This quote "....The housing crisis underlies so many other problems: the cost of living, homelessness, the exodus of people and businesses from our state… " that is heard so often, does not address why there are so many new people in California if there is an "EXODUS" . My guess is they come here for many reasons: 1. tourists without money, 2. the California 'life' Hollywood has presented for decades, 3. free services provided by government agencies at taxpayer expense, 4. migration to where it is 'better' than where they came from without regard to the higher cost of living, and more.
"3. free services provided by government agencies at taxpayer expense"
While the democrat run government is far from virtuous, there is nothing at all wrong with social services let alone those sustained for by taxpayers. Just as it is a moral obligation for a state to ensure the welfare of its people including those with the fewest resources, tax payers have a moral duty to fund the services of the society in which they live in.
Sorry, I do not wish to fund services because I may not believe I share the same service interest as you do. The government spending money for social services is flawed because spending is all based on personal opinions. I say the government pays nothing, let it be personal donations that pays for the causes of different services. Don't look at it as a "society" responsibility. For example, so-called welfare is defined by many factors. Welfare for who, how much and why might come into question. Individuals with their own preferences of where they want their money to go should be the deciding factor, not bureaucrats ... as if they were the only ones given the "magic wand" at deciding who gets what. All a bureaucrat will do is favor his/her own personal preferences. Do people vote in government people because they consider they will distribute money properly to the services ... I sure hope nobody thinks that!
I would prefer to give to non profit organizations that render goods and social services to ensure the welfare of people in the society in which we live .
Not sure if I can quite go along with your view without knowing that the taxpayers can rein in the government when it get too out of control "giving" taxpayers money away. There are many, many private non profits that people can contribute to. If anything, government wasn't set up to be a nanny.
Well I don't belive in a secular republic which has leaders unaccountable to anyone, I want a pious monarch bound to God, to the Church, and to his people. Such a monarch would be well catechized and have a strong moral compass.
A government has always been about being a father/mother to the people, a paternal autocracy actually has the best interests of its subjects in mind.
Yes, I do understand and respect that you want a "pious monarch " of the church. The problem is, Theo, we are all mortals with all the weaknesses that go along with that, sadly the churches as well. We do the best we can and the Founding Father's tried to put together (and succeded to the best they could) a fair and just system. They did see the danger of government overstepping and I think that's what is going on now.
The founding fathers absolutely failed, the government they founded threw Christian and traditional ideas and replaced them with revolutionary ideals rooted in moral relativism.
Perhaps you would prefer to live under the Medici Popes. Or under the rule of the Cardinals during the Spanish Inquisition. An autocratic theocracy is not the answer...not ever.
Quite a mishmash of topics today, must have been a slow day in the newsroom? I find it interesting that several of the topics mentioned are seemingly unique to California. Housing, education, cost of living, environment, etc. Do other states have similar issues? Certainly blue states seem to. Why are these problems so pervasive? I think a root cause analysis would reveal a lack of accountability.
Clearly, politicians and government workers don’t seem to answer to the voters or taxpayers. It could be because of the 800 pound gorilla in the room which is the public sector unions. The unions come in between the public and the elected official or public servant. It use to be they worked for us, now the opposite seems true. Are public servants even able to be fired? Only after what would seem to be a criminal conviction and then only after exhausting multiple pathways.
You know you’re in trouble as a society when a significant number of voters are also public sector workers or are retired civil servants. Sure, if you were making $300 thousand annually in retirement, would you rock the boat?
The State of California will NEVER be financially secure or prosperous until the unions power is put in check. The Democratic Party will NEVER allow this because their allegiance is to the union and NOT the public.
Jim, before responding to this week's collection of letters I want to thank you for putting together SB Current, which is a much-needed, truly alternative local publication. Thank you for taking the time to do this at a point in our history as a city and as a nation when it's much easier to just stay quiet with what one thinks. And thank you for giving readers a rare experience of uncensored, real freedom of speech.
The letters: I've never met Joan Livingston but always heard good things about her honesty and intelligence when it cones to our Santa Barbara schools. She's absolutely right when she says “We critically need a wholesale revision of our entire K-12 system before pouring any more money into this ever-demanding system whose only known product is failure for the vast majority of its constituents.” My step dad was born here and worked thirty-eight years in a local non-profit for children. At one point he thought he should join the school board. He quit after a few years. He told me it was just too frustrating to try to get through to the members of the school board and he could get more accomplished focusing all his energy on the non-profit he ran. Thank you, Joan, for continuing to speak on behalf of our local public education, which has become a disgrace since I graduated from San Marcos.
