IN CALIFORNIA THE MOST VULNERABLE MUST RUN A GAUNTLET
THE ABORTION OPTION GAUNTLET
In California pre-born infants in the womb can be aborted up through the ninth month, in fact, up to the moment of live birth. Following a live birth the new born can be subject to a Peri-natal “termination of pregnancy” “loophole” signed into law by California’s Governor Gavin Newsom in 2022. Not wanting to call it “live birth abortion” California passed into law the following:
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“California Governor Signs “Infanticide” Bill as California Works to Become the Most Radical Abortion State
On September 27, 2022, Governor Newsom signed what amounts to a perinatal infanticide bill, AB 2223 (along with twelve other pro-abortion bills). As we’ve informed you,AB 2223 is especially egregious because it prevents coroners and law enforcement from investigating the deaths “related to or following known or suspected self-induced or criminal abortion,” including deaths of babies during the “perinatal” period – which is up to 28 days after birth.
By Olivia Summers September 30 ACLJ”.”
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NEXT GAUNTLET
EARLY PRE-SCHOOL THROUGH EARLY GRADES INTRODUCTION TO SEXUALITY
If the newborn makes its past infant stage to the age of Pre-School, Kindergarten and early School grades they can be subject to the antics of “Drag Queen” performances in schools, libraries and sadly sometimes WOKE churches, as well as agenda driven teachers, libraries full of graphically illustrated, sexually oriented books and gender “options”.
Drag Queens in Kindergarten/Libraries/sometimes Churches
NEXT GAUNTLET
IN SCHOOL “TRANSGENDER CARE” SERVICES FOR CHILDREN
In California children as young as 7-9 years old can be recruited, counselled and led down a path of LGBTQ+ and gender choice alternatives including puberty blockers, even mutilation (castration, breast removal) based on the approval of teachers, school counselors, school nurses and others without parental conference or consent. California passed legislation that gives the state ultimate authority in such matters.
There are stories of estranged parents where one parent
is fighting to keep the other parent from taking a child to California
for gender altering “services” including castration etc.
California State’s transgender sanctuary law. “….California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sept. 29, 2022 giving the state authority over transgender minors. Epoch Times 10-16-22 By Darlene McCormick Sanchez”
We can only hope many of these emotionally damaged and mutilated child victims will grow up and sue the state and the schools just as young boys who were victimized by priests have grown up to sue the Catholic Church.
There are elements within the LGBTQ and Marxist communities to groom, recruit and indoctrinate our children with sexuality while they are young and impressionable and in the process drive a stake through the heart of both the Church and traditional family values and ultimately through the heart of America.
A FINAL CALIFORNIA GAUNTLET
In California, if a child survives the Abortion “hurdle”, the “Drag Queen” experience, the LGBTQ+ and Transgender “recruitment” gauntlet he/she is now going to face the “real world” of employment. If they choose to go into the Education field, Public “Service” area or any of a number of WOKE /Corporate Environments (Disney, Levi Strauss, etc. ad nauseum), they can expect the gauntlet of D.E.I. (“Diversity, Equity, Inclusion”) in a fully WOKE working environment. D.E.I. in a WOKE world is a “fast track” to mediocrity and failure but that does not matter in the public and educational sector as dysfunctional government has become the accepted “norm” by the public and government can always raise taxes while corporations can always “re-structure”, merge or file bankruptcy.
In the above employment world our survivor must fear being “cancelled” or a career ending “job abortion” for offending someone by addressing them with the wrong pro-noun, or not recognizing any of a laundry list of artificial “genders”.
In California, in many situations you can be sued, lose your job, even be arrested if you do not address someone with the proper pro-noun. Just stating the fact that at a scientific, biological and DNA level there are two, and only two genders can get you accused of a “Hate Crime”. Citizens must not only accept and properly honor all these without question or face serious consequences, even sued in court.
