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Santa Barbara County

Volume 5

Issue 10

What’s Worse Than Climate Change?

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Sexual Revolutionaries And Cultural Marxists Infiltrating Our Schools

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Uncle Sam Is A Lousy Father

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Where Family Dreams And Traditions Go To Die

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Adam Hill’s Political Games Hurt The Homeless

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Who Is America’s God?

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Frank Hotchkiss: The Best Choice For Mayor

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Rain, Rain, Go Away?

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California GOP’s RINOs Retake The leadership

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What’s Worse Than Climate Change?

By Andy Caldwell

Volume 5 Issue 10 COLAB Magazine Page 2

One of the things I despise about the obsessive

hype about the future dangers of climate change has to do with the convenient distraction it provides from immediate and dire real world problems. For exam-ple, I recently interviewed expert William R. Forstch-en, Ph.D. on the subject of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks on our nation. For your information, an EMP attack would completely destroy and disable any and all electronic devices, including those used in transportation, defense, manufacturing, food produc-tion, and vital infrastructure, including our water sup-plies, not to mention our day to day devices.

Unfortunately, most people have no idea just how devastating an EMP attack would be to our nation, nor do they understand that Congress was briefed twice in 2004 and 2008 by way of bipartisan congressional studies, only to do nothing. The studies are available at http://empcommission.org.

I have added parenthetical comments to the abstract of the first report which reads as follows:

“Several potential adversaries have or can acquire the capability to attack the United States with a high-altitude nuclear weapon-generated electromagnetic pulse (EMP). A determined adversary can achieve an EMP attack capability without having a high level of sophistication. (Read that North Korea, ISIS, Iran).

EMP is one of a small number of threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences. EMP will cover the wide geographic region within line of sight to the nuclear weapon. It has the capability to produce significant damage to critical infrastructures and thus to the very fabric of US society, as well as to the ability of the United States and Western nations to

project influence and military power. (EMP could cause a protracted nationwide blackout. The Com-mission warned a blackout lasting one year could kill up to 90 percent of the American people through soci-etal collapse and starvation. Millions of Americans would be dead within four months’ time, as there will be no food, water, electricity, fuel, medicine, or trans-portation available nor the ability to replace the same in due time).

The common element that can produce such an im-pact from EMP is primarily electronics, so pervasive in all aspects of our society and military, coupled through critical infrastructures. Our vulnerability is in-creasing daily as our use of and dependence on elec-tronics continues to grow. The impact of EMP is asymmetric in relation to potential protagonists who are not as dependent on modern electronics. (In oth-er words, our enemies could bomb us back to the stone age and any retaliation on our part would most likely not have the same effect).

The current vulnerability of our critical infrastructures can both invite and reward attack if not corrected. Correction is feasible and well within the Nation's means and resources to accomplish.” (Yet, our feder-al government has done virtually nothing, in spite of all the indications that an EMP attack is not a question of “if”, but “when”).

Congressman Salud Carbajal, please forego the temptation to fixate on hypothetical climate change! Instead, focus on allocating funds to save our country from this impending catastrophe post haste.

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Sexual Revolutionaries And Cultural Marxists Infiltrating Our Schools

By Katy Grimes

know ahead when controversial topics, like gender

identity, would be discussed in class and allow their

students to opt out.

The tail is wagging the dog here. According to the Na-

tional Center for Biotechnology Information, “The esti-

mated proportion of transgender individuals based on

surveys that categorized transgender as gender iden-

tity was 0.39%, but they attribute that number to be

heavily weighted to youth transgender persons. The

estimated proportion of transgender adults based on

surveys that categorized transgender as sexual orien-

tation was 0.06%.

Yet in a recent article, I wrote about a California bill,

authored by avowed LGBTQIA leftist Sen. Scott

Weiner (D-San Francisco), that would criminalize the

‘misgendering’ of transgender persons, which passed

the California Legislature, and could result in a fine of

up to $1,000 and a year in prison. California lawmak-

ers are legislating to the tiniest minority imaginable,

and these ridiculous bills are passing and signed into

law by Gov. Jerry Brown.

In what was clearly decided prior to the packed meet-ing, the Rocklin Academy Charter School board voted Monday night to not allow parents the option of opting their children out, and voted in favor of allowing con-troversial books like “I Am Jazz,” which is about a transgender child, to be read in class. “Jazz” Jennings

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“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies be-cause they become fashions.”

~G.K. Chesterson

Concerned parents of school-aged children know

that sexual revolutionaries and cultural Marxists are

destroying our public schools and universities. But

Charter schools were thought to be safe from these

dark ideological radicals.

Sexual revolutionaries and cultural Marxists believe

that there are no differences between men and wom-

en, and that “male” and “female” are merely social

constructs.

After Monday’s packed board meeting at Rocklin

Academy Charter School, it appears these radicals

have infiltrated even the charter schools.

More than 500 parents and LGBTQIA activist packed

the Rocklin Academy Charter School board meeting

Monday. Parents were there to register their disgust

and displeasure with the school over its lack of policy

surrounding discussions about gender identity… in a

kindergarten class. Some are asking “How young is

too young to introduce a child to the concept of gen-

der identity?” But more parents are saying this discus-

sion doesn’t belong in school at all.

The only concession to parents by the school board

was to agree to “endeavor” to notify parents about

such controversial topics. Perhaps that is why “40

families and 71 children have already left the school,”

a parent who wished to remain anonymous reported.

“That number is changing every hour.”

“Jazz” is a Not a Girl

Recently a Rocklin Academy kindergarten teacher

read aloud to the class from a controversial book

about a “transgender” child, and then assisted the

child’s “transformation” from a boy to a girl in front of

the class. Parents were outraged, and demanded an

opt-out policy over discussions like this subject, and

its place in the classroom.

Some parents asked the charter school to let them

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Who Says Crime Doesn’t Pay?

By Andy Caldwell

notable about the approach is that, http://nij.gov/topics/crime/gun-violence/prevention/pages/focused-deterrence.aspxthe Office of Neighborhood Safety does not threaten punishment if fellows don’t comply. “There are only three ways out,” Boggan said. “They choose to leave, they’re arrested, or they’re killed.” The office also maintains a firewall between it and law enforcement and doesn’t share with the police intelli-gence it has gathered about fellows — including re-ports of continued firearm activity.

