KAMPA MISREPRESENTING TRUTH AGAIN?  Guess it sounds better than writing “Sneaky Pete Kampa” is a compulsive liar who simply refuses to stop or is powerless to do so.   Either way, trusting Kampa doesn’t make much sense considering his documented background of continued deception and special interest motivation.  Could he be representing the accepted norm in this state’s water industry?  God help the State of California and all its water dependent citizens if PETE KAMPA is an example of the “professionals”in charge of this state’s water issues.

Was “Effective Exploitation of Disadvantaged California Communities – 101” a class he instructed at the CSDA  (CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION)?  Does Sneaky Pete Kampa truly represent CSDAs commitment to excellence?    Excellence to what, public deception and special interest high dollar catering?

Why does the LAKE DON PEDRO CSD Board of Directors continue to support Kampa’s obvious untruths?

What does that indicate?

There was little question about the character of outside Place of Use commercial cattle rancher Emery Ross or Danny Johnson who repeatedly voiced support for the plan of  using government grants to expand the special benefit groundwater substitution process for outside land developers wanting subdivision water.   I had sincerely hoped the other three directors might have eventually recognized the disingenuous path our district was on and would have courageously stood up for the three thousand plus property owners of the Lake Don Pedro subdivision and said “NO MORE!”  However, if this latest and continued ABSOLUTE LIE ABOUT THE POU doesn’t do it, perhaps nothing will.   Maybe they are just afraid of making decisions on their own without a character like Kampa to lead them like sheeple?  Don’t they realize their names and reputations are also tangled up with such dishonesty?

Who knows?  But anything would be better than permitting a dishonest special interest motivated character like Pete Kampa to continue the leadership of this district.  THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ARE NOT LEADING – THEY ARE FOLLOWING and PETE KAMPA is obviously dedicated to selling the  newly developed “EMERGENCY DROUGHT GROUNDWATER” [THE BIG LIE]  to his land developer buddies he worked with 20 years ago to decrease their development costs, increase their profit margins while simultaneously INCREASING THE COST of furnishing water to the legal MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS of the Lake Don Pedro Subdivision.  Looks more like a video documentary everyday.

My best to you and yours, Lew –

however, Sneaky Pete Kampa and his bunch of lying cheats can kiss my exhausted ass!     🙂

UNFORTUNATELY MONDAY’S LDPCSD MEETING PAPERWORK EXCEEDED THE FILE SIZE PERMITTED (EXPECT THIS FOR NOW ON – lol) SO I WAS UNABLE TO POST THE MEETING AGENDA PACKET CONTAINING THE CALIFORNIA STATE WATER ABOARD VIOLATION NOTICE SENT TO GM PETE KAMPA THAT ACCOMPANIED MR. BARTON’S OPEN LETTER TO CUSTOMERS.

I HAVE CHECKED  A COUPLE OF TIMES ON THE LDPCSD WEBSITE BUT CANNOT ACCESS THE MEETING AGENDA PACKET THERE EITHER.

VERY STRANGE – SO I DECIDED I MIGHT AS WELL TAKE SOME TIME TO SCAN THE INDIVIDUAL VIOLATION NOTICE PAGES SENT TO GM KAMPA BY THE STATE WATER BOARD SO THE BELOW PRE-MEETING MESSAGE BY WES BARTON (REFERRING TO THIS VIOLATION NOTICE) MIGHT MAKE A BIT MORE SENSE.  

sorry!  RUNNING OUT OF INK AGAIN.  (STILL EASIER TO READ THAN THE FINANCIAL ANSWERS TO THE ENGINEER’S QUESTIONS REGARDING KAMPA’S MAPPING PROJECT COSTS ON PAGES 45 & 46 OF THE AGENDA PACKET!  lol)

See you at the meeting!  Lew

2240hrs UPDATE— GOOD NEWS….FOUND A NEW BLACK INK CARTRIDGE!

