Throughout the city, would be protestors who are angry about China’s treatment of Tibet are searching for the Olympic torch along it’s route. The secret route has been changed to confuse and avoid the protestors.

Meanwhile in the Castro, hundreds of men are milling about the street saying “hide the torch, can we play”?

This is a partial list of the encroachment of liberal dominated government on individuals. Nearly every aspect of our lives in this “free country” is impacted by those who make it their life’s work to tell others how they should live.

Humans are reaching the limits of their ability to cope, and simply going nuts. Perhaps we should be surprised how few are going crazy!

Scenario : Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school
parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1957 -* Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.*
2007 -* School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
*
Scenario : Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1957 -* Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up
buddies.*
2007 -* Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark.
Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
*
Scenario : Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.
1957 -* Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.*
2007 -* Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
*
Scenario : Billy breaks a window in his neighbor’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 -* Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.*
2007 -* Billy’s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy’s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison.
Billy’s mom has affair with psychologist.
*
Scenario : Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school .
1957 -* Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.*
2007 -* Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations.
Car searched for drugs and weapons.
*
Scenario : Pedro fails high school English.
1957 -* Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.*
2007 -* Pedro’s cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
*
Scenario : Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane pain t bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1957 -* Ants die.*
2007 -* BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
*
Scenario : Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 -* In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.*
2007 -* Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job.
She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy .

The woman was complaining of being thirsty and having breathing problems. She was given water but refused oxygen by the flight crew. After consultation with the cockpit, oxygen was offered, but the portable tanks aboard the aircraft were empty. The woman died before an emergency landing could be completed.

Flying gets worse all the time. This is a new low.

A picture is worth a thousand words….

H/T: SactoDan for the pic.

It was probably the fear of losing Federal funds. Even Socialists need money, and since Berkeley already bleeds its citizens to a turnip complexion, the loss of milk from the Federal tit trumped principles.

KCRA 3 in Sacramento outlined the arguments in coverage this morning. A Marine who made the push to Baghdad described his comrades in arms as brave men and women fighting to spread freedom and democracy, something he thought Berkeley held in high regard, not mercenaries fighting for money or a free education.

The next clip showed a typical white liberal woman railing against the lack of freedom for poor people of color who are uncontrollably tempted by the offer of job security and free college by those dastardly Marine recruiters, located conveniently near the high school.

Why do white liberals think they are so much smarter then people of color or less money? Such racism is embedded in the white liberal psyche. Maybe the brown people don’t think they need white liberals to protect them.

Though it is farfetched to think there could be an invasion on American soil, Berkeley makes itself a perfect target. If the Jihadis invaded and landed in Berkeley, one can imagine the US Marines at the Albany- Berkeley city limits waiting to repel them while thousands of Prius and Volvo station wagon driving Berkeley residents are slaughtered.

The $800.00 for individuals under a yet undecided income threshold shows that they took too much, and spent too much, leaving too little to sustain the economy.

Their solution? Give you a pittance back. Hey it was your money in the first place. They shoudn’t have taken it.

If your taxes were less that the $800.00, congratulations, here is a freebie. You should thank your neighbor who paid it to you through the King as an intermediary.

There is an important message to send, and we have little time to lose in getting out the message to voters. We the voters must stop Proposition 93 on the February Presidential Primary ballot.

Titled “Limits on Legislators’ Term in Office”, Prop 93 is easily the most deceptive ballot measure Californians have faced in a generation. While it’s described as ‘term limits reduction’, what it would really do is give the current crop of free-spending, big-government lawmakers even more time in office.

Prop 93 was crafted by the same lawmakers who moved California’s Presidential Primary from June to February, at the cost of millions of dollars for the added election. The excuse for moving up the election was that California would have more say in the selecting the Presidential candidates.

Well, have you seen the Presidential candidates, or even their campaign workers knocking on doors in your neighborhood? The truth is, during a period of record budget deficits created by the current lawmakers in Sacramento, we now get to pay for an expensive, extra February election, an election forced upon us by the same legislative ‘fat cats’ who brought us the deficit in the first place – Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and Senate President Don Perata.

So if Prop 93 passes, these same ‘Capitol Fat Cats’ will have time to file re-election papers and get on the ballot in time for California’s real primary come June.

This deceptive labeling was no accident. All ballot measures are submitted to the Attorney General, who has final say on each ballot measure “title and summary” – The name and short descriptive that appears on the ballot and the voting materials we receive before each election.

Attorney General (and Democrat loyalist) Jerry Brown went right along with the Prop 93 bunch, agreeing to call it a term limits reduction. Why? Because Brown and his cronies Nunez and Perata know the people who are likely to turn out and vote in California don’t trust the legislature, and know that political corruption goes hand-in-hand with too much time in office.

So, when you read voters “Limits on Legislators” on your sample ballot and in the voting booth, don’t fill in that “YES” box, don’t do it, it’s a trick.

Preying upon the voter’s negative attitude toward the legislature is the lawmakers’ strategy, and it’s working. Although the latest Prop 93 polls show support for the measure is slipping, a majority of conservative voters still support it. This is why I’m releasing this statement: We must STOP PROP 93 in February, or we’ll have more budget deficits with “raise the taxes solutions” in the near future.

PROP 93 is a tiny reduction in terms limits, but it’s also a huge and immediate reward for the irresponsible crowd who currently runs the state capitol. And PROP 93 is so poorly written, it could even allow former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown to run for another three terms in office.

Tell a friend, a co-worker, and a fellow church member that we must be sensible, we all want a better legislature, but this is not the way to go about it. We must STOP PROP 93 in February. Just say NO to 93!