While Operation Peacemaker does attach conditions to fellowship stipends, fellows are never explicitly asked to put down their guns. Instead, fellows must make steady progress toward certain life goals, which can include finding safer housing, kicking substance abuse, getting a driver’s license or paying off a park-ing ticket. The size of the stipend each month de-pends on how well fellows progress toward these goals. Boggan said he has written checks for as little as a dollar. To be continued....




The city of Sacramento is teaming up with a non-

profit that will offer cash, up to $1,000 per month, to gang members who haven’t killed anybody late-ly. That is not to say that the program participants are otherwise living crime-free lives, but since there is no data-sharing between the nonprofit and law enforce-ment, this don’t ask, don’t tell policy is obviously good enough for government work!

The non-profit is called Advance Peace; it first started in Richmond, CA. In its own words, it seeks to inter-rupt gun violence in U.S. urban neighborhoods by providing transformational opportunities to young men involved in lethal firearm offenses and placing them in a high-touch, personalized fellowship. By working with and supporting a targeted group of individuals at the core of gun hostilities, Advance Peace bridges the gap between anti-violence programming and a hard-to-reach population at the center of violence in urban areas, thus breaking the cycle of gun hostilities and altering the trajectory of these men’s lives.

The New York Times did a story on this- “Building Trust Cuts Violence. Cash Also Helps” on Feb. 21, 2017, written by journalist Rikha Rani. Here are ver-batim excerpts from the piece:

Richmond police department officials had told DeVone Boggan, the director of the city’s Office of Neighborhood Safety, that they thought 17 men were responsible for 70 percent of the city’s gun crime. At the time, Richmond was among the most dangerous cities in the country. Its homicide rate had reached 46 per 100,000 residents — triple Chicago’s rate. At one point, the City Council had even considered declaring a state of emergency. Boggan asked each official to independently send him the names of the 17 men, an exercise that yielded 28 unduplicated names. In the three months it took to make contact with all of them, three died of gun related injuries. He invited the re-maining 25 to City Hall, and 21 showed up.

As of December 2016, 94% of Fellows remain alive, 83% have not sustained gun-related injuries or been hospitalized since becoming Fellows; and 75% are not a suspect in a new firearm crime since becoming a Fellow.

The Richmond program treats gun violence as an epi-demic disease that spreads by exposure to it. What’s

Uncle Sam Is A Lousy Father

By Andy Caldwell

statement. Probation and parole services rarely spend anytime with these convicts except to monitor the most basic conditions of their release back into society, such as, new offenses.

One troubling aspect of this program is that gang-bangers are involved in all sorts of criminal activities short of killing people. These activities include prosti-tution, narcotics, larceny, and gun running, just to name a few. Accordingly, the fact that they haven’t killed anybody lately is rather a low bar to meet to re-ceive a monthly stipend, don’t you think?

Most men trapped in cycles of crime and violence come from fatherless homes. The introduction of pos-itive male role models is certainly a factor in whatever success is being accomplished. The question is, why not spend more of our government money doing that, if in fact, this is an appropriate function of govern-ment? After all, this story is about a non-profit that is standing in the gap between government and crimi-nals in this case. The question here is can govern-ment repair the results of family dysfunction and moral rot?

The real solution and challenge is to break the cycle of unwed mothers and gangs raising these children before it begins. We have spent hundreds of billions of dollars failing to do just that ever since President Lyndon Johnson created his great society pro-grams. These programs actually served to accentu-ate the implosion of these family units. How so? Mothers only got the welfare check if no man was living in the household. The woman had to de-cide who was best suited to pay the bills, her Uncle Sam or her beau who couldn’t find or keep a job.



In yesterday’s piece, I shared the background of a

program in Sacramento that is based on a program in Richmond, California. The program offers cash to gang members for not killing anybody. I quoted ver-batim, at length, a piece that ran in the New York Times “Building Trust Cuts Violence. Cash Also Helps” on Feb. 21, 2017 written by journalist Rikha Rani.

In her concluding paragraph, she writes: “It’s tempting to attribute Operation Peacemaker’s success to its most controversial feature: cash. But that’s almost certainly an oversimplification. Data http://www.cahmi.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ACES-Richmond_Profile_102414.pdffrom the Bloomberg School of Public Health show that one in five children in Richmond has had at least two adverse childhood experiences — traumatic events that can have lasting effects on health and contribute to the perpetuation of violence by the affected individuals later on. Stipends, while a powerful financial incentive, are just one piece of a broader offensive to rehabilitate perpetrators of violence. Positive, caring relationships and exposure to people and places beyond their own conflict-prone communities often matter more.”

My thoughts on this program are mixed. On the one hand, crime is costing our society billions annually as we fail miserably to break cycles of lawlessness, in-cluding the societal cost of crime, incarceration, pro-bation and parole services, along with all the money that is spent subsidizing the family members of gang-bangers most often living on the government dole. To say what we are doing is not working is an under-

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Derailing Liberals’ Train Of Thought

By Andy Caldwell

and gender fluidity. To that end, let’s compare and contrast the Google controversy with the case of the young child in Orange County whose parents are su-ing a private school for not doing enough to accom-modate their child who is in transition from male to female.

As a way of background, one of the parents of this child is a Professor of feminist, transgender and queer theory (how convenient is that?). Of course, what the parents really are demanding is not accommodation but validation from the school and all the young class-mates of this child who can’t possibly embrace, under-stand or fathom that which befuddles and confounds most adults, including medical and psychiatric profes-sionals. These professionals consider the imposition of this transition a form of child abuse due to a num-ber of factors, not the least of which is the high num-ber of suicides of people who have undergone sex reassignment the world over.

Nevertheless, let’s consider the outrage regarding the assertion that men and women are biologically differ-ent with this demand to validate transsexuals along with those who consider themselves gender fluid. If there is no difference between the sexes, then what difference does gender identity make? In other words, why bother with surgeries and hormone thera-py if we are all the same? How can the left demand accommodation and validation of a transition that re-lies on enforcing gender stereotypes they detest in the first place?

Andy Caldwell is the executive director of COLAB


Progressives must be fraught with anxiety as they

hold in tension contradictory tenets of their faith and values, embracing goals which are simultaneously and mutually incompatible.

One glaring example of hypocrisy was the leadership role of Linda Sarsour in the Washington DC women’s march that took place during the Trump inauguration weekend. Ms. Sarsour is a proponent of Sharia law which renders women as the property of men. This glaring contradiction in values would serve to set the feminist movement back to the dark ages of Moham-med.