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What can I say? Those of you who have lost beloved non-human companions (the description “pet” just doesn’t come close to describing such relationships) know the sort of pain I attempted to express in my newly awakened method. (Could have made a full length feature out of all the photos and video, but I suspicion the 2+ minutes will suffice to make the point.) I’ve wanted to write about this for a while but it’s just still a bit raw. Perhaps such situations will always remain so. It was a very long goodbye.

Well, that’s it for now. Later, Lew (Liz crashed a while ago…..lol)

Hey, hope you accepted the above the way it was intended.  Here are a couple of after thoughts about a very emotional subject for some of us.

You know, I truly believe our long term canine companions eventually become service dogs without any formal training associated with traditional “service dogs (animals)”.   Sure I could teach her to pickup things I drop, but that would be more like a full time job.  Her penchant seems to be for “memory jogging” and schedule assistance” – lol.    Seriously, why do I believe this?  It’s called routine.  Our “non human companions” are (and not just canines – any conditioned animal) very discerning and attentive about their structured environment (aren’t we all?).   When certain things happen, at certain times, for particular reasons a series of learned/programmed responses are presented to us as a result.    I casually pick up my sunglasses, Liz response:  “Oh boy!  We’re going outside! Where’s my ball?”; tune to a particular program on the television response: recognizes the normal routine and she doesn’t interrupt – until the commercial.  This can be a problem when we have conflicting ideas of what needs to be accomplished during commercials.

Then there’s all those environmental “clues” of situational awareness that we as humans are often oblivious to due to our limited sensory acuity.  I read a dog training book once that stated the sense of smell for canines can be anywhere between 10,000 to 100,000 times greater than ours, which would obviously explain why Liz will suddenly wake from sound sleep, “soft woof notice” something is amiss and instantly stick that nose straight up in the air move her head from side to side to identify the scent direction, then start barking and DEMAND to be let outside.

I have unfortunately, as many of you may have likely done in the past as well, inappropriately chastised my canine companions for doing what they are instinctively meant to do – alert that there is potential danger to her “family/flock”.   I’ve noticed with Liz that if I praise her for “alerting me” (about something I often have no idea what it might be) she stops barking because her job was completed to her satisfaction apparently because I ACKNOWLEDGED HER EFFORTS.  Of course this doesn’t work all the time especially with more threatening (or exciting) situations where she “takes a stand” (cornered Rattlesnake, Raccoon, etc.) and refuses to obey (not good, but understandable) which frequently requires a  “field trip” on my part to the location to assess, correct/ameliorate and dismiss her from further duty – but always with well earned praise.

Heck, even poor old Tara towards the end of that dreaded disease and relegated to her homemade mobile “care bed” in the great room, hoarsely (and weakly) managed to bark that something was wrong – waking  us from sleep one night.  Yup – bar-b-que malfunction with a resulting small fire.  Out of the ordinary = sound the alarm (with the best the poor girl could muster – almost a whispered ghost of a life-tired bark.  Crap.  There go the water works again.

Though nothing to do with the above example, when I think of the mistakes I have made with prior companions because of MY FAILURE TO APPRECIATE WHAT THEY KNEW AT THE TIME, it breaks my heart knowing they were only trying to “educate me” as to what they were smelling, seeing, and/or doing due to my incorrect concept of “proper training”, ie, focusing on just obeying commands while remaining ignorant as to the actual nature and circumstances of the incident giving rise to the companion’s disobedience.  A big mistake by the one who is supposed to be in charge.  (So your dog bolts out of the house and chases a cat and will not obey commands to stop and come back.  You call and call, finally the dog returns (generally huffing and puffing and exhausted from the chase) – but if you scold it for running after the cat in the first place (totally forgotten by now in all the excitement) – you are accidentally punishing them for (in their eyes) returning when you called.  See what I mean?   (DOG: “Geez, it was more fun chasing the cat.  I heard the command, eventually obeyed and returned and what do I get as a reward? – Yelled at for returning when that old bastard called me!”)

