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FROM THE CALIFORNIA GLOBE

KATY GRIMES – EDITOR – FEBRUARY 4th,  2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom: How to Destroy California in Two Terms

The one thing Newsom is good at is destroying the Golden State

If I was the leftist governor of the largest state in the U.S. and my unspoken goal and unholy plan was to destabilize and destroy my state, there are certain policies I would impose, and executive orders I’d make, while insulating myself from my own policies:

Cut water off to rural areas in the state; remove dams and hydroelectric plants.

Limit water deliveries to farmers and ranchers, forcing farmers and ranchers to shut down.

Create a housing shortage.

Raise the minimum wage so high, restaurant owners are forced to lay off employees.

Pass policies killing manufacturing.

Pass policies bolstering a service economy.

Vilify first, then destroy the petroleum industry.

Limit energy production to solar and wind renewable energy only.

Force people out of their traditional internal combustion engine cars into electric vehicles, and on to public transportation.

Order all internal combustion cars banned by 2035.

Mandate an all-electric state, including autos and trucks.

Keep hiking gas taxes.

Impose a mileage tax.

Allow the California High Speed Rail scheme to continue bilking taxpayers, with no tracks or trains yet, but has ballooned in cost to well over $100 billion. And approve another $20 billion in funding, fall 2025. It’s a public employee union jobs program and political consultant scam expected to grow to $350 billion if ever completed.

Install thousands of floating offshore wind turbines at a cost of $150 billion.

Legalize drugs.

Legalize sex with minors.

Legalize abortion up to baby’s birth.

Authorize more tribal gambling casinos.

Destroy the public education system by watering down actual disciplines of math and English, while sending your own children to private schools.

Outlaw School Choice Scholarships

Promote affirmative action, racial preferences, DEI over merit.

Create fake crises that waste billion$ like climate change and reparations.

Infringe on the people’s right to keep and bear arms by passing laws which nibble around the edges of the 2nd Amendment, creating defacto gun control.

Stop prosecuting crime.

Decriminalize certain crimes, resulting in emptying out state prisons.

Lose $37 billion in homeless funding/spending to shady non-profits and NGOs.

Lose $31 billion to unemployment fraud.

Allow massive hospice and home‑health fraud in Los Angeles.

Allow the California Department of Insurance to devastate the insurance market and drive the state to the edge of collapse.

Create and pass a mid-decade redistricting scheme ahead of the 2026 midterm elections to secure more Democrat seats in Congress by redrawing district maps, or “gerrymandering” numerous California Republicans out of their congressional districts.

Raise corporate taxes to discourage businesses from expanding.

Raise taxes and fees on public services and energy.

Raise income taxes on all income brackets.

Make it easier for local governments to raise taxes.

Impose a wealth tax.

Impose a death tax.

Impose a 5% billionaire’s tax on their assets.

Force doctors to comply with state medical directives; punish those who refuse to comply.

Allow hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants into the state.

Provide free welfare, medical benefits, free housing and food, free education, and even home loans to illegal immigrants.

Provide state-issued ID to illegal immigrants.

>> There is more >>>>>>> For the complete article go to the California Globe website – 

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Bob Bandy – February 2026

 

 

 

BILBO WAGGINS – BORDER COLLIE  & PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP

Just for fun.  I mentioned to some friends the other day that in some ways our President, Donald Trump, reminds me of my daughters Border Collie.

To explain.  Owners of Border Collies will tell you they are intelligent and very high energy dogs.  They seem to never get tired.  When I spend the day with Bilbo, my daughters Border Collie, I find myself at the end of the day often exhausted trying to keep up with his activity level.  He wants to play tug, ball or anything else that requires activity.  We keep his “toys” in a basket.  He will bring you a toy from the basket and if you do not want to play with him, he will go get another toy and keep doing this till you give up and play.  Did I mention that today Bilbo is a seven year old hyper active “puppy”?

