Good article, Henry. What a shame that helping people and the earth have become so corrupted. Santa Barbara is rife with non profits and it is getting harder and harder to figure out which are the noble causes and which are not. Unfortunately I think the latter are more prevalent.
So many fine businesses and organizations have be infiltrated and captured (corrupted) by the uber left. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Disneyland to name a few.
While we were raising a family and working the control freak busybodies were busy rearranging our culture.
Please, is 4-H still okay? -Got lots of practical skills from that organization during my own childhood. Although they too, were an arm of the California state government. I dare not look.
4-H. Part of UC-Extension, still alive and well in SB County, but closest local group is in Carpinteria. Did I tell you I got blue ribbons for my lemon meringue pies, at our local county fair when growing up? How does any childhood beat that.
The Sierra Club, once a noble and relevant environmental organization has fallen on hard times. It would seem the SC has focused less about spotted owls or red legged frogs and more about carrying water and being a front for the Democratic Party and radical environmentalists.
Yes, just like Surf Rider and the Environmental Defense Council, the Sierra Club is a cheerleader for the New Green Scam and opposes everything Trump. Stopping all oil production, forcing us into EV’s, letting our forests become dangerously overgrown and forcing carbon taxes on all of us is only part of their wacky agenda!
Did y’all know John Muir was a racist? That was the narrative being pushed by former disgraced Sierra Club Executive Director, former NAACP head, and well known race hustler, Ben Jealous as he was shown the door and was terminated earlier this year. Seems there was some financial irregularities (what a surprise) and even sexual harassment allegations.
The Sierra Club has a monumental task in regaining the public’s confidence from that of being just another left wing environmental group which is really no more than a front for Democratic insanity. Besides, what does racism and Transgenderism have to do with John Muir’s vision of conservation?
Perhaps all of this was, indeed to dupe and confuse us. However, weather manipulation by our government (and at least Russia and China and Europe who all have their own versions of our HAARP technology) has been secretly going on since around the end of WWII. Currently our northern hemisphere jet stream has been broken up. We have no more weather that isn’t man made in some fashion. While the climate change scam has, 8ndeed been a scam. Weather manipulation is real and it’s far more dangerous to us than anything Al Gore could come up with. Which was probably implemented to hide the truth. Poor Greta, when she does realize the truth will lose whatever sanity she might have left. That poor child was programmed and scripted and damaged.
Dane Wigington’s Geoengineering Watch . Org He has the science and data. For the uber technical minded. Alaska Sky Watchers is good for non-scientists to help understand how it’s being done for the non-technical minded. More and more organizations are cropping up as people see the signs of manufactured clouds and the energizing of them on sat maps and just looking up. Plus chem trails everywhere, loaded with toxic heavy metals. Our planet is being killed but not by cow burps. They are fixing things so cow burps won’t happen nor corn or trees or grass will grow. The loss of biomass with regard to insects, plankton, trees, birds, amphibians - that’s a real thing. Not climate warming. Weather mucking and toxin dumping to shade the sun and provide the stuff the HAARP, wifi towers and other gizmos used to then energize and super heat the atmosphere in order to make, intensify and steer weather systems. We can create drought then wildfires. We can create rain then floods that kill little girls. We can intensify and direct hurricanes. SciFi stuff. But it’s been going on a long time and we have legislation in place to allow and encourage it. And patents for the things needed to do it.
Chill out, okay? Discredited as BBC has become, they do have an interesting calculation. How much space does it take to stand 7 billion people upright on our planet?
Not much more than the size of the Shetland Islands, with the entire rest of the globe left empty and untouched. Which means even our collective human climate naughtiness still leaves the vast rest of the planet and its independent forces to self-regulate itself anyway it wants.
75% of the planet already being oceans which impact "climate" in ways not yet even recognized nor with any viable long-term record keeping. How many eons have just atmospheric rivers alone been having their way already with Mother Earth? Yet we continue to ignore their ancient predictability. Member of the adapt or die school here; not the alarm and exploit school.
