My Lament of an Instructor

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There is a reason why I believe educators should not have permanent tenure, Robert Carlton at Chaffey College is one fine example why. Its ironic that I could do very well compared to how I performed in his US History Class at Chaffey, at UC Riverside in courses that dealt with European History and Argentine History I may of struggled, but the courses were not exactly hopeless. Sadly I need three more classes to finish so I can meet the prerequisites for a Social Science 6-12th grade credentialing program even though I have a BA in Political Science.

It is great that the instructor took initiative against the high cost of textbooks, but reading public domain fiction about historical periods is not the way I want to learn. I took a gamble and I roll my die wrong. I would be eager to remain in his class if it was based on the lectures only and not based on the historical fiction. I would of rather had Professor Carlton teach a class in the English department instead.

If you have a real good memory to remember the esoteric facts in the historical fiction, then Professor Carlton’s class is for you. If you are an English major this class is for you. Heck, I would of rather had the professor use Howard Zinn’s a People’s History instead. At least we would learn more useful facts with Howard Zinn than Sinclair Lewis and Edith Wharton could ever do.

As someone who is gradually turning liberal after being a teenaged Rush Limbaugh fan, I do like the instructor’s lectures. However a study guide would have been appreciated for the historical novel tests. I did read the book Age of Innocence, but not everyone has a memory of a rolodex to know that Silerton Jackson was the society gossip master. Its going to cost me 110 dollars for me to CLEP History 1865-present, a very costly mistake.

Even though I will likely drop his course, I have one suggestion for anyone who intends to stay. Form a book club and go through the books together each week so you can understand the novels better.

It Must Be Obvious California Republicans

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Want to know how the Republican Party can reach out to the areas that used to vote for Republicans such as Silicon Valley and the Central Valley? It is quite easy, stop being bigoted towards LGBT people. As someone who was bullied for being perceived as LGBT in high school, I find it disgusting that the political party I was weaned on has throw the raw meat on the balcony instead of expanding our political appeal.

Hearing the rhetoric that led to 97.5% of the Republican caucus to vote no on SB 48 and AB 9 makes me embarrassed to be a Republican. SB 48 and AB 9 is not about indoctrination of our children, it is about making safe and affirming learning environments so our children can learn. Is that too much to ask for, Mike Morrell and Jean Fuller? When I thought the only major hostile legislators were Joel Anderson and Bob Huff, learning that most of the caucus does not care about the marginalized in our school house walls makes me fight harder despite the odds.

When students are in fear of being beaten up and harassed where they take their lives in the instance of Seth Walsh who lived in Jean Fuller’s district or the ongoing harassment by students and staff in Bill Emmerson’s district in Menifee you know that these laws are absolutely needed where a school district failed to provide equal access to a gay straight alliance for gay history month when they allowed the black students association to do a presentation for black history month.

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Talking About a Revolution to Save Money and Lives

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It seems we are not talking about science here. We are talking about dogma. America is doing something horrendous we are sending our best pastors to do a “final solution” to execute and jail the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgendered communities of Africa. Since its not cool to do this in most of Europe and North America these Christian clerics are working their chops in Africa and its wrong.

First, let us begin with a backgrounder. Pastors from the United States in the Apostolic Reformation are not exactly doing the imprisonment and executions, but they are sowing the seeds that lead to this in Africa. Famous pastors such as Scott Lively and Lou Engle help cause a commotion in English speaking Africa. Just like how you can not openly say you want to do bad things to the president or say fire in the crowded theater, openly advocating for the genocide of a population outside the United States should result in the revocation of a passport.

Yes, there are people suffering from the scourge of AIDS, but the scourge of ignorance, prejudice and fear will do little to help deal with the problem. With the money we spend in Africa we can use it as pressure to make things right in those nations including the restoration of our aid money. If these nations refuse to change their ways then we can use this valuable money back in our nation where the aids treatment funds are in dire condition.