[Can you imagine punishing a canine in a “disabled canine wheeled cart” for chasing a cat up the cul-de-sac?  I didn’t have the heart – and was astonished with the success of the apparatus.  Scared the heck out of me too —  way to fast on her first “wheeling” lesson!   But you must understand, that cat had been coming over the fence and nonchalantly walking around TARA’S COMPOUND leaving “territorial markers” everywhere because it knew Tara was immobile and could only bark from a stationary position.  Then one day…….it was worth every penny it cost to see Tara wheeling up the street in “semi-hot pursuit”.   (OF COURSE THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TARA COULD HAVE CAUGHT THE CAT, NOR WOULD I HAVE PERMITTED SUCH, but there was an extra biscuit for my Canine Cart Tara!  And you know?….It did reduce the amount of feline excursions into Tara’s domain.  lol]

We are all animals and learn from our mistakes.

Yes it is difficult losing a beloved companion and obtaining another CERTAINLY DOES NOT REPLACE that love for your former best friend but I believe it does permit a healing of sorts by providing another environment and encouraging a similar type of love, caring, and devotion for another animal.    And because we do generally outlive our companions, if our hearts remain open for that (likely) inevitable loss once again, we can enhance that new growing relationship with what we have learned in the past from our other wonderful non human partners.  Of course, it permits committing some of the same mistakes again also.  Case in point:  two morning biscuits are now the “norm” because of innovative successful “canine pleadings” for an extra one every once in a while.  LOL

Liz a good dog and there will be “give and takes” in every relationship.  I’ve spent too much time indoors lately but she has been extremely tolerant and understanding.   (Here’s a humorous observation –  when creating the monthly meeting videos and she hears a particular GM’s voice over the computer speakers going on and on about how for just a little more money such and such can be done….. she gets a look like “great, another week of this Krapa”.)    She’s very intuitive also.

Yup.  Need to get outside today, (even though extremely smoky again) I think Liz has a Possum carcass she’d like us both to roll around on for a while– evidently, her 100,000 times keener sense of smell has picked up on something we just must acquire and wear on our bodies.  Maybe to the next LDPCSD meeting?   lol

My best to you and yours, Lew

PLAYING MR WECs ?   Merced River Water Entitled CustomerS – of course!

What can I say?  I am still playing around with this editing software and despite the fact much of this antiquated technology was only recently “discovered” (a little late in life to boot)  – so what?  It has still opened another method of expression to augment traditional blah blah blah.   Hey!  I know!   MMM productions? MUSICAL MONTHLY MEETINGS?   Perhaps like a twisted opera?  Designate particular musical instruments (or tunes) to the individual characters of the meeting and then ….  lol   (The “Fargo” series did that, remember?)

DISCLAIMER  Yes.  The sheep could be considered as representing  MR WECs    in some respects, yet in all fairness, how can Lake Don Pedro subdivision property owners be considered apathetic victim “sheeple” if they are not truly cognizant of the issues affecting the situation and them personally?  Yup, situational awareness – a big point in most “confidence crimes” where the victims, to their own detriment, rely on misrepresented information and/or activities furnished by perpetrators of the con game to gain the victim’s trust so as to inevitably “liberate” something of value from the victim “mark”.

“Geez, a perfect victim!” says the blood swollen fat assed mosquito struggling to take flight from your neck due to the added weight of its recently acquired warm liquid meal.

“Bloodsucker Heavy, this is the tower – are you in need of assistance?”

Yup, unaware victims – that sort of crap can go on for ….. that’s right, case in point, for decades.  Rather like embezzlement where only a little of something is taken at a time, but it occurs multiple times over a long period.   The smaller losses do not draw attention and detection as a “con”.

Now multiply the above potential “innocent ignorance” by variables such as special interest motivation, intentional concealment of fact, misrepresentation, disinformation, etc by a local government agency for an even better defense of   MR WECs  not being unjustly labeled a “sheeple”.

Still, I like the sound effects.

Anyway, hope you find something entertaining (or enlightening) about this “Play As You” learn exercise.   Isn’t that the truth?  We pay as we learn, eh?

My best to you and yours, Lew