And, if we spread out a bit…If every person on Earth were relocated to Texas, each person would have approximately 110,484 square feet of space, which is about the size of a small park…Climate Change is just another hoax by the Globalist Cult
What an incredible recap of one more classic go woke and go broke. I had no idea it had gone that bad, bad, bad. Unbelievable. Thank you for your research.
Growing up in California and also in love with the Sierras for both summer and winter recreation, a Sierra Club membership was a given back in the last century. Summers at Tahoe and Yosemite, summer jobs at Pinecrest, Sierra High Camp hiking, winter skiing from Squaw Valley to Mammoth put these beloved mountains always into my own back yard.
We too were puzzled when it seemed to go well off its original mission, but I recall that happening much earlier than the Trump presidency. So we dropped out far before they went full TDS, on top of their prior highly dubious and earlier mission creep.
Highway 395 and the various passes across the Sierras still remain my most beloved road trips.
The standard trip for our foreign visitors was Santa Barbara to Death Valley to Lee Vining, over the Tioga Pass and on into Yosemite. Breathtaking as always, though horribly scarred by prior mismanaged wildfires needing decades now to recover.
Both parents ashes are scattered at Wawona, per their specific wishes and with NPS permission and registration. Sierras are sacred for me, but Sierra Club can go to hell.
So do we get Aunt Jemima back? And the old Land O Lakes logo? I am so tired of TDS. But the recent failure of NO on 50 doesn't give me much hope for CA.
DOJ has stepped in along with the CA-GOP lawsuit. Prop 50 thing stunk to high-heaven. No reason to lose hope, when all they do it more stupid stuff. They will implode first.
"Wokeness" has not gone to sleep in any capacity, it still very much exists especially among young people? Did you not hear of the TPSUA affiliates who were denied a chapter at a university here?
"California university students' third attempt to form TPUSA chapter denied -
Point Loma Nazarene University cites concerns over Professor Watchlist and faith policies". The triumphalist rheotoric is absurd when even TPUSA, a rather inoffensive group and certainty tame for a right wing organization is prohibited from having it's own place on a Campus.
Who are you speaking to that wokism is dead? I'm pretty sure most people in Santa Barbara would support "wokism" as you define it, it's far from dead when we see people organizing in the streets and hear yapping on local publications from the left.
How a right winger can honestly claim victory despite everything one can see to the contrary is baffling.
You know Theotokos. I actually agree with you despite the ending to my column. The planet is still filled with loons hell bent on disrupting normalcy with craziness. Hopefully when it comes to companies who want to stay in business they've learned their lesson that there's more of us than them. Them being those out of touch with reality.
Fair enough....except for throwing in Colin Kaepernick at the end. He was, as I understood it, standing up for equal rights for all Americans. What's wrong with that? He exercised his right to protest at work, he was excoriated for it and even though he was one of the best players and a proven winner, the owners got rid of him because he "damaged their brand by making them look bad." Colin was as American as they come, Henry!
Merely pointing out his actions had an adverse and opposite reaction. Not the one he or football was looking for. Keep politics out of sports. Allow us to just enjoy the games and not be preached to. I was attending a small concert series here in town and really enjoyed it until the artsy musicians decided to insert their political opinions. I didn't care what they were but not when all I wanted to do was listen to music. I quit going.
They could be all one and the same. Don't tempt me.
Let's just start with Pakistani International Airlines (PIA) , which I had the privilege of flying in-country when the pilot announces ...... "Inshallah, we will be arriving at such and such time" ..... which offers a whole new take on God is my Co-Pilot.
I prefer less reliance on emphemeral forces when traveling by air in remote countries, relying instead on British-trained former RAF military pilots which tend to be the norm elsewhere in these parts of the world.
Good article, Henry. What a shame that helping people and the earth have become so corrupted. Santa Barbara is rife with non profits and it is getting harder and harder to figure out which are the noble causes and which are not. Unfortunately I think the latter are more prevalent.
So many fine businesses and organizations have be infiltrated and captured (corrupted) by the uber left. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Disneyland to name a few.
