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AUGUST 2008

San Francisco Speed Bump
Source: Golden Oinks 2008 [08/29/08]

His name is Rob Anderson and he’s a Blight by the Bay lefty. He sounds like a greeniac, but he doesn’t have his head up his butt about it. That’s why he’s the gadfly speedbump, who has singlehandedly stymied San Francisco’s grandiose plans to promote bicycle riding and jettison cars, as much as possible.

Gadfly Rob countered the city’s move toward bikes by pointing out some inconvenient truths that eluded the Elected Tormentors, who were hell bent to commit Gorebicide. If you add more bikes, it displaces cars, forcing those vehicles to idle in traffic jams while spewing more pollution into the air. In other words, favoring bikes over cars made matters worse.

* In 2004, the Blight by the Bay unleashed its ambitious 527 page plan that would make bike trips 10% of the city’s total road trips by 2010.

* In February 2005, Rob showed up at a planning session, insisting that the city perform a thorough environmental-impact review, before implementing the plan.

* When the Board of Supervisors voted to skip the review, Rob enlisted a shyster named Mary Miles and sued the Elected Tormentors in state court.

* Despite a massive character assassination campaign against Rob and his advocacy cabal, Coalition for Adequate Review, Rob prevailed in state court. In November 2006, a California Superior Court ordered the Blight by the Bay to stop all bike-plan activity until it completed the review.

To date, the city is still, ever so slowly, going through the review process. Their snail’s pace is okey dokey as far as Rob is concerned, but it has the Bike Nazis in an uproar. Determined to make the city suffer, a Bike Nazi cabal named Critical Mass, deliberately snarls city traffic for hours, once a month.

We’ll probably hate ourselves in the morning, but we’re compelled to give PIGish props to Rob for giving Blight by the Bay Elected Tormentors a serious case of heartburn.

Fiddling Mexifornia Fools
Source: PIG News Wire [08/22/08]

State Senator Jack Scott
Unwilling, unable, to face up to the no longer ‘Golden’ State’s Jupiter-size budget deficit, Mexifornia State Senator Jack Scott, is determined to leave his own, Nanny State nitwit, mark on this left coast pestilence. After looking around, he decided that the biggest problem facing Mexifornia is metallic balloons.

Eager to ban them outright, he pulled alarming numbers out of his butt, blaming metallic balloons for everything from Global Warming, and power outages, to the shocking lack of Armless Albanian Albinos in the NBA. When his histrionics earned him a bitch slap from Mexifornia’s besieged rational adults, Jack lowered his expectations.

This week, his bill passed out of the legislature and is headed for the desk of the state’s action hero governor. Instead of an outright ban, Jack settled for a warning label that blubbers about the danger metallic balloons pose to power lines. His bill also bans metallic balloon sellers from using toys or candy to weigh them down.

Assembly Speaker Karen Bass
One thing the Marxist running the Mexifornia legislature won’t tolerate is the slightest hint of rebellion. If you don’t march in lockstep with the Demoncrat Central Committee (Assembly Speaker Bass, in this case), heads will roll.

Assemblywoman Nicole Para (another Demoncrat) found that out, this week, when she refused to vote on the Demoncrats' latest budget proposal. Was Nicole Para outraged that the two-fisted spenders refused to clean up their act by imposing spending limits on themselves? Nope. Was she outraged that the Demoncrat majority was, once again, going to raise what are already the highest taxes in the United States? Nope. She was refusing to play ball with Speaker Bass, until the Speaker found a solution for the Central Valley’s (Nicole Para’s political turf) water supply problems.

Unwilling to tolerate any defiance, Speaker Bass kicked Nicole Para out of her offices in the state Capitol building and exiled her to the Legislative Office Building, where she is the only legicrat, in either party, to set up shop.

Is Nicole getting any support from her Demoncrat cohorts? You be the judge:

Assemblyman Paul Krekorian, D-Burbank, called it "outrageous that any member, Democrat or Republican, of this Legislature would force the children and the elderly and the disabled people of California to continue to suffer without a budget because of the narrow interests of their own district. We can't let agribusiness corporations hold this state's budget hostage." (Sacramento Bee)

Nicole Para did get some TLC from Elephant Clan Assemblyman Todd Spitzer, who once had his office relocated to the equivalent of a Capitol building broom closet, after he pissed off former Demoncrat Speaker, Fabian "The Turd" Nunez.

State Senator Alan Lowenthal
Spending is out of control. The budget is, once again, two months late. Thanks to the hostile business environment, the state’s economy is in the crapper. A tidal wave of border jumping scumbag invaders is making the no longer ‘Golden’ State a third world cesspool. Mexifornia is a mess, but the state’s Elected Tormentors are too busy breaking out the fiddles to be bothered with such things.

State Senator Alan Lowenthal is shocked, dismayed, and alarmed over electric and hybrid vehicles. He’s losing sleep over the fact that these green rides don’t make any noise. That, Alan whines, poses a danger to blind, and visually-impaired, pedestrians. Under a bill rammed through the legislature by Alan, a commission - KA-CHING - would be appointed to study the issue and report back with recommendations by 2010. Somehow, Alan thunders, we must inject noise into these vehicles. Noise? No problem, tie a string of tin cans to the rear bumper. Any other problems you need solved, Fiddler Alan?

Parting shot: Since the state doesn’t keep statistics on the kind of accidents that are giving Alan insomnia, he’s solving problems that probably don’t exist.

Boonedoggle Tries His Luck in Mexifornia
Source: Golden Oinks [08/15/08]

When it comes to sticking his hand in the pockets of American taxpayers, nobody does it with greater gusto than a reeking piece of Mexas crap named T. Boone Pickens. T. Boonedoggle is the clown who forked out tens of millions of dollars to promote his wind farm flimflam. Wrapping himself in the cloak of capitalism, T. Boonedoggle’s primary ‘customers’ are local, state and federal officials who will fall for this smooth talking Mexas huckster and give him access to their stolen taxpayer loot.

This week, T. Boonedoggle is back with another of his bold schemes to grab those tax dollars. His newest tax grab is a Mexifornia ballot initiative, Proposition 10: the California Renewable Energy and Clean Alternative Fuel Act. The stated target is $5 billion dollars in Mexifornia bond money, but some estimates put the ultimate hit on the taxpayer at $10 billion dollars, by the time the interest is paid. For that princely sum, Mexifornia would ‘promote natural gas as an cleaner alternative for automobile and truck fuel’.

And who, you ask, will, most likely, provide this cleaner fuel? The biggest natural gas fuel source is Clean Energy Fuels Corporation (CLNE), which was, in bygone days, named Pickens Fuel (Boonedoggle is its primary investor). As stinky as this sounds, it gets better. During CLNE’s initial public offering, in May 2007, San Fran Nan Pelosi purchased between $50,000 - $100,000 in CLNE stock. If the Botox Bitch and Boonedoggle can flimflam Mexifornia voters (not a steep hill to climb), they’ll be rolling in taxpayer dough. That’s why this stinky duo’s CLNE has pumped $3.25 million dollars into the Prop 10 campaign coffers.

When you read the fine print in Prop 10, you find that it is cleverly worded to give Boonedoggle’s CLNE the lion’s share of the loot, by locking out competing clean-vehicle fuels and technologies. Holy government enforced monopolies Batman! The more we learn about Boonedoggle, the more this rat bastard stinks.

Guest Commentary
Source Neal Boortz Site [08/07/08]

[Neal exposes the Sanctuary City of Angels latest border jumping scumbag coddling stinker.]

OK ... LET'S JUST SAY WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON HERE
The city of Los Angeles wants to use the power of government to force private businesses to cater to illegal aliens. Here's what's happening ... the City Council committee voted unanimously to force large home-improvement stores to set aside space for day laborers. The plan must now be passed by the full council, but if it comes into effect it means that companies like Home Depot or Lowes or any private home-improvement store 100,000 square feet or larger must create a space for day laborers who are seeking employment.

Simple equation: Day laborers = illegal aliens.

These shelters are required to be easily accessible and provide drinking water, bathrooms, tables with seating and trash facilities ... all paid for by the private businesses. Why not require the businesses to serve them breakfast burritos and coffee? The stores will also be required to develop a security plan and consult with the LA Police Department on how to protect these workers. Home Depot has asked that an amendment be added that would make the city responsible for operating the shelters. But as of right now, there is no such amendment.

