Oh Lord....  What the heck is going on now?!  Everything... Democracy at work election time in the USA.  A time when the crap flies so thick from every direction that oh well I guess it is just me. I just am disgusted with it all and somehow once again I will vote.  You have Congressman Piombo, not my Congressman, flooding my sports Radio station with the most sick attack adds against his opponent. I am such a wimp I turn the radio off. Now I see Laura Bush has come out to campaign for this gentleman calling him what was it 'an enthusiastic steward of the environment'.   Laura Bush you dear woman you will have to be held accountable to someone, maybe when it's your time to visit St Peter at those old pearly gates. My dear woman he might say so kindly I know you wanted to be a Good Wife but you cannot lie my dear and support those who destroy the Earth and lend your esteemed voice to such a terrible destruction of God's once Green Earth....   I would say this congressman is a leader in the Rape of California movement a movement that has been going for quite awhile not pretty at all. Developments burn up Farmland at a sickening rate. Scarring the landscapes as they create people dumps everywhere. Unbelievably ugly crap replacing meadows and farmland. People want homes they want there own homes but we live like slaves and serfs accepting such crap from the powers that be talking about the developers and the local political machines that feed off their generous financial support. Here in Marin we have Hamilton, oh yes they are lovely little houses squeezed in everywhere across the former military base.Thousands of new residents, you have the God Awful rich people's development along Ignacio Boulevard. Where from anywhere from $600,000 thousand to maybe a Million you get a really big home with a yard that might match the exercise yard at Guantanamo and as lovely view across the yard into your neighbors bathroom window isn't it nice to be a Millionaire in California.. Hey we live in a really big house and we have a really big screen Hidef TV. Life is good. Used and abused that's what I think you all are I don't know how you can stand living there but I am sorry to offend.    We F*** America! That's what the Carpenter who works for one of those major Developers that have gotten so large that they proudly are listed on the NY Stock exchange told me as I dropped him off at the lot he was working on about 5 years ago. In San Rafael you have the new 'Redwood Village' up there behind Merrydale and North San Pedro. Cram them in, yes sir Big Bucks to be made. That place is really quaint the feel is so much like Brooklyn hey come on Guy what's not to like about Brooklyn in California. we are going to open up another NY Deli around the corner 'We F*** America!' Don't tell anyone I said that.' he told me it's just a job you know I don't like it traveling from place to place across America building this crap. Some intelligent, probably college educated undoubted an environmentalist caught me venting about the 'Redwood Village' well at least they were using ground that was just 'open fields' he told me.   Every beautiful meadow in America that's Ground Zero. That development machine wants it somewhere in that RedHot Real Estate market in the Red Hot Zone where Suburbs meet the Country and turn that land around so quick and the local town councils and planning commissions can be bought so easily. Just tell them how much they benefit from the taxes you might get to build your new town hall and dream of raises... and besides we build 'Green Houses' now and the world needs Affordable Housing...yes indeed Civilization Ho-o! as Ward Bond leads the wagon train West.     Enough venting...    Proposition R big one here in Sonoma and Marin a little tax to get a cool little Railroad running from Cloverdale all the way down to Larkspur Landing. All the bicyclists (railroad and nearbye bike path) love it Environmentalists love it. I will vote NO on R.    Why no? Because without strong constraints against Development this is just Fuel For the Fire laying waste to Sonoma County. As a friend, a carpenter and a good man told me last night buy a few acres up in Cloverdale right now before the property starts getting too expensive. Anyways he's right if you want to make a smart investment and the developers know that too..   On behalf of a lot of remaining countryside North of the Marin line. The people of Novato who still don't know where the train stations will be. The entire town council and mayor of Larkspur has come out against it, the final station their is no information available by the planners as to where it will be located at Larkspur landing. I love trains and I believe that trains are an integral part of an environmentally conscious Planet coming coming come on...   But this plan is rushed and its Environmental goodness hides it's dark side. I side with the Audobon Society and the Marin Conservation League. Vote No it won't be the end of the world there is plenty of time to get it right.  I can't vote for Arnold. No on Arnold. Sorry Bud. I like the man in many ways like many of you all but that TV add worked on me. How the heck can I vote for a man who so Forcefully endorsed George Bush in 2004? The weird part of it is that Arnold in California won't even show up to meet George Bush in person ... keeps all the distance in the world but would travel to Ohio hoping no one in California noticed.   On the wrong side of a Landslide both times. Most likely.      Guy Meyer, Jr.                   November 5, 2006         San Anselmo, California               guy@lifesignsphoto.com