A bit of history.  When Bilbo was just under a year old, one day we, and our daughter, wanted to go on an outing.  We left Bilbo at a Dog Day Care Center.  It was essentially a very large warehouse with handlers that “entertained” dogs in large monitored play groups (no aggressive dogs allowed).  Video cameras were in place so that you could watch your dog at play on your cell phone if you so desired.  When we were some miles down the road, the “Doggie” place called my daughter on her cell phone and said “Look at what your dog Bilbo is doing”!  When my daughter looked on her cell phone she saw that Bilbo had “herded” all the other dogs into a group in the center of the room.  We found this almost unbelievable as she had given him no training in this and he was not yet quite a year old. Breeding? Instinct?

If  you would like to see a Border Collie at work go on YouTube  and search under “Border Collies Herding Sheep”.  They are amazing dogs with boundless energy.

I find our President, Donald Trump seems to have the same kind of energy as Border Collies display.  Like him or hate him, He has an amazing work ethic.  Especially for  a man of his age.  He seems to never get tired.  I find much of his agenda I am in agreement with.  For example, his administration is working hard to stop child mutilation in the cause of gender identity at the hands of “Gender Groupie Predators”.  Many other things he works on I also agree with (I am not a Republican or Democrat but I am conservative).  Some issues I disagree with him on but….. I am amazed at his energy level.  I have gotten to the point that I find myself avoiding “News” Broadcasts, not because I dislike what is being reported, but because it exhausts me to try to keep up with his endeavors here at home and around the world.  At the end of  the “News” I feel like I have spent an entire day trying to keep up with Bilbo! 

For a sort of related fun time – Read : The Ransom of Red Chief – a short story by O. Henry

Bob Bandy – January 2026

A little over three years ago I wrote and published what I consider one of the most important articles I have written.  I followed it with several related pieces that focused on LGBTQ+ related “Transgender” (Pretender) group predators grooming and recruiting grade school children for “Gender” “Identity” transformation, including “Physical/Surgical” mutilation Services.  This I believe is monstrous.  I can only hope when these children grow up they pursue legal redress, including punitive punishment, against those who destroyed their childhood and future happiness.  A reprint of the article follows and if you type Protecting the most Vulnerable in the search box (left column home page) it will connect you with the original article and related, similarly important articles outlining what these predators are doing to the most vulnerable and precious members of our society.   Please share this article.  

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WE ALL HAVE THE OBLIGATION

TO PROTECT THE MOST VULNERABLE AMONG US

I am sure there are some out there who are going to be angry with me for what I am writing.  That’s okay.  Be angry.  I am past angry, I am outraged with what I see is happening in some of our schools nationwide to the young, vulnerable and innocent youth of America.  Our children are more important than your opinion of me.

First, let me say that I am not a “Gay Basher”, I do not hate Gay People or other members of the LGBTQ community.  I have worked with, shared food with and respected many of this group for many years.

I am writing about the latest militant activist generation of this group coming out of our new “WOKE” Colleges and becoming “Educators” in our Grade Schools with an agenda to indoctrinate and recruit CHILDREN into the Gay and Transgender elements of our society.

We do not allow CHILDREN to buy guns, get drivers licenses, serve in the military, be doctors or work in dangerous jobs for a reason.  They are not mature enough to make life changing decisions about something they do not understand.  Children do not understand sexuality and fall easy prey to teachers whom they respect. 

What I am witnessing that has me so irate is what is happening in some of our schools with the youngest and most vulnerable of our children.  I am talking especially about little ones in the K-6th Grade.

There are many well documented reports:

• I have seen on television video clips of strident, militant LGBTQ Grade School Teachers bragging about how they love sharing their “orientation” with their grade school students.  “Teach them while they are young”.
• Giving children instruction on how to choose their own preferred pro-nouns and choice of sexual identity.
• Children in grades 3-6 being given graphic pictorial curriculum on sexual body parts and their functions – even reports of how to perform oral sex on one another.
• Giving CHILDREN the knowledge of full acceptance of all types of sex in the LGBTQ community. 
• Full support for those CHILDREN who decide they are Transgender and how to “transfer” to the sex of their choice.  In many locations the schools are making available the pharmaceuticals and other resources for CHILDREN, PRE-TEENS and EARLY TEENS to pursue these life changing decisions, often without parental consent.
• In many, many locations throughout America Schools are restricting or prohibiting parents from access to these curriculum or any parental rights to exclude their own child from these materials.
• A school is forced to permit a “suddenly” “Transgender” boy access to the girls Locker Room and Showers.

