CABPRO Report

Gallup reports unemployment at 9% for mid February 2012. By Todd Juvinall

I was shocked when I read this article from Gallup.  Didn't we just hear from the President how rosy things were becoming?  The last report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the rate dropped to 8.3% and the country was headed to prosperity.  What they didn't tell us though was 1.2 million of our fellow citizens dropped out ot the quest to find a job.  So,smaller pie of potential employees made for a smaller unemployment number.

We all knew the numbers were bogus from the government.  Yet the mainstream media to our chagrin kept reporting the lie of a lower number.  Thank goodness for the alternate media and FOX News.  Yet, the whole exercise is enough to make a American very sad.  I want anyone who wants to work, or needs to work for that matter, to have employment.  We don't want to see our fellow citizens suffer, but with a 99 week unemployment check and the uptick of disability claims we get to see the results of years of "cradle to grave" policies instituted by our caring legislators.  The economic chickens have come home to roost.

How is it 535 members of Congress can't repair the mess?  The fear of not being reelected is so great apparently that bankruptcy is a preferred alternative in our country at the present time.  How come we elect people that place our children into involuntary servitude of debt?  Do they know something we don't?  My guess is the debt will be tossed out at some point because it cannot be repaid and it is undermining our currency and our national security.  There is no way we can keep going as we are.  When you add the debt and the regulations spewed out by DC and Sacramento, we are all now indentured servants.  It seems to me we have fallen and can't get up!

So we all need to question the statistics and the numbers since little faith is available to our government sources.  These people gave away three trillion hard earned debt dollars to Solyndra type companies and friends of Barry, Harry and Nancy.  That money, errrr, debt, gained nothing for the country.  Of course the Federal Reserve has been printing new dollars but in a short while that will lead to terrible inflation and the people will be hosed once more.  The smartest people on the planet, well, that is how they describe themselves, have put our country at terrible risk of default.  With these high gasoline rices and the cost of food on the rise as well, the folks the politicians say they really care about (they never care about the rich), the middle class and the poor, are actually the people getting trounced by them.

So what to do with all this information?  Be sceptical.  Question the powers that be.  Don.t fall for the slogans of the left.  Vote out the people putting you in slavery and replace them with freedom loving Americans.  It is easy to do if you really care about the country.

 

UPDATED, February 19, 2012. Local lefty bloggers and their commenters. People in need of hope or more pills? by Todd Juvinall

I was emailed by someone who reviews the different leftwing blog sites for content and that person has finally been bored into a bag.  The left is so predictable and uneducated in life the person told me, that they have driven into a ditch and can't get out.  I must say I have to agree.

While people on the right are working and supporting themselves and their families with legitimate endeavors, these posters on the lefty sites are busy sitting in front of their computer screens (probably donated by a non-profit) and spewing ridiculous tripe all day long.  Now, I really don't care what these scofflaws have to say other than they could be affecting the young people who are still naive.  What makes these leftwing folks tick?  A government check it appears.

One half of Americans receive some form of money from the government and my guess is these local bloggers and posters (they all appear to be undr 60) are part of that 50%.  How else could one explain their comments attacking business, entrepreneurs and non-union companies?  When I listen to them at the podium in Congress or the lectern in Sacramento, I am struck by thew nastiness they exhibit against the people who truly make America work and who employ the folks.  These lefty bloggers and their heroes trash America at every turn, they have nothing to say other than screeching against our system.  Where in the heck did their standard of living come from?  Did it get created out of thin air?  No, people who DO made it possible for these ingrates to have an IPOD, a big screen and even a loaf of bread.

What is this self hatred I continually hear from these people.  Anyone who achieves other than their friends the regulators) are the targets of their hate and nasty words.  How did America's left get so mean?  I think it is envy.  Some posters on leftwing blogs must be leading some very sad lives.  Simply to be born into America is a lottery win yet these people just complain constantly.  America is bad, corporations are bad, taxes are good (as long as they are exempt) . Please people on the left, you need to get a life.  America is better, much better, perhaps the greatest, yes the greatest, country the earth has ever seen.  You all need to get on board the train of positive.  We will welcome you if you want to change your ways and your views to reflect the good of our country.  Come over and try it.  It is cathartic! Even your health will improve.

