were friends in grade school, she was the first girl I kissed, back when I was in 6th grade. but in high school we didn't hang out at all. Lori looks totally different from how I remember her. Same with Denise Ferrell. She is still a firecracker latina, all 5ft and 100 lbs of her. Both lori and her are good friends, they go to Havasu a lot and meet up with Mike and his wife.

Now on to the others I spoke briefly with last night. I spoke with Jurina Mendoza briefly last night too. Jurina was my first high school crush. We dated briefly and enjoyed a brief encounter in front of her house way back in 1981 that I wasn't really prepared for. I had a crush on her throughout high school, but I was just too dorky for her. I used to pull on a green beret that she wore in 10th grade. She is good friends with one of my best friends, Chris Panaia. Through Chris, over the years, I learned that Jurina became a hair stylist for 7 years, then she went to culinary school and served as a chef for several years, and currently, when I talked to her, she was a server at a "fine dining" restaurant, where the pay is better than that of a chef. She was smokin hot last night, though she did have a few age lines on her face. I forgot to mention that she is half filipina, her dad being a filipino and her mom being Finnish, so she is pretty hot. I remember I was at a party in the Philippines in 1985 and there was this girl who looked just like her and I thought it was her, but it turned out that she was a movie star named Mags Bonnin. I sort a felt a bit sheepish then though cause I was staring at her, thinking she was jurina when she was not. Anyway, there were others who surprised me. Without mentioning names, I talked with two other girls who really aged over the last 20 years. I think they were smokers because there skin was really aged, and I believe smoking does that to your skin. One of the girls, I thought she was the cutest girl at the school back then , and when the comment mentioning it to her husband, he said, perhaps you should tell her, as it would make her really happy. But I didn't. The other girl I spoke to only attended OVHS for two years then she moved away. She looked really old. I saw next to her in Jr high because her last name began with a T which is two from V. We were talking about her around the table and the girls at the table were really brutal. They ahd said that she definitely ahd plastic surgery. I didn'tr get into it with them.


I spoke with Kenny Reda, he is a fellow surfer who was going to make the move to Maui but decided against it, but then he moved from Laguna Niguel to Temecula, and now I think he is regreting it. Moving his family to Temecula for a bigger house I think was a mistake because now he is 40 miles from the beach instead of just a few miles. He was complaining about that.

Chris mentioned that the people we didn't talk to in high school, still didn't talk to us. The usual cliques that were around in high school were still around. Unbelievable. One funny scene was with this guy I know by face only, he was in the school plays and was a struggling actor last time I saw him hawking stuff at the swap meet. He shows up with this woman who had these huge, absolutely HUGE pointy breasts, and I am talking to Kenny and he says, Hey guys, as he walks by and smiles, with this big breated woman in tow. It sort of is fitting for the guy, but to us, it seemed like a huge charade, big breasted woman at the high school reunion.

I spoke with some woman who I never spoke with while in high school, one the city manager of Half Moon Bay and the other a friend of Jurina's who still doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, though she is taking filmmaking class. Those were some intersting conversations.

One funny thing, you'd go up to some people you had classes with and they wouldn't remember your name and the standard line was, "Hey Bro, how you been." As if they even gave a fuck what your name was.

That is the state of Ocean View High School's 20th reunion affairs. Not a lot of people showed up, and I think it was a waste of $90. But I did get to speak with some friends. I had no idea that Brian Capoccia got busted by the DEA right after high school. When he told me that I couldn't believe it. Its been a long 20 years. A lot of things have changed, yet a lot of things stay the same. A lot of girls I knew look aged 20 years while a few others I didn't know, Janet Lidberg, Rebekah Fleishman, look absolutely the same.

Convey a positive image as thousands drown in New Orleans

According to an AP report written by reporter Ted Bridis

"Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sought the approval from Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff roughly five hours after Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29. Brown said that among duties of these employees was to "convey a positive image" about the government's response for victims."

"FEMA response and recovery operations are a top priority of the department and as we know, one of yours," Brown wrote Chertoff. He proposed sending 1,000 Homeland Security Department employees within 48 hours and 2,000 within seven days.

Employees required a supervisor's approval and at least 24 hours of disaster training in Maryland, Florida or Georgia. "You must be physically able to work in a disaster area without refrigeration for medications and have the ability to work in the outdoors all day," Brown wrote.

The same day Brown wrote Chertoff, Brown also urged local fire and rescue departments outside Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi not to send trucks or emergency workers into disaster areas without an explicit request for help from state or local governments. Brown said it was vital to coordinate fire and rescue efforts.