Ironically, hard-core feminists have defined consensu-al sex within a marriage as a form of rape due to their inordinate hatred and disrespect for men. Yet, in Muslim societies around the world, a women who is raped is often considered the guilty party for having been raped! Sharia law, on its face, therefore, should cause women’s libber’s heads to explode on con-tact. One would think the movement that burned bras would be burning hijabs, because, in no uncertain terms, it is impossible for authentic feminists to pre-tend to respect and tolerate Sharia law.

The same holds true for the LGBTQ crowd as we know their fate in Muslim-controlled countries is a vio-lent death. Yet, here in America, there has been an organized campaign to deconstruct our Judeo-Christian heritage by way of conflict, persecution and lawsuits while the Muslim community gets a free pass. That is to say, can you cite a single instance of a Muslim baker or florist being persecuted or prose-cuted for not providing professional services for a gay wedding? Have there been any demands of Mosques to ordain gays or accommodate gay worshippers of Allah?

Recently, I covered the story of the engineer from Google who was fired for believing that everything in our society cannot be explained by way of sex dis-crimination. Instead, he rightly believes the basic bio-logical differences between men and women cannot be understated while examining both societal and economic constructs throughout the world today. His remarks were considered an outrageous microaggres-sion by the left because they maintain that there are no differences between men and women.

Here too, the left can’t have it both ways, considering the current controversy surrounding transgenderism

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Where Family Dreams And Traditions Go To Die

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ation, Supervisor Hartmann did not refer to county staff to make her case against the project. She could-n’t do that because county staff was of the opinion that the project comported with all the county’s rules and regulations designed to prevent conversion of ag-zoned properties to non-ag uses. Supervisor Hart-mann instead relied on the Environmental Defense Center’s opposition letter to the board to come up with reasons as to why she felt the project should be de-nied.

Supervisor Das Williams, who has been known to lis-ten to reason, instead relied on his entirely subjective opinion that dividing the property into thirteen smaller farms and ranches was simply too much, albeit, he too, could not point to any objective criteria as the ba-sis of his decision. For, the fact of the matter is, the County’s Ag Preserve Advisory Committee and the preparer of the EIR, as well as, numerous ag experts, all testified that the size of the proposed farms and ranches were perfectly suited for continued ag uses.

Family farmers and ranchers with large holdings must be able to divide up ag parcels because none of their heirs can afford to pay the inheritance taxes on these properties. Now that the board has set this horrible precedent, these and other families will have no choice but to sell to corporations, trust funds, and ex-ceedingly wealthy estate owners. Ironically, these supervisors are killing family farms and ranches in the name of preserving ag! Mistakes happen. This pro-ject is worthy of reconsideration by the board!

Andy Caldwell is the executive director of COLAB


The Board of Supervisors failed to honor their own

land use code, zoning regulations, and the public pro-cess as they denied a couple of families the ability to subdivide their 4,000 acre ranch into 13 parcels. All the parcels would have remained in agriculture and the lots were intended to remain in the families.

These long-term residents spent twelve years and hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to get through the county’s process, doing absolutely everything that had been asked of them, including getting the approv-al of county staff, making it through the environmental review process, and gaining the support of both the County’s Agricultural Advisory Committee and the Santa Barbara County Cattlemen’s Association, only to have their project denied for arbitrary and capri-cious reasons.

I thought I was in the middle of a Twilight Zone epi-sode when Supervisor Joan Hartmann went off on a rant about the urbanization of Los Angeles in the 1960's. Whereas, I hate urban sprawl as much as the next person, her statements had nothing remotely to do with the project before the board. This project was not an urban subdivision! The applicants were willing to voluntarily enter into an ag conservation contract with the state of California that would last for the next 20 years. They were also willing to allow the county to change the zoning designation on the property to ensure that no further subdivisions of the property could take place.

What’s worse, is that at the end of the board’s deliber-

Adam Hill’s Political Games Hurt The Homeless

By Mike Brown

also described the expenditures on the homeless and the funding sources.

As best as can be determined per the pie chart below, the county spends a direct $6.6 million on the programs annually. This would be an average of $5,333 per individual.

Millions more are spent in the form of health care, behavioral health care, income maintenance, and social services, but data does not exist on how much of these county expenditures (largely federally and state funded) actually go to the homeless versus other categories of recipients. The total expenditures for these services are summarized in the table below. Thus for example, if the homeless received $10 million out of the total costs listed below, they would be receiving a total of $16.6 million (when the direct



During last week’s San Luis Obispo County Board

of Supervisors meeting, 3rd District Supervisor Adam Hill took another swipe at 4th District Supervisor Lynn Compton over her steady support for the construction of a new county animal shelter. During the meeting staff recommended that $3.8 of a positive $7 million budget surplus from last year be placed in a capital reserve fund that is being accumulated to construct the new shelter.

Hill’s ire erupted with a comment that Compton is advocating spending “more money on homeless animals than homeless people.”

Compton is known (and was well known before she became involved in electoral politics) as a staunch volunteer animal rescue person. Her home and yard are always filled with animals, including cats, horses, alpacas, and others.

In fact, she has achieved some renown around the state for rescuing sick and abused Persian cats and restoring them to health. Apparently the species is especially vulnerable as people misinterpret the serious look.

Hill went on to rail about the county’s lack of funding for improving the lot of the homeless. This seems bizarre inasmuch as recently as June 6 the board received an extensive staff report detailing exactly how much money the county does spend on the homeless persons.

It contained statistical information about the number and status of homeless people. The good news is that the numbers seem to be decreasing. The report


Two damaging memes in society seem innocuous

on the surface. The first is the belief that everyone can “make a difference”. The second is that every-body gets the same participation trophy regardless of the lack of merit or accomplishment associated with the award. Combined, witness the complete waste of time, energy and money being spent by local jurisdic-tions on reducing our greenhouse gas footprint, 60% of which is from transportation and building energy demands

The County of Santa Barbara has spent years as-sessing the carbon footprint of the unincorporated county to reduce the same. To satisfy state guide-lines, going back to 2007 outputs, the county is trying to reduce their greenhouse output by 15% or 190,000 metric tons of carbon. Funny thing is, by the time the Board of Supervisors received the progress report, the state had moved the goal posts! California now wants a 40% reduction!