Just one of the problems from this asinine ordinance would be to increase the businesses exposure to legal actions should these illegal aliens (day laborers) get injured while loitering on company property waiting for a job.

Now listen to this, Bethany Leal with the Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network says that this is an example of "immigration integration." She says, "By having public and private entities work together to create facilities used primarily by immigrants, individual residents, as well as the whole city, benefit."

What word is missing from this? C'mon ... you can say it ... illegal. These facilities aren't just for day laborers, they are for illegal immigrants. And I'm not just BSing you (like I generally do). Look at the facts. There are over a million illegal immigrants in Los Angeles. Illegal aliens represent more than one quarter of all workers in the production, construction and service industries. In other words, there are a lot of them and there is a larger percentage of them working as day laborers ... how obvious could our government get?

JULY 2008

Rational Adult Sighting On Left Coast
Source: Golden Oinks 2008 [07/31/08]

We know courage, when we see it. This week, it was on display, when Jim Gilchrist and 19 of his Minutemen patriots ventured deep into enemy territory, to confront the Colonista bastards on their own turf. Badly outnumbered, by a crowd of border jumping scumbags, and those who coddle them, Gilchrist stood on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall and threw down the gauntlet:

‘...[The Minutemen] waved signs calling Newsom, District Attorney Kamala Harris and William Siffermann, head of the city's Juvenile Probation Department, "accessories to murder" for the city's now-reversed policy of not turning over illegal immigrant youths arrested for felonies to federal authorities for possible deportation...’

‘..."We are asking for the resignation of Mayor Gavin Newsom for his endorsement and support of sanctuary city status that led to the horrific slayings of the Bologna family," said Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist...’ (S. F. Chronicle)

Badly outnumbered, far from any meaningful group of patriotic American rational adults, Gilchrist and his Minutemen stood their ground, made their point, and emerged triumphant. They were not silenced and vow to take their fight to the enemy, again, in the Sanctuary City of Angels.

Taking Out The Tra$h
Source: Sacramento Bee [07/21/08]

Two years ago, talking out of both sides of his mouth, Sanctuary City of Angels mayor, Tony Villar, promised to put 1,000 new cops on the city’s mean streets. But, before he could spend that money, he needed to raise it, by boosting trash collection fees from $11 per month to $26 per month. At the time, believing this Colonista son-of-a-bitch, the city’s chad punchers bought this bull crap hook, line, and sinker.

Fast forward to the present and Mayor Tony is back, hat in hand, looking for more ways to loot the city’s taxpayers. Drowning in red ink, the city needs a cash infusion, and, once again, a hike in trash collection fees is in the works. There’s also a proposed county-wide sales tax hike that would - allegedly - go to mass transit. Allegedly? You bet, because these Tony Villar money schemes are a casebook study in bait and switch. Bait and switch? You bet, based on what happened with that ‘it will put more cops on the street’ trash fee hike:

‘...The new fees generated $137 million, but the city hired only about 400 more cops, according to a recent report from City Controller Laura Chick, and they cost about $42 million. So, where did almost $100 million go? Chick's report revealed that most of it went to higher salaries for those already on the Los Angeles police payroll, covering the nearly 10 percent raises that the city granted to police unions...’

‘...Most of the trash money was diverted into underwriting the city's cash-strapped general fund, which includes those generous raises for cops already on the street. And that's just the beginning of the tale. Los Angeles faces a whopping budget deficit, despite the trash fee, and Villaraigosa and the City Council want to raise trash fees even higher to cover the shortfall, along with boosting a batch of other fees...’

If deficit spending, lying to raise taxes, and running your political realm into the ground are prerequisites for the Mexifornia governor’s job, Tony Villar is the kind of red ink generating nightmare that Mexifornia deserves.

Hookers Are People, Too
Source: San Francisco Chronicle [07/19/08]

Believe it or not, there are some minimal standards of behavior, in San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s outpost of left coast insanity. At present, one of those standards makes prostitution illegal. Not breaking news? PIG News agrees, but that minimum standard of behavior might change, depending on the fate of a city-wide initiative, that just qualified for the November Ballot.

A measure that would make it more difficult to investigate and punish prostitution crimes in San Francisco qualified for the November ballot on Friday, opening another passage in the city's long fight over decriminalizing the sex-trade industry.

Proponents of the measure were able to collect more than 12,000 signatures, including those from three members of the Board of Supervisors, to put it on the ballot, according to the Erotic Service Providers Union, the labor group backing the measure. The same group was unsuccessful in putting a similar measure on the ballot in 2006.

The measure would end San Francisco's First Offender Prostitution Program for men who have been arrested for soliciting a prostitute. Men who go to "john school," which was created in 1996, pay $1,000 and attend a class on prostitution in exchange for the district attorney's office dropping the misdemeanor charge against them. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Ironically, the Elected Tormentors who roll out the red carpet for border jumping scumbag drug dealers, gang bangers and murderers have ‘issues’ with welcoming horizontal entertainment professionals. For example, Gavin is down with border jumpers who gun down a father and his two sons, but don’t you dare erect legal roadblocks that make it harder to bust hookers.

What passes for the top justice system official in Gavin’s left coast blight isn’t thrilled that the ballot initiative ‘would prohibit the city from spending money on sex-traffic investigations that involve racial profiling.’ District Attorney Kamala Harris is willing to tolerate border jumping murders and drug dealers but she has her limits:

"It would make it very challenging to investigate and prosecute human trafficking. We need to use police resources to investigate where there is a suspicion that women and children, in particular immigrants, are being exploited. This measure is nothing more than a welcome mat for prostitutes and pimps to come and hang out in San Francisco." (Chronicle)

Would it make these left coast asshats happier if the hookers and pimps entered the country illegally, sold some drugs and gunned down some civilians, first, then started to ply their play for pay trade? Enquiring minds want to know.

Parting shot: Gavin and his merry band of lunatic lefties made this ‘some laws don’t apply here’ hell, so it’s only fair that they burn in it.

Revenge of the Nerd
Source: Golden Oinks 2008 [07/18/08]

The Blight By the Bay created this special circle of hell, by making it so damn hard to jettison a San Francisco city employee. For the past five years, Terry Childs has toiled as a city computer network administrator, but his job performance wasn’t thrilling his employers’ spitless. The city suits tried to fire Terry, but the rules of engagement conspired to keep Terry at his post, giving him ample time to plot his revenge.

Terry’s first move involved creating a tracking program, that let him monitor what other administrators were saying about him. It let him examine the case they were building to get him fired. When he saw what they were doing, Terry unleashed his well-planned revenge scheme:

‘...[Terry] tampered with the city's new FiberWAN (Wide Area Network), where records such as officials' e-mails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail inmates' bookings are stored.

Childs created a password that granted him exclusive access to the system, authorities said. He initially gave pass codes to police, but they didn't work. When pressed, Childs refused to divulge the real code even when threatened with arrest, they said...’ (San Francisco Chronicle)

He locked all those working to get him fired out of the system and, so far, refuses to let them have access!

Although he’s in jail, Terry might still be manipulating the system, by remote control, through one, or more, heretofore unknown, cohorts. Unless they get Terry’s cooperation, the city might face the destruction of ‘hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents’. The ultimate price tag - according to those usual unnamed sources - could run into the millions.

Normally, we’d be outraged over this kind of thing. Normally, but not this time. Anyone who gives Gavin Newsome and his merry Marxist band heartburn - especially on this level - gets our vote. I wonder if Jackie Gleason had this revenge of the nerd epic in mind when he said "How sweet it is!"

Gulag Games
Source: Girlieman of the Week [07/04/08]

When the Blight by the Bay’s coddling of border jumping scumbag drug dealers exploded into the news cycle, the bovine excrement hit the fan with a resounding SPLAT. Apparently, nobody in positions of authority saw anything wrong with giving Honduran drug dealers red carpet, juvenile offender, treatment. In fact, with a ‘wink-wink’, ‘nudge-nudge’, the proper authorities aren’t too fussy about checking the ‘real’ age of these ‘youthful’ offenders.

Determined to keep these drug dealers off Uncle Sam’s border jumper radar, the city’s juvenile probation department, headed by William Siffermann, would, at the taxpayers’ expense, have a probation officer fly the ‘youthful’ offender back to Honduras. Once there, the drug punk was free and clear, with no immigration track record, and thus free to return to the Blight by the Bay, America’s most slappably smug sanctuary city.