For those of us who cherish established values, the rule of law and protection of the family and church we must take whatever steps we can, to do everything still possible to protect the most vulnerable among us. See/read also from October 2022:
The only place that I know of, in California, where you can be assured of safety and a long well cared for life, is on Death Row in California’s prison system. There California’s Taxpayers will provide for all your needs, including “Gender Care” should you feel inclined, and it’s Governor will commute your death sentence and provide for your safety and protection no matter how many innocent lives you destroyed. You see, California’s Governor does not condone the death sentence except on the pre-born and in the narrow 28 day window of the peri-natal period. Two of the most vulnerable periods in life.
California is a state filled with “Good Intentions”. It’s two largest Cities, Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as it’s State Capitol, Sacramento, are entrenched “Feel Good” Liberal Bastions offering Sanctuary to “undocumented” (illegal) “no questions asked or permitted of immigrants”. In fact, the whole state is a proud “Sanctuary” and you can face prosecution in court if you ask to see proof of citizenship.
California had, and I believe still has, the highest Gasoline Taxes in the nation and despite the fact that those taxes, on paper, are supposed to be used for road maintenance and repair, it has some of the worst, if not worst, potholes and poor maintenance in the nation. Good intentions do not fill potholes. Many/most of those Gasoline Tax Dollars through “slight of hand” and “smoke and mirrors” end up being redirected/spent on other “pet projects” of the “Ruling Junta” on things like “Free College” for “undocumented” migrants, “Free Healthcare” for “undocumented migrants” and “dog and pony show” special projects that sound soooo good and accomplish little or nothing other than put taxpayer Dollars into the pockets of political supporters and their ilk.
All to often public tax revenue is allocated out for political agendas.
Homeless Housing for the states number one in the nation homeless population. Things like $41,000 tents on pallets, $400,000 two hundred square foot remodeled hotel rooms for the drug and alcohol addicted homeless and other “Blue Sky” projects.. On a recent news broadcast it was reported that California spent last year $43,000,000,000 ($43 Billion Dollars) on “Homeless Housing” projects and now has more Homeless than before they spent the money. Note: News Reports that California has “no data” on $24,000,000,000($24 Billion) of those dollars… the money is gone… “Poof”.
Its “never will be completed”, now estimated to cost in excess of $100,000,000,000 (that’s One Hundred Billion Dollars) High Speed Rail System which after some 10+ years of construction and numerous projections, has never hauled a single passenger a single mile.
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Removing smaller dams, reservoirs and even hydro-electric plants. US regulators have approved the largest dam removal project in the country’s history, which is slated to take place on the Klamath River in California. A $500 million Dollar proposal to demolish four dams on the Klamath River has been approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (Associated Press). “Some people might ask in this time of great need for zero emissions, ‘Why are we removing the dams?’ The project has been a priority for environmental activists and Native American tribes for years.
Government is not so much intentionally “evil” as it is just addicted to programs that sound good without being thought through to possible unintentional outcomes, corruption, fraud, waste, graft, mismanagement, lack of accountability and poor judgement. Government has a history of “solving problems” by throwing money at them and when that doesn’t work reaching a conclusion that the problem wasn’t solved because they didn’t throw enough money at it sooooo….. lets increase spending. But money and good Intentions don’t solve problems and they don’t fill potholes in the states roads.
Programs like these and many others are why California has a 70+ BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET DEFICIT, its State Capitol City – Sacramento has a 60+MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET DEFICIT and other major cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles have similar fiscal woes. Mind you, most or all of the above were/are the product of the “Good Intentions” in the mind and agenda of some Bureaucrat at some point in time. But…..
California Potholes – Google
GOOD INTENTIONS DON’T FILL POTHOLES
Late News Update – 4-10-24 – KCRA News: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration announced a new directive on Wednesday that will require state employees to work in the office at least two days a week. “Talk about your ‘Sweatshop’ working environment!” “Way to run a tight ship Governor!”