Michael Brown is a good ole boy of Bush, who, prior to being given the job of director of FEMA probably due to his astute fund raising skills, was the chairman or manager of some type of Arabian Horse association. He had no disaster management skills whatsoever. Heck he probably didn't have any skills related to any form of governing. He was a Bush crony and fund raiser.

I can imagine Brown right now "We was fixin to convey a positive image so W could look good for the cameras.

Brown will be made the fall guy, even though a fall guy isn't needed in this case because his incompetence and that of Department of Homeland Security goon Chertoff has been proven.

It is truly sick to learn these things, but hey, America elected Bush to a second term, and this is what we get.

Newport Beach Parking MADNESS

Sunday I went surfing at Newport. I parked in the parking lot as usual and hiked it three jetties down to find some surf, as it was pretty flat everywhere. I did find a wave breaking off the 36th St. jetty. It was a makeable left, about 2ft. so I hiked it back to the parking lot to get my board. I surfed it for maybe an hour, catching half a dozen waves and then calling it a session. Waves were pretty few and far between.

After I got back to my car and changed, I took a walk on the pier. As it is every holiday weekend these days, the pier was packed with people fishing, as was the parking lot.

As I approached my car to leave, I noticed a woman who was blocking a lane in her SUV as another woman tried to sneak her SUV into the spot. The woman closest to the spot yelled at the other woman, saying that she was saving the spot for her mother, who was winding her way through the packed parking lot to try and snag the spot. You see, the woman who was trying to save the spot drove an SUV that wouldn't fit in the spot because there was an RV parked in the next parking spot.

I was beginning to get amused at the exchange taking place.

The woman in the other SUV tried to get in and then the other woman would move forward, then back, effectively blocking her. The lot began to back up as one could only imagine, as these two grown women had an exchange of ideas. At that point, I walked up to the woman who was trying to get into the spot and told her, "I am leaving, you can have my spot." She said thanks, and as I walked to my car, she was slow to move. The woman who was blocking the spot, yelled at her, "Move it Bitch, the guy is parked all the way down there." I was really beginning to get amused. As I pulled out of my spot, the woman waved a thanks and finally parked her SUV. I didn't see how the other woman fared, or if her mother was able to wend her way through the bottleneck created by her daughter.

It was really a sad reflection on the society in which I live. Two women, probably soccer moms, arguing over a stupid parking spot in Newport Beach, CA as people still perish in New Orleans. These women were unbelievable, especially the one hoarding the spot so her mother could get it. At that point in her life, that spot was the most valuable thing to her. Pretty sad commentary on life's priorities.

Impotence

It took our government five days to send food and water to the poor folks in New Orleans. What a disgrace. Five Days with no food and water for upward of 50,000 people in the hottest, dankest, wettest city in the United States. The Mayor of New Orleans sent pleas for help and FINALLY, after going on radio blasting the federal response to this disaster, imploring the feds to "get off their asses and do something," help arrived in the form of a photo op. After five days, Help Finally Arrived. The government had been telling the people that help was on the way, but for many, it was too little, too late. What a disgrace. And on top of this lack of response in the most urgent time of need, there was a photo op. The government had known this would happen for over 100 years. Yet nothing was done to try and stop it. On the contrary, the Bush Regime diverted monies that could have shored up the levee system in New Orleans to Homeland Security and the "War on Terror." The hurricane was being tracked for days, yet there was no federal plan in place to deal with the death and destruction that might have, and did occur. WHERE WAS FEMA?

The BUSH REGIME was put to the test when Katrina came bearing down, and sadly, the BUSH REGIME has failed that test.


For five days, George Bush sat on his ass and did nothing. Rather than cut his five week vacation short by two days, BUSH extended his vacation and sat on his ass and did nothing as the worst natural disaster was happening in BUSH COUNTRY. He was sitting on his ass watching all the black folks suffer on CNN.

This so called hands-on president finally arrived in the disaster zone, five days later, and was treated to a photo op with the governors of Mississippi and Alabama, the directors of Home land security and FEMA and others, praising each other on the excellent job that they did. On National TV. What a disgrace. The president, obviously taking a cue from one of his media clowns, came off the plane with his shirt sleeves rolled up, "ready to go to work." What a disgrace.

This is the United States of America, and we aren't supposed to have AMERICAN refugees on our shores, and we certainly are not supposed to have such an impotent response to a national disaster like Hurricane Katrine.

People died. Chaos ensued. Children were raped in the Superdome, and it took Bush five days to send in the Cavalry.

WHAT THE FUCK TOOK YOU SO LONG? Not enough white people in New Orleans? Not enough Republicans? The response in Florida last year was faster. BUSH IS A DISGRACE. He is a total National Disaster.