Consider the fact that state mandates will require our utility providers to produce 50% of our energy from renewables. This will automatically reduce every-one’s footprint. That, plus the state’s cap and trade program, building energy efficiency mandates, and required technology forcing cars to both higher mpg and lower emissions. In other words, state mandates guarantee our carbon footprint will decrease over time. Anything the county adds is superfluous, espe-cially considering the following facts.

Realistically, the goal of this effort must be to prevent “global” climate change. So, let’s discuss the broader picture. California generates 440 million tons of greenhouse gases. That means the county is trying to reduce California’s output by 0.5% percent! In that regard, if the county were to disappear tomorrow, 99.5% of California greenhouse gases would continue unabated. But, wait, there is more.

China emits 8.5 billion tons of carbon every year! That equates to 25% of the emissions of the entire world. That is more than all of the United States and Europe combined, and there is no hope whatsoever that China is going to slow down anytime soon, not to mention India and Pakistan! California thereby represents a mere five percent of China’s emissions. The county represents .011% of China’s output.

Finally, here is the ultimate we-can-make-a-difference meme dream killer! All of these regulations and man-dates have served to shift United States manufactur-ing and industrial output to China, meaning 25% of China’s emissions are emitted producing consumer goods for America. What that means is that by creat-ing these tough greenhouse and pollution reduction standards, we simply shifted emissions to Chi-na. Therefore, we’ve achieved nothing!

The brutal truth is that all of the emission reductions California has achieved have been rendered null and void by the growth of output in China, generated in part for our own consumption! We are back to square one, yet, nonetheless, the county still wants a partici-pation trophy! The only trophy they deserve is the infamous flying-fickle-finger-of-fate award!

This week, I have highlighted the South County’s de-crease in bus rider ship, the conclusion that Commu-nity Choice Aggregation is not feasible and today, the fact that all efforts to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions is being totally eclipsed by China, in addi-tion to other developing nations.

Nonetheless, don’t expect any of these facts to dis-suade decision makers from going full steam ahead on their plans to try and force us to quit using hydroe-lectric, nuclear, oil, coal and natural gas energy sources for our daily living requirements. Because saving the planet from climate change is a religious endeavor, none of this needs to make any sense. Faith alone in the cause is all that matters re-gardless of merit, cost or outcomes. Can I get an amen?


What’s Green And Superfluous?

By Andy Caldwell

An Epitaph For Socialized Energy

By Andy Caldwell

The study indicates the average cost of power procurement for the CCA rises as more renewable energy content is added because renewable generation is forecast to be more expensive than alternative non-renewable resources, despite a slight downward trend in renewable energy prices. Local electricity costs could increase on average from 40 to100% higher depending on how much renewable energy was in the order.

The conclusion of the study? The two primary factors driving forecasted feasibility results for the CCA include: 1) the competitiveness of CCA rates against PG&E and SCE rates; and 2) the long-term financial viability of the enterprise. Under all participation scenarios, because the rate comparisons show most rate classes paying more for power supplied by the CCA than from the incumbent utilities and because the CCA does not maintain sufficient revenues and working capital throughout the study period, the CCA is deemed infeasible!



Thanks to a big push from the County of Santa

Barbara, the tri-counties studied a plan to have government become the proverbial middleman between you and your electricity provider. In the south, our provider is Southern California Edison (SCE). In the north, the provider is PG and E.

The program is called Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) and it has the potential to collapse the public private partnership that currently delivers our electricity by way of franchise agreements. In essence, the goal of the program is to require our electricity providers to deliver power to our region from renewable sources in excess of state mandates.

For instance, the City of Santa Barbara could require SCE to deliver 100% renewable energy, meaning SCE could no longer sell energy it produces from hydro-electric. That leaves SCE with a very expensive white elephant on its hands! For this very reason, this trendy push for CCA is one of the reasons PG and E is decommissioning Diablo Nuclear Power Plant!

The study indicated that electricity consumption is forecasted to grow moderately, however, the continued customer adoption of consumer and business rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) is expected to offset this growth. The increasing amount of PV also creates more volatile customer load due to the variable nature of its energy output. Solar generation depends on solar irradiance, which can fluctuate significantly over very short periods of time (within seconds) due to weather patterns and resulting cloud cover. In summary, a Central Coast Power CCA would likely sell less electricity each year given customer PV adoption.

Moreover, the study revealed that due to variability in renewable generation for both utility scale resources and customer-owned PV, costs could be prohibitive. The Tri-County Region average around $36 per megawatt-hour (MWh). However, the range of prices around that mean varied greatly, reaching a high of $4,377 per MWh during shortages of supply relative to demand, and a low of -$1,277 per MWh— meaning we actually end up paying participants to take power—when supply exceeds demand! The high level of PV penetration in California, combined with solar and wind energy’s variable nature, accounts for much of this market volatility.

Who Is America’s God?

By Andy Caldwell

way of global warming. Funny thing is, these half-wits may be half-right, if you believe the bible, as it too predicts the earth will burn up in the end, but not because of either Donald Trump or carbon-loading the atmosphere!

The biblical command to be fruitful, multiply and subdue the earth is now moribund. Instead, our society eschews marriage and child-bearing, and the thought of subduing the earth is now considered anathema. In fact, radical environmentalists consider mankind to be a cancer to the earth. It is man that must be subdued in every way imaginable, including human reproduction, water, food and energy production, and the creation and enjoyment of living spaces.

For hundreds of years, we asked God to bless America and America blessed God. How I believe the times are changing.



How is it that so many Americans hate

America? That is, how can so many people fail to understand, let alone appreciate, what our founding fathers gave us by way of their knowledge and faith?

Our founding fathers recognized self-evident truths and unalienable rights, both of which originate with God, as the foundation of our nation. What does that mean in practical terms and why is this so incredibly important? If your rights come from man, then man can abridge your rights. If your rights come from God, they are unalienable, unless you give them up!

These foundational cornerstones of our existence cannot be undervalued or understated, yet America is now alienated from these basic truths rooted in a Judeo-Christian world view, as we are living in a post-Christian era dominated and controlled by a secular world view with pagan roots. Another way of putting this is that we are in the midst of a culture war where the roots and fruits of Western Civilization are being rejected and destroyed. For what?

Consider the assault on our unalienable right of free speech. The Antifa movement employs violence as an acceptable response to speech they consider hateful while cops are ordered to stand down in the midst of subsequent violence and anarchy.