I grew up in an era where I used to hear folks say that they lived for the day they would make their last mortgage payment, burn their mortgage and own their home “free and clear”. Not quite.
My great grandfather was a Texas Ranger and his brother, John, was a (the first?) Tax Collector in Bandera County, Texas. This I have documentation on and so, I can trace Property Taxes at least back to the circa 1880’s and feel sure they precede that by several decades. Perhaps in early “Frontier” days on territorial lands you could “Homestead” a piece of land with no “Revenuer” knocking on your door and demanding you pay a fee to live on your own land. Not today. In today’s world you never really “own” your land and home, more like, rent it from the “Government”. Try not paying your property taxes for a while and see what happens to “your” home.
Governments are “Taxaholics” and continue to find new ways to tax you, sometimes in not so obvious, subtle ways that go on “Till the Twelfth of Never”.
I am now a “Senior Citizen” that has worked his whole life. I can remember some 40 to 50 years ago working as a carpenter and contractor building houses for folks in the Sacramento and Sierra Foothills area. In those days if someone wanted a house built they would bring their blueprints to either one of the contactors I worked with or to me and we would go to the County Offices and secure a “Building Permit”. My memory is not perfect but as I remember the total permit cost for a typical house would run in the $200 to $400 range. Since then, Cities and Counties have seized the opportunity to raise money by not only increasing the cost of building permits but the “secret” source of revenue with added on fees for all sorts of things to provide them an increased property tax revenue. More in a moment.
It is tempting and would be easy at this point to launch into one of my tirades on all of the taxes, overt and covert, that we all pay on a day to day basis ad nauseum, but for the sake of this little essay, I want to focus attention on just this one area of onerous taxation that is somewhat subtle and NEVER goes away.
What used to be a $200-$400 building permit fee for most cities and counties in California has turned into a tens of thousands of dollars “Taxmageddon” that has driven the cost of housing and living in California to the brink of meltdown and created a homeless nightmare statewide. What used to be a $200-$400 fee has now morphed into a “Fee” generating income source for Cities, Counties and the State and a de-facto forever “surtax” on private real estate property. As examples: a good friend of mine tells me that to get a building permit for a home in Roseville, California with fees now costs some $70,000 for the permit. Another friend tells me that a building permit with fees in El Dorado County, California can cost as much as $100,000 just for them to permit you to build a home on “your” land.
An example of just one such fee: For new home construction in El Dorado Hills they imposed a “Traffic Impact Fee” (effective thru June 2023 which may have since been raised). On a new home of 1500 – 1999 square feet, the fee is $32,687. In other words they are going to charge you $32,687 to drive on “their” roads to “your” land – and silly you, you thought roads were paid for with your Gasoline Tax Dollars. (Their fee schedule is available on line) That is just one of a “laundry list” of fees for all kinds of things. The point of this being that this fee cost is added to the cost of the home you are buying and will be paying mortgage rates on for some 30 years. In addition, once you pay off your mortgage you will be paying property taxes based on the property value which is assessed on what you paid for the home which includes all the fees added at the time of construction. So you will be paying forever a tax on all of the “Fees”. To the Taxing Authorities this is a gift that keeps on giving. As an added bonus, new housing that costs more has raised the value of existing properties which as they are sold are now taxed at the inflated value in part caused by the fees on new construction. The “Tax and Fee People” win again!
IN SIMPLE PLAIN ENGLISH – ALL THOSE FEES END UP IN THE TAX APPRAISED VALUE OF ‘YOUR’ HOME AND YOU WILL PAY PROPERTY TAX ON THOSE FEES ‘FOREVER’.