Update.

Charlotte Allen has a insightful in the LA Times on her exoeriences trying to talk to liberals.  Tittled:

Conservatives vs. liberals

Debating a liberal is maddening: They think conservatives are evil, while we think they're silly.

You hav to read her article, it is so true!  HERE is the whole thing.

If AB 1678 passes, food trucks won’t be able to vend in the red areas on this map of Sacramento. In fact, they’ll be banned from many California cities.

HERE is the articlen the Sacramento Bee.  We have lunatics running the asylum. Bill Manning, democrat nut from Carmel is the author.  hen we read this we could not stop laughing but unfortunately this nut from Carmel is serious.  If anyone had any doubts about the lefts desire for a total nanny state, this should clear things up.  We say the biggest threat to the kids in our schools are these leftwing nannies.  Let us recommend the orange circles on the map be "democrat legislator free zones".  Then the state's children would really be safer.

AGENDA 21 to be explained on March 1, 2012

Penny's Diner in the Fowler Center will be the site of a presentation on Agenda 21 by Judy Caler on March 1, 2012 beginning at 5:30 PM.  CABPRO and its members are looking forward to hearing this important  overview of a United Nations program impacting our lands. Caler did a article back in August 2011 in the CABPRO Report  which you can find HERE.

Caler also puts out a newsletter online called ROAR. 

We are going to have a great prime rib dinner and our invited guests include Congressman Tom McClintock, Assemblyman Dan Logue and State Senator Doug LaMalfa.  We expect a packed house, tickets are going fast.  Call our office at 478-1331 to make a reservation.

 

Obama Budget, more smoke and mirrors, he learned it from California! By Todd Juvinall

After my monthly meeting with local conservatives ended, I took a look at the new proposed budget by the Deficit -in-Chief and once again, SOP!  There seems to be no reality when Obama is spending other peoples money, errr, should I say, compiling debt other people will pay?  Yeah, there I got it.  Even with 535 men and women in Congress, it appears to me a case of mass hysteria is prevalent and incurable.

What is it Obama and his minions are trying to accomplish?  He is spending four billion dollars a day just in DEBT! Why would he do this?  Why would Congress allow this?  I am totally perplexed.  Do they all know something we don't?  I must say, the personal fear politicians have  of being blamed for something bad (and they appear to think Americans will rebel and toss them out if they don't spend all this debt) trumps reality.  Is it better to keep spending our great country into oblivion and send everyone to the poorhouse?  Apparently so.  The political class measures their personal electability by voting for a balanced budget with their electability to spend trillions in debt our great, great, great grandchildren won't even be able to pay back.  They seem to not care.  Why?

I listen to all the bloviating coming from Washington but things don't change.  I was hoping there would be a daily press conference by the leaders I respect.  I wanted them to state every day they would be proposing a single year balanced budget, a real one, not some phony smoke and mirrors we seem to get every time.  Heck, my people even seemed to cave real fast on the so-called "payroll tax" reduction.  I think they need to call it what it really is, a theft of social security money that shortchanges the elderly!  Ah, those "big brother" think-speak words.  You gotta love them!

It is the "pay me now or pay me later" philosophy.  Wimpy from the Popeye cartoons had nothing on Obama.  The democrats in the US Senate, led by Harry Reid, have stalled all the progressive bills to begin fixing the mess.  At last count, 26 House passed bills were siting in the Senate round-file in Reid's office.  I thought these people swore to uphold the Constitution and their main job, allocating the people's money, was their first and foremost duty!  I think that Reid is undermining the security of the United State and should remove himself for treasonous behaviour.  By refusing to do his job, bring forth bills to be voted on, up or down, he is breaking his oath and should resign.

