CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 04/20/2016

San Fran Creates Bike Lanes/Bus Lanes—Cars Backed Up– Safety Issues Created by Government By Stephen Frank on Apr 19, 2016 07:58 pm San Fran hates cars.  It does anything it can to make it difficult to drive or park a car in this town.  It has taken to proving permits for new housing as long as they have NO parking spaces, but racks for bikes.  They have taken car lanes to and given them to bikes—so when […] Read More and Comment: San Fran Creates Bike Lanes/Bus Lanes—Cars Backed Up– Safety Issues Created by Government San Fran Spends $80-100,000 Promoting Brain Frying in Public Park By Stephen Frank on Apr 19, 2016 07:56 pm Marijuana use is still illegal is the State of California.  The people of San Fran are taxed to use police to promote the community, not create illegal second hand smoke.  Yet, today, 4/20 is a Holiday in this tolerant city.  It you smoke the best pot, the cops will protect you, streets will be closed […] Read More and Comment: San Fran Spends $80-100,000 Promoting Brain Frying in Public Park LAUSD: 40% of Common Core Grades Based on “Socio-emotional/cultural- climate” NOT GRADES or Learning By Stephen Frank on Apr 19, 2016 07:55 pm LAUSD is making a conscious effort to assure their “graduates” are ready to flip burgers—and maybe even take cash at a register.  Beyond that we will know that they are not absent too much and usually arrive on time—and that is 40% of the grade given to the LAUSD students per Common Core accountability.  No […] Read More and Comment: LAUSD: 40% of Common Core Grades Based on “Socio-emotional/cultural- climate” NOT GRADES or Learning UCLA Prof Unravels Diversity Sham By Stephen Frank on Apr 19, 2016 07:49 pm There is no such thing as diversity—it is another word to legitimize bigotry and discrimination.  Diversity means hiring people on the basis of race, enrolling students on the basis of race, electing people on the basis of ethnicity may be diversity, but it is racism..  On our campus racist policies have replaced academic excellence, ethics […] Read More and Comment: UCLA Prof Unravels Diversity Sham SF’s 37,000 Lyft and Uber Drivers Will Be Ordered To Get Business Licenses—City Needs the Revenue By Stephen Frank on Apr 19, 2016 07:44 pm Seriously, does paying the city of San Fran $91 for the “right” to make a living by driving your own car for Uber or Lyft make sense?  This is not about public safety—folks will ignore this law.  In fact, San Fran ignores our immigration laws and protects criminals from foreign nation but wants someone trying […] Read More and Comment: SF’s 37,000 Lyft and Uber Drivers Will Be Ordered To Get Business Licenses—City Needs the Revenue State Senator Gaines: Small Tax Changes Can Start Big Ones By Stephen Frank on Apr 19, 2016 07:41 pm Senator Ted Gaines has provided a series of small tax cuts and repeals, nothing major inside a budget of $162 billion, but enough to get the ball rolling.  Government nickels and dimes us to death—a little tax here, a fee (tax) here, permit costs, tax on your freedom to act—should government tax you to fish, […] Read More and Comment: State Senator Gaines: Small Tax Changes Can Start Big Ones USC Turns Totalitarian: Suspends Pay for College Senator Who Brought a CONSERVATIVE to Speak on Campus By Stephen Frank on Apr 19, 2016 07:37 pm A USC Student Senator committed a crime on the USA campus—no not theft, rape or cheated on a test.  This Student Senator uses student funds, the same as those that have in the past paid for Jane Fonda, Black Panthers and all sorts of Mao and Castro lovers on campus.  His crime?  He brought a […] Read More and Comment: USC Turns Totalitarian: Suspends Pay for College Senator Who Brought a CONSERVATIVE to Speak on Campus How Corrupt is the Californa Fish & Game Commission? VERY By Stephen Frank on Apr 19, 2016 07:32 pm Government, by definition is incompetent, mismanaged and something corrupt.  In the case of the California Fish & Gamer Commission it is definitely in line to be considered corrupt.  When Commission members vote on a measure, though not being a member any longer—sometimes for several years that is corrupt.  Commissioners giving money to lobbyists from the […] Read More and Comment: How Corrupt is the Californa Fish & Game Commission? VERY Opponents Sue to Block L.A. Water District’s Purchase of Delta Islands By Stephen Frank on Apr 19, 2016 07:30 pm The folks in Northern California are upset that an LA area water district is buying land in the Delta, to provide assistance to Guv Brown, so he can steal their water and give it to the fish and people in the South.  Eventually, his Delta Tunnel will cause economic disruption and a shortage of water—this […] Read More and Comment: Opponents Sue to Block L.A. Water District’s Purchase of Delta Islands Pushing the case for cost-cutting pension reform By Stephen Frank on Apr 19, 2016 07:16 pm We know that per the Stanford Study, CalPERS, CalSTRS and the health care program have a total unfunded liability of $1.2 trillion.  This is not even close to being sustainable.  Like Detroit, Alabama, Rhode Island and Illinois, retirees in California will face a “hair-cut”.  Without reforms, the whole process collapses, with reforms a large portion […] Read More and Comment: Pushing the case for cost-cutting pension reform   In Case You Missed It: Cal State San Marcos Professor: Students NOT Allowed to Speak to Law Enforcement Agencies, Looking for Jobs Groundwater Legislation Moving Despite Local Gov Opposition California Has MORE to be Proud Of: High Speed Rail Wins Golden Fleece Award. What Recovery? California Exports Continue to Sputter. Orinda: Crowded Streets, Jails and Schools—Thanks to Democrat “Moderate” Steve Glazer