Californians, take what you will but … (updated 8mar18)

George Rebane

[This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 7 March 2018.]

California is a mess.  There is not enough time in this short commentary to describe all the ways in which our state has fallen to the bottom of the barrel, but I will attempt to summarize some of the more visible areas.  And the scariest thing for our future is that most Californians don’t have a clue about the dire straits of our state.  California has been effectively under one party control for so long that in this election year most people have forgotten there are alternatives.

Let me start by pointing out some facts that you may have missed because our media has also been flying in tight formation with the architects of our multiple maladies, and they aren’t about to point a finger at all the things that have gone wrong on their watch.  Because if you do find out, then you’ll start asking all kinds of questions, and pretty soon you’ll vote the bums out of office.  Then where would they be?

California has attracted and given rise to the nation’s highest population of welfare recipients.  We are only one of eight Americans, but California is home to more than one of three Americans dependent on the government to keep body and soul together.  We are the welfare capital of our country (here).  Our state taxes at 13.3% of earnings are among the highest in the nation.  But that, of course, makes no never mind to almost half of us who pay little or no taxes.

California’s roads, bridges, freeways, reservoirs, and the rest of our infrastructure are in bad shape because of rampant corruption in Sacramento.  The high taxes we have paid have not been used for the promised infrastructure maintenance and improvements.  It has gotten so bad that recently the state had to again increase our gas taxes, already beyond the nation’s highest level.  And by the way, the latest raise was done by Sacramento just because they could.  We were told that this time the collected monies would really, really go to repair roads, honest Injun.  None were supposed to ask why the other gas taxes we have paid for years, and still do, haven’t been used as promised.

And contrary to what you been told, California is broke.  The state has enormous unfunded pension liabilities for its workers and teachers.  To give you a rough idea, we only have two dollars for every three we owe the new government retirees.  The total amounts of money we don’t have add up to over $100B.  And there is no provision to make up such deficits. These generous pensions were negotiated by government employee unions with politicians on the take for campaign funds and votes that guaranteed their stay in office.

The state’s business and environmental regulations are simply draconian.  By the hundreds, California companies are moving to more business-friendly states, taking with them productive middle-class workers who then get an immediate raise as they settle elsewhere into their new affordable homes.  The state’s net out-migration of its formerly established residents is now epidemic (here).  Our sluggish population growth is maintained only by the immigration of low skilled workers, illegal aliens, and high birth rates, primarily among groups that used to be called minorities.

Among our high indigent population are the homeless which Sacramento now admits has risen to crisis levels.  Homelessness and emigration are also fostered by the mountains of building and environmental regulations that have created an ongoing housing crisis in the state, especially in the low-cost segment which impacts our poorer residents.  Special interests in real estate have every motive to keep California housing prices high.  Visible evidence of all this are California cities that have recently gone bankrupt, have crime-ridden downtowns, and are losing residents.  We recall that California always led the nation in everything good that America had to offer.  That is no more.  Today, for the first time, California cities are absent from the top 25 fastest growing cities in the nation (here).  And we don’t even have time to talk about the enormous problems we have with over-crowded prisons and educating our young, where we now rank 10^th from the bottom.

All this has given rise to factions of Californians that want radical changes which range from splitting the state into parts, each inhabited by more like-minded people, to actually leaving the Union and setting up a separate country.  Meanwhile, more and more Californians go to the polls to vote for ever bigger government and government checks.  And the party in power has no other plan but to continue raising taxes and fees along with more costly regulations, all in the hope that California’s scenery and climate will convince enough businesses and the rich to continue paying for arguably the most butt stupid, corrupt, and incompetent state government in the Union.  There’s much much more, but time is up – in the meantime please reflect on Einstein’s definition of insanity.

My name is Rebane, and I also expand on this and related themes on Rebane’s Ruminations where the addended transcript of this commentary is posted with relevant links, and where such issues are debated extensively.  However, my views are not necessarily shared by KVMR.  Thank you for listening.