There are many Republicans trying to do the right thing though.  Our Congressman Tom McClintock is one of them.  Paul Ryan and California's Darrel Issa are two  more.  Many of the folks who won in November 2010 are trying too.  In our state we have Dan Logue and Doug LaMalfa doing their best to bring reality to the Sacramento circus under the dome.The country has been at risk and it is getting worse each day as China buys our daily four billion. 

We discussed this topic and others as conservatives seem to be the only people concerned witht he debt and deficits.  We would fix it all in one year.

I rememebr Arnold, our Governator, complaining about the deficits here yet he had the "blue pencil" and could have single handily vbalance the budget the Legislature sent him.  He didn't do it of course and once again, words were hollow.  Action speaks louder than words and Americans are fed up with the words, promises never realized.  We want action and we want it now.

Democrats arguing about their new competing tax measures in San Diego, by Todd Juvinall

Like vultures fighting for the last few scraps of dead meat from a carcass on the ground, California democrats are meeting at their semi annual convention to conspire against the good people of California.  When I say conspire I actually mean that.  The different factions of their party have no intention apparently of cutting their overheated spending, they simply spend all their time talking more taxes.

Our Governor wants those two initiatives passed by the people to increase the sales tax and one to increasde the taxes of successful Californians who worked hard and made it.  Talk about "regressive".  Brown said this about the his lefty minions under the Capitol dome,

"Look, we've got some issues. We've got a tax measure, we have a little, few issues there, and we'll be talking about that from time to time," Brown said. "You'll get your marching orders soon enough."

So we have a few issues here?  Marching orders?  Yep, and Brown and the labor unions will be spending a lot of money to gather the signatures and convince the people to vote for his initiatives (and I thought they were opposed to "paid" signature gatherers?).  Not a hint from Brown about restructuring the budget, cutting wasteful sending or even lowering pension and unions contracts.  The left just wants more of our money apparently.  How "unsmart", and Californians see through it all.

Attendees and advocates of higher taxes and fees include Warren Buffet's business partner's daughter, Molly Munger.  She wants to increase taxes for education on everyone except the poorest Californians.  Isn't that special?  These rich, silver spoon liberals are simply compassionate aren't they?

Then we have Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez, D-Los Angeles, telling  delegates on Friday that defeating a so-called "paycheck protection" measure is more important than any candidate election this year. Say what?  Defeating a measure to disallow unions from stealing money from their own members and spending it on political issues and candidates is paramount?  This is how our "leaders" think.  These liberals ruining California could care less about the people.  They have their agenda and it does not include anyone except their little money grubbing supporters in public employee unions.

  Another attendee said this,

"This ballot measure is a fraud, it's phony and it's a lie," said Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation. "Imagine, just for a moment, a California where your mouths were taped the next time a Meg Whitman ran for governor."

These same unions and their supporters rail against the "Citizens United" Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to contribute to candidates yet  never look in the mirror to see the hypocrites they are.  The unions take money under force from their members to then give to democrats and democrat issues.  Even though there are some studies that say up to 40% of their members vote Republican.  That is what the  initiative is all about.  Freedom! Let each member donate his/her money to the candidates and issue they want, take the union bosses out of this scheme.  Speaker Perez will have none of it. He is the prime example of our legislative dysfunction.  California is in deep trouble.

With redistricting hijacked by the left and their gerrymandering now upheld by a timid California Supreme COurt, California could see a "super majority" in both houses of our legislature.  They would not even need the people's vote!  They could pass all the tax and fee increases they fancy. Somehow, California has become Greece! I wonder how long it will be before our credit rating is lowered again and what these brain dead democrats under the Dome will do when they totally run out of other people's money?

San Juan Mine application submitted to Nevada County

The mine is located on the San Juan Ridge about 17 miles north of Nevada City.  HERE is the full article in the Union Newspaper from today. It hopes to mine about 244,000 ounces of gold from the cemented gravels, all underground.