Ironically, progressives stand ready and willing to embrace and tolerate Islamic fundamentalism, i.e. Sharia law, rooted in a theology emanating from the dark ages. This is due to the fact that the enemy of today’s progressives is nothing less than Western Civilization, and the enemy of their enemy is their friend. Of course, this makes no sense whatsoever as Sharia law is the enemy of virtually all things progressive! But, I repeat myself. We are no longer living in an age of reason based on self-evident truths.

Our subsequent world view posits that truth is relative and our rights come from government and those willing to employ violence to gain power like Antifa. Man and nature have now become the objects of our devotion by way of hedonism, narcissism, and along with it, earth worship.

To wit, Hollywood actress, Jennifer Lawrence, positing that recent natural disasters are Mother Nature’s rage against Donald Trump! Enviros like Ms. Lawrence are predicting the end of the earth by

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Here we have a fractured fairy tale written for the

mental midgets of Munchkinville!

A couple of oil companies are proceeding through a thick forest in the valley of death, aka, the county per-mitting process. This process, also known as the black hole of environmental review, is home to three goblins: regulations, conditions of approval, and miti-gation measures, oh my! But, that is only the begin-ning of their woes! That is because Santa Barbara County is home to three camps of flying, lying mon-keys aptly named CAUSE, CLUE and SBCAN. These attacking monkeys seek to whisk away all job and rev-enue producers away to a very dark place, the castle of the Witch of Food and Water Watch!

By cunning and deceit, the wicked witch cast a spell on the residents of Munchkinville, so that they would turn against the sojourners, even though all the citi-zenry depended on the products produced by them each and every day. In addition to oil operations, the witch and her monkeys also oppose farming and ranching operations too.

The Witch of Food and Water Watch seeks to con-vince the Munchkins that they can trust no one but her and her flying, lying monkeys. They even go so far as to accuse the Wizard of Odd, aka Jerry Brown, of hav-ing been bought off by farmers and oil companies, so that they can pollute with immunity! According to their darkened world view, our air, water and planet must be protected from food and energy producers, along with consumers (that means you!).

The witch and her flying, lying monkeys biggest weap-on? Confuse the Munchkins with a whopper of a lie, likening carbon to air pollution. Of course, carbon is anything but pollution as the planet would die without it! Lost on the Munchkins was the fact that every breath they take involves carbon! Moreover, carbon is miracle grow for plants which means more food for everybody!

The witch has gone so far as to accuse farmers of conspiring with the oil industry, to contaminate our food and water supplies, to make a profit at the ex-pense of the people’s health and safety. Unfortunate-ly, the mental midgets of Munchkinville don’t not know enough to recognize the delusion. They did not real-ize a farmer would never knowingly allow his water or

Beware Of Flying Monkeys

By Andy Caldwell

produce to be polluted as he would lose the farm be-ing subject to both prosecution and extreme liability.

The witch on watch also accused farmers of using the people’s water to grow food for export to all the peo-ple living in Odd and beyond, as if that was a bad thing! The wicked witch duped the Munchkins again! They don’t realize that people living in cities and cold climates need us to grow their food.

Finally, with regard to saving the planet, the witch and her monkeys convinced the Munchkins that a reliable and affordable form of energy wasn’t all that important in the grander scheme of things. They convinced the people that intermittent wind and solar was the way to go. This despite the fact that we can’t produce the power from these sources when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining, nor can we store it.

How unfortunate that Munchkinville took for granted oil, a natural, inexpensive and safe power supply, not to mention myriads of byproducts essential to our quality of life including plastics, polyesters, and even the tires on their Prius. And, now, the Munchkins have been left wondering why local schools and gov-ernments are going broke, not realizing the property taxes lost as a result of the artificially-contrived prem-ature death of these legacy businesses.


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needs of the city.

Having said that, Cathy Murillo, represents more of the same, that is, she is what’s wrong with city poli-tics. She has no business experience and she and her fellow far left progressives would rather organize marches and protests to score political points rather than pay the bills, fix the roads and water lines, and help the economy. Moreover, Ms. Murillo pretends that any and all problems can be solved with endless talk and tax hikes! Suffice it to say, that approach is not working!

With respect to Hal Conklin, well, haven’t we already been there and done that? The city may have seen better days during his years of service long ago, but that was before the pension tsunami engulfed local government and the city was financially benefitting by milking redevelopment monies. Moreover, back then the city council had the opportunity and means to stave off the problems engulfing us now and they did nothing!

The wildcard in this race is Angel Martinez. A political neophyte with a business background, he would be my second choice based on his apparent utter disdain for bureaucracy and obfuscation. That said, my reti-cence to support him is due to his lack of experi-ence. That, plus his embrace of trendy elitist environ-mental goals which hurt the poor and the working class.



One month from now, Santa Barbara will mail out

ballots to voters for the upcoming municipal elec-tion. In light of the fact that a significant number of people vote within days of receiving their ballot, it be-hooves voters to now vet the candidates in earnest.

The four leading candidates for mayor are current city council members Frank Hotchkiss and Cathy Murillo, former Mayor Hal Conklin, and political newcomer An-gel Martinez. Presumably, Bendy White is also run-ning but he must be running a stealth race as I could-n’t find anything about his candidacy!

Although the mayor does not have any more power than other members of the city council, it is the mayor who typically represents the city on regional boards such as the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments which is very important concerning such issues as the 101 widening project!

The Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce website features an excellent question and answer session with each of the candidates on the issues of infra-structure financing including the proposed sales tax that will be on this same ballot, short term rentals, the myriad problems associated with State Street, afford-able housing, city finances, pension liability, the 101 widening project, our water situation, economic devel-opment, the funk zone, parking, energy, and public transportation. As you can see, much is at stake.

I don’t like Santa Barbara’s winner-take-all general election. I would rather voters have the opportunity in both a primary and general election. In other words, I believe it would be better to have an early election contest from whence the top two vote-getters emerge into a final run-off election. Why? With five candi-dates in the race, if the outcome is close, the success-ful candidate may have only garnered as little as 20% of the votes cast. Having said that, this is the one and only opportunity fiscally conservative voters in the city have a chance to win!