[Addendum]  Not including California’s self-inflicted water shortages was probably the most noteworthy omission from the above recounting of the state’s grievances (here and here).  It is simply unbelievable how the embedded imbecilities of socialism manifest themselves.  Mankind has known for millennia the ups and downs of weather, climate, and fortune.  And has long responded by storing everything from food, fuel, fodder, water, …  during the years of plenty for the years of need.  It was not rocket science then and is not now.  Societies of all kinds knew how to prioritize the necessities for their survival and well-being to make possible the caching of such critical commodities.

Today’s useless idiots count the loss of that knowledge among the many deficits that they burden us with their established access to the government gun.  Despite the doubling of California’s population, we continue to service our water needs with the infrastructure planned and built generations ago.  Today we refuse to husband the precious water that irregularly pours out of the Sierra in abundance by dumping it into the Pacific instead of storing it in newly built reservoirs and behind rehabilitated dams.  Read (here and here) about what the econazis and the Water Resources Board are doing to stop construction of the Sites and Temperance Flat Reservoirs (in addition to our own Centennial Dam).

Astonishingly, the same progressive elites advise us that the solution to our water shortage requires yet more conservation, which doesn’t come close to adding up if you run the numbers on our population and agriculture.  But that is their quiet and continuing obeisance to the Agenda21's 'stack-and-pack' objectives, which above all are based on the premise that people are the scourge of the earth whose numbers must be first corralled and then reduced by whatever means will work – the Final Solution.

[8mar18 update]  A regular reader (what would we do without them) sent me the link to a 7mar18 article by Joel Kotkin titled ‘The Left and Lefter in California’.  The piece mirrors my above commentary from the perspective of the radical leftward movement of California’s Democratic Party and the pro-socialist (cum communist) elements of the national Democrats.  Highlighting the above woes of America’s former Shangri-la, Kotkin describes how “Golden State Democrats seem ready to break for good with mainstream, moderate liberalism.”

It was a bit of a shock, even to this hardened political observer, listening to yesterday’s screeds by Moonbeam and his attorney general Becerra accusing AG Sessions of “going to war against California” and “unleashing a reign of terror” on “California’s immigrants” in Washington’s attempts to enforce longstanding federal immigration laws, especially against criminal illegal aliens. (more here)

These political fusillades underline Kotkin’s point, and are somewhat astounding when one considers what kind and size of audience did Brown and Becerra address with their out-of-the-park rhetoric.  My own assessment is that they felt there are enough terminally stupid and/or ideologically calcified Californians out there in their constituent base to make such screeds worthwhile.

Concurrently NPR and the lamestream in general is reinforcing the violation of US immigration laws, especially when they justify such actions in the name of promoting “family reunification” aka chain migration.  The continued use of ‘immigrants’ to identify illegal aliens reinforces their point with our light thinkers, both those who can’t tell the difference and those who can but maintain that such usage makes no never mind in the public forum.  On the contrary, it does, and the progressives abet that mislabeling with their every use of that label to evoke images of east European legal immigrants waiting in long lines on early 20^th century Ellis Island.  Everyone knows that these people (I and my own family to boot) are our ancestors who assimilated and became productive, law-abiding Americans.

The lamestream press will not corroborate the national crime statistics published by the DoJ and DHS.  As a quick look, these report that “more than one-in-five of all persons in Bureau of Prisons custody were foreign born, and that 94 percent of confirmed aliens in custody were unlawfully present.”  Such reporting would put candidate Trump’s admonitions about illegal alien criminality in a very different light. According to Pew Research, California is the home away from home to more than 2,500,000 illegally in America.  The estimate for state and federal outlays for California’s illegal alien care is $57.9B offset by about $2B in taxes they pay. (more here and here).

The evidence, totally rejected and cynically suppressed by the Left, is overwhelming that California-led socio-political policies, which foster open borders, provide succor, and promote amnesties for unassimilating illegal aliens, are destructive to America.

Comments

[Bill Tozer]

They refer to the “economy” as though it’s a mean thing with a life of its own, and simply “forgot” people. There’s no need to consider the actual people in charge of policy and the economy. That lost job, or domestic strife, a mean housing market are all pointed at, as though they were all dropped on earth by Martians.

