It's Poll Seasion!

You'd better vote
because Auntie Sam wants YOU.

In honor of the presidential elections, I have an idea.

The latest comment left here basically says he's bored as fuck with this blog and its usefulness is long over.  Apart from other allegations, that is.  

Honestly, I can't really tell if he's right or wrong.  On the other hand, I wouldn't be the most objective either.  I have my opinions on the whole thing but I'll just let that stand for he time being.

So, I will leave it up to you folks.  I'm going to take a poll.

Yup, just like Gallup, Fox News and everyone else at this time of year are doing, I will be running a poll of my own and use that data to determine the future of all you find here.

It's a simple poll.  Frankly, there are only two outcomes for the life of this blog: life or death.

Sure, I could completely change this blog and start writing about unicorns and rainbows.  I can write bullshit stories about my non-existant personal pain and angst (actually, I had a wrath of angst deciding how low to cut an overgrown shrub - and tremendous personal pain after discovering it wasn't low enough).  That's just not me.  I am much more comfortable being a complete asshole.

That's what the poll is really all about.  I would like to know if anyone reads this blog and if they indeed appreciate the sometimes irregular but always reliable assholiness.

Click on your answer on the right.  The more you click, the more votes you have.  It runs until Octover 15, so vote early and vote often.

Until then, any new articles will appear underneath this one.

Oh, and if the votes say "kill this shit", don't take it as an automatic poison pill.  I will need to check to be sure the votes aren't coming from behind iron fences on aging computers used by people wearing dirty bi-focals tapping away mindlessly.  If there are a preponderance of legitimate votes in the negative, I'll close this thing down.

However if you want this to live, you need to check the box.  It's up to you.  As they say, one vote can make a world of difference.

There's no SuperPAC involved in this poll.  It's all you and where this blog goes is all up to you.

Draining The Snake

As the one thing the Witches of Ellsworth Street covets more than anything else is money, money, money, the best way to give them indigestion, high blood pressure and insomnia is to make them spend more of it than they prefer.  Since they have no stomach for an expense of more than zero, I'd say it's a low bar to hurdle.

Of course, I pounded them hard with a winning lawsuit.  I pounded them again by tipping off the Contra Costa Building Inspection Division there was something fishy going on at the Blue Sky Ranch.  That right there cost the Witches of Ellsworth Street tens and tens of thousands of dollars.

I say it's high time to push them up to the six-figure space.

Now, these expenses don't need to be grand slams.  It was one hell of a lot of work to crush them in court and even more work to create a complaint that compelled the building inspectors to act.  There's some ways you can help the public, potentially even your own neighbors: get the word about this dangerous cult out to the world and keep it there.

That's right.  It's called supply-side economics Witches of Ellsworth style.  They demand their tributes.  We prevent their supply.

The current trajectory of the Academy for Psychic Studies is such that they are dumping (dribbling, actually) their cash reserves downward bit by bit.  That the Blue Sky Ranch cost them plenty in fines, engineering studies and repairs is just the latest in their travails.

Now is the time to press forward to prevent the Witches of Ellsworth Street from obtaining what they want to restore their perverse glory.  It's time to tell the public of the toxicity in the Academy for Psychic Studies.  It's time to ensure those who would be ensnared in this web of lies and exploitation are never trapped.

Take a moment to do something.  Make a comment - anonymously would be great as there is no damn way the Witches will be able to know who you are.  I defeated their attempt to force me to identify anyone who posts a comment and strengthened my commitment to your freedom of speech.

If someone asks about the place, pull them aside and give them the lowdown.  If you can make a rating on Yelp!, all the better.  Marilyn has done that already.  Again, there's nothing the Witches can do to you.

We all know there are things the Witches are doing that fall outside the law.  Some of it is just outside.  A lot of it is well outside.

Blow that whistle.  Take that one step forward.  If you are knowledgeable of any potentially illegal actions, write to the appropriate agency.  As a whistleblower, you will be protected if your report is made in good faith.  All things considered, your knowledge there is something that even feels a little shady, you would be protected even if your report turns out to be not actionable.

Since the Witches (Robin Dumolin in particular) have brayed loud and long about "the spirit of the law" over "the letter of the law", they'd have to admit your report in the spirit of the law is nothing more than doing exactly as they taught.

So tell the government.  It's not vengeful.  It's more like telling the cops there one hell of a lot of people speeding down your street.  It's a report.  Law enforcement will decide what will happen and they will be the ones the Witches will have to face.

It is more like Duby's perverted sense of karma - which was exactly like penance or setting the scales right.  Only for you, it's more like setting your own scales in balance while society benefits.

I for one, am glad to have done my part.  I also know there is more that should be done to right the wrongs the Witches of Ellsworth Street have perpetrated.  Your one step forward will be the one step backward the Witches will take to the gates of Hell.

That's something we can all look forward to seeing.

  

STRIPPED!

Well, it's all done.  The infamous Blue Sky Ranch has been stripped of all it's perverse glory and reverted to a half-finished storage unit.

Take a look at this:

Before

After

Angela should feel a lot better about this whole dust-up.  The inspectors allowed them to leave the fucking oak staircase.  I'm sure that will add thousands to the home's value.

Of course, if someone buys this confused and disorganized mess can finish out the space with all the things Angela Silva had to throw out.  That will happen only if someone actually buys this heap of garbage.

Looks like there are some soffit-like items added to the place.  I can't tell what they are for and I really wouldn't want to find out either.

As these pictures are posted on the page that advertises this mess online, they are not taken on the sly.  These are actual publicly available pictures.

So now that the price of the Blue Sky Ranch has been dropped to a mere $479,000.00, do you think it's worth the money?

Yeah, I don't either.