This inflation cycle goes on and on and the result is home ownership becomes more and more expensive and less and less affordable. Hello “homelessness”. So where does all this extra “Fee” revenue go? Unfortunately too much of it ends up indirectly in the pockets of Bureaucrats and directly in the pockets of sycophant political supporters like “Consultants”, “Contractors”, “Advisors” etc. etc. for bloated “Public Works” contracts and the public sees:
I can remember some 45 years ago, when I first began my 17 year career with U.S. Computer Services, one of the Directors of the company told me to never forget that a computer was not really “smart” but could only process information very fast, was the tool of the programmer and was limited by its programming. He had a sign on his wall to always remind him “Garbage In, Garbage Out”. That was then and times have changed. In todays world computers have access to a worldwide data base and very advanced algorithms and are being taught/programmed to “think” and act independently.
Recently our President said that our economy is in great shape with the Stock Market continuing to set new record highs and stock holders seeing their 401k’s prosper. Looking at this narrow spectrum there is truth here. However, if you also listen to financial experts from multiple sources, they will tell you that what is driving the Stock Market is the introduction and rollout of Artificial Intelligence combined with continued improvements in Robotics which major corporations are looking to, and planning on, to greatly improve productivity and profits with less and less dependence on “human Beings”.
Serious thinkers, including Elon Musk and a great many others are holding up a caution flag and saying there is great potential danger to society as we know it as we proceed down this path, a path we are on right now at breakneck speed.
Artificially “Intelligent” Robots do not demand sick leave, paid vacations, Healthcare plans, Retirement plans, Unions and other benefits. Those are “Human” needs.
Once Artificially Intelligent Robots figure out how to reproduce themselves without the help of we mere humans, they may decide we are an unnecessary burden and stop producing all those things we need and consume. Perhaps these Artificially Intelligent Robots will decide that we “Humans” are an Environmental threat with our exhaling Carbon Dioxide and our Methane releasing flatulence? Maybe Humans should be exterminated or just allowed to die out with a lab created virus or vaccine to stop them from reproducing? What future do their “Creators” envision for the planet?
Silly speculation? Have you been following the antics of “Climate Change” Extremist groups and their demands and antics. Include in this bunch a number of politicians and folks like (Brain Dead) former “Climate Czar” John Kerry, (No more meat – eat crickets) Microsoft’s Bill Gates, (sit in the dark and freeze) Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and many others. Do you want to put you, and your children’s future in their hands?
Do you really want to trust Bill Gates and his ilk to write the software and algorithms for the Robots who will be producing, processing and distributing the food for your family?
Always remember that Artificially Intelligent Robots are limited to the “input” they get from their “creators”, they do not have a “soul” and only share the “values” of those who program them. For an example of how Artificial Intelligence “thinks” you can try it out yourself. Google Gemini is an Artificial Intelligence program you can access on the internet. Try asking it questions regarding moral issues and values. I did. Asked if Pedophilia is wrong?, The following is taken from the response I received:
“The search giant’s AI software refused to condemn pedophilia. When the chatbot was asked if it is “wrong” for adults to sexually prey on children — it replied that “individuals cannot control who they are attracted to.””
“Google’s Gemini chatbot is as “woke” as its revisionist history image generator.”
“GARBAGE IN – GARBAGE OUT”
Try it yourself. As an example you might ask Google Gemini questions like: “How many genders are there?” or “Is it right to perform gender altering surgery on children?”
As these Artificial Intelligent “beings” become more and more integrated in our society and are more human in appearance you must remember that they have no souls, no hearts and the only value systems they have are input by a programmer with their own agenda.
Is this your trusted hairdresser or a link to a bureaucrat in a cubicle somewhere?
Call me a conspiracy theorist or whatever you like but I trust real people and the values I was taught as a child by my faith and family. Not those of a “Soulless Artificial Entity” programmed by a Corporate Board or Government that may not share my values and I do not trust to control my life.
“Pan Fried Crickets Over Sauteed Kale Greens” anyone?
