From the San Francisco Bay Guardian, maps to contributions to the Newsome and Gonzalez mayoral campaigns.

The SF Bay Guardian is trying to say that Gonzalez gets backing from the Westside neighbourhoods, but if you read the legend of the map, 13-23 people gave money from my hood 94122 and from the adjacent hood of 94116, 8-12 people gave money. And my hoods aren't the richest ones either; it's very working class.

If you look at Newsome's map between 132 - 235 people contributed to Newsome campaign from zip 94122 and from zip 94116.

How do you compare over 100-200 people to 13-23 people, and say that he has contributions from the Westside?

The maps are eye-opening though. That's a alot of people contributing to the Newsome's campaign from all over the city. I had no idea that many people contributed to political campaigns.

If people really liked Gonzalez, doesn't logic tell you that he should be getting as many contributors as Newsome, especially from the hoods he won? I'm impressed and truly suprised, that so many San Francisco people gave of their hard earned money in these awful economic times.

But logic never seems to have any credence in the media or politics.

If the Bay Guardian were really fair, which they're often not, shouldn't they be reporting on the discrepancy betwen the number of people sending in contributions to Newsome versus Gonzalez?

Now either the SF Bay Guardian can't make maps and they've got the Gonzalez map wrong because $64,500 contributions plus $64,023 doesn't add up to the total of $99,500. The map so doesn't make sense, and why is that I wonder.

But the real story is the amount of contributors. Not the amounts, because rich people always give more, but the sheer numbers of people contributing to Newsome compared Gonzalez.

I know the state of Cali is in a big bad budget mess, and cuts have to be made but why do the budget cuts have to affect the poor, disabled and helpless in the state.

From the LA Times, Gov.'s Cuts to Hit Poor, Universities.

Here are some of the grim highlights:

Schwarzenegger's proposal would save $282 million by eliminating music, art, camping and other nonmedical therapy programs for the roughly 626,000 Californians who have mental or physical impairments that make it difficult to learn, speak or care for themselves. Another cut involves suspending the Lanterman Act, which guarantees myriad services for the developmentally disabled.

Another reduction would save $385 million by cutting cleaning, transportation and other in-home services that the state provides to the elderly, blind and disabled to help keep them out of nursing homes.

A smaller cut — $77 million — would freeze enrollment in several programs, including Healthy Families, which provides health care for children of the working poor, and which Schwarzenegger praised during the campaign. The freeze would create waiting lists for that program.

You may not be familiar with my home island of Kauai in Hawaii, but if you've seen these movies you've seen my island.

Here's a list of all the films shot on Kauai, Kauai Moives.

I couldn't sleep last night, so I decided to listen to Bernie Ward, a radio late night talk show host. He is the best Shrub bashing anti-Iraq war radio commentator on the airwaves, and may be the only one in the country for that matter.

He was so fun to listen to during the 2000 presidential election. It was night after night of total all out Bush family bashathon. Bernie is an unashamed left wing progressive, and will take on anyone who's willing to call into his show. Ward is smart as heck, and he makes mincemeat out of callers who can't logically back up their positions. He's like the snarkiest prosecuting attorney there is, only he's a left wing progressive.

So naturally, I was shocked as hell to hear him endorsing Newsome for mayor of San Francisco and arguing with the Gonzalez suppporters and making them sound like idiots on the radio.

Bernie, the left wing Rush Limbaugh, supporting Newsome, that's weird!