More letters. Cyndi Lees writes “There's no way I would ever vote for Trump; my freedoms mean too much to me. You are unpatriotic.”
Dear Cyndi, you are being a brainwashed idiot. I tried writing this in a more polite way, but when someone says something as unpatriotic as you just said, I have to call it like it is. Trump is all that stands between us and the current totalitarian version of the Democratic Party taking away our freedoms. I say this as someone who was a lifelong Democrat and left in 2016 because I saw how they have become focused on only one thing: winning. They don't care about voting rights. They paid off Zuckerberg and other mainstream media to lie rather. They took away your freedom, Cyndi, to know the truth.
I suspect you're going to come back at me with abortion and how Trump wants to deprive you of your freedom to kill your fetus. This is simply not true. Putting abortion back as a state decision is giving freedom to Americans to decide what they want, state by state rather than mandating it at the federal level. Freedom is never given in a dictatorial way.
About Steve Hilton's letter. I want to like Hilton. He's been a keen observer of American politics. And he, unlike too many Republicans, seems to know how to operate in politics to get things done. The flyer for his upcoming appearance at The Timbers refers to him as “one of the most famous political operatives in America.”
But reading through his agenda also made me wary. It's all about housing. He says we need to “Restore infrastructure investments in transportation and water to facilitate the development of new housing, new cities, and new suburbs.” These words could be taken from a Democratic agenda about housing. I see too many opportunities for corruption that we're already suffering from. What guarantees is Steve giving us that his plan won't lead to the same tax, congestion and energy depletion of the Dems?
Thanks again, Jim, for another great week of SB Current.
Joan Livingston is a long serving exceptional community leader: a hidden gem! Her depth of knowledge is encyclopedic, her integrity proven, her analytical skills quickly and correctly deliver insights and answers. During her 20 or so years as a SBCC Trustee, she came on to the Board of our #1 ranked community college to then experience SBCC’s rapid decline and instability resulting from the organized takeover by then Santa Barbara Mayor Marti Blum. SBCC’s takeover by Blum’s ‘Gang of 4’ included faculty Peter Haslund and attorney Marsha Croninger. Haslund recently retired from the Board, Croninger remains. However, in recent years Trustee Croninger has become an independent mind, not a Blum DEM controlled block voter.
As an active SBCC follower for 44 years, I watched Trustee Joan Livingston battle for District students and taxpayers; the nightmare she lived for over a decade under constant attacks for providing FACTS at Board meetings, for speaking truths trying to rescue SBCC, until she’d had enough! Now surprisingly, Croninger has joined the only other truth-speaker, Trustee Veronica Gallardo, by disclosing facts necessary to stabilize management of SBCC. Both voted to not to take any bond funding request to voters. Now is not the time.
Livingston’s letter nails it: “All educational monies are fungible; construction and capital funding should be a guaranteed part of the current funding our public schools now enjoy under Prop 98, not an afterthought. We are not being told the real story when schools make constant demands for more capital funding when they are already automatically getting a generous 50% stream of revenues. Where is that money going?…”.
SBCC’s Ballot Measure P2024 must be defeated.
Livingston started as a Trustee after bond passage for West Campus and she was strongly endorsed by SBCC major donor Eli Luria to serve with then highly respected Trustee Joe Dobbs and the other non-partisan independent business leaders.
Livingston’s SBCC Board years developed SBCC as the #1 ranked community college. Now SBCC did not even make the list of the top 77 within even California!
We owe SBCC’s decline to Marti Blum’s successful PROGRESSIVE DEM takeover. On big issues, like 2/14/2020 at Thornton Auditorium, watch Blum appear with DEM Handlers from Central Committee and SBNWPC to eyeball her/ their Trustees vote accordingly. SBCC has become so anti-American it’s captured national media coverage since 2019.
Property owners pay 50% of their property taxes PLUS bond payments to fund K-14 public schools must VOTE NO on P2024! 55% of District voters are renters including transient students.