Tim Callaway, mine CEO will be in charge and his track record of environmental sensitivity is well known. He will not be using any chemicals to process the gold and it will be done underground.  The existing settling ponds wll be used to trap sediments and the water will be recycled. 90 jobs and all the ancillary expenses in our view will be a great benefit o the county.  Callaway has a good reputation with  people involved on all sides of the mining issues, we hope the County will get this permit processed ASAP so they can get going.

The mine has its own website for further information.

http://www.sanjuanminingcorp.com/description/

OMG! The leftwing NYT's says no one wants to be like us! Constitutionally speaking.

Here is a quote from the lame article in the New York Times, penned by a so-called "journalist" Adam Liptak.

"There are lots of possible reasons. The United States Constitution is terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights. The commitment of some members of the Supreme Court to interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning in the 18th century may send the signal that it is of little current use to, say, a new African nation. And the Constitution’s waning influence may be part of a general decline in American power and prestige."

Now isn't that special!  If these "journalists" had any brains we would be worried but thankfully they don't and  we are not. HERE is the full article, but hold your nose when you read it, it may make you sick. We almost lost our breakfast!

What is it about our Founding documents that the elite liberals dislike?  Weren't the "progressives" all about individual rights?  I guess they have morphed into socialists/communists and you and your individual rights are now passe'.  As  we read the article the overwhelming reaction was "who gives a dickens?" Do we care that Zimbabwe writes a Constitution that does not mirror ours?  We know that country is run by a communist so it is unlikely Mugabe would place a "free press" inside the thing.  Would Assad of Syria put "habeas corpus" in his country's documents?  No, he likes to murder his people and by golly he does it well.  Those pesky "individual" rights, like trials and search warrants are of no use to Assad! Property rights?  Nope, their governments own all the land.

We are fascinated though by the left's derisive view of the very things which protect them from tyranny.  How they interpret the Founding documents in a way that diminishes their foresight and explanations of human endeavors over time.  We suspect if there was a movement to remove the First Amendment, goring their ox, they may have a different view of the Constitution.  How is it a Liptak  could even think we Americans care what some other country thinks of our Founding documents?  They are there for anyone to read, no one is burning them (well at least the conservatives aren't) and any people desiring to be be free in the world could certainly see the value in them.  Or maybe the Liptak's actually don't understand anything.  How is that possible?  He is educated, right? Oh and Supreme Court Justice Ginzburg says our Constitution, the one she swears to uphold, is not that great.  Amazing, thanks Bill Clinton, for nothing.

America became the greatest country ever conceives because we honor and protect the individual person.  Never has that been done before and hardly elsewhere since.  Each and every one of us in America, (heck we even give illegal aliens rights for goodness sakes!), is important and protected.  Even the worst scum of a criminal has rights!  With the legal and social agreement we all make to remain America, we could care less if Burma thinks our Constitution is outmoded.  Governed by these great Founding documents, written by very smart men, men who said to the future generations of America, "you are important Mr. Smith", we are confident we have it right.  But, to be sure, we must stay vigilant since the Liptaks continue to write their tripe. Read them and laugh at them, they have no clue.

Good luck on the parks closure but the anger is misdirected

According to the Union newspaper this morning a gaggle of people, many children included, will descend on the Capitol in Sacramento to present a petition with 10,000 signatures.  These people will also voice their displeasure in the closing of the two parks here in Nevada County.  We say "good luck".  If you all are successful in changing the outcome, more power to you.

We see the problem and the solution a bit different but desire the same outcome.  The question should be, "how can a bunch of democrats controlling our state (for fifty years) be so incompetent to allow a $29 million segment out of a $90 billion budget to happen?"  We shake our heads in amazement.  What we have come to understand in our politics in California is this, it makes no sense.  If the democrats can't find 1/3 of 1% within the budget they have control of, then our state is toast.

Parks, cops, firemen, libraries and other high visibility items are the things the politicians use to raise the "fear".  If we don't give these scofflaws more money, they will cut out the things we all like, that is always their strategy and it always works.  The people are hosed over and over again and the left running our state loves it.  We think these men and women sit in a room, smoking their cigars and chuckling about the knuckleheads we all are.  How they get away with the "fear" factor once again. 

