May 11, 2008
This is my dear mother, Colette Arlyne Fuller. She passed away on May 5th, 2002 just short of my parents 40th wedding anniversary. Needless to say this made for a really sad Mother’s Day for me that year. It certainly adds poignancy to every Mother’s Day because she did not live to see my son being born. She would have adored him and I could have had her advice, support, wisdom, and humor. She loved kids. When she worked for the Children’s Protective Services they would always bring the kids to her because she was so very good with them. It would break her heart to see kids with cigarette burns and bruises on their arms, and she would bravely smile for them and say how beautiful they were.
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May 10, 2008
Things I am working on while I am being a soccer mom, host to my mother-in-law, and backlogged on my laundry.
- “Oh, No She Didn’t! More Tales from the State Senate Debate.
- Video of Friday, May 9th State Senate Debate
- Observations from the Fundraisers (need to attend a Migden gathering to be fair)
- My thoughts on birth certificates
- The Marin Organizing Committee and Contempo Marin
- Judy Arnold interview
Tomorrow I will be celebrating Mother’s Day with my husband, mother-in-law, and my little boy. Next week will be my birthday.
If you are on Skype, you can contact me by Skyping marinmaven.
Frank Egger and I would like you to know that there will be a big Golden Gate Bridge Walk and Rally on May 31st against the Spraying for the Light Brown Moth. We will gather, 9 a.m. Walk starts at 10 a.m. It will start on the San Francisco side, Bridge Parking Lot. Park (car pool) at the East Battery parking lot off Lincoln Blvd. just below Marin side, Vista Point Parking Lot. After walk take Coastal Trail from Bridge Parking Lot to Mason St and Crissy Field. If you can’t make the walk, come to the rally. The will be a Rally at 12 noon (bring your lunch) West End of Crissy Field, between Mason Street and Marine Sanctuary Visitor Center.
Staffing assistance including security and monitors needed. Permit conditions are very restrictive for safety purposes. For More info: www.stopthespraymarin.org or e-mail fegger@pacbell.net.
I am hoping that we can get people to take public transportation or carpool to the event.
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May 10, 2008
Woolsey previously endorsed Carole Migden, now she is double endorsing for…wait for it…wait for it…Anybody but Joe Nation. That’s cold. One of my favorite political blogs, Liberal Values, posts a Clinton quote from USA Today that made my jaw drop.
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
My friend at Liberal Values points out in this article that Hillary is factually wrong about her base being needed to win in the general election. My thought about her comment is that who in this country isn’t hard working? Is she suggesting that white Americans are the only hard working Americans? Again with the claim that the only people who matter are those who vote for her. I do not want a president who will be the president of only those who support her. I had eight years of it and I am tired of it. Woolsey and Migden, if they really care about her, need to have a heart to heart and tell her enough is enough. It would be easy enough for these politicians to explain that they have changed to Obama because that is who their constituents made clear that they wanted.
At the end of yesterday’s CD-3 State Senate debate in San Rafael, Clinton supporter/endorser Joe Nation said that it is time for Clinton to step aside and perhaps form an Obama/Clinton ticket. The other two candidates said that the process should be allowed to continue.
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May 8, 2008
Let me tell you a story that can begin to explain my indecisiveness in the CD-3 State Senate race.
It was the year the Pope got shot, and I was a Catholic School girl at Notre Dame High school in Belmont, California. A classmate and I in our uniforms decided to skip school and go to the race track at Bay Meadows. We collected all the racing sheets and we even went where the horses were being kept. We examined the horses. Then our eyes met. The horse’s warm, deep brown eyes told me that this horse would run and win for me — just for me.
Two 14 year old Catholic school girls each place two dollar bets with an unshaven adult.
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May 8, 2008
Tonight, May 8th, at 7:00pm – 8:30pm I will be attending Marin Organizing Committee’s Action Assembly. The event will be held at the Gymnasium of St. Raphael Catholic Church, located at 1100 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael ().