I would rate Frank Hotchkiss as the best choice and Cathy Murillo as the worst. Frank is the fiscal con-servative in this race, and he is a proven quantity, bringing business acumen, practical experience and common sense to the dais. He will be the mayor we need that will eschew the temptation to tilt at all sorts of ideological windmills while ignoring the practical

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house. Further complicating this real estate equation is the desire of the county to limit the size of houses on rural lands, especially along our coast!

Understanding these things brings us to the real killer of family-owned farms and ranches in our region and that has to do with the inheritance taxes levied on properties. In other words, whereas, trying to buy ag land is cost-prohibitive, leaving property to heirs is even more expensive, again, because of the potential estate values associated with the property! That is to say, the inheritance tax passed onto the next genera-tion will more often than not exceed the income value from agriculture production on the property. The sal-vation of local farming families? Sell off a piece of the ground, by way of a lot split, to pay the taxes, if the county will let you, and that is a big “if”.

Additional challenges for agriculture include weather, as a couple of bad days can ruin a year’s worth of in-vestment and work, pesticide regulations, labor short-ages, regulations affecting the availability of water, minimum wage and overtime ordinances, domestic and foreign competition, and land use restrictions on coolers, wineries, and greenhouses.

Our farmers deserve all the help we can give them.



In my capacity as the executive director of COLAB,

the Coalition of Labor, Agriculture and Business of Santa Barbara County, I regret to inform you that agri-culture on the Central Coast is in peril due to a multi-tude of reasons, many of which are inflicted by those who say they support agriculture!

The most basic truth about agriculture lost on the community at large is the fact that agriculture does not exist to provide bucolic views and open space to our community, although these are legitimate ancillary benefits of living in a rural county. Rather, agricultural lands are a business operation, many of which lose money on a regular basis! In the case of cattle ranching, the operations scarcely ever make mon-ey. People who still run cattle on their property do so because they love the experience, lifestyle and tradi-tion. They make their living doing something else.

The second thing you need to know is that the cost of the land determines the use of the land. In Carpinteria, for example, agricultural land can cost $200,000 per acre. The only form of farming that can sustain the carrying cost of land at this price are greenhouse operations. This has to do with the num-ber and value of crops that can be grown in a green-house on relatively small parcels.

On the other end of the spectrum, much of the land throughout the rest of the county has no water, poor soils, and steep slopes- its primary use is therefore going to be cattle grazing. This land is typically worth less than $5,000 per acre. However, cattle operations require hundreds, if not, thousands of acres. Hence, the minimal parcel size for these lands are typically 100-320 acres in size.

If you do the math, you come to the realization that agriculture is an expensive proposition if you don’t own your land outright. What is worse is that the val-ue of ag lands in our county are not solely determined by the agricultural production value of the land. In-stead, thanks to all the rich people who want to live in our rural areas, real estate is valued in terms of estate-style living. That is to say, the tax man looks at the value of the land as an adjunct to the value of the house on the property, meaning it is taxed as a house with lots of land, not as a farm or ranch with a

Rain, Rain, Go Away?

By Andy Caldwell

of millions of dollars it would take for a thorough emer-gency hydro-mulch effort that would require applica-tion by helicopter due to the steep terrain. The refusal to pay is presumably due to the fact that the infra-structure that would be saved is not their property or responsibility.

The values, goals, and policies which serve to protect brush is foolishly preserving fuel for fires and setting us up for ravaging flood damage. Recognizing the fact that Mother Nature is not benign, rather she is in fact a serial killer, means we have a moral right, duty and obligation to protect nature from itself and to pro-tect human life and property from her ravages.



Fools set us up for fires and fires set us up for

floods. People suffer and die. Property and infra-structure gets destroyed. And, the cycle repeats itself again and again. Hence, we have a serious problem on our hands. If our local drought finally ends this year, the timing couldn’t be worse! This is due to re-percussions from the Whittier fire. In many respects, the aftermath of the fire is our just comeuppance since we have done precious little to break this cycle of fires, floods and fools.

For decades, our policies towards nature have posited that a hands-off approach towards managing the eco-system is the environmentally sensitive thing to do, even though Mother Nature is brutish. Rational man-agement of the wildlands, going back to the practices of Native Americans, included introducing fire on a regular basis to keep our forests healthy by limiting the growth of underbrush. Our modern worldview, however, considers nature sacrosanct. It prevents us from managing the fuel leading to out-of-control wild-fires that not only burn the trees and brush, but it also sterilizes the ground, meaning nothing will grow until the soil has a chance to recover.

As a result, we have tens of thousands of acres of land completely denuded of vegetation with soil so damaged that it will not support the regrowth of vege-tation for several years to come. What this means in practical terms is that there is nothing to hold fire ash, soil, debris and rocks in place in the event of rain storms. What’s more, this habitat that burned during the Whittier fire is adjacent to vital infrastructure, namely, the South County’s main drinking water sup-ply source, Lake Cachuma, and the only two travel corridors heading North from Santa Barbara, the 101 freeway and Highway 154.

If we get heavy rains, you can bet there are going to be debris flows and rock slides galore on both sides of the mountains. The ash flowing down the hill side will make Cachuma water undrinkable. Rocks and debris will plug up the culverts beneath the 101 and the 154 which in turn will cause the roadways to be washed out. The potential for damage is nothing less than catastrophic.

Whereas, much of the land that burned belongs to the federal government, they have informed the Board of Supervisors that they are not going to spend the tens

Taxpayers Getting Taken For A Ride

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alone commuters! How irresponsible is it, that these colleges can grow and grow and grow while dumping the impact of their student body on the rest of the community? Of course, it is not just the parking needs of the students that are not being met. Neither is there enough student housing on campus to ac-commodate students.

The South County alone, by way of Measure A, our current extra one-half cent sales tax measure, will dedicate $77,463,000 for Transit operations, $36,060,000 for South County Transit Capital, and $38,924,000 for Interregional Transit. That, plus, an-other $33 million for commuter rail to serve the resi-dents of Ventura who work here. That’s $185 million total used to subsidize services most people aren’t interested in using!



The Santa Barbara Metropolitan Bus District has

announced something startling! Ridership has dropped nearly 20% in the last four years! The district contributes the loss on a number of factors including the relative recovery of the economy, lower gas pric-es, affordable car loan rates, lower immigration rates, and even the price of housing as it is inducing people to move!