Are you angry yet?  Many people are very upset about what is happening but afraid of the power of those “pushing” this agenda, including Teachers Unions and the National LGBTQ Community.  Fear of being “Cancelled”, reprisals from employers, even government agencies that are in the “pockets” of the above powers.

We, me, you and all our fellow citizens and neighbors need to be (non-violently) pounding on the tables at School Board Meetings, writing, calling and challenging our elected leaders at all levels and speaking out boldly against this monstrous abuse of all our CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, NEIGHBORS CHILDREN and all CHILDREN everywhere. 

The above is pure evil.  Our CHILDREN deserve to be children and play as children.  They must not be rushed into the world of adult sexuality and the adult decisions that come with it.

Children our our most treasured and vulnerable asset.  We must protect them.  Be angry with me if you wish.  Hate me if you wish.  But, if you agree that our children must be protected, please share your thoughts, copies of this and similar articles with your family, your neighbors, your School Board, Educators/Teachers,  your elected officials, anybody who will listen and help stop this madness.

For those readers of Faith – Pray for our Children.

(Bob Bandy – October 2022)

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Please share this important article and support those who are trying to end this predation on our children.

Bob Bandy – January 2026

Representative Ro Khanna

California 17th Congressional District

In the Government “Shutdown” the main sticking point has been the Democrats demanding full funding for Obamacare “Subsidy” payments which have continued to escalate over the years, and the Republican insistence on coming up with a “new” plan.  there is general agreement, even with many Democrats, that Obamacare has never lived up to its promises and costs are out of hand.  During a news broadcast yesterday Democratic Representative Khanna championed ending Obamacare and replacing it with Medicare for all.  A single payer Government Insurance for everybody.  This has been seriously looked at in the past.  I outlined my questions and concerns in a post I did back in January of 2019.  That post is repeated here below.  Some of the premium numbers I quoted have changed but I will stand by my questions and conclusions.  

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MEDICARE FOR ALL?

With the opening of the new Congress and change to Democratic control of the House of Representatives we are hearing renewed calls for “Medicare For All” residents of the United States.  This has become a rallying cry for the “Progressive” wing of the Democratic Party.  Not all Democrats are admitted “Progressives” but  a growing number appear to be.

“Progressive” is a kinder and gentler word for “Socialist” and some champions for this cause readily admit to Socialist leanings.  Socialist is in turn, often associated with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Russia  and other Socialist countries like Venezuela, Cuba and many others.

If you would like an example of living in a Socialist Country, you might want to vacation in Venezuela this year.  Make it soon.  The country is in “end stage” Economic Collapse.

“Medicare For All” has a nice “ring” to it and on the surface would appear to be a way to provide Universal Medical Care to everyone on a simplified, single payer basis.  The idea sounds simple enough to be attractive.

A similar proposal was studied under Bill Clinton’s Presidency with Hillary Clinton heading up a task force to work out a plan for implementation.  After much study and spending millions of dollars on the proposed idea it was ultimately determined to be unworkable.

Several studies have been done and reported in Bloomberg and other  outlets that place the estimated cost of such a proposed plan at between 32 Trillion and 42 Trillion Dollars over 10 years.  That’s about 3.2 Trillion to 4.2 Trillion Dollars a year and would approximately double current Federal Spending.

It should be noted that Medicare as it currently operates is on the road to Bankruptcy.  Government Trustees, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar,  issued a report that Medicare’s trust fund will run out in 2026 and the combined trust funds of Social Security will run out in 2034.  Source: The Washington Examiner – Saturday January 26, 2019 – from a report by Joseph Lawler June 05, 2018.

Many people believe that Medicare is “Free” healthcare for Senior Citizens.  It is not.  Medicare is not free.  Premiums for Medicare are based in part on income – visit: MyMedicare.Gov – but if I take myself as an example, I’m a pretty ordinary Senior on a modest income, the following shows my Medicare Medical Insurance  and Medicare Prescription Plan monthly premiums for this year.  Keep in mind that plan premiums are for each individual.  Mine total just a bit over $300 a month this year.  If on a “Medicare For All” plan and I was one of a family of five, we could be paying a total premium of $1,500 a month.  