The other factor is, of course, the social justice issue: “All the great social issues of American society play out in homelessness — inequality, racial injustice, poverty, violence, sexism. …” Never mentioned: idiotic and incompetent liberal leadership that destroys business and jobs; regulations, waste, fraud and abuse that leave human beings on the street because the theory of socialism is all that matters.

For liberals, social chaos is their friend. They need it to prey on the emotions of others, while then using it as an argument for more government control of our lives.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/28/liberals-in-california-normalizing-the-chaos/

[Gregory]

California can't be broke, Sacramento still has checks left!

[Don Bessee]

Is anyone surprised they are ignoring those laws too?

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/california-weed/article203926954.html

;-)

[Scenes]

Cartoon o' the day.

https://i.redd.it/3k6s72dz4jk01.jpg

[Bill Tozer]

California:

Why is it that we hear that Social Security is running out of money, but never ever hear in CA that welfare is running out of money? Could it be that those who earned SS are not as priviledged as those who collect unearned cash and benefits?

[George Rebane]

And here's one more this morning from a reader and correspondent.
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/dear-california-call-commies-leave/?utm_source=PJMCoffeeBreak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=March2018

[Bill Tozer]

Those who stay in the Liberal playground of CA are in for a big surprise. The rich and famous will have no use for the peasants.

A bit off thread, but this long shot court case has huge yuge ramifications for every state in the Union. If the billionaire wins, you can parlay his victory into “Let them eat cake from sea to shiny sea.” Now, peasants, go back to your hobbles.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-martins-beach-supreme-court-20180306-story.html

[Don Bessee]

Did botox nancy and Libby just guarantee a win the midterms for us?

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/08/plurality-of-americans-prosecute-oakland-mayor-who-helped-criminal-illegal-aliens-escape-deportation/

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Speaking of botox nancy

https://news.grabien.com/story-mental-meltdown-pelosi-suffers-16-brain-freezes-15-minute-pr

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

As California goes, there goes the nation: The Democrat Party is on the verge of a moral meltdown fueled by identity politics

“Radical” is a key word here. In 2016, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 2844. The anti-discrimination law made it clear that California’s government would bar companies that engage in discrimination against any sovereign nation from doing business with the state. Sec. 2. (c) of the law specifically barred discrimination against “the nation and people of Israel.” The State Senate approved the bill by a vote of 34 to 1, and the State Assembly approved it by a vote of 69 to 1.

Eighteen months later, these same Democrats opposed federal legislation similar to the bill they had passed almost unanimously. Thus, what used to be “radical” leftist politics is now mainstream Democrats Party politics in the Golden State — all the attendant anti-Semitic implications included.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/54619-slouching-towards-anti-semitism

[Don Bessee]

Well why not go full Nazi since they were 89% there already @ 928. ;-)

[Don Bessee]

All the pandering may be backfiring after rejecting the Presidents generous offer-

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/08/dreamers-say-they-are-done-believing-democrats-empty-promises/

;-)

[Don Bessee]

We don't need no stinkin water storage and we need to tear down hetch hetchy say the same people who are bringing us this yummy solution-

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/07/california-to-add-recycled-sewer-water-to-state-reservoirs.html

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Throwng this out for the reader’s consideration. Sanctuary Cities: We are on a direct path to a Constitutional Crisis. Will Trump send in the army like Ike did to enforce SCOTUS rulings?

“Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to support the segregationists on September 4, 1957....Even President Dwight Eisenhower attempted to de-escalate the situation by summoning Faubus for a meeting, warning him not to defy the Supreme Court's ruling......
On September 24, the President ordered the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army—without its black soldiers, who rejoined the division a month later—to Little Rock and federalized the entire 10,000-member Arkansas National Guard, taking it out of Faubus's control”

CA is opening defying the US Constitution and openly shredding it to pieces and spitting on the remains. CA does not have a Constitutional leg to stand on.

As the Progressives suddenly cry out “States’ rights”, the issue was already decided by the prior administration. Remember Arizona? Arizona, frustrated because the Feds were not doing their job enforcing immigration law (and protecting her citizens along the border) stating making arrests and enforcing immigration law. The Obama Justice Department sued the State of Arizona, and won. States cannot touch immigration. It’s is the sole purview of the Feds.