SBCC is in deficit spending despite its annual budget over $424,324,000. SBCC must first cut spending on unnecessary personnel and stop adding to its administrative staff, before any more bond financing.
Your NO vote on more bond financing to 2060 is the only way to discipline five of seven irresponsible, self-serving Trustees. I’m confident Livingston would agree. Contact NoP4SBCC@gmail.com
Dan, I had to laugh, as Noozhawk cancelled my subscription and banned us the day after we made our first appearance online. I don't believe we pose a threat to anything they are doing, but it's a typical "liberal" response (even though Noozhawk ownership is or at least was putatively Republican).
What??!! A week ago the publisher posted on his Instagram page about the anniversary of the Kabul bombing that mirrors your posts. Maybe he sees this site as competition.
Just now on the Noozhawk Instagram page they posted the story.
I replied to this quote, "There appears to be no organized opposition to the measure."
"Okay, y'all must not know of the site Santa Barbara Current. I can assure you there is just as much, maybe more opposition to this than there is support."
Various comments from differing points of view. Here's one a gal posted on another chat forum apropos of nothing:
“I love men - they built a civilization because women don’t like being cold, they fight for us, protect us, take care of business. . . all for a little pat on the head and an occasional blow job. Such a deal!”
You got a chuckle from me, Earl. And I needed the laugh. Humor is so important, and it needs to be recognized. Why does humor have to be politically correct. If you are going to read into everything stated in an attempt to discover a political bias, that's sad. Married and almost at 80 and proud of it.
I was just thinking about the time I went to the Johnny Carson show in Burbank. Fortunately, the lady I took with me to the show was good-looking, so we were placed up front near the stage. Ozzie and Harriet and Jill St. John were the featured performers. There were prompt lights for audience viewing spelling out the word "laugh" or "applause" in red lettering. I felt a sense of everything being "rigged." No natural responses, only react to the prompt lights like brainless robots. That's the situation of today, just follow-the-leader and don't think.
I had an involvement with Hollywood . I produced a small tv series called 'Hollywood Confidential' UNTIL I figured out that most of the whole Hollywood scene is crap - a bunch of loser's who don't know who they are, desperate for approval, their word is worthless, etc.
My gig was more or less a 'vanity' project - I came into a windfall and thought it would be fun associating with 'creative' people. What a joke - I_ran_ from that ridiculous scene as soon as I figured it out.
I've wanted to be a producer for artists. I produced a few church programs with musicians that was fun. But yes, artists can be quirky to deal with. Before Sarah Bareilles became famous, I nearly had her do a church event, but after attending one of her nightclub performances in Los Angeles, I discovered she swore more than a drunken sailor. I "discovered" her on a Best of College Acapella (BOCA) album singing her "Gravity" song, I did promote her around SB with free CD's sent via Sarah's kitchen. And she came to sing in SB a few times. But she wasn't for a church environment with all the cussing ... too bad. Having talked to her I knew she'd an attitude to be going places; very gifted.
Humor shouldn't be degenerate, what Earl shows is just how far removed from morality society us when the mention of sodomy becomes common in public discourse....
Death to cultural liberalism and the Revolutions of old, up with the Catholic, moral, and traditional order of Mediveal Europe!
The 1950's were a degenerate time, I can see why it appeals to you. You would likely hate the present social deviancy planning society today yet are okay with previous forms of degeneracy that gave way to today.
Yes, oral "sex" is sodomy and there's nothing funny about it.
So gay people are disgusting to you, and you are going to change history ... good luck with that one! Why not tackle the things most people care about.
Bro, Earl was literally talking about "blowjobs" in the context of heterosexual unions... and yes sodomy is disgusting in all cases. Does this mean people with same sex attractions have no dignity? No, stop putting words in my mouth.
If a person cannot in good conscience vote for Donald Trump but doesn’t like the Harris ticket they can vote and leave the presidential box blank. To my way of thinking that is one way of showing both parties that the presidential choices are unacceptable.
"End the scam of “affordable housing” by government cronyism and diktat, and instead allow the market to provide truly affordable homes where they are needed and wanted."
The Market is not Christian, nor moral, or traditional. The market does not care about meeting the needs of the poor and vulnerable it only cares for those who already have the resources to do as they wish. It was the "free" market that gave us the abominable horror that is the pornography industry, it has created a materialist society where people seek to surround themselves with objects for the sake of their novelty, and it destroyed the economy of old supported by local craftsman and artisans...