While we were raising a family and working the control freak busybodies were busy rearranging our culture.
Please, is 4-H still okay? -Got lots of practical skills from that organization during my own childhood. Although they too, were an arm of the California state government. I dare not look.
4-H. Part of UC-Extension, still alive and well in SB County, but closest local group is in Carpinteria. Did I tell you I got blue ribbons for my lemon meringue pies, at our local county fair when growing up? How does any childhood beat that.
https://ucanr.edu/site/4-h-santa-barbara-county
Unfortunate good examples.
The Sierra Club, once a noble and relevant environmental organization has fallen on hard times. It would seem the SC has focused less about spotted owls or red legged frogs and more about carrying water and being a front for the Democratic Party and radical environmentalists.
Yes, just like Surf Rider and the Environmental Defense Council, the Sierra Club is a cheerleader for the New Green Scam and opposes everything Trump. Stopping all oil production, forcing us into EV’s, letting our forests become dangerously overgrown and forcing carbon taxes on all of us is only part of their wacky agenda!
Did y’all know John Muir was a racist? That was the narrative being pushed by former disgraced Sierra Club Executive Director, former NAACP head, and well known race hustler, Ben Jealous as he was shown the door and was terminated earlier this year. Seems there was some financial irregularities (what a surprise) and even sexual harassment allegations.
The Sierra Club has a monumental task in regaining the public’s confidence from that of being just another left wing environmental group which is really no more than a front for Democratic insanity. Besides, what does racism and Transgenderism have to do with John Muir’s vision of conservation?
https://marylandmatters.org/2025/08/12/ben-jealous-terminated-sierra-club/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/23/john-muir-sierra-club-apologizes-for-racist-views
https://www.sierraclub.org/articles/2021/06/climate-justice-must-include-justice-for-lgbtqi-people
Perhaps all of this was, indeed to dupe and confuse us. However, weather manipulation by our government (and at least Russia and China and Europe who all have their own versions of our HAARP technology) has been secretly going on since around the end of WWII. Currently our northern hemisphere jet stream has been broken up. We have no more weather that isn’t man made in some fashion. While the climate change scam has, 8ndeed been a scam. Weather manipulation is real and it’s far more dangerous to us than anything Al Gore could come up with. Which was probably implemented to hide the truth. Poor Greta, when she does realize the truth will lose whatever sanity she might have left. That poor child was programmed and scripted and damaged.
Dane Wigington’s Geoengineering Watch . Org He has the science and data. For the uber technical minded. Alaska Sky Watchers is good for non-scientists to help understand how it’s being done for the non-technical minded. More and more organizations are cropping up as people see the signs of manufactured clouds and the energizing of them on sat maps and just looking up. Plus chem trails everywhere, loaded with toxic heavy metals. Our planet is being killed but not by cow burps. They are fixing things so cow burps won’t happen nor corn or trees or grass will grow. The loss of biomass with regard to insects, plankton, trees, birds, amphibians - that’s a real thing. Not climate warming. Weather mucking and toxin dumping to shade the sun and provide the stuff the HAARP, wifi towers and other gizmos used to then energize and super heat the atmosphere in order to make, intensify and steer weather systems. We can create drought then wildfires. We can create rain then floods that kill little girls. We can intensify and direct hurricanes. SciFi stuff. But it’s been going on a long time and we have legislation in place to allow and encourage it. And patents for the things needed to do it.
Sky isn’t falling. It’s being destroyed.
Chill out, okay? Discredited as BBC has become, they do have an interesting calculation. How much space does it take to stand 7 billion people upright on our planet?
Not much more than the size of the Shetland Islands, with the entire rest of the globe left empty and untouched. Which means even our collective human climate naughtiness still leaves the vast rest of the planet and its independent forces to self-regulate itself anyway it wants.