Please keep in mind also that Medicare Medical Insurance does not cover everything and has co-pays, deductibles and maximums.  The same for the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan.  When your limits run out during the year and, “you” are “on your own” for the cost of care or prescriptions for the rest of that year, is where we Seniors get the phrase “Donut Hole”.  I hit my own “Donut Hole” last year on my Medicare Prescription Drug Plan in October.

For the tens of millions of citizens who might not want to be a part of “Medicare For All” and are happy with their current insurance, don’t worry, “If you like your Doctor and Insurance, you can keep them, and that’s a promise!”  Hmmm – Where did we hear that before?

I am sure that Congress, most government employees and various other “special interests” would find a way to exempt themselves just as they did from the “Affordable Care Act”.  Hardly “Medicare For All”.  “All” never seems to include our “Ruling Class”.

For Senior Citizens the premium is withheld from our Social Security payment.  What would the Government do to collect premiums from those who don’t have a check to withhold the premium from, or those who don’t work for a paycheck?  What about those who can’t or won’t pay?

What would happen to the cost of care?  Are there enough doctors to make the plan work?  Not all doctors are currently willing to accept Medicare patients.   There are many unanswered questions. 

Bob Bandy – January 2019

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In closing, my concerns with Medicare for All have not changed.  The program was designed for people who had worked all their lives and paid into the Social Security System.  The Medicare “Trust Fund” is still on a path to Bankruptcy.  What about all the folks who do not work?  What about those who can’t or won’t pay the premiums for Medicare?  Keep in mind Medicare is not “Free”.  In my example above premiums for a family of five would be about $1,500 a month (2019 Dollars).  One of the main problems with Health Care Costs is the large number of folks who use the system but do not work or pay into the system.  During the “Shutdown” I saw one woman interviewed who was/is totally dependent on the government for herself and her seven children.  Who is going to pay the “Medicare” premium for this family?  Lots to think about.

Bob Bandy – November 2025

SOMETIMES THE FOLKS IN CHARGE MAKE  IT TOO EASY FOR ME

THEY ARE AT IT AGAIN – ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

FROM DECEMBER OF 2018

ESSENTIALLY ESSENTIAL NON ESSENTIALS?

(A title that could have been written by KAMALA HARRIS)

December 2018

As of this writing our Government is in “Partial Shutdown”.  We are told that this is only about a 25% shutdown as only “Non-Essential” Services will be put on hold.

All other Government spending is on “Auto-Pilot” and no budget is needed to continue spending.  How comforting.  Excuse the sarcasm.

Lets see.  As a nation we are now some 21 Trillion (with a ‘T’) Dollars in debt.  Well, Excuse me……..  I have a question, if we are only shutting down “Non-Essential” Services, which by my country-boy  thinking means “we can live without them”, then why don’t we shut them down permanently, save the money and maybe, just maybe, start digging our way out of debt?

 (Note: the 21 Trillion Dollar debt total from 2018 is now 36 Trillion Dollars in 2025)

But, we are told that is not the way Government works.  When the clowns, criminals and lunatics in Washington get done arguing and come to some kind of agreement, they will “Restore” all those “Non-Essential Services” and retro-actively again fund all those “Non-Essential Services” because, as you see, our Government considers them “Essential”.

In our family, and with most businesses,  budgeting does not work this way.  But of course we don’t have the ability to print fiat money.

Following this tirade I am again printing below an article that was sent to me back in August of 2012 and I reprinted at that time on this site because it is such a classic example of “Government Think”. I can think of no way of saying it better.  It is not original with me – I merely share it.

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THE NIGHT WATCHMAN

Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert.  Congress said, “Someone may steal from it at night”.  So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.  Then Congress said, “how does the watchman do his job without instruction?”

So they created a planning department and hired two people.  One person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.  Then Congress said, “How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?”  So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people.  One was to do the studies and one was to write the reports.

Then Congress said, “how are these people going to get paid?”  So they created two positions: a time keeper and a payroll officer, then hired two people.  Then Congress said, “Who will be accountable for all of these people?”  So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.