Here's one pretty significant way to seek to end housing inequality, have the wealthy participate extensively. In Feudal Europe there was a social order rooted in responsibility, the nobility and the monarch a members of a Christian society were fully expected to support the poor and vulnerable, yes through charity, but the wealthy also provided land, housing, and protection to the peasant class. Those with resources were understood to be paternal autocratic seeking to care for those who would struggle without their own extensively resources and wealth.
An advertisement for the fundraiser luncheon to be held on September 13 at the Timbers has a statement that says “Make Santa Barbara County, Reagan Country Again”. Please no! Somehow Reagan has been put on a pedestal that he didn’t deserve. What’s that saying I keep hearing, oh yeah, “WE WON’T GO BACK”!
This really beautiful and solid article on how to fix California was coming as quite a shock. I could not believe it was being written by someone in our state , and there it turns out it was Steve Hilton. That explains everything. We should try to get Hilton into some position of power in California, but it’s going take more than the usual political schemes. We need a new strategy.
This quote "....The housing crisis underlies so many other problems: the cost of living, homelessness, the exodus of people and businesses from our state… " that is heard so often, does not address why there are so many new people in California if there is an "EXODUS" . My guess is they come here for many reasons: 1. tourists without money, 2. the California 'life' Hollywood has presented for decades, 3. free services provided by government agencies at taxpayer expense, 4. migration to where it is 'better' than where they came from without regard to the higher cost of living, and more.
"3. free services provided by government agencies at taxpayer expense"
While the democrat run government is far from virtuous, there is nothing at all wrong with social services let alone those sustained for by taxpayers. Just as it is a moral obligation for a state to ensure the welfare of its people including those with the fewest resources, tax payers have a moral duty to fund the services of the society in which they live in.
"Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar".
Sorry, I do not wish to fund services because I may not believe I share the same service interest as you do. The government spending money for social services is flawed because spending is all based on personal opinions. I say the government pays nothing, let it be personal donations that pays for the causes of different services. Don't look at it as a "society" responsibility. For example, so-called welfare is defined by many factors. Welfare for who, how much and why might come into question. Individuals with their own preferences of where they want their money to go should be the deciding factor, not bureaucrats ... as if they were the only ones given the "magic wand" at deciding who gets what. All a bureaucrat will do is favor his/her own personal preferences. Do people vote in government people because they consider they will distribute money properly to the services ... I sure hope nobody thinks that!
I would prefer to give to non profit organizations that render goods and social services to ensure the welfare of people in the society in which we live .
And if not enough people 'give'??
Not sure if I can quite go along with your view without knowing that the taxpayers can rein in the government when it get too out of control "giving" taxpayers money away. There are many, many private non profits that people can contribute to. If anything, government wasn't set up to be a nanny.
Well I don't belive in a secular republic which has leaders unaccountable to anyone, I want a pious monarch bound to God, to the Church, and to his people. Such a monarch would be well catechized and have a strong moral compass.
A government has always been about being a father/mother to the people, a paternal autocracy actually has the best interests of its subjects in mind.
Yes, I do understand and respect that you want a "pious monarch " of the church. The problem is, Theo, we are all mortals with all the weaknesses that go along with that, sadly the churches as well. We do the best we can and the Founding Father's tried to put together (and succeded to the best they could) a fair and just system. They did see the danger of government overstepping and I think that's what is going on now.
The founding fathers absolutely failed, the government they founded threw Christian and traditional ideas and replaced them with revolutionary ideals rooted in moral relativism.
Perhaps you would prefer to live under the Medici Popes. Or under the rule of the Cardinals during the Spanish Inquisition. An autocratic theocracy is not the answer...not ever.
Quite a mishmash of topics today, must have been a slow day in the newsroom? I find it interesting that several of the topics mentioned are seemingly unique to California. Housing, education, cost of living, environment, etc. Do other states have similar issues? Certainly blue states seem to. Why are these problems so pervasive? I think a root cause analysis would reveal a lack of accountability.
Clearly, politicians and government workers don’t seem to answer to the voters or taxpayers. It could be because of the 800 pound gorilla in the room which is the public sector unions. The unions come in between the public and the elected official or public servant. It use to be they worked for us, now the opposite seems true. Are public servants even able to be fired? Only after what would seem to be a criminal conviction and then only after exhausting multiple pathways.
