December Santa Barbara County 2018 Volume 6 Issue 12 Inside the December Issue: The Hammer Of The Witches Redux By Andy Caldwell Pricks In The 2 Park ‘New Way 3 Gregory Wrightstone, the author of the book “Inconvenient Facts: The Science California:’ that Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know” recently shared that the Salem Witch trials Wrong Way, were the work of bush league amateurs! The professional witch hunters, led by the Deceptive Way papal inquisitor Heinrich Kramer (author of “The Hammer of the Witches”), ended up killing tens of thousands of people, most of whom were living on the fringe of so- Who Can Argue 4 With These ciety. What scourge of death and destruction were these church and state sanc- Results? tioned killers saving society from? Climate change! th th Broken Homes, 5 Between the 15 and 17 centuries, Europe was in the midst of epidemics, crop Broken Men failures, famine and the like because temperatures significantly declined due to the onset of a mini-ice age. The consensus opinion of the day was that weather- Anchor Babies 6 changing witches were to blame. Some “witches” actually confessed that they had Away? in fact changed the weather by flying through the air spreading an ointment made of Ballot Box 8 children’s fat in order to cause killer frost! Chicanery Of course, that means that Al Gore and friends are mere copy cats of the original California 10 climate change pogromists! T hese inquisitors of our day have called for the death Taxpayers Give of the fossil-fuel industry and the imprisonment of climate change deni- Thanks But ers. Ironically, they blame carbon for our ills, the miracle-grow gas that along with Worry About The oxygen helps give our planet life, as if it is the product of a witch’s cauldron. The Future truth is, Al Gore is promulgating even worse bad theology and junk science than did The Never Ending 12 Kramer back in the day. At least back then, they were trying to save people from War Against the elements whereas, today, the campaign to keep oil and gas in the ground is Farmers promoting both food and energy insecurity, “heat or eat” as they say, for those living Fiddler on the 13 on the margins of society and progress. Burning Roof Another topic Mr. Wrightstone studied has to do with the history of forest fires in our Maybe The 14 hemisphere. Data indicates that we are actually experiencing a long-term decline in California GOP the number of forest fires, but that the intensity and damage from the same has Should Ditch doubled! Republican Label There are two reasons for this. First, the number of homes at risk has risen from 607,000 in the 1940's to 6.7 million by 2010. Second, the number of trees per acre in a healthy forest is 50 to 80 but we have 300 to 400 trees per acre. These trees, COLAB as a result of this competition for water and sunlight, are thereby prone to pests, disease and drought, just waiting to go up in flames. Of course, the inordinate number of trees per acre is courtesy of federal and state policies that have preclud- PO Box 7523 ed trimming, logging, and control burns. Santa Maria, CA 93456 To help society understand what is really going on here, I propose a name change Phone: and a paradigm shift. Let’s no longer use the word “preserve” to describe an area 805-929-3148 dedicated to habitat preservation. Instead, let’s call these places “wildfire fuel stor- E-mail: age area” as that is a more honest and apt description of the same. [email protected] First Published in the Santa Barbara News Press Volume 6 Issue 12 COLAB Magazine Page 2 Pricks In The Park By Andy Caldwell killing fields of World War One!). Finally, there has young child got pricked by a hypodermic needle A been an outbreak of Group A Streptococcus, which while playing in a Santa Barbara park. Depending on has led to a couple of deaths due the progression of the outcome of tests, this child could be facing a life of the same into necrotizing fasciitis, more commonly disease because some irresponsible excuse for a hu- known as flesh-eating bacteria! man being didn’t bother to throw away a nee- dle. What is absolutely infuriating about this is that Santa Barbara, like California, is completely dominat- none of this should come as a surprise! ed and governed by progressive democrats at every level of government. So, instead of forcing these der- Because Jerry Brown and our state legislature com- elicts out of our parks and into treatment or jail, in- pletely downgraded crimes in our state, what were stead the City Council wants to offer forty of the most felonies are now misdemeanors and what were mis- incorrigible offenders