If we are giving over $270 million to Uganda in 2010, and their new health minister wants to replace medicine with prayer. Maybe we should just pack up shop and leave them to bleed if the nation no longer believes in compassion to all their people including their own LGBT people.

History Education Must Not Be Erased

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Recently Governor Brown signed SB 48, a bill that adds Asian-Pacific, the disabled and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered community in the state education code to require accurate positive contributions from the people who make up the state of California.

Because the LGBT community got added to the section of the education code in the teaching of social science, traditional values advocates are on the warpath to make sure the community gets erased from our K-12 social science textbooks. The proponents from the repeal movement are willing to lie for the lord to make sure social science gets saved from the queers by scaring parents, particularly mothers to gain the support to win repeal by stating that “homosexuality will be taught in Kindergarten” and other choice phrases that led to Proposition 8 having a narrow victory in 2008. In SB 48’s text it states that the education is locally determined and age appropriate. Mark Leno or Ellen DeGeneres is not going to write the history curriculum. In Kern County you might see the information only in the textbooks, but in Los Angeles County you might have more detailed lessons.

Proponents of the repeal want to make it legal where educators can give hostile lectures as in Florida where Jerry Buell expresses his hostility to groups he disagrees with such as LGBT people and brings his dogma to the classroom. Educators such as Jerry have the right to free speech such as posting his diatribes on Facebook, but educators have a responsibility to be professional, inclusive and welcoming when they deliver their lessons to the students.

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Poke a Needle at the Dream

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The Dream Act is just a fancy way of stating that we need another amnesty in America. To understand the objective of the ‘dreamers’ and their advocates it all begins with incrementalism, start with one small step and then go to the next step because they failed when they wanted it all at once.

In California it all began with AB 540 which began the madness where undocumented “illegal” children who graduated from California schools can take part in public higher education in the state without having immigration called on them. Due to a US Supreme Court case Plyer v. Doe, public schools are mandated to educate these individuals. The mandate required by the Supreme Court in 1982 is a costly mandate where we have to spend up to 7,000 a year on each of these undocumented children.

Due to us allowing the undocumented children in our public higher education system it starts a chain reaction where the dreamers want it all so they can have their piece of the pie. Since the dreamers are fed up that they are having to pay full price even though the state government was nice enough to let them in the schools, they are getting their advocates such as local legislators such as Gloria Mcleod and Norma Torres to use up scarce state money so they can use Cal Grants to help pay for their education. Then pretty soon we will have another bill that will also require the state to give the community college fee waivers to these individuals too, which will help clog up our community colleges since there is no funding to add new seats and sections for those students already enrolled in the system.

Then, when these dreamers have a degree and they are undocumented there is a big question we should ask, who will hire them? These undocumented students might have a snazzy new degree in environmental science or project management, but they will flunk the e-verify test. When these individuals are not able to get hired they will get their buddy Congressman Joe Baca to defund e-verify so we can say “immigration law be damned, the dream must not be deferred”. However unemployment is around 10 percent and American Citizens and those with work authorization are left in the dark. Right now President Obama is working on a jobs program for the undocumented where over 300,000 will be given work permits circumventing congress, but leaving the people who are allowed to vote for him without any consideration.

Obama and his allies want to ignore immigration laws and those dreamers making the news are not the only ones who are going to benefit, we are going to get another amnesty and with overtly broad guidelines with who not to deport we might have an amnesty of millions which will not do much to help the legal citizens of the United States.

My Letter Submission

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Personally I would vote to repeal AB 131, but since that would be politically unpopular and unlikely to happen in the People’s Republic of California. I would have a clause stating that if the state has a budget deficit of over 10 billion the law would be void until the state would be in better fiscal shape.

Even though I loathe the Republican Party for its hostility towards the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community; the Democratic Party does not give me any solace either. With bills such as AB 131 which gives scarce taxpayer funds to the college education of undocumented “illegals”, to AB 889 which requires parents to hire two babysitters to cover lunch and break rules and to have to pay them minimum wage we can finally come up with the answer why Californians have a mad rush to leave the state.