As an interesting side note, former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano sued the Feds for the cost of jailing and housing illegals because the Feds were not doing their job.

http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/000790.html

With the filler aside, I can easily see a Consitutional crisis of the Dems own making taking shape. Fortunately, despite all the cacophony, the general public continues to support putting the squeeze on illegal alien invaders. Ike had to send in troops to stop the Dems and make them see the light. It’s always the Dems trampling asunder the rule of law.

If you can’t make them see the light, then let them feel the heat.

[Don Bessee]

It is criminal that the State had unarmed guards at a facility that had WWII to Gulf war vets. Gulf war vets who could reasonably be considered jihadi targets. While this appears to be a matter between individuals I cannot believe they had NO armed security! Gunman and 3 hostages dead.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/09/veterans-home-california-in-yountville-on-lockdown-after-reports-shots-fired-officials-say.html

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

CA public education:

SDUSD has entangled itself with CAIR to set up a] subtle, discriminatory scheme that establishes Muslim students as the privileged religious group,” FCDF attorneys representing parents claim in the lawsuit. “Consequently, students of other faiths are left on the outside looking in, vulnerable to religiously motivated bullying, while Muslim students enjoy an exclusive right to the School District’s benevolent protection.”

FCDF President and Chief Counsel Charles LiMandri demanded that SDUSD stop its pro-Islam program or face legal action because of evidence that it violated the First Amendment, as the curriculum was co-drafted the blatantly religious CAIR, which he accused of intentionally targeting public schools to underhandedly convert students to Islam.

“The San Diego Unified School District has gone out on a limb – more than most school districts would be willing to do – to partner with a group that identifies itself as a religious group,” LiMandri told the Daily Caller. “We have pictures of the head of the [CAIR] office in San Diego going into classrooms and giving out their literature, and of course their literature is promoting Islam.

https://www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2018/03/08/sdusd-ordered-to-reveal-covert-dealings-wterror-tied-cair

[Don Bessee]

Oh come now that's the lowest of low ball's-

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/09/exclusive-california-sanctuary-city-laws-likely-responsible-for-5k-crimes-by-released-criminal-illegal-aliens/

;-)

[Don Bessee]

There is still hope for parts of cali taking care of themselves like our friends making lemonade after the world gave us lemons! Way to go!

https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/sinkhole-saplings-rotary-plants-trees-in-advance-of-city-acquisition/

;-)

[Paul Emery]

George Curious as to your thoughts on this. If it wasn't for kamily immigration we would not be here today.

Is it not true that both of our family histories incorporate what could be today interpreted as "chain migration"? Yours with your intact family from Estonia and mine with my Grandfather from Greece arriving four years before my Grandmother and their daughter who joined him after he established a home for them.

Are refugee families from countries like Syria allowed to immigrate today as refugee families were allowed in the past?

[Todd Juvinall]

WOW! Just watched President Trump in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. He was there to support the candidacy of Rick Saccone for Congress in a special election. Trump won this district by 20 points but the race seems t be very close. In my opinion, not every race needs to be tied to someone else's apron strings and local usually is local. Anyway, Trump was his funny self and cracked a lot of jokes. I am sure we will get the sourpuss media reporting he was serious. But I laughed a lot at his humor and his self-indulgence. Too funny.

He covered a lot of topics and for the most part, he said he was supporting most all the things I support. And he reamed those democrats. Not one voted for the Tx Cuts and Jobs bill. And he calls them obstructionists as they will not support anything. And they have no ideas. He even said Maxine Waters was a low IQ person. That will be portrayed as racist tonight and tomorrow by the media. But hey, she is saying some really terrible things about him and the press could care less. What is good for that goose you know.

He was all excited about the upcoming meeting with North Korea and he defended his tariffs on steel. Even though he saved many jobs in that industry, the unions came out to endorse Lamb, the democrat. Ideology trumps common sense. And he talked about FAIR trade that goes along with FREE trade. American farm products are not allowed to be imported into the European Union so he said fine, we are going to slap a tariff on your products here. We have a 100 billion dollar trade deficit with them. Same for Mexico and Canada. But he is probably going to redo NAFTA and that should all be worked out for fairness then.