After the feds busted one of those city-paid drug punk escorts in Mexas, in May, the city switched gears. Instead of flying the drug punks home, they exported them to group homes in far off San Bernardino County. That seemed like a viable solution, until news broke that 8 of these drug punks walked away from the group home and one of them was bagged, again, in the Blight by the Bay.

The timing of this public relations nightmare was especially thrilling for Frisco’s mayor, Gavin Newsome, since it reached critical mass at the exact time when he was ramping up his bid for Governor of Mexifornia. His first instinct, fearless leader that he is, was to DUCK:

"I don't have the authority here," Newsom said at a City Hall news conference as he stood beside his handpicked juvenile probation director, William Siffermann. "I have a bully pulpit. The courts have the authority here." (S. F. Chronicle)

Sensing that might not be working, Gavin, took his gutless antics to the next level with ‘finger-pointing’:

"The question you need to ask is why the courts, the D.A. and the public defender are directing (the Juvenile Probation Department) to do that," Newsom said.

Siffermann said he is trying to balance federal law with San Francisco's 1989 proclamation of itself as a sanctuary city, a status that has led city officials to refuse to cooperate with federal agents in deporting immigrants.

"The chief doesn't do it on his own," Newsom said. "He is told by the courts to do this. ... The D.A. and judges and public defender all tell chief Siffermann what to do." (S. F. Chronicle)

Nice try, but no cigar, dude. The Tuesday press conference had barely concluded, when the blowback kicked into a much higher gear. By Wednesday, Gavin was in full retreat and pretending to have a spine:

"All I can say is, I can't explain away the past," Newsom said. "I take responsibility, I take it. We are moving in a different direction...We're going to fix this...Adults who commit felonies are already turned over to the federal authorities for deportation. There has been a lack of clarity, however, on our policy toward juveniles who commit felonies. ... I have directed my administration to work in cooperation with the federal government on all felony cases."

Still trying to find someone to fall on a sword for the greater glory of Gutless Gavin, Newsome, seemed to paint a ‘take one for the Mayor’ bull’s-eye on his minion, William Siffermann:

"This was accepted practice for decades, and Siffermann continued it, but now it's stopped," Newsom said. He said the decision to send the juveniles to the unlocked group home in San Bernardino County "was wrong. It was a mistake, and he (Siffermann) needs to answer for that. I'm not pleased about any of this."

"There's nothing good about all this. I can't beat around the bush. This, in the past, was something dealt with in the juvenile justice system - it just didn't get up the chain. That's my fault. Ultimately, I'm accountable. Ignorance is no defense." Newsom said he has been "getting the heat, and I get it." (Chronicle)

We’re not shedding any tears over the way Gutless Gavin is twisting in the wind. I wonder if he’s as giddy as we are here in the Free State of PIG over the timing of this scandal? Coinciding, as it does, with his ‘well, duh’ announcement that he’s gearing up to run for governor in 2010, it’s guaranteed to put him in a deep, political hole. Unhappily, Mexifornia chad punchers have a very short attention span, so, Gavin’s political bid for governor isn’t, regrettably, DOA.

JUNE 2008

City of Angels Coverup
Source: Golden Oinks 2008 [06/27/08]

The City of Angels has raised torturing their own employees to an art form. In the LAPD, cops are presumed guilty, first, whenever a punk whines about police brutality. Add that to a Special Order 40, that renders border jumping gang-bangers, literally, untouchable and you have badges that come at an intolerably high price. As fun as that gets, the City of Angels has recently inflicted similar ‘this job sucks’ misery on another group of city employees: the fire fighters in the LAFD.

A policy that has ‘been in the works’ for five years was inflicted on the LAFD, in May. What is it? It’s an outright ban on allowing any tatoo to show while the firefighter is on duty. If ‘on duty’ was limited to those times when these lifesavers were out on the job, responding to some kind of emergency, it would be only a minor form of torture. But this ban forces firefighters to keep those tattoos covered up in the firehouse, too. That means wearing long sleeves, at all times, during those 10 days each month, when they’re living in the firehouse.

If that isn’t enough, it gets worse, because the fire department his hired snoops to spy on the firefighters WHILE THEY ARE ASLEEP to bust them if a tattoo is showing. This is utterly asinine, since it spits in the eye of common sense and turns firemen, who have been on the job for two or three decades, into pariahs.

O. C.’s New Sheriff
Source: L. A. Times [06/19/08]

It was destined to happen, after former O. C. Sheriff Mike Carona was forced out of office by federal corruption charges. Mike had friends in all the right places, especially among this right-wing bastion’s movers and shakers. Unfettered by ethics, Carona used his office to reward them, and himself, with reserve deputy postings and concealed-weapons permits.

After ridding themselves of Mike Carona, a task he made as onerous as possible, the County Board of Supervisiors shied away from replacing him with another O. C. insider. Instead, they plucked their new sheriff from nearby Los Angeles County. In addition to selecting a retired Division Chief from the L. A. Sheriff’s Department, the board blazed a new, ‘diversity’ trail, by picking a woman for the office, Sandra Hutchens. It reeks of a politically correct choice, but the 3 board members who voted for her deny it.

This week, Sheriff Hutchens announced her first official move. Painfully aware of Carona’s antics with concealed-carry permits, Hutchens has decided to review all the permits issued by Carona, to determine if the recipient meets certain criteria. At best, a rational adult should have mixed feelings about this exercise.

Under Sheriff Hutchen’s regime, the 2nd Amendment is a pesky inconvenience. Instead of checking to verify that the applicant isn’t bonkers or a criminal, she will require the applicant prove that they have a need for a concealed weapon.

"The important thing to me is they need to have demonstrated a need," Hutchens said. And if there's no need, she'll revoke the permits. "That's probably not going to be popular with a lot of people," she said. (Times)

Need? Bite me, bitch. All you need to know is that I want it and that I’m not a dangerous lunatic or some wild-eyed desperado. Otherwise, butt the hell out. When it comes to my Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, the onus should be on the government. It should be this gun-phobic, big city lib’s job to prove that there’s some compelling, overriding, reason why it would be dangerous to let me exercise my right to keep and bear arms, concealed or otherwise.

Banned In LAUSD
Source: World Net Daily [06/11/08]

"Joey Gonzalez, Great American" is a bilingual book that’s aimed a school age tykes. The author of the book, Tony Robles, is so eager to share this kiddie-friendly story, he tried to donate copies to the Los Angeles Unified School District. His gift was black flagged by Bookends, a non-profit cabal that provides used kiddie books to the LAUSD’s inner city schools. Why did they reject it? Because the theme of the book is politically incorrect:

The book revolves around the main character Joey, a Hispanic 3rd grader committed to one goal – to be a "great American." His dream is derailed by his teacher, who tells him he is different because he is a minority and will need extra help to succeed. But the teacher tells him not to worry, because that's exactly what affirmative action is for. With the advice of his mom, Joey confronts his teacher and stands up for what he believes truly makes a great American – and it doesn't include the assistance of affirmative action. (WND)

Author Robles is understandably upset by this rejection at the hands of the Korrectniks, who have a death grip on Educrap in the City of Angels:

"I suspect that Bookends, and by extension the LAUSD, simply doesn't like the book's message about the destructive nature of affirmative action," the author said.

"'Joey Gonzalez' is a sweet little children's story with lovable characters that kids can identify with," Robles told WND. "It’s a story about ethnic pride, self reliance and courage, with a positive and affirmative message. But it is also a political commentary about one of the most controversial issues of our time: affirmative action."

"Minority kids have learned that there's no reason to try and succeed in school since the specter of affirmative action inevitably taints their efforts," Robles, who grew up on the streets of Brooklyn, said. "It's truly sad that an organization like Bookends, which works closely with the L.A. public schools and is supposed to help kids, is doing just the opposite." (WND)

The unpardonable sin that Robles committed is one that the Korrectniks refuse to forgive. He wrote a story for tykes that teaches them the virtues of hard work and determination. He wrote a story that says "you don’t need any special preferences to succeed". For the Korrectnik asshats, who control government cess-schools, that’s heresy. Tony should be thankful that the outraged Educrats didn’t burn him at the stake during a school assembly.