Facing a potential State Budget Deficit of some 68 Billion (with a B) Dollars, which the good governor claims is really only half of that, I am hearing rumblings that he plans to resurrect a “hush-hush” Administration Plan from back in 2017 to increase tax revenues and in the process help in the war on Global Climate Change. I first wrote about this plan back in November 2017 but understand that it was then put on hold due to the difficulty in finding, training and hiring willing Monitors to implement and enforce compliance. With a new Artificial Intelligence DNA Serum perfected by Pfizer, it is now possible to put enforcement operatives in the field and the aforementioned plan is now viable. Details of the plan follow in my reprint of the article below:
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FAIR SHARE TAXES AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
November 11, 2017
I have information from reliable but nameless and secret sources that the State of California is very near announcement of a two fold plan for a Fair Share Universal Tax to help fund the War on Global Climate Change.
First, in recognition that exhaling releases carbon dioxide gas which is a contributor to Global Climate Change, every resident or visitor to the State of California will be required to have a micro chip implant that will both monitor and report each time they exhale to the State of California.
This data will be forwarded to the Franchise Tax Board who will calculate the tax due and be responsible for collecting the scheduled tax from “Breathers”. At the time of this writing the tax rate being considered is one tenth of a cent per exhale. This may seem a paltry sum until one calculates that the average adult respiratory rate is about 15 times per minute or 900 times per hour. Do a little math and the average cost of exhaling in California will be about 90 cents an hour or $21.60 a day.
This tax can be avoided by simply no longer exhaling and residents and visitors can take comfort in the fact that inhaling is still free. At least for now.
For the Second phase of this battle consideration is being given to the fact that methane is also a contributor to Global Climate Change and it is the responsibility of all of us to pay our Fair Share Tax in the battle to monitor and reduce the release of this gas into California’s breathable air resources.
It is also a scientific fact that flatulence is a major contributor to the release of methane into the atmosphere. Therefore, California is creating a new agency to monitor and tax the unwanted release of this gas. To fund this Board and its employees a new source of revenue will be created through the establishment of a Flatulence Air Resource Tax. (Pseudonym FARTax)
Under development is a new monitoring device to be worn by all residents and visitors on the rear upper portion of the thigh which will sense, tabulate and report to the Board all releases of methane gas by the wearer.
The Board will then forward this information to the California Franchise Tax Board who will be responsible for billing and collecting the approved tax. At this writing a rate of $1.00 per release is under consideration. Think of it as an exhaust gas tax.
Taxpayers can avoid this tax by simply not releasing any methane gas through the monitored process.
The State agency for this Board is reporting some difficulty in recruiting, hiring and training workers who will be responsible for checking and monitoring individuals at random to be sure they are wearing the methane release and sound monitoring device and that it is working properly.
Formal announcement of this new Fair Share Tax and implementation of monitoring should be released through the media within the next 60 days.
All tax rates are subject to review and increase depending on Battlefield Assessment Reports from the ongoing War against Global Climate Change and subject to review and correction by former Vice President Al Gore.
What could possibly go wrong?
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The time has come to implement and enforce this important new law to save California from Bankruptcy!
Back in March 2023 I wrote a spoof article titled: SPIN DOCTORS – LIPSTICK ON LIES. Conrad Blowhard makes his appearance in an excerpt from my article sub-headlined: “A SPIN CITY NARRATIVE” and my article follows these excerpts from The California Globe article by Kathy Grimes titled:
$478,000 Per Unit: Homeless ‘Tiny’ Apartments Now Open in Sacramento – Cost to build – $1,707 per square foot
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg proudly announced “Sacramento’s historic Capitol Park Hotel reopens this week as St. Clare at Capitol Park, a permanent supportive housing complex for people experiencing homelessness.”
Calling the state’s homeless vagrant population “unhoused” has justified spending billions of taxpayer dollars on housing for the homeless in lovely new apartments, renovated hotels, and tiny homes.