What we don't understand is why the state has added so many "parks" and other government owned lands and then cuts the funding to allow the people to use them?  Is this not the best exemples of the dysfunction Sacramento has become?  Of course it is.  Yet year after year these people place more lands into the public domain and tell us how important they are for the "people" to enjoy and save for future generations.  Give us a break!

These Sacramento politicians continuously pass laws to force private property owners to do their bidding.  We have so many hoops to pass through to do anything with our own private property and they force us all to pay for the privilege of being regulated.  Look at General Plans, zoning ordinances, fees for a parcel spilt and even your property line fence heigth.  Check out the costs to Water boards, fire departments and now even the Calfire budget.  They are charging us all in the rural areas to fight fires yet leave the urban folks alone.  Those urban folks that come and enjoy our forests we get to pay to protect! One report states  "The new fee, if implemented as proposed, could raise $50 million in FY2011/12 and as much as $200 million annually thereafter, easing the strain on the state's general fund, although the general fund would still provide the majority of money for firefighting."

The fire fee alone would be sufficient many times over to pay for the parks wouldn't it?  Yet, in order to free up money to buy off their constituents in the urban areas, the democrats in Sacramento come after our pocketbooks.  Fee for service, what service?  It seems to us the passage of Prop 26 in November 2010 means nothing to these people, including the Governor.  They don't care what the people voted on the fees and tax issue, they will shove another one down the throats of the people.

This is what California has come to.  Our democrat controlled legislature locks up lands for parks and then overspends elsewhere and threatens to shut them all down.  They are unfit to run the place in  our opinion.  If they can't even find $29 million dollars in a 90 billion dollar budget to keep the very parks they are in charge ofopen?  They should all, well at least the democrats, resign and let people who can live up to our Constitution take their place.  They are a embarrassment that even the Greeks can mock.

Obama Trampling the Constitution, a study in art

The Forgotten Man painting by Jon Naughton (Photo Credit: Jon Naughton)

The picture by Jon McNaughton has become rather controversial.  The left doesn't like it and has complained.  If course, the left injects race into the discussion but as far as I can tell the issue portrayed has nothing to do with race, only policy. HERE is the full article.

This You-tube video by McNaughton explains why he did the painting.

In the painting we see Clinton, and the two Roosevelt's applauding Obama. The rest seem to be dismayed.  On McNaughton's website he explains his painting and you can see some of the comments from readers about it.

I believe he is on to something.  It seems the left, run by the Obama, Reid, Pelosi trio of doom has tossed the Constitution into the trash.  Obama has somehow decided the appointment of his ilk to posts can take pace even when the Senate is in session.  Meaning he appoints without "advice and consent".  He has done many acts of what many call "extra" Constitutional acts as if he were king or something.  Reid has held the Constitution hostage regarding the very job he is supposed to do, passing the budget.  Over 1000 days have gone by while Reid sits on the House passed budget!

Pelosi, the famous, "we have to pass the bill to know what is in it" lamebrain from San Francisco, is also to blame for what many consider trampling on our Founding documents.  If these people get away with this, then we are toast.  It may take a while to become a piece of toast, but the journey into tyranny by the few starts with the first step, they are taking that first step.

America is getting a dose of what happens when politicians and their compatriots think they can get away with these things. Since the willing, slobbering press can't even report on these issues in a contra way, (they actually tell us it is no big deal, but they would be the first to go if tyranny happens, ironic eh?), the people get really shortchanges.  But the alternative medias do get out the trampling stories and the hope is people will pay attention and not let these travesties continue.

America will bounce back and freedom will prevail as long as we keep our "public servants" in their place.  America is about us, the common everyday folks, running the place.  Somehow we haven't paid enough attention lately and have allowed people like the Obama, Pelosi, Reid triumvirate to get in charge.  We will rectify the problem this year and return our country to sanity.  Vote these scofflaws out and put some common sense, Constitution loving people in their place.