I have not bought new shoes in about a year.

  Mine were getting worn.  I went to macys website and saw some real good deals around 50 bucks on close out stuff.  

And then on to checkout and a nasty 8.75% sales tax on my 150 dollar purchase.  

I cancelled.

Hopped over to ebay, got the same shoes, at a lower price without sales tax.

I no longer wish to support the one party rule in california, with democrats holding the legislature since forever, and the republicans having no real stake since 2002.  First davis, then governator is simply no way to govern this state from the middle.

Now, on to getting a car as a gift to avoid sales tax.  

If you are gay and want to marry, i could care less about your fight, but join mine and starve california until it decides to grow up.

Oh, and i did the LA times budget puzzle, solved the budget crisis in 4 minutes.  Cut everything but k-12 and did not touch fire and safety.