You know you’re in trouble as a society when a significant number of voters are also public sector workers or are retired civil servants. Sure, if you were making $300 thousand annually in retirement, would you rock the boat?
The State of California will NEVER be financially secure or prosperous until the unions power is put in check. The Democratic Party will NEVER allow this because their allegiance is to the union and NOT the public.
Jim, before responding to this week's collection of letters I want to thank you for putting together SB Current, which is a much-needed, truly alternative local publication. Thank you for taking the time to do this at a point in our history as a city and as a nation when it's much easier to just stay quiet with what one thinks. And thank you for giving readers a rare experience of uncensored, real freedom of speech.
The letters: I've never met Joan Livingston but always heard good things about her honesty and intelligence when it cones to our Santa Barbara schools. She's absolutely right when she says “We critically need a wholesale revision of our entire K-12 system before pouring any more money into this ever-demanding system whose only known product is failure for the vast majority of its constituents.” My step dad was born here and worked thirty-eight years in a local non-profit for children. At one point he thought he should join the school board. He quit after a few years. He told me it was just too frustrating to try to get through to the members of the school board and he could get more accomplished focusing all his energy on the non-profit he ran. Thank you, Joan, for continuing to speak on behalf of our local public education, which has become a disgrace since I graduated from San Marcos.
More letters. Cyndi Lees writes “There's no way I would ever vote for Trump; my freedoms mean too much to me. You are unpatriotic.”
Dear Cyndi, you are being a brainwashed idiot. I tried writing this in a more polite way, but when someone says something as unpatriotic as you just said, I have to call it like it is. Trump is all that stands between us and the current totalitarian version of the Democratic Party taking away our freedoms. I say this as someone who was a lifelong Democrat and left in 2016 because I saw how they have become focused on only one thing: winning. They don't care about voting rights. They paid off Zuckerberg and other mainstream media to lie rather. They took away your freedom, Cyndi, to know the truth.
I suspect you're going to come back at me with abortion and how Trump wants to deprive you of your freedom to kill your fetus. This is simply not true. Putting abortion back as a state decision is giving freedom to Americans to decide what they want, state by state rather than mandating it at the federal level. Freedom is never given in a dictatorial way.
About Steve Hilton's letter. I want to like Hilton. He's been a keen observer of American politics. And he, unlike too many Republicans, seems to know how to operate in politics to get things done. The flyer for his upcoming appearance at The Timbers refers to him as “one of the most famous political operatives in America.”
But reading through his agenda also made me wary. It's all about housing. He says we need to “Restore infrastructure investments in transportation and water to facilitate the development of new housing, new cities, and new suburbs.” These words could be taken from a Democratic agenda about housing. I see too many opportunities for corruption that we're already suffering from. What guarantees is Steve giving us that his plan won't lead to the same tax, congestion and energy depletion of the Dems?
Thanks again, Jim, for another great week of SB Current.
Excellent Polly. Looks like someone was a busy little bee today! :)
Joan Livingston is a long serving exceptional community leader: a hidden gem! Her depth of knowledge is encyclopedic, her integrity proven, her analytical skills quickly and correctly deliver insights and answers. During her 20 or so years as a SBCC Trustee, she came on to the Board of our #1 ranked community college to then experience SBCC’s rapid decline and instability resulting from the organized takeover by then Santa Barbara Mayor Marti Blum. SBCC’s takeover by Blum’s ‘Gang of 4’ included faculty Peter Haslund and attorney Marsha Croninger. Haslund recently retired from the Board, Croninger remains. However, in recent years Trustee Croninger has become an independent mind, not a Blum DEM controlled block voter.
As an active SBCC follower for 44 years, I watched Trustee Joan Livingston battle for District students and taxpayers; the nightmare she lived for over a decade under constant attacks for providing FACTS at Board meetings, for speaking truths trying to rescue SBCC, until she’d had enough! Now surprisingly, Croninger has joined the only other truth-speaker, Trustee Veronica Gallardo, by disclosing facts necessary to stabilize management of SBCC. Both voted to not to take any bond funding request to voters. Now is not the time.