He gave the crowd red meat when he attacked the media and not once did they show the crowd on TV. He said noise would allow the American people to know how many were there and the crowd obliged. All in all, it was a Trump show and he even mocked himself in the act of being Presidential. Too funny. Actually, he mocked the critics and Peggy Noonan. She apparently is not happy he is not your droll run of the mill politician. I say keep it ging President Trump, America is now prospering after eight failed years of Obama policies. It is so refreshing to hear him speak so good of America. He is making a "new normal" which is American exceptionalism and success.

[Todd Juvinall]

Paul Emery on immigration. Yes if our white European ancestors had not moved here over the last five hundred years we would not be here. But I suggest that every country on planet earth was peopled by those that moved there out of Africa four million years ago. And over time many of the countries and their people were exterminated by invaders and replaced. Russia was once a colony of Ghengis Khan. But at some point, a country is strong enough to settle things down and live without fear of invasion. America is invaded by the mass migration of people and we need to stop it and assimilate them. Just like our ancestors did. Remeber Thermopylae? If the Greeks had not stoppes Zerxes we might all be speaking Farsi.

[Don Bessee]

Wrong ya po' ol' fakenewsman @ 547! The legislation that the administration wants to scrap is a modern invention of Ted Kennedy and other limousine liberal guilt soothers. Remember what icon Barbra Jordan said about illegal immigration harming her black brothers and sister the most and that's why she was in favor of exactly a program like the President is trying to enact now. Ignorance of history and putin party parrot lines are not serving you well. Sad. ;-)

[George Rebane]

PaulE 547pm - The Rebanes and thousands of other screened refugees from the Baltic countries, who were healthy, possessed needed skills, and were politically clean, were invited by Congress to immigrate to the US in 1948 after the Iron Curtain fell over Europe. None of the Rebanes came here under anything that can remotely be characterized as chain migration aka 'family reunification'. We came as an intact family of three (dad, mom, and me). No family member of ours from behind the Iron Curtain was ever allowed to follow us, and since the USSR collapsed, no family member has ever requested that we sponsor their move to America (Free Estonia has very few emigrants.)

Apparently that was not the case with your family.

Here's a recounting from My Story of our arrival on these shores.
http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2009/05/sixty-years-ago-today-4-may-1949.html

[Paul Emery]

George

Are they allowing "intact families" to immigrate here today from Syria for example? Would you consider the situation with my grandparents as chain migration?

[Bill Tozer]

....I remember this just like it was last week.

https://www.westernjournal.com/activists-demand-justice-border-agents-arrest-illegal-learn-living/?utm_source=web&utm_medium=deepsix&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=2018-03-10

[Walt]

Nice try Paul, that was then,, this is now. You want the terrorist that's a family member to be allowed in too?

Just let anyone in? No questions asked? HELL! you won't do that in your own house in Nevada City. I bet your door is locked at this vary moment. WHY!!!????

[Bill Tozer]

Punchy, I have questions:

1) Are the Syrians you refer to refugees? Are they immigrants under the Temporary Refugee programs, akin to Haitians that we’re graciously allowed to touch sacred US soil because of the earthquake and now have to go back by Sept. 2019? What is the status of the Syrians you refer to? BYY, Homeland Security is reevaluating the temporary refugee program for Nepal that would remove the Temporary refugees now that the crisis over there is Nepal may be over. Decision concerning Nepal coming later.

2) Are you comparing immigration policy from the 1940’s to today, 75 years later?

3). Today, exactly what skills, education, trained vocation, and master of the English language in reading, speaking, and compositional writing skills does Granny possess? The intact family Trump has proposed is the nuclear family: Parents and minor children. Adult children, uncles, aunts, and grandparents do not fall into the definition. Should Uncle Simba be allowed to touch sacred US soil without possessowing skills THIS country needs, without extreme vetting and verification of background (complete work history, with verification, criminal history, medical history, proof and verification of education level, birth records) visible means of support, with a standing job offer that cannot be filled by locals?