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May 8, 2008
There was a time when my husband and I listened to KGO radio and especially Bernie Ward. We enjoyed how skillfully he rhetorically cornered right wing callers, became a part of his Sunday morning program church of the Holy Donut, and mourned with him when his friend Duane Garrett committed suicide off the Golden Gate Bridge. We eventually couldn’t handle listening to KGO because they started to become the Dr. Laura radio station despite our complaints. We have long switched to listening to KQED almost 24/7, but still remember waking up to Amazing Grace in the morning to listen to God Talk and smile. That was until recently when we heard about allegations of child pornography.
Bernie Ward has plead guilty to distributing and receiving child pornography. I am shocked and saddened by this all. There are so little proud liberal voices in the world of mainstream radio (sans Air America) to have one silenced by his behavior is just a shame. It is clear by his quilty plea that he understands that he needs to deal with the consequences of his actions. He has lost his job and our hearts go out to his family. We remain confused, disturbed, and disappointed.
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May 7, 2008
This year’s San Francisco International Film Festival ( www.sffs.org ) April 24-May 8 offers a fabulous selection of some 175 films—dramas, comedies, documentaries, shorts, and more— from every corner of the globe.
Up Thursday, May 8 at the Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive at 3:15 p.m. is the West Coast premiere of Secrecy, Peter Galison and Rob Moss’ exploration of the world of U.S. government document classification, national security policy and growing secrecy. The film covers the history of the classification craze from World War II and the creation of the atom bomb through September 11 and recent abuses at Abu Ghraib.
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May 7, 2008
I am giddy tonight about the election results, but also we have our own Movie Maven/Culture Maven here on Marin Maven. Her name is Geneva Anderson and she is willing to bring us along with her on her trips to various film festivals. I have gone to last years’ San Francisco Asian Film Festival and this years’ Sonoma Film Festival with her and she just always manages to pick really great movies. It is my pleasure to share her with you.
San Francisco International Film Festival: Medicine for Melancholy
by Geneva Anderson
This year’s San Francisco International Film Festival ( www.sffs.org ) April 24-May 8 offers a fabulous selection of some 175 films—dramas, comedies, documentaries, shorts, and more— from every corner of the globe. Up Wednesday, May 7 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas at 3:30 p.m. is the West Coast premiere of Barry Jenkins’ Medicine for Melancholy ( http://www.strikeanywherefilms.com ) a lovely and nuanced glance at notions of race through the eyes of two very different African Americans who have just spent the night together.
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May 6, 2008
The best way not to sit around nervously all day browsing politics blogs all day in anticipation of election returns is to go to the Zoo. While it seems that half the San Francisco Zoo appears to be closed, under construction, or just poorly maintained — I got some exercise with my family and I was able to grumble about something other than politics.
I am doing the happy dance because it looks like Obama won North Carolina by a huge margin and he may keep Clinton to a single digit margin in Indiana. I thought Clinton would blow him out in Indiana, but it will be a surprising narrow victory. After all the crap Obama has gone through these past weeks and all the debates I have had with several Clinton supporters telling me he is unelectable, it was bumming me out. Now, I choose to be a little smug — not in a mean way, but just in a groovy happy dance way. Tomorrow will be another day, but tonight we feast on the sweet taste of victory.
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May 1, 2008
Comrades!
Happy International Workers’ Day! It is time to sing “The Internationale”
It is time to open up our McMansions as communal headquarters for the continual struggle of the oppressed. La propriété, c’est le vol! The bourgeoisie spas with their hot stone massages must be liberated for all the people. Let the masses flock to Starbucks and plan the revolution!
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April 30, 2008
Help Wildcare stop the killing of Point Reyes Fallow and Axis Deer by contacting Senators Feinstein and Boxer, Congresswoman Woolsey, and Speaker Pelosi. As spring fawns are born the danger is that they may starve without their mothers. It really isn’t necessary.
Our elected officials need to hear your voice by May 9, 2008!