Livingston’s letter nails it: “All educational monies are fungible; construction and capital funding should be a guaranteed part of the current funding our public schools now enjoy under Prop 98, not an afterthought. We are not being told the real story when schools make constant demands for more capital funding when they are already automatically getting a generous 50% stream of revenues. Where is that money going?…”.
SBCC’s Ballot Measure P2024 must be defeated.
Livingston started as a Trustee after bond passage for West Campus and she was strongly endorsed by SBCC major donor Eli Luria to serve with then highly respected Trustee Joe Dobbs and the other non-partisan independent business leaders.
Livingston’s SBCC Board years developed SBCC as the #1 ranked community college. Now SBCC did not even make the list of the top 77 within even California!
We owe SBCC’s decline to Marti Blum’s successful PROGRESSIVE DEM takeover. On big issues, like 2/14/2020 at Thornton Auditorium, watch Blum appear with DEM Handlers from Central Committee and SBNWPC to eyeball her/ their Trustees vote accordingly. SBCC has become so anti-American it’s captured national media coverage since 2019.
Property owners pay 50% of their property taxes PLUS bond payments to fund K-14 public schools must VOTE NO on P2024! 55% of District voters are renters including transient students.
SBCC is in deficit spending despite its annual budget over $424,324,000. SBCC must first cut spending on unnecessary personnel and stop adding to its administrative staff, before any more bond financing.
Your NO vote on more bond financing to 2060 is the only way to discipline five of seven irresponsible, self-serving Trustees. I’m confident Livingston would agree. Contact NoP4SBCC@gmail.com
Just before I came here to check out today's post I read an article on Noozhawk about Measure P. Written by a Daniel Green, he stated,
"There appears to be no organized opposition to the measure.
Really? Clearly he's not familiar with SB Current. You should write a letter to the Editor, it's my favorite Saturday morning read on Noozhawk.
Dan, I had to laugh, as Noozhawk cancelled my subscription and banned us the day after we made our first appearance online. I don't believe we pose a threat to anything they are doing, but it's a typical "liberal" response (even though Noozhawk ownership is or at least was putatively Republican).
What??!! A week ago the publisher posted on his Instagram page about the anniversary of the Kabul bombing that mirrors your posts. Maybe he sees this site as competition.
Just now on the Noozhawk Instagram page they posted the story.
I replied to this quote, "There appears to be no organized opposition to the measure."
"Okay, y'all must not know of the site Santa Barbara Current. I can assure you there is just as much, maybe more opposition to this than there is support."
Oops: SBCC annual budget $224,347,000 (Prop 98/ property tax revenues), not as wrongly posted above ($424M)
Various comments from differing points of view. Here's one a gal posted on another chat forum apropos of nothing:
“I love men - they built a civilization because women don’t like being cold, they fight for us, protect us, take care of business. . . all for a little pat on the head and an occasional blow job. Such a deal!”
You got a chuckle from me, Earl. And I needed the laugh. Humor is so important, and it needs to be recognized. Why does humor have to be politically correct. If you are going to read into everything stated in an attempt to discover a political bias, that's sad. Married and almost at 80 and proud of it.
Thanks Bill. You’re right, this whole politics thing is plenty sour these days - why not lighten it up a little. :)
I was just thinking about the time I went to the Johnny Carson show in Burbank. Fortunately, the lady I took with me to the show was good-looking, so we were placed up front near the stage. Ozzie and Harriet and Jill St. John were the featured performers. There were prompt lights for audience viewing spelling out the word "laugh" or "applause" in red lettering. I felt a sense of everything being "rigged." No natural responses, only react to the prompt lights like brainless robots. That's the situation of today, just follow-the-leader and don't think.
I had an involvement with Hollywood . I produced a small tv series called 'Hollywood Confidential' UNTIL I figured out that most of the whole Hollywood scene is crap - a bunch of loser's who don't know who they are, desperate for approval, their word is worthless, etc.
My gig was more or less a 'vanity' project - I came into a windfall and thought it would be fun associating with 'creative' people. What a joke - I_ran_ from that ridiculous scene as soon as I figured it out.