[Scenes]

BillT@8:53

"Punchy, I have questions:"

lol. Surely you jest. At best you'll get a half sentence 'answer' on a single issue. It's much more fun to just do a drive-by stirring up of the hornet nest. You'd think that the hornets would have learned by now.

One thing that people forget (or don't know) is that the last great immigration scrimmage at the turn of the 19th to 20th C. resulted in the door being slammed shut due to the inability to take in that many people. We are currently seeing even greater numbers, and the natural reaction is taking place.

What I'd love to hear from a Green Libertarian is a cogent explanation of what the point of immigration is at all. So far as I can tell, it amounts to:

. We were mean to the Indians, therefore we deserve it (immigration as a form of punishment or atonement I guess).
. The well-being of foreign nationals is more important than your fellow countrymen. At the very least they are worth absolutely as much.
. We need moar and moar people to pick vegetables. Of course, the immigrants' kids have no intention of being farm laborers or cheap restaurant labor.
. We need moar and moar people to support us old people with Social Security payments. Who pays for the immigrants SS (or other) benefits? Dunno.
. Because it irritates Trump voters. We hate Trump voters. Therefore it is a good thing.
. Our culture sucks. Other peoples' culture is good. The latter should replace the former.

So far as I can tell, the problems with mass immigration, especially one that is drawn from a limited set of places, are many. The benefits are few. Nobody cares. Rather than making a logical decision, Green Libertarians are in the throes of a messianic fever.

[Bill Tozer]

Agreed Scenes. Every idiot that had taken 5 minutes of reading knows what the definition of intact family is, aka, nuclear family unit. Mom, Dad, minor children. Once a legal immigrant becomes a US citizen 21 years of age or older, then they can apply to have family members immigrate and be allowed to put one toe on US soil. Sponsored by family members, illegible for welfare for a set time period. Used to be 5 years. Yeah, righttttt.

The problem we have here in CA is that hordes of illiterate in their native tongue 6th grade dropouts with questionable to no skills breaking into our country without knowing who they are or even allowing them entrance. Unskilled, uneducated, flooding in without permission.

Currently, 4% of DACA receiptants have a obtained a 4 year college degree, even when it’s free to them in places like CA. O.5% have joined the military.

The problem that many illegals (non-DACAs) face when attempting to join the military is their criminal history and lack of high school diploma, despite the fact we keep loosening and lowering the standards to let even fat kids covered with tattoos in.

But, pay that no never mind.

[Bill Tozer]

1) Syrians: Not to confuse Temporary Refugee Program with work permits, visas (pleasure travel, work, or student) temporary immigrant work permits (seasonal work) or residency permits (green cards if permanent status). All can be revoked for violations of agreements, such as bad behavior and not following the terms they agreed to when issued visas (overstaying, not reporting, etc.)

https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status

How long does temporary protected status last?

The answer depends on the nature of the emergency situation in your country and the length of time for which DHS designates your native country TPS-eligible. The initial period provided is not less than six months and not more than 18 months, but DHS can extend this time if country conditions warrant it.
Frequently Asked Questions About Temporary Protected Status (TPS ...
https://www.nolo.com › legal-encyclopedia

2) Scenes at 9:45 pm. “I ain’t going to pick no strawberries.” Since 7% of workers in CA are directly involved in agriculture, I think you may be correct. “Go pick your own peaches, gringo.”

[Bill Tozer]

California, oh California.

Hard to believe that it’s only been year since these words were uttered. And to think he might be the next Governor of the Great State of California. Shudder the thought. Using stolen or false Social Security numbers is a big no-no. Big federal offense.

OS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A Los Angeles lawmaker leading the fight to make California a so-called “sanctuary state” has suggested half of his family would be deported for using falsified Social Security cards and other fake identification.

California Senate Leader Kevin de Leon made the claims during testimony before the Senate’s Public Safety Committee for SB54, a bill introduced by De Leon that would create a statewide sanctuary for immigrants living in the country illegally.