Then Congress said, “We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $918,000 over budget, we must cut back.”

So they laid off the night watchman.

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Now slowly let it sink in.  We go like sheep to the slaughter.  The lunatics are in charge of the asylum.

Bob Bandy – Again October 2025

GIVEN THE AUTHORITY I COULD REDUCE THE COST OF NEW HOUSING

BEING BUILT IN CALIFORNIA BY $60,000 OR MORE IN LESS THAN A MONTH

By way of historical context I spent several years “back in” the 1970’s as a carpenter and builder of housing, mostly in El Dorado County, California but also in Sacramento County.  I was also one of the project Foremen on the Grizzly Flats Mountain Retreat Project from start to finish in El Dorado County.  I loved my work.  In those days when we went in to get a building permit for a new home the cost of the permit was a couple to a few hundred dollars.  My memory is not perfect but I remember one permit on a custom home we were building was $292 (don’t know why that number has stuck in my head all these years).  Times have changed. 

FIRST – THE GOOD NEWS

Give me the authority to control the cost of a building permit for new homes within the State of California and I will mandate that Cities, Counties and all other agencies that issue building permits may not charge more than $1,000 for giving builders permission to build a new home.  At the time of this writing many/most government agencies in California are charging $60,000 or more to give you a paper to let you build a house on property that you already own.  And I have heard unverified horror stories of permits running  as high as $150,000 in some locales before you can drive the first nail in that new home.  

A bit of history.  Some number of years back California voters passed Proposition 13 which says Taxing authorities within California cannot raise taxable property values by more than 1% a year unless the property is “improved” (such as adding a pool or an additional room etc. that lets them re-evaluate the property to “current market value” for taxing.

Since government at all levels has an unquenchable thirst for more tax dollars the above “Prop 13” rule frustrates their desire to find ways to tax you more and more. 

But then…  almost by accident government discovered a way to raise property taxes exponentially.  They discovered that if they raised the cost of a building permit, which you must my law have to build a home, the cost of the building permit would be added to the cost of the home being built and of course to the price of the home.  The added benefit to the Taxasauras’ is that the Building Pcrmit fee increases the price of the home and its tax base and Harry Homeowner will now pay taxes on the cost of the home AND also pay taxes on the added permit cost, indefinitely.  What started out as a $340,000 new home has been converted into a $400,000 (or more) Tax Cow that your Neighborhood Tax Authority can “Milk” forever.  A 20% increase in property tax  revenue for issuing a piece of paper allowing you to build a house.  Talk about creative accounting.

Give me the authority to remove their ability to “fleece” you with this clever little “Permit Scam” and the cost of a new home can be reduced by $60,000 (or more).  As an added bonus the Property taxes would be based on $340,000, the actual cost of building the home, not on $400,000, which is the inflated value from the greatly inflated Permit cost, a savings of 20% in taxes to the homeowner.

NOW – THE BAD NEWS

Since the above little government scheme has inflated the market cost (and tax base) of housing in California by $60,000 (or more), if we remove their ability to charge those fees, the cost of a new home can be reduced by the amount of those fees, in this example $60,000,  which is good news to those looking to buy a new home.  But there is a downside.  This reduction would put downward price pressure on existing homes….  Good news for those looking to buy and, in many cases, bad news for those who would now find themselves “upside down” in homes purchased under the existing Government “Flim-Flam” Tax Scheme where they are forever stuck with paying “Property Taxes” on governments little Permit Fee to “work around” the “Prop 13” “hurdle”. 

Editors Note:  If property values decline you can have your Property Tax Authority revalue your property for Property Tax purposes and a reduction in Property Taxes on your home.  Don’t expect speedy smiling service. Tax Authorities do not like losing Property Tax revenue because of declining property values.

In the “Good News” case citizens would likely make me out a hero because new housing would be more affordable.  

In the “Bad News” case citizens stuck with the phony, paper value inflated tax scheme and facing market value devaluation of their homes would most likely not form a “Fan Club” for me.

What would you say the odds are of government letting this little “Tax Bonanza” “ripoff” slip out of their control? 

Don’t you just love the way government can find new ways to tax you?

Bob Bandy – September 2025