free housing at the dunce’s cor- demeanors are now infractions. What does that mean ner of Carrillo, Castillo and Murillo. Gee, what could in reality? Most of the things our cops could previous- possibly go wrong with that plan? ly arrest people for, like doing drugs or drinking in the park, are now mostly handled by way of a cita- First Published in the Santa Barbara News Press tion. The derelicts and the cops both know that the penalty for not showing up in court for a citation is, you guessed it, another citation! Hence, our cops can hand out tens of thousands of citations with the result Support that our court system now experiences thousands of cases of “failure to appear”. As a result, in most cas- The COLAB Foundation! es, the cops no longer bother. Hopefully, local bull- dog attorney Barry Cappello will sue the bejesus out Donations are tax-deductible of the city because this situation is ridiculously unten- able. as a charitable contribution! Thank you Jerry Brown for all that, and thank you to Please send your contribution the judges who comprise the most liberal and over- turned court in the land, the 9th district court of Ap- to peals for another gem they just threw our way. The court recently determined that the state may not crimi- The COLAB Foundation nalize the state of being homeless in public plac- PO Box 7523 es. That is, it may not criminalize conduct that is an unavoidable consequence of being homeless, such as Santa Maria CA 93456 sitting, lying or sleeping on the streets! The court ruled that enforcing rules against the same amounted to cruel and unusual punishment! This goes with the mantra that being homeless is not a crime. Well, tell that to the kid who got pricked by the needle. Certain- ly it isn’t a crime to be poor, but there are a lot of Walker Wilson & Hughen, things homeless people get away with each and every day that certainly is harmful and annoying to society CPA’s at large. Tax Preparation and Planning, Trusts California is beginning to have fewer standards than many third-world hell holes. We have so many home- and Estate Planning less people living on our streets and public places that 1201 E. Ocean Ave. Lompoc, CA. California is witnessing the outbreak of diseases such as typhus, hepatitis, shigella (a highly contagious form 805-736-7534 of diarrhea) and trench fever (we last saw that in the Volume 6 Issue 12 COLAB Magazine Page 3 ‘New Way California:’ Wrong Way, Deceptive Way By Katy Grimes An odd group of Never-Trump Republican centrists and political has-beens who formed “New Way Cali- fornia” earlier this year, claim New Way is needed be- cause they are “committed to policies that increase opportunities for all Californians.” What they are committed to is remaining in power, even if that means being subservient to the Democrat Party and leftism. In June I wrote “New Way California is Wrong Way.” Remember what I warned in my recent book, “California’s War Against Donald Trump: Who Wins? Who Loses?” that rather than working on fixing their own failing state, California politicians would do much better for the state by dropping the hostility and politi- cal grandstanding. because compromise in politics never means the Left Chad Mayes started “New Way California” after he gives something up in negotiations. It’s only Republi- cans who are expected to do the compromising. And was forced to step down as the Minority Leader of the Assembly Republican Caucus in 2017 after helping that is because this is a group of “centrists.” Centrists “avoid major social change or extreme political ideas,” Democrats acquire the needed Republican votes to and largely stand for nothing other than being a part further California’s climate change, cap and trade pro- of something – which explains Mayes’ sell-out on cap gram. In other words, he sold out his own Party. and trade… he didn’t have the spine to stand up to Mayes has support from Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former presidential candidate Democrats any more than former Gov. Arnold and current Ohio governor John Kasich, and former Schwarzenegger did when he signed AB 32. State Assembly Minority Leader Kristin Olsen. “Californians deserve elected leaders who understand In a guest commentary in Cal Matters, Olsen offered a civil discourse and servant leadership will make our government more responsive and improve the lives of pathetic, self-serving assessment of the future of the California GOP, never acknowledging her own role in all Californians,” New Way says. its demise. Don’t forget that Kristen Olsen helped de- Olsen lists Republican principles while denying that stroy the CAGOP.