Responding to President Trump’s suggestion of “withholding federal funding” from California, de Leon said: “Half of my family would be eligible for deportation under the executive order, because they got a false social security card, they got a false identification, they got a false driver’s license prior to us passing AB 60, they got a false green card, and anyone who has family members who are undocumented knows that almost entirely everybody has secured some sort of false identification.”

“That’s what you need to survive, to work,” he added. “They are eligible for massive deportation.”

[George Rebane]

PaulE 807pm - Paul, your questions to me generated a marvelous thread of discussion all the major points with which I agree. Re your grandparents, I'm not sure I recall all the particulars, but immigration laws and practices are dynamic, and comparing those of long ago with what is needed today under some arbitrary criteria of fairness or social justice is either a fool's errand and/or the desire to generate gotcha points with the unwary. The bottom line on immigration policy is that it should always and only serve the interests of contemporary American citizens.

[Paul Emery]

That's the answer I expected to hear George. Kinda like a Motel saying no vacancy Sad to those who won't have grandparents from the old country as part of their heritage.

[fish]

Posted by: Paul Emery | 11 March 2018 at 03:03 PM

Eh.....air travel has never been easier to the old country Punch. Better than saddling the taxpayer with those costs.

[Walt]

Cry us some nice crocodile tears Paul...

[Scenes]

Here's a nice California story.

https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/08/thousands-of-pounds-of-human-waste-close-to-14000-hypodermic-needles-cleaned-out-from-santa-ana-river-homeless-encampments/

So here we are in a single party state with a lot of money...and it's a pit.

There's absolutely nothing keeping the Green Libertarians from building their utopia. So are they incompetent, misguided, or venal?

[George Rebane]

Were it only possible to limit chain migration to grandparents of the meritorious (legal) immigrants.

[Paul Emery]

If you don't mind Fish what is your family Heritage?

[fish]

Mostly Irish, Welsh, generic Northern European, with a splash of Scandinavian!

[Bill Tozer]

Don’t feel bad Punchy. Canada does not let Grandmas in either. No way. Too old. Just workers and after a year on the job, maybe the Wifie-Pooh and crumb snatcher only after proving the hubbie can care for them. Proof positive. Or, have a wheelbarrow of cash if the wife cannot obtain a work permit with standing offer in advance. Working age only, 24-45 is prime. Granny can come visit or the adult children can take the little papoose to visit the Old Country.

The main reason for no grannies is we got to make room for some Nigeria couple with Masters Degrees and excellent skill sets...and the energy of youth.

————Oh Grannie, you just can’t get no respect. I feel your pain, but.....—————-

On social media, outrage was collected under the hashtag “#NotMyAbuela.”

“Let me be clear,” one Twitter user wrote. “… You are #NotMyAbuela and you should fire the person who thought up that awful marketing campaign.” Another: “Hillary compares herself to my Latina grandma’ –Please just stop!” Yet another: “My Abuelita never got to meet her U.S. born grandchildren b/c of unjust immigration laws.”

Yet, this was far from the first time Clinton has courted Latinos, albeit awkwardly.

“I gotta tell you, I love being ‘La Hillary,'” Clinton said at a rally in Texas in October, trying out a nickname that appeared to be a work-in-progress. “I promise I will keep working on my pronunciation — but I’m not just La Hillary. I’m tu Hillary.”

Some winced.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/23/notmyabuela-hillary-clinton-offends-some-with-grandma-pitch-to-latinos/?utm_term=.e133c3176bcf

[Russ]

This is what your gas tax increase bought, more government paper pushers.

THE STATE WORKER
Caltrans is desperate to fill thousands of new jobs
No kidding: It’s a really good time to send a résumé to Caltrans. California's transportation department plans to swell its staff by 10 percent over the next five years, adding 2,000 employees to help it execute projects funded by the new gasoline tax.

[Scenes]

re: Russ@5:05AM

Thought o' the day. Why haven't they automated flagmen? That doesn't seem an impossible problem.

[Bill Tozer]

Enemy at the Gates. At first glance I thought this was another CA campus story, but noooo.

“Dr. Peterson was at the college to promote his new book, where he was set upon by a mob of over 150 activists, some of whom are students. The activists were opposed to Peterson’s criticism of Bill C-16, which is widely considered to be an anti-free speech law that criminalizes the misuse of gender-specific pronouns as “hate crimes,” among other things.

