A poem I wrote warning you about Trump, way back when he first slithered into the primaries…

Donald, may I call you Don?

Or would you prefer Mr. Trump?

Into the primaries you have been drawn

You say America is in a slump

As much as I would love to end up as your pawn

I’m afraid I’m not that much of a chump

I can hardly wait to see the dawn

You thing in the night that goes bump

Most of us just want to see you gone

You human-shaped camel’s hump

With your hair like a poorly manicured lawn

And you head like a rotting stump

Yes we cannot wait until you’ve withdrawn

You ambulatory garbage dump

What causes you to ramble on?

What makes you such a grump?

Your morals have been overdrawn

You spew vile like a septic tank pump

America’s not falling for your con

So go take a flying jump

If you insist on behaving like Satan’s spawn

I would like to sit down with a thump

And it’s your face I would like to sit upon

So that you can kiss my big, sweet rump…

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The last sunrise…

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Okay… once again, not technically the ‘last’ sunrise… we should have a few more… at least until the election results are in…

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But these are the last of the photos I took during my early morning drive down the California Coastal Highway One on my way back from the Bay Area.

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There is a lighthouse in the early morning fog.

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And there is the sun, popping up over the hills. I already shared all the pictures of the elephant seals, some nice horses I met, Hearst castle, the sea otters, and whatnot.

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Yeah, I had to get up at 3:30 in the morning to get these pictures for you…

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But I also got to have a nice little adventure.

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And I had the road almost to myself.

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I got to enjoy the solitude of the moment.

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I got to bond with the sea and the sky.

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And I reminded myself how lucky I am to live in California.

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The last sunset…

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Okay, obviously these aren’t the last sunset in any literal sense. They are just the last photos of that one sunset I took from the Berkeley hills on my last Bay Area adventure.

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I know I took too many pictures, but I can’t waste them.

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And that view never looks the same, not only on different nights, but even on the same night, if you stay long enough.

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As the color fades from the sky and the lights begin to come on, something magical happens.

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The darkness descends like a vast, living thing…

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The sun fights to hold it back…

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Darkness adds an air of mystery to a city, especially when viewed from above and far away. You are part of the city, and yet not part of it. You are a secret admirer. You are also a peeping Tom. HA!

 

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What you really don’t want to see when you have already been stuck in L.A. traffic for hours…

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So there I was, on the last stretch back to San Diego after my latest adventures in the Bay Area. Los Angeles traffic had been stop and go since I left the coast. Google maps was pissing me off. It kept saying I would be experiencing a ‘slow down’ of however many minutes in a few miles, when I was already… still… in stop and go traffic. I guess it doesn’t have a recorded message that says: “You are in Los Angeles, you are totally screwed.”

But smoke up ahead on the highway didn’t seem likely to help.

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I was relieved to see that it wasn’t a car burning.

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And, once again, please don’t take photos while you drive. Leave it to the professionals.

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Trump has already begun to hand-select members of his cabinet…

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Let’s meet Trump’s campaign staff… part 8…

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Mr. Trump’s ‘transition team’ is all ready to go out and prepare America for the way things are going to be made great again.

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Let’s meet Trump’s campaign staff… part 7…

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Trump has a very large contingent on his campaign staff dedicated to the issue of gun safety… by which, of course, I mean keeping guns safe… in the hands of of Trump supporters… away from the prying fingers of the bad people… in the Federal Government… who, supposedly, are planning on taking them all away and using them to arm terrorists and criminals. I am not sure what is supposed to happen to all the left over guns after that.

I didn’t get a chance to meet everyone on the ‘gun safety task force’… there are almost as many of them as there are guns.

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Let’s meet Trump’s campaign staff… part 6…

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This young woman… I can’t remember her name right now… has a very important job on Donald’s campaign staff. She is what’s known as a ‘gropie’… it is a little like a groupie, but if Donald seems to be lunging for the private areas of some random female, this brave lady throws herself between him and the potential future lawsuit, taking one for the team… sort of like the Secret Service agents do with bullets… if the candidates were shooting at people rather than being shot at by them.

Notice the special ‘grope-resistant’ garment she is wearing.

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Let’s meet Trump’s campaign staff… part 5…

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Mr. Yuje Wang, pictured here… (second from right, behind Mr. Trump)… with some of the campaign support staff. Mr. Wang is in charge of making sure that the ships full of ‘Make America Great Again’ hats… and all the stuff that Trump and his family sell… and the materials that go into all of the Trump buildings… make it to America in a timely manner.

Mr. Wang is also in charge of coming up with crazy conspiracy theories like global warming, and then making sure that democrats believe them, so that Mr. Trump can make fun of them later.

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Let’s meet Trump’s campaign staff… part 4…

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Archibald Bunker is the head of Trump’s ‘ex-veterans and current survivalist/militia outreach program’.  He is also in charge of making sure there are enough fresh donuts stashed in all the ‘top secret, high-level Trump staff underground meeting rooms’… you know… in case Trump is elected, and things get a little out of hand.

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