Indoctrination In Mexifornia
Source: L. A. Daily News [06/03/08]

Eager to advance her Colonista coddling agenda, a Mexifornia Educrat named Danielle Quinto organized a field trip for her minds full of mush 4th graders at Our Community School in North Hills (Southern Mexifornia). Where, you ask, did she take them? To the local ‘hood where border jumper infested gangs are ethnically cleansing entire neighborhoods? Nope. To a local clown house where 80 border jumpers cram into one 1200 square foot abode? Nope. To a local emergency room that’s just shut down due to a border jumping scumbag tidal wave. Nope. To an unemployment office where displaced American construction workers are trying to find some way to earn a paycheck? Nope. Did she take them to the local sweatshop where border jumpers toil for off the books slave wages? Nope, but you’re getting warm.

This Colonista Educrat took them on a carefully stage-managed brainwashing session at a North Hollywood day-labor site. While there, the tykes spent quality time getting a load of bull from hand-picked ‘day laborers’. Did the well-rehearsed sob stories have the desired result? You better believe it Sparky. Suitably indoctrinated, the tykes returned to their class, and, egged on by their Colonista teacher, sent tear-stained letters about their new border jumping scumbag friends to L.A.’s News Nitwit horde.

File this steaming butt bullet under "your tax dollars at work".

Adios Amigo - Mexifornia Style
Source: World Net Daily [06/01/08]

Uncle Sam’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement minions are beavering away in the target rich environment of Mexifornia. Deploying at least 13 Fugitive Enforcement Teams in border jumper havens like San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco, ICE bagged, tagged and dragged 900 border jumpers into a lock-up during the month of May.

A World Net Daily article cited these facts:

Half of the criminal aliens and fugitives arrested during the statewide sting have already been sent to their home countries. Since a large number of the illegals have faced previous deportation, immigration authorities immediately ousted them from the U.S. The rest remain in police custody, awaiting travel arrangements for deportation or hearings before an immigration judge.

Brian DeMore, acting field officer director for ICE detention and removal operations in Los Angeles, issued a press release about his team's success.

"ICE is committed to protecting the integrity to this country's immigration system and that means ensuring that the removal orders handed down by the nation's immigration courts are carried out," he said. "As a country, we welcome law-abiding immigrants, but foreign nationals who violate our laws and commit crimes in our communities should be on notice that ICE is going to use all of the tools at its disposal to find you and send you home."

Immigration authorities sought out and detained a total of 905 illegal alien criminals in California – 327 in Los Angeles alone. Of the 327 arrested in L.A., 244 were fugitives aliens who have dodged deportation orders or who have returned to the U.S. after being evicted by authorities. Approximately 25 percent of L.A. illegals in custody have criminal histories, and one person has been convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14. (World Net Daily)

This WND piece reports the encouraging alleged fact that America’s border jumping population declined in 2007 and has continued to decline in 2008. Assuming that’s true, how much of this ‘Adios America’ stuff is due to ICE and how much of it is due to our tepid economic conditions?

MAY 2008

Gay Marriage Aftershocks
Source: PIG News Wire [05/30/08]

When the California Supreme Court gave the green light to GLAAD BAAG marriages in the no longer "Golden" State, it set off a series of cultural aftershocks that are felt from sea to shining sea. The sound of the gavel banging down on this ruling was still reverberating throughout the state, when cultural conservatives decried it and proclaimed their intention to put a ballot initiative on the November ballot to restrict marriage to ‘one man with one woman’. Their request to have the ruling held in abeyance until after that the November election has, so far, fallen on deaf ears.

On the opposite side of the nation, New York Governor David Paterson has already put some new policies into place, in the aftermath of this ruling. A ruling by the Empire State’s highest court, the State Court of Appeals, makes same-sex marriage illegal in the state. The only way to change that, the court decreed, would be through an act of the state legislature. At the same time, the appellate judges noted that there is no legal impediment that prevents the state from recognizing same sex marriages performed outside the state. That’s all Governor Paterson needed, to climb onto Mexifornia’s GLAAD BAAG marriage bandwagon:

Same-sex marriages legally performed elsewhere will be recognized in New York in response to a state court ruling this year, Gov. David Paterson's spokeswoman said Wednesday. State agencies, including those governing insurance and health care, must immediately change policies and regulations to make sure "spouse," "husband" and "wife" are clearly understood to include gay couples, according to a memo sent earlier this month from the governor's counsel. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

This means that same-sex marriages performed in Mexifornia, or Canada would be recognized in the state of New York. GLAAD BAAG marriages performed in the nearby Bay State would NOT be recognized, since Bay State’s residency requirement would prevent same sex couples from New York getting hitched in Massachusetts. Life is so pissy that way.

Attorneys General from 10 states - Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah - petitioned the California Supreme Court to postpone the implementation of the rule, to give the forthcoming ballot initiative time to save them from having to cope with the legal fallout from the ruling. What happens, in their states, when some same sex couple travels to Mexifornia to get married? If they don’t recognize those marriages, lawsuits will follow. If they recognize the marriages, then the law gets overturned by a ballot initiative, that creates more problems, they protest.

The last thing I heard from Mexifornia was that the mid-June, ‘go for it, GLAAD BAAG lovebirds’, implementation date was still locked and loaded. Stay tuned, PIGsters.

City of Angels News Briefs
Source: PIG News Wire [05/23/08]

"Nothing to See Here"
By now, some of you have read the story about a gunman in the City of Angels, who loaded up Old Betsy and went on a shooting rampage outside a Roman Catholic Toll Booth. You’ll also know that the shooter hit three individuals with his semiautomatic rifle, before some rational adults stopped him. All of that is well documented. What is not documented is that hasty conclusion some of you just perpetrated.

We hear those thoughts, PIGsters, and want to nip this rumor in the bud. It was not our highly combustible editor, Hambo, picking off supernaturalists with Old Betsy. Yes, he has admitted to visiting Los Angeles but he doesn’t live there, nor did he visit there on Saturday. If, and/or when, Hambo goes on his oft threatened ‘just me, Old Betsy, and lots of ammo up in that tower’ rampage, we promise to bring you every thrilling minute of his high caliber meltdown. Until then, file this under ‘nothing to see here, move along’.

"That Tastes Familiar"
We noticed an item in the L.A. Times that the City of Angels is getting ready to meet their increasing demand for water with a variety of measures. In addition to cracking down on those who waste too much water, and trying to coerce L.A. denizens into buying more water stingy appliances, the city is seeking new sources of supply. One ‘sensitive’ notion would have them using ‘treated’ waste water to replenish the drinking water supply. Toilet water in the drinking supply? That should make the city’s differently-documented denizens feel right at home.

San Diego Minutemen Take On Mexifornia
Source: My Way News [05/10/08]

This epic began in December 2007, when the San Diego Chapter of the Minutemen volunteered for Mexifornia’s Adopt-a-Highway program. After clearing all the bureaucratic hurdles at the California Department of Transportation, the group was assigned their stretch of highway. That’s when fickle fate got a case of the cutes. By an amazing luck of the draw, the San Diego Minutemen were assigned the stretch of Interstate 5 that includes a major Border Patrol checkpoint. That arrangement continued for 6 weeks, until relentless Colonista whining forced the state’s highway wrangling cabal to exile the Minutemen to a remote stretch of San Diego highway that is seldom, if ever, used.

Fast forward to the present, and we find the San Diego Minutemen fighting to escape from their undeserved fate. To get that job done, they took the matter to a federal court:

‘...[L]awyers for the San Diego Minutemen told a federal judge that the state had no right to rescind the offer after state legislators complained to the California Department of Transportation. The group asked that its blue Adopt-a-Highway sign be put back where it stood without incident for about six weeks until the agency removed it in January.

"We were moved to silence our message in response to pressure from the open border advocates and the Latino caucus," said Minutemen attorney Robert Fuselier. "It all comes down to one thing: We can't have our speech because if we do, people who don't like it might become unruly and unlawful."

Attorneys for the state contend the sign was removed because of concerns that demonstrators or vandals could create safety hazards for the 160,000 drivers who pass the checkpoint daily and for Minutemen volunteers collecting litter by the roadside...’ (My Way News)

When asked by the lawyer for the Minutemen if future complaints might make the state move the Minutemen stretch of highway to a more remote region of San Diego County, the state’s lawyer said yes. Since the highway cleanup signs are not ‘a public forum’; they feel free treat the San Diego Minutemen as shabbily as they want. Why? Because they can, and, because the legal residents of Mexifornia have been relegated to the back seat by the border jumping horde.

