On the death tax

Zeke, who is pro-death-tax, won't like this.

Varones voters' guide to the California primary

Ready to vote Tuesday?

My recommendations:

Prop 81- NO. Puts California deeper into debt to build libraries.
Prop 82- NO. Do you want California pre-schools run by the same bureaucracy that brought you California public schools?

Democratic governor: Steve Westly. More of an outsider, more charismatic, less a creature of the Democratic machine. Better (though still slim) chance to beat Schwarzenegger. Angelides is a greedy, land-raping real estate developer.

Lieutenant governor: don't care.

Controller: don't know.

Oakland mayor: Ron Dellums. Iggy de la Fuente is an abuser of eminent domain, on the side of greedy developers taking private property from family businesses.

Santorum is carne tostada

Over year ago, I predicted that nutty right-wing religious zealot Senator Rick Santorum would not win re-election.

Looks pretty good now.

California 50th District

There are a lot of interesting races next week, but the one I'm most interested in is the 50th Congressional District in northern San Diego County. This is the race to replace convicted bribe-taker Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

It's a heavily Republican district, but the polls are even. The Republican candidate is Washington lobbyist and former Congressman Brian Bilbray. He's a weak candidate, but in a normal year, Democrats wouldn't have a chance at this district. The Democrat in the race is Francine Busby, who recently made headlines encouraging illegal aliens to help her campaign.

If Busby wins, it's an indication of a bloodbath for Republicans in November.

I'll go out on a limb here and predict a Bilbray victory.

P.S. Check out Busby's lying weasel explanation at the end of the story. She was talking about teenagers, not illegal aliens!

“I was clarifying the question that was being asked in Spanish and then stated that you do not have to be a registered voter to help the campaign because there were many people who appeared to be to be under 18 in the group who wanted to volunteer,” she said in a statement.

Signs of the apocalypse

Not the greatest of all time?

Poll: Ronald Reagan is the greatest President since WWII.

Bush Jr. is the worst.

I'll heartily agree with Reagan.

Bush probably isn't as bad as Carter, but I am too young to remember how bad Carter was, so I won't disagree.

I love Wal-Mart

I bought a digital camera (for a great price) at Wal-Mart.

A month later, I had a problem with the camera and needed to send it to the manufacturer. Unfortunately, I had lost the receipt. I thought I was out of luck.

I called Wal-Mart with the purchase date and my credit card number, and they cheerfully looked up the transaction, reprinted the receipt, and mailed it to me.

Above and beyond the call of duty. Wal-Mart treats its employees well, and the employees in turn treat the customers well.