CA State Senator Alan Lowenthal Wants You To Pay For Parking, Everywhere

The essential part of the bill is that it goes to the heart of having a car. You need a place to park it. The theory is that if there were fewer parking spaces, you might think longer about taking the bus. (ABCNEWS)

State Senator Lowenthal thinks you have a convenient bus or light rail near you that you will ride if he makes you pay for parking. What a STUPID idea. This is the same logic used when Jerry Brown was Governor to build fewer roads. Rights of way for needed freeways were sold off under the theory that if traffic congestion got bad enough, people would stop driving. An example is the Watt Ave. and Sunrise Ave. corridor in Sacramento County. There would have been a freeway connecting US 50 and I 80 had Adriana Gianturco (Caltrans Director) and Jerry Brown not subscribed to this stupid logic.

Now the congestion is nearly unbearable but the rights of way are too expensive to recover and the roads cannot be built.

This is not New York City where population density favors mass transit and the city was built up around it. It is California. The same California with the highest unemployment, worse schools and highest taxes in the nation.

This kind of thinking got us the California we have, but it also got us the recent election in Massachusetts. Voters have had enough behavior modification. They need jobs.

Great idea Lowenthal, great timing! Here is Senator Lowenthal’s website. Maybe you could tell him what you think, or better yet, next election maybe vote for someone else.

Debbie Schlussel on Obama Appointee Amanda/Mitch Simpson, Ignorant Bigotry?

It is a common tactic of the Left to attack people personally instead of on the issues and it doesn’t wear well on Debbie Schlussel.

Amanda Simpson

I take issue with Debbie Schlussel’s article “Let’s Hear It For Obama Diversity: Meet “Amanda”/Mitch Simpson” . Those of you who read me know I am no fan of Obama. I might not support his appointment of Amanda Simpson to an Administration job if I knew her politics, but I can see no reason why her transgendered status has any bearing on her qualifications, or gives Debbie Schlussel cause to ridicule her.

I cannot understand why any man would want to undergo a gender transformation, sex change, whatever you want to call it. Just the thought of it makes me extremely uncomfortable and I believe that to be a normal reaction.

BUT someone I know in my industry went through this and I had to confront it on a more personal level than Debbie does in her column. More on that later.

Schlussel takes issue with Simpson being appointed just because she is transgendered.

Debbie Schlussel

Uh, sorry, but we don’t have government-mandated “equality” for people who get face-lifts and boob jobs. And there isn’t a need to do so for men who pay doctors to slice off their penises…..

…..PUH-LEEZE. I can just imagine how they are laughing at us in Greater Arabia. We have men, who voluntarily remove their manhood forever and wear lingerie and make-up, getting appointed to positions running our country. HELLOOOOO . . .? Sorry, dude-without-a-unit, it’s normal not to look past that.

It is a common tactic of the Left to attack people personally instead of on the issues and it doesn’t wear well on Debbie. If there are reasons Simpson isn’t qualified, then let’s hear them. And by the way, they are already laughing at us in Greater Arabia. When did we start giving a crap what they think?

A few years ago a business associate I have known for some time sent out a letter in advance of an annual trade show saying that next time we saw him he would no longer be Steve, he would be Suzie.

We were dumbstruck. Jokes were flying around the office. None of us could even comprehend the concept. Steve, in his 50’s, a man’s man suddenly decided he wanted to be Suzie. It just didn’t compute.

It is safe to assume that anyone choosing to undergo this procedure would be forced to change careers. Steve’s letter indicated he was going to stay in the industry and try to be accepted as a woman. This meant that the rest of us would have to attend trade show functions that Steve, now Suzie would be attending. I  was certainly uncomfortable with the idea but I wasn’t going to give up MY livelihood to avoid Suzie.

When we got to the first function Suzie was at it was uncomfortable for everyone there. There were many furtive glances and the whispers were the loudest conversations in the room.

That was several years ago. Suzie seems to have accomplished her goals of becoming a woman physically (shudder), living as one publicly, and has gained acceptance in her career from most if not all of her customers and associates.

Lessons learned:

1. People do not do this on a whim. You cannot just wake up one morning and decide, “hey I think I’ll have my penis removed and get breast implants”. There are years of counseling and screenings involved.
2. Steve had to be willing to risk everything to go through with this. He must have been convinced at a level none of us could comprehend he was born the wrong gender.

Over the last few years, we have gradually accepted Suzie as a business associate again. Though we don’t profess to understand it, most of us have gotten over the shock. Though it seems weird, in many ways Suzie is the same old Steve, a friend then, and a friend now.

Like it or not, it’s a new world out there with many things that are difficult to accept or understand. There is no law saying we have to but hating what you don’t understand is destructive and unproductive. Someone much wiser than I said “live and let live”. Maybe it was Jesus, maybe not, but it is good advice none the less. Debbie, if you’re listening, don’t be a hater.

Global Warming Scientists Cooking The Books?

Perhaps the planet isn’t cooperating with the scientists. How could that be? All the facts are in. Al Gore said so.

It was announced Thursday afternoon that computer hackers had obtained 160 megabytes of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. Those e-mails involved communication among many scientific researchers and policy advocates with similar ideological positions all across the world. Those purported authorities were brazenly discussing the destruction and hiding of data that did not support global-warming claims. Read the rest here.

..and more here.

Catching Wild Pigs

A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist government. In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question:

‘Do you know how to catch wild pigs?’

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke.

You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, drugs, benefits for illegal aliens, bailout binging, the looming threat of “free” high-priced health care, etc., etc., etc., while we continually lose our freedoms — just a little at a time.

One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch! Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

Finally , if you see that all of this wonderful government ‘help’ is a problem confronting the future of the American Republic, you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this email, but God help you when the gate slams shut!

Keep your eyes on the newly elected politicians who are about to slam the gate on America.

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have”.
Thomas Jefferson

Put Welfare and EDD Recipients to Work in Sacramento Parks

I guess the parents better make sure that little Sally and little Johnny have gone potty before going to their local park.  Otherwise, they are gonna have a problem come next week.

Starting next week, finding a bathroom to use at a Sacramento park will be a lot tougher.  Budget cuts are forcing city leaders to close the restrooms at all Sacramento parks except for those at McKinley Park and William Land Park. The city is also closing five city pools to recreational swimming and several community centers will only be open by reservation. … Continue Reading