Globally Warmed Bull Crap
Source: World Net Daily [05/10/08]

It’s not breaking news when someone mounts a letter writing campaign against those dastardly unbelievers who question Messiah Al Gore’s Global Warming Gospel. It’s still not breaking news when the target of this outrage is a cabal - Chicago’s Heartland Institute - which seeks free-market solutions to our most pressing problems. Before we get to the fun part of this story, we need to share some of this outrage with you:

* "I think your (sic) fools for denying G.W. you know it could kill us all & you're just adding to it. I want you to help stop G.W. not increase it," said one letter.

* "We are going to tell you about global warming. I don't care if you don't want to read, but I'm making you read it you horrible people," said another.

* "We feel that it is wrong what you are doing. We know that you know that global warming is NOT we repeat NOT a myth, And we think it is selfish that you would take money over yours and your peers lives."

* "We feel upset because you are making Global Warming worse instead of helping it. We know that almost half of the country knows that G.W. is a crisis. We know that you could help the environment with the $800,000 you have."

* "We feel that they are destroying our planet by saying G.W. is not a crisis. You think GW is not a crisis but it is; you know deep down that it's a real thing that's happening. Everyone has a part in helping GW, and you're making worse."

* "I do not think that what you are doing is right because you are telling people that global warming is not a crisis. If this is not a crisis, how come floods have occurred in asia, Mexico, and India. Plus, how can you explain why the glacier glaciers are melting. they can't melt themselves, because they are in the coldest region in the world."

* "I am very unhappy with your disgracing actions to the world, because you guys and woman are trying to hide the facts about Global warming so you can make more money. Well you guys aren’t going to fool anybody except yourself. The reason is because if you were to look at a picture of Glacier National Park 50 years ago, you would see that there is less ice now then there was fifty years ago,"

* "Global warming 'means that if we don't fix the climate, everything will be destroyed and we won't be able to survive."

* "We've read article about global warming. And we know all the facts."

* "Natural disasters have quadrupled in 20 years, 53 bird species face extinction, World must fix climate in 10 years, Air pollution shrinks fetus size. THIS IS CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING!!!"

Now that we’ve ingested all this table pounding outrage, it’s time for the rest of the story. These, and numerous other, letters to the Heartland Institute came from some 6th graders who were brainwashed with Messiah Al’s gospel while attending a class at David A. Brown Middle School in the Lake Elsinore School District (Mexifornia).

According to Maureen Martin, a senior fellow at the institute, the source material given the students by their teacher, Michael Steria, is, at best, dubious:

Martin told WND that by searching the Internet for key phrases used by the students, she was able to read seven of the 10 articles the students reported reading."Three of the articles have nothing to do with global warming or greenhouse gases. Two are dire predictions from non-scientists at the United Nations disaster relief agency, the U.N. Development Programme, and nongovernmental organizations engaged in disaster aid. One article relates state efforts at monitoring greenhouse gases," she said.

One other was an attack on Heartland for its funding procedures, accusing the organization of selling out to energy corporations. But Institute chief Joseph Bast said such donations never have amounted to more than 5 percent of the organization's budget and more money comes in from individuals than from companies.

When the folks at Heartland offered to send addition material - books, articles, DVD’s and speakers - to give these brainwashed youngsters ‘the rest of the story’ their offer was ignored by Lake Elsinore School District officials. When World Net Daily tried to contact the Educrats, they too hit a brick wall of silence. Weep for the future, PIGsters. Weep for the future.

Parting shot: Indoctrination is alive and well in Mexifornia’s cess-schools, and it’s probably going strong in your backyard too, head in the sand Sparky.

Code Pink Pulls Out The Stops in Beserkely
Source: Fox News [05/09/08]

The pile of peace puke turds, who call themselves Code Pink, Emerilized their protests at the Beserkeley Marine Corps recruiting office this week. I’m guessing that they’re still feeling frisky, after these America hating piles of allegedly human shit celebrated their beloved Marxism on May Day.

Here are some of this week’s protest puke highlights:

* Monday was seasoned citizens day. The Code Puke turds rousted out a cadre of doddering old wrecks for the attack of the grandmothers. The oldsters pounded on the door, making asinine noises about wanting to go inside to talk to the recruiters about enlisting in the Marine Corps.

Code Puke accused the Marines of cowardice when they didn’t have a chat with the grannies, one of whom admits to being 90 years young. Captain John Paul Wheatcroft shrugs off that bull crap:

"They're always in pink and wear funny things, half-shaved heads, one side with hair and the other one bald," he told FOXNews.com. "Yeah, I'm pretty much used to anything...Most of the time they are just practicing their right to protest and their freedom of speech or whatever, so it's not usually a problem for us. But sometimes it crosses the line, and that happened [Monday] when the grannies were here blocking the entrance and banging on the door."

* Tuesday was "Fierce Mothers Raging Against War Day". The Code Puke turds spouted bull crap about the rampant rape and murder of mothers perpetrated by our men and women in uniform. They did not, however, find the time, or motivation, to discuss the well documented, wholesale slaughter of women, many of them mothers, by the Jihadikaze asshats.

* Wednesday was bring your wenchlet to the protest day. The clueless, brain-washed wenchlets talked out of their butts about keeping mommy safe from that nasty old war perpetrated by dastardly Uncle Sam.

* Thursday was something called "sisters don’t let sisters to live in war zones". We haven’t got a clue on this one and don’t really give a damn.

* Friday was straight from the heart of Code Puke’s postal code of the Twilight Zone. It was called "Witches, Crones and Sirens Day", and it’s exactly what you think it is. This biggest Code Puke turd, a piece of shit named Zanne Sam Joi, spouted this bull crap about Friday’s festivities: "Women are coming to cast spells and do rituals and to impart wisdom to figure out how we're going to end war."

For the untold story on these protests, we are proud to, once again, cite Captain Wheatcroft:

"Ironically, it's actually helped us by putting our name out. We're now well-known. And people know who we are, and where we are, and they come in to talk to us about enlisting. They've gotten us the publicity that we could've never afforded to pay for ourselves. Just in the last three weeks, 10 people came in looking to apply, looking to become Marine officers, and that's much higher than normal."

Give the Code Puke turds hell, Captain, and from everyone here in the Free State of PIG, Semper Fi.

Splashdown
Source: CBS [05/02/08]

This familiar City of Angeles drama started when some jackass ran a stop light. When the LAPD tried to stop the van to exchange pleasantries with the driver, the road warrior refused. That easily, the City of Angeles had another police chase on their hands.

I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right. If you’ve seen one police chase, you’ve seen them all. There are, however, those times when the chase includes some memorable moments, this being one of them:

The pursuit continued on the southbound Harbor (110) Freeway to the Los Angeles Harbor area, where the man drove toward Berth 194 at the Port of Los Angeles, then off a jetty, sending the van into the water, [LAPD Sgt. Jim] Lewis said.

After fleeing the vehicle, the man suspect then stood shirtless on the van's roof, dove into the water and eluded officers by swimming around for 15 minutes. He eventually boarded a Los Angeles City Fire boat and was taken into custody, Lewis said.

The suspect told police he had no idea he was driving near the water until the van's airbag deployed, hit him in the chest and water began entering the vehicle, Lewis said, adding that the vehicle appears to be stolen.

Once he hit the water, where the hell did he think he was going? Did he think he could swim to Mexico, more than 100 miles away? Did he think the cops would give up and go away if he stayed in the water long enough? Enquiring minds want to know.,

More Beserkeley Fun and Games
Source: Berkeley Daily Planet [05/01/08]

Like any rational adult, the UC Berkeley College Republicans are outraged that the City Council gave those steaming Code Pink peace puke loads a permit to use a parking space in front of the United States Marines recruiting office. That space is reserved, every Wednesday, from noon to 4pm, allowing the Code Pink rat bastards to shout their America hating bull crap for all to hear.

Borrowing a page from the Code Pink playbook, UC Berkeley’s College Republicans demanded equal access. They want the space across the street from Code Pink's outpost of treason, on the same hours every Wednesday, so they will have a place to stage counterprotests.

“We are against them [Code Pink]—they are against the recruiters,” Kimberly Wagner, activism chair for the Berkeley College Republicans told the Planet Wednesday.

“The permits given to Code Pink are not permits you can apply for,” she said, noting she had asked the mayor to help obtain permits, but he had refused.

When Beserkeley’s mayor refused their request, the UC College Republicans took the matter to a member of the city council, Kriss Worthington:

Wagner, a freshman from Fullerton studying political science, told the Planet Wednesday that the Young Republicans were going ahead with their request for a parking space. In an April 25 e-mail to Worthington, she had written that they wanted to circulate a petition asking the council “to remove Code Pink from within a one mile radius of the recruitment center, with the goal of alleviating the disturbances to the surrounding businesses.”