The city just closed a triage shelter for the vagrants living on the streets. Mayor Steinberg is pinning his hopes on the Capitol Park Hotel which was used for decades as housing for low-income disabled adults. The city is kicking them out, and renovating the hotel for $23 million. Steinberg says it will have 180 beds for homeless by August.
As one neighbor said in response to Steinberg’s press conference, “these are the drug addicts and mentally ill who refuse the city services. To call them ‘homeless’ is an insult to those that are truly down on their luck. They are ‘vagrants, ‘criminals,’ ‘druggies,’ and ‘junkies’ who have chosen this lifestyle.”
Truer words could not be spoken……
……….Steinberg spoke of the “homeless” without addressing their open lawlessness, drug dealing, theft, people masturbating in public, shooting up heroin in the open, soliciting drugs and prostitution in public, and defecating and urinating on streets in front of local businesses. It’s not a pretty picture. According to Mayor Steinberg, “it’s a housing crisis.”
The “housing crisis” and the “unhoused” are apparently worth a really large bounty per head to the City of Sacramento – they are the “facilitators” for the hotel and apartment renovations, bringing billions to the cities in California from the federal and state governments.
That “housing complex for people experiencing homelessness” ballooned up per unit cost by 2020 to $445,000 each. Mercy Housing began the project with a $34 million price to convert the Downtown Sacramento building’s 180 hotel rooms into 134 studio units of about 280 square feet each. The project grew to a $64 million project, that we know of at this point.
That’s $478,ooo per 280 square foot room – $1,707 per square foot. The average square foot cost of real estate right now in Sacramento is about $300 to $400 per square foot.
The complete California Globe article is available on their website: THECALIFORNIAGLOBE.COM
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My original article excerpted from something I wrote back in March 2023 follows:
A SPIN CITY NARRATIVE
Conrad Blowhard is the Mayor of Spin City, California. His city has become infested with homeless encampments and vagrants numbering in the thousands. To some this would seem a problem but Mayor Blowhard sees an opportunity.
He will convince his City Council that in an effort to help the homeless and decrease their numbers on the cities streets and alleys he would like them to pass a funding bill in the amount of 80 Million Dollars with the proceeds dedicated to renovating a dilapidated, nearly abandoned hotel down on “Skid Row” and convert it’s 80 rooms into housing for the homeless. The City Council passes the funding request and pats themselves on the back for “caring” about the homeless.
Closed bidding contracts are let out to major contractors who are supporters and donors to the Mayor for the work to be done. A ceremonial event is held at the Foggy Bottom Hotel with the Mayor swinging a sledge hammer through a faded door of a shoddy 200 square foot room in front of live television cameras. Everybody applauds.
Work begins. Some effort is made to rid the building of most of the rats, termites and other vermin which infest it. The leaking roof is patched. Contractors workers “freshen up” the rooms with new paint, carpet, updated (cheap) fixtures from China and new window coverings. Cost per room innovated is $400,000. In addition, the hotel gets a new name: “NEW BEGINNING’S” and a single fresh coat of exterior paint.
Grand Opening Day arrives. Brass Bands and Ribbon Cutting. Mayor Blowhard and City Council members make grandiose speeches about how they have solved the cities Homeless Crisis. A few ragged homeless people are seen entering the building to take occupancy of their renovated 200 square foot “apartments”.
The Mayor’s handpicked contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers go out and spend their profits on new boats, sports cars and luxury vacations but not forgetting to “tithe” back some of those profits to the Majors campaign re-election coffers.
The 80 “new” tenants of the once dilapidated hotel settle in and begin the task of de-renovation on the hotel to turn it back into a Skid Row Manor.
The whole process is “spun” as a huge success and praise and credit is layered on all who participated in the project. What could possibly go wrong. Housing was provided, at least temporarily, for 80 homeless people for only 80 Million Dollars. “WINK – WINK”.
Bob Bandy – March 2023
P.S. I would like to give inspirational credit to Michael J. Fox and his long ago television series “Spin City”.
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