As he spoke, activists barricaded the doors to prevent attendees from leaving. Queen’s University’s local newspaper, the Journal, reports that members of the crowd chanted “lock ‘em in and burn it down.”

https://www.dangerous.com/42264/leftist-radicals-barricade-doors-brandish-weapons-jordan-peterson-speech/

[George Rebane]

re BillT's 1004am - Mr Tozer again points out the latest in a continuous stream of asymmetric events that compare and contrast the behavior of the Left viz that of the Right. Are there any examples of the rightwing activists doing anything remotely similar to what is described in Mr Tozer's 1004am?

[Bill Tozer]

For Don’s Sandbox post @ 11:44 am

Well, this should make Hilary Hodge very very happy. This should make the tyrannical powers that rule our one party state very happy. It’s who they are. Remove the words Immigration and Enforcement from ICE and you got customs. We must respect customs and not judge.

California: take what you will......

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/12/ice-removal-key-goal-democrats-in-2020-election.html

[Bill Tozer]

Dr. Rebane @ 10:13

When President Trump comes into CA this week, there will be hundreds of hours of video footage that will compare and contrast the behavior of the Left vis that of the Right....for all the world to see. The campaign season has officially kicked off and TDS will work fantasist to reveal who the real fascists are.

[Scenes]

re: BillT@12:43PM ...and not a bad idea at that. Simply run Trump around California before the midterm elections, thousands (millions?) of illegal aliens, manwomen, folks who want all 20 of their abuelas to get permanent visas, bald dudes with manbuns, all the craziness of the Left Coast marching around shrieking obscenities at Doctor General God Emperor Trump and his minions.

Just imagine Trump in Berkeley with Sessions. I would pay good money to watch the bad behavior.

I mean, well hell, that'll play great in Indiana or Ohio. It's one thing to think of so-called 'Progressives' as awful, but actually seeing it is a different matter. Who knows, there's even a 1% chance it'll be on CNN.

[Bill Tozer]

Scenes, it will play great in Pennsylvania. Why spend millions on ads when you have one man and a Twitter Machine that sucks all the oxygen out of the room. Kick off time, let’s get ready to rumble!

“The Department of Homeland Security has said there's nothing to stop Trump from turning the wall design contest into a Miss Universe-style pageant.”

From another source:
https://www.dailyrepublic.com/wires/police-preparing-for-protests-as-trump-makes-first-california-visit-as-president/

Let the good times roll. There are rumors flying that Trump will walk onto the steps of the Capital Building in Sacramento and face Jerry Brown and Company mano-a-mano, or whoever self identifies as a mano for that particular occasion.
Another rumor says the Sac appearance was cancelled due to death threats and Trump will be meeting at a secret location in Auburn, Ca for some confab. Getting closer.
Pioneer Park could serve as a good locale despite its small size and lack of parking, but consider the boost to the local economy with its overpriced eateries mixed in among the tchotchke shops. Rumors schummers.

https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1014616278688594/?type=3&theater

Damn, Silicon Valley is on the cutting edge again.. How appro-pro.

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1274531079347593/?type=3&theater

[Scenes]

re: BillT@10:04

Progressives cutting up rough at Queen's University? It appears to be a thing, here's King's College

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvkzo4GXDyI

They appear to be working their way through the face cards. Maybe Jack's Bar and Grill is next.

[Don Bessee]

Weedmaps to Bureau of Cannabis Control: You don't have the authority to police us -

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/california-weed/article204783469.html

Ah ha. ;-)

[Don Bessee]

“It is remarkable that the State of California would seek to delay this matter primarily so that it can avoid litigating in its State capital. There is no basis to seriously entertain this request that the case be transferred,” Justice Department lawyers wrote. “California’s wish to defend these challenges in another federal judicial district in San Francisco, where the State capital is not located and where the official Defendants do not reside, makes no sense.”

http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/03/12/sacntuary-state-department-justice-mocks-californias-request-move-lawsuit-san-francisco/

;-)