The petition idea came about, she said, when they realized that by the time they had the permit it would be summer break: “Most of us would not be here.” Wagner told the Planet that at this point “the petition is on hold.” (Daily Planet)

The good news is that there are still a few rational adults lurking in and around Beserkeley. The bad news is that they are badly outnumbered, a fact that’s demonstrated by this outburst from a Code Puke butt bullet named Zanne Joi: "The council determined we should have a parking space because this is a city of peace. It’s not a city of war." Like it or not - everyone in the Free State of PIG hates it - this allegedly human turd is probably right in her assessment of Beserkeley. As bad as that is, it’s not hopeless. First, we evacuate the handful of rational adults, then we put Beserkeley out of our misery with a tactical nuclear strike.

APRIL 2008

Legicrats Visit Reality, Temporarily
Source: PIG News Wire [04/24/08]

The delusional, Marxist meatheads who infest Mexifornia’s legislature paid an unscheduled visit to objective reality this week. Tragically, it had nothing to do with weaning themselves from that two-fisted spending habit which racked up a whopping $16 billion dollar budget deficit. That’s probably too much to expect from these clowns.

Somebody seems to have blocked the incoming calls from the teachers unions that OWN the Demoncrat majority. That’s the only explanation I have for this bit of "it’s about damn time" legicrap:

The California Senate has approved legislation targeting teachers who have a history of sexual misconduct in other states. The bill that passed unanimously on Monday would require the state to suspend teachers' credentials if officials learn their license had been revoked elsewhere for sexual misconduct.

Sen. Jack Scott, D-Pasadena, said his bill was prompted by an Associated Press investigation into sexual misconduct by teachers. The legislation also would require the California Teacher Credentialing Commission to automatically suspend teachers' licenses if a court has limited their contact with children.

According to this CBS news item, this bill closes a ‘loophole’ that allowed a teacher to keep on teaching while state officials investigated why they lost their license to teach in another state. That process took YEARS and allowed too many perverts to slip through the cracks.

This bill sounds like a good idea, but I suspect the teachers unions will find a way to scuttle it before it becomes law.

Well, Duh Moment of the Week
Source: PIG News Wire [04/24/08]

The headline - Los Angeles is ‘a third world city’ - is all it took to qualify for "well, DUH" consideration. It might be breaking news in Britain, where the Telegraph is perpetrated, but it’s old, old, old news here in the PIGdom.

For those who obsess on such things, here is the ‘meat’ of this Telegraph article:

Los Angeles is becoming a "Third World city" with immigrants making up half its workforce, says a new study.

A third of immigrants have not graduated from high school and 60 per cent do not speak English fluently, the Migration Policy Institute found.

It said this left immigrants ill-equipped to fill California's fastest-growing occupations, such as computer software engineering and nursing. The organisation added that as the so-called baby boomers reach retirement age, a similar pattern will spread across the US.

These Eggheads never cease to amaze me. They plunder some deep pockets, set up a tax dodge - the Migration Policy Institute, in this case - then spend countless months on some asinine ‘study’. When they finish they arrive at a ‘stop the presses’ conclusion that’s only news to them. Is the City of Angels a third world city? Hell yes, and every Joe Sixpack from sea to shining sea knew it YEARS ago.

Baca’s Ethnic Cleansing Reality Check
Source: PIG News Wire [04/18/08]

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca paid an unscheduled visit to objective ‘blood in the streets’ reality earlier this month. It happened, while he was having a private chat with what a Fox affiliate calls ‘a largely African-American audience in Compton’ (Mexifornia). During his chat, he visited that element of City of Angeles reality where LAPD Chief William Bratton is too gutless to visit, a reality that the city’s Colonista mayor, Tony Villar, insists does not exist.

Citing a videotape of Baca’s chat with the National Association for Equal Justice in America, the L.A. boob tube outlet shared this prose from Sheriff Baca:

“I don’t say it’s all but there is a percent of these Latino kids killing blacks because of a race-related motivation. That is my opinion.”

Pretty explosive stuff. And then Baca went a step further, claiming his deputies had overheard jailed Latino gang bosses (so-called “shot-callers”) telling their followers on the outside that, in a feud with a black gang, it was okay to kill any blacks to make their point. “We’ve heard when the person out there can’t find African-American gang member to shoot, the shot-caller says: ‘Then shoot any African-American you see.’” (Jamiel Shaw's father was in the audience that day and Baca looked him straight in the eye when he made these remarks; but the sheriff did NOT specifically say if he believed Shaw’s murder was racially-motivated). (Fox)

Bratton and Villar know the truth, but neither is motivated to do a damn thing about it. Why? I suspect that Bratton has political ambitions that will be ‘damaged’ if he gets too real about the gangs of border jumping scumbags who are murdering exceptional young men like Jamiel Shaw whose only crime was being black. Bratton has to know that ethnic cleansing by border jumping scumbag gangbangers is real. Despite that, he continues to use Special Order 40 to keep those murdering border jumping gangbanger bastards on L.A.’s increasingly MEAN streets. Bratton is perfectly willing to sacrifice the lives of the ethnically cleansed murder victims on the altar of his ambition.

Tony Villar is another story entirely. He wants to make Los Angeles a MEXICAN city, by any means necessary. To get that done, he’s delighted to let these border jumping murderers, who infest the City of Angels, ethnically cleanse the city for him.

When a blowhard like Sheriff Lee Baca is the voice of reason in the City of Angels, it’s time to check the water supply for mind-altering substances.

Parting shot: If you think I’m being too hard on Chief Bratton, consider this steaming load of self-serving bullshit:

"Long after I am gone, long after you are gone, Special Order 40 will be a part of the essential practices," he said. "There will be no effort made ... to repeal it. We have a huge illegal immigrant population, as well as legal immigrant population, that are preyed on by criminals. We need those people as witnesses, we need them as victims, to help us," he said. Even the idea, the chilling effect of asking somebody their immigrant status, is a form of profiling. We're not going to engage in it." (L.A. Daily News)

Mexifornia Fun and Games
Source: PIG News Wire [04/11/08]

Wheelchair Ramp Battle Rages On
Since nobody can swallow squandering a cool million - or more - for a 10 foot wheelchair ramp in the County Board of Supervisors chambers, the Elected Tormentor in the eye of this political storm has vowed to take this fight to the next level. Blight by the Bay County Supervisor, Michela Alioto-Pier, is gearing up to hit the Gulag with a shyster assault under America’s Trial Lawyers Full Employment and Enrichment Act (A.K.A. The Americans With Disabilities Act).

This whiner, and her disabilities activist cohorts, don’t want to hear about how much it will cost - $750,000, minimum, to $1.1 million, or more. They are equally underwhelmed by the suggestion from the President of the Board of Supervisors, Aaron Peskin, who favors legislation that would resolve the matter by placing the no longer used president’s podium off limits, permanently.

This battle shows no sign of abating, so stay tuned for the next thrilling chapter of Ramp-O-Rama.

State Supreme Court Nukes Blight by the Bay Gun Law
In November 2005, the Blight by the Bay’s chad punchers passed Prop H, with a rousing 58% of the vote. Under this edict, the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and prevailing state law were thrown under the bus:

The ordinance, Proposition H, would have forbidden San Francisco residents to possess handguns, exempting only law enforcement officers and others who needed guns for professional purposes. It would have also prohibited the manufacture, sale or distribution of any type of firearms or ammunition in San Francisco. (San Francisco Chronicle)

The day after the vote tally was tabulated, the NRA took the city to court, a legal challenge that culminated this week, when the Mexifornia Supreme Court voted, unanimously, to dump this assault on law-abiding gun owners onto the trash heap. Their action gives the final seal of approval on an Appeals Court Ruling on January 09, 2008:

[T]he First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco said state law left room for some municipal gun control - such as bans on the sale or possession of firearms on public fairgrounds - but "when it comes to regulating firearms, local governments are well advised to tread lightly."

The court relied on its own 1982 ruling striking down a San Francisco ordinance that would have prohibited handgun possession by anyone in the city limits. Prop. H drafters sought to comply with the ruling by limiting the ban to city residents.