Contact Information:
United States Senator Dianne Feinstein; Phone: 415-393-0707
United States Senator Barbara Boxer; Phone: 202-224-3121
United States Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi; Phone: 415-556-4862
United States Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey; Phone: 415-507-9554
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April 30, 2008
The much hailed April 24th “postponement” of the Light Brown Moth spraying by Migden and Schwartzenegger will only temporarily delay the spraying. Marin is still scheduled to be sprayed in August 2008. This means everyone is invited to attend a panel on May 5th and attend the rally on May 10th to protest the spraying. Check our events calendar for more details.
Call our legislators and request support to withhold funding for LBAM aerial spraying. Sign up now: info@stopthespraymarin.org
Call Governor Schwarzenegger and ask for an Executive Order to stop the spraying!
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April 30, 2008
On the way to Mark Leno’s fundraiser I got stuck in Southbound traffic on 101. Guess what? The 580 ramp is done!
Rumble in the Bubble
Oh, by the way, I am not paying you royalties Brian Leubitz. You could come up to try to collect, but it will cost you 5 bucks and a lot of traffic congestion to get back to the city.
There may be a slight delay on Marinmaven as Marinmaven’s mother-in-law will be in town from Hawaii. This means I cannot go to Carole Migden’s bash tonight. It appears some democratic aides won’t be there either and not because of a schedule conflict. Neither will the editorial board of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. SF Citizen says that Carole Migden is poised to strike back like the Empire did in that second Star Wars movie. Apparently a pug “struck back” on Carole Migden’s legislative director’s canvas bag.
It seems my supervisor, Susan Adams is endorsing Joe Nation. Paul Hogarth, a Leno supporter over at Beyond Chron thinks Joe Nation is not as green as he says…snap! H. Brown over at Fogcity Journal responds to Hogarth by saying Leno is a “poverty pimp” and endorses Joe Nation.
Mike Opera claims Mark Leno’s campaign cheated on a Marin IJ poll. OMG! I happen to know all of the campaigns told me to vote for them on that same poll. Okay, it was me. I disabled my cookies so I can vote for all three of them! Mea culpa! I justa couldn’t choose.
If you scroll down on the comments you will find out Mark Leno has more Facebook friends than Carole. Should we really base our vote on how many Facebook friends one has? For myself, I choose to be very picky who my friends are.
Brian Leubitz at Calitics shares his thoughts about the Bay Guardian and how they always hate on Joe Nation, and then people post how “Joe Nation is an anti-progressive who must be stopped” or “a person who votes for Migden only helps the conservative Joe Nation win”. Joe Nation blogs, “I watched Mark stand with Republicans and vote to suspend Prop. 98 in 2006″.
I got my sample ballot in the mail for the June 3rd election. There are two dueling propositions involving eminent domain. Proposition 98 is a Howard Jarvis invention that uses eminent domain to also attack rent control, renters rights, and is all around a very bad, bad law that would amend the constitution. The law would also make it difficult to retrofit our water systems and do any work on our infrastructure. It should be roundly defeated and run out of town tarred and feathered.
Proposition 99 simply deals with prohibiting the use of eminent domain to take our homes and property and hand them over to private developers.
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April 30, 2008
When national and local politics collide or when Clinton supporters and Obama supporters collide it feels like a B-Sci-fi-flick.
I was invited by Mark Leno’s people to join them for a fund raiser, and I went as an observer as I had not endorsed any candidate (still haven’t).
Prior this event, I read Dick Spotwood’s article about how November it will be between Clinton and Mccain, and Mccain will win. I got sullen, cranky, and a little bit resigned to the notion that the democrats are on a course towards disaster. After the event, my friend, Northbayist posted his take on Kathleen Russells’ Op-Ed, where she makes the connection between Obama and Leno.
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April 30, 2008
The following sign is on our magnetic board in the kitchen:
SAVE!
- Coffee Grinds
-Used Coffee Filters
-Used Tea Bags
- Vegetable waste (incl. potato peels)
- Fruit waste
- Human Hair
- Egg Shells
- Plain Cardboard
- Moldy and Burnt Bread
- Lint from dryer
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