What is the one thing they won’t admit too? People in California love their cars, flexibility, independence and solitude. Most people only want to use public trans-portation when they have no choice. Hence, social engineers are always trying to figure out ways to force people to take buses, by way of subsidies, bribes and public shaming. Obviously, this approach isn’t work-ing so well!

One of the most insidious means by which they seek to force us out of our cars is by way of refusing to wid-en streets and freeways or by building enough parking lots to accommodate our needs. In other words, our so-called public servants want to punish us for using our cars by increasing congestion and limiting parking spaces forcing us to change our habits and prefer-ences. This is nothing new. Years ago, I fought a plan by the City of Santa Barbara to synchronize the stop lights for the purpose of increasing congestion!

Now, for the rest of the story. When will taxpayers realize that we are spending millions of dollars every year subsidizing UCSB and City college students by way of paying for bus service? That is, one-third of the bus riders in the South County are college stu-dents! UCSB offers free rides to students paid for by registration fees. However, these buses still run on subsidies.

To understand how we are subsidizing bus fares, you have to understand the concept of fare box recov-ery. What is that? Even though MTD asks people to pay for a bus ride, each ride is subsidized by taxpay-ers as the fare is not enough to cover the cost of the service. If these students had to pay their own full cost for a ride, most of these buses would be empty except for one very important reason. There are not enough parking spots on campus!

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Mayes to resign his post.

Republicans weren’t just angry that Mayes voted for a measure expected to raise gasoline prices by as much as 63 cents a gallon by 2021 (based on a Legis-lative Analyst’s Office review). They fumed that he got nothing for it. He didn’t rein in the ham-fisted Califor-nia Air Resources Board, which gains expansive new powers in the deal. He didn’t tout intelligent alterna-tives, such as a revenue-neutral carbon tax that would reduce emissions without raising anyone’s taxes.

He rolled over. Then he was ubiquitous at Democratic photo-ops celebrating the “victory.” He basked in the praise of former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who called him the future of the Republican Party. Never mind the bleak future that Schwarzenegger mapped out for the party when he was governor. Mayes unctu-ously lectured Republicans about the party “repelling” voters and becoming “more insular and ideologically pure.” He said the GOP needs to “begin to move to-



The newly announced California Assembly’s Re-

publican leadership team is, as I reported, a “who’s who” of “Republicans in name only” (RINOs) — a poke in the eye of party activists. No matter how riled the party’s dwindling number of voters become, it’s clear that GOP leaders are doubling down on the kinder, gentler approach that has left them with only 25 percent of the state’s electorate. They may soon be surpassed by “decline to state.”

This internal party vote is significant because, just as the moribund party had been showing signs of life, its own leaders scuttled the progress the party had made in taking advantage of widespread public anger at tax-hiking transportation votes.

In July, California GOP Assembly Leader Chad Mayes of Yucca Valley and six of his Assembly col-leagues voted to extend the governor’s cost-raising cap-and-trade system that’s designed to fight global warming. In response, GOP county officials and grassroots leaders called for his removal from the leadership position. Rumblings turned into a groundswell, and in late August, the GOP caucus fi-nally replaced Mayes with Brian Dahle, from a small town east of Redding.

Dahle was far from the most conservative legislator vying for the position, but Mayes’ ouster was seen as a win for the conservative base. There seemed, final-ly, to be a price to pay. But Dahle’s leadership ros-ter features none other than Chad Mayes as assistant Republican leader. Dahle elevated Rocky Chavez of Oceanside, arguably the most liberal Republican in the Legislature, to the No. 2 slot of deputy Republican leader. (Chavez has a 75 out of 100 rating from Planned Parenthood and a 29 percent rating from the California Labor Federation.)

The leadership team also includes another supporter of the cap-and-trade, Heath Flora of Ripon, who was named assistant Republican leader. He’s closely al-lied with the state’s labor unions and won his seat with strong union support. The other choices are unlikely to ruffle any feathers, but include none of the mem-bers favored by conservatives. Dahle didn’t even throw them a bone.

It’s hard to read these appointments as anything other than a loud, public rebuke of those who pressured

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ward Californians.” It had the feel of someone angling for a “strange new respect” award.

Sure, there’s always a need for serious debate about how — or even whether — the state GOP can be-come relevant again. I’m not a defender, or even a member, of the GOP. But the party has become far less ideological and insular in the years I’ve been cov-ering it.

It’s hard to argue seriously that today’s California GOP is a right-wing hothouse oblivious to changes in the electorate or that it hasn’t gone to great lengths to broaden its message. Actually, there are only a hand-ful of philosophically minded conservatives left in ei-ther caucus. And, besides, leaders need to inspire people to follow a set of principles and policies, not hector them about their failures.

Furthermore, Mayes bumbled the game of politics. Mayes’ critics say he “tactically should have insisted that all politically vulnerable Democrats vote for the controversial bill before any Republicans did,” wrote Los Angeles Times’ columnist George Skelton. Indeed. Sadly, the GOP’s eager support for the bill allowed Democrats in GOP-heavy districts to vote “no” and then position themselves as the voice of the taxpayer in the next election.

“That was a mistake,” Skelton concluded. It certainly was, and it is unforgiveable for a party leader whose key role is to elect more Republicans. The GOP’s pick-up of a single seat in each house is all that’s needed right now to deprive the Democrats of their superma-jority. That should be the leadership’s top priority, giv-en that supermajorities can raise taxes at will. Instead, Mayes has made it easier for one vulnerable Orange County Assembly Democrat in particular to fight to retain her seat.

Mayes’ efforts also takes the steam out of a GOP ef-fort to recall an Orange County Democratic senator who cast a deciding vote for a 12-cents-a-gallon gas-tax hike in April. It’s hard to drum up support to recall a guy who voted for that hike, while Republican lead-ers are patting themselves on the back for a move that raises gas prices by five times that amount.


The state GOP is in an unwinnable pickle, and there’s no clear solution. But at least Republican activists now know what the new Assembly leadership thinks of them. They can make of that what they will.

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Sexual Revolutionaries And Cultural Marxists Infiltrating Our Schools Cont.

state to allow transgender students to use bathrooms, and participate on sports teams, that match the gen-der they identify with, among other changes in state law.

“It’s like race or religion or ethnicity. It’s a protected class but it’s not sex ed so parents actually don’t have the opportunity to opt out and it would be illegal for the school to make it possible to opt out,” said Elizabeth Ashford, a former Deputy Attorney General under AG Kamala Harris. Ashford now works for Public Rela-tions firm Fiona Hutton and Associates, hired by Rocklin Academy to run interference. Many parents are questioning why Rocklin academy hired a high-powered PR firm to address this.