In a 3-0 ruling Jan. 9, the appeals court said state law allows law-abiding Californians to possess handguns in their homes and businesses and lets them request a concealed-weapons permit or a judge's permission to carry guns in public - authority that leaves no room for a local handgun ban. (Chronicle)

As expected, Blight by the Bay officials are bummed by this ruling. I feel their pain and strongly suggest that this Marxist enclave physically detach itself from the North American continent. That will allow it to float out to sea where they can do anything that gladdens the cockles of their liberty-hating hearts.

Disney Rolls The Dice With A Classic
Source: PIG News Wire [04/04/08]

There’s turmoil in the house of the mouse PIGsters. Some heartless capitalists with the soul of a cash register are - some Disneyland (the original) purists insist - injecting rank commercialism into a classic Disneyland ride. The ride is the one with the most annoying song in the world, "It’s a Small World". The changes are - GASP - alarming, to those who obsess on such things:

The Anaheim amusement park is planning to add Disney characters to the anonymous international cast of the beloved 'round-the-globe boat ride. But the idea has sparked outrage among the family of the attraction's original designer and prompted a preservation campaign for the ride, which opened in 1966 and closed for renovations in January. Walt Disney Co. isn't saying how many familiar characters will appear in the revamped ride or how prominent they will be. (L.A. Times)

I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you. Well, I would be if it weren’t for that damn song that is, once again, droning on inside my head. The two opposing sides are deeply entrenched and showing no willingness to abandon their position. The ‘don’t screw with a classic’ ranks are bolstered by relatives of the artist who designed the ride, Mary Blair. They call the changes an "idiotic plan" that "represents a gross desecration of the ride's original theme" (Times).

"The ride itself is a classic ride. They should leave the ride the way it was with the children of the world and leave all the Disney characters out. It just bastardizes the whole ride." (Kevin Blair, the designer's son)

Showing no sign of backing down, the self-promoting suits at the House of the Mouse sent out Walt Disney Imagineering wench Marilyn Waters, to face any incoming ‘don’t mess with a classic’ fusillade. Her far from assuring response included the claim that the changes would be done tastefully, and that the familiar characters would be "stylized" to blend in and placed in the relevant countries on the new, improved ride. She did not, however, agree to the Free State of PIG’s demand that the song be dropped like a bad habit and replaced with a kicked up, rock your socks off, toe tapper, by AC/DC.

This battle has spilled over the boundaries of Disneyland, the original, and landed a place on the Internet where people with too much time on their hands are hammering Disney on sites like Save The Small World, plus an blog by Ken Bruce, a former minion at Pixar Animation Studios which Disney currently owns. Aimed at ‘Imagineering and animation professionals’ his blog’s stated goal is to ‘critique the current state of Disney theme parks’.

‘...It's a Small World is a "very cogent, carefully thought-out piece of thematic storytelling," Bruce added. "To think that Disney characters are going to invade the place and take away from the rightful stars - the children of the world - is really scary for us. It's Disney turning their backs on one of the classics and turning it into another marketing scheme."...’ (Times)

Before you envision barricades being erected around ‘It’s a Small World’, take a moment to chill, shocked and dismayed Sparky. The same kind of verbal fisticuffs transpired when Disneyland updated their Anaheim park’s classic ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ to include a new Disney cinematic hero, Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrows. When the dust settled, the purists grudgingly admitted that Disney’s self-promoting suits got that one right.

The final word belongs to a the Disneyland fan who fired off this stellar prose on Ken Bruce’s Internet site:

"What is the big deal?. The ride is old, sad and boring. Disney: Tear the thing down and put in something more interesting please!"

Old, sad and boring? Yes, to all three. A song that gets on our last raw nerve when your tykes keep singing it? You bet. Tear it down? I don’t think so, Tim.

MARCH 2008

Mexifornia Legicrat Games
Source: PIG News Wire [03/28/08]

Game I
Willfully ignoring an objective reality wherein a federal court just black flagged another state’s "Airline Passenger Bill of Rights", Mexifornia’s Marxist legicrats are determined to enact one of their own. Unwilling to face that 16 billion dollar budget deficit because it’s just too depressing, they decided to cheer themselves up by torturing the capitalist ‘exploiters’ who run the airlines.

For those who obsess on such things, here are the fetid facts, from a CBS News item:

The bill was introduced by Assemblyman Mark Leno, a Democrat from San Francisco, following a series of incidents in which passengers were stranded in grounded airplanes. It applies to California airports and is modeled after a New York law. That law requires airlines to ensure that passengers have basic amenities if their planes are stuck on the tarmac for more than three hours. The required amenities would include water, fresh air, snacks, sanitary restrooms, lights and the ability to move around the cabin. (CBS)

The Marxist legicrats pooped it out of the Assembly’s Transportation Committee by an 8-2 margin after which it splashed down in the bowl of the Assembly’s Judiciary Committee where I expect its passage to be a done deal. It’s comforting to know that, despite Mexifornia’s budget crisis, the state’s Marxist legicrats haven’t lost their sense of humor.

Game II
Political gotcha is alive and well in the state capitol. Determined to make the Marxist Demoncrat majority look as bad as possible, the Elephant Clan has served up 20 different bills that paint a bull’s-eye on the border jumping horde that infests the no longer ‘golden’ state.

The 20 bills would take a number of steps, including eliminating tuition benefits for illegal students. Another bill asks the federal government to reimburse California for the cost of holding illegal immigrants in state prisons.

Assemblywoman Mimi Walters, a Republican from Oceanside, said the bills announced Tuesday are partly intended to put pressure on Democrats who control the Legislature. She said illegal immigrants cost California taxpayers an estimated $9 billion each year. (Contra Costa Times)

The Elephant Clan hacks know that their efforts are futile, but PIG News salutes them for putting the ‘border jumper’s are a pestilence’ ball squarely in the Demoncrats’ court.

Game III
Fed up with a pesky state constitution that requires a two-thirds majority to approve a state budget, one of Mexifornia Demoncrat Marxist meatheads is trying to change all that. State Senator Bill Torlakson’s SCA22 would set the stage for a ballot measure which would expunge that pesky two-thirds pestilence from the state constitution. If this scheme works, it allows the state’s Marxist Demoncrat majority to plunder Mexifornia, at will, by a simple majority vote.

There are, however, a couple speed bumps looming on Billy’s horizon. The first one is the fun fact that, any bill which seeks to change the state constitution requires - TA DA - a two-thirds majority, a vote that entails the cooperation of two pachderm punks in the state senate and six pachyderm punks in the state assembly to seal the deal. The chances of the Elephant Clan doing that are slim and none.

The second speed bump on this highway to wholesale plunder is also enshrined in the state constitution. That tidbit requires a two-thirds vote in each house of the state legislature to raise taxes. So, even if the Demoncrats could approve the state budget with a simple majority vote, they’d hit a wall when it came to funding it via higher taxes. File this one under ‘reality is just one damn thing after another’ in your PIG News archives.

Gulag Games
Source: L. A. Times [03/23/08]

On January 9th, 2008, the Blight By the Bay became the first city in the land of the not as free as we deserve to be, to mandate universal health care for all the denizens of the Gavin Newsom’s Gulag. The law has hit the city’s top tourist draws, its renowned restaurants, especially hard, since any firm in the city that employs 20 or more individuals must plunge headlong into those profit draining universal healthcare waters:

Employers with more than 20 workers are required to spend a minimum amount on health insurance, set aside money in health reimbursement accounts or pay a fee to the city's Healthy San Francisco program. (Times)

Since they employ so many workers on the lower end of the wage scale, eateries feel this painful squeeze on their fragile bottom line. What to do? Some are forthright about the matter and post a fixed surcharge (3% to 4% of the bill) on the menu to fund this mandate. Others simply folded the added costs into their pricing scheme and increased menu prices across the board.

Predictably, this universal healthcare brainfart is spawning some unintended consequences:

* Eateries that are hovering just below that magic 20 worker mark are determined to stay there, no matter how much future business it might cost them.

* Chefs who, in the normal course of events, might move out and establish their own place are staying put, or taking their talents to another, more economically friendly town.

* Food wrangling capitalists who are planning to branch out by opening another eatery are taking their show on the road and opening that new eatery in places like Los Angeles or San Diego.

If the Blight By The Bay wants to drive a stake through the heart of its beleaguered capitalists, they're off to a running start.

The Neverending Wheelchair Ramp Saga
Source: San Francisco Chronicle [03/12/08]

The Blight By The Bay’s board of supervisors continues to run around in circles, trying to appease the differently-abled without forking over a cool $1 million in dead presidents for a wheelchair ramp. Board President Aaron Peskin continues his quest to find a better way, but the forces of Korrectness will not surrender without a fight.