75% of the planet already being oceans which impact "climate" in ways not yet even recognized nor with any viable long-term record keeping. How many eons have just atmospheric rivers alone been having their way already with Mother Earth? Yet we continue to ignore their ancient predictability. Member of the adapt or die school here; not the alarm and exploit school.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/if-everyone-stood-together-in-the-same-place-what-area-would-we-cover
And, if we spread out a bit…If every person on Earth were relocated to Texas, each person would have approximately 110,484 square feet of space, which is about the size of a small park…Climate Change is just another hoax by the Globalist Cult
What an incredible recap of one more classic go woke and go broke. I had no idea it had gone that bad, bad, bad. Unbelievable. Thank you for your research.
Growing up in California and also in love with the Sierras for both summer and winter recreation, a Sierra Club membership was a given back in the last century. Summers at Tahoe and Yosemite, summer jobs at Pinecrest, Sierra High Camp hiking, winter skiing from Squaw Valley to Mammoth put these beloved mountains always into my own back yard.
We too were puzzled when it seemed to go well off its original mission, but I recall that happening much earlier than the Trump presidency. So we dropped out far before they went full TDS, on top of their prior highly dubious and earlier mission creep.
Highway 395 and the various passes across the Sierras still remain my most beloved road trips.
The standard trip for our foreign visitors was Santa Barbara to Death Valley to Lee Vining, over the Tioga Pass and on into Yosemite. Breathtaking as always, though horribly scarred by prior mismanaged wildfires needing decades now to recover.
Both parents ashes are scattered at Wawona, per their specific wishes and with NPS permission and registration. Sierras are sacred for me, but Sierra Club can go to hell.
So do we get Aunt Jemima back? And the old Land O Lakes logo? I am so tired of TDS. But the recent failure of NO on 50 doesn't give me much hope for CA.
DOJ has stepped in along with the CA-GOP lawsuit. Prop 50 thing stunk to high-heaven. No reason to lose hope, when all they do it more stupid stuff. They will implode first.
"Wokeness" has not gone to sleep in any capacity, it still very much exists especially among young people? Did you not hear of the TPSUA affiliates who were denied a chapter at a university here?
"California university students' third attempt to form TPUSA chapter denied -
Point Loma Nazarene University cites concerns over Professor Watchlist and faith policies". The triumphalist rheotoric is absurd when even TPUSA, a rather inoffensive group and certainty tame for a right wing organization is prohibited from having it's own place on a Campus.
Who are you speaking to that wokism is dead? I'm pretty sure most people in Santa Barbara would support "wokism" as you define it, it's far from dead when we see people organizing in the streets and hear yapping on local publications from the left.
How a right winger can honestly claim victory despite everything one can see to the contrary is baffling.
You know Theotokos. I actually agree with you despite the ending to my column. The planet is still filled with loons hell bent on disrupting normalcy with craziness. Hopefully when it comes to companies who want to stay in business they've learned their lesson that there's more of us than them. Them being those out of touch with reality.
Fair enough....except for throwing in Colin Kaepernick at the end. He was, as I understood it, standing up for equal rights for all Americans. What's wrong with that? He exercised his right to protest at work, he was excoriated for it and even though he was one of the best players and a proven winner, the owners got rid of him because he "damaged their brand by making them look bad." Colin was as American as they come, Henry!
Merely pointing out his actions had an adverse and opposite reaction. Not the one he or football was looking for. Keep politics out of sports. Allow us to just enjoy the games and not be preached to. I was attending a small concert series here in town and really enjoyed it until the artsy musicians decided to insert their political opinions. I didn't care what they were but not when all I wanted to do was listen to music. I quit going.
They got rid of Kapernick because he made himself a PIA.
You do know that there are LOTS of things abbreviated PIA, right? So which one are you using?
They could be all one and the same. Don't tempt me.
Let's just start with Pakistani International Airlines (PIA) , which I had the privilege of flying in-country when the pilot announces ...... "Inshallah, we will be arriving at such and such time" ..... which offers a whole new take on God is my Co-Pilot.
I prefer less reliance on emphemeral forces when traveling by air in remote countries, relying instead on British-trained former RAF military pilots which tend to be the norm elsewhere in these parts of the world.