California Family Council Director Greg Burt disa-grees with Ashford. “It does not prohibit an opt-out provision for school districts, so for them to say that is just disingenuous,” Burt said in response to Ashford’s statement.

The school board voted to not to change their current literature policy, which includes transgender charac-ters, and said it will “endeavor” to notify parents about controversial topics. “The school is going to endeavor to do that,” Ashford said. “If they can’t get to it ahead of it, they will try to inform the parents after the fact.” It is astounding and arrogant that Ashford thinks this is an acceptable answer.

The board also struck down a proposal to allow par-ents to opt out of gender identity topics in class.

In August, when the issue first was made public, FOX40 news addressed the controversy in an article:

“Most people have a sense of their gender identity at age 3 or 4,” Jo Michael, legislative manager at Equali-ty California, told FOX40. Michael, a transgender male himself, says early education is key. “It’s im-portant to note that the other students really do need to have that opportunity to engage and hear from the transgender student,” he said. Other experts disagree. American College of Pediatricians President Michelle Cretella says the science is far from conclusive. She



today is a psychologically disturbed 16-year-old boy who thinks he’s a girl, and has been raised as a girl since early childhood.

In 2015, Jessica Herthel, co-author of “I am Jazz,” was invited by a school district in Wisconsin to read from the book, reported Austin Ruse, president of C-FAM (Center for Family & Human Rights). Herthel, a Harvard-educated lawyer and LGBT activist, is asso-ciated the Stonewall National Museum and Archives, which claims to “promote understanding through pre-serving and sharing the culture of lesbian, gay, bisex-ual and transgender people and their role in society,” but really infiltrates and foists the homosexual agenda into American schools.

What Herthel and other radical sexual revolutionaries don’t tell you is that Jazz Jennings and other “trans” kids take radical drug treatments and hormone block-ers. Jazz has been on them for so long he/she is too underdeveloped for a surgical sex change.

Some children are going through formalized medical procedures to halt puberty — before the age of 14. One Bay Area child recently underwent a medical pro-cedure to implant a tiny device in his arm that pumps medications through the body to stop the effects of puberty.

Ironically the radical left protests pumping hormones into cattle and poultry, yet they applaud when it’s done to a child.

Jennings describes his/her dating life, as “still explor-ing” her sexuality and calls him/herself “pansexual.”

What is California Law on ‘Gender Identity?’

California law allows parents to opt out of sex educa-tion, but “gender identity” doesn’t qualify under that category.

California state law (Cal. Ed. Code section 200 et seq.) says: “No person shall be subjected to discrimi-nation on the basis of disability, gender, gender identi-ty, gender expression…” Cal. Ed. Code § 220 was amended by the California Legislature in 2012 under Assembly Bill 1266, authored by openly gay activist Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco). The bill was known as the “School Success and Oppor-tunity Act,” and required public schools throughout the


Adam Hill’s Political Games Hurt The Homeless Cont.

inflicted, they would happily eke out a living doing whatever crummy menial jobs are available at the bottom end of the economic ladder.

While possibly well intended, this strategy fails to recognize that having permanent, decent, and secure shelter is an important component of not aggravating mental illness. It is also a necessary support to recovering from alcohol or drug abuse.

With only about 1,200 homeless individuals in the whole county, you would think the county government could solve the housing problem by approving homeless vehicle parks, “little houses,” small manufactured home parks, low income single-room occupancy apartments, and so forth.

Of course this would be too dangerous politically, because the facilities would have to be located somewhere. Those “somewheres” would offend NIMBY’S, environmentalists, and other elites to whom Hill and his alt left buddies pander.

Moreover, if the problem were actually solved, there would be no need for a variety of homeless-serving agencies, county jobs, and endless handwringing. In

effect, solving the problem would undermine an industry.

The sign in the photo to the right expresses the political left’s true approach to homelessness, in this case in a city politically dominated by a well-recognized leftist oligarchy.

If a huge earthquake destroyed most of the housing stock in San Luis Obispo and the five cities area, trailers, mobile homes, and other special units would



known expenditures are added in).

This would then amount to about $14,755 per person per year.

Note that this figure does not contain direct expenditures from the federal and state governments that some of these individuals are receiving, such as Social Security, Supplemental Social Security, disability payments, veterans’ benefits, or Medicare payments to providers on their behalf.

All this information was generated in the first place because Supervisor Hill keeps whining that the county isn’t doing enough for the homeless. He continuously postures that adding funding for road maintenance or state mandated groundwater management erodes the funding for the homeless. Now it’s the animals that are the problem.

It would seem not to be the case.

As we have noted in the past, homelessness is a state of not having permanent shelter. A significant problem is that since the 1980’s, instead of dealing with the fundamental concept of housing as shelter, government trendiology has taken the therapeutic approach.

Under this approach government policy makers, bureaucrats, and not-for-profits have determined that instead of building housing, they will cure the underlying causes of homelessness, which they regard primarily as mental illness, alcohol abuse, and drug abuse. They assume that if persons were not afflicted with these maladies, two of which are self-


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be installed in weeks, housing tens of thousands. Where is Hill’s motion to direct staff to prepare a physical and fiscal triage plan to house only 1,200? I’m sure each city and each unincorporated urban village in the county would take their proportionate share.


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told FOX40 in a statement: “Having an authority figure teach the myth that a child can be trapped in the wrong body will potentially lead to fear that they aren’t the sex their bodies clearly indicate.”

Equality California is a radical LGBT lobbying organization, and no “expert” as FOX40 suggests. However, the doctor is an expert. “Teaching transgender ideology to children amounts to child abuse,” Dr. Cretella said. “It dis-rupts normal cognitive development, and leads many children down the path of unnecessary and dangerous hor-mone treatments and surgeries. The reactions of fear and confusion among young children exposed to gender bending story books and cross-dressing demonstrations similar to what happened at Rocklin School are predicta-ble.”

Cretella refers to Dr. Lawrence Kohlberg’s Cognitive Developmental Theory of Gender Identity, which states that while most children correctly identify their sex by age 3, most children under age 7 do not understand that sex is permanent. Katy Grimes, Investigative Reporter and Senior Correspondent at FLASHREPORT


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