First, Aaron served up Legicrap that placed the president’s podium off limits. That, he surmised, would eliminate the need for a $1.2 million dollar wheel chair ramp. Instead, Aaron decided to build a scaled down ramp to the clerk’s perch, where he has been sitting. To facilitate that, a temporary ramp was constructed and that gave wheelchair wrangling Supervisor Alioto-Pier sufficient access. Unhappily, the temporary ramp, while serviceable, isn’t cool for school, when it comes to the letter of the law relating to the differently-abled. No problem, Aaron concluded, upgrading that ramp has to be cheaper than doing the one to the off banned president’s podium.

‘...[Susan Mizner, head of the mayor’s Office on Disability] says switching plans at this point would also mean scrapping the $232,000 that the city has already spent on designs and permits. Plus, Peskin's plan would mean moving the clerk's desk forward by 14 inches to accommodate the kind of wheelchair ramp the board president envisions - at a cost of $707,000. Mizner blames the cost mostly on tearing out antique wood and dealing with asbestos and lead removal. Add it up, and you get nearly a million bucks...’ (Chronicle)

Game, set, match? Not yet, because Aaron isn’t ready to let the mayor’s minion have the last word. He’s not buying her numbers and insists the upgrade can be nailed down for $20,000, tops. He’s so convinced about his estimate that he wants to prove it by bringing in an independent contractor to give him an estimate.

If I lived in the Blight By The Bay, I’d be boiling mad over this bull crap. Since I don’t, I plan to sit back, crack open a brewskie and enjoy this wheelchair ramp pissing contest.

Terminator Finds His Nads?
Source: San Francisco Chronicle [03/09/08]

"In obedience to the constitutional mandate to bring about a general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence, the Legislature, over the years, enacted a series of laws. A primary purpose of the educational system is to train children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare."

"...[P]arents do not have a constitutional right to home-school their children...Because parents have a legal duty to see to their children’s schooling within the provisions of these laws, parents who fail to do so many be subjected to a criminal complaint against them, found guilty of an infraction and subject to imposition of fines or an order to complete a parent education and counseling program." (Mexifornia state appeals court ruling, emphasis added)

After a state appeals court did its best to turn parents who homeschool their own kids into criminals, the state’s Educrats were feeling giddy. They envisioned all the headcount money they’d collect, when the estimated 166,000 homeschooled children were forcibly removed from their homes then dragged kicking and screaming to the local indoctrination center (government cess-school) at the point of a bayonet. Things looked bad for Mexifornia homeschoolers, but, apparently, a champion was set to ride to their rescue.

Count this pagan scribbler among the gobsmacked individuals who couldn’t believe his ears when Mexifornia’s action hero governor repossessed his nads and prepared to do battle with the state’s Educrats over homeschooling:

"Every California child deserves a quality education, and parents should have the right to decide what's best for their children," Schwarzenegger said in response to the ruling, which said children educated at home must be taught by a credentialed teacher.

"Parents should not be penalized for acting in the best interests of their children's education," Schwarzenegger said. "This outrageous ruling must be overturned by the courts, and if the courts don't protect parents' rights then, as elected officials, we will." (Chronicle)

Is Arnold ready to see this to the bitter end? Only time will tell, but, for the moment, he seems to be standing his ground. Pack a lunch, Arnold, because civilizing Mexifornia’s compulsory-education law isn’t going to be a cakewalk.

Parting shot: The best solution would be in the courts where this appeals court ruling would be slapped down. If the Legicrats get into the act, that would complicate things, considerably, since there isn’t any one-size-fits-all solution readily available. Given their long, sorry track record - not to mention the way they kiss Educrat union butt - Mexifornia’s Marxist legicrats are more likely to make a bad situation much, much worse, with some asinine regulations. PIG News will keep and eye on this one for you then share the essentials when something changes.

Gulag Supervisors Visit Reality, Briefly
Source: PIG’s Tasty Tidbits [03/06/08]

Devoted PIGsters will probably remember our awards page report about the wheelchair ramp boondoggle being perpetrated by the Politburo (Board of Supervisors) running the Blight by The Bay. For those too damn lazy to surf over to our Golden Oinks page, here are the basics:

"What is 10 feet long, costs a whopping $100,000 a foot, has been in progress for the last 4 years, and will evict the Gulag’s supervisors from their palatial digs for at least 5 months? If you guessed a 10 feet long wheelchair ramp up to the Board of Supervisors’ president’s platform, you probably cheated.

The fun began in the 1990s when these Blight on the Bay Elected Tormentors squandered $300 million dollars making City Hall a paragon of perfection for the disabled. The only exception was that aforementioned president’s perch, an omission that was, at the time, deliberate. It would, the relevant bureaucrats vowed, be corrected when the need arose. That need arose in 2004, when wheelchair bound Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier joined the Gulag’s ruling body."

The blowback on this red tape-intensive, Korrectnik rathole must have been utterly memorable, because the Politburo just black flagged the upgrade in a 6-5 vote. The primary complaint is that $1.1 million is a wad of money for a ramp that nobody is likely to use, since the board president never uses this raised platform and neither does anyone else.

At least one Supervisor dared to whine that - despite the fact that they’ve been dithering about this asinine ramp thing since 2004 - the Politburo didn’t have enough time to examine the idea. Another Supervisor wants to use the $1.1 million for a homeless shelter that’s destined to close in April, due to budget cuts. The homeless shelter is a better use for the money, this Supervisor insisted, since many of the homeless individuals served are - TA DA - disabled.

And what, you ask, did the wheelchair wrangling Supervisor who instigated this farce have to say about this? Did she shrug it off and get on with her life? Not exactly:

A paraplegic San Francisco supervisor has promised to sue the city after her colleagues on Tuesday rejected plans to build a $1.1 million wheelchair ramp to the historic podium used by the Board of Supervisors president.

"The truth of the matter is they don't see it as a priority. This is a direct slap in the face to every disabled person in San Francisco," said Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, who has used a wheelchair since a ski lift accident left her paralyzed at age 13. "The chamber is the people's room ... and if there's a place in the entire city that should be accessible to everyone, it is the chamber." (Pravda on the Bay, A.K.A., the San Francisco Chronicle)

Assuming that Supervisor Aioto-Pier doesn’t grab the Americans With Disabilities Act lawsuit brass ring, does this end the matter? Not according to Supervisor Jake McGoldrick, who is chairman of the Politburo’s Budget and Finance Committee. He’s far from impressed with the cost, complexity and timeline for this boondoggle (details available on our Golden Oinks 2008 page).

"That seems to a lot of people to be ... a little ridiculous. I think the reason this has caught in some of our throats is that it was shoved down our throats." (Jake McGoldrick)

McGoldrick said he plans to reintroduce a measure to do the work and stipulate that at least some of it is done by city staff and not outside workers and consultants. He said doing so would "get it coming in at about half the cost." (Chronicle)

The breaking news here is that there are enough rational adults hiding out in the Blight By the Bay to make the Politburo pay attention. It’s ‘go figure’ time, here in the top secret PIG Bunker.

Parting shot: Stay tuned for more on this Blight By the Bay brainfart. When we hear something, we’ll pass it along.

FEBRUARY 2008

More Mexifornia Madness
Source: Contra Costa Times [02/24/08]

Undaunted by an eye popping budget deficit - they admit to $16 billion in red ink, but the real number is much higher - the Marxist meatheads in Mexifornia’s legislature are getting down to business as usual. Why worry about an ocean of red ink, when there are such burning issues as Internet poker, dog fights, and restaurant menus that require instant, Legicrat attention? Why should they try to address real problems, problems they created, when it’s much more fun to break out those damn fiddles and play a little ditty, while the state suffocates under a mountain of debt?

Here are some of the Legicrap turds that floated to the top of the bowl, so far:

# Study how many forest fires are caused by illegal immigrants

# Dog-fighting: AB2281, by Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, would make it a felony to be a spectator at a dog fight.

# College aid for illegal immigrants: SB1301, by Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, and AB2083 by Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, would allow illegal immigrants to be eligible for scholarships at state schools.

# Smoking in parks, beaches: SB1418, by Sen. Jenny Oropeza, D-Long Beach, would prohibit smoking at state beaches and parks, subject to a $100 fine.

# Medical marijuana: AB2279, by Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, would