I've wanted to be a producer for artists. I produced a few church programs with musicians that was fun. But yes, artists can be quirky to deal with. Before Sarah Bareilles became famous, I nearly had her do a church event, but after attending one of her nightclub performances in Los Angeles, I discovered she swore more than a drunken sailor. I "discovered" her on a Best of College Acapella (BOCA) album singing her "Gravity" song, I did promote her around SB with free CD's sent via Sarah's kitchen. And she came to sing in SB a few times. But she wasn't for a church environment with all the cussing ... too bad. Having talked to her I knew she'd an attitude to be going places; very gifted.
Humor shouldn't be degenerate, what Earl shows is just how far removed from morality society us when the mention of sodomy becomes common in public discourse....
Death to cultural liberalism and the Revolutions of old, up with the Catholic, moral, and traditional order of Mediveal Europe!
Yikes, you are scaring me. Bring me back to the 1950's when people could laugh about stuff. Sodomy, really?
The 1950's were a degenerate time, I can see why it appeals to you. You would likely hate the present social deviancy planning society today yet are okay with previous forms of degeneracy that gave way to today.
Yes, oral "sex" is sodomy and there's nothing funny about it.
So gay people are disgusting to you, and you are going to change history ... good luck with that one! Why not tackle the things most people care about.
Bro, Earl was literally talking about "blowjobs" in the context of heterosexual unions... and yes sodomy is disgusting in all cases. Does this mean people with same sex attractions have no dignity? No, stop putting words in my mouth.
That's really disgusting Earl.
Oral sodomy, really?
Your comment is the embodiment of the modern conservative movement which has embraced cultural liberalism...
"Yo sé de un rey que en el exilio vivió Yo sé de un rey que en el exilio vivió
Los españoles que lo esperaban ya, querian que su rey pudiera regresar
Los españoles que lo esperaban ya, querian que su rey pudiera regresar
Pues en su ausecia el mal se propagó
Otro monarca el trono usurpó La democracia en nuestra patria entró, rompiendo los
cimientos de nuestra tradición La democracia en nuestra patria entró, rompiendo los cimientos de nuestra tradición
De nuestras leyes nos desapareció, Y la familia desunida quedó
Pornografía, drogas y corrupción, los tiranos creyeron ganar la situación..."
I'm just going to wager that Earl is single and in his 80s.
If a person cannot in good conscience vote for Donald Trump but doesn’t like the Harris ticket they can vote and leave the presidential box blank. To my way of thinking that is one way of showing both parties that the presidential choices are unacceptable.
Found this website for anyone who wants to research Trump's bona fides: http://www.1000daysoftrump.com/
Here's another good one - an eye-opening chronicle of his acual accomplishments. Very revealing! tinyurl.com/4f5dz3bf
Oh, as published from Trumps white house.... that's funny.
And kind of funny touting the stock market - when the top 10% of us own 93% of all of that. For normal Americans it's a foolish metric.
Sad to say that many of these claims are simply not true.
"End the scam of “affordable housing” by government cronyism and diktat, and instead allow the market to provide truly affordable homes where they are needed and wanted."
The Market is not Christian, nor moral, or traditional. The market does not care about meeting the needs of the poor and vulnerable it only cares for those who already have the resources to do as they wish. It was the "free" market that gave us the abominable horror that is the pornography industry, it has created a materialist society where people seek to surround themselves with objects for the sake of their novelty, and it destroyed the economy of old supported by local craftsman and artisans...
Here's one pretty significant way to seek to end housing inequality, have the wealthy participate extensively. In Feudal Europe there was a social order rooted in responsibility, the nobility and the monarch a members of a Christian society were fully expected to support the poor and vulnerable, yes through charity, but the wealthy also provided land, housing, and protection to the peasant class. Those with resources were understood to be paternal autocratic seeking to care for those who would struggle without their own extensively resources and wealth.
An advertisement for the fundraiser luncheon to be held on September 13 at the Timbers has a statement that says “Make Santa Barbara County, Reagan Country Again”. Please no! Somehow Reagan has been put on a pedestal that he didn’t deserve. What’s that saying I keep hearing, oh yeah, “WE WON’T GO BACK”!
Wow, Harry Ried vs. what Trump has said? That's just nuts in comparison.
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This really beautiful and solid article on how to fix California was coming as quite a shock. I could not believe it was being written by someone in our state , and there it turns out it was Steve Hilton. That explains everything. We should try to get Hilton into some position of power in California, but it’s going take more than the usual political schemes. We need a new strategy.