California cannot afford to continue to be run as a People’s Republic nor should it be run as an annex of Utah either. I could understand the progressive majority in the state legislature supporting aid for the illegal children who are undocumented, but we cannot afford it. When students are desperate to take Interior Design just for the units you know something is wrong in Sacramento. If progressives want to fund their grand designs they need to stop being hostile to the job creators so we can provide hope and opportunity to all of California.

Say no to theocracy and say yes to job creation to make California golden again.

Regulate Everything You Touch

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If we are wondering why California has a horrid economy compared to Texas look at some of the legislation written in our State Legislature in Sacramento. AB 889 by Tom Ammiano, seeks to add more costly regulations to drive people away to states such as Georgia and Texas. If you and your spouse wants to go to the movies you might have to pay your sitter minimum wage, a buddy for your sitter to take rest and lunch breaks so there would be coverage and extra money to help pay for workers compensation fund fees. Basically Tom wants parents to hire two babysitters and make already taxed families stay home.

And thanks to our benevolent progressive legislator he will help to lead more teenagers to be unemployed and without pocket change to help our economy grow.

Also this bill covers home care workers as well. I have a personal issue with this bill. I have a 93 year old grandfather who relies on someone who lives with him to take care of his daily needs such as supermarket shopping and making sure if he has a slip and fall that he can be brought back up.

I know some people volunteer or take the position at lesser pay due out of a sense of duty or friendship. If people honestly voluntarily waive their rights they should be allowed to.  I bet there will be more night time daycare centers and more nursing homes, and due to the high cost we will see less people at the movie theaters, restaurants on a Friday night and the nursing homes draining Medicare and Medi-Cal because the assisted living home was the only place to bring the 93 year old grandfather to.

Sadly no matter what I say to Assemblywoman Torres or Senator Negrette-Mcleod, they will still vote Yes on AB 889 if it came back to the floor in 2012 since it was placed in the suspense file for 2011.

File Under: Stupid Laws

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At my workplace we are required to ask for ID on products such as puffy paint and certain types of fabric paint. Even though you can not spray it on walls California regulations ask for retailers to check to make sure the buyer is 18 and over. I know some children are not doing this for vandalism reasons, but it seems in California there are too many laws.

PENAL CODE SECTION 594-625c is the place where we can find the reason why the 14 year old girl can not buy this product on her own.

Read Your Bank Statements

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I usually never open my bank statements because I get scared about the lack of money in my accounts at the time. However Bank of America is charging a $5 replacement ATM or Debit Card fee each time you ask the bank to replace an ATM or debit card effective September 12th.

As a customer I do not ask for a new card over and over because I like the new card feeling. However when the signature panel is worn out from being used often, I might want to replace my card a year earlier than the three year period banks typically issue them.

Dream Act Part Two, We Can Not Afford AB 131

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Assemblyman Gill Cedillo’s sequel to the California Dream Act AB 131 is ready to be voted on. This bill will seize needed funds for higher education from legal residents. When students are fighting to enroll for any college section such as underwater basket weaving, while fees are rising to over 50 dollars a unit for community colleges and fifteen thousand for the UC system it sends a nasty message to the blue collar citizens of California and out of state students who play by the rules.
I could understand us being compassionate, but we are broke as a state with multi-billion dollar deficits where we can not afford to be charitable. Asking us to provide aid to the undocumented is like having a city throw a parade for the local bank robber. If private individuals want to donate money to the undocumented then they should be free to do so independently where I had no problems with the first reform Cedillo proposed.
However when you ask taxpayers to pay for a lawbreaking activity then I have a problem with this.
Due to the state legislature being dominated by illegal immigrant advocates, AB 131 will pass despite any outcry from the constituents.
If I do run for Assembly District 52, I will fight against future abuses of federal immigration laws. Even though it is a very unpopular idea in a district that is 70% Latino, we are merely throwing taxpayer money down the drain to give these individuals the skills if they can not legally be employed. Taxpayer money is a precious resource and does deserve to be treated with respect and conserved like a natural resource like water.